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This morning I've got my earphones on again listening to the Gnaural meditating software and another Playlist of binaural beat videos from YouTube, and writing at the same time. It's a different way to do things, but I like the idea of it. While my brain waves are entraining themselves to the Gnaural software and the YouTube videos, I'm reaching for descriptions for something to write that somehow makes sense.
The Gnaural software documentation suggests that the volume of the binaural beats can be turned down to what's barely heard, and it still works to influence my brainwaves. Since the YouTube videos are being fed through the same audio channel the sound from the videos is real low also.
I did dream last night, but I was not very lucid. After brewing coffee and preparing a bowl of oatmeal (without cinnamon) this morning, I guess I lost the dreams and what I formerly remembered of them. After I went to bed last night I didn't feel the least bit sleepy, so I took a painkiller tablet to help me relax, and it did help, but I figure it had something to do with me not remembering my dreamtime so readily.
Yesterday I used the software three times for a total of three and a half hours or so, then I meditated without it for an hour. My reaction to the binaural beats inducing a theta and delta state of meditation without me exerting discipline to bring those states about intrigues me. I seem to be able to concentrate on my seven chakra areas easier.
Focusing on the various chakra areas is what I practiced for the hour I wasn't using the headphones. I think spending four hours meditating yesterday had a lot to do with my not being very sleepy last night. The act of performing creative writing while the meditating software and videos plays adds another dimension to the practice.
It's like I'm teaching myself to think in a more lucid manner even though my brain waves are attenuating to states of being that normally induce a state of unconsciousness. That's what I'm thinking, but I could be wrong. Nobody knows, so what does it matter? If I am getting off on it, then it's all good.
The TV is on and muted. Occasionally I look over to see what's going on. Currently, on the CBS Morning Show, the host is conversing with a pretty young woman about what to eat to get enough dietary fiber. Bowls of what is considered the correct food to eat in order to get enough fiber is amusing to me now.
The reason it's amusing is that I get more than all those foods with soluble dietary fiber using inulin. Each teaspoon of it provides 6 grams of fiber, and I put it in either my food or in what I drink twice a day. I acquired inulin from two sources.
The initial inulin was derived from Jerusalem artichokes. I bought it at a health food store. The second purchase was manufactured from chicory roots. Metamucil sells it in a silver-colored container. Neither kind has much taste and it is a tiny bit sweet. I don't have to concern myself about getting enough dietary fiber, and it's easy to use.
If for no other reason than just the idea of doing it I'm enjoying feeding my friendly gut bacteria as if they were my pets. Because I'm taking such a meticulous approach to making sure they get enough to eat, I pretend they guard my life and protect me from the unfriendly bacteria. Whether this actually happens as advertised or not is anybody's guess.
Maybe there are some purists who believe that homemade kefir is better for you than the commercial kefir smoothies I bought at Harris-Teeter, but I kind of doubt it is, except for the emotional satisfaction that may be gained from creating it from scratch.
The most useful ingredients in the kefir, homemade or not, is the friendly gut bacteria added to them. An acquaintance told me of a guy he works with that makes his own kefir. I don't know if he calls what he makes kefir. It's a new word in my lexicon, but kefir has been around in the more ancient civilizations for millennia.
Around the Mediterranean basin it's made with any kind of mild they can get hold of. Goat and sheep and camel milk in the arid countries. It's closely associated with cheese from these animal's milk too. In Wikipedia the article on kefir states they use honey and other sucrose sources along with the yeast bacteria to make it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefir
Here is the link to the company who makes the commercial variety I bought at the grocery store:
http://www.lifeway.net/Probiotics/
The reader, if interested, has to copy and paste the links into their browser. I've been reading and searching for a way to make the links active, but I don't know much about HTML coding, and that's what it takes to get it to happen.
I've found the HTML code that's supposed to do the trick, but I don't know where to put it in the code template in the blogger.com settings. Maybe if I persist in my efforts I'll be able to figure it out one day.
The audio programs are just powering away as I've been writing. I've been able to figure out how long it's taken me to get this far by the counter on the Gnaural software. 55 minutes. There is about twenty minutes left for the sequence to complete itself.
I need to wait until it is done before I edit what I've written. I've taken to having the computer read what I've written back to me aloud. I read along with the audio voice to help me find typos and other mistakes. The reason I have to wait is because the headphones need to be unplugged operate the speech program, and I need the stereo for the meditation software to work right.
In between reading and listening I appear to make fewer mistakes in editing my blog entries. I don't know about other bloggers, but I find it very tedious to edit my own stuff. I seem to waltz right over the errata without the audio read back because "Familiarity breeds contempt."
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