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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When your pituitary gland releases lots of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) you can eat like a Shire horse, yet stay slim as a racehorse.
In the late 1980s a group of men in their 60s, 70s and 80s were given injections of growth hormone. The effects were like turning back the clock by 20 – 30 years. In addition, they lost an average of 14.6 pounds of fat, mostly from waistlines. They also gained an average 9.6 pounds of lean, healthy muscle that continually burns calories for energy 24 hours a day, contributing to a permanent weight loss. That permanent weight loss being all fat weight!
You release lots of HGH while you’re growing. But once you pass the age of around 20, although production continues, HGH release starts to decline. It continues downhill for the rest of your life.
The amount of food you could eat in your teens without gaining weight, is enough to make you overweight in your forties and beyond. Boost your HGH production and turn back the clock. Muscles and skin become more toned and firm. Fat melts away. Weight loss just happens.
If you search the Internet for HGH, you’ll find over 10 million websites promoting it. The ‘real McCoy’ is only available on prescription and is given by injection. And it’s too expensive for most folk.
Real HGH is extracted from the pituitary glands of corpses. Unlike organ transplants, this is commercial not clinical. You don’t know what the donors died from. CJD (Creuzfeldt-Jacob’s Disease – human version of mad cow disease), is a brain disease which can take 20 or more years to show symptoms.
Who knows whether or not donors were in the early stages of CJD? Since CJD is a brain disease and your pituitary gland is situated at the base of your brain, you may agree it pays to be cautious.
As to supplements that stimulate its production, some may prove effective, others cheap rip-offs. Can you tell which? Let the buyer beware!
Instead of making regular repeat purchases of supplements that may or may not be effective, there’s an alternative that you can produce yourself:
Healing Sounds
Although ‘Healing by Sound’ may seem ‘far out’ to you, Tibetans have used such a system for 2,500 years. No one would be crazy enough to continue using methods for that long if they didn’t work!
The Tibetans use ‘singing bowls’. These are handcrafted from a mix of different metals. A stick rubbed around the rim of the bowl, produces the sound. Much like rubbing your wet finger around the rim of a wine glass.
Western technology has developed a simpler alternative: a sound recording played through stereo earphones.
Your brain produces electrical energy. The frequencies of that energy, (which we’ll call brainwaves), depend on your brain’s activity. When you’re wide awake and thinking logically, your brainwave frequencies are in the ‘Beta Range’ around 12Hz to 16Hz (Hertz or cycles per second). In deep dreamless sleep they’re low in the Delta Range – 0.5Hz to 4Hz.
Research suggests that certain brainwave frequencies, may be beneficial for specific glands and organs of your body. The ‘Healing Sounds’ technology, also known as ‘Binaural Beats,’ can guide your brain into producing such frequencies.
You normally release growth hormone when you’re in deep dreamless Delta sleep, during the first couple of hours after falling asleep. Binaural Beats can quickly and easily guide your brainwaves down to these low frequencies.
When you hear a sound frequency in one ear, and a slightly different frequency in the other, your brain compensates for the difference. It does this by producing its own frequency, equal to the difference between the two sound frequencies. So if you hear 400Hz in one ear, and 410Hz in the other, your brain produces 10Hz.
By varying the sound frequencies, you can guide your brain into producing any brainwave frequency within its normal ranges. Including the 1Hz frequency that’s claimed to stimulate your pituitary gland into releasing more growth hormone and melatonin!
You can produce your own Binaural Beats through use of readily available software, aiding achievement of your permanent weight loss.
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.