The ABC’s of Actively Being Conscious – Day 28
Harmonizing and unifying thoughts, self awareness and insight, simultaneous processing, produced during hypnotic states.
Beta (12 to 30 hz) – Alert & Analytical
Normal waking consciousness, relaxed yet focused, aware of self and surroundings, analytical, mental processing, peak performance.
Alpha (8 to 12 hz) – Creative & Intuitive
Relaxed state, common in focused meditation, creative, resourceful, calm, at ease, whole brain integration, and beginning of higher levels of awareness.
Theta (4 to 8 hz) – Integrative
Threshold of subconscious between waking and sleeping, dreaming, access to altered states, intuitive, creative, imaginative, “oneness”, “knowing”, can be drowsy.
Delta (.1 to 3.5 hz) – Restorative & Healing
Deep, dreamless sleep, non-REM sleep, trance, deep intuition, unconscious.
Flip it Around to Entrain Your Brain
Scientists have also discovered that you can use this idea the other way around.
That is, if you expose your brain to a particular frequency, you will encourage that state of mind to occur. This occurs naturally due to a principle called the frequency following response.
Using brainwave frequencies this way is called “brain entrainment”.
You’ll also find that if you use a certain entrainment frequency frequently (sorry, couldn’t help it), it’s easier for you to slip into that state at will — naturally, and without any help.
Binaural Beat Audios
The tricky thing is that brainwave frequencies are too low to be detected by the human ear.
To get around this, technicians use the fact that waves are additive and subtractive (remember high school physics?) This enables them to use two sound waves that are within our range of hearing, but whose difference equals the wavelength of the desired brainwave frequency.
