Questions & Answers

We engage directly the vagus nerve when we hum. What else happens when you hum? You slow down the breathing.

You've heard that it's important that you breathe out longer than you breathe in. Humming does that naturally. You don't even have to think about it. You start humming and you slow your breathing rate down to 25% of the time breathing in, and 75% of the time breathing out.

If we want to improve the efficiency of the vagus nerve system, humming is a crucial, beautiful way to do it. When we ask you to do it with all of the techniques, it's just simply giving you time to practice- to learn the frequencies and the tunes of the Tuner.

We have people that say, "I will never hum to a device," and that's fine. You can groan to it. You can make any kind of vocalization, I don't care. But if you will make vocalization, and if you will breathe out, the humming process does that for you naturally. It just puts your nervous system to where it can learn the song that will help it later in time.

It's all because of an experience with an eight year old boy that we got a chance to work with. That was having three to 4 or 5 migraines a week. He'd get them so bad to the point he would puke, and then he would start calming down as they took him out of school and put him in a dark room.

After a few months of using the Tuner on a regular basis, Mom came in one day and saw the boy there humming at the kitchen table and she says, "Why are you humming?"

He says, "Mom, I've found out that if I start to have a migraine headache I can start humming and turn it off."

That's the power of learning the song. Learning the tune associated with these Tuners.

It's a great tool to use when you're hurting, but that's probably the wrong time to start getting your brain working better. If you grab the device and just use it when you hurt, it's going to have an effect. It's not going to have nearly the effect that we want it to have, though. There's a training process.

If you will use it when you don't have pain, your brain starts learning how to access that more calm state. That process of teaching the nervous system how to access calm and relaxed is really the beauty of these tools.

If you have to use these tools, just like you have to use a bottle of Advil, we're in trouble. I don't want them used just to replace medicines. That would be terrible. What I want to do is help your body to heal and learn how to function at a better state and be happier.

If we can use them in a preparatory state, meaning if we can use them for, say, six weeks daily, whether you have pain or not, your brain goes through this process of learning how to access those chemicals of calm and how to access those chemicals of healing, and the net result is you start having less and less of the abdominal pain, or less and less of the headaches.