How Does Brainwave Entrainment Help With Our Mental Health?
A growing number of people are choosing brainwave entrainment as an alternative way to manage various mental health conditions, including PTSD, depression, anxiety and stress. It seems appropriate to ask how on earth this new form of care works. And the answer is, by altering brainwave frequencies deep inside the emotional parts of the brain.
When we use pharmaceuticals to treat mental health conditions like anxiety, PTSD, depression and stress, it is commonly understood that we are seeking to alter the brain’s chemistry. And, of course, in turn reduce the symptoms and the suffering.
What is less well-known is that it is also possible to change the brain’s brainwave frequencies, which can also change how you think and feel. Understanding that there is a proven difference between the brainwave frequencies of a happy and relaxed brain and the brainwaves of a stressed out and anxious brain is the basis for understanding how this type of therapy works.
The future of brainwave entrainment research is bright, yet there is much that we still don’t know. Using the well-known scientific principles of entrainment it is possible to adjust the frequency that brain cells function by using an external stimulus. The most common form of brainwave entrainment uses sound known as Binaural Beats. The newer and more cutting edge is high-frequency LED lights that alter brainwave frequency by stimulating brain cells at the desired frequency. There are literally hundreds of scientific research papers on this topic that can be found on Google Scholar, and it’s only early days.
A significant number of people who use brainwave entrainment to ease the symptoms of their anxiety, stress, insomnia, chronic fatigue, PTSD and depression find that even within a small handful of sessions, they notice a dramatic reduction in symptoms. All of this can be achieved in most cases without any negative side effects that are more commonly associated with drug treatments. This is not to say that brainwave treatment is necessarily an alternative to medication, counselling, psychotherapy, EMDR and hypnotherapy. Still, it may just be another excellent string to the bow of someone who wants to feel better in the long term. At the same time, others find that their symptoms are satisfactorily reduced simply with some good self-care routines and brainwave entrainment.
One of the most surprising facts about brainwave entrainment, and why it’s so useful for so many people with complaints like anxiety and PTSD is that we have light receptive cells in the middle of our brain. Brain scientists have discovered that the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus, the corpus callosum and other brain components have light receptive cells deep in the brain, where it’s kind of surprising to find them. Knowing this basic fact is the real key to understanding how it is that light can change the way a person thinks, feels and acts in such profound ways, and why so many people have found such dramatic reductions in the symptoms of conditions like PTSD and anxiety. Simply through the use of LED lights pulsing at high frequency.
A significant number of people who use brainwave entrainment to ease the symptoms of their anxiety, stress, insomnia, chronic fatigue, PTSD and depression find that even within a small handful of sessions, they notice a dramatic reduction in symptoms. All of this can be achieved in most cases without any negative side effects that are more commonly associated with drug treatments. This is not to say that brainwave treatment is necessarily an alternative to medication, counselling, psychotherapy, EMDR and hypnotherapy. Still, it may just be another excellent string to the bow of someone who wants to feel better in the long term. At the same time, others find that their symptoms are satisfactorily reduced simply with some good self-care routines and brainwave entrainment.
One of the most surprising facts about brainwave entrainment, and why it’s so useful for so many people with complaints like anxiety and PTSD is that we have light receptive cells in the middle of our brain. Brain scientists have discovered that the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus, the corpus callosum and other brain components have light receptive cells deep in the brain, where it’s kind of surprising to find them. Knowing this basic fact is the real key to understanding how it is that light can change the way a person thinks, feels and acts in such profound ways, and why so many people have found such dramatic reductions in the symptoms of conditions like PTSD and anxiety. Simply through the use of LED lights pulsing at high frequency.
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