Everything You Need To Know About Binaural Beats
Tuning your brain with just stereo pair of headphones!

Binaural beats are unique sounds recorded in such a way that they adjust the brain wave frequencies of the listener automatically. Through a technological technique known as brain entrainment, binaural beats can change the mental and physical state of anyone who listens.

Research has shown that certain brainwaves, like concentrated relaxation, are ideal for learning and holding new information while delta brainwave states create relaxed healing sleep. Until the invention of binaural beats recordings, the only means to make deliberate changes in your brainwave states was by practising deep meditation. For thousands of years this type of meditation has only been possible for practitioners of meditation with over 20 years experience - such as Zen Buddhist Monks.

But, through the use of binaural beats it is now possible for anyone to enter all kinds of meditative states after minutes only by using home headphones and a specifically recorded pre-made brain entrainment track.

Even though the science consists of brain entrainment is highly complex to explore the intrinsic premise is easy to grasp. Binaural beats were discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove when he was an Assosiate Professor at the University in Berlin. Prof Dove discovered that when 2 similar sounds, which differ only slightly in frequency, are presented separately to left and right ear (Binaural) they will cause a pulsation or beat type effect to occur in the brain.

In 1973 Scientific American published the research paper by Dr. Gerald Oster called "Auditory Beats in the Brain". This paper showed how Dr. Oster took Prof. Dove's discovery and through research found that through using these binaural beats he could alter the brainwaves of the listener to match the internal beat created by the binaural beats. When this occurred the brainwaves of the listener started to resonate with the same frequency as the binaural beats. Thus Oster learned that through this technological method he had the ability to change the brainwave patterns of the listener and create purposeful cerebral states.

As far as we are concerned this would just be another scientific discovery that has lno great significane to us and our everyday routines were it not for the fact that this technology can be used in a very practical way. Many times the goals you strive for are reliant on the state your brainwaves are in at that moment. The things you do have a dominant frequency associated with each and every one. When you are in a state of deep relaxation when asleep your brain has a specific frequency associated with it with specific patterns such as Theta waves. When you become alert and energized your brain is engaged in Beta or even Gamma frequency patterns. If you enter a state of focused relaxation when you are captivated by TV, visualizing or while when hypnotized, you enter the Alpha state. This is also the state that is entered into with most forms of meditation. However those experienced in meditation, like Zen Buddhist Monks, easily enter Theta and Delta states while being able to stay extremely focused. These states, do normally take more than twenty years to achieve by pratcising meditation, can be prompted within just moments using binaural beats.

So what? It's possible to induce meditative states at will using recordings? What does this mean for you and me? Well to answer that question we must start to look at the benefits of meditation.
Some of the benefits of meditation include:

1. More relaxation.
2. More profound more restful and energizing sleep.
3. Increased creativity.
4. A slower aging rate.
5. Releasing of past negative emotional events.
6. A reduction in Stress.
7. Heightened physical energy.
8. Increase in focus and concentration.
9. Higher retention of learned information.
10. Better post-operative recovery times.

This list is a small sample of the benefits of meditation and this list is certainly not thorough.

We can clearly see then that the benefits of having a means that can promote fast brain states that lead to profound changes in mind and body is very advantageous. We are very blessed to be alive now when we have access to different forms of this technology from Holosync and Brain Entrainment, designed for major self improvement, to individual Binaural Beats recordings designed to create specific states in mind and body.

The studies conducted into binaural beats and its affect on the mind and body shows that this technology works and can be used very successfully by anyone. I have listed some resources about binaural beats for your interest.

Holosync - review of the Centerpointe Holosync Solution program.

Binaural Beats individual recordings reviewed.

Brain Entrainment & Binaural Beats 12 separate binaural beats recordings to induce different states.