Have a Word with Yourself

Have a Word with Yourself A provider of sound therapy and brain entrainment - making positive changes from the subconscious level.

I am a music composer, teacher and practitioner of binaural and sub-audible sound treatment - a combination of brain entrainment and sound therapy. For a better understanding of how I can help you, please go to the website.

29/08/2025

This week I was reminded of the importance of alone time and the benefits it brings when done with intention. Often people misunderstand those that need time alone due to their own personal perspectives of what's normal for them. For some people, time alone is felt as loneliness but for others it's a necessity for their health and well-being. Needing alone time doesn't mean you're anti-social or selfish, it's a self honoring act for those that need the time to process what they're absorbing throughout the day.

Before screens there were many more opportunities during the day to take a moment for checking in with yourself but nowadays for many, time alone is spent seeking a distraction of one kind or another and introspection has fallen by the wayside.

Time alone for self reflection is important for me and something I've been doing as a daily routine for many years. The discipline of checking-in with myself, mental state and thoughts is what helps to both prepare myself for the day ahead and also let go of the things from the day that I've experienced and no longer need to focus on. A simple 15 minute routine of intentional self-reflection keeps me balanced, positive and clear minded. It gives me access to my inner guidance which impacts my outer world, something that I value greatly.

Next time you're in a queue, commuting to work, waiting for a bus or find a moment to yourself, notice the urge you feel to reach for your phone but instead of doing that, just be still and set the intention to check in with yourself instead. What's your mental state currently - positive, negative, optimistic, anxious? which of your thought's are bringing you peace and which are not? How is your physical body feeling? What's your energy level like? What would make your day feel more enjoyable? Is there anything playing on your mind specifically that you're not willing to face or deal with? What could improve your current mindset?

The simple act of self observance helps to remind us that we are the ones experiencing all these thoughts, feelings and emotions through our conscious awareness and we therefore have the power to take control of our thoughts, responses and emotions at all times.

To learn more about the ways in which intentional solitude can help you to quieten your mind, hear your inner guidance and improve your emotional well-being, drop me a message and we can chat about the different ways to utilise moments of solitude that will work best for your lifestyle.

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21/08/2025

Butterfly boops 🦋

When you're hardwired to genuinely want to help people it can difficult to stop yourself from intervening or trying to steer people away from the pitfalls that you perceive them to be heading towards. Just like watching your baby stumble as they learn to walk, you have to step back at times giving them space to take a misstep so that they can learn to correct themselves through their own personal awareness of their experience. As a result, they build resilience and confidence in themselves and learn to trust their own perceptions and footwork. Interfering with a butterfly during it's chrysalis phase is both unnecessary and detrimental to it's survival. The effort of the creature having to bust out of the tightly spun chrysalis (that it designed and built itself I might add) is what builds it's strength and dries out the mucus from it's wings so that it can take flight. By making a cut in the chrysalis to 'help' it out even with your good intentions, you're actually denying it of the vital steps that prepare it for it's life ahead. It's a good reminder that we all need the experiences we go through for one reason or another and sometimes the kindest thing you can do is step back, observe and support from the sidelines.

In overcoming personal challenges and difficult experiences to the point of experiencing acceptance and peace, we learn a great deal about ourselves which makes everything else that we go through be seen from a whole new vantage point. Without those challenges, would we experience the same growth and personal expansion? I think not.

I've always loved the saying by Ram Dass 'Were all just walking each other home' which sums up beautifully the act of supporting and guiding each other through life, not fixing each others problems but being there with compassion as we all take our own paths.

If you'd like to know how the frequency treatment that I provide supports those seeking to improve their well-being on their journeys, you can email me at wordwithyourself@gmail.com and I'll be happy to explain the treatment to you.

01/08/2025

Earth vibes are real!

Why do we feel so good (most of us anyway) when we're out in nature? Yes, it's beautiful and stimulating for our senses but how can we explain that profound shift that happens within us just from being in nature.....

A simple answer could be that we are organic beings just like nature, based on the same structures, frequencies, ratios, formations etc and being immersed in nature helps to balance ourselves energetically and physically. Nature is a pure form of aligned organic energy because it's only purpose or expectation is to be as it was intended to be as a tree, a lake, a mountain etc, it is in it's truest most authentic energy which has a vibrational impact on all those that come into contact with it. Just like any form of entrainment, the frequency that holds the most dominant power is the one that is in alignment, just like a tuned note. So, it seems that by recognising our organic structure and actively connecting with nature, we are being re-tuned by it and feeling the benefits. Cheers trees!

One notable benefit is the quietness of our mind and clarity of thought. In changing our focus away from the high action daily grind to watching our footsteps on a simple pathway, we're immediately shifting into a mindful state that eases brainwave activity from high beta down to low beta and even slower, a much calmer, more immersive state. Once we're in this slower brainwave state we start to connect to our internal self more easily and this paired with deeper breathing from the physical exertion of being out in nature, is the perfect combo for rebalancing and restoring ourselves on all levels.

Frequency brain entrainment works in the same way using binaural beats to gently guide your brainwave frequency back to the most optimal brain state whether that's to focus, to learn, to sleep, to create etc the binaural beat provides the dominant waveform that gently guides your brainwaves to match it. These brain states are our naturally occurring states that we experience each and every day and when they are out of alignment we may notice we find it hard to focus, relax or sleep.

To learn more about the ways in which you can help yourself to rebalance and restore your energetic alignment for your optimal well-being, feel free to get in touch via email at wordwithyourself@gmail.com

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19/07/2025

To face our personal shadow is to allow ourselves to be cracked open enough to reveal our hidden, darker truths so that we can shine a light on all that is asking to be seen within us. This could be unprocessed childhood fears, abandoned dreams or plans, rage that's been silently turned inwards or even the shadows of our own insecurities that we project onto others.

When we make the connection with the unhealed parts of ourselves to the reality of our conscious lives causing unease, we can start to work through our shadow aspects and see how they might be holding us back from the peace and fulfilment that we seek. Many people nowadays prioritise a quick fix or temporary distraction over doing deeper self reflection that brings about the shifts that they're seeking. Some are scared to scratch beneath the surface in fear of the changes that they'll need to make and others don't feel emotionally strong enough to face the truths that they hide. Everyone has different levels of comfort and pain threshold and not everybody will be willing to face their uncomfortable truths, it's a very personal choice and shouldn't be forced upon anyone that isn't ready.

The shadow part of ourself is where we find our biggest revelations which are catalysts to our growth because it's the storehouse of all the things we've tried to avoid and many of these things are what we need to acknowledge in order to overcome them.

The initial part of the binaural frequency treatment that I provide calls for self reflecting on all the identities that have been picked up throughout your life and the issues that you're wanting to overcome. We often carry around outdated identities that are no longer relevant or useful to us and we don't even realise it. Many of these identities need to be acknowledged, accepted and released so that we can embody new identities that are more aligned with how we want to live right now. This self reflection is the tiny crack that starts letting the light in to shine on the other parts of our inner world that are seeking acknowledgment and acceptance.

Together the binaural beats and the frequencies within the treatment support and balance the body's energy centres helping clients to accept and process the things that have been illuminated in a comfortable way. During the 3-week treatments there are weekly check-in's to chat about how everything is progressing and the changes that they're experiencing.

If you're curious to know how this 3-week frequency treatment can help you to shine a light on the shadows that are ready to be seen, drop me an email at wordwithyourself@gmail.com and I'll be happy to explain how it all works.

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10/07/2025

Our intentions are how we decide to focus our mental, emotional and physical energy and how we align our personal energy depends upon these intentions.

For example, if we set an intention to live a healthy and happy life, then the intention is created as a focal point in which to align our feelings, thoughts and actions into creating that healthy and happy life. By consistently reminding ourselves of that intention each day and being mindful and present in our thoughts, emotions and actions, we are actively creating the happy and healthy outcome as our reality. We cannot expect to live a happy and healthy life without aligning as an energetic match to being a happy and healthy individual just as a debt ridden gambler won't see success in setting the intention to be wealthy if they're not showing up in their present state as someone who is making good decisions over their finances.

When we understand that it is our own energy that creates the reality of our intentions, we should also understand that our energy is sacred and should be respected and always aligned with that which is beneficial to ourselves and others. Those that value their energy, know the importance of balancing and aligning it each day to provide clarity and balance within themselves so that they are showing up for themselves and others in their best state of being. They are discerning with where they focus their energy and they're cautious of anything that may interfere or affect it in adverse ways. The world is full of things that cause imbalances to occur so it's up to us to be disciplined leaders of our own energy in order to ride the ebs and flows and stay aligned with what we wish to experience in our reality.

To magnify the power of our intentions we can team up with others that share those same intentions but discernment is key to making sure that you are connecting your energy to others that have the same energetic integrity as yourself. When setting an intention for ourselves to benefit from, we should also set the intention for all others to benefit from it also. This ensures that we are not unintentionally receiving anything that is not ours to take.

We get back what we give, so set your intentions with great care and mindfulness and value all that you experience as a result of your free will choices.

If you have any questions or would like to know how I use frequencies for daily balancing, feel free to drop me a message at wordwithyourself@gmail.com

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30/06/2025

Most people aspire to having a talent of some sort because they think that it will make them stand out from the crowd and gain admiration, which a lot of the time, it does. But, there's always an exception to the rule and for those that have a talent but learnt to play it down or talk themselves out of using it, they'll tell you that the struggle is real!

If you're made to feel proud of your talents and abilities, generally speaking, there's no room for hang up's about showcasing them. You enjoy sharing them with others and can freely express yourself openly. Then there's those that, at some point were made to feel like their talent was burdensome or caused irritation or jealousy to arise in others, which understandably tainted their connection to it. This internalised conflict creates mental blocks which can linger for a long time in the subconscious and conscious mind.

Many people don't realise that not everyone is comfortable publicising / performing their talent not because they lack the skills to do so but because they've experienced the rejection of others from previously having done so. Being criticised is one thing but when having a talent stirs up jealousy and envy in others, it can be hard to want to continue and face the backlash from people around you. So, instead of jumping at opportunities to express that talent, they make excuses and squash themselves down into a less threatening way of being. Feeling shamed out of expressing any talent is a huge waste and can lead to feelings of inadequacy and unfulfillment when left unresolved.

As someone who is guilty of all the above, I'd like to share what I've learnt so that maybe others can benefit from my example and open up to the idea of letting themselves be seen and heard in a more public way.

Our solar plexus is the energy centre in our body where we feel our strength to take action, confidence, will, drive and ambition. When it's weak we experience the exact opposite so it's an important area of focus for anyone that's wanting to feel confident in expressing themselves and being seen. The other significant area is the throat energy centre, which as you'd expect governs our ability to express ourselves openly and clearly, speak our truth, stand up for ourselves and confidently communicate with others. These two energy centres both need to be balanced and active to overcome any fears, blocks or other obstacles that are linked to self expression and communication.

Having created a frequency treatment for myself to overcome these outdated beliefs and blocks, I'm now feeling more comfortable in expressing my talents without letting the previous fears and worries deter me. Instead of focusing on others judgements and reactions, I've become entirely focussed on what it is I want to express and this has been the biggest shift / gift that I've ever given to myself.

In addition to the frequency treatment, I've been strengthening my throat energy centre with singing lessons to increase my vocal power and acceptance of hearing my voice. I've also been strengthening my solar plexus energy centre by doing yoga and swimming.

Since I've faced up to what had been holding me back and actively taken steps to counteract it, I've noticed more and more opportunities have been arising - new encouraging connections, a supportive message from a childhood friend and the thoughtful gesture of a new friend that followed up on their promise! - providing me collectively with all the nudges that helped me to move forward boldly.

If you'd like to know more or need help with self expression, being seen and speaking your truth, please email me at wordwithyourself@gmail.com and I'd be happy to talk more about what I can do to help.

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17/06/2025

A body map of frequencies for balance and restoration using Solfeggio Frequencies. For followers of the page, I'd be happy to send you this as a printable file to download - 📧wordwithyourself@gmail.com

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08/06/2025

"Be the strength of my heart, my portion, forever".

This weekend I sang publicly for the first time in a looong time. I've never been a comfortable performer and being centre stage is something that I find challenging so even though it was a small concert in a private garden, it was a big win for me!

The song I sang talks about finding strength when faced with weaknesses or difficulties and remembering where to seek the courage and strength to overcome obstacles. As someone who finds it difficult to ask others for help, it made me think of how my independence can sometimes keep me at a distance from connecting with others but also it being the reason for my reconnection to my inner knowing and faith in something greater than myself to help me in times of need.

By handing over your troubles to a higher source of help, you're demonstrating that you have faith that there's something of greater existence beyond your physical self that can assist you throughout your life. This act of faith is what I believe opens a door to perceiving the world differently and aligns you with the life experiences that will help you to evolve into whatever you are here for. Sometimes it takes a big life wake up call to reconnect to ourselves and call for higher guidance but it doesn't have to be this way. We all have access to the same support, the only difference is whether we chose to let it in or not.

Meditation is a great way to reconnect with yourself and to higher states of consciousness that allow you to perceive life differently. Binaural beats are a gentle and safe way to sync your brainwaves into a meditative state which facilitates this.

If you'd like to understand better how this works and how it's helped me and many others to connect back to ourselves and higher support please feel free to drop me a message or email wordwithyourself@gmail.com

The more challenges I've overcome, the stronger my faith has grown and this has blessed me with strength and knowing that all that we go through in life is for the experience - to grow, to learn and to evolve from. Everyday I give thanks for the strength of my heart and every day I'm shown a little reminder of the love that is there for us all.

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29/05/2025

In your 'feels', what's the deal? 😁😭🧠🫀

All our emotions are experienced by our body's sensory receptors with the brain connecting together the emotion from the feelings, the physical sensations and the accompanying thoughts, to create the whole experience. Feeling great and full of life's joys are undeniably the most welcomed and easiest feelings to experience because they're pleasurable and flood the brain with happy hormones.

Then, there are the not-so comfortable emotions and feelings that are equally valid to our life's experience but just not much fun to go through at the time. But, as I just said, we go through them, the feelings and emotions are not set in stone, they're just a passing scene that will inevitable change. When we're experiencing the heavier sides of our feelings we forget the simple fact that we are not those feelings, we're just the physical body vessel experiencing them. As the Irish say, 'Ta' bron orm' the sadness is upon me, stating that they're not identifying themselves as being the sadness but instead recognising that the emotion of sadness is currently being experienced by them. It's a much more accurate way of describing our temporary experiences that are our feelings and emotions.

Once we make peace with accepting the not-so-fun, heavier feelings and emotions without identifying as them, it becomes easier to experience their comings and goings without judgement or too much mental load as to why or how they came to pass in the first place. This freedom to feel all your feelings without distracting ourselves away from them (my personal challenge) or needing to understand or dismiss them, is a freedom that has personally helped me to come to terms with things that I'd not wanted to let surface for fear of them flooring me. Well, they did and didn't, but in going through it, I came out the other side with a clearer more balanced perspective and awareness to all the things that I feel and experience each day.

To stop resisting and feel into your feelings is to release the need to control them and instead embrace the uncertainty of life that our feelings are helping us to experience. Having a bad or sad day isn't a sign of weakness or failure, it's just another temporary scene playing out, part of life's bitter sweet contrasts.

Next time you feel bogged down in your feelings or thoughts, sit with them, feel them and let them bring up whatever's rumbling underneath the surface to be seen and accepted. Acknowledge the feelings as a valid response in relation to whatever you're thinking about and let your body feel and release anything that it's prompting you to let go of. Some find it helpful to write it out, some cry it out whilst others talk it out - take your pick. We can only ignore our emotional sensory feedback for so long before it manifests in an unhealthy way so rather than let it do that, welcome the feelings without judgement, accept them, release them and chalk it up as yet another of one of your life's experiences that you survived or even thrived from!

If the thought of feeling all your feelings is something that gives you the royal ick, you might want to know about the sound treatment that I've developed to help acknowledge, accept and release emotions from the mental, emotional and physical body using specific targeted frequencies with simple breathing techniques. For more information or to get in touch with any questions you may have, feel free to email us at wordwithyourself@gmail.com

In this world sometimes the kindest people are the ones that get hurt the most, not because being kind is a weakness, fa...
21/05/2025

In this world sometimes the kindest people are the ones that get hurt the most, not because being kind is a weakness, far from it, but because they cannot perceive how others operate in such inconceivable ways, it's their blindspot. It's only when they experience the darker side of human nature that they become aware and subsequently become more capable in dealing with these types of individuals in future. These experiences can help to highlight some of the the aspects of human nature that previously they were reluctant to acknowledge in others.

Those that feel the need to coerce or manipulate others to get the outcome that they want are not powerful or masterful but instead reflecting a part of themselves that feels that they're not worthy or deserving enough as a person to get what they want without using manipulation. They become skilled at spotting people who have vulnerabilities to exploit, perceiving them as weak and manipulable, easy prey. To be aware of manipulation in all it's forms is to be armed against it and to have discernment with those that reciprocate your kindness is key to not allowing yourself to be being taken advantage of.

Some of the kindest people I know have faced some of the hardest challenges in life and still chose to show up as the kind, balanced and loving beings that they are. They've not been manipulated by others cruelty or swayed to go against their core values or true self, they've chosen to feel the pain, take the lessons and transform it into personal growth and freedom that let's them continue being their authentic selves. Being kind to others should come as standard but in todays world of click bait revenues fuelled by bots and haters, remaining kind for some, is a struggle. Children worldwide are facing increasing levels of poor mental health from bullying so it's really important that we help to support and educate them as to why people are unkind, without excusing their behaviour to help them to deal with and diffuse situations. This will help to lessen knee-jerk reactions of meeting cruelty with more cruelty - two wrongs will never make a right, it just adds fuel to the fire.

As part of a mental health initiative for primary aged children, I've created a short story to share with schools that looks at why people's unkind behaviour can sometimes be due to fear of their perceived differences. If you'd like a link to the ebook to share with your children or school class please send me an email to wordwithyourself@gmail.com and I'll be happy to send it to you.

Stay kind y'all!

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14/05/2025

When we experience issues getting to sleep we say that 'we can't switch our mind off' which is actually pretty close to the actual reason behind not being able to fall asleep. We don't switch off our mind as such but we do switch from conscious to subconscious brain activity. To get from A to B we need our brain activity to slow down from the alert and stimulated beta state to the relaxed alpha, then deeply relaxed theta and finally arriving at delta, the slowest frequency where sleep occurs.

If our mind is busy thinking about something or recreating an event from the day whilst trying to sleep, it can delay the descent from beta and cause frustration and restlessness. Reaching for a phone to distract yourself from the overthinking can further impede the brainwave descent as the blue light emitted from the devices stimulates the retinal cells that suppresses the sleep hormone melatonin. Taking sleeping tablets can provide an instant relief to sleeplessness by causing muscle relaxation and raising GABA to induce sleep but it's a quick fix that comes with the potential risk of creating addiction and dependance if taken longterm. It can also cause unwelcome side effects of brain fog and drowsiness the next day.

A much safer option to lower your brainwave frequency to induce sleep is by finding a method to slow down your brainwaves naturally. There are many breathing methods that do this, a well known one is to inhale for 4, hold the breathe for 7, and breathe out for 8. The method which I commonly use for clients experiencing sleep problems is to listen to delta binaural beats that descend from theta helping to entrain their brainwaves gradually to the slower frequencies. This noticeably cuts down the amount of time it takes in falling to sleep and improves the depth of their sleep. Good quality sleep increases our body's ability to restore and replenish optimally and sets us up for a day with clear thinking, communicating and functioning.

Neurodivergent people can also benefit greatly from this method of brainwave entrainment by reducing their mental overload from processing external stimuli. On the flip side, binaural entrainment can also be used for neurodivergent individuals that experience slower processing brain function by entraining their brainwaves with faster binaural frequencies to help them achieve more alert and focussed states.

If you are interested to learn more about how this form of sound therapy can help to support your natural brainwave states for optimal health and well-being, please get in touch via email at wordwithyourself@gmail.com and I'll be happy to explain what the treatment is all about.

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