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.
relaxing instrumental music | sleep waves
Similar to larger part of iceberg that remains under the water, our subconscious mind resides deep down unknown to the range of conscious mind. Any sort of instrumentation cannot measure the power of subconscious. It is believed to be operating way below the planar existence of conscious mind and was unaware to human beings till the latter half of twentieth century. Researchers have learnt to locate an intangible controlling entity in the cortex, which they later termed as the ‘subconscious’. Pierre Janet and Sigmund Freud were the forefathers who initiated an interesting research to understand the unique functioning of the mind and all its forms.

Naturally everyone raised the question whether there are any methods to improve the human subconscious. The best answer to this question would be a simple ‘yes.’ Interestingly various methods had been circulating around the regions for about a few years for now. All this methods were based on the notion that brain could be conditioned to a state where it might be subjected to improvement to perform certain tasks.

Earlier researchers stressed on the importance of affirmative prayer and positive thinking to influence or harness the power of subconscious. Today medical professionals and psychologist utilize the power of methods like autosuggestions and autogenics. It literally trains the subconscious to accept positive or real messages through a mechanism called self-hypnosis. Technically discussing the subconscious get reprogrammed with positive inputs and thoughts.

People often associated this ease with which an individual falls into trance or train their body to work in synchronization with mind as religious experience. It should be appreciated that even in the myths; they recognized the power to free mind from the shackles of body to reach that peak of higher consciousness. This higher consciousness is a phase when the subconscious mind is open, the very chance to make it bend to the will of the individual.

The working of a subconscious mind can be compared to that of a soldier. It obediently takes instructions from the superior commander-the conscious mind and makes the sensory organs experience visual, auditory and other forms of stimulation. In general all our so called ‘phobias’, behaviors, attitudinal patterns etc are moulded by these set of messages passed down by the conscious mind to the subconscious.

Sometimes we tend to react for reasons we don’t know or able to control. It is because of the suppressed emotions in the subconscious mind. Earlier common public didn’t have the reach or knowledge to harness the power of subconscious or to submerge them into a meditative phase. However with the introduction of brainwave entrainment programs, we have the remote control to skip bad programmes in our lives and tune in live active programmes as per our needs. With this technology, even an average person is able to control the way he wants his subconscious to react and respond. This technology helps us to alter and remove all the bad traits, and habits that had been people from the kind so success that they wish to achieve.
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.

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.
sleep meditation free | peaceful music
Should you be looking for ways to overcome panic attacks, the best advice which anyone could possibly give you is for you to begin to understand the attacks and what causes them, so as to be able to effectively overcome the attacks.

Firstly it is essential that one understands that these anxiety or panic attacks are caused by incorrect programming in the subconscious mind which might have taken place many years before the attacks actually began to occur. This often occurs when ones subconscious mind associates a bad experience or fear with certain situations or stimulus due to the programming which it received during the formative years and thus it triggers a negative response to these stimuli or situations later on in life.

Take for instance the example of someone who might have fallen off a ladder at a very early age and got a huge fright because of it, this may trigger them to begin to suffer anxiety or panic attacks when they are confronted by a situation where they are required to climb a ladder later on in life.

This is a very basic example but the principle stays the same for any situation or stimulus which might trigger an anxiety or panic attack in an individual, for some or other reason the subconscious mind has been incorrectly programmed to send the individual into fight or flight mode when confronted by these situations or stimulus.

So to be able to effectively overcome panic attacks one needs to find a way to once again access the part of the subconscious mind which is responsible for this inappropriate reaction and somehow correct this programming so as to be able to stop the attacks from occurring.

There are a few techniques which have been proven to be very successful in this regard and some of them are brainwave programmer, hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation.

All of these techniques are very natural and have no side effects so they are far better for the individual than some of the other conventional treatments in my opinion as they actually go to the cause of the disorder rather than simply alleviate the symptoms.
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.

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.
soothing music for work | taoist meditation
Short-Takes to Remarkability

What is the secret (cause, reason) Eye Movement Restructuring eliminates anxiety,
anger, fear and depression?

Dr. Edward S. Hume, expert in adult psychiatry, says we are not sure why it works,
but it does. Simply providing side to side sensations to a person while discussing
traumatic events in a specific therapeutic fashion can work wonders in allowing the person to heal himself or herself.

1. There are two voluntary behaviors we can trigger from our Central Nervous system and Sympathetic Nervous System that produce personal power in the
face of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. One is breathing patterns, the other
is our eye-movements.

2. Anxiety, sense of danger, fear, anger and sadness are Right Hemispheric

experiences. Dissolve them from the movie-screen of your mind through

Left Hemispheric activities and instantaneously trigger joy, peace of mind,

and happiness in their place.

3. Can you learn Eye Movement Reconstruction and produce the same effects without the intervention of a medical practitioner?

Answer: you can be a master of this system in five minutes and inhibit your
right-brain from nightmares (and daymares) of traumatic stress if you follow
our instructions. Never again suffer test anxiety, angst before interviews and
presentations, or random panic attacks without a strategy to defeat them.
More later.

4. Does it help to tell yourself (or others) the problem is Negative Thinking and
it is your responsibility to make the bad feelings go away?

Platitudes and clichés show insensitivity to your own pain and that of others.
We all want relief, a cure and personal transformation, not hot air. If you
cannot help me cure myself of a racing heart, elevated blood pressure,
and reduced oxygen supply, shut up and go away.

5. Secret Revealed: chronic stress and anxiety cannot exist when your Left

Brain is dominant. When you are mentally seeing your personal

death and destruction visualizations, your Right Brain is dominant.

Switcheroo means you have intentional activated the dominance of your

Left Brain through Eye Movement Reconstruction. You excite the logic,

reason and power to reorganize your mind through your Left Hemisphere

and inhibit and repress your Right Hemisphere from flashing these horror

movies of fear, worry, and chronic stress. It is easy and fast.

Simultaneously, Eye Movement Restructuring shifts your brain from

Sympathetic Nervous System dominance (adrenaline/epinephrine and

cortisol) to Parasympathetic Nervous System pumping out acetylcholine

to cause relaxation and peace of mind.

6. Two Minutes: You own six extraocular eye muscles in each eye, four are
Rectus and two Oblique. It is easier to demonstrate the six eye movements
than verbalize the activities. Half the exercises are done with your eyes
closed and the balance looking straight ahead.

a) voluntarily shift your eyes (laterally) to your extreme left for a count of one-two-three. Repeat this eye movement to your lateral right, three times.

b) Move your eyes upward toward the ceiling left (northwest) for a count of
three. Repeat three times. Now move your eyes upward right (northeast)
for a three count. Repeat three times.

c) Now move your eyes downward left toward the floor (southwest) for a count of three. Repeat three times. Finally move your eyes downward
right toward the floor (southeast) for a count of three. Repeat this
eye movement three times.

You have exercised all twelve of your eye muscles and shifted brain

dominance to your left brain. Both hemispheres are now in sync and

and using entrainment to work together. If you continue this two minute

exercise for 21 days you create a permanent habit and activate your

mental auto pilot setting.

7. Speedlearning is concerned about these eye movement exercises because
speed reading is a psychomotor skill located on the right brain while still using left brain skills.

Normal (snailing) reading programming is located on the left brain.

These eye movement exercises excite (trigger) your corpus callosum to communicate both speed reading and normal reading skills for left brain dominance. Long term memory, attention and motivation
(right brain programming) combine left and right brain neural networks.

8. Your left brain is positive in outlook, seeking solutions to problems,

searching for pleasure and to avoid pain. Science, math and learning

are strongly left brain attributes. It drives you to discovery and creativity.

9. Your right brain is more conservative in point of view, engaged in stream of consciousness. Our senses (visual, auditory and kinesthetic) access our mind
through our right brain. It is on the alert, our early warning system for
danger, threat and pain. It is not negative but it is not a positively driven as
our left brain.

10. REM (rapid eye movements) occurs during dream sleep. The purpose of
our dreaming appears to be like a computer using Save and Delete. Important information is stored (saved) in our long term memory; junk is disgarded (deleted).
Nightmares use REM for nocturnal hallucinations while our left brain
is operating on idle.

You are now aware of an effective strategy to eliminate
Post Traumatic Stress, excessive worry, and anxiety. A positive state of mind
improves your test scores, interviews and presentation.

Two minutes of warm up eye movement restructuring increases your reading speed, memory and learning skills for acing exams, interviews and presentations.

Endwords

Some scientists believe eye movement restructuring, creating our in sync left and

right hemispheres, unlocks our central and sympathetic nervous system.

Repetitious mental visualizations of anxiety provoking mental movies create

chronic stress penetrating our immune system with disease, pain and illness.

Google: the human visual system, (cones and rods) is the source 90% of our

essential (core) activities. Remember, we are an electrochemical system operate

with our 10 watts of electricity 24/7; we are also influenced by laws of Polarity

residing in an electromagnetic universe.

Physics, particularly Quantum physics indicates our universe is based on

vibrational frequencies. The law of attraction requires our movement toward

similar vibrations. The EEG (electroencephalograph)

measures our brainwave cycles per second from alertness to sleep.

Eye Movement Restructuring lowers our brainwave rhythms from high

(intrusive) Beta or to Alpha (alert relaxation). That is part of the secret.

Google: Dr. Hans Berger, EEG, alpha, beta, theta and delta.

See ya,

copyright © 2007

H. Bernard Wechsler

http://www.speedlearning.org

hbw@speedlearning.org

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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.

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.
mental waves | meditation course
Shoot…. Every time you think you know what’s going on, something NEW pops up!

Let me start with the old: brainwave entrainment.

Know how when you go to a live concert you kind of get hypnotized by the music? It could also happen with a good stereo, but generally when the stereo is on you are doing something else as well, like driving, or cleaning the house, so it isn’t as noticeable. But at a concert you aren’t doing anything but being at the concert, and within a few minutes your mind and body fall into the rhythm and beat of the music. Doesn’t life seem good when that happens? Don’t you feel energized, connected? Doesn’t the limit of possibility seem to expand?

That is a example of brainwave entrainment. Your own brainwave frequencies start synchronizing to the rhythm and beat of the music, the external rhythmic stimuli. The researchers call that Frequency Following Response: FFR.

The first recorded instance of FFR was in 1656. Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist, was trying to develop a more accurate clock. He placed two unsynchronized pendulum clocks on a wall next to each other. What he noticed was that the two clocks slowly synchronized to each other, and the synchronization was so accurate that even mechanical intervention could not synchronize them better. It was later discovered that entrainment is a principle in all of nature, as evidenced in chemistry, physics, and biology.

Needless to say the researchers found a way to use that principle, to quantify the frequency following response, and to simulate it in order to enhance various human needs. They use what they call binaural beats to create relaxation, meditation, creativity, learning, lessening of negativity, increase in sense of possibility.

When the principle of FFR was applied to human brainwaves in a scientific manner it seemed like the ultimate self-development tool. It didn’t seem that life could get better for those of us struggling to develop our potential. But life DID just get better!

Researchers have now imaged and recorded the brainwaves of intellectual and creative geniuses. And those brainwaves are available for anyone to follow and synchronize with!
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.

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.
chinese meditation | relaxed nature
Sex is more important than you think.

Having frequent satisfying sex is crucial to your well-being.

If you are blessed enough to participate in repeated, satiated sexual experiences, your are helping your brain to release hormones that will keep you young, both physically and mentally.

How do you get the brain to release these heavenly neurotransmitters?

You can study and practice meditation for years, or you can use a scientifically proven technology called brainwave entrainment.

Brainwave entrainment introduces a specific frequency pattern to your brain with the intention of altering your state of consciousness. Your brain will naturally follow this stimulus and mimic its pattern, changing your dominant brainwave frequency to the desired brainwave for what you want to accomplish.

A big part of not being able to achieve an orgasm, or overcoming impotence, is that you are stuck in the beta wave, a very important frequency that helps us focus and achieve in the world day to day. If you can’t disengage from this frequency, you cannot release the necessary hormones and chemicals to enjoy a sexual interlude.

Brainwave entrainment easily bumps you out of beta, and into theta, the brainwave for sexual stimulation.

Neurotransmitters Released By Brainwave Entrainment

Oxytocin. Oxytocin promotes bonding and is known as the “love hormone.” This hormone influences the parasympathetic nervous system which regulates heart rate and blood pressure. Having a satisfying sex life will lower your heart rate and blood pressure.

Beta-endorphins. Endorphins provide natural pain relief, while boosting the immune system by dampening harmful hormones like cortisol (a stress-response hormone). They produce a feeling of euphoria, well-being, and influence mood. Beta-endorphins are believed to be significantly more potent than morphine.

Serotonin. Serotonin makes you feel good and contributes to feelings of pleasure, satiety, and relaxation-what you should feel after having good, satisfying sex.

Dopamine. Dopamine produces feelings of well-being, happiness, and serenity.

Having Frequent Satisfying Sex…

Reduces heart disease. Regular sex involves regular exercise which boosts the production of testosterone, which leads to stronger bones and muscles. A study at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland indicates that men who had sex three or more times per week, reduced their risk of heart attack by half.

Improves cholesterol levels.

Increases circulation.

Improves psychological well-being (sexual dysfunction can lead to depression). A good sexual life has a profoundly positive impact on your mental health.

Increases self-esteem.

Decreases stress.

Improves confidence.

Produces feelings of happiness, pleasure, serenity, and relaxation.

It appears that the most important sexual organ is the brain and what hormones it can activate at certain frequencies.

Brainwave entrainment is a safe, effective clinically proven tool that can stimulate the production of hormones and chemicals that can enhance your sexual experience.

Having satisfying sex is a measure of health.
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.

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.
focus meditation music | chi meditation
Severe anxiety disorder is a very real and frightening mental disorder which can have numerous very detrimental effects on the life of the individual who is suffering from it. Severe anxiety disorder is constantly growing in the number of people which it affects worldwide every year and its effect on these individuals can quiet often be very tragic.

Sufferers of severe anxiety disorder will experience extreme anxiety and panic attacks and very often suffer from depression as well as a result of the mental disorder. The combination of depression and severe anxiety disorder is potentially a very lethal combination as it accounts for a great number of suicides the world over every year.

The sad part about this all is that many sufferers of severe anxiety disorder are not aware as to the many various natural treatments which are available for this disorder and the fact that it is in reality very treatable and there is no reason for them to have to allow anxiety or panic disorder to ruin there lives.

As I said there are various forms of natural anxiety and panic treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy, brainwave programmer, hypnotherapy, acupuncture and even meditation which will greatly be able to improve their quality of life and very often be able to assist them to overcome their disorder in a very natural way.

Most of these natural treatments for anxiety and panic disorder focus on helping the individual to be able to access the parts of the subconscious mind which is responsible for triggering the attacks and correcting the way in which it has been programmed to react to various situations and stimulus.

In effect there is absolutely no reason why any individual should allow severe anxiety disorder to govern the way they lead their life or affect their overall quality of life, after all this is a mental disorder which is very treatable often by using simple mental exercises and corrective mental programming.

So if you know or suspect that you suffer from this type of disorder, don’t loose hope as you are in effect in control of how your brain should respond to that which you see, hear, feel and touch so it stands to reason that with the correct guidance you will be able to overcome this disorder.
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.

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.
meditation techniques | frequency of a wave
Several years ago, I made a major commitment to radically change my life. I was tired of feeling tired, falling into confusion, lacking enough focus to achieve my dreams, losing hope, failing. I did not feel very happy, complete or whole or have any measure of success or inner peace. I was repeatedly emotionally tossed about by circumstances and crisis that seemed to come out of nowhere. That was then, this is now…

When I wake up in the morning, I am filled with creative juice. I don’t have to do anything to motivate myself. I have lost weight and am fit and healthy which was one of my main goals. I am focused on what I want to do in life and enjoy each day being able to take steps toward that vision. Circumstances that used to bother me roll right off my back having little or no effect on my high emotional tone. I am well on my way to seeing my life dreams and vision become reality.

What made the major difference? Only two main things really. Working on these two main areas of my life with tools that I found made the radical difference in an amazingly short period of time. Two powerful tools that represent the latest cutting edge technology in their respective fields working together created the radical change I was longing for my entire life.

The first tool is called Integrative Clearing Work. It is a form of contemplative deconstruction and emotional clearing. ICW uses body awareness, focusing, emotional release and inquiry in a process that you can do all day long if you can find a few minutes to apply it. It can also be done during a regular meditative session. There are also facilitators who will do sessions with you over the phone until you learn the process. Believe me it is powerful. It gets to the roots of any issue that is arising for you and brings it to resolution. So this tool works on every negative influence that comes from your emotions and mind.

The second tool is brainwave entrainment. This is a cutting edge technology that trains your brainwaves to operate at optimum levels for different empowered states of mind. So, if you want to learn better, it will tune your brainwaves for that. If you want to enter deep meditative states, it will tune your brainwaves for that. If you want to be highly creative, you can tune your brain for that. The implications are staggering, yes.

But, the thing is, it works twice as well if you have removed your resistances and obstacles with ICW! Remove the negative – boost the positive and wham! You have one powerful human change one two punch. Clearing work and brainwave entrainment can and will radically change your life.
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.

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.
theta state | soothing sleep music
Several years ago I discovered, mostly accidentally, that I have Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD. Before then, I hadn’t known much about ADD itself, and hadn’t thought that the term could apply to adults; I just thought it was something that was applied to hyperactive school kids so their parents could drug them into submission.

I randomly stumbled on an online test for ADD, and my score was off the charts, so I started doing some more research. What I found was a disconcertingly perfect match for my experience. I happened to mention this to my mom, who told me “oh yeah, I always knew you were a textbook case but you always seemed to do okay so I never pursued it.” In retrospect I’m glad she didn’t after my experience with conventional methods; as a kid I would have been in less of a position to make the judgment call that the medication route was not in my best interest. But now that I had a name to go with the list of problems that I could never quite put my finger on, it gave me something specific to work on in order to bring more balance and productivity into my life. After doing some research, my initial gameplan was to go on prescription drugs in the short term, just to get an idea of the mental state I was shooting for, so I could then learn to duplicate it on my own.

Conventional Methods

My experience with the neurologist and prescription medication left a bad taste in my mouth. First I found it a bit unnerving that there is apparently no official screening for ADD; rather the medical approach was “take these pills and see what happens; if they help then there ya go.” When I told her what I planned on doing, using the medication in the short-term and then training myself to duplicate that state of mind, she insisted that this was impossible and couldn’t happen. Her reasoning was that this was a chemical issue that required a chemical solution, and brain chemistry can’t be altered any other way. I already knew from experience that this was false for a lot of reasons. But I could clearly see the futility in arguing my point, and so I thanked her for the prescription and left. Fast forward about another year or so, and after getting the ADD well under control without drugs, I was half tempted to make another appointment with the neurologist just to go in and say “nyah!” But I suppose that would’ve been rather egoic of me. And I suppose I’m getting ahead of myself…

My experience with the meds themselves, specifically Adderall, was not good at all. I went through three cycles of adjusting the dosage and waiting for it to level out. I didn’t find it to be making much of a difference as far as my focus was concerned, and waiting for it to level out meant going without a lot of sleep for several nights each time. Finally she set my dose too high, and after several days the jitters and sleeplessness weren’t going away, and were starting to make it difficult to function normally at work and school. At this point I was completely dissatisfied with the conventional approach and rather suspicious of the effect this was all having on my body and health, so I decided to give up on the medication and continue trying to find solutions for this on my own.* I then set to work searching for and experimenting with anything I could possibly find that might make a difference. The following are all the methods I discovered over roughly the next year, that I found most helpful.

Grounding and Centering

Grounding and centering are practices that anyone can learn to do easily. When I discovered the concept, it provided an almost immediate reduction of my ADD symptoms – the internal “noise” and scattered-ness settled down noticeably and stayed that way for quite a while. Grounding works on the premise that your system is moving more energy than it can comfortably handle, especially in the crown and brow energy centers of the head. So you ground some of it out, which relieves your system and probably your brain. Centering is good to do after grounding, as it rebalances and centers your energy for more focused and efficient use. There are many different ways to ground, but form and technique aren’t necessarily as important as the intent to push excess energy down out of yourself and into the earth. The following is the easiest method I know of that I use myself.

Sit down and get comfortable, bare feet on the floor.
Close your eyes and if you have a relaxation technique, use it. Otherwise, focusing on your breathing for ten breaths is fine.
See and/or feel (whatever way you’re most comfortable processing information) roots, like tree roots, growing out of your base chakra (located near the base of the spine / genital area), down your legs and out through you feet, deep into the earth.
Intend for any excess energy to be pushed out through your roots and into the earth. Again, do this in whatever way you’re most comforable – visualizing it, feeling it, even “grabbing” any scattered or overloaded feelings and pushing them out.
It is sometimes recommended to do the same process upward; extending roots up through the crown of your head, into the air, for even more of a sense of balance. I sometimes do this, sometimes not, but it does seem to increase the overall grounding effect.
Pull these roots back into yourself.

Some final words on grounding – this is the ideal “full” routine, but really, grounding can be done anywhere at any time you feel you need to, without the relaxation technique, even with eyes open.

After grounding, you’re going to want to center yourself. To center, again you take some time to relax and quiet your mind. Take a long, slow, deep breath. On the inhale, you feel all your energy pulling from your limbs and body, into a spinning circle of light in your center. On the exhale, intend and feel that the ball spreads back outward through you again.

Stones and Crystals

Later on in my pursuits I asked a very knowledgeable friend if she thought there was anything to the idea that stones have energetic properties that can affect us in various ways. Her answer was that they absolutely do, and that people should be wearing their birthstones, among others. I was intrigued, so I looked up some information on what properties mine (amethyst) was supposed to have. What I found read like a checklist of the issues I was having. An excerpt from The Crystal Bible: “Amethyst is extremely beneficial to the mind, calming or stimulating as appropriate. … Mentally, it helps you feel less scattered, more focused and in control of your faculties. It enhances the assimilation of new ideas and connects cause with effect. … It calms and synthesizes, and aids the transmission of neural signals through the brain. It is helpful where insomnia is caused by an overactive mind… enhances memory and improves motivation, making you more able to set realistic goals.”

So I got myself some amethyst and began wearing it all the time. I didn’t actually notice any difference right away, but I’m also a lot more sensitive to energy now than I was when I started investigating stones a few years ago. Now though, I notice a major difference if I don’t have it on. Before long I’ll start feeling very scattered and overloaded, but then when I realize it’s missing and put it back on, I can feel the change back to a more calm and focused mental state within seconds. At this point my significant other, who is also very ADD, chimes in that ametrine (a stone that combines amethyst and citrine) has made the biggest difference for her, and she did notice a major difference immediately when she put it on. In addition, there are stones that help with grounding; smoky quartz is noted for this, for example. My favorite is tiger iron, which combines hematite, red jasper and tiger eye. For these and other reasons I’m now a strong advocate of using stones as a tool in one’s development.

At this point I’d like to point out that grounding, centering and crystals are risk-free methods that can easily be tried with young children who are struggling with symptoms of ADD. Any child can be taught how to “pretend you’re a tree, and put your roots into the ground.” In my experience kids are also very attracted to stones and crystals, and most would probably love to “wear a special one to help them feel good.” I haven’t tried these methods with any young kids myself, but I’m very curious to know how that might work out, so if anyone tries it, let me know.

Self-Hypnosis

Hypnosis is simply the practice of relaxing into a state where the subconscious mind is receptive enough to take in suggestions directly. My experience with self-hypnosis was productive for two reasons – it’s great for getting into a light trance relatively easily in order to improve meditation, and it’s also good for breaking negative patterns associated with ADD (lack of focus, procrastination, etc) and implanting suggestions into the subconscious that reflect the changes I wanted. My favorite book on the subject is called Instant Self-Hypnosis – it teaches you to hypnotize yourself simply by reading scripts out loud, and I can vouch for the fact that it works quite well. I find self-hypnosis to be good for loosening up a lot of the resistance to change that you get when trying to overcome any long term issue, but it should be considered a supplemental tool that has to be backed up by action in order to reinforce those desired patterns.

Meditation

Regular meditation has many well documented benefits, and is known to improve concentration and focus. The effect is cumulative, and if practiced long enough you’ll start noticing positive changes in your mental state, and ability to have more control over it, even when not meditating. While telling someone who has problems with concentration and focus to quiet their mind for extended periods might sound like an exercise in pure masochism, there are ways to work around the condition in order to use meditation as a valuable tool for improvement. Is it difficult? Does it take patience and willpower? Yes, yes and yes. But if you’ve read this far already, I figure chances are you’ve got the drive and dedication to keep going until you start noticing real improvement. My approach to this was mostly by trial and error, and took shape as I went along; now I can produce a more systematic approach here based on what worked well.

In order to meditate effectively it’s important to first rid your body of as much tension as possible. I recommend the technique called “progressive relaxation” which is done by tensing each of the body’s muscle groups one at a time, holding for five seconds and releasing. A systematic routine for this can be found with a simple online search, so I won’t spend too much time on it here. This preliminary should not be overlooked though; holding too much tension will soon make the body uncomfortable and increase the tendency to get restless.The best way to meditate is in a comfortable chair, in loose-fitting clothes, with no shoes. I don’t recommend lying down, or meditating in bed. When we get in bed we’re conditioned to fall asleep, and that’s likely what will happen.

To start with, I recommend focusing on your breathing; simply observe the breath going in and out of your body, and try to hold your mind clear of all other thought. If your mind starts to wander (and it will) once you realize it, simply release the thoughts and gently bring it back to your breathing.The most important factor for me in becoming proficient in meditation was to take it in small increments. Trying to go for too long at once, especially for someone who has trouble focusing to begin with, is just a recipe for frustration and burn-out. Thus, if you can hold your mind clear for fifteen seconds to start, consider it a victory! Allow yourself to feel good about it, and move up to the next increment.

Ideally, you’ll want some sort of timer that can be programmed to make a soft noise at predetermined intervals, that you can gradually increase. The most useful thing I found was the Brainwave Generator software that comes with the book Mastering Astral Projection. It’s designed to put your mind in a meditative state to begin with, but also comes with several presets that you can program to play a soft tone at intervals that start with fifteen seconds and gradually increase to three minutes. I’m currently trying to find a reliable method of achieving the same result for someone who’s not necessarily interested in astral projection, but so far Brainwave Generator is the best I’ve found. The presets from Mastering Astral Projection are available on the Brainwave Generator website in the Preset Library.

Final Thoughts

At this point it should be said that learning to successfully manage ADD should be considered a process, and there will always be room for improvement. That said, with the combination of all the methods I’ve discussed as well as a good amount of stubbornness, I’m very happy to say that I have reached my goal of training my mind to be clear and focused when I need it to be. I now control my ADD rather than allowing it to control me, and I am confident that anyone with sufficient determination can use these techniques to– HEY A SQUIRREL! Ahem.
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.

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.
calm meditation music | transcendental meditation technique
Several researches from early 20th century have shown that human sleep is a process of five stages. In these stages four are named as non-REM stages and the fifth is known as the REM stage. The five stages of sleep have definite characteristics.

Stage 1

In this stage a person becomes drowsy with sleep. The eyes remain closed. It stays for 5 to 10 minutes and if a person is woken up from this stage then he or she might feel as if they have not slept at all. 50% decrease in activity is observed in between wakefulness and stage 1 sleep.

Stage 2

This stage is a mixture of impulsive periods of muscle tone together with periods of muscle relaxation. Here the body is preparing to enter into deep sleep. The body temperature gradually decreases and heart rate slows down.

Stages 3 and 4

These stages are of deep sleep where the intensity of sleep is higher in stage 4 than stage 3. These stages are also called slow-wave or delta, sleep. In the electromyogram records we observe rhythmic stability and a prototype of deep sleep.

Non- REM sleep

This stage consists of stages 1-4 which lasts from 90 to 120 minutes in total and each stage lasts from 5 to 15 minutes. A normal sleeping pattern should comprise of: stage 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM.

Stage 5

Stage 5 is of REM or Rapid Eye Movement sleep. Heart rate and respiration rate increases and becomes irregular in this stage. Intense dreams occur in this stage but paralysis of major voluntary muscle groups stops a person to act out the dreams. This stage begins with 10 minutes and keeps lengthening.

REM disorder is a type of parasomnia. It is a disturbing event where a person has intense violent dreams which he or she tries to act out. This may be followed by shouting, grunting, and sleep walking. If such a situation continues for a longer period, it can cause damaging effect to the person’s mental and physical conditions and would also require medical advice. A person at least needs 6 to 9 hours of solid sleep and lack of which will cause tiredness throughout the day, resulting in low productivity and irritation.

Human ear can hear sounds from 20Hz to 20,000Hz while frequencies of human brain waves are below 40 Hz. Binaural beats or binaural tones frequencies of 40 Hz are produced in the brain with binaural sound. It has been observed that the stimulation produced by binaural beats induces relaxation, focus, attention, and a state of consciousness. These are sounds whose perception arises in the brain which is free from any physical stimulation. Binaural beats actually affect the brain through entrainment of brainwaves. This phenomenon was discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.

Different people react differently to various sounds. Like if someone dislikes pure sine waves then some pink noise or natural sounds like that of river water etc can be mixed. It is usually advisable to keep the volume low to improve its effectiveness. In simple words binaural beats lowers the brain frequency so as to help the patient to relax and have a solid sleep and wake up absolutely refreshed in the morning.
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.

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.
deep relaxation music | infrared waves
Serotonin is a naturally occurring chemical found in the brain, mucous membranes, lining of the stomach and digestive tract. It regulates intestinal contractions and acts as a neurotransmitter moving messages between nerve cells that regulate mood, appetite and memory-all the important pieces of our life. Brainwave entrainment, a technological tool that introduces a sound stimulus to the brain with the intention of changing its dominant brainwave frequency to a specific pattern for a specific effect, stimulates the brain to release serotonin within 30 minutes or less, of a recording.

Serotonin is our “self-soothing,”, “feel-good” hormone that can keep us feeling happy and satisfied. Unfortunately, today’s stressful lifestyle produces hormones that diminish the secretion of this happy chemical, leaving most of us in serotonin debt.

Low serotonin levels have been associated with weight gain, diabetes, mood disorders, anxiety, addiction, migraines, and pain.

Regulating serotonin may help control eating disorders, alcoholism, drug addiction, addiction in general, and mood and anxiety disorders.

Weight Gain

Serotonin plays a part in regulating how much you eat.
Appetite is stimulated by a hormone called dopamine which is released when the brain is in a faster frequency. Too many fast brainwaves, without relief, cause stress.
As you eat, serotonin is released to halt the dopamine and tell the body it has had enough.
Low levels of serotonin or low numbers of serotonin receptors weakens this process leading to overeating and weight gain.
Low levels produce increased cravings for carbohydrates.
Increasing serotonin moderates and controls eating disorders.

Diabetes

There is a link between serotonin and insulin.
Low levels of serotonin means reduced insulin.
Both are located in the beta-cells of the pancreas but serotonin regulates the secretion of insulin.
If serotonin is increased, insulin levels are improved.

Mood

Low levels of serotonin are characterized by low mood, negative thoughts, and changes in behaviour.
Higher levels of serotonin decrease negativity and increase positive responses.
Imbalances in serotonin levels trigger depression. These imbalances are measurable in the brain’s neurotransmitters.
Increasing serotonin levels moderates and controls depression.

Anxiety

Stress decreases serotonin levels leading to anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, tension headaches, and over eating.
Increasing serotonin levels eases stress and tension.

Addiction

Low levels of serotonin may increase the risk of addiction.
Person may seek self-soothing with drugs, alcohol and food.

Migraines

10% of serotonin exists in blood platelets in the brain.
Serotonin controls blood vessel dilation which is part of the process of migraine pain.
Low levels of serotonin are linked to migraine pain.
Over the counter pain meds lower levels of serotonin in the body… that’s why the rebound effect.

Pain

Low levels of serotonin increases sensitivity to pain lowering the threshold.
Serotonin helps to keep the pain gates closed, and a lack of it causes you to feel more pain.
You can get an immediate relief from pain with an increase in serotonin.

The effects of low levels are evident and the best way to elevate your serotonin level is to stimulate the body to produce more serotonin.

Brainwave entrainment is a fast and efficient way to raise your level of serotonin. Entrainment stimulates the brain to produce serotonin without any side effects, is self- regulating, inexpensive, and safe.
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.