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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Very few of us are at our peak mentally, athletically, emotionally, or spiritually, and could use some major improvements in those areas.
Increasing gamma brainwave activity will help your brain work faster, stronger and clearer. Gamma brainwave frequency oscillates between 40 Hz and 70 Hz. They are the fastest documented frequency that you can experience. It is considered that gamma brainwave connects and helps processes information from all parts of the brain-for a whole brain experience.
The benefit of using a brainwave entrainment program in binaural beats is, that it works quickly, much more quickly than if you try to access and maintain gamma on your own. If you already have a meditation practice in place, you’re laughing and won’t need any assistance. But, if meditation alludes you, binaural beats will help you experience a higher level of intelligence, a stronger mental processing speed, as well as enrich your sensory experience– within the first session. Repeated sessions will make new neural pathways and your improvements will be permanent.
What Gamma Brainwaves Can Do…
• Increase memory.
• Vividly recall the past.
• Access all brain areas for higher levels of intelligence.
• Increases levels of natural happiness.
• Evoke feelings of empathy.
• Increase self-control.
• Increase brain functioning ability.
• Heighten mental alertness.
• Help the brain access other states of awareness.
• Increase sensory perception-sight, sound, smell, taste, touch.
• Process large amounts of information in a short amount of time.
• Can give “gamma bursts” that are related to eureka moments of discovery.
Who Should Increase Gamma Brainwaves
• People with depression, complicated grief, sadness, loneliness.
• People whose senses are not functioning at their best.
• People who have trouble mentally processing what is happening in their life.
• People who have difficulty remembering information like dates, names, or events.
• People who have to write exams.
How Binaural Beats Produce Gamma Brainwaves
When the brain is stimulated with certain predetermined brainwave bands, it can induce a huge variety of mental states and emotional reactions, one of which is, improved whole brain performance in the gamma brainwave frequency.
Binaural beats are formed when two slightly different tones are played in different ears, stimulating the left and right brain hemispheres, resulting in another tone that the brain will entrain to, causing a whole brain synchronization.
Whole brain synchronization occurs when various parts of your brain work together, resonating at the same frequency, causing neural pathways to fire more rapidly.
When this happens, you brain reaches extraordinary levels of performance is a very short period of time.
Listening to a binaural beat brainwave entrainment recording in gamma frequency, will train your neural networks to achieve a high level of synchronisation, allowing for higher thinking and enhanced levels of performance.
Just think, you can consciously replicate optimal functioning on your own, when you need it, at your leisure just by listening to your mp3 player.
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.