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 fundamental reality of your existence are your experiences. And you travel in experiences as if you were traveling from place to place. The contents of your imagination are as real to you as the objects in your environment. You see the objects as representations in your consciousness as you see the objects of your imagination. And you respond to both of them similarly. The only difference between the imagined and the physical presentations of the reality are their parallel existence. The other is formed of atoms and molecules. The other’s substance is your own imagination. And even the image of the physical objects are translated from photons to brainwaves. Containing the knowledge given by your subconscious to them.
Like you get aesthetic experiences from that what you find beautiful, so you can experience thoughts, poetry, entire realities of imagination who are in their pure form represented in your dreams. Dreams are a reality created solely by your own mind, and yet it is as vivid form of experience as the physical parallel of it.
As you travel in the physical world from place to place, the experience that you receive in relativity with it defines the nature of your environment. When you feel blue, your reality is painted with misery although it is the same reality where you feel your happiness too. So, similarly with how idea that occupies your mind gives no room for the existence of another idea, so it is with your experience. And like a magician who performs a ritual, similarly by influencing the cause and effect that produce different circumstances to your life, you can travel in your experience.
You must leave all the moments you live behind. Your life is defined by continuation. It is the continuum of your being. And you can align that continuum of your own existence to trajectories that lead you from one ideal circumstance to another. If you let it. If you begin to use your thoughts, combined with actions to cause the emergence of the desired outcomes. The outcomes of your present desires coming into your reality.
Should you choose to fill a moment with fantasies, they are as real as their physical parallels. The mental images of others have no sentience. And you are the one who creates that what happens there. There are no limitations on how you can use your imagination to fulfill the moments that feel empty to you. And with your imagination and fantasies fabricating your moment, you define with the content of your experience the reality of your existence.
Your thoughts can open the gateways of your freedom. You are the designer of your life. You are the architect of your continual trajectories of the reality of your experience. Use them. Allow yourself to be free. And learn to use your mind to your own benefit so that your mortal existence will be a fulfilling one.
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.