Addiction, a persistent, compulsive dependence on a behaviour or substance, can come in many forms and can be overcome with the use of brainwave entrainment to change the dominant brainwave frequency.

Alcohol and drugs are what most people acquaint with addiction, but activities like excessive gambling and distorted eating habits also fall into this category. According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), addiction, including alcoholism and "process" addictions like gambling, to be "a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry."

Addiction seems to be rooted in the brain. Studies have found that addicts have trouble reaching and staying in the slower brainwaves of alpha and theta, frequencies that stimulate the brain to release self-soothing neurotransmitters like serotonin. Just as "night eaters" eat large quantities of carbohydrates at night to produce serotonin, addicts imbibe in alcohol, drugs, food, or gambling to produce this state of relaxation. Addicts may have too many fast brainwaves, like beta and too few slow waves. Too many fast brainwaves tend to create mental chatter and quieting of the mind may be what addicts are seeking.

Drinking or drug-abuse is a way of slowing down the brainwaves and self-calming.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the "high" that necessarily hooks you but the ability to simply feel OK that spurs on an addiction.

Medical researcher Dr. Gene W. Brockopp believes that behaviour modification and addiction recovery is enhanced when the subject's dominant brainwave frequency is lowered into slower, more receptive brainwave frequencies and he believes brainwave entrainment is an effective way to do this.

How Brainwave Entrainment Helps With Addiction

Slower brainwave frequencies like alpha and theta, when introduced to the brain, reduce the craving because of the release of serotonin, a feel-good hormone.
Brainwave entrainment may be able to help you bring your brainwaves in to a functional range so you no longer need drugs to feel calm and focused.
Entrainment may facilitate your ability to allow more variations in your functioning through breaking up patterns at the neural level.
Theta brainwave frequency is the transition zone between the conscious and unconscious where you can absorb new information in an uncritical, non-analytical fashion, thus, re-programming the mind.
Entrainment makes new neural pathways in the brain allowing you to change your self-concept, permanently.
Modification of habitual behaviours can occur easily during the theta brainwave frequency.
Brainwave entrainment is an effective tool that can be used in conjunction with behaviour therapy. Studies show that it prevents relapse because the change in the brain that it produces, is permanent.

Individuals that used brainwave entrainment as a means to overcome addiction, were found to have a decrease in depression, anxiety and craving, facilitating a personal transformation.

Brainwave entrainment can help with addiction at the core level, by re-wiring the brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry without the use of drugs.

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Author's Bio: 

Wanina Petlock works in the medical field, specializing in end of life care. She is a reiki master and a birth and death doula, and is very acquainted with energy work, both present and distance. Over twenty years ago, Wanina started using a clinically proven audio technology called brainwave entrainment to help her meditate because she didn't have the time to devote to a rigourous practice. She has investigated all the different applications for this powerful therapy and found it easy, fast, and effective . Brainwave entrainment has been scientifically proven to be one of the better therapies for panic anxiety disorder, substance abuse, ulcers, colitis, chronic pain, psoriasis, hypertension, prevention of heart attack, prevention of hardening of the arteries, arthritis, fibromyalgia, cancer, insomnia, migraine, the prevention of stroke, allergies, asthma, Parkinson's disease, fatigue, chronic pain, and multiple sclerosis. It has also been found to expand your state of consciousness and awaken latent psychic abilities.
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