Simply Watch and Listen to Relieve Stress and Meditate

Psychyl (pronounced: cycle) is a safe and effective way to reduce everyday stress, improve sleep, and enjoy an inner calm through meditation. Using clinically-proven brainwave science and ancient meditation tools, you simply watch and listen to relax within this oasis of gently moving art and music. The science of Psychyl can allow your brain to produce more theta brainwaves, which can be measured on an EEG when a person is in deep meditation. Theta brainwaves are important for better overall health and wellness. Stress is considered to be America's #1 health problem (Click here to learn more about stress). Meditation is an effective treatment for stress relief.

Even if you have never meditated, Psychyl can induce a relaxed meditative state of mind by simply watching and listening. Discover the secrets of ancient meditation tools combined with modern science to release your stress and help you to relax and sleep better. Whether you are a homemaker, student, busy executive, professional, shift-worker, or retired person, this program can help you feel more relaxed, well-rested, healthier and happier.

These unique products are being embraced by Health-Care Professionals, who are using Psychyl to help patients with stress, pain, depression and sleep problems. You can now enjoy Psychyl at home on your TV/DVD, computer, or stereo system. It's easy to use. Psychyl contains no guided narrations, and no hypnotic suggestion or messages. Psychyl is completely safe and useful for anyone. You simply watch and listen to beautiful art and music with a proven science to relax and meditate.

Each DVD and CD offers different themes for various moods and tastes, offering a variety suitable for timeless enjoyment. Each of the 30 minute programs are an ideal length for the most effective relaxation and meditation sessions, which anyone can enjoy repeatedly. Psychyl has been designed for you to relax in an oasis of calm, each day.


Brainwave Science Combined with Art and Music

Psychyl is an intuitive system, offering a simple and pleasant way to meditate without any prior knowledge or technique. Researchers have discovered the common result with all forms of meditation is that a person meditating is producing a higher amount of theta brainwaves.  Psychÿl contains binaural beat brainwave synchronization, tuned to theta brainwave frequencies which can be measured on an EEG when a person is experiencing binaural beats. The unique combination of mandala, mantra, and binaural beats, results in a powerful meditation and relaxation tool, which can offer lasting benefits. Psychÿl can be enjoyed daily as each DVD and CD release offers different harmonies of colour, shape, sound and theta frequencies for various tastes and moods. The binaural beats contained in Psychyl can stimulate brain wave shifts into the theta range. Each of the Psychyl releases is tuned to a specific frequency within the theta range. Research done by Dr. Thomas Budzynski, concluded that the simultaneous use of multiple binaural beats within a session did not result in multiple-frequency entrainment. The brain tends to "pick one" and stick with it. We find that a longer period of a single binaural beat frequency seems more effective for meditation. Each Psychyl volume contains one specific theta frequency, which harmonizes specifically to the music and mandalas on each. Each Psychyl volume offers a theta frequency for different meditations and other health benefits specific to each of the frequencies used.


Benefits of Meditating with Psychÿl

Meditation is clinically proven to enhance immune function, reduce blood pressure, stress, anxiety and promote a general state of health and wellness. A person does not need to know how to meditate to use Psychÿl. You can reach a meditative state as you watch, listen and enjoy this serene imagery and music mindfully blended into this completely unique art form.
 

	Psychÿl Volume 1, "The Bright Seed" In vibrant hues of blues, reds, violets and greens against a dark backdrop, "The Bright Seed" expresses the theme of the mystical seed of creation that gave birth to the universe. Containing binaural beats at a theta frequency of 7 Hz. Click for More Info DVD-Video, NTSC Full-Screen US$32.95 Click to Buy Online CD-Plus, Music CD with CD-ROM segment US$16.95 Click to Buy Online
	Psychÿl Volume 2, "Birth of Planets" In hues of fiery golds and reds with harmonious accent colours, "Birth of Planets" is based on the theme of the creation of the planets from a source of powerful generative energy. Containing binaural beats at a theta frequency of 6.1 Hz. Click for More Info DVD-Video, NTSC Full-Screen US$32.95 Click to Buy Online CD-Plus, Music CD with CD-ROM segment US$16.95 Click to Buy Online
	Psychÿl Volume 3, Sea of Life In hues of blues and greens, yellows, rust and turquoise, is thematically inspired by early organic life in the primordial sea. Containing binaural beats at a theta frequency of 7.83 Hz. (the Schumman frequency known as the earth’s resonant frequency). Click for More Info DVD-Video, NTSC Full-Screen US$32.95 Click to Buy Online CD-Plus, Music CD with CD-ROM segment US$16.95 Click to Buy Online
	Psychÿl Volume 4, Inner Island In earthy colours of greens, rust and golds, "Inner Island" is inspired by the organic elements found in nature. A connected energy of patterns that evolve from the primitive natural state to the ancient world of traditions. Containing binaural beats at a theta frequency of 5.2 Hz. Click for More Info DVD-Video, NTSC Full-Screen US$32.95 Click to Buy Online CD-Plus, Music CD with CD-ROM segment US$16.95 Click to Buy Online

Psychÿl Product Details

About the Arts and Science for Meditation
Recently, meditation has become the popular focus of scientists, healthcare professionals, artists, the media and the general population. Meditation is now recognized by scientists to be synonymous with theta brainwave entrainment, and is understood by health care professionals as being an effective treatment for stress related illnesses, while increasing concentration and relaxation. Studies have shown meditation to enhance immune function and promote healing of the body, mind and spirit. Along with the comprehensive research on meditation conducted by scientists worldwide, artists and musicians are also embracing new artistic avenues to create works for meditation. For millennia, art and music have been used to aid in meditation and relaxation, and some artists are revisiting the ancient methods by using these in their artwork. Modern science has also produced effective technologies to aid in meditation through theta brainwave entrainment such as bio-feedback, binaural-beats, and neuro-feedback. Recently, scientists are studying how visual art and music affect the brain, which is known as neuro-aesthetics. Psychÿl is a unique method for meditation through binaural-beat theta brainwave entrainment combined with neuro-aesthetic event-scapes of visual art and music which has been interpreted by artists mindful of both the aesthetics and the science. There are currently four Psychÿl releases on DVD-Video which can help to induce meditation and invoke a theta state of consciousness by simply watching, and listening.

About Neuro-Aesthetics
Neuro-Aesthetics studies the effect of visual art and music on the brain and consciousness as well as the effects of our consciousness on the arts. Many of the studies conducted, investigate aspects of the arts relating to patterns and time. Music is a system of patterns in time, and the ability to perceive and produce patterns is fundamental to our understanding of the world and ourselves. The frequency pattern distributions of neuronal action in the brain are a kind of music going on in each of our heads, based on the principles of: harmonics, resonances, and rhythms.

The Visual Art of Psychÿl
Since large areas of the brain are involved in the processing of visual information, it makes sense to integrate visual content with audio to effectively entrain meditative states of consciousness. By synchronizing non-objective symmetrical visuals with a musical counterpart, Psychÿl can relieve stress and induce a relaxed, meditative state of consciousness. The Psychÿl neuro-aesthetics are based on the use of symmetrical patterns over time. The patterns transform slowly, where the viewer becomes consciously unaware of the changes, but observes distinctly different images. This can reinforce the mind to release the sense of time and thought, and meditate within the moment. In Psychÿl, the artists have focused on patterns in similar styles to mandalas and yantras, but have added further dimensions to the patterns through more detailed symmetry, shape and colour offered through modern digital technology. The artists have approached the visuals like a song, where the patterns of shape and colour slowly evolve. This adds a linear element to the visual artwork much like musical neuro-aesthetics. The imagery contained on the DVDs was created from one master painting for each, expressing a major theme to suggest a progression of events from the beginnings of the universe to human culture. All imagery are expressed in patterns inspired by Tibetan mandalas, divided into four parts, where the centre is the “palace” and each quadrant represents a gateway facing each of the four directions receiving and expressing energy. Like yantras and mandalas (often considered visual mantras) the Psychyl images have a centre portion to focus on during a meditation session. Psychyl does NOT use FFR (frequency follow response) for visual brainwave entrainment because we find this method can actually be distracting, and dangerous for people with certain health disorders. Instead, Psychyl uses a purely aesthetic approach, where the visual art acts as a meditation focus and gentle visual mantra.

The Music of Psychÿl
Psychÿl music is based on a mantra approach with slow-moving musical elements layered in a non-linear fashion. This results in a form of music with one constant movement over 30 minutes. By not using any apparent melodies, rhythms, dynamics, or changing movements to demand the listeners' attention, the composition can release the listener from the music into a meditative state of consciousness. Psychÿl music also integrates binaural beats tuned to theta brainwave frequencies This is a proven neuro-acoustic science, which has been used effectively in many relaxation products for decades to evoke deep meditation. Psychÿl harmonizes binaural beats within the composition as a "part" in the score, like a musical instrument. Rather than using a purely clinical neuro-feedback approach using binaural-beats, the goal of Psychÿl is to develop an aesthetic appeal to this science because typically the sound of binaural-beats is not musical. Psychÿl music has been created for meditation and wellness, but above all, has been composed for the same purpose as any other musical art form: to offer an aesthetically engaging listening experience. Music can resonate into the subconscious mind and offer benefits that science is only beginning to realize.  It has long been recognized as a means of consciousness management. Music can stimulate the brain to effect excitement or relaxation. Even before we are born, our brains respond to sounds (harsh and soft) with corresponding brainwave activity. The music on the Psychyl series are each of a style inspired by the original roots of ambient music, rich in ethereal textures and subtle details. Psychyl creates a harmonious balance between the music and binaural beats. The harmony of visual and aural aesthetics with binaural-beats offers a pleasurable approach to meditation. Psychyl achieves the fine balance of combining the art, music and binaural-beats harmoniously to produce a truly effective and enjoyable meditation tool.

The Balance of Art, Music and Science
The aesthetic harmony of the visual, music and scientific components of Psychÿl has been of paramount consideration for the artists. By treating the sequence of pictures as visual songs and the music and science as sonic art, the artists were able to move the visual, music and science elements into unison, where each are effecting the different senses, but in a harmonized aesthetic manner. Psychÿl has been created by the artists to express their interests and thoughts in neuro-aesthetics and sciences. Psychÿl is an endeavour to create art which reaches into the consciousness to provide a relaxing and healing effect. Psychÿl is a new art form created to help anyone meditate by simply watching and listening.

About the Artists
Psychÿl is the artist collaboration of db. This artist collaboration of Debra McEachern and Brent Alan Plain began with the productions of the first 4 DVD’s and 4 CD’s in the Psychyl series published for release in 2004.

Brent Alan Plain has a diverse background as a multimedia artist, composer, producer and inventor with an eclectic body of work which includes patented internet processes, software designs, web designs, digital video and multimedia releases on CD-ROM and on the internet as well as music releases for film, television, radio and CD. His synectic approach to art, technology and living, culminates in his latest works on the Psychÿl projects.

Debra McEachern is a forward-thinking and innovative artist focusing on the endless possibilities presented by digital art. Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, she holds a HBFA in Fine Arts from Lakehead University and a post-graduate Diploma in 3D Animation from Sheridan College.  Her work has been purchased for both corporate and institutional collections with numerous works in private collections in Canada, US and Paris. Ms. McEachern works out of her studio in Toronto, Canada.

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