TLP inTime: A Rhythm-Based Training Program for Optimal Brain Functioning

Music has been used for centuries to enhance our mood, uplift our spirits, and soothe our souls. However, music can also be a therapeutic tool to improve cognitive and physical abilities.

Imagine that feeling when your favorite song comes on, and you just can’t help but dance. Or that moment when the perfect melody washes over you, and you feel your whole body relax? What if we told you that music can do more than just make you feel good but can actually help improve your brain function and overall well-being? That’s where The Listening Program® (TLP) inTime comes in.

TLP inTime is a rhythm-based music listening therapy combined with fun movement activities, therapeutic drumming, and vocal activities developed by Advanced Brain Technologies. The method is designed to activate specific areas of the brain responsible for rhythm and timing.

Listening to inTime music improves your rhythm awareness, focus, timing, and adaptive responses to stress. It’s like a workout for your brain, but with the added bonus of great music!

Finding Harmony: The Benefits of Rhythmic Music

A lack of rhythm may hinder language skills, working memory, attention span, organization and planning, and motor skills, creating stress and disharmony in your life. Fortunately, with rhythm-based therapies like TLP inTime, there is hope.

In essence, rhythm is the secret ingredient to unlocking our full potential as social beings.

Meet the Creators

At Advanced Brain Technologies (ABT), our passion is creating neuroscience-based music listening therapies to help people heal and transform their lives. TLP inTime was developed following years of research and clinical application with classical music listening therapy since 1999. The result is a therapy that has helped countless individuals overcome barriers and unlock their full potential.

Experience the Music – Sample inTime

Through personalized listening protocols and activity plans, inTime helps listeners establish new rhythms in their brains and body, leading to positive changes in behavior and emotions.

With TLP inTime, you will find that music listening therapy engages all of your senses. You will feel the beat of the music and the sound vibrations as they wash over you, awakening parts of your brain that have been dormant for too long.

The transformative power of TLP inTime lies in its ability to rewire your brain, enabling you to better process information, improve your memory and focus, and reduce stress and anxiety. It’s not just about listening to music; it’s about engaging with it in a way that has never been possible before.

Take a moment now to listen to two samples of TLP inTime. You might find yourself dancing along to the beat, feeling a surge of energy and vitality as the music works its magic on your brain.

Percussion Sample

Combination sample

TLP inTime: A Revolutionary Approach to Music-Based Therapy

At the core of inTime is the idea that rhythm is the essential foundational element of music. The human brain relies on intricate patterns of rhythmic activity, which facilitate communication between different areas of the brain. With this in mind, inTime aims to stimulate and harmonize the brain’s auditory, sensory, and motor systems, promoting a sense of alertness, tranquility, and equilibrium.

Building on this idea, inTime draws on scientific research in psychoacoustics to help the brain integrate, synchronize, and regulate its functions. Psychoacoustics is a scientific field that studies how humans process and perceive sound. It informs much of our understanding of the effects of music on our mind, body, brain, and emotions.

Research: Evaluating the Efficacy of TLP inTime

The Canadian Center of Science and Education published this international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal: Integration of the InTime Technique in the Neurodynamic Program of Assistance to Children with Learning Disabilities.

This study conducted at a children’s neurology center has shown that TLP inTime can significantly enhance the efficacy of interventions to tackle learning disabilities. The study yielded impressive results, including marked rhythm, attention, motor planning, handwriting, timing, and memory improvements. These findings indicate that TLP inTime program could be a valuable addition to school-based interventions.

The Art and Science of Rhythmic Music and Sound Frequency Therapy

The original world music of inTime is an organic compilation with a distinctive blending of rhythms and instrumentation, old and new, from cultures and regions across the globe. inTime’s signature sound is achieved through masterful emphasis of orchestrated percussive rhythms and specific sound frequencies as the basis for a rich melodic and harmonic structure.

The sound recordings are of the highest quality, capturing the sound and spirit of over 100 instruments from around the world. With its unique blend of world music, it offers a listening experience that’s both captivating and deeply therapeutic.

Creating an organic musical landscape is vital to TLP inTime’s rhythm-based training program. To achieve this, the team carefully selected instruments based on their sound frequency data, ensuring an accurate representation of each instrument’s unique sound. Timbre, resonance, and origin were also important considerations in the selection process.

All the tunable instruments were expertly tuned to A=432 Hz. Each instrument was recorded separately before being combined to create each piece. But it wasn’t just about capturing the perfect sound. The recordings also took place in natural acoustic spaces, adding to the authenticity of the overall listening experience.

But why go to all this effort? Because the inTime program is designed to stimulate four distinct frequency zones in the brain, each associated with different areas and functions. The carefully arranged recordings ensure that every note and beat stimulates specific areas of the inner ear that respond to different vibratory frequencies, creating a mapping referred to as tonotopicity. This unique approach to music listening therapy is designed to help listeners achieve a sense of alertness, tranquility, and equilibrium for lasting change.

Who Should Use inTime?

inTime is a unique and fun therapeutic approach that benefits people of all ages, from toddlers to elders. Combining music and activities to support the auditory-sensory-motor brain system helps them find the beat, keep it, and use it to induce positive change.

Who is it for?

• Children 2 years old and older, adolescents, adults, and seniors
• It’s particularly beneficial for individuals with autism, apraxia, language delays, brain injuries, and physical movement/coordination difficulties, as it helps to improve both fine and gross motor skills.

In various formal studies, as well as informal feedback, inTime participants have reported improvements in the following areas:

• Coordination, timing, and balance
• Social skills and communication
• Emotional regulation and stress response
• Executive function and self-awareness
• Handwriting and self-care skills
• Feeding skills and disordered eating
• Athletic performance
• Sensory sensitivities and auditory processing
• Creative expression
• Musicality

TLP inTime has the power to bring joy and vitality back into the lives of individuals with neurological conditions. Darby, a 62-year-old woman living with Alzheimer’s, had not been moving or exercising for six months and had very little energy. However, after her very first listening experience with inTime, she responded in an incredibly positive and energetic way. Watch this video as she stands up and starts dancing, to the amazement of her husband!

The 3 Phases of the inTime Method

Through personalized listening training, optional fun movement activities, and drumming, inTime helps you keep your beat and flow with the rhythms of daily life. Activity options include body percussion, drumming, graded movement sequences, stillness, and integration of voice and movement.

Phase 1 – Active Music Listening
Phase 2 – Adjustment for Self-Awareness
Phase 3 – Body Percussion, Drumming, and Vocal Activities

Harnessing the Power of Music: Personalized Music Listening Therapy

Listening sessions with inTime involve wearing headphones for 9 or 18 minutes, one or two times a day, five days a week. A specially trained inTime provider will personalize the program plan and track progress to ensure the best results.

inTime’s rhythmic music has the potential to induce physiological and psychological changes, such as altered heart rate, respiration, and arousal levels, as well as increased mental alertness, attention, and positive behavior changes. Listeners often respond with synchronized bodily movements like dancing, swaying, and drumming. Listening to inTime can also spark imaginative, memorable, and action-related responses, enhancing the listening experience.

Some listeners might prefer quiet and relaxing activities such as dancing, stretching, or coloring during the listening training session. Distractions like social media, videos, and homework/computer work should be avoided.

The music of inTime can also be played over speakers to support home, classroom, hospital, and workplace performance. However, the method itself is to be done with headphones. The Waves™ system, which offers enhanced listening through bone conduction and air conduction, is the headphone delivery method of choice. Speakers can be used initially for sensitive listeners, with a gradual introduction to headphones, as well as with groups.

Transitioning from Music to Environment: The Adjustment Phase

During the adjustment phase, which lasts approximately 3 minutes, the listener can choose between stillness and movement to help them transition smoothly from the music-listening session back into their environment. This phase is designed to promote self-awareness and enable the listener to evaluate how they’re feeling in response to the new rhythms introduced by the music.

Insights and observations might include:

• Physiologic balance and awareness of the body, spatial orientation, and positioning in the environment.
• Integration of auditory, touch, proprioceptive/kinesthetic, visual, and vestibular senses.
• Arousal regulation and balancing activation or alertness in the nervous system.
• Emotional awareness and insight to monitor and regulate emotions for improved mood regulation and coping skills.

The ability to adjust to rhythmic stimulation, tune in to time and what’s happening, and respond adaptively is good for us and our brains.

Mindful Movement: Exploring Mind-Body Connection through Movement Activities

The inTime Body Percussion album offers an interactive experience with percussive body movements and vocal activities. Simply play the pre-recorded modules on your device through headphones or speakers and follow the structured progression presented in a “listen and repeat” format. Then, follow along with movements and create rhythms with your voice by following the verbal instructions.

With inTime, you’ll engage in fun and interactive movements like rhythmic stomping, chest pats, thigh patting, and clapping to create and sustain a rhythm. You’ll also listen and repeat the vocal instructions to engage the voice and connect it to your movements.

These adaptable activities can stimulate various areas within the body and brain, including:

• Body/rhythm awareness, sensory integration, posture, and bilateral integration.
• Motor planning, sequencing, coordination, response speed and timing, and attention.
• Improve memory (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic) and the ability to combine voice and movement.
• Other benefits include enhancing auditory figure-ground perception, beat perception, time-keeping and management, turn-taking, prediction-making, and improvisation skills.

Discovering Your Voice: Exploring Self-Expression through Voice Activities

Connecting your voice rhythmically to movement can provide a multi-sensory and engaging approach to support speech and language skills. Integrating voice and movement can help improve your ability to process and distinguish between different sounds and rhythms. These auditory processing skills are important for speech perception, language comprehension, and social interactions.

Finding Your Rhythm: The Healing Power of Drumming

Drumming has the power to evoke feelings of joy, fulfillment, and well-being, creating a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction for the player. One of the main benefits of each inTime drumming activity is reduced anxiety for a feeling of calm and focused alertness.

The rhythmic vibrations created by the inTime Drum can help slow down the heart rate, lower blood pressure, and reduce muscle tension, resulting in a state of deep relaxation. This can be particularly beneficial for individuals who suffer from anxiety, depression, or chronic pain.

The inTime drumming protocols are adaptable to meet each person’s unique needs and abilities related to their coordination, active listening, auditory memory, and the ability to respond to the beat by copying it or making a rhythmic pattern of their own.

Drumming is an excellent way to learn how to coordinate your movements precisely and synchronously. The brain and body become better at communicating and coordinating through regular practice, resulting in improved motor coordination skills.

The “Listen/Repeat” or “Play Along” activities are fun and work to train several auditory processing skills, including:

1. Auditory discrimination: the ability to distinguish between different sounds and identify patterns in sound.
2. Auditory sequencing: the ability to recognize and repeat a sequence of sounds or rhythms.
3. Auditory memory: the ability to remember and recall auditory information, such as a melody or rhythm.

When you drum, you’re not just producing a beat – you’re engaging in a full-body workout that requires coordination and timing. This can help to improve your motor skills and overall physical coordination. But drumming isn’t just good for your body – it’s also good for your mind.

Drumming to the beat of the inTime music or creating your own rhythms helps to improve thinking skills and attention in a few ways.

• It requires a certain level of focus and concentration, which can help to improve attention and the ability to stay on task.
• Helps improve working memory, which is the ability to hold and manipulate information in the mind over short periods.

Drumming also stimulates both sides of the brain, which can help to improve communication between the two hemispheres. This can enhance creativity, problem-solving abilities, and overall cognitive function. Furthermore, it can be a form of meditation, which has been shown to improve attention and reduce stress.

This form of creative expression has the added benefit of helping individuals feel more relaxed and centered, providing a much-needed escape from the monotonous stresses of everyday life.

Music has always had a profound impact on human beings, from ancient rituals to modern therapy. With TLP inTime, we can harness the power of music to improve our cognitive and physical abilities and achieve a greater sense of well-being. This can result in improved focus and adaptive responses to stress, making it a valuable addition to your overall health and wellness routine. Whether you’re looking to improve emotional, mental, or physical performance, or support therapy, the inTime method offers a unique and effective way to achieve your goals.