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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When one is trying to find out “how to stop my panic attacks” it is very important for you to be able to begin to understand that no matter how difficult it is to believe, your anxiety attacks are actually unable to do you any significant harm and that in fact they only have the amount of power over you which you mentally allow them to have.
Due to the fact that anxiety attacks fall under the category of mental disorders it goes to show that these very real and sometimes painful attacks which you are experiencing all originate in your mind when your subconscious perceives a threat which is not actually real and sends your entire body into “fight or flight” mode for no apparent reason.
Thus it stands to reason that for you to effectively be able to find answers to your “stop my panic attacks” question you will need to be able to firstly be able to bring your panic or anxiety attacks back under control when their first symptoms begin to manifest by means of using relaxation techniques such as the Bagha, controlled breathing or relaxation visualization.
Once you have been able to use one of these types of relaxation techniques successfully to overt another anxiety or panic attack, then you will find it a lot easier to actually start to confront the cause of your anxiety or panic attacks which is incorrect brainwave programming or negative mental response patterns.
When we are in our young and formative years, our brains are like a sponge absorbing all which is going on around us so as to formulate effective mental response patterns to help us get through life. Unfortunately sometimes the situations or stimulus which we are exposed to at this time of our lives leads to our subconscious mind developing negative response patterns which prove to be problematic in our live when it tells us to respond to these type of situations or stimulus in inappropriate ways which result in our anxiety attacks.
There are many ways to go about correcting this type of incorrect mental programming such as brainwave programming, hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and many other techniques which will assist in your quest to “stop my panic attacks”.
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.