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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What Is Brainwave Entrainment?

You may have heard of the term brainwave entrainment. This is the use of pulses of sound to help your brain to achieve a particular shift in consciousness. Fast pulses of sound cause your brain to shift its baseline frequency. The idea of a brainwave entrainment session is to leave your brain in the desired state. Alpha is for relaxation and creativity, Theta is the realm of dreams, and Delta is the pattern for deep sleep. Types of pulses range from the use of binaural beats, monaural beats and isochronic tones.

The leaders of this type of technology have now started to move over to using the most effective of these three types of tones for brainwave entrainment, isochronic tones. Unlike binaural beats you do not need to use headphones and they can be applied to any sound source. The unique style of the music pieces we have created combined with the isochronic pulses means you receive a fast acting effect so you don’t have to listen for hours and hours to a repetive annoying sound to get the same effect. An alpha sessions is provided to help stimulate creativity. Theta and delta sessions are provided to help your mind relax into deep meditative states where you can connect with the divine cosmic light and receive the guidance that will manifest your dreams into a reality. Theta and delta are also useful for promoting deep R.E.M sleep where healing takes place.

How Do Binaural Beats Work?

When you play two separate frequencies in each ear, say 140 Hz and 149 Hz, the difference in frequency is 9 hz. Your brain compensates for this difference and a third tone of 9 Hz is experienced. This will result in your brain being raised or lowered and tuned into the desired frequency. This is how binaural beats are produced. Headphones are essential for this to work. This is the least effective of all brainwave technologies.

How Do Monaural Beats Work?

Instead of passing two tone of differing frequencies, another way to entrain your brain is to pass one signal to your brain that pulses on and off with a specific pattern. This can be designed to leave your brain in the desired frequency state. This is a far superior method than binaural beats. You do not need headphones, but they are recommended

How Do Isochronic Tones Work?

These are by far the most powerful and effective brain trainers. They work by utilising equal intensity tones and increasing the pulse speed to synchronise your brain with the rhythm. The more distinct and clear wave from harmonises your brain much faster. The effects can be felt without headphones, but using them will greatly enhance the effects.
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.