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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For some people connecting with life purpose seems effortless but for others it remains just beyond reach. There is this persistent knowing that you are here for a reason, perhaps experienced as the sensation that something is pressing you from within, like a songbird trying to get out of a cage. This “near but not near enough” feeling is not pleasant.
When, with the help of brainwave synchronization or other forms of guided meditation, you reach the state of alpha or beyond, when your mind chatter and ceaseless noise have become quiet and feelings of bliss begin to surge through you, you know you are close to source – to the field of Divine energy that knows ALL your secrets! Now is the perfect time to ask – WHY am I here?!
And once you have asked you then have to listen! Not with your ears but with your eyes, your heart, your soul, your six senses, your imagination. The language of the Divine is not language as we know it. It is what we misinterpret as co-incidence. It is insight and hunches and unexplained nudges in an unexpected direction. It is synchronicity.
To talk purpose with the Divine we must be open and receptive.
We must be the spirited listener, catching the subtext in what poses as the unimportant everyday moment. Watching for the implicit and unannounced meaning in everything we come across in our everyday life. Never lose sight of the possibility that the Divine might tap you on the shoulder in your local supermarket or while you are in the shower. One thought, one word, one image, one sound that might hold the key to your purposeful future.
When a single word lights up neon in your mind follow its trail like a bloodhound. You may reach a dead end or you may just reach the first day of the rest of your beautiful purposeful life!
You can be sure that (and here’s the bonus!) when that purpose is yours you will feel exhilaration, you will step lightly and stand tall and your sparkle will light up the room!
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find” Matthew 7:7
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.