Binaural Beats, Brain entrainment and Meditation

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Meditation and Brain Entrainment

Many people find it very hard to meditate, they find that their minds drift and come up with many thoughts that they would rather not have. It is not always easy to chase the thoughts away or even ignore them. It’s a bit like having a song stick in your head and refuse to go. There are many reasons for this but generally there is a part of our mind that likes to feel in control, although the irony is that this part is just being pulled hither and thither with no purpose or game plan. Budhhist monks spend years in retreats and meditation and I believe that even they have a struggle to overcome to achieve that blessed state of pure oneness.

The mind repeatedly comes up with thoughts, worries, flashes of anxiety, memories and so forth. It is not used to being completely still and present to the current moment and our education has convinced us that we must constatntly be seeking something. Setting goals, achieving some, missing others and keeping the cycle of pain and pleasure, gain and loss in perpetual movement.

Meditation is a great way to stop this mind tyranny and calm the mind, letting it observe the universe outside of itself. Let’s face it, the mind’s main concern is me me me and that cause a cycle of happy, sad, optimistic, pessimistic, a never ending noise and bikkering inside our heads.

A few years ago I came across binaural beats and the idea of brain entrainment (please click the links for further explanation). By then I had been practicing Yoga (the non competitive variety ) for 15 years and had been practicing mediation for over 5 years. I often found that it took me a long time to enter the “desired” state or rather a state of “statelessness” and as I was busy with work, life and the rest I found it dificult to find the time. With Binaural Beats I find that I am able to enter the stste a lot faster using theta waves primarily and listening with headphones. Within a few minutes and combined with breathing awareness I was getting there a lot faster. I am aware of scientific research in this area and some interesting conclusions, however ultimately, it works for me. I use different type of sounds and you can get them with affirnations or without and various wave lenghths. I have uploaded a 15 minute recording Theta wave beats which should be listened to with headphones and combined with breathing awareness.

Listen Here ==> meditative with Pink noise

Note that the original WAV file was converted to MP3 for space reasons, if you’d like the full WAV file please enter your name and email address in the box on the right and I will send you a link to the free high quality recording.

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#1 | Written by Chris about 2 years ago.

I started with a mind machine that had headphones and goggles with LEDs in them, all of which was synced to binaural beats. I now have different binaural beat cd’s loaded on my PSP and I use them for the same reason you do. I really enjoyed your article and have had the same results.

While I would imagine it would be better to be able to calm my mind without using anything else. I believe it’s better to use the aid of binaural beats to help bring my mind into a more focused state, rather than not get there at all.
#2 | Written by admin about 2 years ago.

Thanks Chris, I agree with you, some days it’s easier to use the binaural beats and some days calm and stilness are achieved with no help.
#3 | Written by Stop Anxiety Attacks about 2 years ago.

The information presented is top notch. I’ve been doing some research on the topic and this post answered several questions.
#4 | Written by admin about 2 years ago.

Glad you found it useful
#5 | Written by Marco about 2 years ago.

Bianaural beats do not work properly with every person so if you want to know if this works with you, try for free several types of binaurals in:

http://www.mentallion.com
#6 | Written by admin about 2 years ago.

Ok, Thank you
#7 | Written by Adalia John about 2 years ago.

I am a hypnotherapist, but I have never used recordings with binaural beats. In the past few months I have become fascinated by the concept. I did some research and would like to get some recordings done for affirmations – any suggestions?
#8 | Written by admin about 2 years ago.

Adalia, You can download a free binaural-beat generator from this site http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/download/ and use it as base with your own voice overlays. Hope this helps.

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