Looking for more insight into the relatively new music technology called, Binaural Beats? Want to learn more about how listening to binaural beats can help you with Stress-relief and relaxation?
This article offers you some understanding around this topic.
WHAT IS BINAURAL BEATS TECHNOLOGY?
Binaural Beats Technology is the newest in sound-therapy innovation. Binaural Beats are specific frequencies that help move you into a profoundly deep state of meditation within minutes of listening. They utilize a selected audio mixing technique designed to change the listener’s brain wave activity. Binaural beats can assist in the creation of Alpha, Theta and Delta brainwave patterns.
It has been documented that when your brainwave patterns change, chemical reactions within your body also change. As a result, this can have a profoundly positive impact on your entire being.
In effect, these beats can have the equivalent benefits of a deep meditative state, like hypnotic trance or transcendental meditation. Only few people can enter these types of deep states on their own. Such meditation practice can take a lifetime to perfect. Hence, the immediate benefits of using binaural beats as an aid are clear.
ACCESS YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WITH BINAURAL BEATS
Another advantage of using this technology is that the mind states it creates allow access to your subconscious. Those parts that are subliminal and slightly below the conscious threshold. Binaural beats technology is often combined with other self-improvement tools to broaden your personal development significantly.
Examples of other self-development tools:
- affirmations,
- subliminal recordings,
- visualization, etc.
This can happen because it creates deep states of relaxation and may put you into Alpha and Theta states. Therefore, they can assist in changing beliefs, healing emotional issues, and/or creating behavioral changes. They can even be used for a quick energy boost.
BENEFITS OF LISTENING TO BINAURAL BEATS
Many producers and listeners in this relatively new field believe that by using binaural beats you can:
- Create deep states of meditation.
- Boost your intelligence and creativity.
- Slow the aging process.
- Support remarkable emotional changes at deeper levels.
- Reduce or eliminate Stress & anxiety.
The benefits of binaural beats are that they can help induce these deep meditative states and make desirable changes with no effort on the part of the listener. Often, all you do is wear a pair of headphones, relax and let the sound technology do the remainder.
WHO DISCOVERED BINAURAL BEATS?
The discovery of binaural technology is usually accredited to Dr. Gerald Oster. After conducting extensive studies, Oster’s research was first published in 1973 in Scientific American. However, binaural beats were first discovered by an Assistant Professor, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, at the University of Berlin, as far back as 1839.
Dove inadvertently discovered that when two similar sounds are marginally shifted in frequency, and given separately to the left and right ear, they cause a pulsation or beat type effect within the brain.
Nevertheless, it was Oster who uncovered the complete benefits of using this new technology when he discovered how the mind and body are affected by binaural beats.
RECORD YOUR OWN OR PURCHASE PRE-MADE RECORDINGS?
There are many producers of binaural beat technology competing within the market today. It’s possible to make your own with the right software. Although, an in-depth knowledge of brainwave patterns and their effect on the mind and body is advisable before ever trying to make your own.
CAN BINAURAL BEATS BE HARMFUL TO THE LISTENER?
There are many online forum threads that claim binaural beats have had a negative or damaging effect on certain listeners. For that reason, I believe it is safer to stick to the tried and tested pre-made recordings that are available for a reasonable fee.
You can purchase individual binaural beat audio recordings to induce various emotional states (search on YouTube for offerings); otherwise, you can enroll into a binaural beat program for self-improvement that takes several years to complete.
I’m personally unaware of having experienced any damaging effects in my utilization of binaural beats. However, if you’re using binaural beats for personal improvement purposes, their use can often feel uncomfortable. All my experiences have been positive, though not always pleasurable. Let me explain.
ECC machines were utilized in the past to watch the brain activity of life-long meditation practitioners. During deep meditative states, these meditation experts, displayed alpha, theta and delta brainwave patterns. These are the kind of states that binaural beats create.
Alpha wave patterns within the brain occur during a relaxed state in which we are very vulnerable to suggestion. This is the state that you simply enter during hypnosis. Theta brainwaves facilitate the absorption of large amounts of data; while Delta brainwaves are most apparent once you enter a state of deep but dreamless sleep.
WHAT CHANGES OCCUR IN THE DELTA BRAINWAVE STATE?
The Delta state is usually the primary intent of practices like transcendental meditation. Although for many people entering the Delta state while fully conscious is often calming, for some it’s not. This is because during such brain activity, internal change occurs.
By bringing you into this extremely deep state of meditation, binaural beats technology can activate major positive changes in your emotional, mental, and physical make-up. Now this can be a profoundly life altering experience. You will find past buried memories resurface because the beats direct your brain to restructure its neural network and lift your “comfort level” to a higher one.
GETTING OUT OF YOUR COMFORT-ZONE
After several listening sessions, you may find yourself less stressed out than before. Many of your past habitual reactions to situations are now much more composed or have been transmuted into pro-active awareness. This technology literally dissolves negative emotional, mental and physical patterns.
The discomfort I spoke of earlier comes from the restructuring of your brain’s neural network as old buried uncomfortable memories are triggered within the brain before the connecting emotional response is wiped away. You are still left with the memory of the event, but you do not have any emotional attachment to it.
WHAT ABOUT YOUR POSITIVE MEMORIES?
No need to be concerned because for some reason, positive memories aren’t affected! This may be due to the natural state of the mind and body. This technique of mind/body is usually seeking equilibrium and harmony, leading to feelings of joy and happiness.
It has been shown that Binaural Beats technology creates brainwave modifications that alter your mood and change the chemical reactions in your body, encouraging faster healing and harmonious interaction between cells.
Furthermore, there’s currently research being conducted to work out if these beats can direct the brain to reformat DNA encoding. If this is deemed possible, then the prospects may be limitless in fostering the decrease in illness, genetic disorders, aiding the reversal of aging, etc.
If personal development and self-improvement isn’t your main purpose for investigating binaural beats (and your intention isn’t to get younger), then listening to recordings designed to induce specific mind/body changes should suffice for you.
You can get recordings for:
- an energy boost,
- meditation,
- to spark the creative areas of the brain,
- induce deep sleep,
- that can simulate a “digital drug”
All these changes happen effortlessly and easily. Just put on a good pair of stereo headphones, sit in a cushy chair or lay down on a soft bed. The recording does the rest.
HOW TO USE BINAURAL BEATS TO GET THE MOST BENEFITS
Whenever you want to change your mood, such as relax, unwind, balance your emotions or inspire creativity:
- Allocate at least 15 minutes of listening time to experience maximum benefits.
- Find a quiet place that is comfortable and free of distractions.
- Sit in a cushy seat or lay down on your back in a plushy bed.
- Put on a good pair of stereo headphones to play your selected recording.
- Meditate with closed eyes.
- Focus your attention on the music to help your mind settle into a calming state.
- Remember, binaural beats are like an open door you enter to do the inner work.
- After your session ends, you may want to journal what you experienced.
Special note: Binaural Beats recordings are in no way a replacement for any prescribed medication; nor are they intended to contradict or supersede any medically-diagnosed conditions. If your health is compromised in any way, please consult with your doctor or medical practitioner to learn whether listening to binaural beats technology is a reasonably safe option for you.
