Most of the time we function in beta. While beta is good for being effective in completing your goals, this is only half the job. The other half is getting the universe on your side, so to speak. How? By programming yourself. When you’re in alpha (around 10 Hz), your learning capabilities are greatly enhanced – you absorb information tens of times faster than you would otherwise. So when you program yourself for success at this level, you are also sending a message to the other side.

On the other side is a greater intelligence, which can guide us to our goals. If our programming is successful, our experience in the next few days will give us a chance to achieve our goal. Of course, we have to calibrate for such opportunities. One might argue that calibration alone is enough to find a way, and that can be true sometimes. However, help from the other side is always helpful. It’s not essential, but it makes it easier for us to achieve our goals, and we also become more effective.

The first question that may have popped up in your head is “Do I have to believe any of this shit for it to actually work?”. Well, actually no. You can even use it for years with success, and still believe this is just your lucky ritual that has no explanation. It doesn’t matter what you believe. Whatever works for you.

While this is possible, personally I don’t think it makes much sense to do that. After all, we are on this planet for a reason and there is plenty of time for us to meet the creator after we leave our bodies. My point is that there are ways to use meditation as a way to improve your life, strengthen your body and mind, and also begin to see things more clearly.

Meditation has one thing in common with another state of consciousness called hypnosis. Indeed, when meditating, your conscious mind is out of the way. The critical part, that decides whether you should believe a certain statement is deep asleep. And your subconscious is wide open – the perfect moment for putting all kinds of positive thoughts and programming inside your brain.

You can do that by yourself, or you can listen to a tape. If you don’t know the ways in which your subconscious works, get some tapes. It’s best to use a professional hypnotist to implant thoughts in your mind, because otherwise – you don’t know what you are getting into.

Meditating is safe. Meditating is good for both your mind and your body. With enough experience – you can begin to see all kinds of positive changes. And they are all simply the result of you being aware of your body and being able to control it.

It used to take monks decades before they learn how to go into profound meditative states. They practiced calming down, slowing down the world and letting go of their thoughts. It really was a slow, but rewarding process.

As every other state we can go in, meditation has it’s own frequencies. They fall in the theta range, which is also associated with dreaming, and intuitive thinking. With the right brainwave entrainment sounds, you can drift away into a soothing and revitalizing state, where everything is simple.

And do you know what the really cool thing about it is? That you can remember this state after you go out of it. You can learn years of practice in about a week or so. And this is a realistic objective. Your mind knows when it feels good. And it always wants to get more of that “feel-good” vibe. In the busy everyday life that we live, meditation is what your mind needs.

If you’re wondering whether you should try meditating, I can only encourage you to do so. It’s not like you’re asleep, or less aware. Quite the opposite – you become more aware of every thought process going inside you, and you can also tune in to every subtle noise that normally you wouldn’t even be capable of hearing. Meditation is a state of peace with ourselves, and this is the foundation of feeling good about yourself and about your life.

This is the main advantage of athletes who are aware of how brainwave entrainment can improve their sports performance. These people easily get into state for a workout or a training session, and can also easily get out of this state. Almost by demand, they are able to do heavy exercise only minutes after they’ve started training. Brainwave entrainment is an integral part of this achievement.

Most people only know of four brainwave frequencies – delta, theta, alpha and beta. And they think that their brain is in beta while they’re doing physical exercises. Actually, beta brainwaves are associated with a wide awake state, but not that aware as we would need it to be if we were working out.

The actual state athletes need to get into is gamma. While beta brainwaves range from 12 to 16 Hz, gamma brainwaves are above 40 Hz. While we are working out, we get into a profound altered state – nothing we can experience outside the gym or whereever we are working out. It’s not enough to be wide awake.

You need to be even more aware of everything around you, and even inside you. The strongest athletes are not those, who have the strongest muscles. The strongest are those, who can take advantage of the biggest percentage of their muscle fibers. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? How much stronger will you get if you discover how to get into this state in every workout.

To achieve that state, you don’t need headphones. This is because you won’t be using the popular binaural beats. With certain brainwave entrainment sounds called monaural beats it gets easier for you. You just need a decent set of speakers, and you’re ready to go. Of course, if you prefer headphones, you’ll get the same benefit. Choose the way you find most convenient.

A really useful one would be a frequency that makes us relaxed. The ones that achieve that fall in the alpha spectrum. Alpha brainwaves are associated with relaxed attention, slow reflexes and calm mind. Certain subranges of frequencies can lead you into very interesting altered states. But let’s leave those for some other time, since now we’re talking about relaxation.

I’ve noticed that every time I’m listening to monaural beats with alpha brainwaves, my eyelids tend to feel stiff. Chances are you’ll feel that too. The reason is, that your brain and your body are in different states. Your brain is relaxed, and your body is still pretty active.

Since you’re actually overriding your body, it’s smart to go with the flow. The relaxation comes from outside, and you need to give in to it. Only then you’ll truly relax. You should let go of the reasons why you can’t relax on your own.  No matter if it’s a problem, or simply something you have to do, just let go of it. Yes, it needs to be done. But you’ll be able to do it far more effectively if you’re relaxed.

When you’re in this state, you can go into your subconscious. While these brainwaves are with relatively high frequency, they will still put you in a trance, and you’ll start to become aware. Because the external sounds support your state, you can focus your whole attention on what’s going on inside your head. Quite often, you’ll be surprised to find so many truths that never came to your attention.

With regular practice, you’ll be able to induce such states even without brainwave entrainment sounds. Obviously, you’ll find the effect of listening to a recording greater, than if you’re going into states on your own. And anyway, it’s nice to know you can become relaxed anywhere, anytime.

Binaural Beats

Perfect for hypnosis and changing limiting beliefs. This is the way they work:

You put on your stereo headphones, they produce sounds with different frequency. For example – the left produces a sound with frequency of 22Hz, while the right produces frequency of 28Hz. As a result, the brain starts vibrating at a frequency of 6 Hz, which is perfect for mind quieting and meditation.

Advantages:

• You start thinking more clearly even when you are not listening to a brainwave entrainment recording. If you are too emotional, or too logical, you may want to balance more between logical and intuitive thinking – then you can benefit from binaural beats. The reason is that the coordination between your two brain hemispheres is improved.
• Since it is only the frequency of the tones that matters, they can be very weak, and still as effective. This is important because the recording can also feature subliminal or paraliminal messages.
• They are pleasant to listen, since there can be music on the recording. The music won’t alter the effectiveness in any way. Actually it can make you relaxed and more receptive to the positive statements of the subliminal messages.

Monaural Beats

Monaural Beats use an entirely different approach to entrain your brainwaves. They produce beats with the needed frequency, and soon your brainwaves adjust to the stimulus. The use of headphones is recommended for the best effect, but these beats are quite effective even if you use headphones.

Advantages:

• The entrainment is stronger than the one produced by Binaural Beats. The amplitude of the brainwave is wider, which means the effect is greater.
• Perfect for entraining to healing frequencies or achieving altered states. By stimulating certain parts of the brain with the needed frequency, you actually control a certain function of your brain. This can be the production of T-cells (strengthening the immune system), new neural connections (IQ increase), the hormones melatonine and endorphine (relaxed feeling) etc.
• They can be embeded in music, and the effect stays the same. However, you will still hear them.

Isochronic Beats

Isochronic Beats resemble the monaural beats in many ways. However, isochronic beats produce the strongest brainwave entrainment, although it is a close call. Their main disadvantage is that becaus of their nature, they cannot be embeded in music. You will benefit a little more from isochronic beats if we compare them with monaural ones, but the difference is not that obvious.

How Do They Work?

When you consciously hear somebody, who is telling you something, you are able to decide whether that is true or not.

However, as we already mentioned, subliminal messages are spoken below the hearing threshold.
This means, that your conscious mind is unable to judge whether what you hear is true. The message goes right into your subconscious, thus affecting your behavior.

How Powerful Are Subliminal Messages?

Nearly 98% of the time, your behavior is determined by your subconscious. No matter if you think you are actually aware, the times when you make conscious desicions are rare.

It is all a matter of what are your internal beliefs. All psychology experts agree about one thing – your self-esteem, the confidence in your own abilities and your assertiveness are the key factors to your brilliance in every area of your life.

The skills you have are an asset, but the belief that you have what it takes to achieve your goals is vital. And it’s all about your subconscious.

What Does Brainwave Entrainment Has To Do With Subliminal Messages?

They are complementary. Brainwave entrainment can put you in a more receptive state. (brainwave frequency 5-8 Hz) In this state you are more open to suggestions and therefore – to belief change. This is where the subliminal messages come in. They contain the actual beliefs that you need to make a change in the desired area of your life. For example:

• I love myself, I appreciate myself! ; Yes! I can love and be loved!
• I achieve my goals with ease. ; I am confident. ; I accept challenges.
• I’ve got what it takes to win. ; I know I will win, victory is mine!

These can just give you an idea of the power of these messages. Actually, every recording contains around 20 statements, that go right in your subconscious. With everyday use, it takes only around a week to start noticing changes in your behavior. You will develop a complete and unshakeable belief in these statements after a period of 30 to 45 days of regular listening to these recordings.

The leader in monaural and isochronic beats products. Most of them are easy to use software products. You can export the desired sound to a mp3 file, and listen it in your car (not recommended for the relaxing tones) , or your mp3 player.
You can check out their products on the Transparent Corporation website.

Kelly Howell’s Binaural Beats

Kelly Howell’s products are very unique. She is the pioneer in mixing brainwave entrainment with subliminal messages. Her mp3 files can be downloaded for a pretty small fee (around $10), and their effect on your way of thinking will be profound – I can tell you that.