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A Sound Experiment
Mood and brain wave music to help you focus and be more productive.
Way back in the early 2000s I attended the Silva Method training. Developed many years ago by Jose Silva the core component of the training was that our brainwaves changed depending on our mental state and that directing our attention in certain ways, and through training, we can ‘choose’ certain frequencies of brain waves and therefore certain states.
To the uninitiated, this may sound very pseudoscience but it’s actually very well researched indeed.
This, combined with a lot of changes in my work practices (like many people), made me curious about how music might help (or hinder) me in being more productive, creative and relaxed.
Brain Waves in Brief
Although only part of my reason for looking at the role of music in productivity, I want us all to be on the same page with how the brain works electrically.
The diagram below shows us roughly how we categorise brain waves.
Gamma Waves (40–100 Hz)
Gamma Brain Waves are the most recently discovered brain wave state and relate to the simultaneous processing of information from different brain areas. They are symptomatic of a very active brain trying…