What Are Binaural Beats?

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What Are Binaural Beats?

Binaural beats and tones, sometimes called Binaural Music work by creating rapid pulses of sound frequencies that are not usually audible to us.

For example, it is possible to create a frequency of 10hz by playing 210hz in one ear of a headphone, and 200hz in the other ear. The brain processes the frequencies and only hears the difference between the two - in this case, 10hz.

The tones are played in rapid succession, intending to guide our brainwave frequencies until they synchronize with the sound frequencies.

This causes our brain to enter different states depending on the frequency - to understand how we react to the different frequencies see our CHART>>

Binaural Beats can be useful as they provide a very hypnotic response in the mind, perhaps because the brain is so inwardly involved in the processing of the resulting sound?

They demand the use of headphones or they cannot be heard and are totally ineffective without them because it is only once the two separate frequencies hit the brain directly from each ear that the desired tone is produced.

Not Always the Best Solution

Though there are some fantastic products out there using this technology they are not, however, suitable for those who suffer from epilepsy, fits and seizures as the pulse can affect these people. Also a pregnant woman should avoid these.

Because Binaural Beats use the brain to first process the information and then 'hear' the tones, They may not always be the most efficient way to guide the brain! See Brainwave Entrainment.

Because our brains' 'sound mixing' capabilities reduce the depth of the resulting sound to less than a whisper, they do not provide a strong pulse for the brain to synchronize with.

Because binaural beats demand the brain to use both sides (hemispheres) of the brain, it is not possible to treat such disorders as dissociation, depression reduction etc. with them alone - and they may also be lacking in effectiveness depending on the efficiency and symmetry of both hemispheres of the brain.

HOWEVER! When they do work they provide a very strong response within the brain and the below are a few of our recommended binaural beats product that are very popular:

The Science of Binaural Beats
By Thomas Maltz

Binaural Beats Are Unreal! Binaural beats work because they trigger brain responses at a virtually irresistible level. We say nearly irresistible because certain diseases or days in a menstrual cycle can prevent their being heard and responded to. But in general, a series of binaural beats can train most anyone's brain to do something that they might have a difficult time achieving on their own. A binaural beat is a perceived sound. There you have it. It isn't real. Except to your brain. Here's what happens...Sounds are scientifically created to stimulate a desired result. The developer of the binaural beat audio is going to deliver a sound at .2 to 30 Hz. Remember, a hertz is one cycle (loosely a vibration), and the number in front of it says how many happen in a second. Many desired outcomes for binaural beats call for a wave at 20 or fewer Hz. Since the human ear generally begins to hear at 20 Hz-and all the way up to 20,000 Hz-you see the problem: the technician is trying to get your brain to hear a sound that neither you nor the technician can consciously hear. Your brain actually creates the binaural beat from tones your binaural beat technician supplies, with a little scientific ingenuity. Your audio file contains stereo tonal stimulation. It could be music, but really all it has to be is carefully controlled sounds. The one you hear in your left ear must be different from the one you hear in your right ear. For example, if your left ear hears a tone vibrating at 435 Hz and your right ear hears one vibrating at 425 Hz, your magnificent brain computes the difference (yes, Virginia, you can do math), in this example 10 Hz. The 10 Hz exists as a mathematical difference of the vibration between two sounds. The brain turns that 10 Hz into a beat, and that beat of 10 Hz sends a message of relaxation to the mind. A lower number stimulates deeper relaxation and a higher number encourages alertness. For this to work, the originating tones must be below 1500 Hz, even below 1000 Hz. And the difference between what the left and right ears hear must be lower than 30. (You can see why a lot of times it doesn't sound like music!) If the difference is larger than 30, the brain simply logs that as "bass and tenor," or something like that-two separate notes-and no instructions are transferred to the control tower. In a way, the brain is blending the tones and playing with the difference. It's similar to the way the eyes work actually. Remember from art the "dots of Seurat"? The Parisian pointillist Georges Seurat developed a style of painting that separated colors out, much like a kindergartner's palette, and let the eyes of the beholders blend them. Yellow dots next to blue dots produced the color green to the eye! While it was at first a travesty on the artistic front, it was the forerunner of modern color printing. Even today, all four-color printing is done by running color separations of cyan, yellow, magenta and black over paper with the dots not entirely overlapping, but rather coloring the spaces between the last speckeling of dots. You may have an ink jet printer that performs similarly, even if it uses more than four color cartridges. Put a magnifying glass-a strong one, preferably a jeweler's loop-over a printed page, even one from a magazine or book, and you will see the dots that are far smaller than the tip of Seurat's brush, but still the same principle. Your eye blends what is there to form what is not there. Seurat was ahead of his time. Remember early computer color monitors-RGB (red, green and blue)? Seurat was as much a scientist as an artist. So was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Dove ]Heinrich Wilhelm Dove who discovered this audio phenomenon in 1839. To experience this science in the art of sound, a new frontier, try an audio from Total Tranquility by Holothink. Would you like to entrain your brain for immense benefits? Check out Thomas Maltz's site at http://www.Entrain-Your-Brain.Com for more information and a FREE test drive.

 

Here at Relax Mp3 we do make use of Binaural Beats in some of our sessions But, to ensure effective entrainment of the mind and to ease certain conditions, we mainly use Isochronic Tones

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