Dr. James Hardt (Interview Archive)
Back in 1839 a physicist noticed something odd about how the ear and brain respond to sound. Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, a Fellow of the Royal Society who ran the Prussian Meteorological Institute, was the first to describe what happens inside human perception when a particular kind of auditory signal is introduced. His observation sat largely dormant for more than a century.
Only in the 1950s through the 1970s did anyone turn that early finding into a usable audio technique. Several people have since claimed credit for the method, and the question of who built what remains muddy. The original discovery, though, traces back to Dove.
The free MP3 offered here grows out of that same principle. We took the audio stimulus Dove first identified and shaped it toward mindfulness and relaxation, with the aim of nudging your brainwaves toward a calmer state. There is no cost attached. Consider it a gift, and we hope it does something useful for you.
If you want to read the research for yourself, a quick search for 'mindfulness' alongside 'the psychological effects of brainwave entrainment' will point you to published studies indexed on PubMed.gov.
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