Activate Altered States Faster with Vibroacoustics – with Craig Goldberg

This episode dives into what people are saying about inHarmony’s meditation cushion and how involuntary elevated states of consciousness are achieved through the power of vibrations!

We talk about how the tech is created and the effects it has on the body’s nervous system. Craig also explains why vibroacoustic technology is finding its way into the psychedelic space through ketamine clinics to improve the efficacy of the therapy itself.

If you’re someone who struggles to meditate or regulate your nervous system, we highly recommend this podcast.

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Sacha: Welcome to Psychedelic Spotlight. I am so excited about this particular podcast because I am sitting across from Craig Goldberg from inHarmony Interactive. I just got one of your cushions and I tried it and I’m not going to spoil it for anybody. No spoilers allowed because I want you to talk about this technology. You are in the space of vibroacoustics, so for grandma or whoever is in the room, what is that?

Craig: First of all, I’m super excited to be sitting across from you yet again Sasha. This is now the second time that we’ve recorded this podcast due to the technical difficulties of the universe. And this is, I think, very special because you do have our cushion and you have been able to experience the first conversation we’ve had post delivery of our tech.

Look, the reality of what we do, because a lot of folks want to overcomplicate it, we can dive deep into the weeds and the rabbit holes. But the baseline for it all is that sound and vibration is everything. And I know that people kind of say that, but what does that mean? And the reality is, every single thing around us is vibrating. Even the table that sits before you, the headphones that you’re listening to, the speaker, of course, is vibrating. But, even what we think is solid matter is actually vibrating, and it’s right.

It’s easiest for me to think about this as we look back to 7th grade chemistry class; protons, neutrons and electrons. Even at the periodic table that you see sitting behind me, we know that that things are vibrating, that everything around us is moving. And what we’re learning more and more about today, and the science is constantly evolving, is that the human body picks up on these vibrations, maybe not necessarily of the desk and that sort of thing, but of other vibrations of other sounds of other frequencies. And we come into harmony with those other vibrations, pun intended.

It’s something called harmonic resonance. We come into harmonic resonance with these other vibrations that we’re exposed to. And those vibrations could be thoughts, could be energy, it could be physical vibrations of sound. In this case, via vibratory experience, like on a sound lounge or on inHarmony technology.

And as our bodies are constantly being bombarded with these different frequencies, and I do mean bombarded, it can be anything from the 60 Hertz frequency and vibration of the electricity that’s flowing through your walls. It could be the hum of the condenser on the back of your refrigerator that needs to be serviced or updated as you sit and work in your kitchen. It could be music that you’re listening to, or whether that’s on headphones or whether that’s at a nightclub or a concert. Our bodies are constantly coming into harmonic resonance with the frequencies that we’re presented to, and our entire business is really all about presenting the body with relaxing frequencies with soothing tones that bring the body into a relaxed state instead of bringing the body into a tense and stressed or anxious state.

Our bodies are constantly coming into harmonic resonance with the frequencies that we’re presented to, and our entire business is really all about presenting the body with relaxing frequencies with soothing tones that bring the body into a relaxed state instead of bringing the body into a tense and stressed or anxious state.

And this is really the root of what we do. And really, the easiest way that I can explain it is to present the body with the most soothing and relaxing tones and frequencies as possible, and you got to think of our technology as a delivery system for sound and frequency directly to the body.

Whether you’re sitting on our meditation cushion, laying on our sound lounge, or listening to our app through headphones or Bluetooth speaker, you are simply presenting your body with relaxing frequencies designed to shift you from sympathetic, stressed and anxious state to parasympathetic, calm and relaxed sate.

Sacha: Yes. OK, so let’s talk a little bit about how the technology actually works with the cushion. So I tried the cushion, I did the Bluetooth pairing, I put my headphones on. But I’m telling you, this cushion is so strong, like the vibrations were going through the house.  So I could feel it all through my body. Why is that happening? Just for people in the audience that are curious. How is this actually working?

Craig: So we use a specific piece of technology called a tactile transducer. I don’t know if there’s going to be video and if we’re going to see this, but I’m holding a tactile transducer in my hand. They are made specifically customed for us. We’ve been making this transducer for six plus years. Ultimately what you’re seeing is a speaker input. So we’re basically using this tactile transducer, which is a magnet to transfer that frequency. Energy frequency is just a number of oscillations per second.

20 Hertz frequency is 20 oscillations per second. And we couple that in this case with the cushion with a pair of headphones that you’re wearing, which are hardwired to the back amplifier. There’s two built-in speakers in our meditation cushion as well, which work as effectively if you’re in a room or you’re not going to disturb anyone.

And the science and the magic is twofold. It’s first in the actual vibratory experience. We’re actually shaking at a specific frequency every single cell in your body. The magic starts to happen when you couple that with the ears listening to the same frequencies at the same time, and this creates a 3 dimensional, fully immersive auditory and physical experience.

As to the technical side of things, the mechanoreceptors in your skin are sending the same signals to the brain as your auditory nerve in the cochlea as they’re hearing the music. And the brain kind of makes this assumption that you are inside the music and it drifts into a relaxed state while it’s listening to and feeling the same frequencies and those same electrical inputs at the same time.

It’s a really wild experience. Our tech is designed to be the most powerful on the market. You’re sitting on our meditation cushion. There’s two tactile transducers right underneath your root. It’s literally sending those vibrations straight up your spine, and as you’ve experienced, it’s enough to make your earlobes bounce up and down your teeth. And that intensity brings with it additional benefits, physical benefits that you wouldn’t otherwise find in, say, just listening to headphones or just listening to music through a small speaker.

You’re literally sending a message to every muscle in your body telling it to relax. The vibration kind of ushers you into a relaxed state, and then of course you have the same auditory signal as you do physical signal and that creates this relaxation effect on top of everything else.

All of a sudden, now you’re increasing lymphatic drainage with help, which helps with the detox pathways in the body. You’re literally sending a message to every muscle in your body telling it to relax. The vibration kind of ushers you into a relaxed state, and then of course you have the same auditory signal as you do physical signal and that creates this relaxation effect on top of everything else. It feels amazing.

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