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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Once you venture down the ‘spiritual’ path, it’s easy to get excited.

In fact, from the moment you start getting results, there is a massive temptation to simply learn as much as you can from wherever you can.

Now, worse fates could befall you; but if you are serious about getting the most from your spiritual / Reiki practice – especially if you plan to work professionally or are already doing so – then there are things to keep in mind.

Here are 3 tips for using Reiki with other healing modalities:

1) Integrate new techniques in layers. People generally just grab new techniques as if they were items on a supermarket shelf without much thought for timing.

But doing things at the wrong time is like tossing eggs into the mixing bowl last when making a pancake – the result will be a bit flat!

Why?

Because if everything is just jumbled in together without considering the appropriate timing then you’ll end up being the proverbial ‘Jack of all trades, master of none.’

And that is not something you want to be.

Not if you care deeply about inner growth or the wellbeing of your clients.

Sadly, however, in almost every Reiki course I take I have students who are repeating the level. Some are repeating because they did Reiki years ago and haven’t followed through with it; but the majority are repeating because they realized that something was missing from the course they took.

The reason for this is generally that many Reiki teachers are doing too many things and Reiki is, in truth, merely an ‘add-on’. It is not something they practice daily. It is not something for which they have the time to build the proper structure and materials for a course. It’s merely something they do on top of their massage, counselling, yoga, ‘3rd eye transcendental psycho-healing’, ‘Mountaintop breath Kundalini past-life transpersonal regression technique’ and the like.

Now, I’m not saying you can’t be a master of all these things, but to be so you’d probably want a good twenty years of solid practice.

So the ‘best’ technique – as a rule, and rules of course are made to be broken, so don’t be dogmatic! – is to add techniques in layers.

Learn one. Master it. Then learn another.

Dive deep into the well before looking elsewhere.

Otherwise you may never find any water.

2) Make sure your techniques are compatible. Just because techniques work, doesn’t mean they are compatible. This might seem odd, but sometimes – most likely due to the way energy flows – one technique can pretty well erase, or interfere with, the other. This has happened to me on a few occasions.

For instance, I once learned a healing method called the ‘Healing Codes’. It was a bit like Reiki except that the energy came out your finger tips and you only worked on selected positions on the head.

Now let me be clear: the method was a good one.

But…

Due to the differing way the energy flowed (only out the fingertips), it actually started to interfere with my Reiki.

Possibly there are other explanations as well, but the end result was that practising the Healing Codes meant that I lost Reiki sensitivity and touch in my hands. As a result, I had to give them up.

Another example is Holosync (you know, ‘listen to some music and meditate like a Tibetan master’… ).

Holosync uses brainwave entrainment (hi-tech music to keep it simple!), to send you into a deep meditative state and, in a way, it definitely works.

The problem with it, however, is that once again it tended to destroy my energetic sensitivity.

In some way it was making me numb. Numb so I wasn’t bothered by much, but also numb so I felt like I was working through a haze when doing Reiki.

I since discovered that I’m not the only person to feel this way, so I’m confident it more than just a personal thing.

In any case, the general rule remains: some techniques interfere with others, so at times you will need to make a choice.

(Note: Just so you know, most techniques do support one another, so please don’t become either paranoid or dogmatic. Too many groups make spirituality this OR that. In most cases the issue isn’t interference, but rather spreading yourself too thin. But since it can be interference, be on the lookout.)

3) Find complementary healing methods. If you are running a business, you want your staff to have diverse skills. Some are good at this, some are good at that and, ultimately, you’ve got everything covered.

A football team is another example.

Imagine having a team made up only of forwards. Not going to work optimally – even if each individual player is brilliant.

Because each player needs to complement the other. Forwards, backs, onballers – together they give you the range of skills you need.

Similarly, if you are going to add new healing methods to your repertoire, find ones that work in areas that you haven’t already got covered.

Find areas where your current healing methods struggle and learn something that plugs the gaps.

Of course, for this to work, we have to be humble.

We have to accept that ‘Mountaintop breath Kundalini past-life transpersonal regression technique’ may not be able to heal everything.

But if we are, if we study the data from our results, then we can usually discover patterns, patterns that will show us in which areas improvement can come.

Now, before rushing on to the next healing modality, see first if there isn’t a way you could improve what you are currently doing; but if you are still stuck then, by all means, search for an additional ‘plug-in’.

A personal example for me is Pellowah.

Over the course of my Reiki career I’ve found that it can help with most things.

But because many clients are not really willing to work with the entire Reiki system (that includes hands-on healing, meditations, precept work etc.), then often it will be difficult to heal chronic issues.

Pellowah, however, seems to be able to go deep, rearrange things on a mental / emotional level, and produce healing which, in many cases, would be pretty well impossible for Reiki.

What’s more, since Pellowah works with a different energetic frequency (range) it can be used to work on areas that Reiki can’t even touch.

It’s a bit like how we use X-rays, infra-red rays and sunrays for different things. They are all useful, it just depends on what you are trying to achieve.

A personal example for me was my daughter’s eczema.

This was hereditary, passed down from her mum’s side. Her auntie had bad eczema, her half-brother had terrible eczema, many others in the family had bad eczema. So it was a difficult case, and one that Reiki, sadly, failed to cure.

Now, it may just be coincidence, but the night after I did Pellowah for the first time, my daughter’s eczema cleared up.

From time to time it does, admittedly, return in a much milder form, but all I seem to need to do is another session and it almost always disappears.

(Disclaimer: so I don’t get fined, locked in jail or shot by certain traditional Western medicine Fascists, I’m not a doctor and I’m not making any medical claims. So if you ask me, I have to tell you that ‘Pellowah and Reiki are nothing but relaxation and meditation methods that may promote healing in some cases’ – and the above-mentioned healing may just be coincidence!).

Unfortunately, you can’t use Pellowah on yourself (I’ve tried – it doesn’t work!) and it isn’t perfect for everything.

For instance, if you sprain your ankle, then Reiki will generally be more effective. But it can go places Reiki can’t easily go (or even go) and since you barely need to do anything to be good at it (like with Reiki there is an attunement), it’s a brilliant healing ‘plug-in’ to what I currently do.

I simply use it when working on other people (so it never eats into my personal Reiki practice), and it helps me expand the areas I can get great results in.

The moral, therefore, is to make your complementary healing methods complementary.

Do that and enjoy the compliments.
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.
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Once upon a time in 1980 there was a 30-year-old woman, pregnant for the first time. So filled with blissful anticipation, this determined mom-to-be set out to discover what would be best for her baby. She had no problem finding information on breast-feeding, sleeping through the night, introducing solids or the realities of cloth vs. disposable diapers. But when she looked for what would be best for baby’s brain development, she couldn’t find anything in the mainstream.

I was that mom. With no Internet, my research meant going back and forth to the university library, copying journal articles and distributing them to my women friends and colleagues at work ¬- waving them in their faces, saying, “Look at this! Can you believe it?”

I was stunned to find out, for instance, that the daily four hours U.S. kids spend in front of a television prevented proper growth of crucial neural circuitry, limiting their cognitive capacities for the rest of their lives. I was amazed to also discover that the verdict on TV violence had been conclusive since 1976: violent images do contribute to aggressive behaviors, fear and desensitization to real violence.

Over the years this research gave me the back up to have the backbone to make course corrections as I parented two rambunctious sons. For example, around 1985 Mr. Rogers started appearing twice a day-in the morning and in the afternoon. As a single working mother, I was so tempted to let my then 5- and 3-year-old boys visit the “neighborhood” both times. But I resisted. Their creative play was more important for their budding brains, and a once-a-day visit with Mr. R was plenty.

In 1986 those “new fangled” videos meant I could actually play a full-length feature film in my own family room. Amazing! Imagine two whole hours to get work done around the house or just sit and stare into space with a cup of tea, uninterrupted. Luckily, the research prevented me from over-dosing on these “new” inventions.

Back then my screen-machine temptations were nothing compared to what seduces parents in 2010: screens in SUVs; hand-held video games; videos for infants; video games for toddler, cell phones for kindergartners, numerous choices in children’s programming, videos and DVDs; computers designed specifically for teens; video games in restaurants, malls, theaters and anywhere families gather. Downloads. Texting.

Consider a few statistics:

• According to Nielsen, more than 90 percent of U.S. homes have televisions on an average of seven hours and 44 minutes each day.
• Children ages 2 – 12 average four to five hours of television viewing each day.
• By age 5, the average child enters kindergarten having watched at least 6,000 hours of TV.
• Sixty-seven percent of U.S. children under 12 have televisions in their bedrooms.
• By the time kids graduate from high school, they have spent twice as much time in front of television screens as they have spent in front of teachers in classrooms.

Six Modern-Day Challenges

Specifically, parents are up against six challenges unique to today’s complex screen-machine world.

1. Global conglomerates influence us on an unprecedented scale.

Over the years multi-national companies have increased their hold on our kids. Judith Rubin, writing in a recent issue of Mothering, reminds us that “marketing professionals cross-reference, cross market and cross-pollinate products and entertainment. By intentionally blurring the distinctions between products, entertainment, school curricula and advertisements, marketers readily capitalize on young children’s limited ability to differentiate between them.”

In the past, media companies were not nearly as influential as they are today. Twenty-five years ago as many as 50 companies owned the majority of the media. By 2001, six companies owned and controlled global media production and dissemination.

2. Community standards are being eroded through the co-opting of social institutions.

We can no longer rely on the social structure around us to reiterate our values to our kids. In fact, one of our biggest challenges as parents today is that too many societal influences are corporate clones. Many public schools, for instance, beam Channel One into the classrooms. In doing so, these schools implicitly add their authority to the commercial ads for junk food and violent video games the kids see each day. Corporations seek what they can get from the people. What they give and how they give is always based on monetary profit.

3. Corporations market specifically to children and their inherent vulnerabilities with the intention of undermining parental authority and responsibility.

Corporations intentionally drive a wedge between the parent and child over a specified product. Parents who say, “No,” and strive to set boundaries are seen as stupid and unfair. Today, the child’s peer group may as well have an umbilical cord tied directly to global conglomerates, making them significant authorities in children’s lives. Parents have to develop warrior spirits to become the primary authority for their own children!

4. Lack of relevant information and a pattern of disinformation keep parents in a state of confusion.

Corporations spend millions each day to guide our attention in specific directions – often leaving out critical information important to parents.

For example, most parents I meet are unaware that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends one hour or less a day of all screen time (including TV, video games, videos and computers) for children ages 3 – 18 and no screen time for babies and toddlers, birth to age 2. In fact, some experts think the AAP’s recommendation is not strong enough. Researchers Dr. Robert Hill and Dr. Eduardo Castro, writing in Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat Attention Deficit Disorder without Drugs (Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2002), recommend no television before the age of 5. They emphasize, “We can say with confidence that excessive television, particularly in young children, causes neurological damage. TV watching causes the brain to slow down, producing a constant pattern of low-frequency brainwaves consistent with ADD behavior.” Sounds radical. Yet, their points are important. Young brains are more easily conditioned by and more likely to become addicted to screen machines.

5. A screen-machine culture turns mass attention to sensational and mindless content, while downplaying and often deriding analysis and other higher-level thought processes.

A mechanism inside the lower part of the human brain actually causes us to look at the distorted or the weird. That means it’s easier to pay attention to gratuitous violence, titillating sexuality and fast-paced action than it is to PBS, the History Channel, or the teacher in the classroom. When sensational forms of images predominate, selective attention processes – that is the brain’s ability to filter out extraneous information and determine what is really important – can’t develop.

6. A screen-machine culture pushes a “machine-like” view of the world, treats people as objects and promotes a “quick fix” as the only way.

Sitcom characters solve dilemmas in less than 30 minutes. Commercials imply an end to malaise by purchasing a new car or the demise of depression with a new color of lipstick. Drug companies visually portray people having more joy in life with the intake of a pill. Constant images of quick fixes can influence our thinking about what works best for kids. For example, variances in growth are common in all living things. The surrounding culture, though, pushes parents to panic, worry and seek quick fixes if their children don’t learn to read or write or count at the “right” time.

Addressing the Challenges Productively

Unfortunately, these challenges will be with as long as we live in a mass media culture. And they will probably get even more complicated as the digital revolution brings new forms of small screen technologies. As parents, though, we have lots of power to directly influence our children. In doing so, we indirectly change the society we live in. Thinking children will make wise choices. Creative kids will improve upon the current system when their turn comes.

The following seven guidelines don’t add too much to our to-do list. Yet, they can profoundly affect who our children become.

Limit all screen time to five to seven hours weekly for children 18 and under.

Children who learn how to control their screen time have time to develop their personality and know themselves better than kids whose lives have become virtual. Plus, parenting kids who can control their screen entertainment is a whole lot more fun. The challenges described above tend to dissolve when families spend more time with each other instead of with screen machines

Thinking of a weekly screen time budget works well for a lot of parents. That way there is less stress (and guilt!) when the kids zone out on occasion. The next day we can adjust with less or even no screen time. Using a weekly frame also helps youngsters understand the bigger picture of how they spend their time.

Let our love guide us.

The physicist Humberto Maturano reminds us that “love is the only emotion that expands intelligence” (as quoted in Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by Peter Senge, et.al, The Society for Organizational Learning, 2003). Parental love is the constant that never changes over the years and that supports our wise choices. Our fierce love wants only the very best for our kids. Tapping into that love amid daily distractions catalyzes the energy required to parent well in this crazy culture.

One effective way it to observe what we love most about our children – their great questions, the way they treat their friends or care for their pets – whatever we know to be their unique gifts. Making up a list of these can help. Then we can draw them out in daily conversations with our kids. This builds self-confidence and makes their self-respect blossom. A bonus is that when we share in this heart-energy with children, time seems to slow down and we experience a deep, truly sacred connection.

Choose relevant information.

Parental love can also lead to the relevant information that will have the most sustainable effects. One doesn’t need a whole lot of information; rather one needs the right information that will make the important differences. The books listed on the sidebar are a great place to start.

Clarify our parenting priorities.

Along with love and relevant information, I think getting very clear on our identity as parents can also be very helpful in navigating those six challenges. So often, the screen-machine world puts us in the position of quickly reacting, instead of thoughtfully responding, to situations. When we take regular intervals to clarify our values – what we want for our kids and what’s truly important – we are much better prepared to guide children successfully through media minefields. A list of our parenting priorities on the refrigerator or family bulletin board directs children’s attention to what’s truly in our hearts. How can they resist?

Copyright, Gloria DeGaetano, 2010. All Rights Reserved.
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.
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Once ones consciousness really begins to waken up, it becomes clear what is really going on in the world – fear and more fear and not enough love.

Fear has been, and continues to be, the great controller and downfall of our species. It disguises itself in many ways: greed, illness, anger, hatred, worry, violence, isolation, defence, offence, excess. These are a few of fears many masks.

We live in a world that is ever consumed with the activity of personal gain. But this again, is just a way to try and abate our fear. We think that the more we have the more secure we will feel, the less afraid we will be. So we go out into the world and compete with our fellow man. If we gain more, then we start to worry that we might lose what we have gained, and so we strive to get even more, and then we get insurance against the possibility of losing what we have gained, because those who also want to gain more, feed our fear and convince us that we need to buy their insurance so that we can have peace of mind, so that we don’t have to worry about losing any of our precious possessions.

But buying the illusion that our own, smaller, personal world is secure is not enough. Our fear is much greater than that. So we have become nations and claimed ownership of the earth and its resources and committed atrocities against each other and all of earths inhabitants and claimed the constitutional right to do so in the name of maintaining national security. This of course grants us the right to war against other nations in hope of accessing even more resources. The result is an insatiable gluttony that looks like a world in crisis. And of course this is making us even more afraid.

So enough about the destroying nature of fear, we all in our bones know it personally. What we need to ask now is how do we stop it? How does one go about it? The fact is fear is a conditioned mental state that causes extremely strong emotional and physical responses within us. It makes us blind and reactive, it motivates us without really thinking. Its purpose, like other animals in nature is to activate us when we are in real, immediate danger, but its place in our lives has become nothing less than an over bearing dysfunction. It has over grown its purpose like a malignancy and has robbed us of the real joy of our birthright.

But this malignant kind of fear can be stopped. It can be stopped because it is a conditioned mental state. And with effort, we can change our conditioned mental states. It is clinically proven that each mental state we experience has a correlated brainwave state. The more we think in a particular way, the more we will think in that way. The brain, a highly efficient organising organ, organises its neural activity according to habitual mental habits. To be more precise, the brain builds neural pathways specific to mental functioning. That is why to be good at anything practice is the key. Practice enables the brain to organise and build neurons to make the practiced thing an easily accomplished mental activity. As such, using a variety of methods, fear can be practically ‘practised’ out of us.

The brainwave state of fear resides high in the beta range. The high beta range is a brainwave frequency range common to mental states / feelings of anxiousness, agitation, fear, hyper thinking, stress and so on. Knowing this it is easy to see why fear is so dominant in our lives given the high levels of stress endemic in the modern world. In order to quell these feelings we need to lower our brainwave frequencies. This is easier done than you might think. All it takes is relaxation, the deeper the relaxation the better. Anything that will get you to relax will lower your brainwave frequency down from the high beta range. But what is not so easy is to make this a practice. Practice is the key. Without practice your brain will not become reconditioned so that (eventually) your natural state is a more relaxed one even when you are not practising being relaxed. To reduce and eventually lose your fear you must practice being relaxed.

Another method to assist in eradicating fear is the practice of loving kindness. The sad truth is we are mostly afraid of each other and most of the people we love; we love because it is self-serving. Loving them makes us feel good. Saying this is not to be judgmental, it is just a discerning fact. Nor is it wrong that we want to feel good. Feeling good is, after all, a legitimate goal in life. But once we can practice loving kindness towards all, without prejudice, conditions, biases, we lose our fear of others and what is more, others sense that we are none threatening and in turn their fear of us reduces. Loving-kindness is a win – win strategy and the most potent antidote to fear.

A third method for reducing our fear is to adopt the habit of claiming “I fear nothing”. This might at first seem unauthentic, but by practising this you will eventually begin to believe it. The subconscious cannot differentiate what is true or false. If you keep affirming to yourself “I fear nothing” your subconscious will eventually integrate it as truth and you will begin to experience it as truth. If you say it out loud to yourself right now, you will feel it as an empowering statement because words have power. Words create chemical responses in our brains, together words are thoughts and our thoughts affect our brainwave states. When you get up in the morning, and when you go to bed at night state “I fear nothing”. Eventually you will believe it.

Wishing you fearlessness.

For more information on reducing fear and cultivating a conditioned positive mind state, please visit: Positive Mind States

This article may be reprinted with the authors name and website intact. Thank You.
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.
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Once an individual has been diagnosed as to be suffering from anxiety disorder the shock and confusion can often be to them insurmountable but then they are still faced with the decision as to what kind of anxiety disorder treatment they will choose to use.

More often than not when an individual is diagnosed with anxiety or panic attacks they will immediately go onto prescription medication as a form of anxiety disorder treatment without even being aware that there are other options which may be far healthier and beneficial available to them.

The best advice as far as I am concerned when you have been diagnosed with either of these disorders is for you to actually take the time to relax and calm down before deciding on the type of anxiety or panic attacks treatment which you will choose to use.

Luckily nowadays there are a variety of different approaches so far as an anxiety or panic disorder treatment is concerned, yes the old approach was to simply go onto scheduled medication to get the disorder under control, but if you ask my opinion, this is nothing more than disguising the symptoms and not actually addressing the cause of the disorder.

Should you however be interested in a far more natural and healthy way to approach your anxiety or panic disorder treatment, then there are many options which are available to you such as, cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnotherapy, acupuncture and brainwave programming.

All of these are very effective ways to actually address the cause of the disorder rather than simply disguise the symptoms. Anxiety and panic disorder are mental disorders and it therefore goes without saying that the best way to address the disorder would be to find an effective mental anxiety or panic disorder treatment.

Instead of simply covering up the cause, why not go into the area where the cause is which is the mind and find ways of doing positive and beneficial brainwave programming as an effective and cost effective means of handling your anxiety or panic disorder treatment?
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.
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Once again I’m being sent on a journey of learning. This time it’s about sound and what a powerful effect it has on us. I have no idea where it’s all leading but it’s sure been a fascinating journey so far.

Typically the way sound affects us is thought about in terms of how loud sounds, such as machinery, engines, and music, can destroy our hearing. But the effects of sound are much more complex and broader than that. Here’s a few examples:

The core frequency of a cat’s purr is 45hz. This is the same frequency as that of Delta brainwave state. Your brain is in Delta when you’re in deep sleep or a deep hypnotic trance. As you listen to a cat purring, it entrains your body and your brain to this deeply relaxed state.
In a recent finding, vibrations of specific tuning forks when struck near tomato plants caused them to release their pollen. This is being considered useful for hand-pollination of plants.
There are three bones in the ear that are automatically closed when nearby sounds are too loud. This is to protect the little hairs that vibrate and thus allow you to hear. When disagreeable sounds, such as loud machinery, are heard constantly these bones become stuck in closed position, causing partial hearing disabilities.
Leading edge biomolecular research scientists have discovered that they can repair DNA with the frequency of the Solfeggio note, MI (528hz).
The vagus nerve is connected to the eardrum and goes directly to every organ in the body except the spleen. The vibration of sound and music when heard is sent to every major organ in the body, and has either a beneficial or detrimental affect on those organs.
Sounds bypass the brain and directly affect the body. When someone is talking to you, the words are going into your logical, reasoning brain, but their sounds are hitting every cell and organ in your body. This is one of the reasons why vocal tones are as important, if not more important than the actual words used.

The original language of humans consisted solely of vowel sounds. The closest language to it these days is the Hawaiian language. At some point consonants were introduced, which have the effect of stopping the sounds. To understand this concept, try to hum a consonant such as T or K or D.

Those who study the origins of our language say that the use of only the vowels connected us to our spirituality. To support this theory, consider that the ancient Hebrew language uses only consonants, in the belief that the use of vowels was too sacred for mere mortals to use. This is one of the reasons there’s so much controversy about the interpretations of ancient Hebrew texts. Without the correct vowels, the meanings of the words are changeable.

The words you use in your everyday language affect your health and well-being. Not just because of their meaning, but because of their frequency and the subsequent affect on your body.

Words like “soothe” and “calm” are soft words and when you hear them they have a calming, soothing affect on you.

Certain words cause you to feel discomfort when you hear them… words like “fear”, which ends in the growling sound of rrrrrrrrr, and “hate” which begins with the outbreath commonly used in martial arts and ends in a hard T.

Just for a day notice how you feel as you listen to others – and to yourself. Listen to the sounds of words you’re hearing. Notice how you feel – emotionally as well as physical.
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.
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Once again Crichton draws upon his own medical background to speculate on the promise and perils of scientific breakthroughs. Once again we meet all-too-human scientists playing God and their subjects who are just too stubborn and full of life to go along with their assigned roles. Benson is a computer programmer with brain damage from a car accident that sometimes gives him seizures that make him extremely violent. This makes him a prime subject for the Neuropsychiatric Research Unit of University Hospital.

From his own career as a computer scientist specializing in artificial life, he formed the delusion that machines were competing with human life. It’s the careful irony of Crichton’s story that Benson was picked to have an electronic computer placed in his brain to control his seizures through monitoring his brainwaves.

Thus the “Terminal Man” of the title because Exhibit A for his own hallucination. His freedom from seizures must depend on one of the machines he believes wants to compete with us — and it’s embedded in his own brain. This is not a stable situation, of course. And because this is a Crichton novel, the people in it will prove onery and contrary and not go along with the program, both on purpose and by accident.

This is especially true of Benson who, despite just having had major brain surgery and being under police guard (he’s technically under arrest for his latest seizure-caused violent assault), manages to escape the hospital. Crichton also foresees the potential abuse of this technology — he includes a brief scene where a young man comes in to the hospital to have electrodes implanted in his skull to directly stimulate the pleasure zone of his brain.

To emphasize Crichton’s points, the hospital’s computer whiz kids are playing with computer programs named George and Martha. They’re designed to replicate human emotions — but just before Benson flies the coop, George and Martha start going berserk with each other in irrational ways they’re not programmed for. What follows is much like a typical mystery with the good guys trying to track down a vicious killer, only this one is a scrawny computer programmer with a head full of electrodes he thinks are trying to take him over.

Just as Dean R Koontz would adapt the crime thriller format to the horror and far out science fiction genres, Crichton adapts it to the speculative science field — much as Robin Cook also does. The end comes down to a more old-fashioned chase scene where Benson comes to the end that we now see was inevitable — starting with the moment the Neuropsychiatric Research Unit picked him for their experiment.
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.
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Once a well kept secret of Ancient Egypt, Astral Travel is now available for everyone to learn and practice. Surprisingly, Astral Projection doesn’t take any special skills or talents, you just need to have the right knowledge, and apply it appropriately.

A Childlike Mentality

One of the limiting factors that prevent more people achieving an out of body experience is simply growing up. Our minds become conditioned over time through our formal education system and societal constraints that constantly tell us that childhood fantasies are simply that, and that our dreams are nothing more than dreams.

Children experience astral travel quite regularly, but lack the ability to comprehend what is happening. To the child’s brain, it’s simply a very vivid dream. Often, the children are so young that they also lack the language to express their travels.

As they grow, parents tell them it was just a dream. School teaches us to focus on the present, on the real world and not to live in our dreams.

In order for us, as adults, to achieve astral travel, we need to get back to the same mental clarity we had as children; that innocent openness to possibilities outside of what we can see or touch.

Astral Projection Frequencies

One way we can help influence ourselves is through the use of Astral Projection Frequencies. Brainwave technology has demonstrated that we reach astral projection after going through several frequencies:

Gamma
Beta
Alpha
Theta
Delta
Lambda/Epsilon

Since we know which frequencies we need, it makes sense that we should be able to encourage the brain, and luckily for us, there have been many studies into this idea resulting in a number of practical applications.

Audio Recording

Through the use of certain audio recordings we can influence our brain to shift into the appropriate frequencies, allowing astral projections to occur far easier. There are three methods we can use, outlined below:

Binaural Beats – Two separate frequencies, one through each ear, allows the brain to produce a frequency in between the two.

Monaural Beats – Two tones of equal intensity pulsing with a specific pattern allows the brain to ‘relax’ and open up to and become more receptive to the notion of astral projection.

Isochronic Tones – Similar to monaural beats, isochronic tones are said to be the most effective type of brainwave entertainment, and uses two equal tones pulsing as a faster speed.
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.
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On the most basic level, the human brain operates out of two states of consciousness. The first is the conscious mind which is our normal frame of mind when fully awake. The conscious mind is the logical, critical mind used to dealing with the real world including activities such as decisions, thinking, problem-solving, walking, running, and so forth. The conscious mind is the one that chooses to believe or disbelieve something.

The second of the two states of consciousness is the subconscious mind which controls most of our reactions, emotions, beliefs, habits, and ways of thinking. The subconscious mind is ruled by emotion and tends to believe everything it sees, hears, or experiences. This is why it is important what you say (or think) to yourself. If you think – this will never work – your subconscious mind will take it as truth and make you act in ways to make that prediction come true.

The brain also operates in four different frequency ranges called brainwaves. The frequency ranges are much like tuning your radio to the FM band or the AM band. With this analogy, you could think of the FM band as one set of brainwaves and the AM band as another set of brainwaves. And the TV band could be a third set of brainwaves.

Each frequency range is associated with a different level and type of activity for the human brain. The most active (and highest operating frequency range) is called beta brainwaves. Beta brainwaves actually operate in the range of 15 to 40 Hertz (i.e., cycles per second). The brain operates in the beta range when fully awake and engaged in active thought such as problem-solving, teaching, singing, etc. Beta brainwaves are typically characterized as alert and working.

The next lower level of brainwaves is the alpha state covering a frequency range of 9 to 14 Hertz (cycles per second). Brainwave activity typically slows down to this range when the person is awake but relaxed or calmly reflecting or thinking. The alpha state is characterized as relaxed and reflecting.

When someone is being hypnotized or engaging in self hypnosis, the alpha state is the relaxation phase the hypnotist tries to establish by asking the subject to close his or her eyes, breathe deeply, and relax. In this state, the subject is preparing for hypnosis but is not yet actually under hypnosis.

The third level of brainwaves is the theta state covering a frequency range of 5 to 8 Hertz. The human brain operates at these frequencies when the subject is very relaxed, drowsy, or daydreaming. The theta state is often accompanied by high creativity and a free-flow of new ideas which is characteristic of the subconscious mind.

If you have been driving and suddenly realize you can not remember what you saw over the last 5 minutes, you were most likely in the theta state. When you reach the theta state during self hypnosis, you are in a hypnotic trance.

The lowest frequency brainwave state is the delta state covering a frequency range of 1.5 to 4 Hertz. Dream sleep (characterized by Rapid Eye Movement – REM) typically occurs in the range of 3 to 4 Hertz while the range of 2 to 3 Hertz is the range of dreamless sleep. Normally, when the brain reaches this frequency range, it is asleep. During self hypnosis, the brain is fully hypnotized when it reaches this frequency range.

As the brain progresses into the theta and delta brainwave ranges, the subconscious mind becomes the primary state of consciousness and the hypnotist (or recorded self hypnosis scripts) can communicate directly with the subconscious mind bypassing the critical nature of the conscious mind. Presuming the hypnotist or self hypnosis scripts follow the rules for successful self hypnosis, the subconscious mind will accept what it is told as truth and will change the subject behavior, beliefs, and subconscious actions to make the hypnotic suggestions come true.

One of the 7 key factors of successful self hypnosis scripts is the use of binaural beat technology. The basic concept is to input one audible frequency in one ear and a second audible frequency in the other. The brain picks up on the difference between the two frequencies which is yet a third frequency called the beat frequency.

By implanting a beat frequency matching one of the alpha, theta, or delta brainwave frequencies (which are below the range of human hearing), the hypnotist can more easily induce hypnosis and communicate directly with the subconscious mind.
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.
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On average, we talk to ourselves 65,000 times a day. Given this fact, it is extremely difficult for most people to learn the traditional Eastern styles of meditation that involve learning to empty the mind. 65,000 dialogues with ourselves each day means there is plenty of clearing to do!

Meditation and relaxation go hand in hand to help you achieve the state of enhanced perception and mental functioning that are the outcomes of Active Meditation techniques.

When you learn meditation methods you will be able to consciously calm yourself down any time, any place. You will be able to release all negative thought patterns, achieve full relaxation, experience enhanced creativity and tranquillity and overcome unhealthy habits like smoking or overeating.

Furthermore, the benefits of meditation have now been scientifically proven and can increase self-esteem and better relationships with yourself, your co-workers, family and friends.

The basic first step in learning to meditate is to get into a comfortable position,and remain undisturbed for approximately 20 minutes. If you are able to learn the technique, meditation and relaxation will both happen which is healthy and positive.

It is a good idea to know about your brainwaves as this helps us in our understanding. We have four different brainwave states, each acting as an indicator of the state of our mental consciousness.

Our every day state of consciousness is known as the Beta brainwave state. We are doing multiple tasks in this state (eg tuning into the radio, operating a car, planning a work meeting). This is the state in which we take on stress.

We remain calm and eliminate stress in the Alpha brainwave state and it is easy to concentrate while our thoughts are centered on one thing at a time.

With the right meditation methods, you’ll be able to attain the Theta brainwave state. This is the state of meditation where your mind is super alert but you may or may not be aware of your body. It generally takes about four to seven minutes to get to Theta.

And just to finish off the fourth state is the Delta Brainwave state being the deep sleep state – no dreams occur in this state.

Every meditation you do releases stress and helps provide clear perspective to the challenges you experience in life. While in the meditation state your mind will be extremely acute even as your body relaxes to the point of feeling either extremely light, very heavy, or having no feeling at all. One or a number of these signs shows that you have achieved the Theta state of deep meditation.

Just the basic advantage of intense relaxation by itself will be very valuable by letting you deal with the daily problems of relationships, working, family life, yourself, financial issues as well as additional areas.

Meditation produces many additional varied life benefits. Many people have even used meditation and relaxation to help with various life issues including asthma, weight release and much more.

The ability to meditate is one of our most important skills to achieve full mind-body integration. It is important to learn this ability to relax and release stress quickly and easily, without special preparation. We can use meditation and relaxation to deliberately enhance our ability to help restore our health and retrain our subconscious mind to achieve accomplish the goals we set.
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.
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On a daily basis, millions of times per second, the brain transmits messages to the rest of the body through electrical impulses sent by the central nervous system. When the brain is impaired due to illness, stress, diet or accidents these electrical impulses called brainwaves are affected and therefore this creates abnormal rhythmic patterns. The brain will continue to send these abnormal patterns (until it is shown a normal pattern) and therefore imbalances are created in the body and symptoms of stress appear.

The brainwave is an electrical waveform pattern that can be seen by placing non-invasive sensors in certain places on the surface of the patients scalp. The sensors allow the brainwave EEG patterns to be displayed on a computer screen so they can be studied, analyzed and an accurate diagnosis can be established.

Neurofeedback is one way to help the brain to bring itself and the body back into balance. It involves a superior form of biofeedback which needs highly specialized computer equipment to human brainwave electrical impulses. When the patient is provided with this “feedback,” through auditory or visual means, the patient then starts to learn to produce different brainwave patterns.

This is a non invasive method which is actually relaxing and pleasant for the patient and is therefore not painful. Some clients participate in 1 hour sessions 1-3 times per week for approximately 20 to 40 sessions. Sizeable research has shown that there are a range of disorders that are positively changed by this process, including depression, anxiety, ADD, autism, Aspergers, hyperactivity, post traumatic stress disorder, certain closed head injuries, PPD, sensory integration disorder, headaches, stroke, seizure disorders and even learning or dyslexic disabilities.

Neurofeedback is important and beneficial because it provides the client with a highly effective treatment without medication. In some cases, however, patients may start their neurofeedback from the referral of a physician who is treating the symptoms with medication. If the symptoms are not resolving with medication, neurofeedback can enhance the effects and possibly lower the dose.

Through the highly advanced and intricate sensory systems we learn about the world around us. Our brains process this information and that is what determines exactly who we are and how we portray ourselves to the world. At RHI we offer various ways to optimize brain functioning and therefore reduce challenging symptoms that can be either problems in communication that some couples may have, attention deficiencies such as ADD, depression, headaches and sensory integration complexities.
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.