Isochronic Tones ( Introduction )

What Are Isochronic Tones ?

Isochronic tones are tones that pulse very quickly, turning on and off rhythmically. The entrainment frequency is produced very simply by turning the desired tone on and off repeatedly. Isochronic tones don’t require the use of headphones, although their effect may be more pronounced with headphones because of lack of external stimuli “polluting” the on/off pulse of the tone. Experts generally agree that isochronic tones may be more effective at creating entrainment than either monaural or binaural beats.

Unlike binaural beats, isochronic tones can be listened to over open speakers using or whole-body listening. This is called Cymatics. The brain does not perceive sound only through the ears. Have you ever been in a situation where you felt a beat in your whole body, like at a rock concert? Even deaf people can ‘hear’ sounds as vibrations in their bodies rather than in the ears. The brain and the body both perceive (‘hear’) consistent external stimuli. Isochronic tones are a relatively new technology as opposed to binaural beats and monaural beats, which have been around for over a century. You may get a deeper level of entrainment with isochronic tones than with binaural beats alone because of the whole-body entrainment.

Are isochronic tones safe? 

Yes. Brain entrainment is not brainwashing! The brain has a natural tendency to entrain to any persistent tone. The tones affect the electrochemical activity in the brain just as naturally as you would become relaxed when listening to soft, continuous drumbeats. This affects your mood and your state of consciousness – brainwave entrainment does not imprint any thoughts or ideas into your mind and there are no harmful physical effects.

What you do while you are in a particular state of consciousness is up to you! Isochronic tones can safely be used to promote relaxation, meditation, and even restful sleep. Brainwave entrainment has also been used to treat ADHD and various personality disorders, but its main purpose is to promote relaxation and deep meditation. Many people feel an extremely deep sense of calm when they listen to entrainment tracks that include isochronic tones, because they feel the beat in their bodies – this is much like a baby being lulled to sleep by its mother’s heartbeat!

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Binaural Beat ( Introduction )

What Are Binaural Beat ? 

Here's the knowledge base about binaural beat, cause to many question comes about the different of brain wave technology likes binaural beat, monaural beat and isochronic tone, so we gives you this knowledge base about all the things of Brainwave entertainment technology.

what are binaural beat ?

‘Binaural Beats’ is a term given to a measured change in brain activity when presented with audio stimulus. When a person is presented with a stereo sound with two different tones – the brain produces a response (binaural beat) which is hearing and responding to the difference between the tones, not the actual tones themselves.

Binaural beats are auditory brain-stem responses which originate in the superior olivary nucleus of each brain hemisphere. They result from two different auditory impulses or sounds, heard from opposite ears. This binaural beat is consciously heard as the human hearing range is from 20-20,000 Hz. Rather it is perceived as an auditory beat and theoretically is being used coach certain brain rhythms from what is called the frequency-following response (the tendency for the brain to resonate at the frequency of an external stimulus).

How Binaural Beat Works On The Brain

When signals of two different frequencies (sounds) are presented, one to each ear, the brain detects phase differences between these signals. The brain processes this anomalous information differently when these phase differences are heard with stereo headphones or speakers. A perceptual integration of the two signals in perceived in the brain, producing the sensation of a third “beat”. The difference between the signals waxes and wanes (this is the “wavy” sound heard in the hypnotic sessions) as the two stereo sounds mesh in and out of phase. The binaural beat is perceived as a fluctuating rhythm at the frequency of the difference between the two auditory inputs.

Binaural Beat Can Create Hypnotic Response

Binaural beats can easily be heard at the low frequencies (< 30 Hz) that are characteristic of the EEG spectrum (Oster, 1973). This perceptual phenomenon of binaural beating and the objective measurement of the frequency-following response (Hink, Kodera, Yamada, Kaga, & Suzuki, 1980) suggest conditions which generate brain waves activity and altered states of consciousness (hypnotic trance).

> 40 Hz	Gamma waves	Higher mental activity, including perception, problem solving, fear, and consciousness
13–39 Hz	Beta waves	Active, busy or anxious thinking and active concentration, arousal, cognition, and or paranoia
7–13 Hz	Alpha waves	Relaxation (while awake), pre-sleep and pre-wake drowsiness, REM sleep, Dreams
8–12 Hz	Mu waves	Sensorimotor rhythm Mu_rhythm, Sensorimotor_rhythm
4–7 Hz	Theta waves	deep meditation/relaxation, NREM sleep
< 4 Hz	Delta waves	Deep dreamless sleep, loss of body awareness

There are a growing amount of research efforts reporting changes in consciousness associated with binaural-beats. “The subjective effect of listening to binaural beats may be relaxing or stimulating, depending on the frequency of the binaural-beat stimulation” (Owens & Atwater, 1995). Binaural beats in the delta (1 to 4 Hz) and theta (4 to 8 Hz) ranges have been associated with reports of relaxed, meditative, and creative states (Hiew, 1995), and used as an aid to falling asleep. Binaural beats in the alpha frequencies (8 to 12 Hz) have increased alpha brain waves (Foster, 1990) and binaural beats in the beta frequencies (typically 16 to 24 Hz) have been associated with reports of increased concentration or alertness (Monroe, 1985) and improved memory (Kennerly, 1994).

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Monaural Beat ( Intoduction )

 What Are Monaural Beat ?

Monaural beats are used for brainwave entrainment in which two tones which would be used binaural beats are played in each channel resulting in a stronger stimulus. With monaural beats, the interference pattern that produces the beat is outside the brain so headphones are not required. They differ from isochronic tones because monaural beats are a sine wave pulse rather than entirely separate pulses of a single tone.

Monaural beats are similar to binaural beats in the sense that they also use two tones to entrain brainwaves.

Binaural beats use two tones of different frequencies that need to be listened to via stereo headphones. Monaural beats also use two tones, but they can be listened to via speakers (although headphones are recommended) because with monaural beats, the two tones mix before they reach the ear.

Monaural beats are easier on the brain than binaural beats and it is said that monaural beats have a stronger effect on the brain. It takes less time for the brain to adjust to the tones and thus you can get results fairly quickly.

Only monaural beats are the result of the arithmetic (vector) sum of the waveforms of the two tones as they add or subtract from one another, becoming louder and quieter and louder again.

Monaural and binaural beats are rarely encountered in nature, but in man-made objects, monaural beats occur frequently. For example, two large engines running at slightly different speeds will send “surges” of vibrations through the deck of a ship or jet plane. The lower pitched tone, is called the carrier and the upper tone is called the offset.

Monaural beats occur in the open air and external to the ears. For example, when two guitar strings of slightly different frequencies are plucked simultaneously, monaural beats strike the ear as beats and therefore excite the thalamus, an action crucial for entrainment. Binaural beats played through loudspeakers become monaural beats.

To hear monaural beats, both tones must be of the same amplitude. However binaural beats can be heard when the tones have different amplitudes. They can even be heard if one of the tones is below the hearing threshold. Noise reduces the perceived volume of monaural beats whereas noise actually increases the loudness of binaural beats.

HINT: When listening to monaural beats, one needs to take care to have a quiet environment so background noise does not interfere with the tones and disrupts the entrainment process.

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Theta Wave ( Introduction )

What Are Theta Brain Wave ? 

Theta brain waves are the slowest brainwaves and are the brainwave state of the subconscious mind. likes what i write in the past on the "Konwledge base" article, this is the one category about them. 

Theta waves mostly occur, when we aren't actively thinking. They nearly always occur in sleep during dreams and in meditations. So, these activities all require some sort of non-verbal thinking, which is mostly shutting off the brain.

There is one exception to it, though. People, who are engaging in a creative activity such as painting, drawing, making music (either thinking of it or playing it on an instrument) have a lot of theta brain waves activity (and alpha waves). Creativity is a subconscious process and thus the mind has a lot of theta waves.

Importance of Theta Waves

Theta waves play a very important role in the human mind. They represent the subconscious mind and everything what has to do with it. Stressed out people spend too much time in the beta brain wave state of mind. This results into a huge deficit in alpha and theta waves (in other words, they were not able to have some time for themselves in order to relax). Consequences can be that the brain produces only little to no alpha and theta waves. People often experience this as not being able to really connect to their emotional selves or to their creativity, for example. Another phenomenon is the so called "Alpha Block". There are theta brain waves and a lot of beta brain waves, but no alpha waves. Thus, subconscious material (unfulfilled creativity, memories, emotions and so on) cannot become conscious, since alpha waves work as a bridge between the two minds.

So, having a healthy amount of theta waves (and alpha waves) is necessary to be able to "access" our subconscious mind.

Theta waves do play a very important role in the human's self-healing abilities and in (super-)learning. Since these topics are too long for this article, I recommend you to read the article on the correlation of theta waves and self-healing and the article on super-learning with theta waves.

Theta Waves in Meditation

Theta waves play a key role in meditation. When we start to shut off our busy minds and simply concentrate on either our breathing or on the mere fact that We Are (or on something else), the amount of beta brain waves reduces to a minimum and our brain produces a lot more alpha and theta waves. After some time, the meditator will access the theta state of mind, which is very exciting (in my opinion). Creativity and learning are enhanced and one might also "see" very personal pictures. In therapy, accessing a deep level of the theta mind can be very useful to treat difficult mental problems.

How to increase Theta Waves in your brain

There are two ways to increase theta waves. One way is listening to binaural beats. The other one is, let's say, a natural way of increasing theta waves.

The "natural" way are special meditations. On YouTube, they are called "fantasy guided meditations". These meditations are very sutiable for beginners. What one does is listening to a person, who tells you what to imagine. You are often required to imagine a nice, safe landscape and then you start exploring it. Important words are "through, around, in, to" and so on (words that imply deeper exploration). Guided meditations work even better when they are combined with a binaural beat track.

For each purpose, there are many guided meditations. If you think, there's something deep inside you, a feeling or emotion, that you should connect with, but can't, then it is advisable to look for exploring emotions based meditations.

In the book "The High Performance Mind", one can find many really helpful scripts for guided meditations (the book has also a lot of scientific information on brainwaves).

The alternative would be simply listening to theta binaural beats. The brain becomes stimulated to a frequency the better you can simply turn off your brain from any random thoughts (it is not easy to "turn off" your brain, so unexperienced meditators might have some troubles at the beginning). The following section will show you which frequency will give you which benefits mostly. Of course, all frequencies will give you more or less all of the benefits, but each has its focus.

Benefits of Theta Waves with Frequency list

• 8 Hz - good for learning new information; good for self-visualization in self-healing
• 7.5 Hz - creative thought of art, music, maths, science; good for guided meditations; Awareness of the Self
• 7 Hz - treatment of sleep disturbances; mental and astral projections; linked with psychic abilities
• 6.5 Hz - center of theta frequency; activates the creative frontal lobe
• 6 Hz - long term memory stimulation; helps to reduce unwillingness to work (you become less lazy; I tried that out and it worked in my case!)
• 5.5 Hz - shows vision of growth needed ("Inner Guidance")
• 5 Hz - unusual problem solving; reduces amount of sleep needed; very relaxed states are attained
• 4.5 Hz - wakeful dreaming, vivid imagery

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Delta Wave ( Introduction )

What Are Delta Brain Wave ?

Delta Waves are associated with the unconscious mind. They normally occur in our deep sleep phases while humans are not dreaming. They can also occur in very deep meditations, but it is very hard to stay conscious during these meditations and such deep levels of meditation are rather hard to reach.

Delta waves are also associated with our intution. People who seem to always know how other people feel have a lot of delta brain wave activity. People who suffer from ADD or ADHD have too much delta waves activity. It is not advisable to increase delta waves in these people.

Delta waves play a irrepleaceable role in intuition and understanding others on an emotional level. Delta waves can be seen as a "radar". For example, people with a high delta waves activity sometimes seem to always know how a person is feeling even though she or he might be hiding her feelings. Another phenomenon is that sometimes you know that someone is going to call you or you know you are going to meet someone randomly in town and then it really happens.

There are a number of benefits from increasing delta waves in your brain. Not only are they of an emotional or intuitive nature, there are also special chemicals released that are vital for a healthy living (like the human growth hormone).

Benefits of Delta Waves

There are numerous benefits of having a healthy amount of delta brain waves. Since it would make this article too long, I recommend you to read my more explicit article of the benefits of delta waves. Here is a summary of all (most) of the benefits one can get out of increasing delta brain waves.

• Release of Anti-Aging Hormones – When people listen to the lower frequencies of delta waves, their brain starts producing important hormones for a healthy life and simlutaneously, cortisol levels decrease, which is often present in stressed persons. Cortisol is generally bad for humans.
• State of Empathy – People with a healthy delta waves activity generally are more emotional and empathetic.
  
  
• Extreme Bliss – Extreme states of bliss were reported in advanced meditators. In deep meditations, such people felt an unexplicable feeling of bliss.
  
  
• Advanced Healing of Body and Mind – When people listen to delta binaural beats (or increase their delta waves activity in mediations) they enhance and activate the innate healing powers to restore the body from injuries and to stabilize the mind. This makes sense since delta waves are mostly present in deep sleep and as we all know, in such deep phases of sleep, the body regenerates and our mind turns off.
  
  
• H.G.H. Release – The human growth hormone is released while listening tuning into 1.05 Hz. That hormone is responsible for bone, muscle and body growth. So, the success of going to the gym can be increased when one listens after the workouts to these binaural beats.
  
  
• Connection to the Unconscious Mind – Delta waves are associated with the unconscious mind. Increasing delta waves will make people feel more connected with themselves, have a better intuition and sometimes, long forgotten memories and feelings can come to light.
  
  
• Deepest possible level of Relaxation is reached – Rarely, people are aware of these deep levels of relaxation, because it is very hard to stay awake. In any case, you will feel super restored after such an intense and deep meditation or binaural beat session.
  
  
• Intuition
  
• Paranormal Experiences – Sometimes, our mind makes unusual things at such deep levels of consciousness. Out of body experiences can happen, predicting the whole day are only some of these astonishing happenings.
  
  
• Boosted Immune Systems – Tuning into a delta frequency helps the immune systems to work better and more efficiently.

Frequency list

• 4 Hz - vivid mental imagery; deep creative insight; lucid dreaming; deep meditation (sometimes, this frequency is also counted to the theta range)
• 3.5 Hz - very good against depressions and anxiety; wholebeing regeneration; DNA is stimulated; "Oneness" feeling
• 3 Hz - increased reaction time; regeneration of muscles etc.
• 2.5 Hz - like a sedative; production of endogenous opiates; pain relief
• 2 Hz - nerve regeneration
• 1.5 Hz - associated with sleep and treating sleep disturbances; healing
• 1.05 Hz – HGH (Human Growth Hormone) Release 1 Hz - overview of emotional relationships, release of many hormones (1.05 Hz is especially good for HGH release); some people feel harmonious and balanced
• 0.5 Hz - regeneration of nerves; very good for sleeping (I personally recommend 1 Hz though): super relaxing

How to increase Delta Waves

There are a number of ways to increase delta waves activity in one's brain.

One way issimply to listen to delta binaural beats each day for a defined period of time. For example, you can listen to delta binaural beats for 30 minutes every day. As you have seen, there are several frequencies for delta waves. If you do not know, to which frequency to listen, I suggest you listen to the linked video to the right side. It contains all delta binaural beats and each one lasts for 5 minutes.

Another way to increase delta brainwave activity is to meditate. One can meditate without a specific technique or intention, but there are meditations that are specifically good for enhancing delta waves.

One of them is the so called "Bubble Meditation".

It is best done in a group, but you can do that alone too. You start with your normal meditation habits. You make yourself confortable and calm down. After some time, I imagine yourself in a bubble with all of your senses. The more senses you can use at the same time the more vivid is your visualization (= sensualization). The bubble is just as big as you have enough space in it. Experience this space for yourself for some time. This first bubble is your "Consciousness". Everything what you are aware of the right here and now. Then expand your bubble to the size of your room. Experience this space once again. This is your "Preconsciousness". Everything that you know (information, memories etc.), which would be accessable immediately if you were to think of something specific. Then again, expand your bubble to the size of a football stadium (or of your house, town etc.) and also experience this third bubble. This is your "Unconsciousness".

Return to the first bubble. If you are with one or more friends doing this, slowly expand your bubble until your nearest friend is in it. Experience this intrusion. Do you feel comfortable or not? Continue taking in more people in your bubble.

If you are alone, you can take in the people who are in your house (like mother, brother, sister etc.). You can also take in a friend that lives farther away.

End your meditation eventually and ground your experience by making it conscious (write it down, speak of it to yourself etc.)

I just want to mention that there is another common meditation that helps you increase delta waves. The Loving Kindness Meditation. Read more of this meditation in a separate article.

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Alpha Wave ( Introduction )

What Are Alpha Brain Wave ?

Alpha brain waves are present in deep relaxation and usually when the eyes are closed, when you’re slipping into a lovely daydream or during light meditation. It is an optimal time to program the mind for success and it also heightens your imagination, visualization, memory, learning and concentration.

It is the gateway to your subconscious mind and lies at the base of your conscious awareness. The voice of Alpha is your intuition, which becomes clearer and more profound the closer you get to 7.5Hz.

Alpha waves can be seen as the "relaxing waves". Besides being quite relaxing, they also have an extremely important role to play in the human mind. They work as a bridge between the subconscious part of the mind (theta waves) and the conscious part of the mind (beta waves).

Information, feelings, creativity, memories, which are deep down in one's mind, cannot become conscious if there is no bridge (no alpha waves), between the two states of mind.

There is a phenomenon, which is called "Alpha Block". It will be discussed later.

Alpha waves typically occur, when someone is lying on his couch with closed eyes and simply takes some time for him or her. They also occur in early stages of meditation. Alpha waves can also be induced or stimulated to be produced more frequently and easily with alpha binaural beats (see below).

There are a number of benefits of alpha waves. The most obvious are that you become calmer and more relaxed. It has also many effects on the body. For example, it slows down the heart rate, which can be effective against heart problems, the body finds more time to regenerate and it even has a very positive effect on learning speed and memorization.

Alpha waves in Meditation

Alpha waves occur at the beginning of a meditation, when you clear your mind. The deeper you go the deeper states of mind you can achieve. In terms of brain waves, these are theta waves and in rare cases delta and epsilon waves. When you return from a meditation, you surely want to remember the meditation, the feeling, the experience. Without alpha waves at the end of a meditation, you will have a very hard time remembering it (making it conscious). I recommend that you tell yourself you are ending your mediation and breathe quite fast a few times. This induces many alpha waves and you can make your experience conscious by keeping a meditation diary or by talking of it, thinking of it and so on.

Specific frequencies of Alpha waves and their effects on humans

I will provide you with an overview of all frequencies of alpha wave and their most important effects on the human mind and the body. Moreover, there are linked youtube videos, which can be listened to in order to increase alpha waves. The science behind it are binaural beats. Two beats have a specific amplitude and the brain creates a third beat, which is the difference of the two beats in the track. The brain assimilates the third tone and tunes into the frequency.

For example, first beat is 220 Hz. Second beat is 210 Hz. The created alpha wave is 10 Hz.

• 12 Hz - mental clarity; "doorway" to all other frequencies; association with throat chakra
• 11.5 Hz - association with increased intelligence and mental efficiency
• 11 Hz - achieve "relaxed yet alert" state
• 10.5 Hz - activity, energy, freedom; ability of achievement; improves immunity, body healing, lowering blood pressure
• 10 Hz - mood elevator; universally beneficial; good for learning; good against a hangover or jet lag; increased alertness due to several chemicals being produced in the body; improvement in memory, spelling and reading; can be used as a treatment against ADD and ADHD (consult your doctor first)
• 9.5 Hz - bridge between subconscious and conscious minds
• 9 Hz - balances they body and makes aware of imbalances; association with the Sacral chakra
• 8.5 Hz - no studies have shown a specific effect, though I had users, commentating that it is their favorite frequency.

Alpha Block

The alpha block occurs, when someone only has very little or no alpha wave activity. This is often the case, when you are too stressed out over a longer period of time. People have the feeling that they know that there is something deep inside them, but they simply cannot access it at all. This can be unfulfilled creativity, a very personal memory about something very bad (like child molestation, alcoholic parent(s), a dramatic event and so on).

If one would measure his brain waves with an EEG, it will show that there is a lot of theta brain wave activity going on (because there are so many unfulfilled subconscious need or locked away memories) and a lot of beta brain wave activity. But barely no alpha waves.

This individual will not be able to access that deep lying information. He will need to increase his alpha waves with brainwave entrainment or other methods.

There we see the importance of alpha waves as a bridge!

How to increase Alpha waves

People, suffering from an alpha block or who desire having more alpha waves, can do the following techniques:

• Sometimes, it can be very helpful to simply relax the tongue! The tongue is associated with talking (obviously) and talking means active brain activity. By relaxing the tongue, the mind normally calms down too. This is usually experienced as being relaxing, which increases alpha waves activity. I recommend that to do at the beginning of a meditation or when you are simply lying and/or listening to some relaxing music of your choice.

• A extremely effective approach to cultivate more alpha waves is to listen to "guided fantasy meditations". Normally, it's a YouTube video (or a mp3 file), in which a person is talking to you and telling you what to imagine. You are required to use as many senses as possible in order to imagine as vividly as possible. There are other fantasy guided meditations that help you increase theta brain waves activity. There are lots of different YouTubers making such videos. Look for someone with a nice, calming voice and follow the instructions.

• There is also an alternative to this. You can, for example, imagine your day in the mornings. Do not use any words, use your other senses and use as many as possible. I noticed that for many people it is quite easy to do so while taking a shower in the morning.

• Another way to increase alpha waves in your brain is to listen to alpha binaural beats on a daily basis.

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Beta Wave ( introduction )

What Are Beta Wave ?

i've been write about brain wave activity on "Brain wave Konwledge Base" post . and the Beta Waves is just one category of brains signals activity, and like all brain wave their appearance is directly connected to what person is thinking, doing, feeling, for example : a preson produce lots of beta wave is probably feeling wide awake. 

The range of beta waves is from approximately 13 Hz to nearly 40 Hz. They typically have a high amplitude.

Beta waves are linked to the conscious mind. In meditation, it is very advisable to make the meditative experience "conscious" by talking of it, writing it down and so on. Normnally, one slows down the brain and ideally, all the beta brain waves vanish (this is not true for analytical meditations and for meditations that involve words by either listening ot them of thinking of them). Meditators experience each meditation individually (states of ecstasy, insight, inspiration, relaxation and so on), but these experiences can be forgotten very fast after the meditation is finished. The reason is we were not really conscious right after the end of it, our brain waves were still alpha and theta waves and the experiences stay "subconscious" (the theta brain wave state is linked to the subconscious mind) if we do not "bring the to light". This can be very beneficial for any meditator!

Benefits of Beta Waves

There are a number of benefits of having a healthy amount of beta brain waves or increasing them:

• Concentration: When we concentrate, we have plenty of beta waves. When you cannot really focus on something for any reason it is advisable to listen to beta binaural beats in order to stimulate your brain to go into concentration mode.

• Motivator: It is said that increasing beta waves in students, who are demotivated with studying, can be a true motivation boost. I can confirm (amongst many other people) this claim. If you are ever bored with homework and exams I recommend you listening to beta binaural beats.

• Enhancement of language and reading skills: Studies have shown that if people are exposed to beta binaural beats for a certain period of time, they can increase the lingiustic skills of an individual (besides concentration and mathematical thinking). These experiements can be found on the internet.

• Effective treatment against ADD: EEGs have shown that children with ADD have little to no beta brain wave activity. So, it is very hard for such children to stay focused on a task. Studies have shown that if such children are exposed to beta binaural beats, they will eventually become more focused and ADD vanishes, as their brain starts to produce beta brain wave states automatically and naturally.

Conclusion

Beta waves are the "normal" state of brain waves. They are not that exciting as the others, in my opinion, but they are extremely important. At some points, it can be really pracitical to increase them if you are a student for example, but be aware of the downsides! Many people in the western world are already too stressed, which means in terms of brain waves, their minds are far too much and often in beta brain states. This leads to too much cortisol (a stress hormone that is very unhealthy if there is an overload ), stress, decrease in general health and to the unability to turn off the mind, sleeping disorders and so on and on. In my personal opinion, healthy humans do not necessarily need to increase their beta waves each day. I think it is more important to increase the activity of alpha and theta waves.

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