What is Brainwave Entrainment?
Brainwave entertainment is a beneficial form of therapy that involves pulsing sound waves, light waves, or electromagnetic waves to stimulate the brain into entering a desired state.
Where music is concerned, tracks can be specially created with specific sound frequencies that will call on the brain’s organic frequencies, leading them to follow or echo the suggested frequencies within each specific track.
Both our bodily functions and our moods depend on the specific states created within our brain, these being:
Epsilon: 0 to 1hz - insight, self-awareness, unity, universal mind, deep healing.
Low Delta: 1 to 2hz - deep meditation, deep sleep, endorphin release, healing.
Delta: 2 to 4hz - transcendental meditation, sleep, natural opiate release.
Theta: 4 to 8hz - lucid dreaming, hallucinogenic state, intuition.
Alpha: 8 to 16hz - calm, daydreaming, visualization, memory and serotonin release.
Beta: 16 to 32hz - alert, normal waking state, concentration, critical thought.
Gamma: 32 to 64hz - highly alert, insight, information processing, hyperactivity.
High gamma: 64 to 128hz - self-awareness, unity, super-conscious, deep insight, healing.
Entrainment is the name used when a sound affects an object (in this case the human brain). For example; a bit of fluff stuck to a speaker, an opera singer breaking a glass with sound, a scientist using acoustic levitation to levitate a drop of water, even shrimps creating light from sound using sonoluminescence - these are all examples of entrainment.
Sound does not only have an effect on your mind (your thoughts), it also affects your body (your brain). If you turn your sound system's speakers loud enough, you will feel this for yourself. It is a fact that listening to fast music will make you feel excited, while listening to slow music will have a relaxing effect.
This works on all levels - affecting your brainwaves, heart rate and blood pressure. It's a lot more specific than just feeling relaxed or excited, though.
Listening to a drum beat at 135bpm, for example, will eventually entrain your brainwaves to exactly 135bpm which would put you into a trance-like state.
Because all sounds are vibrations it is true that all sounds, rhythms and tones included, will have entraining effects. Beats on a drum and a smooth audio tone are actually very similar, depending on how close you zoom into the waveform. Even a high-pitched tone like 288hz will create some form of entrainment, even at this high frequency.
Scientists have mapped out our brainwaves using EEG machines for years. They have tested various audio frequencies on people while they're connected to these machines, and have thus proven that our brainwaves adjust themselves to the same frequencies as the sound played into our ears. These brainwaves are then divided or catagorised into the different colorful states noted above.
The Brainwave Theory has been known by Shamans for thousands of years. Shamans will beat their drums or shake their rattles at around 4 beats per second (4hz) to induce the shamanic trance state.
And so, to listen to music that has been specially created to bring about certain brain states in order to achieve a certain feeling within the body, thus resulting in a different mood or state of being, is a recommended form of therapy that does not require the intake of foreign substances to the body nor the necessity to move the body in any specific manner in order to achieve these different states. One can simply lay back, listen then feel the changes slowly come about.
With your brain being a frequency receiver and producer, you can use brainwave entrainment to reduce stress and anxiety; increase focus, concentration, motivation, confidence, and psychomotor performance; and also to reach deeper levels of relaxation during meditation.
This is in no way harmful to the brain nor the body, although listeners must be sure that the sounds they are listening to have been created by someone in the know, like Derrick, as should these frequencies be incorrectly applied, undesired or even opposite results could occur.
To read more of Derrick's teachings on the subject, please see his book 'Mathemagical Music Production' on Amazon or visit his alternative website.
Where music is concerned, tracks can be specially created with specific sound frequencies that will call on the brain’s organic frequencies, leading them to follow or echo the suggested frequencies within each specific track.
Both our bodily functions and our moods depend on the specific states created within our brain, these being:
Epsilon: 0 to 1hz - insight, self-awareness, unity, universal mind, deep healing.
Low Delta: 1 to 2hz - deep meditation, deep sleep, endorphin release, healing.
Delta: 2 to 4hz - transcendental meditation, sleep, natural opiate release.
Theta: 4 to 8hz - lucid dreaming, hallucinogenic state, intuition.
Alpha: 8 to 16hz - calm, daydreaming, visualization, memory and serotonin release.
Beta: 16 to 32hz - alert, normal waking state, concentration, critical thought.
Gamma: 32 to 64hz - highly alert, insight, information processing, hyperactivity.
High gamma: 64 to 128hz - self-awareness, unity, super-conscious, deep insight, healing.
Entrainment is the name used when a sound affects an object (in this case the human brain). For example; a bit of fluff stuck to a speaker, an opera singer breaking a glass with sound, a scientist using acoustic levitation to levitate a drop of water, even shrimps creating light from sound using sonoluminescence - these are all examples of entrainment.
Sound does not only have an effect on your mind (your thoughts), it also affects your body (your brain). If you turn your sound system's speakers loud enough, you will feel this for yourself. It is a fact that listening to fast music will make you feel excited, while listening to slow music will have a relaxing effect.
This works on all levels - affecting your brainwaves, heart rate and blood pressure. It's a lot more specific than just feeling relaxed or excited, though.
Listening to a drum beat at 135bpm, for example, will eventually entrain your brainwaves to exactly 135bpm which would put you into a trance-like state.
Because all sounds are vibrations it is true that all sounds, rhythms and tones included, will have entraining effects. Beats on a drum and a smooth audio tone are actually very similar, depending on how close you zoom into the waveform. Even a high-pitched tone like 288hz will create some form of entrainment, even at this high frequency.
Scientists have mapped out our brainwaves using EEG machines for years. They have tested various audio frequencies on people while they're connected to these machines, and have thus proven that our brainwaves adjust themselves to the same frequencies as the sound played into our ears. These brainwaves are then divided or catagorised into the different colorful states noted above.
The Brainwave Theory has been known by Shamans for thousands of years. Shamans will beat their drums or shake their rattles at around 4 beats per second (4hz) to induce the shamanic trance state.
And so, to listen to music that has been specially created to bring about certain brain states in order to achieve a certain feeling within the body, thus resulting in a different mood or state of being, is a recommended form of therapy that does not require the intake of foreign substances to the body nor the necessity to move the body in any specific manner in order to achieve these different states. One can simply lay back, listen then feel the changes slowly come about.
With your brain being a frequency receiver and producer, you can use brainwave entrainment to reduce stress and anxiety; increase focus, concentration, motivation, confidence, and psychomotor performance; and also to reach deeper levels of relaxation during meditation.
This is in no way harmful to the brain nor the body, although listeners must be sure that the sounds they are listening to have been created by someone in the know, like Derrick, as should these frequencies be incorrectly applied, undesired or even opposite results could occur.
To read more of Derrick's teachings on the subject, please see his book 'Mathemagical Music Production' on Amazon or visit his alternative website.