WHAT IS SLEEP LEARNING? 

Sleep is not merely "time out" from daily life.
It is an active state essential for
mental and physical restoration.

The term Let me Sleep on it…. is not just a phrase that means, I need more time.

It is during sleep, when our conscious mind is at rest, that we are able to fit together all the pieces of information, emotions and ideas that have come to us during the day.

Very much like a puzzle.

Let me Sleep on it… does not refer to time.
It means please allow me the space to digest all this information. Allow me to put this puzzle together in peaceful relaxation, using that deep intelligence that resides in us all.

While you sleep your conscious mind may gently drift off to a nice relaxing place, but you are still functioning in all other ways. 

Your conscious mind only plays a small part in your habits, beliefs, health and the way you view the world.  Like an iceberg your conscious mind is only that small part that is visible and the huge part that is below the surface holds far more intelligence than you could possibly understand.

Right at this moment as you are reading these words, you are breathing, taking in oxygen, …your eyes are focusing and if you glance up, instantly your eyes will refocus on what you see in the distance. Your inner intelligence, that part of you that does all the real work, is monitoring the Ph levels in your blood, breaking down foods in your stomach to useable components for each of your muscles and organs. It is monitoring your temperature, shivering if your body temperature falls and sweating if it increases. It is continuously monitoring your system scanning for infections and disease and taking all the appropriate action ....all without you giving it a conscious thought.

There are millions of thoughts and pieces of information flowing through your mind every day. Do you realize that your conscious mind is only able to pick up about 7-9 pieces of  the information that surrounds you at any one time. But your subconscious mind will pick up about 2000 pieces of information, filtering through only that which is most important to you at this particular time.

As you are reading this –  there are many many things you are not consciously aware of.  For instance  are  you aware of  whether your breathing is deep or shallow – it probably wasn’t a thought you were consciously thinking about until I mentioned it,  yet you were still breathing weren’t you? Scan your body now – do you have an itch or a tickle on ANY part of your body – think about it – I bet you have become aware of a sensation you were not aware of earlier.  There are sights, sounds, feelings, smells and sensations all around you, but you are only focusing on a very few. You may not be aware of the smells around you – but if, all of a sudden, there was a faint smell of smoke – your subconscious mind would filter it through immediately.

When you sleep your conscious mind may be resting but your subconscious mind is sill alert and  this is the perfect time for it to go through all the happenings of the day. It will sort through all the ideas and thoughts you have had, all the experiences, gut feelings and intuitions that have gone through your mind. It will then sort through all of these pieces of emotion and information and makes some sense of it all.

If during this time, while your conscious mind is resting, you hear positive helpful advice, your subconscious mind is able to pay particular attention to it, and more importantly can act upon it.  If the information is of value – if it doesn’t go directly against your own values and beliefs, it will take heed and begin to implement positive changes in your every day life – and will do so naturally and easily.

Your subconscious mind is your best friend, it wants only what is best for you. It tries to juggle your mental, emotional and physical needs, to bring you the best possible solutions.

Using the Let me Sleep on it… program, with the variety of Cognitive Development Techniques contained within them, you will be helping your sub conscious mind to find new creastive ways to bring about health, and happiness .....bringing you closer to the things you truly desire.  

Your subconscious mind is that part of you, like the huge mass below the surface of an iceberg, that dictates your direction. When your subconscious mind sets to work on something it makes it effortless and easy.

At one time learning to walk or ride a bike was a difficult task that you did with your conscious mind – concentrating very hard and falling many times. Now you do it all with your subconscious mind –easily effortlessly, not giving it a second thought. 

When your subconscious mind understands something – it becomes naturally easy.

With the Let me Sleep on it… program we are helping, guiding your subconscious mind to find new and better ways of helping you achieve your goals.

The Let me Sleep on it… CDs are designed to firstly bring your mind to those gentle Alpha and Theta  states where  the critical conscious mind is suspended and it is open to positive and helpful suggestions. At this point the Subconcious mind is very receptive to suggestions that are beneficial to your overall wellbeing. Then through the use of different NLP techniques, new habits and ideas are suggested.

Brain Wave Frequencies

It is at the relaxing alpha and theta states that most of our
internal organization happens.
While we are drifting off to sleep our mind start to sort through
all the information that has past through our
conscious and sub-conscious mind. 
They then form our values and beliefs about who we are
and about the world we live in.
With some gentle guidance these thoughts and beliefs
can be directed in a positive direction.
The negative experiences of the day can be minimized
and the positive aspects maximized.
This is so vital in creating a healthy, confident self-image
and a happy positive outlook on life in general.

If you attach an electroencephalograph to a person's head, you can record the person's brainwave activity.

It is through the Alpha Theta states when the brain is relaxed that we enter into a natural Hypnotic state.

These CD's also contain Binaural Beats to assist you in total relaxation, bringing you gently and easily to these relaxed brainwaves.

Binaural beats: By (Smith, Marsh, & Brown, 1975).
The binaural-beat appears to be associated with an electroencephalographic (EEG) frequency-following response in the brain. Many studies have demonstrated the presence of a frequency-following response to auditory stimuli, recorded at the vertex of the human brain (top of the head). This EEG activity was termed "frequency-following response" because its period corresponds to the fundamental frequency of the stimulus  Binaural-beat stimulation appears to encourage access to altered states of consciousness.

The specific beats used in these Cds are to bring the mind to those gentle alpha - theta frequencies.

Binaural Tones

Binaural tones, specifically alpha, theta and delta waves, can be used to enhance relaxation while staying awake, dreams, deep meditation, and deep dreamless sleep. Investigators, as well as individual users, believe that binaural beats can influence functions of the brain besides those related to hearing. This phenomenon is called frequency following response. The concept is that if one receives a stimulus with a frequency in the range of brain waves, the predominant brain wave frequency is said to be likely to move towards the frequency of the stimulus (a process called entrainment). 
Dr. Harry Henshaw
Director of Outpatient Services
Holistic Addiction Treatment Program

Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, that is, apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.

The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject's ears, using stereo headphones. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones mixed naturally, out of the brain. The frequency of the tones must be below about 1,000 to 1,500 hertz for the beating to be heard. The difference between the two frequencies must be small (below about 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise the two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived.

Interest in binaural beats can be classified into two categories.
First, they are of interest to neurophysiologists investigating the sense of hearing.

*Second, that binaural beats may influence the brain in more subtle ways through the entrainment of brain-waves and can be used to produce relaxation and other health benefits.

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The Let me Sleep on it… CD's
are designed to make the most if this gentle state of relaxation, to work at the precise moment our minds are analyzing and sorting through the data of the day.
They are designed to direct the minds focus to positive out comes. The gentle, guided visualizations work through problem solving techniques allowing the subconscious mind to what it does best.

 General Studies

  "Sleep learning is a process that takes place during natural sleep. It consists of introducing into the human mind information which is processed and memorized while the student is asleep. The sleep learning lesson begins while the student is in deep relaxation and continues after the onset of sleep."

Professor Leonid A. Bliznitchenko, Director of the Department of Experimental Phonetics at the Potebni Institute of Linguistics

Shedding a Bad Habit Leshan (1942)

Tested the theory of sleep-learning on a group of nail-biting boys attending summer camp. The experimental group consisted of 20 nail-biting subjects, aged 8 to 12 years. There were two control groups: the first consisted of 8 nail-biters, aged 8 to 10 years, the second consisted of 12 nail biters, aged 11 to 14 years.

The experimental group was administered a recording while they slept that said, "My finger-nails taste terribly bitter," repeated 300 times for 54 successive nights. The control group was not administered a recorded message. The researcher found that 40% of the boys in the experimental group stopped biting their nails, confirming Leshan's initial suspicion that people can be influenced by recorded messages during sleep.

Shannon McKanna
Graduate Student
San Diego State University

Forty students in a sleep learning program conducted at Duke University were divided into two groups. After both groups were first tested for their ability to remember words under normal circumstances, they were then both assigned a new group of words to learn. Only one group was given instruction whilst sleeping, before being taught the second list of words the next day. The group that heard this list whilst asleep had a significantly higher ability to master the list, leading the researcher to conclude that " The evidence obtained suggests that there is retention of auditory material presented during sleep."

Dr. Laverne C. Johnson of the United States Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit in summarizing a review of the subject said "Information processing during sleep is summarized, and published reports lead to the conclusion that the sleeping brain does receive, process and perhaps even store information presented during sleep."

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