That’s great to hear your success story!

I’ve been quite in love with pzizz myself.

Here’s my idea about how pzizz cured your headaches: Each neuron in your brain uses potassium and sodium ions to send electrical signals, just as your computer uses electrons for communication.

The problem is that your brain eventually “depletes” the potassium and sodium ions. When these ions are depleted, your neurons can no longer fire, which often means brain fog, headaches, “mental burnout”, etc.

Typically speaking, whenever you’re fully awake, your brain is in a beta state, which means fast brain waves (in other words, your neurons are firing rapidly). Too much time spent in beta will overwork your brain, possibly leading to headaches.

To replenish the ion balance, your brain will slow down its brainwaves (down to alpha and theta states). This normally occurs several times a day for usually 20 minutes at a time.

You mentioned that you have faced a lot of stress recently. Stress corresponds to heightened levels of cortisol, which stimulates the brain and forces it to stay in the beta state.

Bottom line: too much stress -> high cortisol levels -> “overworked” brain & excessive beta activity -> headaches.

The great thing about pzizz is that:

1 - It uses calming sounds and NLP to induce a relaxing psychological response in your brain, which means alpha and theta states, thus a replenished potassium and sodium balance, and thus more mental energy & less headaches.

2 - It uses brainwave entrainment (binaural beats) to further entrain the brain down to alpha and theta states. Yes, it works, and it works well.

Hope that gave you some insight, Ross. I really appreciate the comment!

Jeff (SleepWarrior)

Ok here is some history…..

I have been suffering from stress related headaches for several months now on and off. This is owing to long work hours at home running my own companies and then trying to balance that with my lifestyle.

Up until 2 months ago (I got married) I was steadfast with a solid diet and proactive at the gym 5 days a week. Since I tied the knot everything health-wise was put to the back burner but that was a mistake I shouldn’t have done. My health went downhill, muscle mass went down sharply and my body fat increased exponentially.

I guess that just added to my stress and confounded my headaches. They were the “more annoying” types than the painful ones. Notice I used past tense?

Yup…Headaches gone. Woosh, just like that. I’m er still trying to get my head around this one? Any ideas what happened oh wise one?

All I did was try Pzizz 3 times today. I did some energizer and some sleep.

Those are great questions, and definitely common ones for new pzizz users.

I’ve found that playing around with volume levels (voice, music, and overall) helps. I prefer about 60% voice, 100% volume, and fairly low overall volume on my headphones. That way the sounds tend to play on my subconscious and aren’t distracting to the sleep process — or at least it feels that way.

Second, I’ve noticed that with power naps I often have sleep state misperception (STM). STM is when you think you’re awake but you’re actually in stage 1 or stage 2 sleep. You can actually be quite conscious during light stages of sleep and it still counts as sleep. You’ll often notice that at the end of a pzizz track you’ll wake up from STM and think “oh, wow, I guess I *was* asleep”.

STM is not a bad thing. It’s meditative. It feels great. It’s perfectly rejuvenating. In fact, if I go several days without a half-conscious power nap, I know that I’m not getting enough sleep at night.

So the way I see pzizz is as a true mid-day energizer. You might just meditate for 20 minutes, you might go half-conscious in stage 1 and 2 sleep, or you might truly drop into sleep — all of those situations I’ve found to be revitalizing.

I would also recommend playing around with nap lengths. Sometimes I do a 35 minute power nap because I know I’ll spend 10 or so minutes in meditation before drifting to sleep.

Aside from that I would just play around with the various options until you find what works for you.

Mid-day breaks and naps are cornerstones of highly creative individuals, so I think it’s worth the effort to develop the skill even if it takes some testing and tweaking. Pzizz has been very helpful for me in developing that skill, but there are also other options you can explore — classical music, earplugs, or simply foregoing the auditory component altogether and just plopping down for some shut-eye.