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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Technological advances do not always come with a boon. The mobile sector is undoubtedly doing a brisk business globally but is not free from health hazards. The recent report from University of California, Los Angles (UCLA) and Aarhus, Denmark shows that pregnant mothers who use excessive mobile phones are more likely to deliver a child with behavioral and emotional problems.
These mobile phones radiate harmful signals which may result in major public health implications. In a survey conducted by the same university on more than 13,000 children, it is found that using mobile phones even two or three times daily was sufficient to increase the risk of their babies developing hyperactivity and difficulties with conduct, emotions and relationships.
Not only that the health issues are even greater if the child themselves uses the mobile phones before the age of seven. The Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection maintains that “the peril mobile pose is not lower than the risk to children’s health from tobacco or alcohol”. These findings are in line with warning against both pregnant women and child. According to another study at the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research confirmed that mobile phones cause a change in brain function by altering brainwaves known as alpha waves.
Associate Professor Rodney Croft from the centre said, “Although there’s a tiny effect on healthy young adults, there is a possibility that it could be much stronger in children or the newborn,” Professor Rodney Croft said.
The harmful radiations from the mobile phones are directed towards the head of the user and get penetrated into the body tissues and tend to absorbed by them, causing disturbance in the body metabolism. If you use mobile for long hours then your head may feel warm resulting in headache or nausea. In case of newborn or young child with thinner skin and soft bone, the damage is potentially high.
The prevention to this problem is off course lesser use of cell phones during pregnancy and otherwise too. Let’s use the technology for growth of mankind but by no means – decline.
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.