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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Isochronic tones are popular because life is hard.
There you have it. Life is no ball of wax (you’re not surprised by that are you?) and isochronic tones, the most effective brainwave entrainment on the market today, can make it not so hard.
Our life today is defined by the need to excel at everything. This road to excellence in everything, is paved with the dead bodies of the depleted anti-stress hormones that our body just can’t easily make anymore. We are in a constant state of stressed out beta brainwave frequency. In order to survive, this state helps us judge, determine, analyse, be goal-oriented, and it shows our anger, our frustration, and our anxiety. We are overburdened. When we don’t take the time to quieten the mind, we lose the ability to destress. We need to disconnect from beta and sometimes, we can’t do it on our own.
Meditating, while listening to a specialized isochronic tones recording, takes us quickly to a brainwave frequency that lifts us out of beta wave and into the slower, calmer waves of alpha and theta where stress evaporates. The entrainment makes new neural networks and helps you process your life from a different perspective. It changes your mind.
You’ll feel an enormous relief when you alter your consciousness using the pulses.
Isochronic tones are a brain entrainment technology that stimulates both of your brain’s hemispheres and is the most effective because it impacts the thalamus. Equal intensity tones, in a consistent rhythmic pattern, which pulse, are introduced to the brain stimulating a precise brainwave frequency. The brain will follow the pulses and match the pattern, changing your brain’s state of consciousness to that of the stimulus. The brain is so involved, following the tones or pulses so exactly, that entrainment is swift. Anti-stress hormones are released and kick the heck out of cortisol and other stress related hormones that are destroying you.
Want to know if you have any extra stress hormones lying around? Do you have a pooch, spare tire around your belly? That’s a side effect of cortisol, one of the most deadly stress hormones. It helps your body develop heart disease, diabetes, and a bunch of life altering other diseases.
The downside about isochronic tones is that they are not always easy to listen to. Sometimes the brain interprets the sounds to the noise made by a helicopter slapping away at the air, and because the brain is in such an attention state, it may make you feel a little tired when you are done the session.
The upside is that they entrain your brain faster than any other brain synchronization processes. If you want to change your brain quickly and effectively, you’ll use isochronic tones, regardless of the strong sound. They get the job done.
It’s not unbelievable that something that makes us feel better, handle life better, faster than other methods, would be so sought after.
Why Are Isochronic Tones So Popular?
they’re easy to use, you just listen to them from your i-pod, mp3 player, i-pad, computer.
you don’t need to use headphones but probably will entrain better if you do–no distractions.
you can play them for more than one person at a time.
they involve the instant attention of the brain causing strong neural response, so entrainment is fast.
when entrainment is fast, alteration of consciousness is fast.
they’re safe unless you are an epileptic, pregnant, prone to seizures, driving a car, or under the influence of medication or drugs.
give you an adrenalin rush by stimulating the adrenals.
are excellent for honing psychic skills like astral projection, aura reading, chakra balancing, ESP, hypnosis, lucid dreaming, meditation, past life regression, remote viewing, shaman consciousness, spirit guide communication, telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, scrying, tarot reading, reiki healing etc.
energizes you.
gives you stronger visualizations which helps your intentions manifest faster.
takes you quickly to a place of inner peace, conscious awareness
All of these qualities are what makes Isochronic Tones so popular in today’s world. We want everything right now, and getting relief from our stressful lives, using this brainwave entrainment technology, is about as “right now” as you can get.
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.