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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You have most likely heard of the Law of Attraction and it’s use as the ultimate mind power technique. The law of attraction is simply that you get what you focus on and think about. Thoughts are a form of energy and like energy attracts like energy. All forms of matter and energy are attracted to that which is of a like vibration. You receive what you put your focus and energy on, whether it’s wanted or unwanted. Focus on happiness and it’s yours. Focus on preventing unhappiness and you get unhappiness.

Your thoughts are a magnet to attract what you are thinking about.

Everything draws to itself that which is like itself.

Your mind has difficulty telling the difference between something you think about and want and something you think about and do not want. The negative, or lack of something, is a “void” concept to the mind.
The mind does not like void concepts so it interprets the void into the opposite of what you want.

While the concept of the Law of Attraction is simple and straightforward the implementation of changing your thinking can be a challenge. The power of the mind is a difficult force to tame.

Focusing on a new positive life is more than just accepting that you want it. Reaching a state of meditation where you can visualize what you want can take years of practice. Would it not be great if there was an easy way to reach that stage in minutes rather than months?

Well there is.

The brain sends out electrical impulses fired by the neurons that can be measured as brainwaves. Different levels of activity are associated with different levels of brainwaves. Your brainwave pattern looks very different when you are deeply asleep compared to when you are just dozing off.

The major brainwave states are:

Delta 0.5Hz – 4Hz Deep sleep

Theta 4Hz – 8Hz Drowsiness

Alpha 8Hz – 14Hz Relaxed but alert

Beta 14Hz – 30Hz Highly alert and focused

The Alpha state is the one that is reached during meditation. How can you reach that stage more easily? Brainwave entrainment is what your brain does naturally. If your brain is subjected to external rhythms that are the same range as its natural rhythms the brain will eventually respond to the external rhythms and begin producing similar brainwaves. This response is called Frequency Following Response.

One way you can reach the Alpha state is by listening to tapes or CDs that follow the Alpha state rhythm. You are not tricking your brain. You are just using what it does naturally to reach a state where you can visualize what you want. You can now put the forces behind The Law of Attraction to work for you. This is surely the easiest method to harness true mind power.
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.