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of love, which are two that I had been using with the kids with the Hemi sync. Now, I want to
show you take a brief excursion here asking is this music or is this Hemi sync. And let me tell
you a little bit of the story of it. The beginning of it was, I guess it was about a year and a half
ago, I spent Christmas with my son and his wife, and therefore dogs. And it's a lively
household. Needless to say, their youngest member of the dog family was about three months
old, a puppy and on one particular day, one of the dogs became ill and they had to take the
dog to the vet. And I became the designated dog sitter for the other three. It was chaotic. The
dogs were running all over the place. They were barking they wanted to go in the car with you
know the others. This kept up for about 10 or 15 minutes. And I'm sitting there wondering how
am I going to get through this Okay, and so this is the story I put on this is the kind of music
that is actually it's in part. Maybe we can bring the volume up a little bit next year. I I'd like you
to notice this is coming from my computer. This is simply music. But it's the organizing kind of
music. Look at the attentive expression and then the peacefulness that emerged. This is
Fatima the puppy. Now, if this had been and this is, is I forgot puzzle. But look at the
expression on the faces, and Palace, the oldest. These animals are 100 She walks over and
look stares at the computer. If this had been Hemi sync, we would have looked at it and said,
oh look at the power of Hemi sync. They gathered together on the couch. Oh, I was enjoying
the peace and quiet. Let me tell you puzzle again. This was a very wonderful afternoon for all
of us. But again, a reminder of the power of music. The tremendous power of music. Okay. All
right. Now, we want to know about then the response to Hemi sync meta music in a quiet
setting. The type of meta music, I use open speakers placed in front of or behind the children
because it's a gentler approach. All of this information is in the handout, I'd rather not spend a
huge amount of time with it. We want however, the question always is, is Hemi sync
appropriate for this child. And it is not appropriate for everyone. And I think that is very
important to acknowledge.
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We want to observe nonverbal signals for a negative response for a positive response. Or to
identify the individuals who really don't have any particular response to it, or who are
inconsistent. It's very important to remember that these nonverbal signals can either be very
clear, very blatant, or they can be very, very subtle. And one of the things that is extremely
helpful in identifying them is for us to be in a centered attentive state, because and also to truly
believe that this individual is communicating. Because if we see that person as not
communicating, we will never see the signals, we will never see them. And so it ties in with
what how we perceive possibilities. Now, here are some of the kinds of things where a child
may be saying no fussing or crying, general irritability, again, all of this is in the handout. Kids
who put their hands over their ears, pulling on the hair, or the ears, these are all signs of
stress. I have not seen all of these in relationship to the Hemi sync. But when I see them, what
I know is a kid is saying this doesn't feel good. I don't think it fits. Some of the most ones that I
have seen are a couple of kids who very actively scooted themselves away from the speakers,
or one little boy who took a look at me and went over and turned it off. These are very clear
signals that say no thank you. No thank you. Then we get in potentially you also have to look
at signals that we know come from the autonomic nervous system, vomiting, sweating,
irregular breathing, changes in color can be changes in coordination as well, where
coordination might become less good. And then talking to the parent of a child to find out what
are other things that this parent recognizes that our distress signals of that child. What are
things that we see of Yes, smiling peaceful expressions at tend to have expressions, much
more sustained attention to an activity, quieting, reduce agitation and hyperactivity, and kids
who will move themselves directly in front of the speakers. As if they know one little boy who
did this, and turn smile and lay down and went to sleep, right in the middle of the boombox
positive changes in muscle tone, slower, more regular breathing patterns, reduced sensory
defensiveness, and sensory overload is a big one. We see increased eye contact, and then
greater openness to new experiences. Which is what has also most of us have described in
ourselves. As we listen, our worldview gets bigger, and we become potentially more open to
what's going on around us. Now the question always comes up, can we use Hemi sync with a
child with a seizure disorder, I've probably I've worked with many, many children who have a
history of seizures. And some of them controlled some of them uncontrolled. And my, I have
never working in this kind of a very careful, very observant way, have never worked with a
child where seizures have been triggered. In fact, the opposite has been the case for some
children. And those are some of the kids I'm going to be talking to you about. I think when we
use it, it has to be used respectively, respectfully, and with very careful observation. Now here
again, is just a recap of the things I was working on with Julius during the May program. And
when I saw him again in November, there was very definitely a change. He the family had
intermittently been using metal music at home, particularly at bedtime, and found that it was
helpful. It was not used all the time. But somewhat randomly, which I find for someone who
can benefit from it is also can be very effective. When I was first using Hemi sync with kids, I
was using it one hour a week, once a week in therapy. And I was seeing changes he had it
very much improves sensory processing, much more frequent eye contact and social
interaction. And you'll see these as I have some slides and videos of him many changes with
mealtimes. He was more focused on the food he was much less impulsive about things. He
was looking at whoever it was that was feeding him when the spoon was coming toward him.
And the bottom one was the fascinating one to me, there was a reduction in his seizures, he
had gone from seizures that were two or three times a day to two or three times a week. Now,
based on all of this, by best guess of a connection, was that the Hemi sync had been assisting
him in getting better sensory organization and was somehow influencing the seizures. I had
seen this in about three or four other children. And so I was particularly interested in that as a
potential connection. And so we spent are working on all of these other things in the therapy
intensive in November, but with a very strong emphasis on expanding the use of Hemi sync,
both its intensity, its frequency, the frequency of use, the variety of metal musics that were
introduced, and then the variety of environments. This is Julius and his dad. And one of the
things that we played with initially, all in what I use mostly is the homies the speakers are at a
bit of a distance from the child. It's much less intense. I wanted to see where one of our
questions was whether he might respond to headphones. And so I use these small speakers,
bringing them closer to him. Again, look at the connection this is a beautiful For a little boy. As
they came closer, he's quiet. He was so attentive, he was so focused, and he was so happy.
He's listening to Angel paradise, which was one of the ones we found he really liked. This kid
could be in a gateway program, you know, just look at this. This is this is yes, yes, yes, yes, go
for it. And afterwards, I mean, to me, these kinds of photos are wonderful. But what's important
is what happens afterwards. And he had one of the things we were working with, they were
working with at home was with balls, and with the beads that he loved, beginning to be able to
be interactive with them, taking turns giving them to his dad, and the connection here. And
here is pretty awesome. Now in the program, then I'd like to show you a couple of short video
clips. To give you a sense of the the flow and the movement aspect of all of this. When he
came in came from the waiting room, one of the one of the things that had begun to happen
was when he wanted to listen to this, he suddenly was pointing to his ear. And that I mean, this
was one of the first really big nonverbal signals that he gave, and I'd say, Yes, you want to
listen. And yes, and so he's really requesting the Hemi sync here. He comes in over the other
news. So I was looking, and he looks back at me and it dad, and he's moving over to this
green mat in the corner, which is where we've been listening to the music, this is his dance of
organization which had also become different it was much less stereotyped than it had been in
May. Okay.
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So, we come to the corner, and I had so he has come in non verbally moved to the area of the
room that he associates with this particular kind of music. out in the hallway, he was constantly
pointing to his ear, and my saying you want to go listen to the music. Hmm. Like this. Here is a
segment of simply listening to the metal music with this kind of a speaker's up close system
may need to bring the sound really up sam i Not sure why. And again, the pointing he is sitting
quietly, he is engaged with his dad with a ball looks at him. Dad asks for this, we don't I'll just
do a narrative a bit with it. I don't know why the sound is so low. I think so much exploring our
time I talk to the parents as we're doing this as to what we're seeing. And so I took the time.
Okay. This bring him back how they we can use it at home. We're both all of us still exploring a
lot. This was the slides was about the second session we had done. This is the last session
where it was being videoed for their records, or whether it's talk to them a lot about the fact that
as bobbin row spoke of Hemi sync is like training wheels on a bicycle. And they don't have to
do this at home all the time. One of the wonderful connections I discovered was that his car
seat had speakers in the headrest. I was blown away. It was a wonderful thing. And so oh
goodness, well. Just watch and maybe it's a good activity of just watching the nonverbal really
occurred in me this morning. Is that some of his most difficult times or when you go out I think
Again, noticing does this fit for him? Yes. When you are wanting to tell it's quiet, he's focused.
There's eye contact, there's interaction. Well, I know your life. And he points to his ear as a
yes, I know you'd like this. So I'm constantly giving him that feedback that helps him say, oh,
yeah, she understands that I'll use it again. When I want the music. Yeah. And it becomes, I
know you. I know you love it. Yes. Yes. Okay. I'm gonna go to the next one. We I was
exploring with him. Some of the things where we were using the Hemi sync, some of the things
where we weren't, didn't sit there and hold this all the time. Again, one of the questions is, this
is a kid who doesn't always like things around his ears, like headphones and such. So the
question we were exploring here is, is there a way in which we can bring that sound up closer
and more personally, at times when he needs it, but also was going back, putting the speakers
simply on the floor, in front of or on the side of him, and at times having the music off, so that
we it, again, it was like he doesn't have to be tethered to Hemi sync all the time, we were
having a picnic on the floor with food, and predominantly with no Hemi sync here. With the
food, he goes back into a little bit more of his head movement and his hand gestures. But