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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Mindfulness is a form of meditation that involves focusing on the moment, a sound, or a mantra, non-judgmentally and without reaction, and when combined with brainwave entrainment, a neurological tool that entrains your brain to a specific, consistent frequency conducive to the meditative state, re-structures the neural network map in your brain.
Research on mindfulness meditation and brainwave entrainment, have proven structural change in the gray matter of the brain when exposed to these processes. Meditation and entrainment disengage the area of the brain that houses old programming, neurologically making way for the installation of new networks gathered from new information, in a different part of the brain.
Meditation can change the connections and pathways in your brain, and it doesn’t matter how old you are. In essence, your brain likes new experiences and is naturally and constantly making new networks as you go about your day, renewing or replacing old programming.
Mindfulness Meditation Brainwave Entrainment Balances the Brain
· The brainwave frequency for this meditative state reconnects systems within the brain that synchronize with and balance each other.
· When balanced, the effects can be vibrant health, higher awareness, super-ordinary or maybe supernatural experiences, and access and communication with higher spiritual dimensions.
· Fills thought-impulse receptors, in the activated area of the brain, with oxygenated blood.
· Increased blood flow reorganizes and strengthens existing neural pathways that carry the energy required to heal and rejuvenate cells.
· The health of the body is directly related to the health of the brain, and how it rejuvenates the brain cells.
· If your nervous system is constantly over-aroused, as during mental stress, anxiety, agitation, impulsivity and anger, your brain cells are damaged, and your mind and body will suffer from conditions like burnout, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia etc.
· If your nervous system is chronically under-aroused, your brain cells are also affected, and you suffer from depression, lack of motivation, and failure to thrive.
· When the brain is unbalanced, as in one area being used more than another area, all the time, the brain becomes unstable and produces migraines, panic attacks, bipolar disorder, vertigo, epilepsy, and teeth grinding.
· If your brain is in relative calm and symmetrically balanced, the brain can heal itself of any injury –from over-exposure to stress-related hormones or from physical injury.
· If you entrain your brain with the proper brainwave frequency, you can let go of thought patterns that are not beneficial to you and implant thought patterns that are, and the brain physically change its structure accordingly.
· The brain literally un-plugs the old thought patterns neural circuitry and creates new pathways in their place in another area.
· If the new thoughts are repeated, using brainwave entrainment, the brain will reconfigure itself through the process of brain plasticity.
Mindfulness meditation, using brainwave entrainment, changes your neural map which then changes the re-structures your brain. Once balanced, you will heal on every level and greatly improve the quality of 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.