The Science of Brainwave Entrainment

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Brainwave entrainment refers to the frequency-following response that occurs within the brain in response to the frequency or cyclic speed of a specific audio signal.

There are numerous methods of brainwave entrainment but one of the more popular means is referred to as the binaural beat frequency.

When two similar but slightly different tones are delivered to the brain , one to the right ear and the other to the left ear, it is believed that the superior olivary nucleus perceives the difference between the two tones and hears in their stead a single tone. This unified tone-pulse is essentially the difference-tone between the two tones, which acts as a form of brainwave entrainment to influence neurological activity .

In other words, brainwave entrainment technology teaches your own brain to create the binaural beat and function at higher levels.

Because of the size of the human skull, human beings are able to register binaural forms of brainwave entrainment when the carrier frequency is below 1000 Hz, meaning the waveform of the carrier frequency is longer than the inside of the skull.

If we use brainwave entrainment software to deliver a 590 Hz tone, for example, to your right ear and a 583 Hz tone to the left ear, an amplitude-modulated standing wave—the binaural beat— will emerge as the waveform bounces off the curvature of the inside of your skull. This standing wave acts as the brainwave entrainment stimulus.

The binaural beat, interestingly, will cycle at exactly the rate of the difference between the two tones, which, in this case, is 7 Hz. The resulting brainwave entrainment signal will entrain brainwaves in the high Theta range.

We can observe how powerful low frequency carrier waves can be when used in brainwave entrainment by looking at the difference between AM and FM radio waves. It is common knowledge that AM radio waves travel farther than FM radio waves.

What is not always known is that this is the case because AM radio waves are lower in frequency, and a tonal waveform grows longer and more powerful (in terms of projection and range of influence) as it lowers in frequency. 

In other words, lower frequency means higher amplitude or power. This increased power can exert positive influences on the brain when used in brainwave entrainment.

This is what gives AM radio waves the ability to bounce off the curvature of the earth, to bounce down into and around valleys and over hills.

Essentially the same effect occurs within the brain when a brainwave entrainment signal with binaural beats is detected; by diffraction the waveform bounces off the curvature of the inside of the skull, eliciting deep hemispheric synchronization. The resulting entrainment can then be used as a sophisticated brainwave generator.

Because of the space between the ears, the brain 'hears' the input of one differently than the other, and thusmerges the two tones into one single tone, which in turn entrains the brain to exactly the same frequency as the single, integrated tone.

A medical researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Gerald C. Oster, discovered in the early 1970’s that brainwave patterns could be induced by entraining the brain with binaural beat frequencies.

The research since that time indicates that daily exposure to brainwave entrainment activates a neurological response, in which the neuroplasticity of the brain facilitates a long-term physiological change in order to more easily reproduce the state or states being induced, even when the technology is no longer used.

Simply put, when your brain is gently but thoroughly and persuasively immersed in deeply restorative and rejuvenative states through the daily use of brainwave entrainment for a number of weeks and months, your brain will actually develop new neural pathways and synaptic connections in order to more easily facilitate such optimal brainwave frequencies.

The inter-hemispheric communication occuring during prolonged and recurring periods of deep hemispheric synchronization through the use of sophisticated brainwave entrainment etchnology leads to the new growth of neural connections between the hemispheres as well as new synaptic connections and dendrritic growth, all of which mean that your brain and nervous system are rearranging to higher levels of neural functioning.

This illustration is congruent with Nobel prize-winner Ilya Prigogine’s discovery that open systems (and your brain and nervous system comprise, by the way, an open system) actually evolve by maintaining a state of non-equilibrium through allowing an inflow of energy and information, continuously dissipating the entropy (i.e., the build-up of chaotic energy) into the environment.

When the flow of incoming entropy becomes greater than the system’s ability to disperse it, either the system becomes overwhelmed and dies, or it spontaneously reconfigures to an entirely new level of order, an order easily capable of handling the entropy that once confused and overwhelmed it.

This spontaneous reconfiguration is known as a bifurcation. This bifurcation has at least two components: exterior and interior.

The exterior bifurcation, as already mentioned, consists of the emergence of greater complexity in the brain and nervous system.

Likewise, the corresponding interior bifurcation consists of greater development in self-esteem and self-concept (i.e., ego development), values, emotions, stress management and world view.

Brainwave entrainment, when strategically applied in a scientific way, encourages this evolutionary bifurcation process to take place on an ongoing basis.

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