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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If you have been studying the Law of Attraction, you have likely learned that once you begin to live by this Universal Law, there’s really no going back. You may have also learned that it can be a tricky Law to master. In this article, you’ll learn why living by your conscious intent can be so difficult, and how you can use subconscious reprogramming and emotional release to turn this around to live the life you really want.
The Conscious Mind versus The Subconscious Mind
Why is living by conscious intent so often more difficult than living by default? Once you learn that you can design your own life by your own thoughts, shouldn’t it get easier? Why is it that once we start trying to live by the Law of Attraction, so many of us seem to attract even more hardships and chaos everywhere we turn?
The answer lies in your subconscious mind. Your conscious mind wants one thing; your subconscious mind wants something entirely different. A battle for survival literally begins inside your mind – and it’s your subconscious mind that almost always wins.
Your conscious mind makes up only about an estimated 5-10% of your entire mind. This is where your desires, hopes, dreams, intentions, plans, goals, and willpower exist. Your conscious mind is a beautiful and powerful force – but it’s no match for your subconscious mind, which makes up the remaining 90-95% of your mind. We always know what’s going on in our conscious minds. And even having control of our own conscious thoughts, we often find it difficult to manage them, so often giving in to negative and self-sabotaging thoughts, despite our best efforts. So just try to imagine what’s going on in your subconscious mind – the thought patterns and programs existing there – that you’re not even remotely aware of. No wonder people say the Law of Attraction doesn’t work, that it’s nothing more than a money-making scam.
The truth is, the Law of Attraction is very real. It always works, and it is, in fact, a Universal Law of our existence. What you may not know, however, is that it works in conjunction with the Law of Vibration. It always attracts the people, things, and circumstances into your life that are a vibrational match to the frequency you are transmitting. And even the most positive thinkers among us can fall victim to this because of what is happening in the subconscious mind. The bulk of the frequency you are transmitting at all times is coming from your massive subconscious mind.
Let me give you an example of how this works. Let’s say you want to attract a large sum of money, so you do all the positive thinking exercises, invest in various self-help programs, write out your check to the Bank of the Universe with the sum of money you want to attract, and even use visualization and affirmation techniques to ensure that this sum of money becomes yours. You know without a doubt that your conscious mind is vibrating at a very high frequency. But what you probably aren’t aware of is that the larger part of your mind – the subconscious – is running programs that are in direct conflict with having this large sum of money. How so?
Perhaps your great-great-grandfather believed that money is the root of all evil, along with a low-frequency trapped emotion of hatred of rich people in his liver meridian. You don’t consciously have this belief – but guess what? This belief, as well as this trapped emotion, become part of your genetic DNA passed on by that past generation, and now it’s part of your subconscious programming, and you don’t even know it.
So what happens? Your subconscious mind absolutely will not allow you to be a rich person or have the very thing that it believes is evil. And that means that you don’t attract any large sum of money, and may even wind up in debt over everything you tried to ensure you would attract it, leaving you frustrated, confused, and miserable. And this is just one example of many different programs you could be running in your subconscious mind pertaining to having money. There are, in fact, many, many more.
So what can you do about this? How can you align your subconscious beliefs with your conscious intent, and attract the people, things, and circumstances into your life that you desire?
Subconscious Reprogramming and Emotional Release
Well now that the bad news is over, how about some good news? You can use subconscious reprogramming and emotional release to change your life – and it’s relatively fast and easy to do. There are various ways of doing this. Let’s discuss a few.
ThetaHealing
ThetaHealing is an energy healing technique which was created by Vianna Stibal, who healed herself of cancer after having discovered the power of the Theta brainwave for healing. She soon learned that ThetaHealing works for all aspects of life, beyond physical health. By using Applied Kinesiology (self-muscle testing/energy testing), we are able to determine what subconscious programs and beliefs we are holding on to, that we are not consciously aware of. Once learning what these programs are, we access the Theta brainwave to release, remove, and resolve the programs we carry with us from the womb, inherited from parents and past generations, brought with us from other places and times, and even as far as the soul level, that keep us from having what we want in life, and then reprogram with new beliefs that match our conscious intent. This process is done in real-time, on the quantum level, and adheres to the principal Law of the Universe: nothing in life can happen without being observed. ThetaHealing is a process that commands the subconscious to reprogram, and then the practitioner becomes the “witness,” or the observer. The transformations that occur as a result of ThetaHealing can be seen in an instant, depending on how many layers of emotions and subconscious programs there are to work through. Sometimes the process takes a little longer, but there are always immediate shifts. I’ve personally witnessed seeming miracles from using ThetaHealing, not only in my own life, but also my clients.
The Emotion Code
Discovered and developed by Dr. Brad Nelson, The Emotion Code is a very profound method of emotional release. Throughout the course of our lifetimes, we experience various powerful emotions that are not fully released at the time when they are experienced, but rather, they get lodged, or trapped, in our energetic meridian systems. The emotions we carry can also be passed on genetically, for many generations back. Emotions are also brought from other times and places, and can even be so deep as to be a part of our souls. Dr. Nelson has put together a chart of emotions to work from, and by using Applied Kinesiology, we can test to find out which trapped emotion is behind a certain challenge, where in the body’s energetic meridian system it is stuck, at what age it first appeared, or if it was passed on genetically or historically, and then release it. Similar to ThetaHealing, the Emotion Code also works for any aspect of your life that you want to change, whether it’s your health, your relationships, your finances, or any other challenge you are facing.
TFT
I have had great success with TFT for releasing trapped emotions and subconscious programs. TFT, also known as Thought Field Therapy, was created and founded by Dr. Roger J. Callahan, PhD, more than 30 years ago. All other meridian tapping techniques were created based on Dr. Callahan’s work with TFT. Thought Field Therapy utilizes meridian point tapping algorithms specifically tailored to target the layers of emotions that are trapped in our energetic meridian system, and it is very a very effective way to release them very quickly. With TFT you can experience real relief in a matter of moments.
EFT
EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, was founded by Gary Craig, based on Dr. Roger Callahan’s work with TFT. EFT is like TFT in that it utilizes meridian tapping to release trapped emotions from the energetic meridian system, but EFT also combines the tapping with NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), and condenses the tapping to more of a general sequence that you can use on anything. Using EFT every day is another excellent way to release trapped emotions and start to change your life quickly.
Acupuncture
Traditional Chinese Medicine has, for thousands of years, used acupuncture to release trapped emotions from the body’s energetic meridian system. Acupuncture is tried and true when it comes to emotional release, with very real and documented results.
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
NLP was founded and created by linguist John Grinder and Richard Bandler, based on the connection between our neurological processes, language, and patterns of behavior. It’s a way of learning to speak in such a way as to reprogram our thought patterns. When we become very conscious of the words we use when speaking, we begin to change also the way we think. For example, if you say “I’m sick and tired of never having enough money,” your brain is then wired to believe: 1. I’m sick. 2. I’m tired. 3. I never have any money. And this becomes a thought form, which is then accepted by the subconscious mind as truth, and then turned into a subconscious program, which then becomes our reality. We will literally get sick and tired and never have enough money. Amazing how our brains work, isn’t it? When we become consciously aware of what we are thinking and saying, we empower ourselves to change it. NLP is an excellent tool for subconscious reprogramming, as it builds new neural pathways and new subconscious beliefs every time we become conscious of all we think and say and do.
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is also a very powerful and effective method to use for subconscious reprogramming, as the Alpha and Theta brainwaves are utilized, and hypnotic commands are then sent directly to the subconscious mind. It is the Theta brainwave, in particular, that allows us access to the subconscious mind, which will then be listening for what we tell it. Always choose your words and intent wisely, and always state your intent in the positive, as the subconscious doesn’t understand words like “can’t,” “won’t,” “don’t,” and “not.” If it did, we wouldn’t keep attracting what we “don’t” want.
Meditation
When you meditate, you are going deeper within yourself. The deeper within yourself you go, the more access you have to your subconscious mind, which is waiting there for your command. When you close your eyes and meditate, you instantly access the Alpha brainwave state, which puts you at the doorway to your subconscious mind. As you go deeper in your meditation, and enter the Theta brainwave, you have more control over what commands your subconscious mind will accept. You can use meditation as a way to become comfortable as you are consciously aware, inside your subconscious mind. The very act of clearing your mind during meditation connects you with your inner self and Universal Intelligence, and is a form of “letting go” of your need to be focused on whatever challenges you may be facing. Once this connection is firmly established, in the Theta brainwave, you can reprogram your subconscious beliefs during meditation.
There are so many wonderful methods for us to use for releasing and reprogram subconscious beliefs and emotions. It’s an amazing time we live in now, to have access to so much knowledge, and so many people to help us to change our lives. Whatever method you are drawn to, whichever one resonates with you, it’s important to understand the importance of the subconscious mind when it comes to the desire to change our lives and make the Law of Attraction work for us, instead of against us. Remember, we are always attracting the people and circumstances in our lives that are a perfect match for what is going on in the subconscious mind. By releasing the subconscious programs and emotions that do not serve you, you open up the space in your life for what does. Whatever you can do to harness the power of your subconscious, and align it with your conscious will and intent, is going to make you a very powerful force, the master of your own life.
Are you interested in learning more, or setting up a session? I invite you to come on over to my website for more information, and feel free to contact me to schedule your own session.
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.