Binaural Brainwave Audios: Reprogram Your Mind

Binaural Brainwave Audios: Reprogram Your Mind

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Our brain goes through several states of consciousness everyday. Each of these states is associated with a unique brainwave pattern. Any change in the mental state alters the brainwave frequency. This goes on all the time without our conscious knowledge. It is also true that changing brainwave frequency leads to change in the state of mind. This knowledge provides the basis for binaural beat brainwave entrainment technology.

Most of the brainwaves fall below the audio limit of human ears 20 Hz. Binaural beats provide a convenient way to access the frequency range of the brainwaves. They have been known for over 170 years and have become a popular tool to induce any desired brainwave frequency and hence any desired state of the consciousness.

What are Binaural Beats

How binaural beats are created in the brain is interesting. They are created in the brain when you listen to two slightly different audio frequencies in each ear, through a stereo headphone. Say, for example, you listen to a frequency tone of 400 Hz from the left ear and another tone of 410 Hz from the right ear. Your brain perceives these two inputs as a single pulsating tone (technically speaking, amplitude modulated standing wave) of 10 Hz.

So, the binaural beats are only "perceived" in your mind and are not actually heard. They are sub-sonic sounds ie, they fall below the level of human hearing. The auditory limit of human ears is between 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. So, obviously you cant hear a 10 Hz tone. If you remove either left or the right earphone, you will not hear them proof that their creation requires presence of two tones.

Brainwave Entrainment

When the binaural beats are created in the brain another useful phenomenon takes place, it is called brainwave entrainment. In the presence of binaural beats the dominant brainwaves shift frequency to match the frequency of the induced beats. This tendency to synchronize with the applied signal is called entrainment (or frequency following response). After entrainment, if the frequency of the beat is changed the brain follows it.

By changing the frequency difference between the two tones, you'll be able to choose which brain wave frequency you want to entrain to. Now, you have the remote of your brainwaves in your hand tune-in to any brainwave frequency, and hence any state of mind.

Binaural Beat Audios

Raw binaural beats are not palatable to most people. Therefore, binaural beats are "hidden" or "masked" behind another sound wave, such as sound of ocean waves, waterfall, rain-drops, other natural sounds or new age music. These pleasing natural sounds generate a relaxing and receptive mood, which further assists in the functioning of the binaural beats.

The manner in which the beat frequency is incorporated and varied depends on the purpose at hand. For instance, for relaxed wakeful states alpha waves (7-13 Hz) are incorporated, Meditative or dreaming states fall in the theta range, 4-7 Hz, you can explore states of deep sleep in the delta wave region (0.5 4 Hz), and so on.

Please note that there are customizable software products for brainwave entrainment that allow you to choose your own frequency for entrainment. Some software offer only raw tones with no masking. They are not very pleasant and many find them disturbing. Others offer masking by different natural or new age sounds.

While it is great to be able to change the beats and be your own teacher, but the fact is if you want results leave the beat programming to the experts who know what they are doing. For example, theta frequencies can be used to entrain for lucid dreaming as well as for meditation, only an expert knows how to use precise frequencies, sequence, and variations, etc to have the best result for a specific purpose.

About the Author:
I am a researcher and writer; my current topics of interest are self-help, meditation, yoga, brainwave entrainment, etc. To read further on brainwave entrainment click here. For free samples of brainwave entrainment audios visit Mind Awakening Techniques.



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