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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Have you ever wondered why your life is the way it is? Why you might have a fear of cats or why you always sabotage yourself in your close personal relationships?
A lot of the answers to those personal questions lie deep within your own mind, in the subconscious, the keeper of all your memories, emotions, beliefs, programs, habits, preferences, phobias, and drives.
Your subconscious mind has power over your life…but it takes its orders from your conscious mind.
This is where you can get in touch with your inner guidance and power and receive insights and relevant information that is beneficial for you today.
The only thing is, you can’t access your subconscious mind when you are awake…unless you put yourself into the alpha brainwave frequency which is the gateway between consciousness and unconsciousness…and to have any effect, you need to sustain this frequency for a length of time.
Brainwave entrainment, a technological tool that sends sound and/or visual pulses to the brain to influence a certain frequency, can be used very easily to access the alpha wave, and sustain it.
How To Ask Your Subconscious A Question
• Choose a specifically designed brainwave entrainment session, in isochronic tones so you don’t have to wear headphones, for this purpose.
• Find a quiet, dimly lit room and sit in a chair with your back straight.
• Have a piece of paper and a pen handy. Begin listening to the recording, relaxing your body, listening to yourself breathe.
• Don’t try to influence your breathing. Just notice the mechanics of it.
• Still your mind. Thoughts will come to you but just let them float by.
• When your mind is fairly quiet, form an image for the question you want the subconscious to answer.
• Involve as many of your senses that you can.
• At this point, you can begin the conversation.
• Ask your question either in your mind or write it down on paper.
• Either experience the answer in feelings and images and then, after the session is over, write down your thoughts, or, begin to free-write, allowing your subconscious to take the lead.
• Random thoughts will pop into your head.
• If you are writing, write without thinking. If you can do this, you are directly accessing the subconscious and bypassing the conscious. Any answer you get from the conscious mind, is just your own thoughts.
• At the end of the recording, write down any other thoughts, images, or feelings you may have, but do it immediately.
• Once you are back in the conscious brainwave of beta, you may lose the subconscious’ answer if you don’t hurry.
The subconscious mind communicates with your conscious mind by using imagination through new ideas, hunches, daydreams, intuition, dreams, sounds, feelings, and insights.
The answer you are seeking may even materialize in the external world so pay attention to any synchronicities, symbols, and signs.
Brainwave entrainment is an exciting way to help you access areas of your brain and mind that may not be possible in a conventional way.
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.