Brainwave Entrainment

Brainwaves
All brains have a wave pattern or frequency at which they beat.

This is known as brainwaves.

Depending on what a person may be doing and/or what state they are in at the time, the brain will have different brainwave patterns.

These patterns therefore reflect the state of mind of a person.

Through research it has been proven that people are most likely in a certain state and exhibit certain brainwaves when they are engaging in certain activities. For example, sleeping, alert and awake, concentrating and studying etc. etc.

Entrainment
Entrainment simply refers to the ability through rhythmic stimulation usually through sound or light to create specific brainwaves or states of mind.

The goal is that when the brain is given a stimulus though your senses such as ears or eyes, it will entrain to that frequency, beat or wave.

Brainwave Entrainment
In effect it possible though external influences to coax the brain into a certain state or brainwave frequency.

For example: When the brain is given rhythmic stimulus such as a beating drum, the brain will reproduce the same rhythm with electrical impulses inside the brain.

The usefulness of this stimulus is to reconstruct brainwaves to get a positive response, such as a 4 Hz brainwave is associated with sleep, so by creating a pattern of 4 Hz, you can induce sleep.

The process can be used to recreate all the mental states of your mind such as creativity or concentration.

Research
Dating back to 1656 the use of entrainment was discovered in various ways, one example is the Dutch scientist Christian Huygens who was working on a pendulum clock design, and he discovered that by placing two unsynchronized clocks side by side on the wall that they would synchronize with each other to perfection.

Brainwave Entrainment works in a similar manner, placing a rhythmic source outside the brain that is consistent and frequent which then causes the brain to respond by synchronizing with the rhythm.

Modern Developments
Brainwave entrainment has a solid 70 years of research behind it.

It has been proven to work through audio and visual techniques which embed special rhythmic pulses into the source so that the brain on listening or watching will entrain to those specific pulses or brainwaves.

In particular if you listen closely to a specially prepared brainwave entrainment audio CD you will barely recognize the pulse or beats that are hidden in the background that are meant for your subconscious. However, the beats and rhythms will slowly cause the brain to synchronise or entrain with the source.

Also, depending on the program it is possible to take the brain on a journey where a series of states are progressively induced to create particular mental states.

Binaural Beats
Beats are the term used to describe the source of the rhythmic pulsing.

Beats can be binaural, isochronic, or monaural and each can be used for creating the mental state that is desired.

Binaural beats use two tones. These two tones are close together but slightly apart. The difference between them will create the required frequency.

For example by creating a 500 Hz tone and 510 Hz tone, a 10 Hz subsonic tone will be created.

The brain then produces the pulse of 10 Hz by combining the two tones.

This is roughly in the middle of the alpha range.

Thus the ability to create and direct our state of mind is achieved.

Brainwave entrainment can be used to help create specific mindsets which can then be used to improve our lives.