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LISTEN TO THE DRUM AS A MEDICINE
Focus | Relax | Be More Mindful
(Theta Rhythm Movies at 5 beats per second - 5Hz)
WATCH THE "NATURE" MOVIE BELOW
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WATCH "THE OCEAN" MOVIE BELOW
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WATCH "THE FOREST" MOVIE BELOW
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WHAT IS THE THETA RHYTHM OF MEDICINE DRUMMING?
Sound healing has been used for centuries and been utilized in various forms by cultures the world over. From Pythagoras, who is thought to be the first person to describe music as medicine as far back as 600 B.C, to modern board-certified sound-healing technicians, rhythm and harmony have been healing the human body, mind, and spirit throughout the ages.
We hope you enjoy our THETA RHYTHM MOVIES." —Award-winning Director, John Pritchard | john@oneheartmovies.com
WHY IS DRUMMING SO EFFECTIVE?
"The drum has the capacity to release negative feelings-of which stress is clearly one."—Robert Lawrence Friedman
In his breatkthrough book, THE HEALING POWER OF THE DRUM, psychotherapist and drum facilitator, Robert Lawrence Friedman, shares the following benefits of hand-drumming and its ability to heal the body, mind and spirit.
"In this century, when we seem to be moving farther and farther away from ourselves and our deeper needs, the drum, through its simplicity, effortlessness and naturalism, offers us a link back to that which we knew before technology separated us from our soul.
Through providing a channel back to our deeper nature, the drum concurrently provides those who use it with a link to others. The drum seems to have the capacity to unite all individuals who choose to experience it together. Despite race, religion, color, creed, background, or ideology, all are joined together through this ancient instrument's calling. The drum, therefore, becomes a vehicle for transporting all who utilize it, across all boundaries, to an experience of wholeness and community.
The drum touches that part of us that knows nothing of cell phones, faxes and deadlines. This part of us to which the drum speaks knows only inner peace, self-expression, and that which is our very basic life force. Drumming creates an island in time, where all else is shut out except the rhythms that issue forth from your fingertips at your pace, expressing your feelings at that present moment. Is it any wonder our souls hunger for it? The only wonder is that a need so vital could be supplied by a vehicle so simple: the drum." —Robert Lawrence Friedman
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF THETA WAVES?
"Of the 5 frequencies (beta, alpha, theta, delta & gamma) that our brain experiences, the theta brainwave range is the one in which the body and mind’s natural self healing processes are activated and optimized."—Graham Boulton
In Graham Boulton's August 19, 2019 article about GENERATING THETA BRAINWAVES FOR HEALING, he says that when Theta brainwaves are induced through entrainment (like our THETA RHYTHM MOVIES), they lower stress and anxiety levels, as well as facilitate healing and growth. Theta waves are the only brainwaves that enable us to access the power and wisdom of our unconscious mind, which is normally inaccessible in more alert states.
BENEFITS OF STIMULATING OUR BRAIN WITH THETA BRAINWAVES:
1. MIND AND BODY HEALING
During theta brainwave activity, both the body and mind experience enhanced rejuvenation, growth, and healing. Due to the deep levels of relaxation that theta brainwaves facilitate, the body and mind are easily able to restore themselves during and after illness, as well as after mental burnout and physical exertion.
2. BOOSTED IMMUNE SYSTEM
Increasing your theta brainwaves helps to optimize your immune system’s function due to the fact that theta brainwaves are associated with vitality and the elimination of stress. Stress and anxiety can do harm to the immune system by releasing a surplus of harmful chemicals such as adrenaline and the hormone cortisol which in oversupply are damaging to the immune system. Theta brainwaves activate the release of pleasant chemicals and neurotransmitters to help keep your immune system at its peak.
3. DEEP LEVELS OF RELAXATION
Theta brainwaves are most common during sleep, deep meditation, self hypnosis and amongst young children. Through entraining your brain to theta rhythm, you can access pleasantly relaxed states that are rare amongst adults during daily routines.
4. STRESS AND ANXIETY REDUCTION
Theta brainwave entrainment causes deep mental and physical relaxation, which in turn reduces stress and anxiety levels.
5. INTUITION INCREASE
Through accessing theta brainwaves, your intuition will increase as well as your ability to identify “gut” feelings. In other words, your ability to ‘see’ and ‘hear’ outside the borders of the physical senses expands, and therefore your perception of reality expands too. Through training your brain with meditation, self hypnosis or brain entrainment, you awaken your deeper intelligence, also known as the ‘inner genius’.
6. SUBCONSCIOUS CONNECTION
Theta brainwaves allow you to connect deeply with your unconscious mind (subconscious). Your unconscious mind is the collective intelligence of all cells in your body. It regulates all your autonomic body functions. It houses your emotions, imagination, memory, habits, intuition, and is your personal pathway to even more subtle levels of consciousness.
7. ABILITY TO PROGRAM YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
Meaningful personal transformation results from a shift in the unconscious mind. The only way to reach and change major set beliefs and emotional responses of the unconscious mind is through hypnosis or theta brainwave entrainment. Through self hypnosis or theta brain entrainment, you can access the unconscious mind for the purpose of facilitating core healing and change. Therefore theta brainwave entrainment is a great resource for both Hypnotherapists as well as those using self hypnosis. The use of affirmations, mental imagery and hypnotic suggestion is far more effective when your brain is in theta rhythm. In this state you bypass your conscious mind that often acts as a “filter” and prevents you from changing your unwanted thought and behaviour patterns. Through being deeply relaxed, your unconscious mind accepts any healing related statements or mental pictures that you give it, without question, and begins to act on it immediately. Therefore it’s easier to clear any thought and behaviour patterns that you may want to change, and to install new, desirable thinking and attitudes as part of your personal development and growth.
8. HIGH LEVELS OF CREATIVITY
Theta brainwave dominance is often found in highly creative individuals. Many talented musicians, inventors, and artists are found to have extremely higher than average amounts of theta brainwaves. Through entraining theta brainwaves your creativity will be enhanced.
9. ADVANCED PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
Theta brain waves help you to overcome “mental blocks” and enable you to access the FLOW state. The inability to solve problems is related to your inability to change your mental state. Inducing theta brainwaves changes your mental state and thereby offers new levels of thought and perception that enable you to approach any problem with greater resourcefulness. Theta brainwaves have also been associated with the ability to “hyperfocus” which means staying intensely focused and motivated with one idea.
10. INCREASE OF THE LEARNING ABILITY
It has been said that as your brain enters the frequencies of the theta range, you will be able to retain over 300% more information than you can while in your normal daily (beta brainwave) state. Theta brainwaves allow people to learn large amounts of information in a much quicker time than beta brainwave state. Research has been done on language learning and development, claiming that the reason why children are able to pick up new languages so quickly is because of their increased amount of theta brainwaves. Adults and students of a new foreign language may greatly benefit from shifting their brainwaves to the theta range.
11. IMPROVE LONG-TERM MEMORY
As theta brainwaves increase, the ability of the brain to recall and store long-term memories increases. The hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in storing and processing memories, normally has a theta brainwave rhythm. With increasing levels of stress, beta brainwaves ‘disrupt’ the hippocampus. This is why stressed people often have a poor ability to recall long-term memories. One of the reasons why Hypnotherapy is effective is because clients, through having theta brainwaves induced, are able to recall “forgotten memories” as part of certain healing processes.
12. EMOTIONAL CONNECTION
Theta brainwaves are associated with your ability to feel emotions. Blocked or suppressed emotions can be experienced when theta brainwaves are stimulated. In this way you can learn to feel and understand your emotions better.
13. BRIDGES THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION
Many consider the peaceful and blissful state associated with theta brainwaves to be the bridge between the physical body and the spiritual realms. In the theta brainwave rhythm people sense a deep spiritual connection. According to some, the theta brainwave range provides enhanced spiritual awareness and profound insight. Many spiritual experiences and phenomena are commonly experienced in the theta brainwave state.
To learn more about brainwave rhythms, go to this excellent article in the Neuroscience section of Scientific American: WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE VARIOUS BRAINWAVES?
WHY IS WATCHING VIDEO OF NATURE SO HEALING?
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul."—John Muir, 1912
A great article in "Yes Magazine", NATURE IS SO GOOD FOR YOU THAT EVEN WATCHING IT ON TV IMPROVES WELL-BEING, reveals that "a large body of research is documenting the positive impacts of nature on human flourishing—our social, psychological, and emotional life. More than 100 studies have shown that being in nature, living near nature, or even viewing nature in paintings and videos can have positive impacts on our brains, bodies, feelings, thought processes, and social interactions. In particular, viewing nature seems to be inherently rewarding, producing a cascade of position emotions and calming our nervous systems. These in turn help us to cultivate greater openness, creativity, connection, generosity, and resilience."
A new study from BBC Earth and the University of California, Berkeley has revealed that watching video of nature (such as the footage we use of waterfalls, birds, bees, flowers, ocean waves, sea turtles, dolphins and forests) can make you happier and healthier.
"There is no question that viewing nature videos reduce the physiological symptoms of stress in our bodies, just like taking a walk in the woods. Nature videos induce awe, wonder, and reverence, which are all emotions known to have various benefits, promoting everything from well-being and altruism to humility to health. There is also evidence that exposure to nature affects the brain. Viewing the beauty of nature in a video, activates specific reward circuits in the brain that give us a sense of purpose, joy, and energy to pursue our goals. When we combine the nature footage and nature sounds with the THETA WAVES played on the drum by Kenneth Little Hawk, we believe the results you experience in our THETA RHYTHM MOVIES will improve your overall sense of well-being... and upon repeated viewings, may lead to even greater health and happiness." —Award-winning Director, John Pritchard
KENNETH LITTLE HAWK
"We are all a part of nature, not apart from nature."
—Kenneth Little Hawk
Kenneth Little Hawk is a Native American cultural treasure. Touring throughout America over the past 30 years, he has performed for over 3 million people at many distinguished locations including Lincoln Center, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. He believes that we all need to honor, cherish and preserve the Earth... that we must work together to mend the global hoop that encompasses all life. He hopes that all people will make choices to live in harmony with one another and the environment. He also teaches respect for differences as well as appreciation for the "common thread that binds us." In 1998, he was a guest of the President and performed at the White House for a special screening of the PBS film, "Lewis & Clark."
Ken is a Native American storyteller, keynote speaker, recording artist and actor, descending from the Micmac and Mohawk tribes. He has been a featured speaker for companies such as PepsiCo, AT&T, Verizon, and Sony, as well as, government organizations such as the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), the Federal Executive Board, and the U.S. Army. His voice and authentic flute music can be heard in such award-winning PBS films as "The West" and "Lewis & Clark" produced by the acclaimed director, Ken Burns.
Learn more at kennethlittlehawk.com
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EVERYTHING IS IN RHYTHM
Look around you. Everything is in rhythm. The trees and flowers, the birds and the bees, the sun and moon... they all have their own rhythm and timing .
EVERYONE'S A DRUMMER
Many people claim not to have rhythm, and yet we are all quite literally drummers at heart. Our beating heart is the very expression of rhythm. We are all rhythmic beings.
HEALING THROUGH RHYTHM
Drumming as a healing practice instantly connects us to Nature... and the natural elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space (Spirit) that are all in balance.