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Beta waves are the fastest. Their frequency varies, in the classical version, from 14 to 42 Hz (and according to some modern sources, more than 100 Hz). In a normal waking state, when we observe the world around us with open eyes, or are focused on solving some current problems, these waves, mainly in the range from 14 to 40 Hertz, dominate in our brain. Beta waves are usually associated with wakefulness, wakefulness, concentration, cognition, and, when they are in excess, with anxiety, fear, and panic. A lack of beta waves is associated with depression, poor selective attention, and memory problems.

A number of researchers have found that some people have very high levels of tension, including high brain electrical activity in the fast beta wave range, and very low alpha and theta relaxation wave power. People of this type just as often exhibit characteristic behaviors such as smoking, overeating, gambling, drugs or alcohol addiction. These are usually successful people, because they are much more sensitive to external stimuli and react to them much faster than others. But for them, ordinary events can seem extremely stressful, forcing them to look for ways to reduce stress and anxiety levels through the use of alcohol and drugs.

An increased level of tension is one of the types of imbalance of neuroregulators in the body. Obviously, in such people, appropriate brain stimulation can significantly reduce the level of beta activity and, accordingly, increase the relaxing alpha and theta rhythms. For example, Henry Adams, Ph. D. - founder of the National Institute of Mental Health and lead researcher on alcoholism research programs at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C.) found that the most "bitter" drinkers are only after one session of alpha-theta relaxation, followed by brief anti-alcohol suggestions, reduced alcohol consumption by 55% over the next two weeks. significant risk, any danger and medical side effects.It has now been proven that it significantly reduces the manifestations of the withdrawal syndrome, provides a state of deep relaxation and thereby reduces the desire to take drugs ... ".

Alpha waves occur when we close our eyes and begin to passively relax without thinking about anything. At the same time, bioelectrical oscillations in the brain slow down, and “bursts” of alpha waves appear, i.e. fluctuations in the range from 8 to 13 Hertz. If we continue to relax without focusing our thoughts, alpha waves will begin to dominate the entire brain, and we will fall into a state of pleasant peace, also called the “alpha state”.

Research has shown that alpha brain stimulation is ideal for absorbing new information, data, facts, any material that needs to be always ready in your memory.

In eastern martial arts there is such a thing as "the state of the master." EEG studies have shown that in this state, alpha waves predominate in the human brain. Against the background of alpha brain activity, the rate of muscle reaction is ten times higher than in the normal state.

On the electroencephalogram (EEG) of a healthy, not under the influence of stress person, there are always a lot of alpha waves. Lack of them can be a sign of stress, inability to adequate rest and effective learning, as well as evidence of brain disorders or illness. It is in the alpha state that the human brain produces more beta-endorphins and enkephalins - its own "drugs" responsible for joy, relaxation and pain reduction. Also, alpha waves are a kind of bridge - they provide a connection between consciousness and the subconscious. Numerous studies using the EEG method have established that people who experienced events in childhood associated with severe mental trauma have suppressed alpha brain activity. A similar picture of the electrical activity of the brain can be observed in people suffering from post-traumatic syndrome resulting from military operations or environmental disasters. Since the sensory-motor rhythm lies in the alpha range, it becomes clear why people suffering from post-traumatic syndrome have difficulty in random access to sensory-figurative representations (on which, by the way, all traditional non-drug psychotherapy is built).

The addiction of some people to alcohol and drugs is explained by the fact that these people are not able to generate a sufficient number of alpha waves in the normal state, while in a state of drug or alcohol intoxication, the power of the electrical activity of the brain, in the alpha range, increases dramatically .

Theta waves occur when a calm, peaceful wakefulness turns into sleepiness. The oscillations in the brain become slower and more rhythmic, ranging from 4 to 8 Hertz. This state is also called "twilight", because in it a person is between sleep and wakefulness. It is often accompanied by visions of unexpected, dream-like images, accompanied by vivid memories, especially childhood ones. The theta state allows access to the contents of the unconscious part of the mind, free associations, unexpected insights, creative ideas.

On the other hand, the theta range (4-7 oscillations per second) is ideal for non-critical acceptance of external attitudes, since its rhythms reduce the action of the corresponding protective mental mechanisms and allow transforming information to penetrate deep into the subconscious. That is, in order for messages designed to change your behavior or attitude to others to penetrate the subconscious without being subjected to the critical evaluation inherent in the waking state, it is best to impose them on the rhythms of the theta range.

This psychophysiological state (similar to hypnotic states in the pattern of distribution and combination of electrical potentials of the brain) in 1848 Frenchman Maury gave the name hypnagogic (from the Greek hipnos = sleep and agnogeus = conductor, leader). In each Eastern philosophical and esoteric school, “hypnagogy” has been used for centuries for creativity and self-improvement, psycho-techniques and rituals have been carefully developed to achieve this state, and there are detailed classifications of the psycho-physiological phenomena that accompany it.

Note that the use of hypnagogy is not limited to Eastern religions. History has told us that such famous personalities as Aristotle, Brahms, Puccini, Wagner, Francis Goya, Nietzsche, Edgar Alan Poe, Charles Dickens, Salvador Dali, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein deliberately used hypnagogia for their creativity, using technique described by Aristotle.

Using theta-brain stimulation in just three weeks, you can learn to achieve creative states at any time and in any place - at will.

For example, Edison worked very hard on his inventions. When, in his thoughts, he came to a dead end, he sat down in his favorite chair, took a metal ball in his hand (which he freely lowered along the chair) and fell asleep. When he fell asleep, he involuntarily let go of the ball from his hand and the crash of the ball falling to the floor woke him up, and very often he woke up with fresh ideas about the project he was working on.

Delta waves begin to dominate when we fall asleep. They are even slower than theta waves because they have a frequency of less than 4 oscillations per second. Most of us, when delta waves dominate the brain, are either in a sleepy state or in some other unconscious state. However, there is growing evidence that some people can be in a delta state without losing awareness. As a rule, this is associated with deep trance or "non-physical" states. It is noteworthy that it is in this state that our brain secretes the largest amounts of growth hormone, and the processes of self-healing and self-healing are most intensive in the body.

Recent studies have established that as soon as a person shows a real interest in something, the power of the bioelectrical activity of the brain in the delta range increases significantly (along with beta activity).

Modern methods of computer analysis of the electrical activity of the brain have made it possible to establish that in the state of wakefulness in the brain there are frequencies of absolutely all ranges, moreover more efficient work of the brain, the greater the coherence (synchronism) of oscillations is observed in all ranges in the symmetrical zones of both hemispheres of the brain.

The use of binaural beats is a very simple and at the same time powerful means of influencing the bioelectrical activity of the brain. There have been a lot of studies that have proven their effectiveness for a number of applications, in particular for accelerated learning. For example, in the study by Richard Kennerly mentioned above, it was shown that a soundtrack with superimposed binaural beats in the beta range (faster than 14 vibrations per second) caused a significant improvement in memory in students.

There are no addictions (like alcohol or drugs) or pendulum effects (like hangovers or withdrawals) for this method. On the contrary, the more you train, the better the results, the longer and more stable the effect, which means the less you need to work with an audio program or a mind machine, since the brain learns to achieve the desired states on its own.

In the foreign market, about a dozen studios are engaged in the release of audio programs with binaural beats to increase the intellectual capabilities of a person, but it should be noted that not all of them are equally effective. The standard in this sense is the products of the Monroe Institute - a pioneer and undisputed world leader in advanced audio technology. The fact is that in order to form the rhythmic activity of the brain in the right direction, it is necessary to “impose” binaural rhythms on top of each other in several “layers”.

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"binaural brain stimulation"

People who have studied the work of the human brain have seen that in different states of its activity, it (the brain) works at different frequencies. They came up with names for these frequencies that correspond to different letters. Greek alphabet. You can influence the work of the brain with the help of special techniques that use these properties of it. One of these techniques is stimulation with binaural beats.

Each of the frequencies has an important function.
Beta waves are the fastest. Their frequency varies, in the classical version, from 14 to 42 Hz (and according to some modern sources, more than 100 Hz). In a normal waking state, when we observe the world around us with open eyes, or are focused on solving some current problems, these waves, mainly in the range from 14 to 40 Hertz, dominate in our brain. Beta waves are usually associated with wakefulness, wakefulness, concentration, cognition, and, when they are in excess, with anxiety, fear, and panic. A lack of beta waves is associated with depression, poor selective attention, and memory problems.

A number of researchers have found that some people have very high levels of tension, including high brain electrical activity in the fast beta wave range, and very low alpha and theta relaxation wave power. People of this type also often exhibit characteristic behaviors such as smoking, overeating, gambling, drug or alcohol addiction. These are usually successful people, because they are much more sensitive to external stimuli and react to them much faster than others. But for them, ordinary events can seem extremely stressful, forcing them to look for ways to reduce stress and anxiety levels through the use of alcohol and drugs.

Studies have shown that brain stimulation in the alpha range is ideal for absorption new information, data, facts, any material that should always be ready in your memory.

Brain wave generator. Download program. Instructions for the program

Technical questions.

Generally speaking, such low frequencies cannot be broadcast using conventional audio means (and perceived with ordinary ears), which is why they came up with this thing with a stereo effect. Waves are launched into two channels with a difference in frequency corresponding to the desired state of consciousness, so for example, if you want to get a THETA rhythm at 5 hertz (REM sleep), you let it go into the left channel, say 400 hertz, and into the right channel 405. Be sure to listen headphones, otherwise there will be no effect! You will feel how the left and right channels converge and diverge in space along the stereo base with a frequency of 5 times per second. If you are not used to, you may feel slightly dizzy, do not drive in any case, etc., etc. In general, this matter should be taken quite seriously.

Decryption of built-in frequency sets

BUILTIN: Attention focusing 1 (cyclic): Helps to focus attention, bringing the brain into a state of high beta activity. The frequency is lowered for a short period of time every 15 seconds to keep the brain more receptive. Can also be used to treat depression

BUILTIN: Attention focusing 2 (from drowsiness): Helps focusing attention with the transition from low alpha to high beta frequency. For an additional effect, 15Hz modulation is used, which increases markedly towards the end. Can also be used to treat depression.

BUILTIN: Creativity increase 1 (7 to 6 Hz): Creativity increase 1 (7 - 6 Hz) Induces a state of heightened creativity using three varying shades of theta tones. The set starts with a periodic beta tone and ends in a beta tone, then subsides. Can be used for anything. In this case, the sound level should be set to low.

BUILTIN: Creativity increase 2 (varying): Generates a state of expanded creative power using theta tones. The hues change to make the brain more responsive to them. The set starts with a periodic beta tone and ends in a beta tone, then subsides.

BUILTIN: Headache treatment 1 (steady 10/5): HEADACHE RELIEF 1 (steady, 10/5) Helps relieve headaches by mixing a sustained low theta tone (5Hz) with a mid-alpha tone (10Hz). For greater effect, the shades of the mid-alpha tone are modulated.

BUILTIN: Headache treatment 2 (steady 10/5, circular): HEADACHE RELIEF 2 (steady, 10/5, cyclic) Helps relieve headaches by mixing a sustained low theta tone (5Hz) with a mid-alpha tone (10Hz) . For greater effect, shades of beta tone are modulated.

BUILTIN: Headache treatment 3 (varying 10/5): HEADACHE treatment 3 (varying 10/5) Helps relieve headaches by mixing low theta tone (5Hz) and mid-alpha tones (10Hz) that changes periodically from one to another. For added effect, the mid-beta tone tints and the smoothness of the background noise are modulated.

BUILTIN: High frequencies: HIGH frequencies. Generates very high frequency sounds which, according to some sources, should improve overall health. Should have been listened to with loudspeakers, not headphones. For smooth playback, set the length of the playback buffer (in the Advanced tab of the sound card properties) as small as possible (50 or less), and the number of buffers as large as possible (20 or more).

BUILTIN: Learning aid 1 (for subliminal) new material, when bugged while learning something. Recording with subliminal suggestion text can be played with this set in the background.

according to the journal:

Here you will find a brief history the most famous audio-visual programs for the computer.

For the sake of brevity, only those that allow for a session are listed here, and are designed specifically for the computer user (as opposed to programs designed only for use in mind machines).

The result of brain wave synchronization

Mind Sync(1991-1993)

Even before CoolEdit was commercialized in 1995 and became the most popular sound editor for Windows, developer David Johnston was working on brain stimulation software.

MindSync was designed to play binaural beats. A unique feature of this program was the "Brain Wave Synchronizer", which is able to spatially arrange any sound in a way that is necessary to reproduce binaural beats, regardless of the difference between the two tones.

The brainwave sync feature was retained in all versions of CoolEdit and exists to this day as the Auto Binaural Sync filter in Adobe's Audition (renamed after acquired by Adobe). The spatial positioning function also exists in other programs, for example, in Mind Stereo (Mind Stereo).

How binaural beats work

Computer Narcotics (Computer drugs)(1994)
An updated DOS program focused on reproducing narcotic effects using audio-based timing. Unfortunately, this program is not playable on newer machines.

Brainwave Generator (Brain Wave Generator) (1998-2004)
bwgen.com
An audio-visual application specializing in the production of binaural beats with a flickering screen and the capabilities of Audiostrobe technology. Although BWG is no longer in development, it is one of the most famous programs and still works on many of the machines I have tested.

Binaural Sound System (System of binaural sounds) (1999-2000)
frankl.comdesign.at/Psychology/bss_download.html
A unique and very interesting application, originally developed to study the relationship between frequency and harmonics, but later developed into a brain stimulation program. Seven frequencies are distributed around the circle, and the output frequency is determined by the "track" directed inside the circle. The track is controlled by mouse movement.

SBaGen (1999 - present)
www.uazu.net/sbagen/
Developed by Open Source programmer Jim Peters, SBaGen is a flexible and well-known DOS-based binaural beats application. The program is resource-intensive, cross-platform and completely free.

Mind Explorer (Consciousness Explorer)(2000 - present)
A sophisticated yet flexible audio-visual software package that allows you to play binaural beats, pulsing tones, apply Audiostrobe technology and much more. This program was developed by the producers of the Light/Sound Synergizer mentioned earlier, originally as a standalone solution for the computer.

according to the journal:
translation into Russian: Nikonov Vladimir

BINAURAL RHYTHMS

IN INTEGRATIVE PRACTICE AND SPONTANEOUS YOGA

IN Lately the topic of binaural beats has become quite famous among people who are passionate about self-knowledge and self-development. On the Internet you can find a lot of different, sometimes conflicting information. about binaural beats. There are opinions both "for" and "against". Moreover, both of them are based on someone's living experience. I also use this technology in my practice, I have already fully studied, mastered and put into practice a lot of it. And so the picture of the phenomenon is more or less defined.

The term "binaural" comes from Latin: "bini" - "two" and "auris" - "ear"

And professional musicians-organists - finally you get complete zombies :)
Come on, you poor bastards: every single day their brains are subjected to binaural (what a nightmare) beats! Every day something incomprehensible-binaural hits their brains...
Well, cho, look at the portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach - well, the man obviously has an unhealthy look :) pure zombie :)))
Yes, and Handel in the portraits is not Apollo at all :)

In the East, this binaural effect is especially pronounced in the famous Tibetan "singing bowls".
Also, on any recording, you begin to distinguish these binaural beats when you know what they are ...

That is, in fact, it turns out that this effect has always been wonderful music therapy element used by people in both religion and secular culture.

By the way (holy-holy-holy :)) here you can drag in "historical mysticism": it has long been known in religion that, they say, "demons do not like bells." Like, they say, they all scatter, demons, from the ringing of bells ...
And they say the same about the body.

Perhaps the indicated sound effect would have remained in the sphere of interest only of musicians, if not for the American researcher Robert Monroe.
Back in the early 50s. 20th century he seriously undertook a comprehensive study of the mechanism of the impact of binaural rhythms on a person.
He saw that despite the wide popularity in the scientific world of the effect of these rhythms (for the first time, the existence of binaural rhythms was discovered by the German scientist G.W. Dove back in 1939), no one investigated their purposeful effect on the human condition - especially when listening through speakers with stereo effect and through stereo headphones.

It was Robert Monroe who discovered that when listening to sounds of a similar frequency on different channels (right and left), a person just feels these same binaural rhythms (beats).

Monroe proved that when listening to stereo music through stereo headphones, a person subconsciously feels the difference in the frequencies of the left and right sound channels, and this frequency difference generates binaural rhythms in the listener's brain, absolutely similar to all those that have been known in music for so many centuries.

The cognitive dissonance:)

As well written as binaural beats are, be it in terms of history, physics, psychology, etc. - it will not give an adequate picture of them.

Words - or rather, even just these letters written by me and read by you - are completely irrelevant to live sound.

No matter how detailed the sound is described in words, this will not give us a complete picture. The old saying "no matter how you say halva - it does not get sweeter in the mouth" is quite applicable here.
And therefore, all the same, for a sober-skeptical mind, it still sounds abstract and therefore unconvincing.

In addition, some Western “brain institute” “promotes” this topic, and the degree of development of advertising and PR technologies in the West is such that they can present anything as necessary and useful, “promote” and “sell” anything.
Therefore, all official information coming from the Monroe Institute is immediately dismissed by a cautious skeptical mind.
Such a mind is looking for alternative sources, unbiased, materially unmotivated.

Such material is presented here.

I have absolutely no connection with any institutions whatsoever.
Moreover, it cannot be, which will be seen from the section on specifics and practice.
My "torrented" approach to the products of a respected institute is so peculiar that it practically excludes some commercial component, and in some ways is even unprofitable for the institute.

But it is a real live experience.

So, first of all, everything depends on the understanding of the phenomenon ITSELF.

Is it possible to describe this in a simple way - so that it is understandable to any person, non-physicist, and even a skeptic?

Let's try :)

But only here we need sound, because without real sound, visualization in this matter will not work in any way.

It is advisable to connect speakers if they are not connected, and even better put on headphones - then it will be really interesting :))

I will immediately calm the skeptical mind: all sound samples here will be so short, mostly 30-40 seconds each, that they will definitely not have any effect - neither positive nor negative :)
But in terms of clarity, in this case, you will get very informative and quite exhaustive material, understandable even to a schoolboy.

The next technical moment. It is necessary that your browser supports displaying the buttons of the built-in player. Look here please, line below, do you see the button that says "gong"?

If you see it, click on it and you should hear the sound of a gong.

At the same time, by the way, adjust the volume of your speakers so that this sound is comfortable for you - all other sound inserts will not be much louder or much quieter than this sound.

If you do not see the player button, then please look at the line below. Do you see the text hyperlink - the word "gong"?

If you see it, click. The file should download. Click on it, a gong should sound. Adjust the volume.

If neither one nor the other option worked and there is no sound, then either you have very cool security settings in your browser, or very outdated applications - it's time to update :)
In this case, alas, visibility will not work, and then for you there will be only text and pictures :)

If everything worked out, and in addition to the information one, we also established an audio "communication channel", then kaman, letsgow, injoy, as they say in our village :)))

Visually about binaural :)

Technically, binaural beats are two tones of slightly different amplitude (frequency) delivered separately to each ear.

Here is the monotonous sound that sounds in the left channel (by the way, at the same time check your speakers and then somehow swap them if the channels are mixed up)

In the sound editor it looks like this:

The sound is completely monotonous and monotonous. It is also monochrome or monaural.

Now let's give the right channel a sound almost the same, but a little higher in tone - literally a few hertz.

Also completely monotonous and monotonous.

But st O If we listen to them simultaneously, synchronously, then we suddenly find an interesting effect:

There is a kind of "beat", "pulsation". This is binaural sound, or binaural pulse, or binaural beat...

This is the key point for the skeptical mind: here are two monotonous sounds. By definition, there is no pulsation in them.
When mixed together in synchronous sound, they REMAIN EXACTLY THE SAME.
Even graphically, they have not changed in any way: just as they were smooth green stripes in the sound editor window, they have remained so. And we nevertheless clearly hear the pulsation.
So this is what it is - a binaural EFFECT. I emphasize: not a sound, but an EFFECT.

I the skeptic in itself is still the same, and therefore, when I discovered this effect, as soon as I did not mutually arrange these two tracks in the editor window ...
Displaced them relative to each other so, so.
And still, at the moment of their "meeting" there was a pulsation ...
So I had to admit the objectivity and naturalness of this acoustic phenomenon ...

If you combine all this together, you get such an interesting picture (if you haven’t put on your headphones yet, put them on, it will definitely be interesting :))

cool, huh :) so voluminous ... spatial ... and very natural ... fits well with the ear ...

Graphically it looks like this:

The impact of binaural sound is especially pronounced if you listen to it with headphones, or by placing speakers clearly on both sides.

Binaural beats are processed differently in recordings than monaural beats. For this reason, binaural beats have a real physical impact unlike regular music, even if it is in stereo.

Normal sound is played as follows:

Moreover, I note: monaural sound is not mono-sound in our usual everyday sense. Monaural sound is a normal high-quality stereo sound, even hi-end class! But him physical nature while being monaural. And binaural sound has a different scheme:

That is, it is physics that works here - natural sound, sound frequency.

When listening with headphones, or with speakers placed on either side, these rhythms are perceived as if they originated right in your head.

Yes, in fact, this is how it is - because it is in the space of the head that they are superimposed in a natural way:

This effect of overlapping sounds and their subsequent pulsation is produced in the brain, and not in the ears, as is the case with monaural rhythms.
This is a mixed result of the activity of neurons located in the ear and brain.

Of course, the binaural pulsation will be perceived in any arrangement of the speakers - it is not necessary to sit strictly between them. This is a sound wave and it, as it should be, spreads in all directions from each speaker, and thus their overlap occurs at any point in space next to the speakers.
Just when it is strictly between the columns, the effect is slightly stronger.

From the point of view of the physics of sound, we have the following axiom: the frequency of beats that occur when two sound vibrations with close frequencies (tones) are superimposed is equal to the difference between these frequencies.
For example, when one ear hears a pure tone (monotone sound) with a frequency of 170 Hz, and the other - 178 Hz, then the hemispheres of the human brain begin to work synchronously, and as a result, the listener feels a special sound beat with a "difference" frequency equal to 8 Hz ( 178 - 170 = 8 Hz).
But this is not a real external sound, but derivative of the brain.
Tobish, this is not even a "sound" in our usual sense, it is precisely a vibration, a wave that is born in the brain when electromagnetic waves coming from two synchronously working hemispheres of the brain are added.

When sound signals of two different frequencies are present in the right and left ears, the brain superimposes these two signals, calculates the phase difference between these signals, which results in a third - "difference" - frequency, heard and perceived as a binaural beat.
It is these rhythms that a person feels as beats at a frequency equal to the difference between two sound frequencies “entering” the right and left ears.

Interestingly, to obtain a binaural effect, the frequency difference should not exceed 25 Hz.
With a frequency difference above 25 Hz, this effect completely disappears (in this case, at first two tones with a large "roughness" begin to be heard - as if two untuned musical instruments sounded at the same time, then two pure monochrome tones are clearly audible - without any binaural beats).

The lower of the two tones is called the carrier, and the higher tone is called the receiver.

To hear monaural rhythms, both tones must have the same amplitude. But binaural beats can only be heard when the tones have different amplitudes.

They can be heard even if one of the tones is below the hearing threshold.

Noise reduces the volume of monaural beats, while the same noise raises the volume of binaural beats.

One of the differences between the perception of monaural and binaural beats is that monaural beats can be heard at any frequency, while binaural beats are best perceived at a lower frequency and are best observed at a frequency of 440 Hz. Binaural beats with a carrier frequency greater than 900 Hz are usually not observed.

Binaural beats and brain physiology

The ability of humans to hear binaural beats is an evolutionary adaptation. Many species of animals are able to do the same due to the peculiarities of the structure of their brain.
The frequency band in which an animal can hear binaural beats depends on the size of his skull. In the case of a human, this should be a carrier frequency below 1000 Hz (Oster, 1973).
The wavelength of such an acoustic signal does not exceed the size of the human skull, so it goes around the head according to the principle of diffraction.

A similar effect is observed during the propagation of radio waves: low-frequency radio signals (long and medium waves) reach anywhere on the planet, regardless of obstacles in their path in the form of mountains, buildings, etc.

High-frequency (short) radio waves, such as VHF and FM radio, television and microwave, propagate in a straight line and cannot go around the Earth. Mountains and tall buildings block their spread.

Since acoustic signals with a frequency of less than 1000 Hz go around the head, they are heard by both ears. But since there is a certain distance between the ears, the brain "hears" the signals coming from them with different phases, i.e. each ear hears a different part of the wave as it circles around the head.
It is this phase difference that allows brain accurately determine the location of the sound source at a frequency of less than 1000 Hz. I note: the brain, not the ear- the ear still does not hear here, the eardrum does not vibrate yet!

The outer ear begins to participate in the process of sound source localization at a sound frequency as much as more than 8000 Hz.

Almost all sounds made by animals have a frequency below 1000 Hz. It is easy to understand why they needed the ability to accurately calculate each other's location - they can eat :). When applied to a person, this ability just makes it possible to hear binaural beats.

When signals of two different frequencies are present in the right and left ear, the brain calculates the phase difference between these signals (namely, the brain itself, without the participation of the mind). Under natural conditions, this would give information about the direction of the sound and a person, say, walking through a wild forest, suddenly suddenly stops for himself, freezes, and his hand reaches for the weapon ...
Those. the brain, having perceived this infra-sound, immediately gives signals to its corresponding zones and a protective reaction occurs.
And then the man froze, the weapon in his hand, and he listened to the surrounding space - that is, is already trying to determine the nature of the situation by hearing: is there a danger or not?
Maybe there is a beast of prey that wants to eat him, a man, or there is a beast of prey there, who froze out of fear of being eaten by this man.
This is what is known as "hunter's flair", or simply "flair".
Those. outwardly, this instinct looks as if a person freezes “for no reason at all”, but it turns out that everything here is completely “for no reason” - it all just happens at the level of brain structures, and not at the level of sensory organs.
By the way, here at the same time we can recall the information already known to everyone that we, as conscious beings, as "units of consciousness", use only some 5-7% of the brain. Well, in this example, we can see a huge range of information that the brain processes every second without our conscious participation.

But let's return to infra-sound, which the ear does not yet hear, but the brain already perceives.
When such sound comes from headphones or stereo speakers, the brain produces an overlay of these two signals, resulting in a third, "difference" frequency, heard as a binaural beat.

He is perceived as pulsation at a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies heard by the right and left ears.

Studies have shown that spatially these beats occur in the superior olive located in the brainstem, the first point of contralateral integration of the auditory organs (Oster, 1973).
The bodies of neurons in this nucleus are arranged in the form of a Latin letter V. Signals from the auditory receptors of the inner ear are transmitted to the neurons of the nucleus of the superior olive in accordance with their distribution on the coils of the cochlea: the configuration of the olive ensures the implementation of sound-topic projection. Since the receptor cells located in the upper coils of the cochlea perceive low-frequency sound vibrations, and the receptors at the base of the cochlea, on the contrary, perceive higher sounds, the corresponding sound frequency is transmitted to certain neurons of the nucleus of the superior olive

Here is the place. Marked with number 1.

Studies also show that the resonant response also comes from the zone next to the olive - the inferior colliculus (Smith, Marsh, & Brown, 1975) - (Owens & Atwater, 1995).

Number 2:

These are very interesting places, but I won’t go into details here yet, because this is more related to the rebirthing practice section, and.

The activity of neurons in these parts of the trunk is transmitted to the cerebral cortex, where it is actually recorded using an electro-encephalogram (EEG).

Therefore, the mechanism of action of binaural sound is response in the electrical activity of the brain at a frequency identical to that of the binaural beat.

This presence of a resonant response in the parietal lobes of the brain in response to acoustic stimulation has been documented in many EEG studies (Smith, Marsh, & Brown, 1975).

Binaural beats are well audible at low frequencies (less than 30 Hz), which corresponds to the EEG spectrum (Oster, 1973).

This phenomenon, as well as the frequency response in the brain to binaural phonograms, helps to understand under what conditions this kind of influence is most effective in terms of working in altered states of consciousness.

"The subjective experience of listening to binaural beats can be either stimulating or calming, depending on the frequency of the beat," the researchers write. (Owens & Atwater, 1995).

At the moment, it is customary to distinguish five main frequency ranges of the brain:

Delta band (0.5Hz - 4Hz) - deep sleep phase;
theta range (4Hz - 8Hz) - phase of REM sleep, semi-sleep;
alpha range (8Hz - 13Hz) - relaxation;
beta range (13Hz - 45Hz) - active wakefulness;
gamma range (45Hz - 60Hz) - an altered state of consciousness (difficult to achieve, and therefore little studied).

delta waves- the slowest vibrations in the brain.

They usually predominate when we are either sleepy or unconscious, but some can be in the delta range and in a conscious state - for example, babies :)
As well as monks during deep prayer or meditation (this, by the way, is about the unity of all religions in practical terms: even a Christian ascetic in deep prayer, even a Buddhist ascetic in deep meditation - both have brain activity at the level of the delta range)

Brain stimulation in this range helps to get rid of insomnia and provides a deeper rest of the brain during sleep.

Theta waves- usually prevail when a person is in a state between sleep and wakefulness, i.e. in pre-sleep state. It is also called REM sleep.
It is often accompanied by visions of unexpected, dream-like images and opens access to the unconscious part of the mind.
Brain training in the theta range increases the creative abilities of a person, his ability to learn. Also, by the way, thanks to these waves, a decrease in the need for alcohol and drugs was recorded.

alpha waves- characteristic of a state of shallow relaxation. Stimulation in the alpha range helps in understanding and understanding stressful conditions.

beta waves- prevail in the usual waking state, when we observe the world around us with open eyes, or are focused on solving some current problems. Beta waves are usually associated with wakefulness, wakefulness, concentration, cognition, and, when they are in excess, with anxiety, fear, and panic.
The lack of activity in the beta range is associated with depression, poor selective attention and problems with remembering information. Brain stimulation in the beta range allows you to get rid of depressive states, increase the level of awareness, attention and short-term memory.

The controversy over the connection between the brain, mind, consciousness and body has been going on since the time of the early Greek philosophers.

Western neurophysiology actually locked consciousness in the brain and still officially considers it the result of the electrochemical activity of neurons.

There is, however, evidence to the contrary, and the evidence is increasing.
More precisely, the number of SCIENTIFICLY FIXED evidence is increasing. And so the evidence itself at all times was unmeasured.

In reality, no neurophysiological studies throughout the existence of science have convincingly shown that the highest forms of consciousness (intuition, insight, creativity, imagination, thinking, understanding, judgment, inference, intention, decision, knowledge, will, spirit and soul) are located in the tissues of the brain (Hunt, 1995).
Those. official science in this regard does exactly the same thing as religion: just there is a dogma and it is repeated everywhere, starting from the very first school textbook on biology. Well, since we get our first knowledge from this textbook, we take it on faith, we live with the feeling that it is so.

Resolving the tensions associated with higher forms of consciousness and self-awareness, as well as mind-body interaction in general, may require an epistemological shift to include extra-rational ways of knowing (de Quincey, 1994), in relation to what cannot be understood based only on neurochemical studies of the brain.

We are now experiencing a revolutionary period in the study of consciousness (Owens, 1995).

Penfield, an eminent modern neurophysiologist, discovered and experimentally proved that the human mind continues to work even under anesthesia, despite the completely suppressed activity of the brain.

The electrical waves in the brain are practically not fixed, although the mind remains almost as active as in the waking state. The only difference is in the contents of the mind.

Following Penfield, other researchers (Hunt, 1995) confirmed the presence of consciousness in a coma, and more and more data are emerging about the possible activity of consciousness in conditions of reduced cortical activity - reduced activity of the cerebral cortex (Fischer, 1971; West 1980; Delmonte, 1984; Goleman 1988; Jevning, Wallace, & Beidenbach, 1992; Wallace, 1986; Mavromatis, 1991).

These states are described as trance, meditative, altered, hypnotic, hypnagogic, and twilight (Budzynski, 1986). And the general term most often applied to them is simply "altered state of consciousness" - ASC.

Now science is already reliably aware that the most various forms of ASC are based on maintaining the activity of consciousness while reducing physiological activity, marked by a parasympathetic dominant (Mavromatis, 1991).

Recent studies of the physiology of highly hypnotizable subjects and meditation masters have shown that people can indeed maintain the activity of consciousness with suppressed cortical activity (activity of the cerebral cortex, where we actually live as "units of consciousness", as individuals with their own name, personal history)
This maintenance of consciousness with reduced or almost non-existent cortical activity has been documented as either a natural ability or even a learned skill (Sabourin, Cutcomb, Crawford, & Pribram, 1993).

A growing number of scientists are questioning the neurophysiological model of body-mind interaction because it cannot answer too many questions. big number questions even about our ordinary experiences, not to mention mystical or spiritual ones.

Moreover, these are not only psychologists, biologists and neurophysiologists, but also physicists. Suffice it to recall the famous Penrose, who calls consciousness a "quantum anomaly" - implying that in the entire physical universe there are NO objective reasons for the emergence of consciousness.
No combination of physical elements, even the most complex and unexpected, can lead to the emergence of a phenomenon of consciousness!

But if the mind and consciousness are not the same as the brain, why does science associate them with brain waves?

This issue primarily rests on the measurement technique - there are no objective instrumental ways to measure the mind or consciousness.
Scientists are increasingly coming to the conclusion that the mind and consciousness are phenomena that have the properties of a field that interacts with the body through the neural structures of the brain (Hunt, 1995). Modern equipment does not allow measuring this field directly. Moreover, it is not a fact that these phenomena are generally in the sphere measured by some physical instruments.

Well, really, that's how to measure the truth?
How to measure sincerity? Confidence? Peace?

Even the very assumption of the possibility of some kind of "units of sincerity" or "units of trust" seems something unnatural.

On the other hand, the electrical potentials of waves in the brain are easy to quantify. The problem here is oversimplification of the observation, i.e. we are witnessing desperate attempts by traditionally thinking researchers to maintain the existing framework, the existing paradigm.
If we look at the modern EEG literature, we will see that any picture that appears on the EEG is associated with a certain "state of consciousness".
This is the inertia of scientific knowledge.

The EEG patterns measured in the brain are the result of the electrical activity of brain neurons - that's a fact.
But this activity is not consciousness and mind.

Those. EEG is just an indirect way to access the mind-consciousness interaction with the neural structures of the brain.

For all its crudeness, EEG is undoubtedly a big step in the study of human nature. But the data now accumulated no longer allow us to say that with the help of the EEG we study consciousness!
We're only exploring the brain here!
And the brain is still an INSTRUMENT of consciousness, and not consciousness itself!

It's just like a human and a computer.
A computer is such an "electronic brain", a kind of iron analogue of that semi-liquid tortuous formation that is in our skull.

For this "electronic brain" to work effectively, it must have an operating system (Windows, Linux) and a set of applications (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, Photoshop, etc.)

The set of applications transferred to a person is what we call the word MIND.

Those. our mind is not consciousness, namely a set of applications that we installed in the process of our upbringing, education and self-education.

And consciousness in relation to the mind is the same as a person in relation to the software package on his computer.

Those. consciousness is a category of a GENERALLY DIFFERENT ORDER than the mind and the brain (this is discussed in more detail and more practically in the conversation about the nature of the mind in the self-knowledge correspondence)

In other words, certain EEG patterns are simply historically linked with consciousness. Habit... Inertia...

But on the other hand, we have already mentioned the fact that by applying various forms of influence on the brain (chemical influence, magnetic wave and resonance), it is possible to change the state of consciousness - up to the appearance of those very ASCs (altered states of consciousness).
How to tie it all together?

Yes, very simply: here we again have the usual use of the concept of "consciousness".
In fact, here's what's going on.

Consciousness is as if "packed" in the "mind-brain" system.

In the East, this has been spoken of for many thousands of years as "shells" of consciousness - sthula-sharira, linga-sharira, prana-sharira, etc.
In the later esoteric tradition, these shells began to be called "bodies" - the physical body, the etheric body, the astral, the mental, the causal.
In another terminology (theosophy, agni yoga) these bodies are called "conductors"...

And all these external forms of influence do not affect consciousness, but on one of the shells consciousness.

This influence can be both positive (constructive) and negative (destructive).
Positive influence makes this shell MORE TRANSPARENT and consciousness can use this tool more fully. And the negative influence makes this shell LESS TRANSPARENT and consciousness can no longer use this tool - just like we cannot "use" our physical body if we "overtake" alcohol too much.

And binaural beats, by their influence on the brain, make it more structured, and therefore more "transparent" for consciousness.
And since consciousness is a much more multidimensional phenomenon than what we are accustomed to understand by the word "consciousness", we still have to call the emerging state "altered state of consciousness" or "expanded state of consciousness" ...

Those. from an esoteric point of view, our current state of consciousness should be called "obscured", "narrowed", "chaotic", "fragmented", etc.
And what we now call "an altered state of consciousness" is precisely the normal human state of consciousness, which is actually "prescribed" by nature and God for us.

According to Eastern ideas about the nature of consciousness, a person with "uncleaned shells" cannot perceive the world adequately, and will definitely build such an inharmonious, "abnormal world" around himself. Modern researchers already quite officially say that perceived reality depends on the state of consciousness of the perceiver(Tart, 1975). Those. they say the same thing as esotericism, only for the time being they call the "state of consciousness" what in esotericism is called the "state of shells", the state of "subtle bodies".

For example, when a person looks at the world through dirty, cracked, and at the same time corrugated glass, he will perceive the world behind this glass as cloudy and distorted.
Well, it's not because of the state of his mind, but because of the state of the glass.

From an esoteric point of view, consciousness as such cannot be distorted, for it is beyond any "distortion factors" whatsoever, it is wider than any potentially distorting factors - just as, for example, the Sun is beyond any possibilities of distortion from the Earth. or the moon. Even if the Earth or the Moon or any planet solar system explode - it will not affect the Sun in any way. Too different scale...

In Agni Yoga, for example, it is said about this: " the heart of an Arhat is wider than the universe ". Consciousness and heart, according to Eastern ideas, are one. An Arhat is a person who has completely cleansed his "shells." His perception of reality has become completely adequate. And then his consciousness-heart becomes "wider than the universe" - that is, wider than all possible " distorting influences.

So, in terms of the nature of consciousness, binaural beats help us become a little more "normal" :)
And now let's take a closer look at how binaural beats work in terms of their effect on the brain.

The brain and binaural beats

What do binaural beats give us in relation to the brain?
First of all - the synchronization of the hemispheres.
Actually, the official technology for using binaural beats is called Hemi-Sync(short for hemispheric synchronization - hemispheric synchronization)

The fact is that usually the rhythms of our brain are in complete chaos, and the electrical potential of the hemispheres is very different.

The fact that in our Western civilization we are basically all “left-brained” is already known to almost every schoolchild. The left hemisphere is what is "rational", and the right hemisphere, associated with feeling, intuitiveness, imagery, is basically suppressed, "clogged" with us.

Moreover, in connection with the practice of rebirthing, yoga and bodily practice in general, it is very important for us to note here that the right hemisphere is also associated with physicality!

Suppression, blocking of the right hemisphere occurs precisely through the suppression of the body!

The more the body is enslaved - the more the right hemisphere is suppressed - this is a direct correlation!

Accordingly, it is important to understand that restoration, revitalization, resuscitation of the right hemisphere without bodily practice - IMPOSSIBLE!!!

If you depict this state of brain rhythms graphically, it will look something like this:

And binaural beats allow you to structure the rhythms of the brain as follows:

According to neurophysiology, each ear is "tied" to its own cerebral hemisphere (Rosenzweig, 1961). Each ear has its own medial geniculate body (sound processing center), which receives signals from the tympanic membrane of each ear.

When such a physiological structure perceives a binaural beat, then in each hemisphere there is a standing wave of the same frequency and amplitude.

That is, the binaural rhythm contributes to the synchronization of the hemispheres, usually observed in meditative and hypnotic states of consciousness. These rhythms can also improve brain function, as they help the listener to consciously establish interhemispheric neural connections at the right frequency.

The two hemispheres of the brain can be thought of as two separate information processing modules. Both are complex cognitive systems; both process information both in parallel and independently, and their interaction is neither continuous nor arbitrary (Zaidel, 1985).
Due to this, states of consciousness (the result of the interaction of consciousness with the mind and brain) can be defined not only in terms of the percentage of brain waves of certain frequencies, but also as the isolation and / or interaction of the hemispheres.

It is important that for each specific state of consciousness, several areas of the brain are activated at once, and each of the areas resonates at a specific frequency characteristic only of this state (Luria, 1970).

The Monroe Institute has been studying altered states of consciousness and Hemi-Sync technology for over 30 years. The study of effective stimuli for entering these states initially relied on the use of biofeedback simultaneously with listening to binaural beats, and later on using EEG.

In the beginning, Robert Monroe tested a large number of people in the laboratory to study their response to stimulation with binaural beats. Records were kept of the effectiveness of the impact of each rhythm on each person. Then the binaural beats were mixed, and again the reaction of the subjects to them was observed. After months (and in some cases, years) of experimentation, general patterns of the subjects' reactions to certain combinations of rhythms began to emerge. Some of these combinations have proven to be more effective than rhythms of one particular frequency.

When, at the same time as maintaining awareness, the brain is captured by low frequencies, a unique "mind awake/body asleep" state occurs. Having slightly higher frequencies in the brain can lead to states of over-suggestibility. States with even higher EEG frequencies are associated with wakefulness and focused mental activity necessary for the optimal performance of many tasks.

Given the complexity of the brain and the data that the waves in it arise as a result of the simultaneous operation of many generators of oscillations located in different areas of the brain, a theory was developed according to which, in order to enter a certain state of consciousness, it is necessary to identify these complex oscillation modes and imitate them. using a series of compressed carrier frequencies that generate binaural beats when interacting.

Binaural beats in these unique combinations allow different frequencies to interact with different areas of the brain, allowing you to completely different people enter a state of consciousness with similar characteristics.

Although of course, individual features exist here. Let's say, for someone, delta rhythms will be really hypnogenic and the person will quickly fall asleep - for many years now, when working with insomnia, I have been giving clients assemblies with delta rhythms, and this is very helpful in restoring sleep. But when healthy people listen to these assemblies, the hypnogenic effect is far from being so pronounced.

I myself, sometimes, put this assembly on when I’m in the mood to work at night: I write beautifully under it (even right now, by the way, I write under it, in the silence of the village, at night, under the most gentle delta rhythms, and it seems nothing like that it turns out:))

The moment associated with the individual characteristics of perception is easy to understand using the example of the same caffeine: coffee really invigorates someone, and someone can drain a cup in the evening, and soon they will go to bed - and they will fall asleep! :)

The same goes for alcohol: in a situation of stress, affect, a person can "eat" a full "bubble" - and not in one eye (or it can be a professional intelligence agent, an agent who is specially trained). And when a person is not a special agent, and at the same time relaxed and carefree, he will get drunk from two piles.

Binaural pulsations according to the strength of the impact an order of magnitude milder than psychotropic substances, and therefore these rhythms are not at all more dangerous than caffeine, alcohol, and all sorts of "Novopassites" and "Phenibuts" ...
In order for these rhythms to have a real effect on consciousness, a person must consciously engage in them, tune in, enter into resonance, i.e. ALLOW these rhythms to work on you.

But let's return to them themselves - binaural pulsations.

As a result of all these many years of research, the R. Monroe Institute created a finished product, so to speak: a set of these binaural sounds corresponding to all these brain rhythms, they patented it under the Hemi-Sync brand (well, the West is like this: patent everything and then sell it - without it the western mind cannot :)))

And now basically all the music with binaural rhythms produced by the Monroe Institute goes under this brand (or else they have the Metamusic brand - this is the same music)

Those. on the album, in addition to the artist's name, this icon "Hemi-Sync" or "Metamusic" also appears.

Like like this:

At the very top we see the Hemi-Sync icon. The author of the music is the performer Aeoliah. And the name of the album is Radiance.
By the way, this particular performer - Aeoliah - is a good old new age musician who wrote music back in the 80s, when there were no binaural rhythms and hearing. And then, apparently, he decided to expand his creative range, bought this technology and now releases another album under the Hemi-Sync brand.
For interest, you can listen to a fragment of music from this album and now with a trained ear you can catch the familiar "binaural chips" in this music:

Cute, huh? :)
If you don't know, you can't even single them out from the general audio stream...

In short, now any musician can write to Uncle Monroe, pay some money and get from him ready-made tracks with binaural sound like what we showed in our impromptu experiment on generating binaural beats. Only we took an arbitrary sound, and Monroe will give you a sound that specifically resonates with the delta rhythms of the brain, with theta, alpha, beta rhythms - whatever you want, for which you pay :)

You get these backing tracks and overlay them on your music.

All this can be easily seen on a real example. This is important for us in order to understand in detail the issue of danger / safety of binaural beats: what can be dangerous in them and what is not.

For example, let's take the same binaural beat that we visually generated above. Only now we put it in another program - a program for mixing different tracks.

but the sound is the same

Now we take some sound sample, say, with percussion.

(in the beginning, as in the picture, there will be just percussion, and then binaural pulsation will enter, and you will immediately notice how the space of music has changed.
Binaural beat against the background of percussion is heard very well here. And now let's do it a little differently: let's take a purely musical track. For example, from Terry Oldfield "a (also a "classic" of instrumental music in the new age style)

Interesting music, no doubt, but you probably felt how it emotionally "loads", slightly "presses", "presses down"...
I deliberately cited a very short fragment, because if you listen to this music in its normal state completely, then your emotional plan will go "down" very decently.

If you look at its spectrogram, we will see a very interesting picture:

See how unique she is?
Some one specific emotional pattern is repeated cyclically throughout the track, all half an hour!
Structurally, this is PURE PSYCHODELIC MUSIC.
Those. it is purely working music for psychotherapy, like a pill, a medicine.

And the medicine is good for the sick and really bad for the healthy! A pill for a healthy person is just poison!

It is very good to use this kind of music in a situation when the psyche is overloaded with problems, when everything in life "came together like a wedge" and it's just such "cats scratching" in the soul, as in this music.

You put it on, start listening, it happens synchronization of your mental heaviness and the heaviness that is in music and it turns out that your spiritual heaviness is, as it were, " attached"to the music.
It's like catching a fish: here the fish is "synchronized" with you, the fisherman took the bait. And now what? What is the meaning of this bait?
Of course, it is to pull out a fish, and not for the love of the art of injuring innocent creatures ...

If we imagine that the fish took and pulled the fisherman into the water, then the meaning of this whole process is generally turned upside down, that is, a person can seriously injure himself from such a "synchronization" pancake.

In the case of cathartic music, which is our analogue of "bait", successful pulling out of the "fish" is the INCLUSION OF THE PSYCHE IN THE UPGRADING PSYCHOENERGY STREAM.

Moreover, the inclusion is mandatory IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE CATHARSIC FLOW.

Those. after this wonderful "weight" that we have in this disc "Resonant tuning", something like this should sound IMMEDIATELY:

And at least something like this:

The spectrogram of such music is quite normal: one can see a variety in the structure of music, in density, in levels, one can see the presence of several parts, one can see an abundance of high frequencies.

And then yeaaah - this whole binaural theme will work very well for the benefit of our mental health.

But the same is not written on the disc "Resonant Tuning"!
It's just that kind of music...

And now the person who bought the disc, being in a normal state, listened to this music with headphones for half an hour with confidence, they say, nishtyak, recharged with a binaural, and then, already returning to everyday life, suddenly get angry for some completely petty reason: someone's call, some news, a child fell under the arm, but just stumbled on the threshold of a toilet or bathroom ...

Irritation can come up in a way that this person usually does not have.
And that's all - a day down the drain, there is no mood to do something positive. Cultural outings are postponed, loved ones are sent away, sofa, TV, popcorn...
In short, he himself suffers, and those close to him ...

And if such a "setting" is made for the night, for the coming dream, then the dream will still be the same ...
Such a dream will not give a full recovery of the psyche and nervous system.

But what if he is also by nature a rather thin, receptive person, and even if he is hypnotizable?
Then we multiply the whole thing by some more there ...

And what to do?
How to deal with this music, if everything is very nice on the cover, but when you listen to it, it won't?
How to make such music with such cool technology really bring benefits, and not harm?

binaural music library

At the moment, I see only one optimal solution here: you need to create your own binaural music library yourself.
It’s troublesome, of course, but once you got it right, you did it - and then you listen all your life. Plus, learning a number of new skills is always good :)

So, having bought a disc, you first listen to it WITHOUT ENTRY INTO SPACE.
Remember what we said about coffee and alcohol? Well, let's say, imagine that you are a scout, Stirlitz, who needs to drink, but you can’t get drunk :)
Well, listen inwardly without opening music, but vice versa - with focused attention.
Those. you listen purely aesthetically - just like any other music.

If you liked everything musically, then okay, thank God, put the disc on the shelf - it will work when it needs to.
If it is a cathartic disc - like the same "Resonant tuning", then load it into a sound editor and insert some ascending track right after it.
Insert and save this single track. And then you always listen to it together.

Of course, you can immediately make different options: say, put a track from the same Aeoliah after catharsis, and then something from Jeffry Thomson "a, etc. - for different moods. And now you have not one disc, but two at once or three.

Of course, you can do it even easier - insert it into the playlist in your player after this cathartic track, there is always some kind of ascending track. but in my opinion, it's better to play it safe: in case of a very stressful situation, when there will be no time to pick up tracks: one click and the ready-made self-healing program has started.

In addition, the option with a playlist also always remains - you also have a separate cathartic track.

I would like to emphasize: new tracks with binaural beats, in my opinion, are better to be saved and listened to in uncompressed form, i.е. only in high quality audio format.

In terms of working with binaural music, I prefer not to use the highly compressed mp3 format.
Minimum - FLAC and ARE formats! If mp3, then at the very least with a bit rate of 320kb/s

Now the question is this: what to do if half the disk fits perfectly on the soul, and the other half of the disk is loaded.
Or - "none" (because "none" also belong to the downstream spectrum - this should not be forgotten either!)
And so you determined that here I want to open up and let in this emotional wave, but here I don’t want to.
In my opinion, there is no need to treat this music as a sacred cow, and it is quite possible to work with it just like with any other.
If we clearly saw that there is no unnaturalness in binaural beats, that this is a natural phenomenon, then e why bother with respecting the entire sequence of tracks that are on the disc. Except, of course, those things that are clearly stated in the annotation to the disc.
Well, now, load the track from the disk into the audio editor, select the part that does not "fall on the soul" ...

You safely remove it, and in this place it makes a smooth transition through the fading.

You can leave it like this, saving this track, or you can make two separate tracks:

And that's it. Now you will open yourself through binaural beats only to those emotional waves that you yourself want to open.

You need to understand this simple thing Those who write music are people too. The most common. They, too, are out of sorts, they have such a period (and no one has canceled the contract, it’s necessary to write!). Or they are obsessed with some idea and write music from this idea, and not from pure inspiration...

But since any music will find its listener (competent PR and a promoted name will sell anything), these compositions are recorded, sold ...
And if it's about ordinary music, then it's okay - you can just not listen to this place that you don't like, get distracted by something. But in listening to music with binaural beats, it is important to understand and get used to the process! It's just undesirable to be distracted here ...

Personally, for a long time I have already "scrambled" all the music with binaural rhythms and now I have all the assemblies with this music verified as to me necessary, and not some musician from distant countries, and even more so - not his producer.
If anyone does not know, a musician without a producer practically does not exist in the modern world, the producer is now in fact more important than any musician and can do almost whatever he wants with his music. If the producer thinks that this track should be at the beginning of the album, because this way the album will sell better, then the track will be at the beginning of the album, even if the musician intended it to be the final one, or the climax in the middle...

These are the realities modern world and not to take them into account is naive.

None negative impact I didn’t notice from this approach, although I use it not only for myself personally, but also in working with clients.

Many of my clients use these assemblies in their personal rebirthing or spontaneous yoga practice and are also completely satisfied.

Further.
I do not recommend using any artificial frequency stimulation for restorative practice.
There are quite a few discs where just noises are recorded, just pulsations, beats.
In many countries of the world, there has long been a wide range of devices on sale that are specifically designed to target the user's brain - the so-called. "mind-machines".

Most of them use “pure” binaural beats in one form or another. Mind-machines are sold as computer consoles, complete with stereo headphones and special glasses. When the device is started, sound tones of a certain frequency are sent to the stereo headphones, and light flashes are sent to the glasses, pulsing also with a given frequency and intensity.

Some time after the appearance of these devices, enterprising business scientists and just “craftsmen” different countries realized that replacing all these expensive but popular devices can be a universal computer program that generates the necessary binaural beats in stereo headphones and visual special effects on the monitor screen. And these programs began to "breed" with incredible speed. The Internet is literally littered with them.

In some of the programs listed above, the frequency of the binaural beat is fixed, in others it varies dynamically.

The music market of the Russian-speaking Internet is literally littered with all sorts of expensive CDs with “binaural beats”, “healing noises”, “elemental music”, etc.

So, the vast majority of all the negativity associated with binaural beats comes from this area of direct stimulation.

The most common occurrence in this segment is the so-called " White noise "- a sound devoid of pitch and timbre certainty, objectively characterized by a statistically constant in time, a continuous, equal-amplitude spectrum over the entire frequency range used.
In terms of auditory perception, the familiar noise of a pause when playing a sound recording from a magnetic tape (at appropriate volume levels) or the “hiss” of a working TV when the TV signal disappears is close to white noise.

So, the effect of "white noise" is widely used in psychoacoustic research as a masker (silencing component) and to create artificial sound perception thresholds.
In addition, as a special sound effect, white noise is often used as a background in special computer audio programs and phonograms that generate “pure” binaural beats.
In addition, there are some very dubious projects, such as the so-called "specially organized white noise" - SOBSH. Oh, how!
And this one, be it wrong, SOBSH, according to the creators, the effect is similar25th frame in a video or movie image. Thus, it turns out that specialists can, in principle, “hide” anything in this white noise.
This means that this technology is relevant only in special clinics, where the very people who are engaged in the generation of this SOBSH work and put information into it.
If it is sold on a free sale, then, in my opinion, there is a clear catch on the face.

A simple example.
Someone told a young man that, boy, these noises-clicks-cod-gurgles are useful for entering the astral plane. You will go out into the astral plane and be cool: you will astrally kill all your ill-wishers, you will dig up a bunch of business ideas, and just pleasures there, in the astral plane - immeasurably, I don’t want to eat ...
And the person began to listen to it all frantically - to listen purely FROM THE IDEA that this is supposedly useful ...
There is no inclusion of feeling in this process. The emotional plan is turned off, or rather, it is displaced, suppressed, and in its place is an OBSESSION with this idea of entering a lucid dream or the astral plane there. Those. the human condition is Narrowed.

There is no pleasure, no "aesthetic element" whatsoever in this process.
Well, what good can such a blatantly inconsistent process lead to???
It can't lead to anything good.
And it doesn't.
It's just that the person is dumb and that's it.
In principle, if you become too skilled in this direction, then here, if you try, you can reach a certain zombie level, when the brain is already so "zabinauralized" that without the presence of these crackles-noises-clicks in the head, this young hipster will feel uncomfortable.

But in fairness, it must be said here that if he didn’t have a mind-machine, this pepper will still find something to “get stuck” on - for sure ...
So, summarizing the theme of "zombie", we can say that IF you try hard, you can damage the brain. But if you use it soberly and sanely, then there is no danger.

When the emotional plan is turned on, plus it is turned on CONSCIOUSLY - i.e. you listen to the music that you aesthetically like, which causes you to flow of feelings, aesthetic pleasure - then binaural beats can only be useful.

Personally, I have several purely noise discs that have taken root, but, firstly, they are all Hemi-Sync, i.e. and a proven source, secondly, of course, in wave format, and thirdly, I introduced them into practice very gradually, carefully and carefully.

Well, the last moment.
There are quite a few discs with binaural beats, where there are some voice pronunciations - voice guided. Those. there some text is slandered by some voice - male or female.

Personally, I like such discs right away, but if someone likes it, I advise you to be more attentive to the sensations at the beginning of working with this disc.
There is nothing fatal in principle, but attentiveness does not hurt.
The fact is that any researcher, any author of the disc is also an ordinary person with his own problems and his own "cockroaches".
How do you know what's going on in his personal life? Maybe he is conflicted and depressive all? During the recording of the disc, he gathered himself, speaks in a soft voice. And he left the studio - immediately to the bar, clap stopar whiskey ...

So here his whole life- both conscious and subconscious - is reflected in his voice. This is the law of nature, it cannot be otherwise.
And accordingly, when your brain is synchronized through binaural, the voice begins to be perceived by the deep structures of the psyche, then some resonances of your subconscious with its subconscious are quite possible.

The ideal option here is this: sit down, write down all the text spoken by this person on paper, learn it, and pronounce it yourself to similar music with the same binaural rhythms.

Let's say, if it's a sleep CD with delta rhythms, then you memorize the text, take another disk with delta rhythms, where there is no voice, and calmly work under it.

It’s even better if you say this text in your own voice - since microphones for karaoke are now available in any supermarket, and mastering a sound editor at the level of voice recording and mixing with a music track is no more difficult than mastering Word or Excel, not to mention about Photoshop.
I already have quite a few clients who have mastered this business and now they listen only to what they really like. Psychohygiene, however! :)

If fate brought you to this person and you entrusted him with work with yourself, then it is quite possible to trust fate further. So, she took into account all those "jambs" in his personal life that he has. So, if this person gives you a disc where something is said in his voice - take it. Although what I said here is still not worth forgetting ...

The second point that is present in terms of voice discs is the same "language barrier" - only in this case subconscious.

This moment is very clearly reflected in the immortal movie about Stirlitz: "the problem of the radio operator Kate."
The radio operator Kate - and in fact the Soviet intelligence officer Katya - was married to a German - an anti-fascist underground worker and was pregnant.
At some point, Stirlitz called her aside and told her, they say, keep in mind that during childbirth you yourself can start moaning in Russian without noticing it, because in that state your true personality will appear.
Kat said, they say, I will work this moment and I will moan in German.
Of course, she was already so adapted to life in Germany that she thought in German (this, as you know, is a sign of the already complete penetration of the language at the level of personality)
And no doubt, she would have worked this moment, and really would have moaned in German, if I gave birth in the mind. But it so happened that she came into childbirth directly from under the bombing - unconscious.
And everything turned out just as the wise scout had warned: she called out “mother” in pure Ryazan, as a result of which she “burned out” ...

So, if we have not grown up in a multilingual family since childhood, then English for our unconscious will be perceived as a stranger.
A Russian person has a Russian subconscious too.

Moreover, if we also remember that English itself is a language with a "left-hemispheric dominant", and Russian with a "right-hemispheric dominant", then it turns out that, by opening the subconscious of English speech, we also "narrow" some elements of our subconscious, " smashing them...

If you really grew up in a multilingual family, plus, say, in your childhood you lived in an English-speaking environment for at least some time, plus there are no psychotraumas associated with this period, or at least you know English from childhood, say, while studying at a school with advanced learning English - then this moment does not apply to you.

But it applies to me personally (especially after my enchanting visit to the "language environment" :)), so I don't use voise-guided CD.
Noise backgrounds - listening. If I like it, if I feel a good resonance, then I just remove the voice in the music editor and just listen to this noise - it works great.

Practice using binaural beats

I am not the Monroe Institute, and of course, I do not conduct any in-depth research in the field of binaural beats, but since I have been using this technology for about 10 years, I have already accumulated some experience, and it is very positive.

To begin with, I have met quite a few fellow psychologists who "do not favor" this obscure Hemi-Sync technology.
The West, they say, does not come up with anything to zombify the people ...

And my confidence in this music arose immediately for a very simple and funny reason: when I found out about binaural beats, i.e. when I heard this term and started (of course, with the same skepticism that shows through among my colleagues) to study the topic, suddenly, among the music under the Hemi-Sync brand, I discovered compositions that have been the main ones for me in my psychological work for many years, t .e. this is the same music that begins my main background selection during psychological work.

Imagine a picture: I click on a track just downloaded with some kind of suspicious Hemi-Sync technology there, my mind is set "aimingly skeptical", they say, don't fool me, bourgeois. They say that you, Slavs, cannot be caught by any of your binaural rhythms.

And suddenly I hear music that has been playing for me for 8 years several times a day, which I have liked for a long time and which each of my old clients already loves, knows and has in their home collection!
That is, my intuition "calculated" the beneficial effects of this music long before I knew the fact that it has binaural beats.

And I got this music by chance, when I copied a whole bunch of CDs from my friend, who regularly visited Gorbushka, and constantly bought CDs with various instrumental music (it was back in those days when there was good old " Gorbushka" in the open air, with pies :))

I copied discs from him en masse, without covers, and not always having time to record the artist. That's how I got a couple of discs with binaural pulsation (which I didn't even know about then).

Well, and now - in the process of constant rotation of the music that I have, my standard working selection was formed, with which any of my sessions of "telephone", "integrative", rebirthing or spontaneous yoga begins.
And it must turn out that the very first composition in this selection turned out to be music with binaural rhythms - from this album:

In short, my skepticism immediately evaporated completely, and I began to study binaural beats thoroughly and introduce them into practice more widely.

But the full flowering of this line occurred only when the highest grace descended on the world, called TORRENT TRACKERS :))))

Now it was possible to download an unlimited amount of a wide variety of music, incl. and binaural beats.

It was only through torrent trackers that I was able to get so much of this music that it made it possible to use binaural pulsation much more widely, and even make assemblies consisting entirely of binaural music.

As a result, new assemblies appeared, which I use in all my programs.

Firstly, I use this music as a backdrop for any session of body-oriented psychotherapy. I have pre-made tracks for any session development.

Let's say, if some kind of cathartic process is going on, when some kind of "boil" is opened in a person's soul, when the pain that has been accumulating there for years bursts out, I immediately, as if in passing, click on the corresponding track, and music like that Resonant Tuning creates the necessary atmosphere, helping catharsis.
But as soon as the pain is gone, and the soul is freed from the heaviness and tension that it had in this place, it is imperative to put on "wound healing" music, and I also, in passing, click on the track with binaural music of the ascending emotional spectrum - such as the above track Aeoliah .

The same applies to the session of integrative practice.
I have a certain "universal" assembly, emotionally neutral, which I put in the background at the beginning of the session, and there is a whole set of binaural music for a variety of options for the development of integrative work.
Of course, basically the music for "television" and "integrative" intersects and complements each other. It’s just that in the “integrative” there are usually fewer cathartic moments - here I mainly work on the request of self-development and self-knowledge, and not along the line of psychotrauma ...

The next practice where music with binaural beats is used is rebirthing (well, holotropic breathing if absolutely necessary).
Here we have, undoubtedly, the widest application of binaural music.
I have sessions that consist entirely of such music, but even if the session is mostly regular music (although "normal" is high quality stereo music in a professional wave format), it still includes binaural tracks.

Since rebirthing is a practice in principle related to ASC, binaural beats work here as well as possible!
Outwardly, their presence is not noticeable to an untrained ear - music is like music - but according to the result of the session, according to the effect that the rebirthing session with binaural fragments gives, there is a difference.

Further, I widely use binaural beats in the practice of spontaneous yoga, primarily in spontaneous movement.
The fundamental task of this practice is to help a person establish contact with the body and "catch" the energy of space with the body. When this happens, spontaneous movements arise that have a profound restorative and healing effect on the body and psyche.

When a person has already mastered the skill of entering the stream of spontaneous movement, he doesn’t really need any music anymore. Just let go of the body. But at the initial stages, when the right hemisphere has not yet "come to life", binaural beats are very helpful in "quenching" the activity of the left hemisphere and giving energy a "passage" into the body.

Fragments with binaural beats are in some of my musical assemblies for independent practice of spontaneous movement.

And finally, binaural beats work great with holistic massage as background music.
True, the exact selection of such music and careful sorting of music are especially important here.
In any album with binaural beats, there are different fragments.
For a massage, you only need smooth, calm, even neutral music, so it is especially important to master musical editing and make yourself such assemblies where there will be no drops and abrupt musical transitions.

I also personally refused to use music with delta rhythms during massage.
For a client, this music works great, but I myself literally “pass out” under these delta rhythms during a massage :)
When I'm not working, in peace and quiet, I really like these delta rhythms, they contribute to creativity, but when I work, they don't roll :)

Although - here are the paradoxes of individual characteristics - my favorite "working rhythms" are theta rhythms, and they, in principle, also belong to the relaxing ones.
Alpha and beta rhythms are less suitable for a massage session, because in principle they are not designed for relaxation, and it would be better to relax the client during the massage. Therefore, my "formula for success" here is assembly based on theta rhythms.

This is the scope of my research on binaural beats.

Now about what I have researched over the years of practice.

First, with regard to the strength of the impact and the degree of influence of binaural beats on the process of entering the ASC and processes within the ASC.

The general conclusion is this: the process of entry is slightly influenced, but in terms of keeping in an altered state of consciousness and in terms of maintaining various processes inside the “changers”, they influence very much.

It is much easier to maintain altered, expanded states of consciousness when properly selected binaural pulsations are present in space than without them or even with ordinary music.

In order to understand the dynamics of the interaction of various factors of entry into the ASC, we must consider the neurophysiological aspects of practice in more detail.

Altered states of consciousness from the point of view of neurophysiology

As we have already mentioned, binaural beats generate activation of neuronal activity in the olive of the brain stem (number 1) and the inferior colliculi of the quadrigemina of the medulla oblongata (2). Both of these groups of neurons are part of the hearing aid system.

But looking at the diagram of the lower parts of the brain, we see that there are still the most important neuronal nuclei, which in their value (status) significantly exceed the value of the auditory center.
First of all, of course, this is the respiratory center, indicated in the diagram by the number 3. This is the most complex of all neuronal centers in this part of the brain, it consists of three groups of neurons of the respiratory center itself (indicated in blue in the diagram) and is closely connected with the respiratory center, but considered a separate structure of the reticular formation, designated by the number 4.
Thus, the respiratory center consists of at least three groups of neurons.
Its significance, of course, is much higher than the auditory center, for a person can quite live without hearing, but he absolutely cannot live without breathing.
Moreover, without breathing, no other structure of the brain, and of the whole organism in general, can live, and therefore the respiratory center is so complicated.
So, without the involvement of this center, on one auditory center, there can be no talk of any significant change in the state of consciousness (or "shift of the assemblage point", as it is called in one of the spiritual traditions) (well, or this is the very hypnotizable "junkie ", for which "everything works" even when compressing music at 160kb/s)

We cannot influence any vital function of the organism directly, in the most ordinary state of consciousness, but we can influence breathing.

At any moment, we can speed up or slow down breathing, deepen or make it more superficial. We can even delay it sometimes for a decent time.

There is a group of neurons in the respiratory center that is directly related to the conscious regulation of breathing - i.e. nature, as it were, conceived us as beings CONSTANTLY AWARE OF THEIR BREATH.
There are no other reasons for the presence of this group of neurons.
If this were not the case, then we would have here the same thing that we have in all other neuronal centers: the medial, digestive, etc. - without direct access to them.

We can get access to all other centers only by deeply entering the ASC, and the respiratory center is available to us in any, even the most narrowed state of consciousness, even in stress - there would be an intention.

Go ahead.
The group of neurons associated with "conscious" breathing is closely intertwined with the group of neurons that regulate unconscious breathing.
Unconscious breathing is the one that is always present with us, regardless of whether we direct our attention to breathing or do not pay any attention to it. This center works even when we are asleep or in a state of fainting.

So - attention!!! - as the EEG data show, when the neurons of conscious control of breathing are activated, the neurons responsible for unconscious breathing are automatically activated, i.e. their synchronization begins.
And after some time simple observation of your breathing, the activity of these neurons in humans is completely synchronized - i.e. unconscious breathing is tuned to conscious.

This is the most important, one might say - the key - moment in any practice!

When the unconscious breath is synchronized with the conscious, for the body it is equivalent to a signal - I'm HERE.

Those. the body understands that consciousness is HERE.

Usually our consciousness (more precisely, what we call consciousness) "walks" anywhere, except for this moment, except for the here and now.
And then the organism lives purely according to natural programs absolutely similar to the animal kingdom: it survives, reproduces, defends itself, enjoys, etc.
But when the consciousness unites with the breath, then the actual human program begins- begins what we, human beings, are created for ...

But that is not all.
As we can see in the diagram, the respiratory center is closely intertwined with the heart center, indicated in the diagram in red and the number 5.
This is not just a heart center, it is a vascular-motor center that regulates the tone of all the vessels of the body - down to the capillaries!

If this center is tense, under stress, then the vessels throughout the body are in hypertonicity, which means that blood circulation is disturbed, including microcirculation at the capillary level!
If the microcirculation is disturbed, then the tissues and organs do not receive enough nutrition, and everything begins in them that then ends in a hospital bed ...

So neurophysiology has already clearly shown and proved to us everything that was described in yoga several thousand years ago, and everything that I wrote here can be attributed with one hundred percent relevance to the yogic breathing system - PRANAYAMA.

Everything you need to enable all the described processes is there. All algorithms are painted.
Of course, everything is described there in its own specific language, but all this is very easily correlated with the data of neurophysiology.
Plus, of course, pranayama exercises require adaptation to our conditions, because this system originated in India - in a different climate, in a different genotype.
Well, in short, there are some nuances here, which are covered in sufficient detail on my page on yoga (there are even audio materials on pranayama), here it is important for us to understand the dynamics of pairing all these centers with binaural rhythms.

So, awareness of the breath gives the whole system a "collection signal", all systems gather here and now.

The hypertonicity of the vessels goes away and the blood supply to the whole body improves, and the binaural rhythm includes the olive, which is associated with the respiratory center as closely as the respiratory center is associated with the heart.

Moreover, the olive itself is no less closely connected with the heart center, for they are located very close.
It's only in the picture that these centers seem to be different, but in fact, all the neurons here are so intertwined that it all works in complete unity.

So, when a person, THANKS TO UNDERSTANDING AND Awareness through breathing, enters the space of the body - which is actually the beginning of ASC - then binaural pulsation creates an additional "spatial frame", a structure that not only supports this self-adjustment, but also deepens it.
Entering the ASC, the binaural rhythm through the olive "supports" both the breath and the vascular system.

The next most important component of entering the ASC is related, no matter how strange it may seem at first glance, with muscle tone.

Let's remember the reticular formation, which is in close relationship with the respiratory center (number 4 in the diagram).
Here it is in more detail:

This is a very important education for the issue under consideration.
We will not deal in detail with the structure of this part of the brain (although it is very interesting), we will only note what is directly related to the ASC.

This formation takes the most active part in the processing of sensory information coming to the brain from the entire surface of the body.
And based on the processing of this information, the reticular formation has an activating effect on the cerebral cortex, thus controlling the activity of the spinal cord.

The mechanism of the effect of the reticular formation on muscle tone is known: the reticular formation is able to change the activity of gamma motor neurons, as a result of which their axons (gamma efferents) cause contraction of muscle spindles, and, as a result, an increase in afferent impulses from muscle receptors.

These impulses, entering the spinal cord, cause excitation of alpha motor neurons, which is the cause of muscle tone.
The reticular formation has a connection with the cerebellum. This suggests that the reticular formation is a collector of non-specific sensory flow involved in the regulation of muscle activity.

That is, through the respiratory center, we directly affect the center, which "holds" the tension in the muscles.
Conscious breathing allows you to remove muscle hypertonicity, and binaural rhythms, as we have already said, allow you to deepen this process of muscle relaxation - up to complete, when we lose body sensation in the ASC state, while remaining conscious.

It is no coincidence that the yogic asana (pose) associated with complete muscle relaxation is called "shavasana" - "corpse pose".

And any practitioner knows that shavasana is performed in close conjunction with breathing - primarily "body breathing".

This moment is especially important for the practice of lucid sleep, because it is the muscle tone, in which our body usually remains even in sleep, that prevents the inclusion of consciousness in a dream.
The remaining muscle tension draws too much energy onto itself, thus preventing it from being directed to conscious activity within sleep.

When we practice breathing exercises corresponding to this moment to music with delta rhythms before going to bed, and then, practicing "body breathing", we fall asleep to the same music - so that it will sound quietly right during sleep, the reticular formation through the respiratory center will be able to “release” the muscles much deeper, and the released energy will go to collecting consciousness inside sleep.

Thus, in order to obtain the maximumeffect from music with binaural beats, it is better to direct attention not to her, but to breathing.

The maximum entry into the breath, the maximum awareness of this process in all its subtlest nuances, and then "connecting" to the breath of the whole body, when you seem to be breathing through the skin - this is what gives the maximum effect of music with binaural rhythms.
And simple listening gives too little involvement of key neural structures of the brain - this will not be able to "block" the left hemisphere dominant, which is constantly present in our brain.

Next important point associated with ASC is the work of the cerebellum.

Everything we have looked at above has been related to static practice, and now we will see how binaural pulsation is directly related to movement.

Recall that in addition to the olive of the brainstem, binaural pulsation activates a group of neurons in the inferior colliculi of the quadrigemina.

If we look at the quadruple more broadly, we will see that it is directly related to the cerebellum:

In this diagram, the tubercles of the quadrigemina are indicated by the number 1.
We see that they practically come out of the cerebellum - the number 2.
The cerebellum itself is labeled 3.

So, the cerebellum (lat. cerebellum "small brain") is the part of the vertebrate brain responsible for coordinating movements, regulating balance and muscle tone.

Through three pairs of "legs", the cerebellum receives information from the cerebral cortex, the basal ganglia of the extrapyramidal system, the brain stem and spinal cord.

In vertebrates with cerebral cortex, the cerebellum is a functional branch of the main axis between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

The cerebellum receives a copy of the afferent information transmitted from the spinal cord to the cerebral cortex, as well as efferent information - from the motor centers of the cerebral cortex to the spinal cord. The first one signals the current state of the regulated variable (muscle tone, position of the body and limbs in space), and the second one gives an idea of the required final state. By comparing the first and second, the cerebellar cortex can calculate the error, which is reported to the motor centers. So the cerebellum continuously corrects both voluntary and automatic movements.

Although the cerebellum is connected to the cerebral cortex, its activity is not controlled by consciousness.

So binaural beats activate cerebellar neurons through the inferior colliculus!
But for this activation to be fully expressed, need movement!
You have to let the body move.
Otherwise, it will be an incomplete process - like a dance with one hand.

Of course, this is better than the complete absence of dance, but dancing with the whole body is definitely more beautiful and full.

And when we practice spontaneous movement to music with binaural beats, we fully engage this circuit, launching a huge number of recovery processes already in the cerebral cortex.

This is the general picture of the impact of binaural beats, which opened up in the course of my practice.

In fact, this picture is constantly expanding and supplemented - and I periodically make these additions here - on this page.

I think that this topic will continue to develop, fortunately, Uncle Monroe constantly throws new "metamusic" to us :) Yes, and old Geoffrey Thompson is quite in the ranks :)

So it's still just getting started! :)

I developed this self-regulation technique after I became familiar with music that contains binaural beats.

The technique combines such music and work with breathing.

The technique is time-tested - it works perfectly.

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Fragments of correspondence on the subject of binaural beats

Good evening, Alexey

I have a question for you, can a pregnant woman listen to binaural beats? For example: "Full rest in 24 minutes", my sister listens to different programs of some author. She and I don't know what to do. If you can listen, then what?

Thank you.

By themselves, binaural beats are not harmful to anyone.
Let's say, at all times, pregnant women went to temples, where they were among the binaural rhythms arising from bells, an organ or a choir.
If these rhythms are superimposed on harmonious music, then they cannot hurt.

But as far as the option you mentioned, I have serious doubts.
The very presentation of "Full rest in 24 minutes" is a purely publicity stunt that has nothing to do with reality.
Simply put, it's a scam.
And this betrays another "dealer" from psychology, making money on the trust of ignorant people.
I would not listen to such an author and would not recommend it to my clients.

From what I have posted, you can listen to my recordings of audio pranayama - there I just speak to binaural rhythms.
You can download these entries here:

There will be questions on practice - write.

God willing, I will post more of this music ...
All hands do not reach ...

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Alexey, hello.
On the page about binaural you have used a preset in .waw format. Can you tell me where you can find a selection of such presets with tones? (Actually, Theta and Delta are of interest).
There is Sbagen and Brainwave - but I don't remember the option given on the page, those in Brainwave are more "dirty", or something.

Hello Michael
I did not use any special preset in my material.
I took these presets from some presentation video that talked about binaural.
I took these ready-made sounds and presented all this in a visual form on my page.
I personally use the Brainwave generator in my work.
I don’t use his own presets, but I just developed a number of presets for myself there, and I put them on during work when I use music without binaural (and, of course, I have the vast majority of this)
Basically all my presets are in the delta range - from 1Hz to 4Hz.

Works great.

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Lyosha, good evening! I have been doing (morning, afternoon and evening) for 20 days now.
And always - at least in the morning, at least in the afternoon, at least in the evening, as I get to breathing like a cocoon - it knocks me out completely.And soooo deep somewhere I'm leaving.
P why so? Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
And another question: after I come to my senses at the end of the recording, it’s as if I got drunk on diuretics, sorry for the detail, so much fluid comes out of me, is this normal?

Yes, it's all quite normal!
When cocoon breathing begins, then you simply lack the refinement of consciousness.
There are very subtle such energies pumped
This is where you go to sleep.
The fact is thatall this breathing practice goes to music with binaural beats, and this plays a significant role in the nature of the action of these recordings. And therefore, when it is about a cocoon, then your system really begins to tune in to your ethereal body.
But this level of perception has not yet been mastered for you - no one has ever taught us this anywhere.
And that's why there is such a "shutdown".

But it is important to understand here that this is not a dream, no matter how it seems to you that you are going "very deep"! This is just such a meditative state! Meditative slumber, one might say...

If you look from the side, you can clearly see that the pupils are actively moving under the eyelids, twitching in the body - i.e. it is clear that the person is in a borderline state.
He even hears if I say something to him (this often happens in rebirthing).
So, okay, don't worry about going to sleep!
Work is still going on!

As for the diuretic effect, this cleansing is happening!
The kidneys are cleansed, the body is cleansed.
After radiation therapy, you have a lot of toxins left in your body.
So they are derived, because a very deep relaxation of the nervous system occurs in this state.

Relaxation of the nervous system turns on the mechanisms of self-regeneration and the body first of all begins to cleanse itself.
Everything is quite normal here.
As soon as the body is cleansed, this effect will go away..

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Alexey, hello.
Where can I get (download) the rhythms themselves - in particular, delta and theta?
On your page on binaural it says "loading" and judging by the screen, a ready-made binaural01.wav file is taken.
I made a selection of melodies, but there is nothing to mix them with. I downloaded BrainWave Generator, but the presets there are completely different.

I don't know where to get these rhythms. I think it is unlikely that the Monroe Institute will allow their free distribution.
Most likely, the authors who write music using binaural beats are either given ready-made sound tracks, or they simply sign what generations to do.
Generating binaural beats is easy. The same Brainwave generator makes it easy with a mouse move :)
It's just that the Monroe Institute can give specific data on what frequencies to use for such music (say, energizing), which frequencies for another (say, relaxing), which for thirds (say, for deep sleep).

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A lot of interesting correspondence. There, the correspondence is mainly around the practice of spontaneous yoga, but of course, in addition to the practice itself, it touches on many different topics related to self-knowledge and self-development. Of course, everything discussed there is absolutely relevant to the path of Reiki.

There is also a separate page where it is collected (in the broadest sense).

There is also a separate page where it is collected (mostly - Orthodoxy).

brain waves. Brain wave generation (esoteric)

brain waves. Brain wave generation

The so-called "brain waves" (brainwaves) are electromagnetic waves of low intensity emitted by the brain, with a frequency of 1 to 40 hertz, which are successfully recorded by devices such as an electroencephalograph (EEG).
There are five main groups of brain waves

Delta waves (0.5-3 Hz): Appear during deep sleep, trance, hypnosis.

Theta waves (4-7 Hz): Occur during sleep, deep relaxation and meditation. Increase the ability of memory, focusing attention, stimulate fantasy, promote vivid dreams. Some people find that half an hour of theta waves a day replaces 4 hours of normal sleep.

Alpha waves (8-12 Hz): Fixed in a state bordering between sleep and awakening, meditation, cause positive emotions, a sense of comfort and harmony. They are used in various “high-speed” audio / video teaching methods, for example, on cassettes with foreign language courses. Even reading a textbook under theta waves contributes to greater assimilation of the material. In the alpha range also lies a band of frequencies known as the "Schulman resonance" (frequencies that resonate with the Earth's magnetic field).

Beta waves (13-30 Hz): Occur in an active, alert state. High activity of beta waves always corresponds to a large release of stress hormones.

Gamma waves (30 Hz and above): go side by side with the concepts of "hyperconsciousness", "hyperreality". In any case, the Nobel Prize winner, Sir Francis Crick and some other scientists think so.

It has been established that stimulation of the brain by these waves from the outside leads it to a state in which the waves arose naturally. For example, an extremely agitated (beta state) person can be relaxed by stimulating the brain with ten hertz waves for five minutes.

The process technology itself is intricate. A person, as you know, is very hard of hearing and hears sound in the range from 16 hertz to 20 kilohertz. There are, of course, exceptions, but ... These are exceptions. And our task is to stimulate the brain through the ear, and with the help of stereo headphones. SPEAKERS DO NOT SUIT! We will not consider other methods, since we are talking about brain waves in sound. The problem is that the ear does not hear brain waves, but it is necessary. Binaural beats come to the rescue. Why binaural? Because the technology is designed to work ONLY with stereo material intended for TWO ears. Let me remind you that the word “aural” means “ear, auditory, acoustic”, etc.

The essence of the technology under consideration is easier to explain with an example. Suppose we need to stimulate the brain with 10 hertz. To do this... We give a uniform tone of 500 hertz to the left ear, and 510 Hz to the right ear. Their "mixing" occurs already in the brain. At the same time, 510 Hz - 500 Hz give us just 10 Hz. This difference, perceived by the brain, is called binaural oscillation.

In our example, with the same result, you can use such pairs of values \u200b\u200bas, say, 400 and 410, 800 and 810, but not higher than 1000. The ability to alternate and apply different types of waves is a whole art, and there is enough material on this subject for a thick book .

David Johnson, who is more of an expert on the subject than I am, advises the following:

1. Instant relaxation and stress relief - use frequencies between 5 and 10 Hz for various levels of relaxation.
2. Sleep replacement - a thirty-minute session at 5 hertz replaces 2-3 hours of sleep, allowing you to wake up early in the morning more refreshed. Try listening for half an hour before falling asleep and getting up in the morning.
3. The fight against insomnia - waves between 4 and 6 hertz for the first 10 minutes, then moving to frequencies below 3.5 Hz (for 20-30 minutes), gradually descending to 2.5 Hz before ending.
4. Raising the tone - theta waves (4-7 Hz) for 45 minutes a day.
Distinct visuals (eg for artists) - a few waves at 6 hertz, then a boost to 10.
5. Migraine and headache relief - experiment with alpha and theta combinations.
6. Reduced symptoms of depression - again, combinations of alpha and theta, predominantly theta.
7. Accelerated learning - from 7 to 9 hertz while the training record is playing. This enhances the assimilation of the material. Also in the process of learning (for example, by reading) take 10-minute breaks every half an hour, in which listen to alpha waves (10 hertz).
8. Subconscious programming - use 5 to 7 hertz while the recording is playing (Johnson means something like an hour and a half repetitions of "I'm calm, I'm relaxed"), or make your own recording and add waves to it, mixing them with the recording and adjusting the volume .
9. Improving intuition - theta waves, 4-7 hertz, will help in this area.
10. Achievement of high states of consciousness - and again theta, with at least half an hour session per day. Expect results in about a month.

There is a lot of literature on brain wave synchronization (I mean English), but to study it, you need to more or less understand science and medicine (as well as foreign terms). Since the sixties of the last century, hundreds, if not thousands of solid books and scientific articles devoted to this issue have been published.

Here, in the ex-USSR, unfortunately, the situation is somewhat different. Not so long ago, my words about brain waves in one seemingly educated literary get-together were simply ridiculed, as, indeed, neuro-linguistic programming. Still would! Foreign publications such as Scientific American, Alchohol, Physiological Review, Brain, British Journal of Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology regularly cover the problem, gray-haired professors write thick books, and our cultural "elite" raises other people's knowledge for laugh...

Meanwhile, brain wave synchronization is used in the West to treat depression, migraines and headaches, autism, distraction, alcohol and drug addictions.
What are brain waves?

Electric currents pass through the nerve fibers, which can be measured with a galvanometer, and the brain itself emits electrical impulses. These impulses are so weak that they cannot be measured by ordinary methods; their voltage is about 20 millionths of a volt (compare this with 220 V in an apartment network). They can, however, be detected with the help of special amplifiers, and the waves can be recorded on a special magnetic film or projected onto a television screen. The shape and magnitude of these waves provide significant information about the state of the brain (encephalon), so that electrical telegrams of this kind, called electroencephalograms, are very important for detecting certain diseases of the nervous system.

Waves coming from different parts brain, have a different shape. The procedure usually consists of eight to eighteen small metal discs the size of half an aspirin tablet, connected by wires to an amplifying device, to various places on the skull. The receiver is then tuned in and "transmission" begins. A particularly impressive experiment is obtained if the magnets are connected not to a pen, but to a loudspeaker; then the brain impulses are represented not by ink curves, but by noises. In this way one can really hear the electric thrill of the functioning brain.

The discoverers of these waves (German, Italian, American, Russian and English doctors) found that their appearance depends on a number of reasons. They change with age and also when the subject opens or closes their eyes. They change when he is trying to solve an arithmetic problem, excited or worried about something. They change when he falls asleep, but do not change during hypnosis (suggesting that the hypnotic state is different from sleep).

The main medical application of the electroencephalograph is in the detection of epilepsy and brain tumors. On recordings taken from epileptics, smooth waves are suddenly interrupted by peaks of powerful electrical discharges. Similar peaks are often observed in families of epileptics, even among relatives who have never had epilepsy either before or after; hence it will be seen that the tendency to epileptic seizures is in some cases inherited, but the emotions and other stresses which cause the seizures do not necessarily affect all who have such a tendency. This allows us to understand why, after a severe emotional shock or a car accident, an epileptic seizure can occur in people who have not previously suffered from epilepsy, but who have epileptic relatives.

Before brain surgery, one must know which part of the brain the tumor is in, and in some cases the best evidence is an electroencephalogram. Because the tumor tissue is different from the rest of the brain, it emits a different kind of electrical wave. By sticking electrodes to different places on the skull and performing "triangulation" like a geodetic survey, it is often possible to accurately localize the source of abnormal impulses, and then the surgeon knows where to start the operation.

It is not known from which part of the brain the normal waves originate; but they probably arise in those parts of it which are occupied by conscious "thinking," that is, the Ego; in fact, when these areas are removed from animals, waves of a different kind arise, apparently emanating from the "subconscious" parts of the brain. The fact that ordinary waves originate from the "conscious" parts of the brain makes it possible to understand why these waves change when a person falls asleep, or during an epileptic seizure, since in these cases the usual state of consciousness is disturbed.

It should be remembered that brain wave stimulation
STRICTLY CONTRAINDICATED:

1. People suffering from epilepsy, as well as arrhythmia and other heart diseases. Stimulation of a person from the first category with beta waves (more specifically, 25 hertz) of a certain intensity for 30 minutes causes a seizure.
2. People with cardiac pacemakers.
Taking psychoactive drugs and stimulants. This also applies to drunks.
3. Patients with severe mental disorders.

If you use brain wave synchronization in your material, it is a duty of honor to warn listeners about this, for example, on the cover of the disc or in the commentary on the file. Also, be sure to mention that you are not responsible for any possible consequences listening to your material.
brain waves.

08.04.2021

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