The Various Brainwave States
Posted in Meditation on 02/21/2010 07:57 am by Dan MurphyUsing binaural beats will allow you to obtain different states of mind with ease. These differing frequencies allow your brain to tune into different states. These states can assist you with a multitude of items, including assisting in positive thinking, focus, learning, relaxing, achieving a state of meditation and many more.
Over the course of time, it has been studied by scientists that varying states of mind are related to different frequencies. For example, if you tuned your brain to a frequency of about 9 to 14 Hz (Hertz is the number of changes per minute), this would be associated with a relaxed state, or a state where you may be reflecting on something. What binaural beats make it easy to do is to achieve this type of mental state. Not to mention, getting yourself into the brainwave state you would like to achieve is simple with just a CD or MP3 player.
To get your brain to tune into one of the specific frequencies, different sounds can be delivered to each ear. In the case of binaural beats (there are also isochronic and monaural beats, but we’ll use binaural for the discussion here), a tone is administered to in each ear. One tone may be 100 Hz, the other may be played at 108 Hz. This creates a binaural “beat” with the same frequency as the difference of the two (8 Hz). The frequency of 8 Hz corresponds with the theta state of mind which is useful for for creating ideas.
These frequencies can be broken up into four categories, with each category targeting a different state of mind. The names of these frequencies may be very familiar to you, as they are commonly used when speaking of other topics, but mostly when speaking of binaural beats. These frequencies are referred to as theta, delta, alpha, and beta.
The first frequency range is within the 13 Hz to 25 Hz range and assists to achieve a state of alertness and also helps reduce anxiety and stress. This is the range for beta frequencies.
The second frequency range would be the alpha frequencies. The alpha frequencies are from 8 to 12 Hz. When the binaural beat is played in this range, it produces “superlearning,” positive thinking, as well as a state of light relaxation.
Theta frequencies occur between 4 Hz to 7 Hz. In this range, a different set of advantages can be found. These benefits assist with deeper relaxation (which makes them fantastic for meditating), increasing your memory, and bettering your focus.
Lastly, the delta frequencies occur at less than 4 Hz. When the frequencies are in this range, this helps with deep sleep, an increase in immune functions, and loss of body awareness.
As is clearly shown here, there are a great number of benefits that binaural beats have to offer… And what is mentioned here doesn’t cover each one of them either. They require no practice or experience at all — Just an open mind to get started.
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