Brainwave Entrainment Freebies and Other Stuff

RussM — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:39:09 +0000

For those unfamiliar with brainwave entrainment, here’s a short, get-to-know-you introduction. Essentially, brainwaves are electrical responses by the brain. You’ve seen them before—represented by those squiggly up and down lines that show up on printouts or monitors. They are measuring brainwave frequency patterns. They tell us how active our brain is. If the patterns are fairly active, we’re likely in a beta state (the normal walking around awake state). If we’re pretty relaxed, we’re likely generating some alpha waves. When we’re dreaming, we’re in the theta state. And when we’re in deep sleep, that’s delta. So why should we care what our brainwaves are doing? I’ll explain.

Specific brainwave patterns can be used for many things. Brainwave frequencies can be used for migraine relief, accelerated learning, insomnia, self-hypnosis or meditation, alcohol or drug addictions, depression, arthritis, and an almost endless list of purposes. Here’s a pretty comprehensive list of brainwave frequencies and their possible uses.

Creating specific brainwave frequencies through binaural beat technology and other methods has been around for quite some time now. Through various methods, your brain can be lead or “entrained” into very specific brainwave frequencies (or combinations of frequencies) which are ideal for any number of purposes.

Oh yeah, here’s that free brainwave entrainment stuff:

The Unexplainable Store has a free 10 minute sample of brainwave entrainment through binaural beat technology. They also offer free brain tips and techniques if you join their email list. I enjoyed listening to their sample and thought it was better than many I’ve listened to over the years. They also have a very cool list of brainwave entrainment mp3s in their store, including Lucid Dreaming, Confidence, Past Life Regression, Memory Enhancer, and a host of other titles.

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The Super Mind Evolution System website has a page of freebies that includes a free Alpha Mind Control mp3 Audio (brainwave entrainment) and other goodies. Here’s what they say about the mp3:

The research has found that listening to the Alpha track twice a day, at approximately the same time every day for 30 days, will yield extraordinary results creating cerebral hemispheric synchronization, sense of peace and well being, clarity of thought and significant reduction in the harmful effects of stress.

They also offer access to a Super Dreams System and three Power Reports (Beyond Visualization, The Evolution of Mankind, and Secret Research is Finally Revealed). You have to join with their free membership to get the goodies, but you can always opt off their mailing list if you want. I listened to the mp3 and read one of the power reports. Some interesting and informative stuff.

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Transparent Corporation is a brainwave entrainment website that offers software (Mind WorkStation, Mind Stereo, and NeuroProgrammer2) that you can try out for free for a couple of weeks. I own one of their older programs, Brain Sound Studio. With this nifty software, I can embed brainwave entrainment frequencies of my choice into any sound file. Cool stuff. This is a very informative website with lots of information and a very good forum community. They also sell other brainwave entrainment products.

Hope you enjoy the free stuff!

That Fuzzy Old Subconscious

RussM — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:14:42 +0000

I often marvel at just how fuzzy the subconscious mind seems to be. I notice my subconscious mind the most when I’m about to go to sleep or when I wake up in the middle of the night and then go back to sleep. It’s not unusual for me to begin to see rather weird random imagery (phantasmagoria) right before I drop off to sleep. Images that seem to come out of nowhere and don’t seem connected to anything. This usually occurs after my conscious mind has pretty much stopped being active and I move into that rare state where my conscious, thinking mind has shut down but I’m still aware and conscious. It usually only lasts for several seconds or on and off again for about a minute before I drop off. Another instance of being aware within our subconscious is lucid dreaming.

Many years ago I experimented with lucid dreaming and out of body experiences. I had read several books on the subjects and decided to use hypnosis before I went to sleep at night to help induce lucid dreams. I would read over my short little script before I went to sleep (I’d also include the subject I wanted my lucid dream to be about). I’d often explore past lives.

The lucid dreams would occur in two ways. Sometimes I would become aware that I was sleeping. I would then roll out of bed (not my physical body, of course) and be on all fours on the carpet. I could feel the carpet and I’d also feel a great sense of excitement that I was about to begin an exciting journey. I’d get up and head towards the window at the east side of our bedroom. Our bedroom was a large attic bedroom and the windows on each end were quite small. But when I’d get to the east side window, the window would suddenly become quite large and I could open the window and jump out and begin to fly. And before I’d know it, I was flying into a past life scene. Extremely trippy stuff.

The second way in which I would begin a lucid dream is more typical of a lucid dream. I would wake up in the middle of the night, and before I dropped off back to sleep, I’d repeat to myself several times, “I am awake in the dream.” I’d repeat the phrase perhaps four or six times and then I’d try to keep my awareness intact as I dropped off. And as I slipped into a dream state, I would maintain my conscious awareness.

Lucid states don’t generally last a long time, though I’ve had a few lucid dreams that have lasted quite a while. There are a few things I’ve learned through my lucid dreaming I’d like to share. I used to use some tricks I’d read about to keep a dream scene going when I felt it was about to dissipate. But a friend of mine once suggested that rather than trying to control the dream, which I was apt to do, I should simply try to witness the dream without become emotionally involved or attached. I tried it and the results were spectacular.

Normally in a lucid dream, the colors are very vivid and objects have a tangible feel to them. When I would simply “witness” the lucid dream, the scenes would last much longer than normal and the colors were even more vivid than usual.

One side effect that eventually caused me to quit my lucid dreaming experiences was the lack of rest I got. When you’re lucid dreaming, your conscious mind isn’t getting the rest it usually does during sleep. I’d often be quite tired during those days after spending time the previous night lucid dreaming.

So why am I talking about phantasmagoria and lucid dreaming on a hypnosis site? Because to experience or become aware of the transitional state–as happens when you experience phantasmagoria and lucid dreaming–between waking and sleeping can give you a better understanding of the state of mind you’re trying to achieve for hypnosis. A state of mind in which you are extremely relaxed; your thinking mind is taking a little vacation; your mind is highly focused on the subject at hand; and yet, you are extraordinarily aware.

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Brainwave Entrainment Freebies and Other Stuff

Oh yeah, here’s that free brainwave entrainment stuff:

That Fuzzy Old Subconscious