Brainwave entrainment: Rest for the gifted brain

On her Gifted Universe site, Elisa provides a good summary of brainwave entrainment. Here is an excerpt:

How to shut or slow down the hamster wheel of a gifted mind? This is question I’ve been asked and have sometimes asked myself.

Truthfully, it’s only recently that I’ve become aware of the potential for my brain to ramp up – intellectually and emotionally. Totally randomly, I came across brainwave entrainment through binaural beats. I had never heard of such a thing but here’s an overview of how it can help rest your mind…

Brainwave Entrainment

We have different brainwaves that track at different frequencies. Brainwaves can be affected by external stimuli and induced into patterns associated with sleep, being relaxed etc. Visual and auditory stimuli can shift a person’s brainwaves into more regulated patterns.

Binaural Beats

Binaural beats are a form of stimuli to slow down your brain. Apparently, if a person listens to a sound at 100Hz in one ear (for example) and a sound of 104Hz in the other ear, the brain creates a response for the difference between the two: binaural beats. If you pitch two sounds exactly 4Hz apart , the 4Hz beat created by your brain is similar to the natural brainwave pattern while sleeping. The threshold of binaural beats is below the spectrum of how people are able to hear but you still feel the effect.

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