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 online. Their meditation MP3s and CDs have received many glowing reviews from users, but recent expansions of the product line-up have included some pretty unconventional offerings. I am beginning to wonder if The Unexplainable Store has lost the plot.

A Stellar Range of Meditation MP3s

The core of The Unexplainable Store’s catalog is a huge range of brainwave entrainment recordings, available in both MP3 download and traditional CD format, which target a wide array of brain frequencies and corresponding human potentials. Quality is exceptional, with all products recorded at a 320 bitrate to minimize compression-related data loss. (This is critical with entrainment audio, where the frequency-inducing binaural beats or isochronic tones are subsonic; i.e., below the range of human hearing.) Some examples include recordings to:

Generate ultra-low frequency Delta waves associated with deep sleep, both to act as a sleep aid and, most interestingly, stimulate the cellular regeneration and growth that naturally occur during the Delta phases of the sleep cycle.

Improve concentration and alertness by enhancing Beta waves in those who suffer from Attention-Deficit Disorder, which typically sees an excess of Alpha and Theta waves and not enough Beta to function properly in the day-to-day world.

Enhance creativity and intuition through various frequencies in the Alpha and Theta ranges associated with the subconscious, learning, and memory. This is particularly interesting territory for people wishing to “program” themselves to behave differently or to create new realities through the power of manifestation and visualization.

Beyond the Basics… Way Beyond

The Unexplainable Store has always offered recordings that would appeal to those interested in mysticism or the occult, such as recordings to develop extra-sensory perception, enable remote viewing, and help with the quest for lucid dreaming. But a recent doubling of the product range added some topics not normally expected from an audio producer, leading one to wonder if perhaps they are pushing the envelope too far. Some cases in point:

A recording that is supposed to clear the complexion of acne sufferers. The sales pitch spends most of its time playing on all the expected emotions and anxieties, and too little time explaining how a brainwave recording is going to help. Supposedly, Theta waves will improve blood flow to the skin to promote healing while the Alpha wave will seek out and remove impurities from the body. Sorry, not convinced.

Female sex drive is said to be improved by a frequency on the Delta-Theta border. No empirical evidence is given to support the claim. And why does it only work for women? What about all the middle-aged men worried about dysfunction and low testosterone? Surely there’s a marketing opportunity going begging there?

Similarly, a different Delta recording is touted as a way to increase a woman’s chances of conceiving. Now, it is quite likely that a deep Delta meditation will have beneficial health effects, but I think The Unexplainable Store is skating on thin ice when they lead possibly desperate people to expect so much from an MP3. The claim being made here is just too strong.

I could go on, but you get the picture. It seems to me that The Unexplainable Store risks descending into quackery as the lure of certain marketing opportunities proves too great to resist. And I worry that the store’s reputation will ultimately be tarnished, causing people who really could benefit from brainwave entrainment to shun some genuinely useful products.
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 two types of Insomnia are (1) Primary insomnia and (2) Secondary insomnia. Primary is not associated with a health condition or medical problem, and is more likely to be caused when there are changes in lifestyle or stressful family situations.

Secondary is the type of insomnia that IS usually caused by a health condition, such as depression, arthritis, cancer, asthma, etc. It can also be caused by certain medications or by alcohol abuse.

Then there are two degrees of insomnia; acute insomnia, which has a short term of one night to two weeks, and chronic, which lasts longer, or is sporadic; sometimes you can sleep, sometimes you can’t. Usually a person will be diagnosed with the chronic condition when they can’t get to sleep for three nights a week – for over a month.

That’s why the proper diagnosis is important. You may not have to “treat” acute insomnia at all since it’s not related to a health condition. Because it is more related to what is happening currently in your life, it will resolve itself when the stressful situation ends. Or, when you actually figure out what is making you so stressed and become determined to reduce that stress as much as possible.

This may include trying relaxation methods such insomnia hypnosis, or brainwave entrainment CD’s which effectively calm the nervous system and help you relax. It’s a known fact that a relaxed person with a quiet mind falls asleep much faster than a person who is constantly thinking about the happenings of the day and how to deal with them.

Treatment for chronic insomnia is a little more difficult (not that it’s easy to reduce stress, but at least it’s not a medical condition). However, if you have a chronic condition, you might also find brainwave entrainment tapes and insomnia hypnosis helpful, but you might need insomnia drugs or drugs for depression or anxiety as well.

Either way, before you can determine how to treat insomnia be sure it is properly diagnosed. You can experiment with the different treatment methods mentioned above (hypnosis or brainwave entrainment), but if you are not seeing results in a few weeks, you will need to get a physical exam to determine the best treatment for you.
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 truth is that nearly anything that can be said about your brain in an absolute sense is not true. This statement is true, not because we don’t know a lot about the brain, we do; and more is being learned about it every day. The statement is true because the brain is such a vast, intricate and interconnected system of systems and processes that anything we can say about must be qualified by, “…as far as we know today…” or “In one sense, it can be said…”

Your brain is composed of somewhere between 100 and 200 billion neurons! Any single neuron can have as many as 100 thousand connections! The number of permutation possible in the brain exceeds our best estimate for the number of elementary particles in the Universe! Everything you sense, the totality of your experience of the world and each other, all of the ways you discern and label one thing as distinguished from another, all of your assessments and judgments, our ideas, our concepts and beliefs, all of our emotionally infused signification of your relations, all of your inspirations and aspirations are the experience of the neurological activity within this specialized 3 to 4 pounds of tissue, floating within a sac of fluid in your head. Can you see why I think it is so amazing?

And yet most of the time, just like all of the mysterious miracles we are by which we are continuously surrounded and confronted, we are completely oblivious to what’s going on within our head that allows me, for instance, to be thinking about all this, typing it into the computer, editing as I go along, intermittently noticing the sunlight changing color as the breeze blows through the trees outside the window, wondering what I’ll be preparing for dinner.

It has often been said that your brain is actually three brains in one. Deep within your brain is the more primitive, “reptilian,” brain that automatically orients us toward the five Fs, feeding, fornicating, fleeing, fighting and freezing. This brain is pretty much hard-wired and functional at birth. It is nested within your second, “mammalian,” brain which is more relational and emotional. The functioning of this limbic brain is developed in the physical, face-to-face relationship with your primary care taker, usually, this is the child’s mother. We each learn how to read other’s emotions and intentions from very subtle cues in their voice tones and facial expressions.

The third brain covers and wraps around the lymbic brain and is called the neo-cortex. This brain allows you to recognize patterns, to create music and art and ideas, to speak and understand language, to reason, to reflect and, it seems, to be conscious of your consciousness. This brain is in development until a person is in their early twenties!

The pre-frontal cortex is being considered by some people to be a fourth brain.
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 top 10 toys varies every year for Christmas gifts as new toys come out and some fade away. There are some top toys that last for years and some that even make come backs. This year is no different.

One toy that makes a comeback to the top 10 toys is the Playskool Alphie. He is a robot that helps pre-schoolers learn their colors, numbers, letters sounds, shape sorting and patterns, cause and effect, vocabulary development and more. His buttons light up, he sings, plays music and loves to chat. Children will have fun with this top toy that is the latest version of the Alphie from the eighties. This is a fun Christmas gift and would delight any child when opened.

LEGO’s is recognized for its imaginative and durable building toys and at least one usually makes the top 10 toys each year. They range in a variety of items that you can build and now include buildable and imaginative games, such as the Hogwarts board game. This game comes with 332 LEGO pieces to build the game board, then instructions for 2-4 players. In this game, players move objects, staircases and even relocate classrooms to hinder their opponents. Parents and teachers like it for its ability to stimulate creativity, problem solving and keeping childrens interest. This would make a unique and exciting Christmas gift for any child who is into building and strategy.

More top toys are the classic LEGO building sets. The set for younger children ages 18 months to about 5 years, is the Duplo Building set (model number 5380) that comes with 71 LEGO pieces. The set to graduate from this is the LEGO Ultimate Building set (model number 6166) that is appropriate for ages 4-12 years old. It comes with 405 pieces and instructions to build 5 models with photos of 25 more they can try.

LEGO does have top toys for older children, and one of the most exciting is on the top 10 toys list. This latest and favorite set is called the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0. Talk about an exciting Christmas gift, this is a robotics kit that you can build then program the robot the way you want. Appropriate for ages 10-18, it comes with instructions to build 4 robots to help you learn and get used to the kit. From there you can find instructions to build more, forums where people share their ideas and creations, programs that you can download from your computer and more. This is one of the most fun ways to learn robotics, computer programming and get a start in the world of technology.

Speaking of technology, both Uncle Milton and Mattel have mind control exercise toys for kids. If you have not heard of these you will soon see why they make the top 10 toys. Both toys incorporate the same dry sensor technology as EEG’s. In these games, you connect yourself to a headset that then reads brainwaves. As you learn to concentrate, you can move the ball as you wish.

While the Star Wars Force Trainer is set to be a popular Christmas gift due to the Star Wars branding, it is considered somewhat easier as you try to levitate the ball up and down a chute. The Mindflex game is a little more complicated as you attempt to move the ball through an obstacle course.

Younger children are not left out of the technology game. Everyone has figured out by now that computers are here to stay. So on our top 10 toys, you have a choice of technology learning games for preschoolers.

Fisher Price has the iXL Learning System for kids. It is a hand held iPad-type toy that comes with 6 different learning applications and ability to upload songs and photos.

Leapster has their Leapster Explorer Learning Game System that teach school basics like geography, life skills, and even science. You get over 30 games and activities and can buy cartridges for new games or download more.

V-tech has their line of learning toys such as the MobiGoTouch Learning System, which is good for children ages from 36 months up to 7 years. It has touch screen technology and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard so young children can start becoming familiar with the keyboard layout. The games use popular characters such as Shrek or Dora the Explorer to learn about colors, shapes, spelling, math, logic and more

Video games are always a hit and this year is no different. The Halo game is definitely one of the top 10 toys, due to its popularity, and falls in the video games category. Halo is out with their new version called Halo Reach, where players will fight alongside a squad of iconic Spartan soldiers. There is also a limited edition bundle that includes the Xbox 360 console, 2 wireless game controllers, headset and the Halo Reach game all for just under $400.

There are a few new console features you will find this year starting with the PlayStation Move, which is similar to the popular Wii, that mimics your body movements as a controller. The nice thing about this game is that if you already own PlayStation 3, you are almost there. No need to buy a whole new game console, just get the PlayStation Move Bundle and you get a PlayStation Move wireless motion controller, PlayStation Eye camera and a Sports Champions Blu-ray game so you can start playing for a price tag of just around $100.

Xbox has their new Kinect coming out this fall. Kinect takes gaming a step further and your body really is the controller. You control games with a wave of your hand, by getting up, running and jumping in place and more. No need to hold a controller, a sensor picks up your movements and interprets them into the game. This exciting new game is not only a great Christmas gift or top 10 toys, it makes a great gift for your whole family.
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 title may seem odd and contradictory because people view bad dreams as things to avoid. If you had a troublesome dream or nightmare recently, you may be wishing you could get rid of it. In the current society of painkiller culture, you avoid every thing that is painful or unpleasant. So, how can unpleasant dreams remain exceptional? A lot of people who had recurring nightmares early on in life manage to block their dream recall completely because why to recall unpleasant things.

Dreams are both a barometer of your emotional health and a safety valve of the unconscious mind. If you block them or just want to forget them, you are missing some vital information they are trying to tell you about your life. It is like avoiding the blinking fuel indicator of your car, because it annoys you. You very well know the consequences if you continue to drive for another 50 or 100 miles.

Dreams are your friends

Learning about the useful nature of dreaming and knowing that nightmares are natural process of emotional release, provide you opportunities for self-healing. They are symbolic pointers of caution about your current behavior pattern and emotional state that require correction. Sometimes the pattern gets resolved when the dream percolates into the waking state and you knowingly or unknowingly adjust your response.

If you change your attitude and become inviting towards dreams, you open up a natural and healthy channel of self-correction. According to psychologist Ernest Rossi, an important function of dreaming is integration, of separate psychological fragments into a more balanced and all-encompassing personality.

Enhanced awareness while dreaming is the tool that helps replace your habitual response of fear or helplessness with healthy and corrective one. The goal is still to put an end to nightmares and recurring dreams, but by changing their script, and not by blocking or running away from them.

Resolving Nightmares

There are several techniques available that are quite effective with recurring nightmares. Most commonly used are dream lucidity, guided imagery, dream rehearsal, therapies such as gestalt, psycho synthesis, etc.

Among all these approaches, the simplest one is lucid dreaming. It can be learned like any other skill. Remember that your sleep hours consist of 4-5 repeat cycles. Each cycle lasts for about hour and half and contains a rapid eye movement (REM) phase, which is characterized by bursts of eye movements and occasional twitches in the muscles. This phase gets progressively longer in the subsequent sleep cycles as sleep progresses. Most vivid dreams occur during this phase of sleep.

How to get lucid dreams

The first step is to develop the ability to recall dreams, so you need to become dream conscious. You can do this by affirmations throughout the day and particularly before sleeping. Affirm mentally that you want to remember everything from the dreams. Another useful idea is to keep a diary and record as soon as you wake up. Try to capture dream signs – these are things that can not happen in real life, for example, seeing monsters, floating in air, falling from the sky, etc.

Use these signs as cues to remind yourself that you must be dreaming whenever you observe them during sleep. This is how you catch yourself dreaming. Now try taking charge of the dreams; start with something trivial and soon you will be completely in control.

Another useful method that is fairly quick is to listen to music embedded with binaural beats; they directly work at your conscious levels. Their action synchronizes activities of the left and right hemispheres and creates brainwave landscape that is conducive for lucid dreaming.

With all the information and resources at your disposal, you are in position to befriend what you had been avoiding as bad dreams and give yourself a holistic healing. Remember this quote from Akira Kurosawa: Man is a genius when he is dreaming!
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 time when we are asleep is the time when our brains are busily working away creating the new neural pathways that are essential to our memory, our ability to take on new learning, and our ability to form new judgments and evaluations.

What happens when we don’t get sufficient sleep?

With insufficient sleep, the brain struggles to be able to maintain the pace. Because it hasn’t had the necessary time to create as many neural pathways as are needed, as a result we suffer from poor attention span, and sluggish responsiveness. In addition to causing mood swings, there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that chronic lack of sleep may also affect our health by creating a tendency for us to become obese, to develop cardiovascular disease, and to make us more prone to becoming diabetic.

How much sleep do we need?

Best medical opinion suggests that the average person should spend one third of the 24 hour day cycle asleep; in other words, the optimum recommended sleep period is 8 hours minimum with some new school experts advocating 9 hours.

Modern lifestyles are not sleep friendly

The modern lifestyle is just not conducive to getting your full 8 hours of sleep. We all seem to work at 100 miles per hour, often working late into the evening. On top of that, we still insist on getting our socializing in as well, and all at the expense of sleep. We all believe that we can somehow get by with less sleep, often resulting in many of us trying to survive on 6 hours or less per adult.

Dozy America

Statistics show that up to 70 million American citizens could be affected by chronic sleep disorders, costing the country over $16 million in health reparation costs, and more than $50 million per year in terms of lost production.

A recent survey cited over a third of the population of America as suffering from severe tiredness at their place of work, resulting in under performance and the inability to do their jobs properly on several occasions during any month.

What are the cycles of sleep?

All in all, there are 5 distinct cycles in our sleep patterns: Non REM sleep, which consists of 4 different cycles, and REM sleep.

Stage 1 Non REM Sleep Light sleep that is easily interrupted, during which eye motion slows and your muscles begin to relax.

Stage 2 Non REM Sleep Eye motion ceases and brainwave pattern slows permeated occasionally by rapid bursts of activity.

Stage 3 Non REM Sleep Brainwave pattern slows further but still with occasional short bursts of activity.

Stage 4 Non REM Sleep Brainwave pattern now almost exclusively very slow.

Stages 3 and 4 are what we call deep sleep and it is during these phases when bed-wetting and sleepwalking take place. During these periods of your sleep cycle, you are very difficult to wake and it is now when the restorative process takes place that prepares you for the day ahead to feel well rested and full of energy.

Stage 5 REM Sleep REM sleep normally occurs approximately 60 to 90 minutes after first falling asleep. During REM sleep your eyes move rapid rapidly beneath closed eyelids (hence the name REM rapid eye movement), breathing is short and erratic, your heart beat and blood pressure increase and dreaming occurs. During this phase of sleep you arms and legs become paralyzed to prevent you enacting your dreams.

Once you have been through the complete sleep cycle, it then repeats in full for the duration of your sleep period. As time progresses, you spend less time in stages 3 and 4, until by the morning, most of your sleep is spent in stages 1, 2 and 5.

Why is REM sleep considered to be so important?

Research shows that during REM sleep, the areas of the brain that are associated with learning and memory are stimulated. When we dream during this time, it is thought that it may be as a result of our brains sifting, analyzing, and filing the day’s events. It is further believed that our brains may dip back into childhood memories as a reference point, which may explain why childhood recollections become mixed with new events in our seemingly random dream experiences.
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 throat chakra, for fifth chakra, is situated in the neck area. In this article we’ll take a look at its characteristics, the problems that can be caused by an unbalanced throat chakra, and a method that you can use to stimulate and rebalance it at home.

What Is The Throat Chakra?

The chakras are vortices of energy which play key role in maintaining the health and integrity of your mind-body system, as well as connecting you with greater energy of the universe. The throat chakra is also known by the Sanskrit name ‘vishuddha’, and is one of the seven primary chakras, which are located in a line stretching from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.

Fifth Chakra Characteristics

All of the chakras are associated with particular colours, energetic frequencies, areas of the body and other characteristics. The chakra at the throat is linked with the colour blue, and with the general qualities of self-expression, effective communication, and the reception of intuitive guidance. In terms of the physical body, this chakra is associated with the neck, mouth, hands, arms and the thyroid gland.

Throat chakra blockages may manifest as problems in these areas of the body, as well as communication problems with both others and/or your inner self.

Healing The Throat Chakra

If this chakra (or any chakra for that matter) becomes imbalanced, it’s important to sort it out, as one chakra that is out of whack can have a knock-on effect on the other chakras, as well as on your energy system as a whole.

One option for throat chakra healing is to visit an energy healer, who may be able to intuitively sense and stimulate the chakra back into optimal functioning. However, this isn’t a practical option for many people, and in any case it can be difficult to find a suitably experienced person who really knows what they’re doing.

Also, nobody else is going to be as in tune with your chakra and energy body as you are, so you may find it’s better to tune your throat chakra at home. Various chakra tuning techniques are available, such as using crystals and colour healing. However, probably the simplest method is to use a chakra balancing brainwave entrainment recording.

A good recording of this type contains sounds of specific frequencies which have been specially chosen to stimulate the chakra in question, and to bring it back into balance. You also don’t need to be an experienced meditator to use brainwave entrainment, as the recording itself will help to guide your brain into a deeply relaxed and focused state. This makes it easier for those of us with ‘monkey minds’ to reap the benefits of meditation without spending years training.

When using a meditation recording for your throat chakra, it would normally be beneficial to listen regularly until you get the results you are looking for, and then to revisit the recording periodically, to give your chakras a tune-up as needed.
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 throat chakra is known as the purification centre. This is the place where you receive and assimilate information and send information. It is associated with higher discrimination, creativity and self-expression.

The challenge of this chakra is in the ability to express yourself in the most truthful manner.

Brainwave entrainment is a neuro-technological tool that alters your dominant brainwave frequency, to a desired frequency that will open, balance and activate the throat chakra, by using sound pulses that are repetitive and rhythmic. The brain follows this stimulus and your state of consciousness changes, and along with it, distribution of the energy.

When the throat chakra is closed, you undergo death and decay. When it is open, negative experiences are transformed into wisdom and learning.

The success and failure in your life, depends upon the state of this chakra.

When Your Throat Chakra Is Balanced

· You are able to express your thoughts and emotions easily.

· You don’t over-think what you are going to say.

· You can get you point across.

· You find it easy to be honest about things.

· You are not embarrassed by the truth.

· You use empathy and compassion.

· People regard you as a leader.

· People tend to want to listen to you-or read your books, or hear you sing, or view your art.

· You don’t repress emotions because you are not afraid of emotions.

· Creativity flows naturally from you.

· You are a natural writer, artist, inventor or public speaker.

· You use your intellect to solve problems.

· People come to you for advice because you are a good listener and have a sound and logical mind.

· When balanced, you are faithful and can express yourself and your ideas, have good communication skills, will power and honesty

When Your Throat Chakra Is Imbalanced

· You talk too much.

· You feel the need to gossip, and tell lies to get attention.

· Your awareness is lowered,affecting all the other chakras.

· The negative energy you are sending out comes back and may injure your heart and solar plexus chakras.

· Or you may have low self-confidence and don’t speak your truth, express your emotions, or convey your ideas.

· You feel you don’t deserve expression.

· You have trouble vocalizing your thoughts.

· You may stutter.

· People misunderstand you because you fail to communicate effectively.

· You make things more complicated or intellectualize your emotions.

· You feel ostracized by society.

· People think you are strange because they are not able to understand who you really are.

The throat chakra is the centre of choice and consequence, of spiritual karma. Every choice that you make, every thought and feeling you have, is an act of power that has biological, environmental, social, personal, and global consequence.

You are everywhere you thoughts are and thus are responsible for their energy contribution.

The throat chakra is strengthened and enhanced each time you express yourself in truth and with integrity.

The fifth chakra is associated with communication, telepathy, and creative expression and on a physical level with the vocal cords and the thyroid gland.

This chakra is the communication center of your personality.

This is your voice center, your will center. Your inner truth is your sense of what is correct.

Brainwave entrainment will balance your throat chakra and exchange negative thoughts for positive ones, helping you express your thoughts and emotions with ease.
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.
audio visual entrainment | infrared waves
The Third Eye Chakra represents the re-connection of your conscious to the unconscious… your Divine source, symbolizing a state of enlightenment or the evocation of images that have a deep spiritual or psychological significance.

An open Third Eye Chakra enables you to see yourself and others as spiritual beings having an earth experience, creating your own reality by using your intuitional perspective, imagination and choice.

Opening this chakra extends your capabilities and internal powers to such an extent that there are no limitations. It awakens your subconscious mind where all the questions and answers lie.

Seeing through the Third Eye Chakra is one of the more difficult challenges because it is much easier to live in illusion that to face what is true.

Indications of a Blocked Third Eye Chakra

· Migraines, eye strain, nightmares, memory problems, blurry vision.

· Brain tumor, stroke, blindness, deafness, seizures, learning disabilities, spinal dysfunction, panic attacks, depression, anxiety, fear of the truth, confusion.

· Inability to evaluate something properly, judgment issues, lack of concentration or discipline, lack of being in touch with reality.

· Compulsive drive to achieve perfection, falling short, and then persecuting yourself with guild and feelings of being unworthy.

· Lack of self-discipline. Life empty and meaningless.

· Mental illness.

· Experiencing a great deal of mental stress from circumstances real and not real.

· Living too much in fantasy, inability to turn off telepathic or clairvoyant abilities leading to mental stress caused by an information overload.

· Can be seen in highly spiritual people or religious people.

· Too proud.

· Egomaniac.

· Authoritarian.

· Manipulative.

· Religiously dogmatic.

· Overpowering.

· Blindly participating in religious dogma or the opposite, complete lack of the spiritual.

· Feeling confused or the lack of the ability to understand what life is really all about.

· Inability to see patterns.

· Denial.

· Paranoia.

· Not assertive.

· Oversensitive to the feeling of others.

· Schizophrenic… unable to distinguish between ego and higher self.

· Intellectual rationalist.

· Draws information from rational, analytic sources… not incorporating emotional or spiritual aspects.

· Doesn’t have a holistic assessment of situation.

· Limited in scope because you can only trust conventional ideas.

· Narrow-minded and judgmental.

· Do not trust your feelings or insights.

Unblocking your Third Eye Chakra, using brainwave entrainment as the medium for greater efficiency in finding and locking onto the proper frequency, will give you the ability to separate reality from delusion, enabling you to go beyond thinking small and censored, by using your intuitive holistic reasoning.

The Third Eye Chakra is one of the most importance chakras, and once open and balanced, opens the door to your Crown Chakra, and the beginning of your spiritual awakening.
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.
brain music | meditation music download
The third eye – or brow – chakra is located in the forehead area between the eyes. In this article we’ll take a look at some of the main characteristics of this chakra, as well as what you can do if it should get out of balance.

What Is The Third Eye Chakra?

Chakras are vortices of energy which are located in the etheric or subtle body. The chakras play an important role in transmuting energy from the wider universe into a form that our minds and bodies can use, as well as keeping our personal energetic systems in balance. There are seven main chakras, of which the third eye is the sixth. In traditional Sanskrit terminology, it is also called ‘Ajna’ chakra.

Characteristics Of the Brow Chakra

Each chakra is linked with a particular colour, and in this case it is the colour indigo. The brow chakra is strongly associated with the intuition, and when it is in good balance, you will benefit from a clear flow of inner wisdom and insight. It is also linked with the health of the head area, including the eyes, ears and nose.

Keeping The Sixth Chakra In Balance

The chakras can become imbalanced as a result of various factors, including the stressful lifestyles that so many people lead nowadays. Such imbalances can manifest in a variety of ways, and in the case of the third eye chakra, you may experience symptoms such as problems with the head, eyes, ears etc, as well as a sense of confusion, mental preoccupation and learning problems.

As with the other chakras, the use of crystals can be beneficial in restoring balance. For the brow chakra, the use of blue colour gemstones such as sodalite or lapis lazuli may be helpful.

In addition, meditation is among the most powerful ways of rebalancing the sixth chakra, especially if you use a brainwave entrainment recording that is designed for the purpose. In case you’re not familiar with it, brainwave entrainment basically involves listening to sounds of specific frequencies, with the frequencies in question depending on what the recording is designed to achieve.

A brainwave recording that’s intended for chakra work should contain frequencies that are associated with the healthy functioning of the chakras in question. Via exposure to such a recording, the chakras can naturally realign with relatively little effort on your part. This is great for people who aren’t trained meditators, and who may find traditional guided meditation techniques difficult to stay focused on.
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.