Bilateral Music is created for use with EMDR therapy.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing,) started in 1987 by Francine Shapiro, uses bilateral stimulation to open neurological pathways in the brain which helps heal the emotional pain of traumatic memories.
Holly Cumming, a licensed EMDR therapist, hearing some relaxing instrumental music that her husband was recording, suggested making bilateral versions for her to use with her clients.
The first Bilateral Music album was released in 2013. Other EMDR therapists and clients around the world began to listen and order copies of the album. The unexpected popularity of the first album led to the release of a second volume in 2018, along with the release of companion albums for both the first two Bilateral Music albums, containing the same music, except mixed in stereo, without the bilateral panning. Those two albums, "Wandering Path" and "Morning Sky," are used in meditation, massage, stress relief and other wellness applications.
Now Bilateral Music III has been released, along with its companion album "Joyful Sky," containing the same songs in stereo,without bilateral panning.
The music is primarily acoustic, played with guitars, wind instruments, light percussion, gentle keyboard pads, and nature sounds of water and wind mixed in. It is melodic and improvisational, slow and peaceful, with tempos between 60 and 90 beats per minute, the rate of the human heart at rest.
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