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
Creating a Turning In album is more like editing a full length feature film than creating a three minute song – and you will feel the difference.
An album for the Turning In series takes me at least around four weeks of studio work and constant testing, tweaking and mixing. In order to be able to feel and fine-tune the effects that even the smallest little detail has on the listener’s state of consciousness and energy, I have to be in a meditative state myself while working in the studio.
This meditative music is designed for a certain intention: To open up and change certain states of mind and expand the listener’s consciousness. It is essential for me to be in an equal state of consciousness during the process of composing and designing this particular music. Why? Because once you are in a super relaxed, receptive and expanded state you will feel and hear every little detail and the slightest unevenness can ruin the whole experience. Along the way I test the latest version of the meditation tracks countless times in full length. Then I also send it to other experienced meditators to get their feedback before finally finishing the tracks.
It is a very slow and time consuming but yet VERY relaxing process for me. I absolutely love this work and I am keen to know what the sounds are doing for you.