Brainwave technology is a fascinating field with many potential applications.
With properly designed audio technology, you can dramatically enhance your
mind's performance and discover your own potential for perfect health and
well-being.
Brainwave
States
The CDs developed by the Immrama Institute use a specific type of audio
technology to guide your brain into various brainwave states. To recognize why
this detail is significant, it is important to understand how the brain
contributes to a person's state of mind and level of consciousness.
There are several types of brainwave states. Your brain consistently cycles
through each of these brainwave states many times throughout the day and night.
It is a completely natural biological occurrence in every human being.
Your brain does not operate in only one brainwave state at a time but instead
pulses in all these brainwave states simultaneously, with one of the states
being dominant at any given time. The dominant state indicates your "state of
mind" or level of consciousness. Because different areas of the brain may have
different activity at any given time, you may have activity in one brainwave
state in one area of the brain while at the same time a different brainwave
state may be more active in another area of the brain. Each of these brainwave
states occurs in a specific frequency range.
Beta
The Beta brainwave state is associated with a heightened state of alertness and
focused concentration. When your mind is actively engaged in mental activities,
the dominant brainwave state will be Beta. A person in active conversation,
playing sports or making a presentation would be in a Beta state. The Beta
brainwave state corresponds to frequencies ranging from 13Hz to 40Hz.
Alpha
Alpha brainwaves are slower in frequency than Beta brainwaves and represent a
state of relaxed mental awareness or reflection. Alpha brainwave states are
typically associated with contemplation, visualization, problem solving and
accessing deeper levels of creativity. The Alpha brainwave state corresponds to
frequencies ranging from 8 Hz to 12 Hz.
Theta
Theta brainwaves are even slower in frequency and represent a state of deep
relaxation and meditation, enhanced creativity, stress relief, light sleep and
dreaming. Theta brainwave states have been used in meditation for centuries.
Research has proven thirty minutes a day of Theta meditation can dramatically
improve a person's overall health and well-being. Theta meditation has also been
known to cause the need for less sleep. The Theta brainwave state corresponds to
frequencies ranging from 4Hz to 8 Hz.
Delta
Delta brainwaves are the slowest in frequency and represent a state of deep
dreamless sleep. Delta brainwave states have long been associated with healing.
While Delta brainwave states usually only occur in deep sleep, it is possible to
train yourself to remain awake while reaching the Delta state to experience even
deeper levels of meditation and awareness. The Delta brainwave state corresponds
to frequencies from 0Hz to 4Hz
Gamma
Gamma brainwave states are the most rapid in frequency. They have received the
least attention and research, although more attention is currently being paid to
them than in years past. Research has indicated at moments when bursts of
precognition or high-level information processing occur, your brainwaves briefly
reach the Gamma state. The Gamma brainwave state corresponds to frequencies of
40Hz or higher.
With the help of our audio technology, you can guide your brain into any of
these brainwave states naturally and effortlessly, simply by listening to an
audio CD using stereo headphones. No special equipment is required. As long as
you are using stereo headphones, you can listen via your stereo, a portable CD
player, or even your computer's CD-ROM drive. The choice is yours.
Binaural
Beats
Binaural beats were originally discovered in 1839 by German experimenter H. W.
Dove. He discovered when signals of two different frequencies are presented
separately, one to each ear, the brain detects the phase variation between the
frequencies and tries to "reconcile" that difference.
In doing so, as the two frequencies mesh in and out of phase, the brain creates
its own third "phantom" signal — a binaural beat — equal to the difference
between those two frequencies.
For example, if a frequency of 100 Hz is presented to the left ear, and a
frequency of 105 Hz is presented to the right ear, the brain "hears" a third
frequency pulsing at 5 Hz, the exact difference between the two frequencies.
Research has proven that introducing a binaural beat will cause the brain to
begin resonating in tune with the frequency of that beat. This is called the
"Frequency Following Response" and was thoroughly researched and tested in 1973
by biophysicist Gerald Oster at
Since that time, binaural beat technology has been endorsed by scores of doctors
and scientists around the world.
The Frequency
Following Response
By introducing a binaural beat via stereo headphones, you can guide your brain
into very specific brainwave frequencies via the Frequency Following Response.
For example, by listening to a binaural beat pulsing at a frequency of 5 Hz — a
low Theta frequency — you can trigger your brain to resonate at that same 5 Hz
frequency, automatically inducing brainwaves in the Theta range. By listening to
a binaural beat pulsing at a frequency of 10Hz — an Alpha frequency — you can
effortlessly guide your mind into the Alpha range.
When your brain begins to resonate with the binaural beat, or "follow" along
with the beat, it is called the Frequency Following Response.
While the scientific effects of binaural beats on the brain were not formally
studied until the past century, various cultures have been inducing the
frequency following response through more primitive means for thousands of
years.
By introducing a harmonically layered combination of frequencies and binaural
beats to your brain via the audio technology developed by the Immrama Institute,
you can effortlessly induce amazingly powerful states of focused concentration,
deep relaxation, intense creativity, and more, while stimulating various parts
of your brain to work together in synchronization.
Whole Brain
Synchronization
When both hemispheres of the brain begin to resonate to the binaural beat in
synchronization, this is called "whole brain synchronization". This is also
sometimes referred to as "whole brain functioning" or "hemispheric
synchronization".
Whole brain synchronization occurs when the various parts of your brain begin to
work together, resonating at the same frequencies and causing neural pathways to
fire more rapidly.
The left and right sides of your brain begin to work in concert with each other.
Electrical activity and energy patterns in your brain become more widespread
throughout the brain instead of remaining confined to certain areas. Your brain
reaches extraordinary levels of performance not normally attainable without
years of practice.
Research has indicated this type of "whole brain synchronization" is present in
the brain at times of intense creativity, clarity and inspiration. EEG patterns
recorded from various test groups comprised of extremely successful individuals
also displayed an extraordinarily high level of "whole brain synchronization".
By listening to the audio technology offered by the Immrama Institute, you can
train your brain to function at this high level of synchronization, opening up
the way for positive and beneficial effects. From the moment you first listen to
the CDs, your brain will begin the process of reorganizing itself for higher
thinking and enhanced levels of performance.
Stimulate New
Neural Development
While using the audio technology, electrical activity and energy patterns in
your brain become more widespread throughout the brain instead of remaining
confined to certain areas.
When this type of stimulation to the brain occurs, your brain begins to create
new neural pathways. The neural stimulation encourages new dendritic growth
within the brain. New dendritic growth allows for faster and smoother neural
communication in the brain, and also provides more "processing power" in the
brain. The dendrites are the many branching fibers extending from the
neuron/cell body. These fibers increase the surface area available for receiving
incoming information. The more dendrites the brain has at its disposal, the more
quickly and smoothly it can process information.
Dendritic growth is a process that occurs throughout our lifetime. Whenever you
learn something new, such as learning to play the piano, new dendritic growth
occurs as a result of stimulating the mind in a new and different way. At the
same time, old dendritic connections can become inactive and dissipate. (The
shortening of dendritic branches and the reduction of the number of branches is
associated with senility in the elderly.)
One of the goals in using the audio technology is to stimulate dendritic growth
to occur on an ongoing basis to provide an ideal situation for the brain,
allowing the brain to operate at its maximum possible potential rather than only
using a portion of its potential, and allowing the brain to establish dendritic
growth for long-term benefits, including benefits that work to counteract the
debilitating effects of aging.
Through this type of neural development and whole brain synchronization, the
brain eventually learns to achieve more powerful states of performance on its
own, so that in time these states may be achieved at will.
Harmonically
Layered Frequencies
At the Immrama Institute, we worked for several years to develop and test our
proprietary harmonically layered audio technology — a new more advanced and more
effective form of binaural audio. We call it the "next generation in brainwave
technology."
Most companies offering binaural audio recordings stop with one frequency,
introducing only one binaural beat that may gradually raise or lower your
brainwaves into a specific frequency over a period of time, usually in anywhere
from 10 to 60 minutes.
What's wrong with using only one binaural frequency? Your brain typically
operates not in only one frequency but in all brainwave frequencies
simultaneously, with one frequency typically being the dominant one at any given
time. Every moment of the day and night, various brainwaves in your brain are
pulsing in delta, theta, alpha, beta, and even gamma frequency ranges, all at
the same time. Your brain has its own individual brainwave patterns,
incorporating a combination of all the frequencies pulsing in your brain. Just
like your fingerprints or vocal patterns, your brainwave patterns are unique to
you.
Our CDs don't use just one binaural frequency. Instead, we have developed a
unique new form of harmonically layered audio technology that works to create
actual patterns, not just single frequencies. Our binaural frequencies are
combined in a way that replicates your brain's natural way of functioning, with
frequencies that interact with your own brainwaves to evoke the most powerful
response on all levels for a dramatically improved listening experience.
Not only do we layer our binaural frequencies based on the way your brain
naturally functions, we also use a form of harmonic layering with a foundation
in the principles of music science. Even though the binaural frequencies are
placed beneath the sounds of natural rain, and are embedded below the audible
level and therefore not heard out loud in the same manner music would be heard,
the brain still responds more effectively to binaural frequencies that are
blended together in a harmonically pleasing way that is soothing to the ear and
mind. This enhances the effectiveness of the audio technology and allows your
brain to resonate smoothly and comfortably with the binaural beats.
Binaural
Beats in History
From the droning chant of Tibetan monks to the rhythmic beat of a Native
American drum, sound has played an important role in healing and spiritual
practice throughout history. Primitive cultures were aware of the powerful and
beneficial effects of binaural beats on the brain centuries before modern
science recognized those same effects.
Research conducted by Melinda Maxfield, PhD, demonstrates how the drumbeats
found in the rituals of various cultures beat at a steady rate of 4.5 beats per
second, inducing a trance-like state in listeners. This trance-like state is a
result of the brain's shift into a 4.5-beats-per-second brainwave pattern, a low
Theta brainwave state.
Using repetitive beats or chanting, Native American shamans, Hindu healers,
Tibetan monks, Sufi dervishes, and practiced Yogis have been able to induce an
entire range of brainwave states for healing and the attainment of higher levels
of consciousness. In
Everywhere we turn, in every culture throughout history, binaural beats have
been a powerful tool in the healing process, as well as a guide in spiritual
ceremony and ritual. At the Immrama Institute, we've taken the research and
those thousands of years of proven effects and paired them with the power of
today's technology.
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