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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Would you like to have an out of body experience? Some lucky people are born with the ability to leave their body with very little effort. For most of us however, this is a skill that must be learned, and the many astral projection techniques that are available can often seem overwhelming. Fortunately however, brainwave entrainment has helped many people to have out of body experiences relatively quickly and easily. In this article we’ll take a look at how it can help you too.
What Is Brainwave Entrainment?
Brainwave entrainment involves exposure to a repetitive stimulus such as waves of sound or light. Brainwave entrainment recordings such as binaural beats are the easiest method to use. When you listen to such a recording, you hear rapidly repeating sounds of specific frequencies. Thanks to the so-called ‘frequency following response’, the brain has a natural tendency to match (or entrain) its own brainwave output to the frequencies of the sounds it’s hearing.
This is useful, because different states of consciousness are associated with the production of brainwaves of different frequency ranges. To have an out of body experience, you need to be able to enter the theta brainwave state, in which the brain is predominantly producing waves of about 4 – 8 Hz in frequency.
It normally takes many months or even years of practice to learn to do this using traditional methods. However, by listening to a brainwave recording which incorporates sounds in this frequency range, your brain gets a ‘helping hand’, and it becomes much easier to enter the kind of trance state that’s necessary to successfully leave your body.
Using Brainwave Meditation For Having An Out Of Body Experience
If you decide to use this powerful technique for learning astral projection, you need to get a high quality recording that’s designed specifically for this purpose.
Using such recording is very easy, as you basically just need to lie down, listen to the recording through headphones, and put your attention on the sounds that you’re hearing, while allowing your mind and body to be guided into a state of deep relaxation.
Next, you need to commit to setting some time aside regularly – preferably every day – to listen to your recording in a quiet place. As with anything else, using brain wave entrainment meditation becomes easier and more effective with practice, so don’t be discouraged if you don’t have a successful out of body experience the very first time you listen, as most people don’t.
Such a recording can be used in conjunction with other astral projection techniques, such as visualisation. However, this isn’t strictly necessary, as a good recording can help to induce an out of body experience just by listening to it.
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.