Monday, February 13, 2012

Binaural Beats

I discovered binaural beats which YouTube has many tracks to chose from and always felt they helped me to calm down.  There are many forms of binaural that can have different effects, I have listed these below.  You must wear headphones to get the full effect.

The following is from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats

Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and earned greater public awareness in the late 20th century based on claims that binaural beats could help induce relaxation, meditation, creativity and other desirable mental states. The effect on the brainwaves depends on the difference in frequencies of each tone, for example, if 300 Hz was played in one ear and 310 in the other, then the binaural beat would have a frequency of 10 Hz.


Binaural beats reportedly influence the brain in more subtle ways through the entrainment of brainwaves and have been claimed to reduce anxiety and provide other health benefits such as control over pain.











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