Brainwave Entrainment For Pain Relief
Brainwave entrainment is a way to achieve a physiological or psychological state that it is
difficult for you to reach on your own.
If you find it hard to relax you may like to try brainwave entrainment to help you. Brainwave entrainment audios can help to relax you.
It can also be used to reduce pain and to help you sleep if you have trouble
sleeping.
What Is Brainwave Entrainment? 
Brainwave entrainment is a way of changing the rhythm of the electrical pulses that your brain makes. The pulses
are what is measured when a person has an EEG done on their brain.
These pulses are produced all the time and the rhythm varies throughout the day depending on what we are doing.
If we are busy and alert the pulses are faster than when we are relaxed and these waves are called 'beta waves'.
When we close our eyes they are slower than when our eyes are open and these are 'alpha waves'. At night when we
are ready for sleep the pulses slow down even more and when we are asleep they vary throughout our sleeping
time.
How Do We Entrain The Brain?
It has been found that if certain rhythms are played to us or if we see lights pulsing at the correct rhythm
this can change the rate of the brain's electrical pulses, or brain waves as we call them. This can be measured
electronically.
Why should we want to change the rate of brain waves? Because it has been discovered that the brain responds to
the sounds by changing what it happening in the body. When the rate of pulsation changes to the alpha wave rhythm
for example, it will cause the body to relax naturally and easily.
Various rates have been used in studies to see what effect these can have on the user. There were successful
outcomes in studies of people with pain including headache and migraines, also in stress and anxiety reduction and
in prementrual tension.
Resources For Brainwave Entrainment
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