How To Improve Your Natural Awareness Levels

Awareness simply means to be able to percieve - being cognitive of our surroundings and objects. Also, realise that most of our senses play a keen role in our awareness levels. Not just our ability to see.
As we have evolved over many thousands of years, humans have also developed the ability of being self-aware (being aware of our own different states, awareness of our own internal energies etc.)

I'm often asked by many loyal readers, "What's the best way to improve our own awareness levels?"


To which I would often respond. It's first best to practice closed-eyes meditatation (practice breathing awareness) this technique will help you to cultivate 'self-awareness'. Because it forces us to lose one of our senses and by doing this; heightens our other senses. I encourage you to try this for 7 days. After one week of effective closed-eye mediation your senses will be heightened and you will become more self-aware. It sounds a little zen-like, this technique has helped me to develop not only my  self-awareness but also improved my intuition.

If you are unable to meditate, I would advise that you try listening to binaural beats with headphones because it's an easy way to force your body into a meditative state. This is for those that find that they can't meditate due to their surrounding environment being too distracting.

So meditate for 7 days and see how this will improve your natural awareness levels.

Help With Depression and Psychosis Symptoms

Some therapists believe that there is a strong link between serious depression and psychosis.


When an individual suffers from psychosis, they will act as if they've lost touch with reality. This is usually the case with people who abuse drugs (either recreationally or otherwise). They will act in ways that suggest that they're 'not normal' and sometimes just 'snap' and lose it. People suffering from psychosis will not realise that they're not normal. In fact, everything they do is because of an imbalance in important neurotransmitters in the brain. They may report hallucinations, consistant delusional thoughts, personality fluctuations and severe disorderly thought processes.

Psychosis can stem from drug abuse, genetic predispositions, central nervous system conditions and diseases and brain damage. As well as imbalances within the brain's natural neurochemistry.

Major depressive disorders like MDD and Bi Polar sufferers usually report symptoms of severe depression. Meaning that they feel really down most of the time. They may have continuous thoughts of self-harm and suicide and will sometimes hurt themselves. Depression is a serious condition - if you or anyone you know is suffering from depression then please seek help. The sooner that you do; the better your chances are for eliminating these negative feelings and put yourself back on the right track.

The link between depression and psychosis symptoms is that the body will be neurochemically imbalanced. It's important to know that when our body's neurochemistry is out of balance, disease and mental conditions easily develop. There are natural ways to help with these conditions, without needing to resort to pharmaceutical drugs. I would advise the reader to check out some of the resources on this website (like binaural beat technology and mind machines) as these will help alleviate MDD depression and psychosis symptoms naturally.

Audio Highs - Your Daily Dose Of Total Brain Confusion (Fun Illusions)

How would you like to experience an aural high? Yes, you read that right.

Experience a 100% natural and legit 'high' off these crazy yet clever illusions.

Send yourself into a state of chaotic confusion as you experience these fun auditory illusions for yourself.


The illusions presented are very trippy indeed. But don't take my word for it. Nothing beats experience. So give them a try and see how well they work on you.

Binaural Beats
Cambiata Illusion
Chromatic Illusion
Colored Noise
Disappearing Noise
Holophonic Sound
Psuedo-Tomatis Healing Sounds
Risset Rhythm
Shepard-Risset Glissando
Shepard Tones
Theta Wave Brain Synchronization
Yucatecan Trance Induction Beats

Note: To be fully functional.These audio highs require QuickTime Version 6.0 or above to be installed on your internet browser.  

James Nestor usually writes about architecture, alternative fuels, and popular culture for Dwell Magazine, National Public Radio, The San Francisco Chronicle, Outside Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, and more. He is currently writing a book about the neurology of alleged out-of-body experiences.

He is also the author of Get High Now. An illustrated, mind-blowing magic carpet ride of more than 175 ways to alter human perception and consciousness—without drugs or alcohol.

Based on science—not subjective New Age hearsay—Get High Now explores the worlds of neurology, biology, and physiology through meditations, illusions, common herbs, audio and visual stimulations, and some bizarre anthropological discoveries.

Each entry describes in colorful detail how these highs affect our minds and bodies, as well as step-by-step directions for how to do them yourself.

How To Control Your Brainwaves (Binaural Beats)

How To Control Your Brainwaves

Since the beginning of time. Man would seek various ways to induce mind expansion. Herbs, Plants, Fungii, Drugs and many other various ancient esoteric methods. Some processes even require the user to go into a trance-like state. Inducing mind expansion and elevating the voyager into heightened states of awareness.

Today, we're introducing the modern day equivalent to all of that.

Binaural beats.

Discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. This is a phenomenon that results in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately. One to each side of a subject's ears, using stereo capable headphones.

A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones are 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 approximately 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise, the two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived. It is an illusion brought about by the effectiveness of our own clever human minds.

To test out binaural beats for yourself and entrain your brain to certain frequencies. You can check out Gnaural : Which is an open source binaural-beat audio generator (it's absolutely free) and supports Windows, MacOSX and Linux platforms.

Frequencies and their effects on the human body include :

Frequency range	Name	Usually associated with:
> 40 Hz	Gamma waves	Higher mental activity, including perception, problem solving, fear, and consciousness
13–40 Hz	Beta waves	Active, busy or anxious thinking and active concentration, arousal, cognition
7–13 Hz	Alpha waves	Relaxation (while awake), pre-sleep and pre-wake drowsiness
4–7 Hz	Theta waves	Dreams, deep meditation, REM sleep
< 4 Hz	Delta waves	Deep dreamless sleep, loss of body awareness

Gnaural : Download Binaural Beat Audio Generator Free