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binaural beats


Choose your state of consciousness.


Binaural beats have been known about for a long time, but it is only in the last 20 years or so that their use has become more widespread, in line with the increase in use of digital media generally.

Binaural beats are a completely safe audio technology that can be used to create brainwave states equivalent to those observed for deep meditation, relaxation, super-learning, lucid dreaming and deep sleep, as well as other more exotic states of consciousness.

By choosing a particular binaural beat you can modify your experience of life, enhance your meditation practice, improve your work or study performance, even support natural cycles such as sleep.

This is possible due to a natural tendency of human brainwaves to synchronise with an external frequency stimulus; what is called brainwave entrainment.

When two tones of slightly different frequencies are played separately into the left and right ear, each ear hearing a different tone, the brain actually hears a third frequency, a pulse equal to the difference between the two tones.

Using this method very precise virtual sounds (called binaural beats) can be created in the brain, including frequencies below the normal threshold of human hearing.

This is important as low brainwave frequencies are correlated with more settled states of consciousness such as relaxation, meditation and sleep: brainwave states that can now be actively stimulated using binaural beats.

Frequency Name Associated with
>40Hz Gamma Waves Higher mental activity including perception, problem solving, fear.
13-40Hz Beta Waves Busy or anxious thinking, concentration, arousal, feelings of separation, cognition.
7-13Hz Alpha Waves Relaxation, superlearning, serotonin production, pre-sleep and pre-wake drowsiness.
4-7Hz Theta Waves Dreams, deep meditation, increased creativity, emotional experiences, REM sleep.
<4Hz Delta Waves Deep dreamless sleep, release of HGH, loss of body awareness.

It takes typically 7-8 minutes for the brain to tune in to a binaural beat frequency; shorter periods of listening are unlikely to produce any effect.

Further reading on Wikipedia.

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Some of the reported benefits of using binaural beats are:

  1. Effortless (and extremely pleasurable) super-deep meditation.
  2. Improved learning and memory, greater clarity of thought and ability to concentrate.
  3. Increased creativity and intuition.
  4. Significantly lower levels of stress and correspondingly lower levels of harmful stress-related brain chemicals.
  5. Increased production of brain chemicals related to longevity, well-being, and quality of life.

All of which are achievable completely safely and with the minimum of effort. You just need to find the time each day.

Binaural beats do not require any active participation from the listener, and so can be combined with other complimentary activities; such as meditation or study.


Note: binaural beats require the use of stereo headphones in order to be effective. They should NOT be used while driving or operating heavy machinery.


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binaural meditation

Ultra-deep meditation at the touch of a button.

Rain falls onto leaves and an occasional distant clap of thunder is complemented by the hypnotic ringing of wind chimes.

Embedded behind the relaxing sounds are binaural beats, taking you into a super-deep meditation. Just sit comfortably upright, put your awareness on your breathing and let yourself fall effortlessly into meditation.

Duration: 30:00

special instructions! This meditation requires stereo headphones.

For more binaural beats visit the meditation room store.

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binaural relaxation

Let your mind go.

Listen to the sound of waves gently breaking on the shore as you are taken safely and effortlessly deep into total relaxation.

Sit comfortably upright or lie down and put on your headphones, close your eyes, press play. The binaural beats do all the work for you so you don't need to do anything, just let yourself be meditated.

Duration: 20:00

special instructions! This meditation requires stereo headphones.

For more binaural beats visit the meditation room store.

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