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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Many people are beginning to reach a deep state of relaxation with brainwave meditation. In the hectic world that we live in it’s hard to find a moment where you can just sit back and relax without having to worry about the everyday bustle.
The bad thing is when most people relax, they do not truly put themselves in an aura of peace, and instead they are just sitting back on a couch or bed, thinking about what they can do to solve their dilemmas. When your mind is going a million miles a minute about what is going on in your life, how can you accomplish any sense of peace?
People often times laugh at the word peace, they believed that no matter how relaxed you become you will never be able to truly engage in a peaceful attitude. Well, for all you skeptics out there you may be proved completely wrong.
Through brainwave meditation, there are two crucial programs that you can choose to follow to get the result of peace and relaxation to be a part of your daily routine. You can go through guided meditation, or deep meditation.
Guided mediation- When you decide to go through guided mediation, you are given a guide that knows the true ins and outs of relaxation and they assist you in reaching deep down inside of yourself into the core of your being. You will learn how to channel some of the greatest things about yourself like your creativity, and how to love yourself; you will begin to give off a whole new persona to the world around you.
Deep Meditation- This program focuses on your brainwave frequencies, and gives you the full effect of what brainwave meditation truly is. Free of any kind of spoken words, you are swept into a place of pure comfort and bliss. All negativity is taken from you and you learn to relax the value of 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.