“ are one of the best things to happen to me.” “I was happier, better rested, and not in pain,” she says.
A month of binaural beats later, Trimberger says she noticed something miraculous.
Thinking “it couldn’t hurt,” she listened and found the experience was better than she expected.Īfter just 10 minutes, she became relaxed enough to better tolerate her pain.Įncouraged, she listened again, night after night. When Trimberger first learned about binaural beats, she says she began searching and found a free recording online. “Anxiety and stress are some of my largest triggers,” she says, adding that the medications she’s tried have only left her groggy and feeling “out of it.”īut nine months ago, Trimberger found something that did help her feel better: a soundwave phenomenon known as binaural beats - subtle, surreal beats that are sometimes cocooned in relaxing music and seem to pulsate deep inside the brain. Trimberger, who owns a company that makes small-batch beauty products, also has trigeminal neuralgia - a facial nerve disorder often called the “suicide disease” due to its painful and hard to control flare-ups. “I find it hard to be motivated and am generally jittery,” she says. How these otherworldly sounds may help you hear your way to a happier, healthier you.įor as long as she can remember, Jessica Trimberger has lived with anxiety.
