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.
meditation help | meditation techniques for beginners
If we watch the cable news shows, we will barely be able to believe that tomorrow will come, much less believe that life will improve. We have some simple techniques to blast away any disbelief that is limiting your life. Like the phoenix that rises from its own ashes, you too can rise from any failure that has ever plagued you.
Change Your Language and Change Your Response
Are two year olds “scientists” or “terrible twos?” Both positions can be defended, thus both seem to be true. However, believing one or the other will create a different response in you to their natural curiosity and sense of autonomy. The first will allow you to interact happily and the second will bring about conflict and competition. If you have ever known a two year old, you can imagine how fruitless that interaction will be.
This is also true of success and failure. I will propose, that since you are now alive, you are a success. You have successfully survived every challenge sent to you by life. You simply need to change your language from looking at these challenges as “failures” and look at them, as does the scientist, as informative.
Losing money in the stock market is informative when you take the time to understand how it happened. And notice that having money in the stock market was an indication that you had more than you needed for food and housing. Good for you. If you could do it once, you could do it again.
When you lose a race, you have information about yourself and the race. You have learned that you need to train more for strength, or for stamina, or for your start or your pacing. This is not losing, but gaining information. If you keep eliminating the reasons you didn’t win, you will eventually win.
Do you see? It’s all a matter of language and the attitude that is born of that change in language.
Ask for Help from Your Subconscious
Your conscious brain processes information and solutions in a fairly linear way, whereas your unconscious or subconscious brain is millions of times more efficient. Learn to make use of this great gift.
Using a brainwave entrainment tool makes this easy, and, you can spend 20 minutes a day meditating or breathing coherently. This insures that you spend some quiet time so that you can send a message or question and receive an answer from your higher mind. If you never ask for help and never listen for an answer, your higher mind will receded further and further from your conscious awareness, leaving you to your inefficient conscious mind.
This would be like Harry Potter giving up his wand and his studies. It doesn’t make sense to limit yourself when those who are successful are making good use of their higher mind.
Limit Your Exposure to Cable News or Movies Showing Negativity or Failure
These influences can affect you at a level beneath your Beta consciousness, which allows the ideas direct access to your manifesting mind. This explains why so many Americans who feel the need to be informed, seem to have been brainwashed. It is best to stay away from these influences as much as possible. Many of these networks are expert in frightening you.
Fear can be used as a weapon to move you from being a positive influence in the world, to being a negative influence. Help yourself by focusing on love and courage, sacrifice and forgiveness rather than fear and hatred.
Keeping to the higher emotions will effectively move you from failure to success.
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.