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Brainwave Entrainment What is Hypnosis and How Does it Really Work?

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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You may have wondered what hypnosis is really all about. Many people have misperceptions of it and think that a hypnotist will make you cluck like a chicken–though I personally have never seen anyone do this. Some people think it means that someone is going to have control over them or that they’ll go into a stupor and won’t know what’s going on.

None of these is necessarily what happens. Hypnosis is a state of profound relaxation. Some people relax very deeply; some relax very lightly. Most people are right in the middle. Most people have full awareness and full control.

Hypnotists use hypnosis to relax others and to make suggestions to them. Hypnotherapists create an interaction in which they talk with people while they’re relaxed and find out valuable information about what’s going on inside and how problems can be resolved.

Here are some more characteristics of hypnosis:

Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness. While one is in hypnosis, or trance, the conscious mind becomes quiet, allowing access to the highly suggestible subconscious mind. Usually the mind is very busy, and it creates a barrier to getting in touch with the deep inner self. When the mind is quiet, it’s amazing what we can find inside. One misconception is that people who are hypnotized are unconscious. This is false. While in hypnosis, one maintains control and awareness, and in fact many people can become super-conscious during hypnosis. They become clearer and can contact more profound parts of themselves.
Research has shown electrical changes in the brain during hypnosis, where brain waves become slower than when one is in the normal waking state. Hypnosis is a state of deep relaxation with focused concentration in which relaxed brainwave states of alpha, theta, and delta can be reached. These brainwave states are progressively deeper and deeper (and that’s why hypnotists use those words!) The deep states of hypnosis are called the coma state and the somnambulistic state, but not everyone goes into these deeper levels.
We naturally go into hypnosis when we daydream or watch television without distraction. You may have heard of “highway hypnosis,” in which you’re driving on the freeway and either miss your exit or are surprised when the exit shows up. You’ve been in a kind of “open-eyed trance.”
Hypnotherapists use hypnosis as a tool to assist those who desire positive transformation in their lives. Hypnotherapists can help people to transform their greatest difficulties, such as anger, fear, sadness–any of the emotions and problems of living. They assist people to make contact with these experiences, whether past or present, and get in touch with a part of the self in which there is infinite potential. Some hypnotherapists use regression therapies, which go into past issues–and this may include past life regression, if this is congruent with one’s belief system. Others work with finding out inner blocks or limitations and help people to overcome them. Others work with pain or stress, childbirth or medical issues. The list of possibilities is vast.

You can use hypnosis for life transformation, spiritual growth and healing, helping you to overcome whatever may be your current obstacles and move you into a new level of your life.
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 Your ‘Inner Child’

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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You may have heard this term and thought it just another bit of ‘psycho-babble’; even though the term has been around for many years now.

Your Inner Child is the echo of the child you once were.

We all have our own history and we were all influenced by our environment, events and the significant people around us.

Up to the age of 6 years our brain was functioning at a relatively slow pace – Theta brainwave frequency – which is a very ‘receptive’ brainwave state; and we would have been profoundly affected by our experiences. We will have made ‘decisions’ at a sub-conscious level, about how we ‘should’ be and what we ‘should’ do in order to be seen as OK, and to be allowed to stay around and ‘survive’ in our family.

Our later experiences will have reinforced these beliefs and formed our ‘Script’ for how our life ‘should’ be. We carry these immature scripts and decisions with us into adulthood – when they run our life more than 90% of the time. It makes sense then that we revisit the child we once were and find out what our script says about our life. Not doing so will result in our playing out of our script drama over and over again. We cannot change the script by talking about it, or by conscious effort alone. It was designed to keep us safe – albeit in ways that now hinder us – and so it isn’t given up that easily!

We have all been influenced since the time we were in our mother’s womb. The sounds, the levels of stress or love, hormones, the nourishment or lack of it, complications, twin-pregnancy, drugs, alcohol, infections; will all have played their part in how safe we felt even before we were born.

Then the actual birth experience, and our early infant care and the ’emotional availability’ of our mother will have reinforced or soothed those earlier influences. As a small child we will have been absorbing a great deal from our extended family, our caregiver(s), friends, pre-school and early school years, and religious institutions. We may not have had words for these experiences but they will have been ‘logged’ in our sub-conscious mind and body.

This creates the pool in which we float, or sink. Inevitably the water will be dirty and murky – or maybe even like thick mud. In this pool resides our self-esteem, body-image, family trauma, shame and secrets (even if not spoken about – as they all affect the quality of care our caregivers are able to show to us.)

We will sink down into this pool, or mud, when we are overwhelmed by our thoughts and emotions; our self-doubt or self-loathing.

In therapy an aim should be to sensitively lift out this mud bit by bit, until we are left with just a stain. We must also learn how not to ‘top-it-up’ with more mud – either ourselves, or by being around other people who want to dump some of their own ‘mud’ onto us instead of dealing with it themselves.

Signs that your Inner Child is wounded will be shown in low self-esteem, poor body-image, mood and emotional imbalances, problems with boundaries being too rigid or too weak, problems with eating, harming yourself, psycho-sexual difficulties, being ‘false’ and wearing ‘masks’, identity problems, a rebel, a hoarder, a super-achiever, intimacy problems, commitment problems, a general lack of trust, criminal behaviour, excessive lying, being ‘overly-responsible’ for others, being fiercely competitive and a poor looser, dependencies and addictions, lack of friends, obsessive and needy behaviour, fear of authority figures, being manipulative, being passive, being aggressive or a bully.

That’s a long – and sadly not exhaustive list. It is the stuff that brings people into psychotherapy. To repair and heal the wounds caused by parents, and others, who didn’t know any better.

It is always about the unmet needs of the Inner Child!

We can learn how to meet, rescue and ‘adopt’ this wounded child who still lives deep inside us all.

After all, you are the only person who will never leave you!

We can revise our sub-conscious belief system and write a new and improved script for the rest of our life-drama. We can separate out the overly-emotional Inner Child and allow the Competent Adult to ‘attend to business’ out in the real world; whilst we keep in touch with what our Inner Child really needs from us in order to grow up differently, to be truly cared for by someone who wants the very best for them – you!

It may mean you having ‘treats’ that you would never have allowed yourself in the past, but the Adult-you will be able to set fair and sensible boundaries around this now. Rescuing and re-parenting your Inner Child will allow you to ‘fill in the gaps’ and enable you to live a more ‘complete’ and positive life with fun laughter and most importantly with love.
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 4 Simple Steps to Meditate Easily

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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You may have heard that to master your life, you must first master your inner state. Life happens from the inside out. Where you are coming from on the inside-your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and physical state-is the strongest determining factor in what happens around you and in how you experience and interpret whatever happens. Because of that, many people have turned to meditation as a way to shift into a more relaxed, positive, clear, and focused inner state.

In this article, we’ll explore four simple steps that can help you discover the peace within. Meditation is a way to practice using these four steps. As you master these steps in your meditation practice, you can also use them at any moment in your life to bring you out of stress mode in relaxed clarity. No matter which style of meditation you practice, you can use these four cues to meditate more easily and effectively.

1. Relax and Align Your Posture: Meditation begins with active relaxation. Active relaxation means that you put your attention inside your body and use your mind to release muscular tension. Maintaining a relaxed upright posture is an important key to actively releasing tension.

When you sit to meditate, notice and adjust your posture from your feet upward. Sit on the front edge of a chair, couch, or bed with your feet flat on the floor and parallel to each other. An ideal seat height is one in which your hips are level with or slightly above your knees.

Rest your hands palms down on your thighs. Drop your shoulders and soften your hands to release any tension in your arms. Imagine a string attached to the top of your head gently drawing your spine upright. Tuck your chin slightly lengthening the back of your neck. Close your lips lightly and place the tip of your tongue up to the roof of your mouth to relax your jaw.

Sitting upright like this is not mandatory, but it can be helpful. If you are unable to sit without back support, you can sit with your back against the back of a chair or in any comfortable position, even lying down. The bottom line is to actively relax yourself by becoming aware of your posture and making adjustments to release tension.

2. Feel your Inner Body: Adjusting your posture puts you in touch with what is happening in your body. The next step is to feel inside your skin, to feel your inner space. Notice what is happening inside your body without reacting to it-just become aware of it. Observe your thoughts, feelings, and, most importantly, the sensations in your body. Witness these without reacting to them, criticizing them, or trying to change them. Just make note of what is going on. Scan your body to find any areas of tension or pain and settle your attention there-again just observing and relaxing.

Inner body sensing is the gateway to self-knowledge, self-mastery, and discerning inner guidance.

3. Breathe Consciously: One of the best ways to begin to feel inside your body is to become aware of your breathing. Imagine and feel as if your inhalation begins in your lower abdomen and expands upward into your upper abdomen and chest all the way up to your collarbones. As you exhale, imagine and feel that whole space emptying from top to bottom. Allow your breathing to slow down and settle into a deep rhythm. Slow, deep, rhythmic breathing will balance your emotions and regulate your heart-rate and brainwaves so that your body comes into calm coherence.

If you notice any areas of tension in your body, you can imagine breathing into those areas to release pain or tightness. As you inhale, imagine gently filling the area of pain or tension with your breath. Imagine your breath easily expanding into that space. As you exhale, imagine that same space emptying out.

4. Smile Inside: To assist you in releasing inner tension and shifting into a positive state, practice inner smiling. Put a subtle smile on your lips. Feel appreciation and gratitude for the opportunity to relax and feel positive in this moment. Smile with nurturing acceptance of whatever is happening inside. Imagine that every cell is smiling.

Inner smiling instantly shifts your body and brain chemistry and makes you feel positive and function optimally. This creates a positive cellular environment and grooves positive neural pathways in your body and brain. Inner smiling embodies an accepting, non-judgmental attitude toward yourself and others. It opens your heart and enables you to embrace what is good in your life.

For ease of memory, let’s shorten these four steps to:

Relax, Feel, Breathe, and Smile.

Practice this a little everyday and watch your inner state shift and your life come into balance. No matter what you want to do, you’ll do it better with a relaxed body, an open heart, and a clear and focused mind. This sets the stage for a healthier, happier, more abundant, loving, and purposeful life-a life that flows effortlessly from inner guidance. Enjoy your practice!
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 How Does Neurofeedback Therapy Work?

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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You may have heard of biofeedback for the brain, or neurofeedback, which has recently been featured on many television news programs and in popular magazines. All of this attention is for a very good reason. Research has found that neurofeedback therapy can actually change the way the human brain functions, and many case studies have shown that it can ease or sometimes eliminate problems like chronic pain and attention deficit disorder.

Neurofeedback works on the principle that people like to be rewarded. If you’re a parent, you know pretty well how this works. Rewarding your children when they do things right is usually more effective than punishing them when they do wrong. The more often you praise and reward your child for doing what you want, the more likely he or she will continue to do so.

What neurofeedback does is give your brain good feedback and positive encouragement when it falls into certain desirable patterns. This works using an EEG machine that translates your brain activity to a computer screen. Your therapist will attach thin leads to your scalp – you may have seen this done on television shows – and these leads will transmit the signals that come from your brain.

Using these signals, or brainwaves, you will learn to control a visual display on the screen. For instance, there might be a game that looks like ‘Pac-man’ or a space shuttle game. Your goal is to get through the maze or make the shuttle fly, and you do this by getting your brain to use certain wavelengths. Because your brain experiences this activity as positive feedback, it may continue to use those same desirable patterns.

The patterns that your brain uses to play these games are the same ones it will need to use on a regular basis to try to break free from any disorder related to brain function. Initially, the patterns will only occur during your actual therapy sessions, but later on, you’ll notice that they may start to happen outside of therapy. Sometimes people notice a noticeable difference after just ten sessions.

As with anything else, practice makes perfect, and the more your brain pushes itself into positive patterns, the more they will become habitual. Most conditions will require at least fifteen or twenty neurofeedback sessions to get your brain on the right track for the long haul, but some disorders, such as epilepsy, for example, may take eighty or more sessions. Neurofeedback sessions are not painful or nerve-wracking, and they can actually be quite calming and enjoyable.

Once these new patterns become more of a part of how your brain works, you will no longer need therapy unless your symptoms become worse again. However, some people who undergo neurofeedback therapy experience long lasting relief from their symptoms because neurofeedback actually addresses the underlying cause of the symptoms where they actually originate – in the 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 Do Binaural Beats Work Better Than Isochronic Tones For Brainwave Therapy?

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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You may have heard of a technology called brainwave therapy or brain entrainment, which uses pulses of sound to improve and optimize your brain chemistry. This technology has been scientifically proven in numerous studies to alter the brain’s natural function. For a long time, the main form of this technology was a method called binaural beats.

The idea behind binaural beats is simple: play two very similar tones, one into each ear, and the brain will sync up to the difference between the tones. For example, if one ear hears 500 Hz and the other ear hears 510 Hz, the listeners brainwaves will move towards 10 Hz ( this would put the brainwaves into whats called the Alpha state, a relaxed or sleepy state good for relaxation or self-hypnosis).

Recently, a new method called isochronic tones has hit the brainwave therapy scene. Isochronic tones involve a single manually spaced tone, which is turned on and off in a precise pattern to get results. This raises the question: Which works better, binaural beats or isochronic tones? The short answer: Isochronic tones.

There are several reasons for this:

-Binaural beats have much shallower waveforms than Isochronic Tones. This means that they don’t penetrate as far into the brain or have the same desired level of effect on behaviour as do Isochronic Tones.

In fact, in one study, binaural beats did not manage to beat the control (which was recorded surf sounds) at changing brain function. Due to the fact that Binaural technology requires the use of both ears, binaural beats cannot work on both hemispheres of the brain at one time. This is a disadvantage when dealing with certain types of conditions, where successful clinical results have been gained from working on both hemispheres at the same time.

Isochronic tones, on the other hand, work on the individual ears, and can affect both hemispheres of the brain at one time. Also, whereas Binaural beats require the use of headphones and/or special speakers, Isochronic tones do not. You can pop an Isochronic CD into a player, hit play, and gain the desired effects. This is an advantage for those who don’t own or prefer not to use headphones.
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 Binaural Beats for Better Sleep?

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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You may have heard about a technology called binaural beats, and perhaps even heard how this technology can help you sleep better. This is very important information if you suffer from fatigue due to insomnia or other sleep disorders, so please read this carefully. For those who may not know, binaural beats are part of a technology called Brain Entrainment.

Brain entrainment technology has been used to great effect in numerous clinical studies for all sorts of conditions, one of which is sleep disorders. The way this technology works is by using pulses of sound to change the frequencies in your brain. How does this help you sleep? Keep reading to find out. First, you have to understand that many sleep disorders (including several types that are not adequately treated with drugs) stem from problems in the brain. When you fall asleep, the frequency of the electricity in your brain goes from Beta (this frequency is normal in waking consciousness) to Alpha (that groggy pre-sleep state) to Theta (restful sleep) to Delta (deep, dreamless sleep). If this process gets interrupted by something like stress, stimulants, over-thinking before going to bed, etc., your brainwaves will be dominated by Beta or Alpha waves and you will be unable to sleep.

The way brain entrainment works to correct this, is by using pulses of sound to guide you gently out of the higher brain frequencies and into the deep, restful lower frequencies. Not only that, but this technology can even reduce your need for sleep (one clinical study showed that stimulating theta brainwaves for half an hour reduces your sleep needs by four hours). The most commonly known method of brain entrainment is called binaural beats, and works by using two slightly-different tones (one in each ear) to change your brain frequency. However, binaural beats are NOT as effective as another form of brain entrainment called isochronic tones.

Isochronic tones work by using one tone that modulates, the effects of which penetrate deeper into your brain. Plus, you do not need headphones for isochronic tones, which is a bonus when you are trying to get to sleep. This technology is quite amazing, as it not only guides you into a deep, relaxed sleep without the need for drugs or other artificial methods, but it can also be used for simple relaxation or to help you wake up feeling completely refreshed. That would indeed be a nice change for those who have not had a good night’s sleep in years.
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 The Gamma Brainwave and Manifestation in the Law of Attraction

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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You may have come across various experts and exponents of The Law of Attraction discussing the links between the Gamma brainwave and manifestation. Or, more accurately, the link between the Gamma brainwave and successful manifestation.

So, what are Gamma brainwaves and what is its connection to manifestation and The Law of Attraction?

Gamma brainwaves are the fastest of all the brainwave frequencies (certainly of those that have been successfully and comprehensively studied). Gamma brainwaves typically ranges from anywhere between 28 and more than 80 cps (cycle per second), with each of these cycles comprising an ‘on’ state (a peak) and an ‘off’ state (a trough).

Gamma brainwaves are generally only found to be active in the minds of people undergoing extreme mental stress or other mental activity. It is also prevalent in those who have achieved an unusually deep meditative state. A recent study of Buddhist monks in Tibet recorded Gamma brainwave activity in the region of 40 cycles per second, coinciding with their meditative activities, particularly when they had reached a higher state of clarity and insightfulness.

Given that manifestation calls for clarity of mind and focus, it need hardly be said that the ability to achieve these higher Gamma brainwave states would undoubtedly be of considerable benefit. In fact, there are those who believe that successful manifestation (as defined by The Law of Attraction) is virtually impossible for those who aren’t capable of achieving these higher states.

This explains the recent explosion of interest amongst Law of Attraction devotees in binaural beats, monaural beats, isochronic tones and other brain entrainment systems to stimulate the brain into adopting a particular frequency.

The link between the gamma brainwave and manifestation is likely to become more pronounced as time goes by.
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 How Does Brainwave Entrainment Help Increase Brain Power?

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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You may be wondering how the brainwave entrainment is used to increase brain power. This is a tried and effective method that has been found out to improve the way you think greatly. This is through the ability to find you without external help or influence. This is a way to achieving a state of personal development. However, not many people know what it is or how it works.

This is a discovery which uses a technology which is able to change the frequency of the brain. This is the use of the Alpha Brain Waves. These are the positive aspects of waves produced by the brains which help the body achieve a state of rest and relaxation and increase brain power. This is through the alteration of your brain wave frequency which is achieves excellent mind power using the help of sound and light pulses.

This has been discovered to help people relax since it achieves you to make alterations to your general actions as well as moods. Gaining control of your body thoughts is the best thing you can do since you have an easier chance of escaping the stressful spasms which could cause you unbearable diseases. It creates a positive vibe within you which will go on to ensure you achieve your goals. The use of brainwave entrainment often allows you to increase brain power; therefore you need an understanding of how it works.

The human brain produces around five different wave frequencies. For each of them, they affect the human mind state in one way or the other. To begin with there are the Beta waves which are usually mostly present in the normal circumstances such as consciousness. They are the brainwaves associated with stress since they are faster. The other is the alpha brain waves. This is usually a state where you are in deep relaxation. This is the time when you will be able to increase brain power. This is what is used during meditation or light siesta.

The other kinds of brain waves include the Theta waves which are close but deeper than the Alpha and are used during meditation. Another kind of brainwave is the Delta brainwaves. They are usually manifested during a state of deep sleep and in some cases a deeper state of meditation.

Your thoughts are most affected by these kinds of frequencies. This is through the thoughts, emotions and actions. You need to have an alteration of the frequency levels to attain a state of relaxation. This is achievable through the use of the alpha brain waves. These will provide you with the positivity you need to increase brain power.

This is where brainwave entrainment comes into play to increase brain power. This is the use of sound pulses like the binaural beats. Experts also use Isochronic kind of tones to achieve this state. They provide some kind of tuning to the brain. By the use of a sound frequency, the binaural beats are produced through the use of headphones. The secret here is to have each side of the earphones produce a different frequency. With one of a higher frequency and the other a bit more lower, the brain takes in both of them and determines the difference. With this difference, the brain will utilize the difference and ignore the rest of it. This is how you increase brain power.
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 Make Your Meditation Techniques Easier With a Binaural Beats Download

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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You may be aware that meditation has a broad range of health and emotional benefits benefits and would like to try it. However, upon research you discover there are a lot of meditation techniques, but to learn them you have to attend instructional classes. Not only that, they all have to be practiced if you are really going to get any benefits. This process cannot be totally skipped but it can be made shorter and easier with binaural meditation.

The objective of all meditation methods is to get your body and mind into a totally relaxed state..

Each day when you start your tasks your brainwaves will be in the high frequency state of beta. This is the dominant range most of the time during the day. Beta is the frequency range of high mental awareness, task execution, and management.

When you are meditating, you bring brainwave frequencies slower in the lower ranges of alpha and theta ranges. These are the states of relaxation of the mind and body. This is also the entrance to the subconscious mind which can now be accessed to install positive thoughts and attitudes.

If you are trying to meditate with the one of the popular meditation techniques, you have to learn how to maintain a significant degree of mind control. You have to do this in order to achieve a high level of focus, concentration, and ability to relax so that you can reach the lower brainwave frequencies. This is where you have to practice a lot to be able to do this.

When your are trying to meditate, there is a battle between your attempt at mind control and the intrusion of thoughts about daily trials and tribulations. This is known as “mind chatter” and it is constantly trying to dominate your thoughts. It is possible to win this battle but you can make it easier by using a meditation technique with binaural meditation.

A binaural beats download can actually help in getting the brainwave frequencies to slow down. It helps with the meditation process. All that is necessary is to find a quiet and relaxing environment and settle down with your stereo headphones. The technology of the binaural beats downloads can then take over.

If you adopt a consistent and daily schedule of meditation basis, you will be able to realize a broad range of benefits. Everybody has the capacity to meditate and get effective results and it isn’t required to attend classes. Binaural meditation can be easy to learn, will have immediate benefits, is accessible on the internet, and is inexpensive.
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 What Are The Benefits Of Using Brainwave Entrainment?

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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You may be aware that it is scientifically proven that using certain brainwave entrainment products will provide you both mental and physical relaxation, in addition to improving your overall physical and mental well being.

What are the benefits of using brainwave entrainment?

Consider just a small sampling of what this technology can do for you. Using specifically designed brainwave entrainment CDs will achieve the following:

-Relax you and help relieve stress

-Relieve muscle tension and stiffness

-Alleviate discomfort during pregnancy

-Allow quicker healing of sprained ligaments and strained muscles

-Reduce swelling and pain

-Decrease the formation of excessive scar tissue

-Decrease the amount of muscle spasms

-Provide greater range of motion and joint flexibility

-Enhance athletic performance

-Treat injuries caused during work or sports

-Promote deeper, easier and more efficient breathing

-Improve blood circulation

-Lower blood pressure

-Help relieve tension-related headaches and effects of eye-strain

-Enhance the health and nourishment of skin

-Strengthen the immune system

-Improve posture

-Help to lose weight.

Additionally, specifically targeted and focused brainwave entrainment CDs and programs will also aid in the following:

Enhance mental wellness

Increase peace of mind

Promote a relaxed state of mental alertness

Relieve mental stress

Improve the ability to monitor stress signals and respond appropriately

Enhance the capacity for calm thinking and creativity

Satisfy caring and nurturing requirements

Promote a feeling of overall well-being

Reduce anxiety levels

Create an increase in body awareness

Increase awareness of the mind-body connection.

As you can see from the above lists, there is not a lot that properly designed brainwave entrainment CDs cannot help you with.

Listening to specific BE CDs for as little as 10 minutes, can induce the ideal type of mental state that makes your mind receptive to lasting and profound changes in your behaviour. Actions such as meditation, creativity, problem solving, and other behavioral modifications become virtually automatic when practiced as directed. Over time, you will be able to achieve a state of natural physical and mental relaxation, almost instantly.

This hyper-relaxed state will make it possible for your subconscious mind to readily accept and act on the carefully targeted suggestions, applying them to your daily life. Specially created brainwave entrainment frequencies are embedded on the CDs and slow down your brainwaves to create lasting positive results. In this manner, virtually any problem can be resolved, and any change in behaviour can be effectively achieved.
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.