I have been using Brainwave Entrainment Therapy in my own life for the past 7 years to manage stress, anxiety attacks, depression and physical pain associated with cerebral palsy.  I have made a promise to myself and others that one day, I would make this therapy effective and affordable for all.  That time has come!

I have recently acquired a commercial license that enables me to offer the latest in Brainwave Entrainment Therapy and products that you can use to change your life. 

Remember that every thing, every plan, every desire, every success and failure in your life begins in the Mind first.  This is a section dedicated to informing the public as to the nature of Brainwave Harmonics and Entrainment Therapy and what it can do for you and your loved ones. 

Brainwave Entrainment

Brainwave Entrainment refers to the brain’s electrical response to rhythmic sensory stimulation, such as pulses of sound or light.  When the brain is given a stimulus, through the ears, eyes or other senses, it emits an electrical charge in response, called a cortical evoked response.  These electrical responses travel through the brain to become what you “see and hear”.  When the brain is presented with a rhythmic stimulus, such as a drum beat for example, the rhythm is reproduced in the brain in the form of these electrical impulses.  If the rhythm becomes fast and consistent enough, it can start to resemble the natural internal rhythms of the brain, called brainwaves.  When this happens, the brain responds by synchronizing its own electric cycles to the same rhythm.  This is commonly called the Frequency Following Response (or FFR).

FFR can be useful because brainwaves are very much related to mental state.  For example, a 4 Hz brainwave frequency is associated with sleep, so a 4 Hz sound pattern would help reproduce the sleep state in your brain.  The same concept can be applied to nearly all mental states, including concentration, creativity and many others.  It can even act as a gateway to exotic or extraordinary experiences, such as deep meditation, or “lucid dreaming” type states as well as increased psychic awareness and astral travel. 

If you listen closely to most sessions, you will hear small, rapid pulses of sound.  These pulses may be harder to detect if Noise and Background Sounds are embedded within them.  As the session progresses, the frequency rate of these pulses is changed slowly, thereby changing your brainwave patterns and guiding your mind to various useful states. 

Brainwave Entrainment has over 70 years of solid research behind it.  So why hasn’t it become well-known?  Mainly because our culture is very much dependent on drugs, and in comparison to the pharmaceutical giants, there is not a lot of money to be made in entrainment: as it is inexpensive and easy to use at home with a standard cd or mp3 player. 

Brainwaves 101

Your brain is made up of billions of brain cells called neurons which use electricity to communicate with each other.  The combinations of millions of neurons sending signals at once produces an enormous amount of electrical activity in the brain, which can be detected using sensitive medical equipment (such as an EEG), measuring electricity levels over areas of the scalp.  The culmination of electrical activity of the brain is commonly called a brainwave pattern, because of its cyclic, “wave-like” nature. 

With the discovery of brainwaves came the discovery that the electrical activity in the brain will change depending on what the person is doing.  For example, the brainwaves of a sleeping person are vastly different than the brainwaves of someone wide awake.  Over the years, more sensitive equipment has brought us closer to figuring out exactly what brainwaves represent and with that, what they mean about a person’s health and state of mind. 

Applications of Brainwave Entrainment

You can tell a lot about a person simply by observing their brainwave patterns. For example, anxious people tend to produce an overabundance of high Beta waves while people with depression tend to produce an overabundance of slower Alpha/Theta brainwaves.

Researchers have found that not only are brainwaves representative of of mental state, but they can be stimulated to change a person's mental state, and even help treat a variety of mental disorders.

Brainwave Entrainment has been scientifically proven through extensive research to effectively treat:

• ADD/ADHD
• Improved Cognition in Seniors
• Pain Management
• Headaches
• Insomnia
• Substantial Increases in IQ
• Improved Memory 
• Depression/Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Alcohol and Drug Addictions
• And much more

Brainwave Asymmetry: A Closer Look at Depression

Brainwave Asymmetry

Depression is a so-called “slow-wave” disorder, meaning those with depression tend to exhibit lower Beta brainwave and SMR levels than do normal people.  Depression also has to do with left hemisphere asymmetry, where the right frontal cortex tends to be more active than the left.  Depression is commonly linked to inadequate levels of Serotonin. 

Brainwave stimulation, referred to as brainwave entrainment, has been shown to increase the levels of Serotonin in the brain.  J.B. Henriques, R.J. Davidson and others have found a very disinct brainwave pattern associated with depression:  too much activity in the right (emotional) hemisphere and too little activity in the left (logical) hemisphere, leading to irrational, overly emotional reactions to otherwise trivial situations.  Often the correction of this brainwave “asymmetry” is enough to bring serotonin levels back to where they should be.  So, in that sense, the root cause of depression could be said to be this hemispheric asymmetry and a general lack of Beta brainwave activity (under-arousal).

Speaking from personal experience, I have used brainwave entrainment therapy for over a year now and the results have been miraculous.  I have cut my depression medication dosage in half for the first time in 10 years!  Currently I am working on a brainwave entrainment cd that effectively corrects the hemispheric imbalances associated with depression and seasonal affective disorder.  This cd will be released in the Spring of 2008 and will be available on our Products Page.

Brainwave States In-Depth