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.
alpha brain | calming sleep music
I am not about to insult your intelligence and tell you that by listening to a binaural beats meditation, you will drop three pant sizes by the end of the week, or become a multi-millionaire by next Tuesday…that is just utter nonsense.

However, brainwave entrainment has been evolving quickly with many studies that were performed to associate brainwave frequencies with certain behaviors or mental states. Astonishing results have linked supernatural abilities to different frequencies…I kid you not! In fact, you will be amazed at all of the things in your life that you can change for the better just by listening to binaural recordings daily.

Hey…I am a huge skeptic when it comes to anything…especially when someone tells me that I can program my mind. So…I immediately wanted to find out…are we talking about ‘mind control’…like the scary old movies that I watched on Saturday afternoons when I was a boy?

No, nothing quite that dramatic, but…

Here is a quick, little lesson about the four most common brain wave classifications…

~ Beta waves (13 to 40 Hz)…normal day to day alertness
~ Alpha waves (7 to 13 Hz)…relaxed, but still awake
~ Theta waves (4 to 7 Hz)…deep meditation, hypnosis, or dreams
~ Delta waves (less than 4 Hz )…deep, but dreamless sleep

Each frequency affects a different part of the subconscious, as well as the conscious mind and has many potential variations. It has been proven that by using various combination’s of frequencies, a wide array of effects can be produced.

You see, even though 4.4 Hz and 6.1 Hz are both within the theta brain wave frequency, they will both display extremely contrasting characteristics, in fact each and every recording is designed specifically to stimulate certain human abilities. One will help enhance your memory, while another may help you overcome those sleepless nights.

Maybe you need help overcoming an addiction…there is a binaural recording that will help with that. Or, how about weight loss?

There are websites that offer free binaural recordings…binaural beats, monaural beats and isochronic tones…try them all! Then, if you think that these free brainwave entrainment recordings may have helped, go back to the site and see all of your choices for a much more balanced you…brainwave entrainment is a something that everyone should experience!
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.

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.
guided sleep meditation | delta brain waves sleep
I am heartened (actually I am thrilled) that all the newest science about the brain (and mind) is supporting and confirming the scientific approach that I already use when I teach about this. This post introduces some thrilling and exciting aspects of using the mind – the subconscious mind – deliberately.

In 1989 I said that the exploration of Human Consciousness is one of the last great frontiers that quantum science is focusing on. I say “one of the last” because I also believe that another frontier is the proving, in layman’s terms, the existence of “the Universal mind” (some call it the “Mind of God”). Those two frontiers are inexplicably bound together.

I have found Dr Joe Dispenza’s book “Evolve Your Mind” a veritable feast of recent science, which explains the deeper operation of the Human Brain and the Mind. “The Mind”, Dr Joe writes, “is the brain in action.” Another description of the mind that I like is “the brain at work” or Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield’s expression: “The mind is the personalisation of the brain.”

An Example of “Quantum Physics”

My son-in-law, Stefan, told me of an experiment he carried out at university, whereby light passed through small holes onto a sensitive screen that measured the pattern of light hitting the screen. When the experiment was observed and then not observed, the pattern of light measured on the screen was different. That’s right! The very fact that somebody was observing the light, had an effect.

Think about it. Your energy effects matter. Your mind effects matter. Your energy matters. We all have a unique energy. The fact that you are in this world means that the world is a different place! Yes, that’s right! Your energy makes a difference. It’s a short jump to say that what you think matters. Mind matters! The study of all the above (plus other subjects) is Quantum Physics.

Every time we change ourselves, say from being an angry, or fearful, or vengeful, or negative person, we are changing our own energy, and therefore effecting those around us (and the world), in a different way. Wow! Aren’t we powerful. We have the ability to change, change our mind by using our brains.

Neural Pathways

I have previously written about how we establish Neural Pathways in our brain and how science has actually photographed the process. An example of beneficial neural pathways are how people can visualise (over and over again in their Peaceful Place, using emotion) the achievements of say a fantastic dive sequence, or a complicated move on the parallel bars, or shooting a basket, or place-kicking a goal, or complicated dance steps… and then do all of these automatically. All wonderful examples of mind power!

Have you heard the expression “nerve cells (in the brain) that fire together wire together”, and hence the continual firing together forms a neural pathway. The more this pathway is used, the stronger and more established it becomes. Actions become automatic because the “body” basically takes over.

Another way of explaining this (from Dr Joe’s book) is that science has shown that when we quieten the internal chatter of our brain (going to Peaceful Place in Alpha and even more so by going from here into deeper meditation – the Theta brainwave state) we are using the frontal lobes of our brain in focused concentration to develop the neural networks in our neo-cortex (Left & Right brain) of whatever it is that we are working on to achieve with our mind.

Doing this over and over using great emotion (the language of the subconscious mind is emotion) develops the neural pathway. When it is automatic the memory of it moves into the seat of the subconscious – the cerebellum, which is in the mid brain or the Limbic System. The Cerebellum houses all our automatic actions – it is the keeper of what the body learns from the mind and is directly connected to all the circuits that fire in the Neo Cortex.

If you wish to learn how to use the power within you for Self Improvement then you can do that easily by Using Your Subconscious Mind.

There is a corollary to Wire Together, Fire Together

It is absolutely fantastic that science has shown that “there is an important corollary to the ‘fire together, wire together’ mantra. When we interrupt certain thought processes repeatedly, nerve cells that no longer fire together will no longer wire together. The good news is that those nerve cells don’t want to remain inactive. Instead, they seek out new connections and they use recycled neural growth factor to attach themselves to new neurons.” Page 396 of “Evolve Your Brain”.

This whole process is called pruning, and yes, science has filmed it. I have seen a video demonstrating “pruning” which to my untrained eye was a little hard to follow. meditation, subconscious mind, mind power.

Changing an Implicit Memory

When memories move to the subconscious mind, science is calling this “implicit” memory. Other memories or actions when they are not automatic is called explicit. In the process of forming a new habit we are going from explicit to implicit memory.

Changing an implicit memory to get a better habit (smoking to non smoking) is a challenge because the familiar, or the Comfort Zone, is so seductive. The subconscious mind (the Comfort Zone) wants what it’s got – and not what it’s not got. So “pruning” has to take place.

Awareness is always the first step. Awareness of being a victim, a complainer, an angry person or challenged by unworthiness, a depressed person, an anxious person, a judgmental person… and more… is the first step to change. Wanting to change is the next step, that is, saying YES. The next step is doing it and that’s what I teach – how to do it.

Nobody said it’s easy. Try this – sit or lie down and draw an infinity sign in the air,? – (it’s like a figure 8 lying on its side), with either leg, and the figure 6 with either arm. Difficult isn’t it? If you use your will power, practice and visualisation after a while you could change the hard wiring in your brain.

Similarly if you persisted with the methods I teach using 1. Writing the goal in positive, personal and present tense language 2. Writing the reasons for your goals (WIIFMs) 3. Relaxing in your Peaceful Place and visualising the success of the goal 4. Using emotion (building emotional anchor) 5. Deep meditation on appropriate aspects of the above then you would be able to change the new Implicit Memory – pruning away the old implicit memory and have the new habit housed in your cerebellum.

So, isn’t it exciting and fantastic that the science of the brain has shown that change can be achieved and that with positive energy we can effect the world positively.
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.

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.
beta waves | meditation books
I am glad that you are here, reading this, rather than watching the news about terrorism. Your internal compass is true, seeking peace or inspiration rather than distress. This does more for the world’s peace and well being than watching the news does.

What is Remote Viewing?

This is a sort of mind travelling. It would more correctly have been called, Remote Sensing. The experience is much like dreaming. At the time, it seems real and includes more than just the visual sense. As an explanation, one might say that it includes the universal ability to imagine.

It is a process of thought, and has nothing to do with eyesight. Some people think that they are not good at visualizing. But, if you ever day dream, or if you can picture what you had for breakfast, then you can do it. There is no special training necessary for this.

You learn to unlearn what your early teachers worked so hard to teach you. You knew how to day dream in class, and your teachers would tap your desk or the chalk board to bring your attention back to what they were talking about. Remote viewing takes you in the opposite direction.

Remote Viewing is a perceptual shift from your external reality to an internal stimuli that you didn’t previously pay attention to. You will simply shift concentration from your external world to your internal world. In this, it is far easier than meditating where you attempt to clear your mind.

Boring tasks were sometimes used for the training of Remote Viewing specialists. This would tire out the conscious mind and make the thinking of the unconscious more easily available. This distraction of the conscious mind is also sometimes used by the Silva Method and hypnosis. It is not an induced stage of altered consciousness. This part of the mind can also be sought directly using hypnosis or meditation which allows the viewer to access it without the dual thinking. It does allow the viewer to pay attention to the subconscious mind which operates outside the bounds of time and space.

How do we Know that this is not Just Imagination, but Viewing?

The subconscious is easily available when an individual is operating in the Theta brainwave pattern. The subconscious is always connected to the Universal Mind or Source/Divinity/One through the higher mind, just as the subconscious is always connected to your egoic conscious mind.

The knowledge is always there. One hour before the first plane struck the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, there was a great blip that showed on monitoring devices of the earth’s magnetism. It showed all around the earth because humans were picking up the stress or intention of the perpetrators.

We are all connected to each other, especially to those we know, but to all beings on this planet. When in Theta, a simple concentration on one’s thoughts after asking a question, will trigger a search of the Universal Mind, and an answer because all knowledge is there. This is the state one is in when dreaming. This is the primary state of young children.

Trusting in the realities exposed when in Theta allows conscious remote viewing. All that is necessary is the removal of excessive rationalization by the egoic brain.

Remote Viewing has been used by many governments. It was used in the first Iraq war to find the locations of the Scud missiles. More recently, one American SEAL, a special ops soldier in Iraq was using it to find danger on the road ahead. You can imagine how useful this would be. He was able to choose safe routes for their missions and other groups would go out and find the IUD’s or snipers that they avoided. He became so good at it that he learned to view the enemy and their intentions even before they placed the roadside bombs, or IUD’s. He is developing a training to teach soldiers how to do this during their basic training.

When will power and imagination are in conflict, imagination always wins. Take your mind to Theta; imagine yourself being successful in remote viewing, and it will become part of your reality.
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.

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.
ocean sounds for sleep | childrens meditation music
I am a firm believer that therapy sounds far better and healthier than treatment as therapy always gives me the idea that the actual cause of a disorder is being addressed whereas treatment always creates the impression in my mind of having to take some type of medication to treat the symptoms of a disorder.

So when I think of effective panic attack therapy the first thing that pops into my mind is a natural and healthy way to address the cause of the these attacks such as cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnotherapy or brainwave programmer.

All of these forms of anxiety or panic attack therapy are completely natural, side effect free and very healthy for the sufferer of this type of mental disorder and the best part of it all is that they all have been proven to be very successful in the treatment of these disorders.

The reason for their success is that they focus on correcting the incorrect programming within the subconscious mind of the sufferer so as to be able to stop the subconscious mind from reacting in negative or inappropriate ways to certain situations or stimulus which are believed to be the triggers which cause the anxiety attacks to take place.

The great part about effective panic attack therapy is that its results are long lasting and once the individual has learned to access the subconscious mind they are in effect able to reinforce this treatment at will whenever they feel it might be necessary thus putting the control of their life back in their hands and removing it from the control of the anxiety attacks.

Now if you ask me, that is far better than simply taking some pills to alleviate the symptoms of the attacks but never actually being free of the attacks themselves. Good luck and here is wishing you a happy and panic free 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.

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.
merkaba meditation | christian meditation music
I am a board-certified cognitive behavioral therapist that specializes in helping people get out of depression without drugs. People don’t get their feelings hurt if you tell them there are things they can do to help themselves get rid of a cold. But I get letters all the time telling me I am hurting people’s feelings by telling them they can get out of depression by themselves, without antidepressants.. Here’s one

“I am sorry to tell you this but you are wrong. Studies show that football players who have a lot of concussions missing brain cells get depressed. Also the chemicals in your brain can be off or it can be genetic. Please try and be open minded because you cannot make up a disease that millions of people have. This is disrespectful.” Anonymous

So I wrote back the following: I pass along this information, not because I am not respecting people who suffer from depression, but because I absolutely respect their ability to take advantage of ideas and processes which are not well known to the general public, outside of the field of neurobiology.

It is certainly true that there can be tissue damage to the brain due to physical trauma, and the capacity for self-management of thinking and mood will therefore be limited. But for a normal brain that hasn’t been damaged by physical trauma, and chronically goes in and out of depression, obvious there isn’t tissue damage involved.

By knowing our brains work, how we actually get from one thought to another, and the importance of neurotransmitters and neurobiological processes like the process of pain perception to getting out of depression, we can learn how to manage it. Psychiatrists, instead, point to chemical imbalance as what they term a “probable cause.”

However there is a chemical consequence in the brain for every thought we think. If we think the thought lemon, there is a chemical imbalance in the brain that causes the physical symptom of salivation. The chemical imbalance rights itself when you stop thinking the thought lemon and you stop salivating.

A depression pamphlet from Kaiser Permanente states right on the front page “nobody knows the real cause of depression.” Once you know how your brain works, and that depression is only located in the subcortex, never in the neocortex, it is only common sense that if we are depressed we should think thoughts that stimulate neural activity in the neocortex, our thinking brain, instead of our subcortex, our emotional brain (where depression is raging).

It can be shown by neuro-imaging that some thoughts stimulate neural activity in the neocortex and other thoughts stimulate neural activity in the subcortex. This is not a matter of disrespect, this is a matter of science and anyone can check it out by hooking themselves up to a neuro-imaging machine.

Interstitial choice is based on the fact that human beings not only know some piece of information, but they are sentient, they also know that they know. They can learn to make a choice between knowing they are depressed and knowing something else.

As far as a genetic connection with depression. There is no medical evidence that points to depression as being inherited rather than a family, group, or or cultural “contagion” of adoptive thinking habits and behavioral strategies. See the book Depression is Contagious by Dr. Michael Yapko. There is medical evidence that depression is contagious.

There is ample medical evidence that the brain always follows the direction of its most current dominant thought and you can make any thought dominant by thinking it repetitively. This is how you can effect a mood change if you wish to make the effort. Again you can check this out with a neuro-imaging machine.
I was in a science museum in Connecticut last month that had a neuro-imaging set-up where even children can hook up to the machine, lower their brainwaves by thinking non-stressive thoughts and watch their brain activity on a screen go from agitated to calm.

Knowing about these things, things like the process of pain perception is so important. All depression is produced in the subcortex and the signals must go up the brain and be, not only received, but acknowledged in the neocortex before you can be depressed. With the use of interstitial choice you can block the message in the neo cortex that depression is being produced in the subcortex and the depression, without your concentration on and acknowledgment of it, will soon fade in intensity.

People, including doctors and psychiatrists, who don’t know much about neurobiology will be necessarily limited in their ability to handle their depression. Unfortunately most doctors today are rushed and too dependent on pharmaceutical salesmen who are marketing their latest drug. While the cover story this year in Newsweek magazine (Feb 8) tells us that new research shows antidepressants are no better in the treatment of depression than placebos

Some people, just because they heard it in ads from pharmaceutical companies, or read research funded by pharmaceutical companies get boxed into thinking they are the helpless victims of depression. This is a hard position from which to manage their depression.

It is sad that my work as a cognitive behavioral therapist to offer exercises and information to people who want to become self-responsible, and learn how to direct their thinking and moods to get out of depression would be thought to be disrespectful to depressed people.

You don’t have to believe in brainswitching exercises or interstitial choice to try them out and see if they work. Try them out for yourself. There are no negative side effects to educating yourself as to how your own brain works, or doing mind exercises to improve your management over your own thinking and moods.
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.

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.
peaceful music | soothing music for work
I am a big fan of Transendental Meditation or in its more popular form: “T.M.” Though it is a Far Eastern discipline that has been around for thousands of years and is closely associated with Hinduism or Buddhism, medical and psychological researchers have been studying the brain chemistry of T.M. Masters for years. These masters have been able to focus in on specific brainwaves that lead to deep meditative, calming states. One specific wave is the gamma wave. Audiologists, such as Dr. Jeffrey Thompson have been able to embed this wave and others into what he calls, “Nonlinear music.” People who listen to these tracks do not detect these embedded patterns, but the brain is able to pick up on them at a level we cannot consciously hear. And no, there are no subliminal messages such as: “Calm down,” or “Relax.” They are just simple frequencies that the brain is able to pick up on.

Our mind uses many different frequencies during any given day, but most of us spend the majority or our conscious time in the Alpha Frequency. It’s what allows us to think quickly and solve problems. Too much time in this state can create nervousness and tension. What meditation aims to do is to create balance in your mind and allows you to come down from the more hyper Alpha State.

There are myriads of T.M. programs, some of which use guided imagery to help you achieve a deep state of relaxation. It takes patience and discipline to achieve a good meditative state, but with practice, at least 20 minutes a day, you will feel yourself being able to control thoughts that at one time seemed to have a mind of their own. You will also begin to feel your general anxiety lessen as you slowly master T.M. techniques. A good, quick read is a book entitled, The Relaxation Response by Dr. Herbert Bensen, MD. The first part of the book is concerned with the scientific data that has been accumulated during studies down on meditation and the second half of the book shows you in a simple and direct way of how to meditate properly.

If you’d like to speed up the process, please feel free to try some tracks with embedded brainwaves in them. If you have any health concerns about using such technology, please contact your physician to see if it is okay for you to listen to such programs.
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.

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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I always wanted a new brain! I have always had medium to low-grade depression. I didn’t know that I had a lack of neurotransmitters that carry the messages from one neuron to the next along neural pathways.

Never did I think that a method would be invented in my Senior Citizen years that would alleviate my depression, make me more motivated and actually improve my brain by causing it to grow new neurons and neural pathways. It would actually make me smarter.

I came from a dysfunctional home. My grandmother lived with my parents. She hated my mother and tried her best to convince me that my mother was a bad woman and turn me against her. My parents were miserable and I had a miserable, lonely childhood. I had no brothers or sisters. I didn’t fit in with the other kids at school. They teased me constantly. I took unhappiness for granted. I thought everyone was like us. I daydreamed all the time to escape.

Then when I was nine years old, Daddy bought a TV. I looked at “Father Knows Best”, Ozzy and Harriet and other family comedies. I wondered why can’t I live in a family like that instead of a family that lived in a war zone..

Escape From my Childhood

I finally graduated from High School in 1960. My grandmother had passed on which had taken some of the pressure off of the family. Daddy built us a house in a near-by larger town, closer to his work. I got a job in a shoe factory for a year, then went to college for a secretarial course. I had started dating and had quite a lot of dates once I left my hometown.

I met the man of my dreams at age 19. We were married three years later. Although we had four beautiful and healthy children, I still had bouts of depression. I would have periods where I was motivated and accomplished a lot but I would sink into apathy and depression. But overall we were pretty happy. I also found out after our marriage that my husband has depression. It runs in both of our families. Also, I don’t think the part of my brain that determines our happiness level ever developed. I didn’t know what happiness is, much less how to achieve it.

More Depression and Unhappiness

When we were in our 50’s we had a very serious financial setback. My husband’s high-stress job had taken a toll on his health so he had to take an early retirement at 56. Our children were going to college, getting married and establishing lives of their own. I took a part-time job at the Post Office of our small town. We had severe depression for several years. Then at age 59 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Naturally I expected the worst possible outcome. The cancer was small and wasn’t in the lymph nodes but I stopped planning for the future and skipped the goal-setting section of self-help books.

We had heard of doctors using magnets to help depressed patients. My husband bought some strong magnets from Radio Shack. We would hold them to our head but it didn’t help. We tried all kinds of anti-depressants but they had a lot of side-effects. The treatment was worse than the disease.

We had tried self-help books and tapes. They would help for awhile. I starting suspecting that the writers already had excellent brain chemistry. Ours was terrible.

I kept looking on Google for self-help methods. Then in 2007, I started subscribing to a weekly Ezine written by Song Chengxiang. They were very helpful. These E-zines were about motivation, “The Secret” and quantum physics.

Help for Our Depression

I downloaded the free audio brainwave recording and subscribed to the e-course. I started playing the brainwave recording through headphones. My husband heard it and wanted to play it also. We had only one CD player and headphones so I really didn’t want to share. Of course I did. We played it without headphones so both of us could hear it. We started feeling different. Our depression was better and our minds were sharper.

I read and re-read the website. I wanted desperately to order them but felt like we couldn’t spare the money. I thought if they work and do what they say they will do, it will certainly be worth the money. If they don’t, I’ll get my money back, as there is a money-back guarantee. I took the chance and down-loaded the recordings and made CD’s for each of us. We even got some bonus recordings. We got another CD player and a set of headphones so we could listen at the same time.

We will have had our set of recordings for two years in August. We wonder how we ever lived without them. I only wish they had been invented when our children were growing up. We would have been better parents and might not have had our business failure.

We had changed the structure of our brains, something we had always wanted to do.
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.

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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Hypnotic words aid not only in personal development, but also in success of an individual. Hypnosis is a naturally occurring phenomenon that cannot be controlled. Success in life is an all-round term where an individual should achieve his or her set goals and strive to develop on a personal basis. This article highlights major hypnotic words that really benefit you if you incorporate them in your vocabulary while striving to apply them. Most people strive to enrich their vocabularies forgetting that application of what is learnt and gained is more important than having it.

Hypnosis asserts that someone’s personality is largely dependent on his or her thoughts as well as actions. Hypnotic thoughts can change someone’s life for good or for worse. It just depends on the direction that hypnosis takes.

Who can deny the fact that there is no word on the whole earth as powerful as your name? When I was young I heard my name being repeated several times. I unconsciously linked the name to getting attention. I still enjoy the attention as well as the feelings which accompanied the name. That is the power of hypnotic words. The name that your parents, brothers, sisters and other relatives identified you with is probably the one with a high hypnotic effect in your life. I want to believe the first name carried the day as you interacted with those close to you. Similarly, brainwave entrainment technology has led to production of equipment which enhances mind power development. Regular words used in movies have had a big impact on movie lovers and even transformed some people to success.

Research has revealed that appropriate use of people’s names at the beginning as well as the end of sentences works magic in the achievement of goals set in life. If hypnotic words are used in an inappropriate manner, they can adversely affect a person’s future. The brainwave entrainment audio programs have boosted sales of most businesses and these are results of the mind power which can also be used for personal development.

Another major hypnotic word is ‘Because’. This word can rarely be neglected in any communication process. The word becomes part of any person at a young age when as a child you try to inquire on certain issues. The explanation will more often than not start with “because…”

Hypnotic words determine how effective a person can be in communication which has a great bearing on one’s personal development. The brainwave entrainment technology has enabled young children to learn new words and sharpen their minds. The development of children’ minds have been empowered by this technology unlike the past where parental care was the sole method to enable children develop mentally.

Another major hypnotic word that is used frequently is “now”. This word was used to make orders to children and finally got stuck in their minds. Many other hypnotic words exist which have had a great impact in people’s lives. Such words change someone’s personality leading to personal development.
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.

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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Hypnotherapy stop smoking techniques are for those of you who’ve made the decision to quit smoking for life. You’ve chosen a quit smoking technique with a 97.2% success rate. Why so high? Keep reading…
Firstly, making up your mind to stop smoking is 90% of the battle. The last 10%, the hardest part – is actually making the decision final. Using the powerful and proven methods of Hypnotherapy, you can reprogram your mind and body to let go of your habit once and for all, permanently and painlessly! Furthermore, unlike other methods that you may have tried before, hypnotherapy stop smoking will help you stop instantly… and there are no withdrawal symptoms, no anxiety, and no weight gain either.
As a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (C.hT) specializing in Neuro Linguistic Programming (THE NUMBER 1 CHANGE TECHNOLOGY IN THE WORLD), I help patients quit smoking everyday for life in my Toronto office.
I am going to reveal some SECRET information that the tobacco companies DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW. They want you to believe quitting smoking has to be a painful and a long drawn out process.

The truth is, the smoking habit has no power at all. It never was any benefit to you. It never had the power to give you the things you believed it did: the confidence, the focus, and the street smarts. It was a lie. The creators of the habit invented the lie. If you don’t feed it, all that will happen is that it will die. The scratching and screeching was all fluff, the habit had you fooled. The danger to you was in feeding it and keeping it alive. On it’s own it’s a dead habit, it can’t do any more harm than it’s already done. You should be happy when it is scratching, because that’s when you are in front. The harder it scratches and screeches, the nearer death it is, it will become quiet then, and die. There’s nothing more harmless than a completely dead habit. The only way to kill it is to refuse to feed it.
How You’re Feeding Your Smoking Habit

Habits come from thoughts. Below is a list of researched examples about how are thoughts are created from our brain frequencies.

People who meditate have been found to alter Alpha/Theta brain frequency according to their depth of meditation, reports Japan’s leading Neuro-physiologist, Dr. Tomb Hirai.

He has correlated brain-wave patterns with certain stages of meditation. And according to Dr. Hirai, “Meditation is not merely a state between mental stability and sleep, but a condition in which the mind operates at the optimum. In this condition the person is relaxed but ready to accept and respond positively to any stimulus that may reach them.”

Research now confirms that brainwave rhythms correspond to certain states of consciousness, and this suggests that individuals capable of altering their brainwave patterns can have significant control over other mental and physiological functioning.

As Elmer and Alice Green of the famous Menninger Institute first reported in the mid-70’s, “…simply causing your brain to generate theta activity for a few minutes each day seems to have enormous benefits, including boosting the immune system, enhancing creativity, and triggering integrative experiences leading to feelings of psychological well-being.”

Even more astonishing are the findings of a study conducted on a group of chronic alcoholics at a University in Colorado. After 13 weeks the group that learned to generate theta and alpha brainwaves, showed a far greater recovery rate, and a complete transformation of personality.

Hypnotherapy Alters Brainwaves

Hypnotherapy is a 25,000 year old Chinese art that clinically allows people to alter their own “alpha/theta” brain frequencies and assist individuals to quit smoking.

What exactly is stop smoking hypnosis?

Hypnotherapy is where the Hypnotherapist only uses words to talk directly with and to your nervous system to allow your own nervous system to re-program yourself at your nervous systems level of operation to assist you in becoming a non-smoker.

There are zero side effects. It is 100% safe and effective. It is all-natural. It is often done in 2 or 4 sessions. Depending on how good the Hypnotherapist is and/or the creator of the audio hypnotherapy stop smoking program.

Not only do hypnotherapy stop smoking techniques make changes to your physical dependencies towards smoking, it also erases all emotional issues relating to smoking. This frees up your body and mind to easily and effortlessly let go of smoking permanently.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming is the science of how language affects our lives. Neuro-Linguistic Programming known as (NLP) has a 97% success rate in assisting individuals to permanently quit smoking.

This field is so far reaching and powerful that since the creation of NLP in 1973 any books written about Hypnotherapy have included some material about the field of NLP in them.

Basically most of the skills used in NLP are the same or similar to many hypnotherapy exercises and techniques.

Combining both hypnotherapy stop smoking techniques and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, have demonstrated to be the best way to quit smoking in my clinic and with my colleagues.

These two combined techniques, by far produce the most effective method ever invented to assist individuals to permanently quit smoking with over a 97.2% success rate in 1 to 2 sessions.

I hope this helps you in uncovering the mystery in evaluating stop smoking hypnosis. If you want to ease your smoking habit, seek out a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (C.hT) and Master NLP Practitioner or a good audio stop smoking program created by one.
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.

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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Hypnotherapy or self-hypnosis can undoubtedly improve your life quality in a drug-free manner. Both of them deal with the subconscious mind and your right brain. By learning how to harness these properties, a person not only can change his thought patterns, but also his behaviours as well as experiences, too. Through hypnosis many people have overcome addictions such as smoking and overeating by learning to shift their attitudes and relation to those substances. Therefore, if you are interested to know more, please keep reading to uncover more information for yourself.

Hypnotherapy and stage hypnosis both work with the subconscious mind. In either modality, if a hypnotist were to instruct a subject to do, think or feel anything which was out of alignment with the subject’s core belief system, morals, ethics, etc., the person would immediately come out of the hypnotic state and would then refuse to continue. Working with a hypnotherapist has a therapeutic slant and it is definitely considered a healing art. The same can be said for self-hypnosis as well.

Self-hypnosis involves entering a relaxed state and visualizing desired results by first giving the subconscious mind a directive to focus on prior to entering a “trance”, or by listening to pre-recorded suggestions. Besides that, frequent background music also proves helpful in inducing the proper relaxed state of well-being. Apart from that also, environmental sounds such as ocean waves, gentle rain falling, birds singing lightly or even dolphins and whales singing can all be effective – after all, it really depends upon what the listener would deem to be most relaxing for him. “Brainwave music” is also a viable option, as it has been proven to be able to induce a deeper state of relaxation.

When people are awake, they are said to be in beta state. Alpha state is the next level of relaxation, but it may also be reached while a person is awake. For example, when a person somehow drives right past the exit the he intends to take due to daydreaming, he would be classified as being in the alpha mode. The theta state is the next deepest level, and it is followed by delta state which happens to be the deepest of all. These last two states are reached while sleeping.

For your information, hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis can facilitate the overall healing of your body by training the mind to actually believe that the healing process is taking place. Releasing all the negative habits such as addictions, fears, phobias and unhealthy relationships can also be achieved through hypnosis. Anyhow, improving self-esteem is often where any of these must begin. All in all, hypnosis can be considered a means which is capable of positively transforming one’s life with no negative side effects.
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.