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This presentation has been created to enhance neurobiological understanding of the reported psychotherapeutic and personal growth benefits of auditory bilateral stimulation. Since this is converted from a Powerpoint presentation a lot of the fun little animations don't show up on the Slideshare version. However, the information is the same. It will help to be sure to look at the Notes section of each slide because they contain additional information to help explain some of the concepts. (Not every slide has notes.) Obviously, one of the best ways to learn about auditory bilateral stimulation is to experience it personally. A seven minute track is available in its entirety at www.alternatingsounds.com, as is a great deal more information about suggested ways to use auditory bilateral stimulation for a variety of purposes. Note that it's necessary to use headphones or ear buds when listening to this selection (or any bilateral stimulation for that matter).
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Therapeutic Benefits of Auditory Bilateral Stimulation
Presented by
George Herring
Alternating Sounds, LLCwww.AlternatingSounds.com
Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) is anyrhythmic alternation of stimulation
between the left and right hemispheres.
There Are Several Forms of BLS,Each With Therapeutic Applications
• Visual/Eyes (Example: EMDR)
• Tactile/Skin (Example:“Tapping”)
• Auditory/Ears (Example: Brainspotting)
“Bilateral stimulation activates an accelerated processing effect that encourages an extraordinary free-associative process between the mind and body that causes thoughts, emotions, images, memories, body sensations, dreamlike fantasies and other aspects of perception to break out of their old patterns and move rapidly to new levels of self-awareness.”
- Laurel Parnell, “Tapping In: A Step-by-Step
Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation”
Trauma Resolution
BLS has historically been used to desensitize and reprocess
trauma-based encoding and enhance ego-state integration.
Resource Enhancement
BLS is increasingly used to potentiate adaptive thoughts,
emotions, sensations, memories and associations.
Potential BLS Goals
• Resolve recent and remote trauma
• Enhance executive functioning
• Encode adaptive and affirming thoughts, feelings and beliefs
• Enhance creativity by strengthening new neural connections
• Reduce psychosomatic symptoms
Logical Abstract
Analytical Creative
Verbal Visual
Sequential Holistic
Linear Intuitive
Details Big Picture
Knowledge Beliefs
Strategies Possibilities
Mathematical Philosophical
Scientific Spiritual
Reality/Facts Fantasy/Imagination
Language-based memory Perceptual/symbolic memory
Hemispheric Differentiation
Characteristics of BLS
• More neurological than mental
“reflexive” rather than “reflective”
brain-based rather than mind-based
• Activation is both “bottom-up” (extraction of neural information) and “top-down” (integration of neural information)
• 5-6 hour reconsolidation period
• Defragmentation: integrates scattered (dissociated) information
• File cleaning: removes unnecessary artifacts(“orphan files”)
• Debugging: identifies and removes “programmingerrors”
• Virus removal: identifies and removes corrupting code
Result: improved “software” functioning, especially background processes
BLS Is A LikeOptimizing A Hard Drive
Theoretical Mechanisms of Action
• Dual attention theory
• Orienting response
• Reciprocal inhibition
• Reconsolidation process
Special Benefits of Auditory BLS
Music Processing is Distributed Throughout the Brain and Involves Nearly Every Neural Subsystem
From “This is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel J. Levitin
Frontal CortexProcesses musical structure, expectations and meaning
Music Adds To Potential Benefits of BLS
• Attending to musical structure requires both halves of the brain.
• Music taps into primitive brain structures involved with motivation, reward and emotion.
• Receptive process: no active effort needed
• Allows simultaneous application of multiple degrees of BLS strength (next slide)
• Allows much greater variety of input
• Utilizes inherent benefits of music
• Capable of accessing pre-verbal neural
encoding of experience
• Music serves role of “safe place”
Benefits of Auditory BLS
Multiple BLS Strengths
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• Sound should be at lowest audible level
– The cycling, not volume, is important
– Too loud can cause distraction or disequilibrium
– Can increase volume as desired
• Eyes open or closed ok
• Standing, sitting, lying down, walking all ok. No driving!
Tips for Auditory BLS
Further Reading
• “Tapping In: A Step By Step Guide to Activating Your Hidden Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation”, by Laura Parnell
• “Brainspotting: The RevolutionaryTherapyfor Rapid and Effective Change”, by David Grand
For more information and suggestions about using auditory bilateral stimulation,
including the opportunity to personally experience innovative bilateral stimulation
music designed to enhance emotional well-being, improve insight, cultivate
creativity and promote overall personal growth, please go to:
www.AlternatingSounds.com