What Is White Noise Therapy?

This is a very different therapy to hypnosis…

White noise contains all the frequencies your ear can hear, mashed up and played randomly together. Examples of white noise include a waterfall, the hiss on a radio, the sound of the sea, and leaves rustling in the wind.

How does white noise work?

Your brain is capable of listening to several things at once, and picking out one to focus on. However when you have thousands of different noises, even your powerful subconscious mind cannot pick them all out. Your brain quickly realises it can’t follow all these sounds, and so gives up trying. This can lead to a nice state of relaxation.

White noise helps distracting noises fade into the other noises so that they no longer distract. They blend into the rest of the white noise sound. Then there are no sounds that stand out and catch your attention.

Many people believe that white noise contains special therapeutic qualities because it is a similar sound to what we hear in the womb. This makes sense as many parents notice that their babies settle to the humming sound of a car engine, or even the noise of a vacuum cleaner.

What does white noise therapy help with?

White noise therapy helps filter distracting background noises. This is why many people experience relaxation and pleasure from listening to heavy rain. White noise helps calm your mind and distract it from intruding sounds and thoughts. This is why people often use white noise therapy, either natural sounds or man made white noise, to relax and meditate.

Many people find that white noise helps them to get to sleep, concentrate when studying, ease stress, and help with meditation and self hypnosis.

Why is it called “white noise”?

It is called white noise because of it’s relationship with light. White light is a combination of all the colours in the spectrum. This is why a rainbow is formed when the sunlight hits the rain, as the colours are split up. White noise is made up of all the sounds combined together.

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Other coloured sounds

Now you know what is white noise, I’d like to tell you about other coloured sounds. Most notably there is pink noise and brown noise. Pink noise combines fewer frequencies than white noise. It focuses more on the lower tones and so sounds smoother and less busy than white noise. Pink noise is great for helping you relax whilst maintaining focus and energy.

Brown noise has more emphasis on the lower frequencies than pink noise. This deeper sounding noise can be useful for helping deep sleep, curing headaches, and masking tinnitus.

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