Your Dreams Called, They Miss You!

My dear friend, Trapper Sherwood, has written this blog post. It was originally an email to our lists, but I think it has so much great infoans advice about an important subject that I asked him if I could bring it as a blog post. He said “Yes” and here it is. Enjoy!

Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday morning November 7th 2010 at 2:00am in the USA. In Europe it is October 31 at midnight.

So, why do we even have DST, and how can it affect you?

You see, during the “energy crisis” years, Congress enacted earlier starting dates for daylight time. In 1974, daylight time began on the 6th of January and in 1975 it began on the 23rd of February. After those two years the starting date reverted back to the last Sunday in April.

In 1986, a law was passed that shifted the starting date of daylight time to the first Sunday in April, beginning in 1987. The ending date of daylight time was not subject to such changes, and remained the last Sunday in October.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed both the starting and ending dates. Beginning in 2007, daylight time starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.

Daylight savings time can affect the sleep patterns of millions of people annually.

Sleep deprivation, sleep loss, and the onset of insomnia are just a few of the affects.

Remember, It is not normal for a person to be sleepy at times when he or she expects to be awake.

So what can be done about this change in our sleep schedule do to the time change?

I recommend a sleep routine.

A sleep routine is a routine that you set up prior to going to bed to get your body, and mind ready to fall asleep. If you start doing this PRIOR to the daylight savings time, you just might save yourself not only a lot of grief, but a minimum of five to seven nights of tossing and turning do to the time change.

Ok, here’s what I recommend.

Let’s say your time you usually go to bed is 11:00pm.

I suggest at 10:15 to 10:30pm or (at least 45 minutes prior to the bedtime you have set for yourself) you start winding down. This means turning off the TV, computer; (Yes even facebook, sleep is more important) and start listening to some soothing music. (We have a track of music dedicated just for this on our Sleep Secret Audio.)

What this will do is start letting your mind, and body know that it is time to relax.

From here I suggest that at 11:00pm (or whatever bed time yours is) as you get comfortable in your bed, you insert your earbuds, or put on your headphones or maybe you have an mp3 player close to your bed. But either way, turn on track 2 of our Sleep Secret Audio, and gently drift off in to dreamland, cause your dreams have missed you.

You don’t have to suffer through sleepless nights because of the upcoming time change.

You might find that you are ready to experience a good night’s sleep now, so please visit: www.sleepsecretaudio.com and download your audio now.

Sincerely,

Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood; CMH
Certified Master Hypnotist

PS…Rememeber, if you want a good night’s sleep and not have to take any pills or drugs, we suggest the all natural sleep audio tracks of www.sleepsecretaudio.com

Sleep Secret Audio

Silent Rain

After a rather (and too)  busy week, I honestly felt a bit worn out and stressed this weekend.

At noon, I was alone in the house, and thought I would sit down, doing nothing but just relax. I could feel the stress in my body, and closed my eyes. Suddenly I realized it was raining silently outside. I could hear the soft sound of the raindrops on the roof.

And there it was! The feeling of inner peace and relaxation.

I remembered that I once had this experience on a vacation when I was visiting a beautiful Danish island called Anholt, and there was the same silent rain outside.

That day the rain inspired me and I composed a piece of music from my experience, and called it Silent Rain.

A kind of musical snapshot or a musical painting.

Later the composition was published on a CD, Spa & Wellness.

You can listen to the composition here:

Silent Rain

Enjoy!

Silent Rain is featured on the CD Spa & Wellness Vol 2

Spa & Wellnes

Related posts:

Out Of Nowhere
Baby Sleep Music
The Slep Secret Audio

Baby Sleep Music

Post 24 in 30 Days Blog Challenge.

If you have children you know what it’s like if your child cannot sleep. You feel sad and powerless because you often can’t comfort your child. as a result you often get anxious and the child can feel your tension and a bad circle starts. It is well known, that baby sleep music can help your child as well as your self. It can create a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere, to help your baby go to sleep, as well as helping you to relax.

The CD series Music for Mother and Child consists of three CDs with relaxing and soothing music, especially composed and designed to help babies get to sleep.

The third CD from the CD series is called Lullabies and it is a sequence of originally composed baby sleeping music, lullabies, each of which tells its own little story.

A lullaby is a soothing song or piece of music, usually sung to children and babies before they go to sleep, therefore often used as baby sleep music. Lullabies are often simple and repetitive and creates a secure and relaxing atmoshere for the baby or child to fall asleep.  The baby sleep music we have created is instrumental, and the melody is “telling” the story.

What makes music baby sleep music?

As babies grow so does their consciousness and ability to comprehend actual melodic sequences.
On the CD, Lullabies, we have sought to preserve a tranquil and secure atmosphere by purposely using repetition as an artistic effect. Some of the babies sleep music compositions on Lullabies have an almost hypnotic expression, something that naturally also influences the listening experience of the adults. The music is not just baby sleep music, but also very useful for grown-ups.

Listen to sample of baby sleep music from Lullabies:
Lullabies

Buy the CD Lullabies with original baby sleep music:

Lullabies - Baby Sleep Music

Unborn Baby Music

Post 22 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Blog Challenge

The idea for the CDs Music for Mother and Child arose from a common desire to compose music that could give unborn babies/infants a good start in life.  For it is recognized as an extreme upheaval to leave the mother’s secure womb and suddenly face the “real” world. We wanted to compose music that could impart security and inner as well as external peace and tranquillity. For the unborn baby as well as infants and children

We decided to Create three CDs each one made for a specific age. The first CD, Wind Chimes, contains unborn baby music.

How can you create music for the unborn baby?

So how do you compose unborn baby music? One thing that impressed us was when we read an article about the widely recognized French physicist Tomatis, and learned that hearing is the first sense that is developed, and that the unborn baby already has a fully developed sense of hearing by the 6th month.

We also realized that the unborn baby reacts to high frequent sounds. Also, it was obvious that unborn babies can’t understand melodies and harmonies. The music on Wind Chimes has a light and airy quality and is thought of as a soothing blanket of sound. Besides the continuous wind chimes, the instruments we have chosen are Native American drums, which according to the original Americans represent the heartbeat of Mother Earth, the human voice as a primordial instrument, and the acoustic guitar for its transparent tone. The music is composed both with an intuitive approach and a search for a balance in the harmonious structures from a more analytical angle.

Breaks in the music is disturbing for the unborn baby

On Windchimes there are purposely long, continuous passages. Through dialogue with a reflexologist who has specialized in work with infants, we learned that the continuity is an important element for calming young children. Too many breaks in the music can be very disturbing to young children as well as the unborn baby. Thus, among other things, Wind Chimes consciously consists of a melodious, five-tone structure, which is completely devoid of tension.

Here is a sample with music for the unborn baby from Wind Chimes:

Wind Chimes

Wind Chimes: Unborn Baby Music

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Soothing Baby Music

Post 21 in Connie Ragens 30 days blog challenge.

As you might know, I’m a producer of music as well as an online marketeer.

In the summer of 1999 I produced the CD series Music for Mother & Child with my friend Henrik Birk Aaboe. The series consist of three CDs with soothing baby music specially composed and designed to calm fetuses, infants, toddlers and parents.

In the course of the process we received such exciting responses from people that we decided to undertake a private study of the effect of the soothing baby music on pregnant women, infants and their parents.

Soothing Baby Music for all ages

The results were amazing! We realized that creating soothing baby music we also created music that had a remarkable effect on grown ups. That music is a universal language that goes beyond age.

My own daughter is 7 years old now, and she still listens to the soothing baby music on the CDs when she has problems falling asleep or if she is ill and needs some comfort.

Here’s a video I have created about Music for Mother and Child:

Website: Music for Mother and Child

The Sleep Secret Audio

Blog post 7 in Connie Ragen’s 30 Days Blog Challenge.

This blog post is a guest post written by a dear friend of mine:

Hello,

 my name is Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood.

 I want to thank my good friend Claus D Jensen for asking me to write a blog post on how “The Sleep Secret Audio” came into existence.

Claus and I “met” through the forum at Milagro world over a year ago, and it has been an incredible friendship ever since.

Let me set this up for you, and how it all ties together.

Back in November 2003 I went through some deep problems in my personal life (divorce). These problems lead to an incredible lack of sleep, aka; insomnia. As a small business man, I felt like the weight of the world had fallen on me going through a divorce. Not only was I trying to run a business, but couple that with the responsibility of raising my daughter who was nine at the time, well to be truthful, I just didn’t know how I was going to do it all.

During that first year I lost a lot of sleep. Some nights I was awake all night worrying how I would pay the bills all by myself.

 Some nights I worried how to raise my daughter. Still other nights I worried who would want a single middle-aged man with a child.

It seemed liked I tossed and turned or stared up at the ceiling all night for many, many months in a row.

One day I came across an out of print book that dealt with how to get a good night’s sleep. I needed this book & the secrets within. As I read this book, and applied what I learned, I soon discovered how to put myself to sleep, and most importantly, stay asleep all night and get the much deserved sleep I so desired.

After about thirty days of using the techniques I learned in this book, I knew I needed to let other people with the same problems know about this. This lead me to putting up one of my first websites and offering 
this out of print book available as an “ebook.”

During the next eighteen months or so, with my limited knowledge on how to build a business on the web, it sold surprising well. But about June of 07, I noticed sales starting to drop off. I couldn’t do much about it at the time as my full-time business was keeping my very active.

Somewhere around October of 08 I was discussing with a buddy of mine what was going on with it and he simply blurted out “No one wants to read on their computer how to fall asleep.” This got me thinking and put my wheels in my brain housing group into gear.

One day in Milagro World I read about this man from Denmark (Claus D Jensen) that was doing audios to help children and their parents be calm and serene before, during and after childbirth. Pretty cool, but the light didn’t go on over my head…yet.

Fast forward to the day after Christmas December 26th, 2008. I had just dropped my daughter off at the Mother’s house for the Christmas Holiday, and I was sitting at my kitchen table. All alone, and deep in thought. I was thinking about my sleep book. Maybe I should start recording the whole book. Nope, that idea wasn’t lighting a fire under me. The “Clearing Audio” by Pat O’Bryan & Joe Vitale played in the background as I sat there thinking.

Then the thought occurred!

I will record the “How To” part of the sleep secret ebook. The part that actually teaches people how to fall asleep and stay asleep! Now I felt I was on to something!

I thought all the steps through, to do this, but I needed some music. I remember the interview with Claus Jensen. I went back to Milagro World, and reread it. Maybe he is the guy? Then again a doubt crept in, maybe he wouldn’t do. But I had been reading Joe Vitale and taking inspired action. In my mind, this was something inspiring!

So I emailed Claus, introduced myself, and my crazy idea. And then waited. I figured if he got back to me, it would be in a couple of days. About an hour or so later I decided to check email, to see if Mum & Dad had written or any of my friends. Lo & behold, there was an email from Claus! Do I dare open it? What if he said no? But what if he said yes?

It was an answer, and the answer was YES! He would love to do something like this with me! As we exchanged emails back and forth on the idea, the CD now known as “The Sleep Secret Audio” was born! I would do some trial recordings, and email them to Claus, he would listen to them, email me back suggestions on how to get the right recording levels. This went on a few times, until I got the “OK” from him. He would send me samples of his inspired music. This was pretty exciting for me.

Now the time had come for me to do my recordings. I set my little recording studio up, took a deep breath, and knocked out the recording in one take!

And the rest they say is now history!

Claus has mixed and mastered “The Sleep Secret Audio”, and within a month we had a website up, and a product to sell. Within two weeks we had out first sale, and we have not looked back! I am truly grateful for his talent, but most of all for his friendship.

Thanks again Claus,

Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood

Ressources:
The Sleep Secret Audio
Mind Vacation Meditation
Free “Peaceful Recess” Audio

Silent Night

This blog post is post number 5 in Connie Ragen’ 30 Days Blog Challenge.

Dear reader, I want to tell you that I really appreciate that you have taken your time to visit my blog and read this blog post. I want to wish you a Merry and blessed Christmas!

I have created a musical Christmas card with an instrumental version of Silent Night that I hope you will take the time to listen to.

Silent Night has always ment something very special to me. When I was quiet young I heard a version sung by Mahalia Jackson, and I burst into tears. I had the recording on a cassette tape, but unfortunately I have lost it, and haven’t been able to find exactly that same recording again. Later I heard Elvis Presley singing Silent Night, and that is a heavenly version as well.

In respect of these versions and the beautiful song, I have created this version:

Here are the lyrics to Silent Night:
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ, the Saviour is born
Christ, the Saviour is born

Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth

Sweet World – Dejlig er Jorden

It’s soon Christmas! In Denmark there is a song that eveyone sings at Christmas time. It’s called Sweet World (In Danish: Dejlig er Jorden). I have made an instrumental (rock!!) version of it, and put it in a video. You can watch it here:

Many of you know me as a composer of relaxation music, but here is another side of me! ;-D

Enjoy!

The Sleep Secret Audio

I have earlier written a blog post about The Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale. In the book, Joe Vitale says, in order to prove if the techniques work, that the best way is to use The Attractor Factor yourself, and see your own amazing results. Nothing will be as convincing as that!

In this blog post I will share with you how I created the music for The Sleep Secret Audio, an audio program for people with sleep issues, that I have made with my friend, Trapper Sherwood, from Nashville.

One day, Trapper Sherwood asked me in an email, if I would be interested in helping him produce The Sleep Secret Audio. I said yes! I could feel that this was a great project, and I decided to try to use The Attractor Factor in the creation of the music.

Step 1. Know what you don’t want.

Step 2. Select what you do want.

The same evening, before I was falling asleep, I made an intention and a wish of creating the perfect music for the sleep secret audio (I skipped step 1 in The Attractor Factor, because I knew what I wanted!). I had no clue at that point what the music should be like. I just had the wish to create the best music possible!

Step 3. Clear all negative or limiting beliefs.

Step 4. Feel what it would be like to have, do, or be what you want.

After that I made a picture in my mind of me having already created the music, and I also imagined what it would feel like having created it. (That was a great feeling!) I told myself, that I could do it, and thereby cleared all negative thoughts and doubts. Then I let go! I simply imagined that my wish/intention was sent up to the sky, and then I felt asleep.

Step 5. Let go as you act on your intuitive impulses, and allow the results to manifest.

Next morning, literally before I was awake, I heard some music. Yes, I heard it just like you hear music from your iPod. But I didn’t wear an iPod, and nobody was playing music in the house. It was very early. I knew, that I had to act on this, and I hurried into my music room, and grapped my guitar and a piece of music paper. 15 minutes later, I had played and written down the music that I heard in my head.

Later that day I recorded the music, and sent it to Trapper.

And he loved it!! And so did I!!

As Joe Vitale says, that was amazing!
Listen to a sample of the music:

sleep-secret-music

Read more about The Sleep Secret Audio here

Out of Nowhere

Being a composer of music I often wonder:
Where does the music come from?
Where is it before someone compose it and write it down and play it?
Is it already made, just waiting for someone to pick it like an apple from a tree?

J. S. Bach ended all his compositions writing:
”From the hand of God.”

He knew where his music came from!

I don’t know.. When I make my music, I get the inspiration in many different ways.

I want to share a special story with you.

My very first published CD is called Out of Nowhere.

It’s named after the ”composition” Out of Nowhere.
The quotation marks are because the word composition is not right here!

I want to share with you, how Out of Nowhere was created.

At that time, I was working with a guy, who made seminars for business people about personal growth. I was playing music at the events and telling about the effect of music, and how to use music to beat stress.

At one event, we were waiting for people to arrive.
Nobody came! Not one single person!!
We had never tried that before, and was laughing and making jokes about it. I sat down with my guitar and started to play (just to ”kill” time).

Suddenly it was there! I just played it. From start to the very end.
I played it again and again to be sure to remember it.
A totally finished composition! I was speechless.
I knew instantly I had to call it Out of Nowhere.

Because “Out of Nowhere” was were it came from!

When I came home, I did some very small adjustments to it,
and if you go to Products you can hear a sample of that music,
which that very special day came to me.

- Literally Out of Nowhere.

Thank you!

Out of Nowhere

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