The mechanism behind the design of these digital stress relievers is the science of binaural beats.

What are binaural beats?

Experiments in audio stimulation and reaction have determined that when two different sounds of similar frequencies are sent one to each ear, the brain initiates a process called entrainment.

Entrainment is a phenomenon that occurs when the brain automatically adjusts itself to the two different frequencies being piped in, and essentially filters out the difference between the two frequencies to create a new differential frequency or “beat”.

more via Stress Relief Music: Entrain Your Brain | Music Production Info.

Gregg

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:43

Understanding Chakra Balancing – Modern science has done its best to obliterate from the minds of people the existence and importance of spiritual being within the physical being.

Hindu thinking on the nature of being is different and as a result the spiritual belief in the spiritual healing flame burns bright in spite of science and technology.

In truth, our bodies are made up of seven primary and many thousands of secondary Chakras. Chakra is a Sanskrit word for Wheel of Light, and the theory is that these Chakras rotate and continuously send off vibrations in a healthy human being.

via The Concept Of Chakra Balancing « The Free Law of Attraction Blog.

by Feel Good

Are you finding it difficult to meditate? Have you given up because you can’t reach the meditation frequencies and stay there for some period of time? Meditation can be hard for some people and brainwave entrainment can assist you achieve that state in a matter of minutes or days – not weeks or months.

We often get to a lower brainwave state state without our being aware of it. Watching TV shows can bring you to an alpha state level and everything you hear and see acts as a suggestion to your subconscious mind which can be unhealthy depending on the show. Idling or daydreaming can also bring you to that lower brainwave state. The mental chatter however is not controlled and it is the object of meditation to subdue the mental chatter and allow the signals from the infinite storehouse of knowledge and creativity that our subconscious holds to surface to our conscious awareness.

Attaining meditation can be done by examining the parts of your body one by one. Starting with your head, notice if there are any tension in the muscles. If there are, consciously relax those muscles. Move down to your forehead, nose, cheeks and all the rest of your body till you reach your toes. By then you should have reached a meditative state.

Vocalizing a simple sound can bring you to a meditation level like the famous ‘OM’. take in breath and while you exhale you say the word ‘OM’ and feel it vibrate in your vocal cords. Repeat this till you get to the meditative state.

Whatever technique you use, it requires practice and you may not succeed in the first few sessions. The mental chatter is so domineering to the untrained mind that lowering its dominion can prove to be a hard|difficult task. Negative thoughts such as fear can occupy most of your brain chatter and it is very unhealthy and can prevent you from reaching the meditative state.

Brainwave entrainment can hasten the time in which you can reach the meditative state. A sound is produced which is designed to entrain your brain to generate a lower brainwave frequency. A popular brainwave entrainment technology is binaural beats which requires headphones to accomplish the task.

Binaural beats, monaural and isochronic tones can provide you with brainwave entrainment. The use of headphones is advised to make the tones standout from the external noise which could disrupt the entrainment process.

Among the three technologies, isochronic tones seems to be the more effective. You can reach the alpha level quicker but the tone may not be appealing to some people. All you will hear is a toot toot toot sound similar to a helicopter.

Only several minutes are required to reach the meditative state when listening to brainwave entrainment software. However, there are some persons who requires more than one session to experience the meditative state. Once experienced, the subsequent sessions will be easier to achieve.

If you want to relieve yourself of the effects of stress on your body or to be more creative in your work by enhancing your focus and attention, then meditation can help you that. With the aid of brainwave entrainment tones, you can achieve a better and faster experience with meditation.

via Meditation with the Help of Brainwave Entrainment.

Here’s his well written summary of a recent study:

Study author Ulman Lindenberger of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and his co-investigators looked at electrical activity in the brains of eight pairs of guitarists. They monitored patterns of brain waves as the musicians played a short jazz-fusion melody together up to 60 times, and published their findings in the journal BMC Neuroscience.

The study reported that the frontal and central regions of the guitarists’ brains synchronized to a high degree. But, more surprisingly, the temporal and parietal regions also showed significant synchronization in more than half of the pairs. These regions may be involved in simply enjoying the music, researchers suggested.

via Music Therapy: Brain Wave Entrainment.

This is one of my favorite types of self improvement CDs. They are meant to make meditation easy, and they sure do that. Using “binaural beats,” they slow your brainwaves and relax you. All you have to do is put on your headphones and listen. Beats embedded in the background music (or rain, waves, or other sounds) slow your brainwaves into an alpha state or deeper (beta brainwaves, at 14 hertz or above, are the usual in a wide awake state).

They claim to raise your threshold for stress with regular use, and many people say they do just that. They may also help you increase your self awareness. I certainly find them to be a pleasant experience. They clear my mind and take away stress quickly. I also use them to put me to sleep when I need a “power nap.” There is no question that they powerfully affect your brain, and I have experienced and heard of only positive results.

via The Coach and Ideas For You: Five Kinds of Self Improvement CDs.

About binaural beats:

If each of our ears hears different single tone frequencies, our brain tunes in to the difference of the two frequencies and generates brain waves correspondingly. For example if your left ear, hears a tone with a frequency of 200hz or 200 cycles per second and your right ear hears a tone of 203hz, your brain generates a brain wave pattern equivalent to the difference of 200hz and 203hz which is 3hz or 3 cycles per second.

About brain waves:

Our brain generates different brain wave patterns depending on our activity. Brain waves during waking are different from the brain waves when you are sleeping, in a sports activity or daydreaming. Different cycles or stages of sleep also have different brain wave patterns.

Binaural beats – brain wave entrainment:

Medical scientists have used binaural beats to help people with regards to improving health and treating ailments with psychological related conditions. Patients are ‘doses’ of binaural beats using headphones and targeting brain wave patterns designed for the specific condition.

via How to Boost Binaural Beats Power | Brain Entrainment.

via Brainwave Entrainment & Mind Control Techniques | To Reduce Stress.

Brainwave entrainment is the use of some external stimulus, usually different sounds that a person will hear with stereo headphones, to induce a certain level of brain wave activity. When a person’s brainwave activity is artificially altered by these means, it will subtly shift their awareness and perception.

Using binaural beats is a common and effective method of brainwave entrainment. In order for the binaural beats to be effective, a person must be using stereo headphones so that they can hear a different sound in each ear.

Most of the time, the binaural beats will be embedded underneath the layers of tracks on a song, usually soothing ambient music or soundscapes, so that the person listening can focus on the music and not on the frequencies they are hearing. If you either find or create effective binaural beat audios to listen to in stereo heaphones, the frequencies should blend perfectly into the background, and you should not be able to consciously notice them unless you really try to isolate them.

via Self Improvement And Motivation: Increase Creativity and Redce Stess Using Alpha Meditation.

Brainwave Entrainment is not new. in fact our ancestors used it in their dances and rituals. They used drums and other types of rhythmic instruments like rattles to create beats which would have a certain effect on those listening.

A very fast beat would whip people into a frenzy to prepare them for battle or any activity which required a lot of energy and enthusiasm. Other slower beats would calm people down almost to a dreamlike meditative state necessary for healing or to implant ideas into the subconscious minds of the listeners.

When we’re awake we are mainly in a state of beta,

via Natural Sleep Aids.

Analysis has shown that some brainwaves, like intense relaxation, are ideal for learning and retaining new information while delta brainwave states promote relaxed healthy sleep. Until the adaptation of binaural beats tapes, CDs and MP3s, the only technique to create deliberate changes in your brainwave patterns was with deep meditation. For thousands of years this type of meditation has only been possible for practitioners of meditation with over 20 years experience, such as Zen Buddhist Monks.

via Binaural Beats | Meditation | Health and Nutrition Guidelines.

You can be this person too and the good news is, the technology is readily and widely available on the internet and offline as well, at a cost that is not prohibitive, and such methods of therapy are hardly restricted to time tables and lifestyles. In fact, it can be as easy as plugging in your digital music player and finding a quiet corner for about 20 to 30 minutes a day. It is that simple and once you and people around you realise that this is the new gift of the 21st century, only then will you be able to capitalize on life and jump over hurdles in life higher and higher.

via Change Your Mind For The Better With Brainwave Entrainment

The big question everyone asks when they first learn about entrainment is “Does it really work?”. The answer is very definitely YES. In fact, the principles of entrainment encompass chemistry, biology, pharmacology, astronomy – well these principles are universal.

via Brainwave Entrainment: A Simple and Easy Technique for Self Improvement.

These incorporate what has been found by scientists and called entrainment which is when different sounds of similar frequencies are sent to each ear. This happens when the brain adjusts to the difference between the two frequencies and attempts to match that different frequency. This is known as a binaural beat and the brain adjusts its wave output to that frequency.

For instance, if the difference in frequencies between the two ears is 15 cycles per second then the brain will match its wave output to that frequency. It has been found that brain waves affect mood, level of relaxation and focus.

via Practical tips to manage and relief your stress.

Binaural beats and isochronic tones have a lot of popularity among the new age and self help crowd, but on the main the science is unheard of by the general populace. But this can rapidly change as brainwave entrainment gains new recognition as we progress further into the twenty-first century and people seek more and more inner peace of mind.

Some believe that brainwave entrainment is different than actual meditation. But the brainwave entrainment method of listening to binaural beats and isochronic tones in place of regular meditation practice doesnt really exist because listening to an mp3 or cd that is embedded with either binaural beats or isochronic tones is actually a way of meditating. In other words one of the main purposes of meditation is the training of the mind to exit an active, anxious, stressful beta level of mind, and dip into a more calm and relaxing alpha state of mind, and even beyond into theta and delta…

via Brainwave Entrainment: A Shortcut Path Of Meditation | Aneez News Portal.

In general terms brainwave entrainment is the method of using external stimulus, such as binaural beats or isochronic tones, for bringing a persons brainwaves to an intended brainwave level that corresponds with the entrainment used. For example if one is listening to binaural beats that are set at a frequency of 9 hz, then eventually that persons brainwaves will fall into step with that frequency level.

Any practice that aims to cause brainwave frequency to fall into step with a periodic stimulus having a frequency corresponding to the intended brain-state is a form of brainwave entrainment. This is known as “frequency following response” which is actually a natural phenomenon where the brain naturally changes its frequency towards the frequency of a dominant external stimulus.

via Brainwave Entrainment: A New Method Of Meditation? | CarrieSpry.com.

What happens then is that the brain is then tuned to a super state, a condition where you are able to perform above and beyond normal mental capacity. The technology comes from a response to the unique feature of the brain that was only recently discovered by science…

via Brainwave Entrainment – Your Solution To Superior Mind Power.

What is brainwave entrainment? Entrainment, a physics principle, refers to the synchronization of two or more rhythmical cycles where vibrations of one object will cause the vibrations of the other object to oscillate at the same frequency. For example, if two pendulum clocks are placed next to one another, in time they will gradually synchronize to one another. Brainwave entrainment is not new. Vibrations resonate with one another, just like tuning forks. The application of this principle has been used for centuries

via Better Than Sleeping Pills – Sleep With Brainwave Entrainment.

My name is Gregg Luhring. I’ve been creating and using subliminal recordings and brainwave entrainment products since the 1980′s. I’ve noticed over the last few years that binaural beats and brainwave entrainment have grown immensely in popularity. I’ve also noticed that the quality of most of the products being sold today is sub-par. Even the big names in brainwave entrainment sell recordings that are low in quality yet they are still able to command top dollar for their products (names end in “sync”) ;)

My recordings aren’t the cheapest but are far from being most expensive. I’m kind of a perfectionist so I probably spend too much time in production. I’m sure you won’t find a better quality product of this kind on the market. My Binaural and Isochronal beat recordings are the best you’ll find. I’ve been taught by a master when it comes to subliminal recording techniques so if you’re looking for the best in any of these types of recordings, this is the place.

For myself; if I need to mellow out, pay close attention or get a good night’s sleep, I can throw a rough binaural session together and get the job done quickly. But for you, I give the extra touch. If I want to relieve your stress after a hard day’s work, I’ll mix in several of the best beat frequencies with the best tones for the job of taking the creases out of your brow and turning your shoulder blades to butter. I’ll have you sighing and smiling in minutes with the best formulas I can come up with.

I’ve been an entrepreneur in printing, graphics, web marketing and computer programming for 20 years. I’ve been a musician all of my life starting on piano, then to clarinet, bass guitar, and now use Reason & Tracktion for composing and mixing. (My mother says I sang before I talked) I also use Tracktion to mix my binaural beats into the background music and sounds used in our products. Much of the ambient music used by Brainwave Directions is written and produced by me.

I hope you enjoy the quality products produced here at Brainwave Directions. If you have suggestions for new products or are interested in custom work, please don’t hesitate to contact me at gregg @ brainwv.com.

Gregg