What do you suppose is the final frontier? I believe it is the brain. The brain is far from understood right down to the electrical pulses that show up in electroencephalographs, commonly known as brainwaves.

Scientists have named the brain’s outer parts, some of the inner workings, some of the chemicals inside and what they do; but there is so much scientists don’t understand at all about the brain. Can Alzheimer’s be controlled? Is is possible to increase a person’s intelligence quotient? What causes mood disorders like bipolar or schizophrenia? Can ADHD, ADD, autism and epilepsy be cured? Are these things linked to brainwaves?

There are scientists using chemicals to change brain chemistry. Other scientists argue for mental stimulation to put off the onset of Alzheimer’s. Another group of scientists thinks that certain sound waves that imitate certain brainwaves can increase intelligence, creativity, control pain or alter psychological states.

It is not a coincidence that the mind has brainwave activity and that music also is made of wave activity.  Most people love music. Music moves people to sing, dance, relax and even fall asleep.. It’s full of sound wave frequencies that react with our brainwave frequencies. In one scientific study, “Auditory Driving as a Ritual Technology: A Review and Analysis,” 2005, Gabe Turow states that he has evidence that music alters mood and has been useful in treating various illnesses probably by altering the brainwave patterns. External sound waves alter the body’s brainwaves.

This is called Brainwave entrainment. Brainwave entrainment is any practice that aims to cause brainwave frequencies to fall into step with an external periodic stimulus having a frequency corresponding to the intended brain-state. This can be auditory and/or visual stimulation.

In other words when Brainwave Entrainment exposes the brain to external specialized tones or sights that are pulsed at specific frequencies, the brain will synchronize its own electrical impulses to that same frequency. This means the brain becomes “entrained” to (matched to) the specific frequency of the pulses. This gives a person the ability to choose the primary frequency he wants to experience in the brain. The choice is made by choosing to listen to certain frequencies.

For a person to guide the brain into higher and faster frequency brainwave patterns, he chooses to listens to music in the beta wave length (which range is between 13-40 Hz). In a 1999 study by Frederick J. Lubar et. al., they discovered that when a person listens to sound waves at 18.5 Hz, some people’s brains responded by increasing to 18.5 Hz EEG activity. If the people tested both saw visual sights that pulsed at 18.5 Hz and heard auditory waves, almost half of their brains reached 18.5 Hz EEG activity. This is generally considered within the lower range of Beta brainwaves.

Many of the people in this study saw a reduction in symptoms while they were on this program. Some of the symptoms that were reduced include muscle fatigue, insomnia, dizziness, headache, and TMJ pain. It appears that an external source of sound waves can have an effect on the brain.

There have been studies that show this is temporary and others that it is permanent. While more study needs to be done, it appears that external sound waves do affect brainwaves.

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