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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Your brain is actually waiting for you to tell it what to do. Most of us go through life letting our subconscious mind dictate how we act and shape our mindsets. How we behave, how we react to situations and our overall attitudes are actually products of your cerebral cortex and neurons in the brain sending specific messages in the form of electromagnetic pulses that affect how we behave. Feeling nervous before a presentation is your mind telling you that you should be nervous – even when you have nothing to fear. What if I told you that you can control your brain waves with specific traditional and scientific techniques – reprogram your subconscious mind to improve behaviour.

If you wanted to be brave, ambitious, be happier at all times, you can do this. All you have to do is to set your brainwaves to a frequency that slips you into a deep meditative state – a state where the subconscious is more pliable and can be changed. Religious people do this all the time, the state of complete and total relaxation allows them to find inner peace – even in the most hectic of situations. Sumo wrestlers in Japan achieve the same state to make their body forget about pain and control their anger during a brawl. Meditation and hypnosis is also a tried and true method practitioners use to reduce stress in peoples lives. Even doctors and the scientific community understand the potential of the mind and the potential of a changed mindset and attitude in the healing process. A happier and more optimistic person will always heal better because depression is one of the leading causes of physical depreciation.

An easy and effective way to achieve this deep meditative state is through the use of binaural beats – frequency engineered sounds introduced to the mind through music. The differing frequencies are sculptured to create a cortical response from the brain – which means it creates a specific frequency response that is associated with the very brain waves that can slip the mind into a meditative state. Magnetic fields passed over the temporal and frontal lobe also do the same thing. Technology like the Shakti – headgear that introduces these very same magnetic fields to invoke a brain wave response.

If the science route doesn’t tickle your fancy there are more traditional ways you can achieve the same effect, but be warned, it is more difficult to achieve but the results have been said to be just as effective. Flotation tanks, soothing music, yoga – these are just some of the methods that people are using to gain a deep meditative state to reprogram their subconscious and improve their behaviour.

Take control of your life and remove whatever fear, inertia, mis-ambition or any negative behaviour that may be affecting your life, your social circles and your career. Be the captain of your own life and steer yourself to your own success – all by learning the correct brainwave techniques to improve behaviour.
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.