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Join Date: 06 May 2010
Location:  United StatesPosts: 53 |
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Brainwave Entrainment? |
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The idea of brainwave entrainment started with the recognition that some pieces of music seemed to have a meditative effect on people. In particular there are pieces by the classical baroque composers that relax us, especially if we are sitting while listening. Upon researching this, scientists found that some music actually slows down our brainwaves.
Actually, almost any music that a person enjoys and finds relaxing will have a similar effect. If you choose to relax and listen to your favorite light jazz, for example, your brainwaves will likely slow down. But this is as much from simply siting down and slowing down your mental activity as from the music. On the other hand, listening to the Prelude from Cello Suite by Johann Sebastian Bach will more directly affect your brain. This and other pieces are shown to "entrain" your brainwaves, meaning they guide them to a different frequency. More specifically, some of these musical compositions slow your brainwaves down. During normal consciousness, when you are awake and with eyes open, you are typically in the beta range. This means the electrical activity in your brain is predominantly taking place in the range between 14 - 30 hertz, or cycles per second. Once your brain begins to follow the more meditative melodies, the music guides you down into the alpha range, meaning your brainwaves are mostly between 8 - 14 hertz. You feel relaxed yet alert, and this is the state of light meditation as well. That's generally as deep as you go with this crude form of brainwave entrainment using certain musical compositions. Furthermore, you can often reach the alpha range by simply sitting, closing your eyes, and taking a few deep relaxing breaths. Fortunately, once it was discovered that some music can slow your brainwaves, and how it did so, it was natural to design something better for this purpose. |
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