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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We don’t take baths enough nowadays.
We’ve turned into such a busy culture that a five-minute shower might be all that we can squeeze in to our crazy, manic day. We wash the stinky parts, and we’re out of there. It’s all about the business of hygiene, and not much more. Taking a shower is goal oriented and not necessarily all that pleasurable.
And when we do op out for a shower, we are missing out on something that could bring us great pleasure.
The wonderful, soothing, relaxing experience of a bath.
Listening to Isochronic Tones, a form of brainwave entrainment that alters the frequency of your brainwaves with a single beat, will take the already awesome experience of bathing, to another level. The brain naturally mimics any repeated, rhythmic pattern and soon alters its state of consciousness to match those pulses. Isochronic tones introduce a specific pulse to the brain that encourages a whole brain experience.
The Virtues Of Taking A Bath
A bath relaxes your entire body. Every little ache and pain is enveloped in a warm, amniotic-like fluid that soothes them away. You lie back and let go.
You get to reflect on your own naked body. It’s really not that bad, is it? You have your good parts. Lit candles around the bathtub will give your body a nice, soft glow.
The warm water, especially if you use bubbles, massages your skin, leaving you feeling like you’ve been touched all over. We don’t get touched very much in our busy day. The bath resurrects this sense and you feel like you’re being hugged. Baths are particularly good if you’ve got no one to hug you.
If you add oils and perfumes, you activate another sense that gets ignored, the sense of smell. Many different aromas can change your brainwaves into a meditative and relaxed state.
When the water starts to cool, you turn on the tap, and the sound of the water falling into the soapy tub water, is deep and rhythmic, and again, triggers your relaxation response.
You can read, watch t.v., or even have a conversation, on the phone or in person, if you’re up for it. Heck, you can even text somebody if you’re so inclined.
And something you can’t do while taking a shower is drink wine, or eat chocolate (well, I guess you can eat chocolate in the shower, but it isn’t the same). You certainly can imbibe while you’re luxuriating in a bath.
Taking a bath is an event. Taking a shower is a chore.
Bathing incorporates all five senses, and maybe a sixth when you add Isochronic Tones to the mix.
How Using Isochronic Tones Enhances Taking Bath
You don’t need headphones, so you can play the recording as background music.
Because isochronic tones encourage the firing of both hemispheres of the brain, experiencing all the sensations in the bath will feel even more 3-D.
Your senses will run at a much higher, sensitive level.
The water will feel silkier, warmer…more soothing.
The smell of the bath oil will envelop your entire being, not just your olfactory system.
The sound of water running into the tub will sound like a rushing waterfall falling into a deep canyon. You’ll feel like you’re in some exotic location.
The candle light reflected in the bubbles will hypnotize you and transport you to another dimension.
And the taste of the wine, well, that’ll be an experience all on its own.
Taking a bath while listening to isochronic tones will either relax your mind, body and soul, or have the opposite effect of invigorating you.
It’s all about what you intend for your experience. Isochronic tones will take that intention, and magnify it.
You just might never take another shower again…except to wash the stinky parts.
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.