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Brainwave Entrainment Train 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.
isochronic beats | brain wave activity
Your brain cells called neurons are talking to each other. They do this in the form of electrical energy. Science has shown that we can monitor this electrical energy with a device call an EEG machine. Using this EEG machine you can measure the energy which shows up looking like a wave called our brainwaves.

We have four main brainwaves called, beta, alpha, theta and delta. If you are considered to be wide awake then you are in the beta state. If you are awake but are feeling relaxed then you are in the alpha state. If you are feeling sleepy, like when your eyes start to get droopy then you are in the theta state and if you fall asleep you are in the delta state.

By using a sound machine which can produce monaural and binaural beats, you can learn to train your brain to go from one state to another. There is also a light machine that can stimulate your brainwave through the eyes. Many people use a device that will produce the desired binaural beat along with a synchronized light show to go into different brainwave states. It is important to note the you would want to go from one state to the next gradually. You would not want to go from say the beta state directly to the delta state as that is to much of a change and your brain will most likely fight against it causing poor results. It is possible to hold yourself on the threshold of say beta/alpha or alpha/theta creating unique experiences for the user. Some have reported out-of-body experiences or lucid dreaming. Everyone is different and it has a cumulative effect.

This type of brainwave entrainment can be used by athletes to visualize themselves improving in a sport. Or they can be used to break an addiction like smoking, simply by introducing a subliminal message to enter the subconscious mind while you are in a relaxed state. By using a little creativity the uses for such a device are unlimited.
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 Brainwave Entrainment: Is Anxiety Making You Vomit?

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.
relaxing meditation music | sleep meditation free
Your boss yelled at you today. Now you can’t get home fast enough because you feel a massive pressure developing in your stomach and you think you’re going to vomit.

Did your boss make you sick to your stomach? No, he’s just the stressor.

How you reacted to your boss’s bad behaviour, the anxiety of the situation, is what is making you ill.

Brainwave entrainment is a tool that you can use to change how you react to the stressors in your life. You can’t change difficult people, situations or events, but you can change how you react to them. You can’t avoid stress. It will always be there, but you can minimize stressful situations and cope more efficiently. Doing this will stop a whole host of ailments, both mental and physical. Changing how you respond to life events, using entrainment sound tracks, will liberate you and enhance your well-being.

Anxiety is caused by what your mind believes is an abnormal demand placed upon your ability to adjust. It’s strongest force is fear presenting itself in your thoughts and actions. Anxiety leads you to believe that you cannot trust yourself to cope with is presented to you. Physically, anxiety is the misfiring of your body’s natural fight or flight response. If this response is activated, whether it is warranted or not, your mind makes sure that your body reacts in fear-that’s the way it protects itself. It releases chemicals that become toxic when they are not utilized-as in running for example. As time goes on, if something isn’t done to stop the response, those toxins build up in the brain and body.

Stress and anxiety can have a tremendous impact on your health and one of the most common symptoms is feeling ill.

Why Does Anxiety Make You Want To Vomit?

Scientists believe feelings of nausea and abdominal disturbance are the result of imbalances in serotonin and adrenaline production. Serotonin calms you down while adrenaline slaps you to attention. Everything is in overdrive and all over the place. You process a stressor as dangerous and send messages to your mind that you are afraid. Fear sends a message to your gut that you should be frightened. Your gut then sends messages of nausea back to your mind confirming that you are frightened. Then you throw up… or want to.

Anxiety throws off your digestion because when you are being threatened, digestion is one of the first things put on the back burner. When you are in stress mode, survivor mode, things like reproduction, aging, and digestion get shut down.

The signals to your brain are not malfunctioning. It’s not your brain. It’s just following orders.

The anxiety is formed from your thoughts. Your thoughts are causing the disruption in your body’s balance and causing you to want to pray to the porcelain god.

Brainwave entrainment can give you the tools you need to change how you react to those stressors that creep into your life. What you believe about life and the things that happen to you-even the boss yelling at you-and what you tell yourself about these things, dictate whether or not your experience anxiety.

You can change what you tell yourself, with 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.

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 Transmuting Office Annoyances

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.
meditation music waves | brain wave monitor
Your boss won’t make a decision. Again. The cell phone in the cubicle next to you plays “Sweet Home Alabama” on its ringtone much too loudly, and you can barely move your fingertips because the air conditioning system makes it feel like an artic freeze even though the sun shines brightly outside. At least you think the sun shines brightly – you haven’t seen it since the morning, because you sit in an aisle of cubicles away from the windows. Those with window seats pull the shades down.

Irritability. It angers, fatigues, and frustrates. Chinese Medicine teachings explain that irritability can affect the liver and result in menstrual pain, headaches, redness of the face and eyes, and dizziness.

We’ve all experienced how day-to-day office annoyances can directly deplete energy levels, compromise job satisfaction, and gradually niggle away at physical, emotional, and mental well-being. A recent survey among workers in the U.K. states that one in three workers consider leaving their jobs because of the irritating habits of their colleagues.

Regardless of where you live, as humans the habits and behaviors of other humans often cause serious irritability. And, face it: chances are some of your habits irritate others.

It can be counter-productive (and sometimes impossible) to change another’s habit. Change one person’s irritating habit and someone else’s pops up and reeks like the afternoon stench of burnt popcorn lingering in the office microwave. The co-worker with the Sweet Home Alabama ringtone intends no harm. Ask her to change, and before you know it, the person in the cubicle in the next aisle will start cussing irascibly at his computer.

You can choose to grin and bear it, seething in a stew of resentment and petulance each day, wondering why you have another migraine. You can also choose to take care of yourself, regardless of what the environment throws at you. Tools and techniques, such as biofeedback, conscious breathing, and meditation, can help you find peace inside when common annoyances on the outside are about to make you snap.

Biofeedback technology monitors and measures physiological responses to stresses, providing a profound effect on overall wellness. Today, biofeedback technology is readily available with computer programs equipped with biofeedback sensors. The sensors provide feedback while monitoring your physiological and emotional responses to meditation and breathing exercises driven by the software.

Meditation and breathwork help you tune in to you and tune out annoying distractions. Buddhist teacher Sakyong Mipham explains that “Meditation doesn’t take us to the end of the rainbow – it opens the possibility of completely embodying our enlightened qualities by making our mind an ally.”

The act of connecting to your breath is a common meditation practice used to calm the mind. Try it for yourself. Sit quietly for a moment. Begin to notice your current breathing pattern. Sure, the first few inhalations might give you a nice whiff of the burnt popcorn in the office microwave, but continue anyway. Then, begin to inhale deeply for a count of five and exhale completely to a count of five. Repeat this pattern for a few minutes and then let it go. As you increase awareness and deepen your breathing pattern, you begin to alter your brainwaves, lower your blood pressure, and slow your heart rate.

As you balance your energy and feel more positive, you become contagious. Studies show that positive energy states not only benefit your overall wellness and attitude, you also become a dose of positive energy emanating like a sine wave from your cubicle, affecting the well-being of those around you. The guy no longer cussing at his computer will never know what hit him.
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 Healthy Eating For Improved Memory

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.
binaural beats frequencies | japa meditation
Your body is not the only thing that requires proper nutrients to perform well. When you do not eat right, your brain is not going to respond correctly, very much like your body. People are more likely to choose a healthy diet for their pet or choose the best additives for their car than they will for themselves.

The brain depends on the same nutrients the rest of your body does and if you are subsisting on an unhealthy diet, your body and brain will both slow down. This is generally a slow process; in fact, many do not notice the change until they are elderly and then the blame goes to your age.

Memory fades as the brain ages and loses the ability to help itself. Oxidation and inflammation, which kill the brain cells, are more able to attack. When you want a productive and healthy life, you must tune your mind and body so they are both running at peak functionality.

To start you need to get plenty of rest, approximately seven hours per night as well as monitor your blood pressure and get a moderate amount of exercise. Of course, if you smoke stop! Implement a diet that is rich in body and mind enhancing nutrients. You can take supplements, however the best option is to get your vitamins and minerals from natural foods. The results are better and last longer.

Plants can teach us a valuable lesson; they produce antioxidants in order to protect themselves from pollution, disease and harmful toxins in the environment. Foods you ingest should include the same, things rich in antioxidants such as apples, plums, grapes, oranges. Cranberries and blueberries are particularly high in antioxidants, they are great for memory.

If you want vegetables high in antioxidants, you should choose leafy green foods such as broccoli, spinach, brussel sprouts and kale. You will also find red bell peppers, beets, garlic and onions a great choice. Others that are good but not quite as high as these are turnip greens, chard and collard greens.

The body also needs Omega 3 fatty acids, which you find in tuna, herring, salmon, sardines and mackerel. Vitamin B is another important supplement, which is found in seafood, dairy products, spinach, carrots, eggs, seeds and nuts.

There are spices, which are great at protecting your memory and keeping you healthy. They will help improve your motor skills and strengthen your brains communication and regeneration skills. Prevent memory loss with cur cumin, which is found in curry and ginger. If you need to calm the nerves and improve circulation while improving, your memory rosemary is an excellent choice, dry or fresh.

If you love coffee, recent studies will have you jumping for joy. In moderation, caffeinated coffee stimulates brainwave activity and protects you from memory loss. These results were more pronounced in women than in men however. Therefore, you see, when you maintain your mind and body with a healthy balanced diet you can excel today and protect your body for tomorrow.
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 Stress Relief – How to Incorporate Brain Wave Entrainment in Your Stress Management Techniques

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.
calm relaxing music | guided chakra meditation
You won’t be able to take it much longer.

You’re too fat for your fat pants this morning and you’ll have to go to the office wearing the sexy dress you wore to your ex-husband’s wedding (because you are a modern woman and his getting remarried to your ex-best friend doesn’t bother you….yeah) and everyone will look at you like you are pathetic. You’ll pick up on this rejection, immediately, and your digestion will do a flip flop. You just know you’ll be running to the washroom in the middle of everything.

You’ve done all of your work, your desk is clear, and the boss frowns as he passes by, and you just know he thinks you’re slacking and will by-pass you for the next promotion. Your blood pressure rises, and you start eating that stashed bag of chips in your drawer.

You drive home in rush hour traffic and nearly get hit by a screaming ambulance, and your head pounds.

Your cat, Renaldo, of the Asian variety, has a nervous disorder (you constantly catch him watching himself in the mirror practicing his “meow”) and throws up “King of the Sea” all over your scuplted white rug, just as your new boyfriend shows up for dinner. Adrenalin rushes to your head while your red eczema rash erupts all over your chest.

You’re under stress. That’s the way life is today, but how much stress is too much? Life just gets more and more demanding.

What Happens When You Get Over-Stressed?

If you are an adult, you spend most of your waking time in the beta brainwave state, which highlights thinking, focus, attention, feeling excited, and goal-orientation. Beta begets more beta and too much beta makes you have anxiety, unwanted thoughts, insomnia, addiction, tense muscles, forgetfulness, and even paranoia.

The brain gets used to being in a beta state–rapid thinking, overthinking–and gets hooked on the adrenaline rushes that stress triggers…and then you start messing up because you’re forgetting things.

When you are over-stressed, the body tries to naturally bring your mind into the alpha brain wave state by causing you to yawn or gasp for air. Alpha waves are associated with states of peace and relaxation. If you are healthy, dealing with stress, you can shift your brain out of Beta wave–being excited or highly focused–to a calm, flowing Alpha wave state of mind at will. You destroy your ability to generate alpha wave when you experience excessive stress energy in great amounts without a release. You can actually damage your hippocampus.

Addiction happens because your mind is trying to find something to release the pressure.

For the moment, smoking, having a drink, or doing a drug, does exactly that. But then you need more and more to achieve the first effect of release and then prettty soon, no amount does the trick, and by that time, you are both psychologically and physically addicted. You’re hooked.

Your mind is overstimulated and releases cortisol, a stress hormone, into the bloodstream. Cortisol impairs your cognitive thinking, suppresses your thyroid, sends your blood sugars all over the place, decreases your bone density and muscle tissue, raises your blood pressure, lowers your immunity, and just for kicks, increases your belly fat, which of course, can lead to heart attack or stroke or death.

If you stay too long in Beta wave without using your Alpha wave to release, you mind and body will start to deteriorate.

And you’ll be gorging on carbs.

How Do You Destress and Decompress?

You release that unwanted stress by introducing Alpha brain wave frequency to the brain and you can do that easily with brain wave entrainment. Alpha wave releases neuropeptides that include endorphins and serotonin and put your body into a natural “high”. It just makes you feel a wonderful sense of relief.

Brain wave entrainment, specifically designed in Alpha, is introduced to the brain as an audio stimulus and will quickly and easily cause the brain to follow and mimic that frequency. You’ll leave the stress of Beta and breathe and release in Alpha in a manner of minutes. It takes just 6 minutes for the brain to start to entrain.
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 About Mind Power – A New Look Into The Universe Of Your Mind

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.
brain wave machine | onnit alpha brain
You will learn all about mind power when you take a journey into the universe of your mind. Your brain is an incredibly powerful thing. It actually creates the circumstances that happen in your life. What you believe and visualize is eventually what you’re going to attract. This is why you really need to know all there is to know about mind power.

You will begin to create your own destiny when you learn how to think, feel and believe that you can. You need to believe it in your bones that you can achieve what you want. You must practice this in order to achieve it; however after you work at it for a bit it becomes easier to shape and develop the skills needed to achieve the life that you deserve. You will learn about mind power.

You can and will use this knowledge to your advantage. The big problem is that we are programmed not to believe in ourselves. We are trained from a very young age that we must look towards others to answer our questions and solve our problems.

This may shed some light on why so much of us struggle so hard. We are programmed to think negatively because this will benefit the few who actually know that anyone can become an expert. Attracting negativity becomes a natural thing to do. We are actually creating a life of sorrow because we continuously think of what we cannot do.

You cannot help but create the reality that you are always thinking of. The life that you are living now is the result of all the thoughts that you have created. If you train yourself to actually start taking control of your life you will begin to actually become the master of your destiny. You will increase your abilities.

When you begin to take the steps necessary to improve your life you will automatically begin to take control in shaping your future. This cannot be helped.

There are a few simple things you can learn about mind power that will increase your abilities. Practicing visualization techniques is one of them. Your abilities will increase dramatically with the strength of visualization. The thing about mind power is that it will grow with visualization.

It is very easy to practice visualization. It just takes practice. If you sit back and begin to focus on the images of yourself living the life you want you will begin to manifest this into your existence. You need to practice a little bit every day. This seems so simple; however it is very effective.

You absolutely need to make sure the images you hold in your mind are positive images. This seems so hard at first because we are so used to focusing on the negative aspects. Every time that you begin to focus on a negative aspect; begin thinking of ways that you can improve it. This automatically changes the focus to the positive.

The next thing you can do to increase your abilities is to begin to write down your goals in life. You can have daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals and yearly goals. Everyday look at your goals and do something specific that will lead you towards achieving every single one. Remember that you need to learn about mind power and how to increase your abilities.

Another specific way to learn about mind power and how to increase your abilities is affirmations. It is very easy; you take a very specific positive statement about your life and repeat it to yourself throughout the day. Statements that are honest and encouraging are necessary to combat all the negative ones. The more specific the affirmation the better. The more you remind and repeat it the better. A good affirmation is going to be very honest like., “It is so beneficial to my overall happiness that I am taking the time everyday to learn about mind power.”

If you keep this up everyday you will begin to see these changes manifesting in your life. This is something that may seem strange at first. If you keep it up it is going to seem like you have always done it. You cannot help but see the positive outcome.

Brainwave entrainment is the most important and advance technique that you can use. This incorporates all of these ideas and more into a single program. With brainwave entrainment you actually listen to binaural beats that synchronize the hemispheres of your brain. This builds bridges that allow you to utilize your entire brain for ultra learning abilities.

With brainwave entrainment you will begin to see results faster than you can imagine. Your recall, problem solving abilities, speed, reflexes, confidence and everything else about mind power will increase. This is a scientifically proven method that does wonders for the psyche. You will become the master of your destiny. It is inevitable.

With brainwave entrainment you will reach levels of Zen-like meditation. You will form a gateway into all the magnificent aspects of your psyche. You truly will travel along the plains of the universe inside your mind. It is important to practice all of these tactics every day. If you keep at it you will program yourself to a better life; the life that you deserve. You must make the choice that will benefit you eternally. You must learn all about mind power.

Everybody has the ability and strength to increase their potential. I was very depressed and did not believe I had the ability to do anything well before I began taking control over my life. Do not let others convince you that you are not able. When you take the steps to become happier you are making a choice that will cause others jealousy A jealous person is capable of doing anything and everything to bring you down. You will become strong and start living on a higher level once you begin your journey.

Your journey begins now. Learn all there is to know about mind 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 5 Easy Meditation Steps to Use With Binaural Beat Meditation

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 will also sharpen your intuition and become more instinctive when making important choices. Meditation needn’t be a complicated procedure and you can even meditate when walking. Using brainwave entrainment combined with meditation you will quickly be put into the state of mind required, wherever and whenever you need to.

There are different methods and systems of meditation but here re two of the simplest:-

1. Sit in a comfortable chair and keep your back straight but not tensed. Concentrate on your breathing and start off by breathing in deeply from the diaphragm holding your breath to the count of two, then breathing out, imagining you are breathing out the day’s negativities. Following this, keep concentrating on your breathing, but keep a natural rhythm.

2. Once you feel relaxed, eyes closed, rest your hands upwards on your thighs with thumb and forefinger of each hand touching. Start breathing regularly and smoothly, concentrating on your breathing alone, without forcing it. To keep your mind clear of any stray thoughts start counting each separate breath as you exhale. If any stray thoughts come into your mind, take your attention back to counting.

3. Keep counting until you have reached a perfect state of relaxation and your mind is clear. You will no doubt enjoy the sensation of clearing your mind of daily chatter and you will be clearing your mind to receive creative ideas and intuitive thoughts to guide you through your life choices.

4. The simplicity of this method can be employed anywhere you can sit and relax. This can be done as you are on a train or bus or if you are waiting for an interview of meeting.

5. You can try a form of this method by simply counting your breaths as you are walking, by bringing your thoughts back to concetnrate on your breathing if your mind wanders. To do this its good to get a rhythm along with your walking pace. You can do this when walking or doing any daily chores and you will be making best use of your time.

These simple techniques are a good starter in meditation and can be effective in taking your mind into a reflective state. Using them, backed up by binaural beats, you can train your brain to a higher state where your senses are heightened, your energy system is empowered and you feel more confident and self assured.
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 A Sensory Approach To Perk Up Your Career

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 wake up one morning and don’t feel like going to work. It may not even be anything specific that is wrong with your career. It’s just that it has become routine and feels somehow insufficient. There’s got to be something you can do to improve your interest in it, you tell yourself.

Maybe you have already been there, done that – or so it seems. Only now you have the revelation plus the willingness to make a change before you get to burnout. It’s time to flush out what has likely been in the background for a while, with a creative approach. Is there something you could do that will cause a whole new outlook without changing jobs? Something you haven’t yet tried? There is.

Take a day off work – a Friday is best because you’ll have a full day for these exercises and can have further time to explore and write on the weekend. Don’t distract yourself with phone calls, television and conversations. Carve out this time just for you. Here’s how to begin:

1. Have a sensory morning – that is, go for a walk somewhere beautiful. (This literally de-clouds your brain, but also clears out stuck thinking and makes room for new perceptions.) Where can you go to take in some delicious sights and smells? What are some of your favorite things to touch and hold? If you don’t know, consider a petting zoo, a clothes store with natural fibers, an antique store with masks and kaftans or other handmade artifacts, a furniture store or lumber yard to smell fresh cut wood, or a tree lot.

2. Once there, take it fully in and enjoy it. Don’t forget to stop afterwards and buy yourself a lunch that you can linger over the tastes of mixed flavors or even savor a simple cup of coffee, ideally outside with the sun on your face.

3. Return home, pick up your journal or a large notepad and write down some of your feelings from this experience. What was most memorable? How did it make you feel? Now compare those feelings of comfort and enjoyment to any experiences you’ve had in the last year at work. Any time where you felt soothed, comforted, interested, curious, excited, playful, engaged, happy, helpful, needed and used. Identify other feelings you associate with those experiences where you felt fulfilled.

4. When this writing is over, bring your attention back to something simple. Such as cloud watching for 15 minutes (and doing nothing else!) OR watch a shadow fall gracefully across a wall. These may seem nonsensical if you’re inexperienced in simple acts of regeneration, yet they work. This refocuses you for the next three steps.

5. Go back to your paper and write in big letters at the top, “What I want in my career is ________” and don’t stop listing these until you’ve filled up one or two pages.

6. On another paper write, “the only thing that could stop me having what I want is ________”. Now do the same non-stop writing until you’ve written at least a page.

7. Look back at the two lists and determine what your TRUTH is. Do you really want what you think you do? If you really want that strongly, would you let anything stop you? What do you need to do to be sure you can carry it out and not let any thing block you?

A bold, yet easy move is to make a few phone calls to organize a potluck or dinner meeting of at least three supportive friends to run your ideas by. Let them brainstorm with you. This isn’t a stuffy event. You can have fun and engage constructive comments about your list. Listen to suggestions without negating them. Let them help you hone in on what’s most important for you and how to make it happen.

Not everyone you invite has to be in your industry or even in business. Personal friends may share ideas that will fit well into your organizational change process.

There are plenty of sensory resources to assist you in career planning, such as “Brainwave Symphony,” which offers music to trigger your brain to produce the state you want to experience. Alpha music is active relaxation while Theta and Delta music promote deeper relaxation or meditative states. Beta creates heightened focus. This can be a great background for your writing exercise.

Be wary of doing too much research or including too many resources that make the process complicated and prevent you completing it. Oftentimes making changes are well within our capabilities. However, if you’re someone who rarely asks for support and figure you can do it on your own – but won’t – then be active in using support to assure you move forward!
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 5 Fun Facts About Cats That You Don’t Know

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 wake to find a pair of green eyes staring at you in the dark. As you go to make coffee something darts out from under the bed and tackles your feet before disappearing again. No, your house isn’t haunted, you have a cat as a companion. She will come around and show herself as you go about getting ready for the day. She is full of curiosity, but she will stop her antics to rub against your ankles after you offer her a morning meal. Cats have long been the companions of people, and they bring a special loving wonder to the world around them.

Fun Fact 1: Cats Really Do Talk to Us

She has a special urgent cry when hungry. To you this signal seems to mean “Hey, you with the opposable thumbs! Open a can for me, please?” It’s not your imagination. After the first few months with your adult cat you will notice you can tell from her ‘voice’ when she is hungry, frightened, or wants to cuddle or play. According to researchers your cat learns to communicate by recalling what vocalizations register with you, and will use these each time to get the same result.

A study in 2007 found that the domestic cat is actually a descent of African wildcats, and was possible domesticated as long ago as 8000 BC. During their long history with humanity, cats have adapted by using a form of communication that’s not usually seen in nature after an animal reaches maturity.

Fun Fact 2: Cats have Super Hearing

Cats can detect a broader range of frequencies than humans, dogs or many other mammals. This is probably the cat’s legacy as a descendant of hunters. The cats move their ears around to help amplify far away sounds, and to get a sense of the direction a sound is emitted from, not unlike an antenna.

Fun Fact 3: Cats can Dream

You might see your cat moving or twitching in sleep as if pouncing or jumping. This isn’t simply a muscle spasm or reaction as was once believed. Your cat is dreaming. There’s no way for researchers to know what your cat is dreaming about, but they do know that when your kitty reaches a deep enough sleep he or she will demonstrate the same type of brainwave activity humans show when in a dream state. What your cat might experience in a dream however, is a mystery, but we can guess it probably involves hunting.

Just as with a human being it’s not necessary to wake a kitty even if the dream seems to be unpleasant. There’s no evidence that cats recall what they dream, or that it affects their waking life. Violent movements in sleep that seem painful, and confusion or grogginess on waking should be checked out by a veterinarian, however as this can indicate a problem.

Fun Fact 4: Cat’s Only Understand Rewards

From your cat’s point of view she’s not wired to understand why or how to predict that some behaviors aren’t allowed. She will only see being squirted with water, or swatted at as aggressive behavior on your part. Experts in training animals recommend using rewards rather than punishment when attempting to get your cat to change her behavior.

Fun Fact 5: No One Can Explain the Purring

Scientists know your cat can purr. She might climb up into your lap while you are sitting, or follow you around making a vibrating sound that seems to come from her throat. The fact is however, researchers don’t know exactly where this sound is coming from, or why exactly cats purr. What is known is that a few of the larger cats such as the cougar purrs, but most of the greater cats do not. Despite the fact the purring seems to come from the throat those who have done this type of research now believe the vibration noise is actually produced through the cat’s cardiovascular system. You of course, have always known that your cat friend’s purr came from the heart.

While You’re Out

Of course, the biggest mystery about cats their human friends wonder about is what cats do when we’re gone. Cats will certainly let you know if the environment is boring by scratching on furniture, tearing up drapes, or digging up the carpeting. Along with putting down enough food and water for the day before going out it’s recommended to have toys scatter around that can keep your cat physically busy, and mentally alert.
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 Free Self Hypnosis – 100% Effective Technique

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 use Free Self Hypnosis Techniques Every Day!

We humans, if asked, would probably say we believe that when we awaken each day we are free to start a brand new day. However, that is far from the truth. By the time you open your eyes in a morning your day has already been pre-determined. The day you are about to experience is based on whatever you were thinking about as you dropped off to sleep the previous night.

The period prior to sleep at night is the most important time of your day as the thoughts you think immediately before sleep can either make or break you. Whatever you are thinking about in this period of time is taken into sleep with you and then worked upon all night long by your subconscious mind while you sleep.

Up until this point you may not have noticed that your morning thoughts and those that flood into your mind when you awaken during the night are a continuation of the thoughts you took into sleep. Then the thoughts you entertain in that sleepy morning state are pre-determining your day.

The sleepy state that everyone enters at night prior to sleep is a natural hypnotic state as is the morning period of sleepiness before your eyes are opened. The evening state is called the hypnogogic state and the morning state the hypnopompic state. These are two naturally hypnotic states that all humans enter at least once every day prior to sleep and on awakening. In these periods of time the human mind is highly susceptible to suggestion. Some say that in this hypnotic state the mind is over one thousand times more inclined to accept as true any suggestions it is given than in a normal waking state.

In both of these periods your body is relaxed, your eyes are closed; your brain waves have slowed down from your normal waking beta brainwave state. You are experiencing an alpha level of consciousness akin to a deliberately induced hypnotic trance state.

While awake your subconscious mind is listening and responding to everything you say, hear and experience. Everything is being made sense of, catalogued, put into memory banks and acted upon all day long. When you drop off to sleep your conscious mind becomes unconscious and your constant mind chatter stops but this doesn’t mean the subconscious sleeps.

It stays alert and carries on with the regeneration of your body. It carries on breathing for you, renewing skin cells, burning fat and digesting food. It also carries on working on the thoughts you took into sleep with you. Those last thoughts have absolutely no competition and they are worked on all night long. On awakening in the night and in the morning your thoughts are always a continuation of last night’s thoughts and whatever you are thinking about in the sleepy hypnotic morning state is colouring and shaping your day.

Some people go to bed at night and as they lay down to sleep they go back through their day and think about all the things that went wrong. They think about the things they failed to get done; the messy house, the pile of work on their desk, the pile of ironing, the dirty car or the fact they didn’t get to the gym. They think of all the things they did wrong; the overeating they indulged in, the chocolate they ate, the harsh words or the arguments. They go over their regrets and the things they feel guilty about and then they drop off to sleep.

When they awaken in the night the same thoughts immediately flood into their mind, sometimes keeping them awake for hours and when they awaken in the morning the same thing happens; it all floods back in. The day then proceeds in a very predictable way; it’s a copy of the previous day; the house gets messier, the pile of work gets bigger and the worse it gets, the worse it gets. You’ve found yourself in the film, ‘Groundhog Day’ and it sometimes seems like there’s no way out.

But take heart, there is a way out and the easiest way to change your life is to change what you think about before you go to sleep at night and to take into sleep the things you want to achieve. When you do this your deeper mind is working all night long on your dreams and aspirations and working on and finding a way for you to achieve whatever you’ve focused upon. You are your own hypnotist and a very good one at that. You hypnotise yourself every day so make sure you’re hypnotising yourself positively and you’re heading in the right direction.

Those who achieve the most in life are those who write lists of what they want to achieve for the following day, the week, the month or the year. When you write down what you want to achieve you are instructing your mind to take you there. Of course you could just as easily say or think what you are going to do but the memory is not as reliable as the written word. There is something about writing goals down that makes them more concrete and more achievable. You can talk about building your own home for years but it doesn’t become a concrete thing until the architect (you) draws up the plans.

Taking the time to write down what you intend to achieve in the next day, the next week or any time in the future is the best thing you can do each evening. That way you are taking into sleep what you want to achieve and when you make the effort to do this on a daily basis your days will change beyond all recognition. At the very least you could make a decision to think positive things each evening as you lay down to sleep. Even a few minutes thinking uplifting thoughts and focussing on the things you want can and will work wonders.

This is the time to take yourself to the end of anything you want to achieve; to imagine it done and to imagine what you are saying to you now you’ve achieved it. Add in as many feelings as you can, imagine the joy, the jubilation or the relief, whichever is appropriate. Feel the smile on your face, the feelings of satisfaction and feel your chest swelling with pride if pride is fitting. Take those images and feelings into sleep with you and your deeper, subconscious mind will take you there.

If there’s something puzzling you, something you would like to answer to or even something you would like more clarity on, the time prior to sleep is a good time to ask a solution based question about it. Let the question drop into your mind prior to sleep and tell yourself that when you awaken the answer will be there. This is a great free self hypnosis technique and one that really works.

I’m guessing that the majority of you automatically shower, wash your hair, clean your teeth and, if female, take make-up off at night before re-applying it every morning. The majority of us wouldn’t dream of going to bed dirty or leaving the house without cleansing our bodies no matter how much time it takes. Just as you have developed habits of physical cleanliness you can develop an evening habit that cleanses your mind.

Your new evening routine will fill your mind full of positive clean energy and you’ll wake up refreshed, full of good feelings and ready to start your day. You’ll be clean inside and out and instead of just sparkling on the outside your light will shine from within too.

To Your Success & happiness

I work with people all over the world by phone. Contact me at: christine@makingpositivechanges.co.uk
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.