The Relaxation Music of Enhanced Healing and Dr. Harry Henshaw

I would like to share my current work and the benefit that I believe it has for not only counselors but anyone wishing to experience a sense of true relaxation and as a result reduce the stress in their life.  What I am currently engaged in creating for myself and the world is a definite outgrowth of education, training and employment as a therapist.  What I am doing now is developing what I refer to as therapeutic relaxation music and exploring its many possibilities as a change modality.

I received my doctoral degree over 25 years ago in Human Development from Boston University.  After school I have had a variety of counseling and administrative positions in mental health and substance abuse programs in the states of Illinois, Massachusetts and Florida.  I am currently employed as one of the senior therapist at a drug rehab program here in the Miami area where I conduct individual and group counseling session with addicts.  The music that I have created is a very important component in my present work as a therapist.

After working for several years in the counseling field I eventually became trained in both Neuro Linguistic Programming and hypnosis.  From the beginning I was fascintated with the practice of NLP and hypnosis and found them to be very powerful for helping individuals to bring about true and lasting change in their life.  As part of the trance work that I was initially doing I also employed a variety of different relaxation music recordings.  The music definitely helped with the hypnosis that I was conducting.

Eventually I become dissatisfied with the relaxation music that I was using and started to compose my own recordings.  Having received 11 years of piano training in my childhood, I started to experiment with different type of compositions.  Eventually I created the type of relaxation music that I am still using today.  I soon found that the kind of relaxation music that I was creating helped people to experience a deep state of relaxation, go into trance much quicker and also achieve much more benefical results from the  hypnotic work .

While the relaxation music was initially developed for my hypnotic practice I also started to use it in individual and group counseling sessions.  During both types of sessions I would play the music at an ambient level so that it would create a relaxed background but not be of a distracting nature for the client.  Most counselors and therapists do not understand the power of relaxation music for benefiting a client.

After years of working withh this type of music, I believe that it is the structure of the music that creates the beneficial effect for the client.  First, there is the actual structure of the musical composition.  I have found that long, sustained chords or voices, approximately 12 to 15 seconds in duration, with slow transitions between them creates an audio environment condusive to experiencing a sense of deep relaxation.  Listening to this type of relaxatiton music is truly a physical experience.

The second component of the recordings is the binaural audio tones that have been interwoven into the music. The binaural tones, through a process referred to as entrainment or frequency following, gently directs the mind/body to generate more of the targeted frequency of brain wave activity whether it be for either profound relaxation or sleep. The recordings for deep relaxaton contain binaural audio tones within the theta range while the recordings for sleep contains binaural audio tones within the delta range.

What I have also found is that in addtion to the listener experiencing a state of deep relaxation he is more open to suggestions, that is, where suggestions can be given that will more likely be accepted and acted upon.  When an individual is truly relaxed he is much less defensive and as a result much more open to considering the possibility of new and different ideas  for behaving and being different.  The end result for the client is improved ability to let go of the barriers and constraints that have limited him in his life and through acceptance create the possibility of change at a much more rapid pace.

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Fear as a Daily Reminder for Creating Possibility in my Life

Everyday I experience the emotion of fear.  Fear that I will not make it, that something will go wrong in my life, that things will not turn out good or the way I want.  Mostly I experience fear that I will not realize my dream, that I will fail.  This fear happens sometimes in the morning, during the day and even in the evening when I am apparently safe at home.  It comes up when I am engaged in my work, when I am attempting to create my dream.  It even shows up when I least expect it.  The intensity also varies, sometimes more and sometimes less.  In the past the fear has stopped me and has a tendency to do so now.  The mistake that I have and sometimes still make is to respond to the fear and not look under neither it, for what is generating it.

When I stop and do not respond or react to the fear, I can take a look at what is causing the fear.  I know that fear is merely an emotion, the way my body is experiencing a thought or belief.  This insight is invaluable in my transformation and with the creating of possibility out of the experience of fear.  When I experience the emotion of fear I will pause for a moment and become present to that which is causing it.  It is the belief that I am not enough and that no matter what that things do not turn out good, that I will not succeed.  The space for change is to be present to this insight and then create possibility, to create another thought or belief that will replace the negative one.  It is relaxing and taking the opportunity to generate a new thought that eventually takes me out of the fear that is part of my current work.

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Commitment to the Dream and Self Doubt

Staying committed to your dream is absolutely necessary for you to achieve your dream, regardless of what it is.  My dream is to create music that will transform the world.  To do this requires that I stay committed to this dream, to live it daily, to stay in it even when I do not want to.  Staying committed mean that I have to enroll myself in the dream every morning that I wake up, during the day and when I go to sleep at night.  This requires dedication and discipline to my dream, to the work necessary to fulfill on the dream.

What I am also faced with each day is self doubt, the belief that I can not do it, that it will not work out.  I am faced with this thought or belief daily as well.  I believe at times that the dream will not happen, that nothing turns out the way that I want, that nothing good will come about as a result of my hard work.  The feeling at times seems as though it will stop me, stop me from doing the work necessary to create my dream.  Each day I am confronted with this struggle, the struggle between believing in myself and that of self doubt, that I will not succeed,

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Transform your life with Positive Affirmations and Therapeutic Relaxation Music

Cognitive Psychology has taught us that our thinking is a very important component in our life. More specifically, our thoughts, ideas, beliefs and thinking patterns create our feelings which in turn determine much of our behavior or actions. How we think is how we will act or behave. hange a person's thinking and you can change his or her behavior and life. One way to change a person's thoughts is through the use of affirmations. An affirmation is an idea or thought that affirms or states that something is so, that something is true.

Affirmations are not always positive. In fact, affirmations can be either positive or negative depending upon what a person creates for himself. Every thought that we have in our mind is an affirmation. Unfortunately, many people have negative thoughts and ideas running their lives which creates negative affirmations about themselves, others and life in general. Ultimately, all affirmations that we have are about us. As we have and say negative thoughts, idea or beliefs, negative affirmations, it does affect our behavior, our actions, and what we create and experience in life.

You can change the direction of your life by using positive affirmations. The first step is to become present to the existence and power of affirmations and then to start to direct them in a positive direction for your life, in a direction that supports and enhances your life. The "Power of Affirmation" series that we have created can help you to feel better and as a result to start to experience life differently and more positively in different areas of your life. We have created affirmation programs for hypertension, relaxation, self esteem, prosperity and abundance, surgery, forgiveness and recovery.

We recommend that you listen to your chosen affirmation program once a day for at least 30 days. Each affirmation program utilizes therapeutic relaxation music with binaural audio tones combined with 10 positive affirmations. The secret to using positive affirmations to change your life rests with repetition. Also the more emotional support you put into the use and practice of affirmations the more powerful they will be for you and as a result assist you in achieving the results you want. Above all, be patient with yourself and the use of positive affirmations. Changing ones life takes time and commitment!

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Three Stages to Forgiveness

There are three stages to forgiveness.

1. To forgive the person who you believe hurt you in some way.

2. To forgive yourself for making them wrong.

3. To get it that forgiveness itself was not necessary.

To move on with our life, to be happy, we must learn to forgive. To forgive requires first to forgive the person who we believe harmed us. Forgiveness is not saying that what another did towards us is ok but rather it is just a decision to let go. What the person did was not personal. What the person did was the best he or she could do. Next it is necessary for us to forgive ourselves for making the person wrong, for passing judgment on the person. Our work here is to get that we too are doing the best that we can and just let go of the judgment. The third part is to get that forgiveness itself was not necessary, that what happened took place in the Divine order that it was supposed to take place, that it was perfect simply because it happened the way that it happened. Surrender to this transforms us and our life.

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Creating Possibility is a Moment to Moment Endeavor

Creating possibility is about keeping oneself in the mental and emotional space where positive things continue to happen or show up in your life. Doing this type of work takes a great deal of effort in the beginning as we quickly resort back to old habits, to old ways of thinking about our self and life in general. Unless such an endeavor is made to be in the forefront it will soon fade and eventually disappear leaving us with how things always were. It is very easy for us to be negative and judgmental, this we have done for a long time, being judgmental of people, places and things, including our self. Recreating or reinventing our self to be able to generate a positive, healthy space or way of being is not only new but in some cases very foreign to us.

I have a tendency to slip back into my conversation of the past, one where I am in judgment, judging myself especially and conclude that nothing positive will happen to me, that I will not succeed in life, that nothing turns out good especially what I am doing at the moment. This conversation I am very familiar with, as it has been one that has played a major role in my life, especially at crucial points in my life. Taking on a new way of thinking, about myself and life, takes being committed, structure and discipline to being different.

One of the ways that I know I have instantly slipped back into my conversation from the past is that I feel bad, negative, whatever you want to call it. Staying aware or focused on my feelings is key here, a must if I am to transform myself and my life. How am I feeling now? Questions like this are very important to continue to ask myself and on a daily basis, even throughout the day. Once I discover that I am in a negative feeling space I must then recreate my possibility, give up the negative conversation and create a new one, one that is about possibility and being positive in life. It takes the willingness and effort to give up the negative and create the positive even when there is a pay off to be negative. Sometimes creating possibility is a moment to moment endeavor.