Never would I have imagined my “Turning In” music would turn my life around!
Many years of my life I suffered from severe post traumatic stress (PTSD) symptoms including depression, back pain, and addiction. Constantly haunted by horrific memory loops replaying in my “body-mind,” I felt lost, stuck, broken, and hopeless since the usual therapies didn’t do much for me. Every time I fell asleep from pure exhaustion — even if it was only for three minutes — I startled awake from severe flashbacks and nightmares so vivid I could even smell the perpetrators. I was miserable, sleep-deprived, and at times I didn’t even have the energy to open the curtains — or even to weep.
…Until a co-incident forever changed my path
Creating music has always been my refuge, and one night I got really frustrated working on a dance music track that didn’t seem to work, except for a beautiful, layered melody that caught my attention. When I removed the percussion, I was immediately carried away by the flow of the music. I was completely in the “zone” and when I dove out of it, I felt reborn — refreshed, relieved, full of energy, and so much lighter. I remembered what Dr. Shapiro wrote in her book on EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and began experimenting with (binaural) healing frequencies. After all, I had just felt the healing effect of frequencies on my own nervous system.
Brain coherence & neuroplasticity at work
Whenever I put my headphones on and listen to “Turning In,” my nervous system relaxes, my thoughts become quiet, my body gets still, and I can actually feel my brain communicating more coherently, rewiring and healing. Every day I feel lighter, calmer, more focused, more refreshed, awake, energized, alive, relieved, confident, and healed.
I am grateful for this journey.
Of all the electronic music I’ve produced, my healing ambient frequencies have impacted me the most. They have given me back a quality of life.
Nadja
I designed BE to relax your nervous system into an alpha brainwave state—a light meditative state similar to what you would feel if you were deprived of sensory information coming in from the environment and able to focus simply on calming your thoughts. Alpha waves are associated with developing multidimensional awareness, peak performance states, creativity, and presence.
With BE, I intended to produce an easy and repetitive melody that you can listen to for an hour without getting too attached and also not get bored. Little changes, filtering, and sound effects happen over the length of the track. I recorded the ASMR-inducing sounds and field ambience on my fantastic safari trip in Kenya, after playing a DJ gig in Nairobi.