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Brainwave Entrainment:
Pretty much everything in this world responds with a resonance. For instance, a guitar player would strum at the guitar strings with just the right amount of pressure to produce the desired sound. A tidal wave would result from a strong underwater earthquake. On a more figurative note, a person would laugh at a funny joke. Our brains are no different. Brain entrainment is essentially your brain's electrical response to an outside stimulus, usually light or sound. From whatever is captured by your eyes, the electrical responses that resonate within your brain are what you see. In other words, these result to an interpretation. This brain entrainment is called a Cortical Evoked Response. |
In terms of sound, brain entrainment takes place with a rhythmic beat. This rhythm is slowly reproduced by your brain until it resembles your brain waves. You can think of it as your brain synchronizing itself with the beat that it's receiving - imitating the beat and letting it sink into the brain waves. The interesting thing about our brains is that is has a tendency to fall into step with stimuli at the right frequencies. This is called Frequency Following Response.
It's the Frequency Following Response of our brains that brought about the development and science of binaural beats. Because the brain is such a receptive subject to outside stimulus, the changes in our brain wave frequencies that result go as far as changing our mental state of the moment. This is analogous to a person feeling very upbeat during exercise when he or she is listening to dance music. This is also the reason why meditation classes play soothing music in the background to help you relax and relieve stress. I'm sure you've heard of sublimina "sleep tapes" and other types of CD tracks or machines that use binaural beats to help people fall asleep.
Binaural beats work like this: Say that you have two different sounds. One sound is at 100 Hz while the other is at 104 Hz. Because of the brain's natural tendency to synchronize what it's hearing with its own frequencies, it reproduces a 4 Hz beat - the difference between the two sounds. When our brain wave's frequency is anything below 5 Hz, our state of consciousness is typically deep sleep. This beat therefore induces drowsiness and we get knocked out before we know it.
With brain waves at 8 to 14 Hz, we're in a relaxed state; at 14 to 30 Hz, we're alert. Two sounds that are far too different then make no sense to the brain and therefore have no such altering effect to brain waves.
There are many binaural beat or brain entrainment products on the market, at a wide range of costs. What these products do is use the binaural beats to trigger certain brainwave patterns similar to those found in people in deep meditation. This is done without having to tediously practice meditation over years and years.
So then, what do the sounds of running water, chirping birds, and tinkling bells have anything to do with relaxation? Nothing really, it's just that rhythmic beats aren't particularly interesting to listen to. What publishers of binaural beats do is that they hide the actual audio that work at your brain behind these more pleasant sounds. The listener then becomes unaware of it consciously as the brain does its magic.
There have been many studies showing the powerful benefits of meditating. Your brain can produce more helpful chemicals, like HGH or serotonin, which help to reduce stress. Meditation can lead to more restful sleep, decreased anxiety, and just a better awareness of what your body is telling you. These brain entrainment tracks or CD's , using the binaural beats technology, can help provide the stimulus that easily pushes your brain's threshold higher and lead to deeper and more meaningful meditation.
> The Above Excerpt was provided by B.M. Wiley at goarticles.com
It's the Frequency Following Response of our brains that brought about the development and science of binaural beats. Because the brain is such a receptive subject to outside stimulus, the changes in our brain wave frequencies that result go as far as changing our mental state of the moment. This is analogous to a person feeling very upbeat during exercise when he or she is listening to dance music. This is also the reason why meditation classes play soothing music in the background to help you relax and relieve stress. I'm sure you've heard of sublimina "sleep tapes" and other types of CD tracks or machines that use binaural beats to help people fall asleep.
Binaural beats work like this: Say that you have two different sounds. One sound is at 100 Hz while the other is at 104 Hz. Because of the brain's natural tendency to synchronize what it's hearing with its own frequencies, it reproduces a 4 Hz beat - the difference between the two sounds. When our brain wave's frequency is anything below 5 Hz, our state of consciousness is typically deep sleep. This beat therefore induces drowsiness and we get knocked out before we know it.
With brain waves at 8 to 14 Hz, we're in a relaxed state; at 14 to 30 Hz, we're alert. Two sounds that are far too different then make no sense to the brain and therefore have no such altering effect to brain waves.
There are many binaural beat or brain entrainment products on the market, at a wide range of costs. What these products do is use the binaural beats to trigger certain brainwave patterns similar to those found in people in deep meditation. This is done without having to tediously practice meditation over years and years.
So then, what do the sounds of running water, chirping birds, and tinkling bells have anything to do with relaxation? Nothing really, it's just that rhythmic beats aren't particularly interesting to listen to. What publishers of binaural beats do is that they hide the actual audio that work at your brain behind these more pleasant sounds. The listener then becomes unaware of it consciously as the brain does its magic.
There have been many studies showing the powerful benefits of meditating. Your brain can produce more helpful chemicals, like HGH or serotonin, which help to reduce stress. Meditation can lead to more restful sleep, decreased anxiety, and just a better awareness of what your body is telling you. These brain entrainment tracks or CD's , using the binaural beats technology, can help provide the stimulus that easily pushes your brain's threshold higher and lead to deeper and more meaningful meditation.
> The Above Excerpt was provided by B.M. Wiley at goarticles.com
Additional Web Resources on Brainwave Entrainment:
- Science of Brainwave Entrainment
- Increase Brain Power
- The Transparent Corporation
- Brain Entrainment And Schumann Resonance
- Positive Mind States
- Iso-Tones.com
- Change your Frequency
- Isochronic Brainwave generator
- Binaural Beats Vs. Monaural Beats Vs. Isochronic Tones
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- Science of Brainwave Entrainment
- Increase Brain Power
- The Transparent Corporation
- Brain Entrainment And Schumann Resonance
- Positive Mind States
- Iso-Tones.com
- Change your Frequency
- Isochronic Brainwave generator
- Binaural Beats Vs. Monaural Beats Vs. Isochronic Tones
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