Today, we can use our technology to encourage our brain to shift gears into any state we desire. Entrainment is perfectly safe and has been used therapeutically for decades. We can target specific frequencies and routinely achieve remarkably particular results. A review of studies done suggests that brainwave entrainment is a useful therapeutic tool. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Whether we use big words like “entrainment” or words like “sound healing” they pretty much all refer to the same thing: a way to calm your brain waves to slower frequencies so as to wind down your mind and release anxiety and tension pain.

Our primary objective for wellness is the release of trauma, a return to self-awareness, and the establishment of a renewed relationship with our body. When our body is in a calm, and we’re in a meditative, dreamy, peaceful and relaxed state, it becomes easier to detach from our worries and dark thoughts. This is why mind relaxation techniques help to create some mental space to think and solve problems. But it’s not always easy to get there without some help. Sound therapy can help.

The concept of sound therapy is simple: by listening to specific audio frequencies, we can reset our brains and move into healing states of consciousness while reducing anxiety and pain.  Our bodies naturally relax, subjective pain levels decrease, and our blood pressure goes down. When our brain is busy processing the sounds coming into our ears, this affords us some relief from the constant thinking we usually do.

Better yet, if we combine healing audio plus vibration as from a subwoofer, we can put our entire mindbody into a self-healing trance. For instance, listening to binaural frequencies on headphones while simultaneously humming along, we can enhance the entrancement effect upon ourselves. Often our voice can create resonating frequencies with the sound from our earbuds, whereby our voice adds attention-grabbing interest to the binaural-beat effect.

Taking this one step further with the addition of a wearable haptic device such as the Woojer Strap, we can then add literal vibration into our body which feels a lot like wearing a personal subwoofer. Tissue vibration provides us with cellular relaxation and deepens the effect of that trance-like state you’re after.

In many people’s experience, healing sounds can provide a form of instant meditation (if we allow it to happen). When we combine audible healing frequencies while introducing the addition of vibration into our bodies by humming or by wearing an acoustic vibration device, we can achieve deep meditative, self-healing states with relative ease.

Sound waves to our ears are like thoughts to our soul.

Everything from drums, gongs, and singing bowls, to tuning forks, chanting, and humming have been used for sound healing by every civilization on Earth. Sound healing adherents say that listening to percussive instruments like gongs, or the harmonics generated by Tibetan singing bowls and tuning forks reduces stress and can place the listener into a meditative state. https://qz.com/

The human voice is likely the most healing sound on the planet. Your own voice can be used to help heal yourself. Chanting isn’t something as esoteric as it sounds; it’s just a form of monotone singing. When we sing or otherwise make sustained sound through our vocal cords, whether chanting or humming, all the cells in our upper body feel the vibrations. If we do it right, we can make our entire chest, abdomen, and neck resonate with the healing sound of our voice. This vibration helps to relax the cells in our body.

This is what sound therapy is all about.

Therefore, chanting or humming is quite an energetic healing activity. It forces us to breathe more deeply, providing more oxygen to fuel your cell’s energy generation. The resonance of your voice in your chest, neck, stomach, and shoulders, vibrates your very cells, allowing you to calm yourself down all the way to the cellular level and into your bones.

There are many ways to find a sense of inner calm. Peace in our heads, less anxiety, stress, and pain. That’s all we want. We’ll do almost anything to find it. Brainwave Entrainment is a specific form of sound therapy.

Healing audio can bring us inner calm, and it works for almost everyone. However, our positive intent and attitude play a huge role in how well it works. Having a positive attitude is a rule which applies equally well to self-healing from chronic pain as to remission from cancer.

Listening to audio specifically designed for “brainwave entrainment” can result in calmness, focus, flow states, optimal performance, peace of mind, a sense of purpose, and renewed determination. Most people report genuinely reduced pain and anxiety levels. Plus, it helps us to regain a balanced composure and elevate belief in ourselves by putting us into a state of mind where our dark thoughts can’t be heard. This is what finally allows us to relax or even fall asleep.

Listening to healing audio is a great way to start our days calm and focused. It’s also an excellent way to help get to sleep at night. Some say meditation takes years of practice before we can consciously reach hypnotic states. Audio entrainment can take you to that same state of mind in just about 10 minutes with relatively little effort.  Thus all the same benefits expected from meditation can be had only by listening to some binaural beats designed to encourage your brain into more peaceful patterns.

During deep meditation, people experience a disconnection of self from their thoughts and body somatics; this is also referred to as ‘dissociation’ in psychological terms. Interestingly, the word meditation is only one letter different from medication. So, we could think of audio healing therapy as a form of meditation medication, without any life-threatening side-effects.

Audio-visual brain-calming dissociation “is rapid, requires only 4 to 10 minutes in most cases and provides an excellent means for clearing the mind of destructive, fearful thoughts and allowing the person to relax and restabilize.” (Siever, 2000). https://mindalive.com/default/assets/File/Article%20-%2007-PTSD.pdf