Brain Entrainment Explained

By Jessica Alvarez

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Can you imagine waking up happy to face the day? If you've been through months of therapy and counseling to help your depression, and only feel a little better each day, try something that dramatically works: brain entrainment. When you listen to a brain entrainment CD, your brain creates endorphins to help you feel blissful in the moment, but you're also changing your brain wave patterns for the long-term, to help you become more balanced. When your brain wave patterns are balanced between hemispheres, you feel a deep and lasting happiness and joy in being alive. Another benefit is that your threshold for stress is raised, causing you to be able to emotionally handle more stress without resorting to your old coping mechanisms.

Your brain wave patterns can be externally manipulated. You know this if you've experienced a pattern of flow and deep concentration when you're engaged in an activity you enjoy, like painting, knitting, and even mechanics. If you do these things enough, then just picking up the paintbrush, knitting needle or wrench can send you into instant relaxation.

Here are the four brainwave patterns:

Beta pattern is the fastest pattern and is associated with most people's waking state, alertness and concentration. However, the faster the beta pattern, the more unease, distress, and anxiety you feel. If you could just teach your brain to slow down...perhaps you could watch your anxiety disappear! (You guessed it, that's what brain entrainment does)

Alpha pattern occurs after you close your eyes and relax. When you're absorbed in a book, or making a painting, or knitting, you are probably in an alpha brainwave state. The slower your alpha pattern, the deeper sense of inner peace you feel.

Theta pattern is associated with REM sleep, when you are dreaming. In theta waking moments, you are engaged in creativity, memory and healing, and you may have an a-ha experience. This state is the doorway to the unconscious mind.

Delta is the slowest brain wave pattern and is associated with dreamless sleep. If you happen to have a waking delta pattern moment, rarely attained even with traditional meditation, you can experience a feeling of unity and oneness with everything. The brain entrainment technology I use slowly takes you through the brainwave patterns and holds you in a delta state, where you attain profound acceleration in your growth.

Transformation takes time, whether you're talking about transforming yourself or the entire world. When you start by transforming yourself for the better, you affect the people around you, and they begin their own changes, eventually transforming the world. That's living on purpose!