On the internet you often see incredible claims with regard to brainwave entrainment and brainwave meditation. You can read slogans like ‘meditate deeper than a Zen monk’ or ‘Meditate profoundly within minutes’ or even ‘No year long training required’. And although all this is partially true, most of it is a lie.
Yes, you will get entrained and yes, you will probably go deep.

But you also do this when you go to sleep. So do you meditate then? No! So brainwave entrainment on itself does not guarantee you anything.
So the trick is to combine what people have studied for years during meditation and use this wonderful new tool that is brainwave entrainment. And yes, used in this way, it will make you meditate fairly quickly with almost no prior training. Here are some guidelines that will greatly enhance your experience of brainwave meditation.

• Relax

All meditation starts here. Relax. Relax all your muscles.
This is a basic skill and it must be mastered. In the beginning of each entrainment track, your brainwaves are slowly entrained towards the target frequencies of that particular track. This is the ideal time to slowly relax your muscles.
Feel every muscle of your body relax. Feel the tension flow out of your body.
You can also do the same for your emotions and thoughts: you can sense your lingering emotions/thoughts and decide to let them go.
If you skip this step, you will see that you will tend to relax any way due to the entrainment, but you will never reach the depths that are possible if you consciously relax the body and mind.

• Listen to the track

I know that most vendors do not necessarily recommend this, but I found listening to the track greatly enhances the experience. At least subjectively. I off course have no idea what the long term implications are, but when I loose my focus on the sound, it is like not meditating. I then do not have the impression of being in an altered state (I know this might also be very subjective, but that is my experience).
When I do focus on the track, I can go very deep. More deep than with any other method I tried.

• Try to not fall asleep

This tip is actually the continuation of the previous one because as you fall asleep, you are not concentrated on the music, obviously
I admit that not falling asleep can be tricky. These tracks take you to brainwave frequencies that you only reach while deeply asleep. And now you need to stay awake. But this is just the point of meditation: to reach them consciously. That is where the real benefit lies. If it would benefit you when you were asleep, you would not need meditation. You sleep enough every night. The added advantage is to reach them consciously.

• Do not mix practices

This is an error I made when starting with brainwave meditation. I told myself that since the track would anyway take me too the right frequency, I could as well add a practice or two. Like mantras or affirmations.
The truth is that each meditation practice has its own optimal brainwave frequency. And if your practice’s frequency does not math the one from the entrainment track, you will have competing frequencies. Often resulting in nothing at all. Best to just listen to the track, which in itself is already a concentration practice.

• Open your eyes and get up slowly .

Like in real meditation, after the session is finished, slowly open your eyes and look around in awe. You will see how everything changed. Do not rush to your daily activities or you will loose part of the benefits. Try to take you meditation with you when you stop.

Conclusion
Brainwave meditation is a lot like regular meditation. So the same techniques to improve the experience also apply here. But now you have the added advantage of technology helping you.

Most of these tip were found during me listening to a track called ‘Christ Consciousness‘.

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Brainwave meditation is a way to achieve meditation by using sound or visual stimuli. I usually takes very little or no effort at all on the part of the meditator to do this. This is why this method is gaining in popularity

In this article I will only talk about sound, but the same goes for light pulses.

Binaural beats

In 1839, a German experimenter (H. W. Dove) discovered that when you play a sound to one ear and a slightly different sound to the other one, the mind tried to combine this two sound and tuned itself to the difference of the 2 sounds.

How does this work?

Well, let us suppose the left ear get a sound at 200Hz, and the right ear get the same sound at 210Hz, after a certain time the brain start to work at a frequency of 10Hz. This phenomenon is now called “brainwave entrainment”

This,in itself is a very strange phenomenon as none of the ears could possibly hear the 10Hz signal (this is non audible for the human ear) and the brain does not normally tune to frequencies is is presented with (mainly because they are usually to high.

So How can all this help us in meditation?

From research done with EEG, we know that the frequency of the brain implies a lot of things. Brain researchers identified 4 ranges in which the brain could operate and named them alpha, beta, theta and delta. The ranges and main characteristics are:

• Beta (14-40Hz) This is the normal waking frequency of the brain. The higher beta frequencies are usually associated with feeling of anxiety and stress. The lower ones indicate a relaxed state.
• Alpha (7-14Hz) This is a very relaxed frequency range of the brain. it is associated with daydreaming, but also with a phase where the brain learns easily.
• Theta (3.5-7Hz) These are frequencies that are only experienced in sleep. REM sleep occurs in these frequencies.
• Delta (0.1-3.5) In these frequencies, we are in deep, dreamless sleep.

But other researchers studying meditating monks, found that their brainwaves would drop down to the levels of Theta, but meanwhile they where conscious. Or at least meditating.

So people made the connecting that benefits could be obtained from reaching the theta frequencies while being conscious. Some started experimenting with entrainment to reach the meditative state.

What was the result?

People doing this entrained their brain to frequencies associated with meditation (3-7 Hz) depending on what they read in the research papers that the meditating monks showed as EEG.

And they started to feel the same sensations the monks reported. They also started to see the same benefits as the monks reported.

Some even claim that they have the same spiritual milestones as the monks.

People also started to see that different styles of meditation produced different styles of brainwaves (some at 4Hz, some at 5Hz) and also started mimicking that. With again very similar outcomes as the meditators.

WOW!

Yes indeed, instead of hard work, one now just needs to listen to music and one will be enlightened, as goes the claim.

Unfortunately, it is not as easy as it looks. One still has to make a commitment to listen to the tapes (not obvious) and a good and tuned method to ourselves (individually) needs to be found.

Conclusion.

Brainwave meditation is a potential great tool for all those that want to start benefiting from meditation right away. it is an easy solution that is probably well suited for our western society.

If you want to try it for yourself, I have very good result with a track called ‘Christ Consciousness”. it is a very affordable one (unlike some other solutions that will costs you 10 times more and in my opinion has everything needed, especially for beginners.

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On this site, I often recommend doing meditation exercises to manifest whatever you want and I heavily promote mindfulness exercises.

However, I also say what and difficult path meditation can be. I have a great tool, the motivaider to help me in my mindfulness practices during the day. However, It still is a difficult practice and the motivaider does not help in the formal meditation practice, for instance the visualization of what you want to manifest.

On the internet you can find an interesting approach to shortcut the difficulties. A cheat way to meditation if you want.

The principle they use is brainwave entrainment. Using audio or video signals they trick the brain in a state that is similar (or the same as they claim) to the one that experienced meditators experience.

Those claims are off course difficult to verify, and so the only way to see if it is true, is to try for yourself.

Over the past moths I tested a few such solutions and I will review them. I also intent to start a posts series on brainwave entrainment and  brainwave meditation.

The main reason is that since I tried the “Christ consciousness” track, I finally got some real ‘meditation’ or ‘altered state of consciousness’ experience. I did not have this with other methods I tried. I will detail and share this experience with you also.

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