Binaural Music In The Brain

Did you know that it is possible to fool your brain into thinking its time to relax, sleep, be creative or even be happy? In fact through the use of binaural beats you can now easily create almost any mental or physical state known to Man on demand!

Binaural beats are special auditory tones that are used to create specific brainwaves in the brain of the listener. The reason why binaural beats can act on the brain in this fashion is due to the fact that the brain has a tendency to follow the frequencies of certain outside stimuli. When tones, or even flashing lights like those used in mind machines, are presented to the brain in a certain way the brain will create brainwaves that are the exact same frequency as the lights or tones. This is a process known as brain entrainment.

So by flashing lights, or using special tones, at the specific frequencies it is possible to create specific brainwaves which have been proven to correspond to specific physical and mental states.

So the purpose of using binaural beats as a form of brain entrainment is to create brainwaves that correspond to specific physical and mental states such as deep relaxation, sleep, creativity, heightened focus etc. In fact any physical or mental state can be produced through the use of binaural beats including a feeling of euphoria!

The most common use of binaural beats is for instant meditation. Extensive research into deep meditation has shown that very specific brainwaves are present during meditative sessions. Through the use of binaural beats it is now possible to entrain the brain to produce these exact same brainwaves and thus create the physical and mental state of deep meditation.

Binaural beats are a product of using two distinct tones. The two tones are very similar. However, one tone has a slightly different frequency to the other. When these tones are presented to the brain in a certain way the brain will produce brainwaves that have a frequency the same as the difference between the two tones.

To illustrate this I will give a simple example. Let's say you have one tone with a frequency 300 MHz and the other has 320 MHz. The difference between the two tones is 20 Mhz. When these tones are presented to the brain in a certain way, as binaural beats recordings do, the brain will produce brainwaves with a frequency of 20 MHz.

To achieve this is very simple. Through the use of stereo headphones one of these tones is heard by one ear while the other ear hears the second tone. When you use stereo headphones to hear the tones a strange thing happens. Because the tones are very similar the brain merges the two tones together to form just one tone. This works a little like your eyes. You see one image from the left eye and a slightly different perspective from the right eye. However, the brain will take the two images and merge them to form only one. The same thing happens with sounds. You hear a sound slightly differently in each ear due to the positioning of your ears from the sound but the brain merges the two sounds to make them one.

So once the brain merges the two tones that you hear in a binaural beats recording, to create one tone, another strange thing happens. Because the two tones have a slightly different frequency to one another the brain "hears" a beat type effect. In our example above these binaural beats would have the frequency of 20 Mhz. The beat does not exist and is actually an illusion of the mind!

Because the exact brainwave frequencies associated with different mental and physical states are known it is possible to use binaural beats recordings to create these exact brainwaves and thus the physical and mental states that are associated with them.

Now, thanks to binaural beats, you can create anything from heightened creativity to states of deep transcendental meditation and feelings of ecstasy!