Here are some excerpts from a particularly educational article I found on brainwave entrainment. I think this is a nice bridge between two seemingly opposite activities: using sound to encourage a meditative state, like the float environment — with the absence of sound, light and touch — is used to encourage a meditative state. It’s interesting to see the benefits presented from a biochemical perspective, and that those benefits are similar to those experienced from floating. It’s actually the meditative state itself, encouraged by these two healing modalities, that yields these benefits. People, tune in: meditation doesn’t necessarily have to be sitting quietly in a room with your eyes closed. It’s a state of mind. This meditative state reduces stress and strengthens your immune system. Find your favorite way to achieve this healing mental state.
Anyway, here are some interesting quotes:
What is Brainwave Entrainment?
Essentially ‘entrainment’ is a process of synchronising two different beats so that they become harmonious. Brainwave entrainment is an assisted form of meditation using sound or light pulses or both.
Your body contains an autonomic entrainment mechanism that syncs you up with strong, external rhythms, pulses or beats. We naturally entrain to the rhythms around us, although we are not aware of it most of the time.
Brain entrainment can be brought about by means of sounds that entrain brainwaves into certain natural and beneficial frequencies.
Think of it like a piano that needs re-tuning in order to play the notes at the right pitch. The process works by ‘entraining’ the brain to work better and become more in tune with its optimal mode of functioning.”
…and…
Over time, due to a change in hormone levels in your body, you will:
- Experience greater vitality and look younger than your age.
- Think more effectively
- Be more creative
- Possess deeper insights
- Be more emotionally balanced and expressive
- Be more congruent in your actions and productivity
- Your body is enabled to produce hormones essential for growth and rejuvenation.
Your stress hormones, cortisol, decreases as other hormones such as serotonin, catecholamines, DHEA, melatonin, endorphins and HGH increase.
You can read the full article on zenlama.com
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