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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Golf isn’t a game. It’s not a pastime, a hobby, a sport or a diversion. It’s not even a profession.
It’s an obsession.
Anyone who’s gripped by the golf obsession knows how frustrating the game can be. Imagine slicing, missing shots, landing on the rough or in the water or in the sand. They all make for high scores and ruined days. As any golfer will tell you, though, bad shots aren’t even the worst part. No, the real agony of golf is in the emotions. Though technique is important, it requires more than that; it requires calm focus and confidence. Golf is a mind game. The experience can be ruined by over-analyzing, anger, blame, distractions…and that’s just at the first tee!
It’s not hopeless, though. Many golfers are now using the latest innovations in mind technology to not only improve their games but also have more fun doing it.
The foremost of these technologies is creative visualization and relaxation (CVR). CVR does exactly what the name implies; it helps the golfer relax and visualize a better game. Since a golfer’s imagination can be his or her most powerful ally–or worst enemy–on the course, that makes CVR the perfect method to help golfers improve their games.
Instead of spending hours on the driving range, players can visualize themselves addressing the ball with perfect carry-through, making positive changes to their games before they step foot on the green. That mental practice enables them to go out on the course and accomplish the same easy success in their actions. CVR lets all players, pro or amateur, relax and let their minds take over. Golfers can address each ball knowing with certainty that they’ll both see the perfect shot in their minds and achieve it in their actions.
The relaxation inherent to CVR also takes away the stress that pushes so many golfers into high scoring games. It makes sense that relaxation would help a person’s golf game; most golf professionals consider concentration to be the key to playing golf. Almost no one teaches it, though. That’s not the case with CVR sessions, which teach golfers to block out distractions, focus like never before, and discover the concentration that helps them play the best golf of their lives.
CVR, of course, is just one weapon in the arsenal of a truly successful golfer. Brain entrainment–or light and sound–technology can also enhance the effectiveness of CVR golf sessions. Light and sound glasses use finely-tuned light and sound frequencies to synchronize the left and right sides of the brain and produce deeply relaxed brainwave activity.
That may seem like it’s more in the realm of MIT than the Masters or St. Andrews. In practical terms, though, it means consistency in performance, a sense of calm and endless confidence no matter the lie of the ball…all of which take players from over-analyzing to producing the perfect chip shot.
Unlike golf clubs, brain entrainment glasses don’t require extensive mental practice to use; they plug into any MP3 player. And, 20 minutes of light and sound use is equal to four hours of sleep. That’s a boon for anyone, but especially for golfers who lie awake and stress over performance.
Most importantly, when used in combination with CVR audio sessions, brain entrainment allows golfers to let the clubs do what they were designed to do…send the ball straight to the target. With meditations that help golfers master the course or that teach three easy steps to great golf in any situation, CVR golf series move golfers of any level to a whole new reality in their experience of the game.
Golf has always been considered a mind game. Now golfers can use that to their advantage. Yes, great golf really does start in your mind.
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.