According to 30+ Years of Scientific Research . . .
Brain Acoustics Technology Generates Results You Can Feel
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After 30 years of research a simply method now exists that allows normal people to quickly enter deep meditation states and benefit from the brain’s full potential.
Millions of people from every corner of the globe have experienced brainwave entrainment technology. If you listen to it and have a human brain, then it will work for you—every time.
In fact, it’s impossible to listen and not feel different, just as you can’t practice consistent exercise and nutritious eating without feeling different and getting results. Read below to learn how it works.
Table of Contents:
Brief History of Sound Science
Brainwave Entrainment Research Citations
A Map of Your Brain
Every moment of every day the nerve cells in your brain generate electrical impulses that dance in predictable rhythms called “brainwave patterns.” Similar to the “Human Genome Project” that mapped our genetic blueprint, we now have a detailed map of human brainwave patterns. Scientists call the 4 most common brainwaves Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta.
- Beta Brainwaves (12-40 Hertz) – Active waking state
- Alpha Brainwaves (8-12 Hertz) – Relaxed focused state
- Theta Brainwaves (4-8 Hertz) – Creative healing state
- Delta Brainwaves (.5-4 Hertz) – Deep meditation state
This brain map is one of the most important maps of your life. Why? Because your brainwave patterns correlate with your quality of life and level of wellness.
Your thoughts, your emotional balance, your body’s physical systems, your hormone levels, your moods, and your happiness are all influenced by your brainwave patterns.
Brain Acoustics™ technology uses a sophisticated sound science that influence your normal brainwave patterns. When you listen, you will primarily hear meditation sounds: beautiful music or relaxing nature.
But the real action occurs in the vibrational frequencies operating in the background . . . gradually deepening your consciousness into a profound meditative state of total relaxation and healing.
Brief History of Meditation Sound Science
Although we mostly take it for granted, scientists know exactly how hearing works:
Sound waves push air pulses against the ear drum, which move the mechanical joints of the middle ear bones, which amplify these vibrations to the inner ear, which push fluids into wave pulses, which move tiny nerve endings, which fire signals through the 8th cranial nerve into the temporal lobe of the brain. The result of all this is an experience we call “hearing.”
Since the earliest human tribes, we’ve used our power of hearing to access extra-ordinary mind states—through practices such as drumming and chanting. Today scientists have perfected the process with a sophisticated neuro-technology that generates precise brainwave patterns.
Over 100 years ago, a German scientist named Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered a remarkable acoustics phenomenon. When the left and right ear simultaneously listen to two pure tones below 1000 Hertz that differ in frequency between 1 and 30 Hertz, the brain detects a waveform phase differential. The listener experiences an integration of the tones as a third pulsating frequency due to the sound localization function of the brain.
Dove’s breakthrough went largely unnoticed until the early 1970′s when Dr. Gerald Oster, M.D. of New York’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center conducted substantial research on the integrative acoustic pulse phenomenon. In a groundbreaking 1973 article published in Scientific American titled “Auditory Beats in the Brain,” Dr. Oster revealed results showing that neuro-acoustic technology increases the synchronicity of the right and left hemispheres and entrains the listener’s brainwave patterns to specific states of consciousness.
During the past 30+ years, scientists have discovered several additional methods of acoustic entrainment that have been proven to reproduce the entire range of potential brainwave states. The Brain Acoustics Journey is the only meditation program that utilizes the two most powerful and scientifically researched forms of acoustic brainwave entrainment.
Scientific Methodology
To understand how neuro-entrainment technology works, imagine you have two common tuning forks that musicians use (or that you may have used during a school science experiment). First you tap the first one so it begins to vibrate—sending out a specific acoustic frequency. Then you bring the second tuning fork (which is perfectly still) near the first one.
What happens?
The second tuning fork picks up the frequency of the first fork and begins vibrating! This scientific principle (called “the frequency-following response) also applies to your electromagnetic brainwaves (referred to as “resonant entrainment of oscillating neuro-systems”). Put simply, Brain Acoustics acts like a high-tech tuning fork for your brain.
This astounding technology allows regular people (who are total beginners with no previous meditation experience) to quickly and easily access valuable meditation states including Alpha, Theta, and Delta—an experience that few people throughout history have ever felt.
The two most powerful and scientifically researched forms of acoustic brainwave entrainment are:
1) Integrative Entrainment: Uses your brain’s natural ability to integrate two slightly different frequency tones from your right and left ears into a third vibrational pulse.
2) Rhythmic Entrainment: Uses precisely timed sound cycles to set frequency thresholds that produce strong cortical brain matching responses.
Remember, the Brain Acoustics Journey is the only meditation program that uses both of these neuro-entrainment methods.
Timing is critical. Using the wrong technology at the wrong time in your meditation process will not only slow your progress, but may also cause uncomfortable experiences. In contrast to other meditation programs, the scientific design behind the Brain Acoustics Journey guarantees that you will use the right technology at just the right time to generate maximum results.
Take advantage of all those years of laboratory testing and experience the scientifically proven benefits of Brain Acoustics for yourself.
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