Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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We all long for a deeper sense of connection! Some call it Energy Oneness… communication with the Holy Guardian Angel… accessing the Morphogenetic Field… Nirvana. I’ve heard all these terms to describe this experience… and many more.
It’s about that point where you let go of limiting concepts of self, and enter connection (communion) with something greater than yourself… and eventually all that is! In my experience, we all have varying degrees of desire for a very wide array of connections:
* Connecting personally
* Group connections
* Connection with Earth
* Connecting to your work/job
* Connection with Hobbies
* Connection with who you perceive yourself to be
But the one that in some way pervades all the others, is to be able to connect with all there is… the expression and experience of this is one of the most powerful blessings that people can achieve. The more we accept and honor this drive, the more powerful all the other connections we experience in life can be!
Ultimately, I think we’re all on our way back to energy oneness. The only question is “how quickly will we get to experience it?”
Many of the processes I teach (Mystic Compassion in particular) make use of this connection… and deepen it. The methods that are traditionally used to get there are meditation, breath work, and energy work.
There are many contemporary methods which can help speed up and refine your results: EFT, NLP, Brainwave Entrainment, Energy Medicine, Modern Mysticism, etc. For the time being, here is a quick practice to get you started:
1. Relax, using any method that works well for you
2. Imagine you’re relaxing the area or field around your body… imagine you are expanding it out further from your body and that your feelings extend with it
3. Practice ‘feeling’ inanimate objects by slowly moving closer to them without seeing them (close your eyes).
4. Practice ‘feeling’ the energy field of another person (a friend, family member, or someone else similarly interested in this). Use the hands to feel the field around their hands, head, and chest. Notice if you can feel the field from their head in your hands, while they notice if they can feel the field from your hands in their head. Play with directing thoughts and feelings through this field to one another.
5. Practice ‘feeling’ the energy field of people you don’t know in a setting where you can try many different people (a mall, a busy restaurant, an event, etc.). Notice what you feel. Try to notice what you feel in the field before noticing their body language, tone, etc. See how well the vibe you get matches what you see and hear from body language and tone. Keep in mind, many of us are excellent ‘actors’ (or at least ‘distracters’) when it comes to hiding emotions.
Ultimately, you can allow this new awareness to just be part of the background. Then you can extend it out, or bring it in as appropriate.
Experiencing this can be one of the most powerful things you ever get to enjoy in your life. This powerful sense of connection can begin to be a part of all you do. Stress disappears. You become almost universally joyful. Your whole being becomes a smile.
Play with energy oneness. Experience real spirituality. Enjoy your connection with all that is!
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
This ?requency following?response of brainwave entrainment can be seen in action with those prone to epilepsy. If a strobe flashes at their seizure frequency, the brain will ?ntrain?to the flashing light, resulting in a seizure.
On the positive side, this same mechanism is commonly used to induce many brainwave states; such as a trance, enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation or sleep induction. The brainwave entrainment effectively pushes the entire brain into a certain state.
Brainwave entrainment works for almost everyone. It is a great way to lead your mind into states that you might usually have difficulty reaching, allowing you to experience what those states feel like.
THE HYPE
There is a lot of marketing hype around brainwave entrainment. It is sold with promises of increasing IQ, promoting weight loss, ?ind-tripping? enhancing creativity, concentration, inducing spiritual states and more.
While these claims are not entirely true, they are not altogether false either. In practice, the claims are based on an overly-simplistic view of how the brain and the brainwaves function.
THE RUB
People are very seldom deficient in a certain brainwave type in all areas of their brain. Usually the distribution is much spottier, with an excess in one area and a deficiency in another.
We are all different, especially when it comes to the distribution of our brainwaves. Boosting a certain brainwave state may be beneficial for one person, and emotionally uncomfortable for another. Without knowing each person? starting position, entrainment can be rather ?it and miss?
If brainwave entrainment leaves you with unwanted side-effects (see below) or discomfort, you?e probably encouraging a range of brainwaves that are already excessive in some area of your brain. The way around this is to get a brain map to see what your brain? strengths and weaknesses are, and see what (if any) brainwaves could use some encouragement.