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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The way the world is changing… so fast, so furious, so unpredictable… you need an edge! The current crop of brainwave technology can give you that edge. And make you an unstoppable force in your career.

Brainwaves are measures of the electrical activity in the brain. Using an EEG machine, this electrical activity is registered as frequency waves or brainwaves. There are specific ‘bands’ of brainwave activity associated with different mental processes. These frequency bands, stretching from a high measurement of 100 Hz to a low of approximately 0.1 Hz, are given the names Gamma, Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta.

All that scientific detail is unimportant to you the user. The research is there to back up the claims should you wish to explore it. However, your main interest, as is mine, is how brainwave technology, including brain entrainment programs, light and sound machines, neuro biofeedback, binaural beats CDs and a whole range of bio-electrical devices, can enhance your life and abilities.

To thrive in the modern era, you need to function at your absolute best. You need to be mentally sharp and on the ball. You need to be able to adapt and learn quickly. Being able to absorb and retain new information is a must. More than that, you need to be creative and innovative. You’ve got to become a brain wave merchant, an idea generator, a creative genius who can think fast and put ideas into action in order to profit.

Traditionally you might have learned to meditate in order to have control over your brainwaves. Typically this would involve a long apprenticeship with an enlightened guru, master or teacher. By long, I mean years. It’s a great path to tread if you have the time and inclination. Most people with a mortgage, debts and families don’t have the luxury. Plus, the big challenge today is about living in the world not escaping from it.

As for getting to become a creative genius, that has been a lonely furrow to tread. Very few people are given the opportunity or set of environmental conditions that allow them to make full use of their innate genius. Getting inspired brain waves has been a very hit and miss affair for most of us. Occasionally, without knowing how, we come up with a ‘bolt from the blue’ idea. But it’s hardly been something you could rely on.

I personally like mind mapping as an idea generating tool. It suits me. I doodle a lot while I am thinking anyway. Image streaming is a great process too. Not only for stimulating ideas but for stimulating your IQ too. But these are time takers. They still involve effort and practice.

The beauty of the new brainwave technology is that you can use it to harvest a flood of innovative and creative brain wave ideas. Having mapped the combinations of brainwaves present in the minds of long-term meditation experts, great artists, brilliant business leaders, sports champions, geniuses and the like, the brainwave technology geeks have discovered how to replicate those same patterns in anyone.

Simply by listening to a pyscho-acoustic CD, for example, you could enter an expanded state of consciousness equivalent to a yogi who has meditated all his life! Or you could recreate the Olympic champion mindset of a Michael Phelps or the the dynamic entrepreneurial brilliance of someone like Richard Branson. What about unleashing that flood of creative brain waves?

It would be so much easier to just uncork your brain and pour all the hidden brilliance out. And that is exactly what the brainwave technology does. By matching the brainwave patterns, the technology acts as a key to unlock your human potential.

Human beings have always learned by emulation. We copy our parents, families and social groups to learn how to behave, fit in and contribute to our society. With this new brainwave technology we have the ability to copy and replicate the best in our world. I don’t know about you, but I find this tremendously exciting and think we have a duty to make the most of it.
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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The way the brain processes sensorial input to let us experience sight, sound, taste and touch has always amazed me, yet neuroscience has not given me the answers I have been looking for. Neuroscience is descriptive, can analyse patterns, and can even attribute activities in certain parts of the brain with certain action, emotion or thought patters. What neuroscience fails to tell us is how the images, sounds and other sensorial input that enters our brain give us the experience we are aware of.

Rodolpho Llinas describes on oscillatory timing and binding principle, that may indeed be a prerequisite for having the experience of awareness we have, but this does still not explain why a ball is experienced as a spherical object and a dice as a cube.

Here comes my hypothesis of how brain activity is transformed into something which can be observed by the Ghost in the Machine. Neurons are like electricity transporting wires. When electricity is transported through a wire, an electromagnetic field is induced. Electromagnetic waves are broadcasted. Could it be that the neuronal activity patterns create an interference pattern which is congruent or isomorphous to the object observed? So that in fact the cavity between the two hemispheres (In Indian literature and Vedanta called the Brahmarandhra) is a kind of spherical projection screen, on which a 3D image sound, scent, taste and touch show is performed, with as a spectator the Soul, as Ghost in the machine? A kind of Brahma’s holodeck?

In a discussion forum, where I posted this topic as “images in the Brahmarandhra” (my blog on neuroscience and mysticism), a number of pertinent questions were asked, which I could elaborate further upon. I appreciate the synergy that emerges once more than one person starts to reflect on an issue. I quote: “Interesting theory. How could you test it? And what properties you could derive/predict? For example should there be an interference of this hologram by external sources of electromagnetic waves? But still it leaves this problem of “ghost in machine”. Who/what is watching this hologram?”.

I have thought of a way to test it: by surgically inserting a nanoscale light beam generating device (or other electromagnetic radiation generating device e.g. an electrode) in the Brahmarandhra you can generate interference, which will make the hologram collapse. At that point the volunteer will not experience any event anymore. It will of course be difficult to find a volunteer… The potential application: new way of anaesthesia!

Properties to be predicted: more difficult. Another device as sensor in the Brahmarhandra can perhaps capture the electromagnetic wave interference patterns including those deriving from the olfactory system you referred to: this would yield a vast source of information on the working of the brain. Who is watching? the Soul (a quantum of concentrated energy) as Ghost in the Machine. The recognition of objects (apperception) needs no Soul to see it. This is a fixed action pattern released by the basal ganglia. But the perception itself must somehow be perceived by something; the soul must somehow feel these electromagnetic patterns whirl through its own electromagnetic field. Also 90 % of our so-called perception is in fact a virtual reality projected by our brainwaves, 10 % makes up for the actualisation with the “real surroundings”(if there is something such as objective reality).

Nevertheless, be it fixed action patterns or a projected virtual reality, these patterns are still perceived before the apperception of the mind (in Vedanta called manas) and judgement (in Vedanta called buddhi) comes in (and therefore where the Ego starts to interfere with the pure observation by the untouched Soul). It is the very perception by the Soul that I think is like a show in a 3D theatre.

This idea of nanoscale anaesthesia resonates with ideas from Ray Kurzweil. As described in Kurzweil’s “the singularity is near”, full immersion in virtual realities is suggested by having nanorobots in our blood vessels or at the end of each synapse. I think this is cumbersome and unnecessary. I hypothesize, that one single nanorobot (nanite) located in the Brahmarandhra, with both brain wave pattern monitoring and interference wave generators can be sufficient. By having the inner brain waves collapsed and by replacing them with a nanorobot generated pattern, the Soul can be forced to watch whatever virtual reality is broadcasted by the nanorobot. This would be a significant development towards the realisation of the “Matrix” holodeck in the brain.

A couple of days ago I saw a documentary on the BBC called “How Science Changed our world” by prof. Robert Winston. You can watch it on YouTube by clicking on this link.

Between minutes 30:46 and 34:50 of this video, there is an account of how stimulation with electrodes inserted into the brain at an area very close to the Brahmarandhra leads to a change of consciousness: a very depressed person suddenly became very euphoric.

This example does not necessarily show that my hypothesis is right, but the coincidence is striking.
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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The very thought of having surgery, for whatever reason, is stressful for the most of us.

When we are stressed, our brain activates stress hormones that lower the efficiency of our immune system, slowing down our natural ability to heal, and most frighteningly, increases our pain.

Clinical studies have shown that when a patient meditates before and after surgery, the parasympathetic system is activated-the one responsible for healing, rest and digestion, decreasing the activity of the sympathetic system, which generates stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.

In other words, meditation stops pain.

Very few people have the skill and the time to form effective meditative practice, especially in lieu of a coming up surgery. It usually takes years to cultivate the skill to meditate so, unless you’ve already acquired this skill, you would miss out on the benefits of this relaxation therapy if you didn’t have a little help getting there.

Brainwave entrainment, a powerful, scientifically proven technology that uses audio and/or visual pulses to stimulate, and deliberately change, the brain’s dominant frequency, can be an effective and fast way to help you meditate so you can receive its benefits now.

Specially designed recordings guide the brain to a meditative state without any more involvement from you, other than listening.

How Meditation Helps Pre-Op

Strengthens the body’s immune system, helping you be at your strongest before the surgery.
Reduces stress, which in turn reduces the release of excessive amounts of stress hormones, which hurt the body and mind.
Reduces blood pressure.
Helps you remain calm.
Helps you be more receptive to the idea of surgery-go with the flow.

How Meditation Helps Post-Op

Again, it strengthens the body’s immune system helping you to heal faster.

The body is in distress from the evasiveness of surgery and will automatically go into a “fight or flight” mode, which is not conducive to healing. This is the mental state for survival in the moment, and not for healing, in the long run. Meditation decreases this response, allowing for the immediate beginning of the healing process.

Gives you a feeling of well-being, trust, love, and peace.

Reduces blood pressure.

Releases oxytonin, a feel-good hormone that reverses the negative effects of an over-abundance of stress hormones.

Reduces anxiety.

Helps you think clearer, struggle less with the outcome of surgery– whether it will change your life negatively or positively.

And the big one-reduces pain. You heal very slowly when you are in pain. Meditation changes how your brain receives the messages of pain, diminishing your discomfort.

Relaxes you, putting you in a strong place, emotionally.

Physically relaxes you, so that blood can flow to the injured parts of the body.

Removes the negative physical effects of stress.

Having surgery is one of the top ten stressors we may have to encounter.

Fear of pain, fear of the inability to return to normal life, fear of living a life altered by disease or injury, are all very real concerns.

Meditation, using brainwave entrainment, both before and after surgery, can make the difference between a long, hard recovery, or a fast, healing recovery, and the strength to face whatever lies ahead.

You don’t need more stress and pain.

Relax and heal.
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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The use of sound such as in the form of a guided meditation may be
helpful because they generally ‘guide’ you through the steps of
meditation with a speaker who uses a calm nearly monotone voice
to facilitate a relaxed state. Other sounds could also be that of
nature such as waves breaking against a shore, raindrops, a
rushing stream or seagulls. By listening and focusing in on these
nature sounds, we can find ourselves becoming more relaxed.

Other recorded sounds can be sounds that are meant to produce
changes in brainwaves, not unlike the biofeedback machines used
years before. In biofeedback training, people had to use bulky
equipment, such as a head dress that wired you up to an
electroencephalograph, a machine that measures brainwaves.
The brainwaves were associated with certain sounds and while
you attempt to change the waves, you knew you were successful
by the sound heard, or the sounds were produced on a video
monitor that allowed you to change the waves by watching.
With new technology in the form of DVD’s, CD’s and tapes,
all you need to do is to plug in earphones and listen.

With new technology, sounds can be used on CD’s, tapes, MP3
players etc that will change your brainwaves without a lot of effort.
These sounds are masked by music or some other sound that is
heard on a conscious level, but the sound needed for changing
brainwaves is relegated to the subconscious, which will help you
to relax and change your behavior and positively enrich your life.

In other sound recordings, the tones used to affect brainwaves are
subsonic, that is below the threshold of human hearing. These
tones will coax the brainwaves from using beta waves, the waves
associated with alertness to theta range, a more relaxed state.
You may hear a low humming sound in the background, which are
the tones used to affect brainwaves.

The term used for changing brainwaves by sound is brain
synchronization, combining the use of both the right and left
hemispheres of your brain to work in conjunction with each other.

As you relax and listen to these recordings, the brainwave activity
will increase and become more coherent and you will be relaxed
but alert.

Using sound for increasing brain function is not new. Pagan
cultures often used sound to help to affect mood and induce a
trance-like state by the use of music, drums or chanting.

The use of sound to find balance in your life can be achieved by the
use of musical harmonics and certain sound frequencies. The use
of affirmations in recordings has the effect of going directly to the
subconscious which can help in reducing negative self talk and
behavior.
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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The use of certain sleeping problem treatments can actually be hazardous to your health. Drugs carry the more-than-minor risk of dependency, especially when they cease to have any effect after a few weeks of use. Other methods aren’t quite so harmful but can prove to be a wasted effort, such as audio therapies which involve hypnotic or subliminal suggestions embedded in the sound track. In the realm of sleeping problem cures and treatments, these were simply ineffective.

However, the best treatments for sleeping problems do lie within the realm of audio therapies. These are those that utilize changing frequencies of tones and pulses to induce brainwave patterns that are conducive to sleep. This is pretty much the same effect as when a motorist’s heartbeat becomes attuned to the “pulse” of the passing white lines in the road on long drives, the effect causing the driver to become dangerously drowsy.

One type that was popular for a time with sleeping problem sufferers are called binaural beat therapy treatments. This method took two separate signals, one to each ear, that were almost exactly the same frequency as each other but were slightly out of phase. The brain’s processing this information as a single signal would spur the proper brainwave activities to promote sleep.

The only drawback to this therapy was the need to wear stereo headphones while sleeping. Trying to stay in a position for this so that they would not get knocked off during sleep and making us wake up all over again was simply counterproductive to the effect. Isochronic pulse therapy is the type which proved phenomenally effective, in that this form of audio therapy requires no stereo equipment this treatment. Simple CD players suffice, and sufferers of insomnia find sleep within mere minutes.
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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The use of certain meditation supplies can be helpful to enhance your meditative practices. A relatively new phenomenon that can assist in meditation is the use of binaural beat frequencies. Traditionally meditators would have to practice their meditation techniques for a substantial time period in order for them to enter the required state of mind. Using binaural beat frequencies can actually alter the brain’s frequency to the desired meditation state on behalf of the individual with no lengthy practice sessions.

Brain frequencies that are suitable for meditation are in the alpha range, from 8 Hz to 13 Hz. When brainwave entrainment is used, you will require no special training or great discipline to perform meditation. The brain is capable of learning and remembering the altered frequency, whether this altered state has been self-induced or by the use of brainwave entrainment. Therefore, it becomes easier and easier to enter this state of mind each time it is required. The same advantage applies to brainwave entrainment. You are able to benefit from some of the effects later without making use of any entrainment.

A little more information on brainwave frequencies would be useful to know in order to understand binaural beat frequencies. High mental activity, for example, problem solving or fear is called the Gamma waves and the frequency is more than 40 Hz. Active, busy or anxious thinking are the Beta waves and range between13 and 40 Hz. Relaxation and pre-sleep or pre-awake drowsiness is the Alpha waves and their frequencies are between 7 and 13 Hz. Dreams, deep meditation and REM sleep is called Theta waves at the frequencies between 4 and 7 Hz. Deep dreamless sleep or loss of body awareness is the Delta waves and their frequency is less than 4 Hz.

When two tones differing slightly in frequencies is heard separately in each of the ears (by the use of headphones), the brain will produce a low-frequency pulsation within the load sound heard. The difference between these frequencies should be small, below 30 Hz, to enable this effect, and the tone frequency should be below 1000 – 1500 Hz. The pulsation is heard as a beating tone.

The state of the mind will correspond to the difference in the beat frequency. For instance if the difference in frequency is 10 Hz, the brain will instinctively move toward the Alpha waves to a state of relaxation.

Besides assistance in meditation, brain entrainment has been found to increase learning abilities, reduce sleep needs and treat mental diseases.
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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The use of binaural beats in guided meditation is a relatively recent adaptation of the meditation art. Binaural beats have been shown to have both objective and subjective effects upon states of consciousness. By targeting specific brainwave frequencies, the technology is used to create varying, predictable states of consciousness. This enhances the ability of individuals to experience a deep meditation state where the brain adapts to new perspectives and achieves propitious, altered states of consciousness which provide a wide range of beneficial effects.

Binaural beats are created by using two coherent sounds at slightly different frequencies which are presented one to each ear. The brain detects the phase differences between the sounds and hears a binaural beat. Normally, when a phase difference in sounds is detected, it provides directional information to the individual. That is, the sound comes from that direction. However, when this phased difference is presented via stereo headphones, the brain integrates the two sounds and perceives a third sound, the binaural beat.

Binaural beats for guided meditation are used at low frequencies of less than 30 Hz, which is the characteristic frequency of brainwaves. Listening to these beats at different frequencies produces specific alterations to consciousness directly related to the frequency used. In general, beats between 1 to 4 Hz, which correspond with the delta state, replicate the high amplitude brainwaves which are characteristic of slow wave sleep. When the subject is tired, these frequencies tend to make him fall asleep. With a frequency of 4 to 8 Hz, which corresponds to theta brainwave frequencies, subjects consistently report a relaxed, dreamy meditation state and a deep tranquility that is often punctuated with sparks of creativity. If the binaural beat is set between 8 to 12 Hz, the effect is more pronounced on the alpha frequency, which is the frequency the brain produces during wakeful relaxation, or daydreaming, with closed eyes. It is considered the ideal frequency to enhance cognitive processes such as learning and remembering as it is associated with increased concentration and alertness. It is the state which athletes often refer to as “being in the zone.”

So far, so gobbledy.

But how does using this technology assist in guided meditation?

The simplest way to prepare to use effectively the brainwave entrainment potential of binaural beats, is by the individual lying on a comfortable bed in a dark, quiet room. The darker and quieter the better, as the aim is to reduce external sensory stimulus to a bare minimum to allow the brain to turn inwards without the distraction of the senses. The use of an eye mask can also be helpful.

Another method often employed, especially in experimental settings, is the use of a sealed flotation tank where the subject is suspended in a buoyant, skin temperature liquid within an isolated, sensory deprived environment.

Once comfortable, the subject initiates the mp3 meditation and immerses themselves in the sound of the headphones. Depending on the frequency chosen and the accompaniment of the related “pink” sounds, which comprise music, natural sounds and a modified white hiss such as a television makes when the station it is tuned to stops transmitting, variable and predictable effects are caused within the conscious by the binaural beat. These include, but are not limited to: relaxation, enhanced creativity, intuition, deep meditation, enriched learning, improved sleep patterns, wellness and the personal exploration of altered states of consciousness.

The onset of these effects using binaural beats is both swift and automatic. The subject does not have to try to attain deep meditation. The entrainment process of the beats causes a profound alteration in consciousness which can be used to tap into the immense creativity and problem solving abilities of the human brain. Guided meditation using binaural beats is focused on one particular frequency to cause a known, desired effect. The guided meditations can be used to enhance skills including, but not limited to: esp, creativity, lucid dreaming, memory, manifestation, prosperity, reduction of anxiety and wellness.

The use of binaural beats in guided meditation can shortcut years of effort to attain a deep meditation state. One thing is certain, these beats will change your mind.

Kindness is more important than wisdom.
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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The use of a biofeedback device in order to diagnose the most effective way to treat certain disorders is a relatively new institution, especially in the world of Western medicine.

Electronic medical equipment has enabled physicians to have much more accurate readings of how the body reacts to certain outside stimulation, and does what must be done to it in order to get to react in the desired way.

The idea of biofeedback circles around the concept of being able to control the body’s natural healing abilities through a trial and error process.

Whether the conscious mind is aware of it or not, the body reacts in certain predictable ways to particular mental states that the person undergoing biofeedback analysis can control. In other words, certain mental states and levels of relaxation may be able to affect things such as skin temperature, blood pressure, or circulation.

By implementing electronic biofeedback device, it’s possible to measure exactly what state a patient has to be in in order to get the desired result. By being able to recognize and control what causes these changes to take place, a person is able to take control of their own bodies natural healing abilities.

Sessions involving a biofeedback device are often done in a laboratory setting, and are not necessarily the most comfortable of circumstances to be. Since the use of electronic recording devices is required in order to measure the different metrics of the body, the patient has to be wired up to heart monitors, brainwave sensors, and a plethora of other electronic intrusions into their personal space.

In some ways, this can disrupt the control aspect of the experiment, since it’s difficult to attain levels of relaxation and passiveness that you would if you didn’t have half a dozen wires leading off of your body. This is one of the reasons why repeated sessions are not often recommended, since they can add stress to a person’s life, which is not helpful when they are already suffering from stress related conditions.

However, since the biofeedback device that is typically employed uses modern medical technology in order to gain his readings, only one biofeedback session may be required in order to diagnose the proper course of action.

After just a single session, a person can learn to calibrate and rank their own personal states of relaxation. The machine can tell you exactly how relaxed you actually are, based on readings it’s getting from your body.

Whatever thoughts that are going through your head that are enabling you to relax are therapeutic, and from that moment you’ll know how to put yourself into that relaxed state of mind at will, and at any point in time that you desire.

On the other hand, a biofeedback device can tell you what states of mind will promote a state of distress, and cause your bio-signs to phase into an unhealthy state. In very short order, a person can “diagnose” the way that they relax, and rise to an entirely new level of control over the inner workings of their own bodies.
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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The Unexplainable Store is a very well known source for purchasing brainwave entrainment downloads in MP3 format. They offer downloads with binaural beats, monaural beats and isochronic tones for 28 different altered states.

My Experiences with Brainwave Entrainment

I have personally been using brainwave entrainment products for a few years now. I have tried all sorts of different binaural beat recordings and had different levels of success. After doing some research I learned that the quality of the different binaural audios can vary greatly. It is really important to make sure you are getting original, raw audios as opposed to stock recordings where the quality has been compromised.

There are a few different binaural beats sources that I would recommend and they really tend to vary in products as well as in price. However if you are looking for truly affordable and excellent quality MP3 downloads for binaural beats, monaural beats and isochronic tones, you simply can’t beat the Unexplainable Store.

I have now used their used their audios for chakra tuning, relaxation, lucid dreaming and past life regression (my personal favorite so far). I have found their recordings to be extremely effective and especially the isochronic tones to work extremely quickly.

What Makes the Unexplainable Store so Special?

There are a few reasons why not too many other brainwave entrainment companies can compete with the Unexplainable Store:

Variety – They offer 28 different niche recordings to choose from. Each product is programmed with very specific frequencies so that you are sure to get your desired results. Specialized as opposed to vagueness equals good results.

Superior Technology – Not only do they offer the ever popular binaural beats but they also offer the far superior monaural beats and isochronic tones. Many brainwave entrainment companies have not begun to offer the more superior technology yet. You will find that the really good ones do.

Original Recordings – All of the recordings at the Unexplainable Store are purely original and of the highest quality. Their MP3 files use as little compression as possible in order to preserve the utmost quality so that the results are as they should be.

Excellent Prices – I find that for what you are getting you simply can not beat their prices. I have seen lesser products that charge more and do not work as well. I think that the owner Jim McElwee has kept the prices low hoping for repeat customers. Works for me.

Customer Service – If you have a problem or need a question answered all you have to do is send one email or make one phone call and Jim McElwee will be there himself to assist you. The customer service is phenomenal and they offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee as well as a solid 8 week money back guarantee!

Are there any Cons?

I would have to say that the one complaint I could offer is that their products are so specific that there really isn’t a program that will just retrain the brain completely to always think and work on a much deeper level. There is other brainwave entrainment software that will do this but they tend to be a lot more expensive. I know that the Unexplainable Store does offer some combination packages so I suppose for the great price that will do for now.

Final Thoughts…

If you have done much research online for binaural beats then you have likely come across the Unexplainable Store yourself. It can be hard to know whether you are getting a quality recording so that you get the results you desire.

I can only personally say that I have always had really good success with them and I will continue to use their products often. I have found that not only am I a more relaxed person when I use one of their products but I am able to reach altered states of mind far easier then if I were to practice meditation for a very long time. They truly offer good quality and good prices so I think you can’t go wrong.
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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The Unexplainable Store has become one of the leading sellers of brainwave entrainment audio recordings. While there is sound science (no pun intended!) behind the proposition that sound frequencies can affect mental states, the claims being made for what can be achieved with this technology are becoming quite far-fetched. In its attempts to appeal to a wide array of New Age interests, the Unexplainable Store risks subjugating science to mythology and outright superstition.

Scientific Means to Unscientific Ends?

The science behind audio brainwave entrainment is well established. Using either binaural beats, monaural beats, or the most effective method, isochronic tones, listeners of MP3 or CD recordings can encourage their brains to operate at the frequencies corresponding to different states of consciousness. In certain cases, there are clear benefits from doing this. For example, people who struggle to get a good night’s sleep can benefit tremendously from inducing the Delta waves associated with deep, dreamless sleep – the state in which cellular repair takes place at a genetic level, and in which growth hormones are released. And Theta waves have been linked in numerous studies to enhanced learning, memory, and creativity. So far, so good.

If the Unexplainable Store limited itself strictly to products for which there is a strong, research-based rationale, we would have little reason to question the store’s credibility. But the Unexplainable Store – as a commercial offshoot of a website focused on the paranormal – targets consumers with interests in psychic phenomena, UFOs, the spirit world, and a host of other “fringe” activities well beyond the purview of conventional science. And this inevitably sets up a tension between the store’s claims to scientific underpinnings and its stated goals.

From Science to Mumbo-Jumbo?

A perfect example of this tension is provided by the store’s recent marketing focus on the year 2012, and what some people think is going to happen in that year. We are told that this might be the end of civilization as we know it; that all the major religions have been predicting a final reckoning or major upheaval. Now, how this sort of end-times nonsense is supposed to be squared with the science of brainwave entrainment is beyond me. Clearly, we have left science very far behind. But that’s not all. Wasn’t the store paying any attention to the recent fuss about the “Rapture” that was predicted to occur early in 2011? Didn’t they see how ridiculous these claims were? Why on earth would one want to risk a successful site’s credibility by venturing down that same path?

More fundamentally, the tension between science and nonsense is omnipresent throughout the Unexplainable Store’s product lineup. Most scientists would have a hard time finding any objective, verifiable truth in such activities as remote viewing, ESP, shaman consciousness, or past-life regression. Of course, one could retort that science is inherently limited in the exploration of the inner realms, since such highly subjective and personal experiences are not susceptible of testing in a laboratory setting. If I have a lucid dream one night that turns out to have accurate predictive value, I don’t care that men in white coats can’t duplicate my result in a college student on another continent.

The Limits of The Scientific Method

For professional scientists, phenomena that cannot be explained by science are automatically illegitimate. The existence of God is perhaps the best example: the world’s leading atheists tend to be prominent scientists, who find divine intervention completely unnecessary in the evolution of life and consciousness. But for those of us who are not professional scientists, should we limit ourselves to beliefs and activities that only scientists would endorse? Is it O.K. for us to be unscientific?

I think the Unexplainable Store needs to make it clear that science has its uses and also has its limitations. Instead of a tension between science and the paranormal, we could say that we will gladly use science as far as it will take us, but we refuse to stop seeking truths and experiences beyond that point. The scientists will just have to catch up later!
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.