Thursday, 18 November 2010

BRAIN ENTRAINMENT WITH A BINAURAL BEATS DOWNLOAD - THE BEST SLEEP AID

By the end of this blog post, you will discover just why brain entrainment is the best sleep aid available on the market. Whether you are a long time or occasional sufferer of insomnia, please read on to discover how a binaural beats download can give you a great night's sleep.

So it's the end of a long busy day; you're lying there in bed, trying to get some sleep, but you're being constantly distracted by scattered thoughts of problems you encountered throughout the day. You're filled with a sense of dread and anticipation for that exam you have early in the morning, but you can't get to sleep because you can't stop worrying about it. Or maybe your general life circumstances are constantly playing on your mind, giving rise to depression and anxiety. These are a few factors which contribute to insomnia, a psychological blockage which can be extremely demoralising to the individual.

It is a problem which is becoming increasingly prevalent within the West, where over 50 million people suffer from it. The average number of hours sleep an insomniac acquires each night ranges from only 4-6 hours. Everybody's experienced it at some point in their lives; when we're desperately trying to accumulate enough rest to see us through the following day, and often find ourselves constantly glancing at the clock in a frantic attempt to get some shut-eye. In the end, we hopelessly give up trying, and by the time we begin to feel our eyelids get heavy, it's time for us to go to school or work. This can obviously be very frustrating.

Were you to have your brain hooked up to an EEG (Electroencephalogram) while fast asleep, the EEG graph would display a brainwave pattern characterstic of sleep. This seems obvious enough; so wouldn't be logical for a person having trouble falling asleep to somehow recreate this brain-frequency pattern in order to easily induce sleep? Thankfully, there exists an auditory phenomenon which can achieve just that - Brain Entrainment.

Brain Entrainment works by synchronising (entraining) the brain to a specific frequency conductive to a certain state. With a binaural beats download, one tone is played into each ear through a set of headphones, and the brain, using a process called the FFR (frequency following response), matches its own frequency to that of the difference between the two tones. For example; if 400Hz is presented to the right ear, and a tone of 410Hz is presented to the left ear, a third tone (the difference between the two) of 10Hz is produced, inducing a relaxed state of mind. A targeted frequency of around 0.5-4Hz is required for deep sleep.

I suffered alot from insomnia during my time at university in the UK; this was mainly due to anxieties concerning social and academic factors typical of the average student. In the end I decided that I was fed up of feeling drained of energy every single day due to a lack of sleep, and so decided to try out a binaural beats download, which I purchased online. The first night wasn't really a success, mainly due to my bulky Seinheiser headphones, which take a little getting used to if you're trying to fall asleep with them on. However, by the second night, I learnt to ignore them, and to instead concentrate of the relaxing pulses of the binaural beats. The result was a success, and I continued with this method for another two weeks, after which I'd managed to train my mind to fall asleep almost instantly without the use of the sleep aid.

In conclusion, brain entrainment is an incredibly effective tool when it comes to inducing sleep. They can take some getting used to, but for most, the effects are almost immediate. You can actually achieve the same mind-state through meditating, but not everyone is a trained meditator, so entrainment provides a wonderful shortcut through that process. Not only that, but unlike medication, it's non-addictive, doesn't have any nasty side effects, and you can use it over-and-over again.

Binaural Brainwave - Brain Entrainment With A Binaural Beats Download

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