Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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The Sleeptracks Sleep Optimization program is the most effective treatment for sleeping disorders. Being also the safest of methods, having no dangers of dependency, this by far makes it stand above any chemical medications such as sleeping pills which do carry risks of addiction. This method of treatment for sleep disorder is natural, yet scientific. Using barely audible tones and pulses at certain changing frequencies, this technology influences the brain into producing the needed brainwave activity conducive to sleep.

Let’s illustrate this using a person driving a car. The motorist drives for a length of time down a long and lonely road. The white broken line, as it passes under the vehicle, also passes by the driver’s vision in the lower periphery. As time passes, the rhythmic pulse of these passing lines strike a beat that the brain eventually keys into. The heartbeat also eventually becomes attuned to these pulses of visual stimulus, as the driver is lulled dangerously close to drowsiness. With the breakthrough treatment, the Sleeptracks Sleep Optimization program, listening to audio therapy while in bed trying to sleep, the same effect can be caused.

Binaural pulse therapy was once the popular method before the advent of Sleeptracks and its sleep optimization program. That method used two sets of pulses and tones which were just slightly out of sync with each other as far as frequency. The brain would process this data as a single signal and the desired brainwave activity would be induced as a result.

The major handicap with that therapy however has always been the need to wear stereo headphones while sleeping and keeping them from coming off during sleep. What a way to be waking up again! Now, the isochronic pulses of the Sleeptracks Sleep Optimization program have replaced this method. It’s not only much more effective, but it doesn’t require any stereo headphones. With only a basic CD player, insomnia sufferers can rest easy, as sleep becomes a reality in mere minutes.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

This ‘frequency following’ response of brainwave entrainment can be seen in action with those prone to epilepsy. If a strobe flashes at their seizure frequency, the brain will ‘entrain’ to the flashing light, resulting in a seizure.

On the positive side, this same mechanism is commonly used to induce many brainwave states; such as a trance, enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation or sleep induction. The brainwave entrainment effectively pushes the entire brain into a certain state.

Brainwave entrainment works for almost everyone. It is a great way to lead your mind into states that you might usually have difficulty reaching, allowing you to experience what those states feel like.

THE HYPE
There is a lot of marketing hype around brainwave entrainment. It is sold with promises of increasing IQ, promoting weight loss, ‘mind-tripping’, enhancing creativity, concentration, inducing spiritual states and more.

While these claims are not entirely true, they are not altogether false either. In practice, the claims are based on an overly-simplistic view of how the brain and the brainwaves function.
THE RUB
People are very seldom deficient in a certain brainwave type in all areas of their brain. Usually the distribution is much spottier, with an excess in one area and a deficiency in another.

We are all different, especially when it comes to the distribution of our brainwaves. Boosting a certain brainwave state may be beneficial for one person, and emotionally uncomfortable for another. Without knowing each person’s starting position, entrainment can be rather ‘hit and miss’.

If brainwave entrainment leaves you with unwanted side-effects (see below) or discomfort, you’re probably encouraging a range of brainwaves that are already excessive in some area of your brain. The way around this is to get a brain map to see what your brain’s strengths and weaknesses are, and see what (if any) brainwaves could use some encouragement.