How Brainwave Entrainment and Binaural Beats Can Effect Your State of Consciousness

Binaural Beats, Didgeridoo and Inducing Relaxation For Listeners

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states of consciousness and brainwave entrainment

Ranging from deep sleep to intense mental activity, various states of consciousness are experienced by humans everyday. This continuum of consciousness correlates with electrical activity in the brain and can be controlled to an extent using a process called brainwave entrainment.

What is Brainwave Entrainment?

Brainwave entrainment is matching of an external vibration to the same frequency as the electrical impulses in the brain. The frequency of brainwaves can be measured in cycles per second (Hz) with an electroencephalogram (EEG). These brainwave states are categorized as the following:

Beta: 12-30 Hz. Normal waking state in adults. Active thinking and planning. This is where the ego resides.

Alpha: 7-12 Hz. Reflective, relaxed state usually with closed eyes. A day dream state.

Theta: 4-7 Hz. Deep meditative state. A place of creativity and envelopment in the present. A dream state associated with REM sleep.

Delta: 0.5-4 Hz. Deep sleep. A place of regeneration and healing.

By simultaneously combining the sounds of two didgeridoos, a desired state of consciousness can be induced in the listener. For example, when one didgeridoo is played in the key of Bb (fundamental frequency of 58 Hz) and a second didgeridoo is played in the key of C (65 Hz), the difference between the frequencies is manifested as a subtle pulsing (in this case 7 Hz). The listener’s dominant brainwave state will sync with this pulsation in a frequency-following response known as brainwave entrainment.

This phenomenon was recorded by Didge Project and released as the album, Didgeridoo Meditation: An Odyssey Through Consciousness.

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Born in California, TYLER SUSSMAN attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and studied psychology in addition to music. He became fascinated with the mind/body connection and music's impact on the psyche. Tyler moved to New York City in 2008 and founded the Didge Project in collaboration with AJ Block. In 2009, Tyler produced the brainwave entrainment recording entitled “Didgeridoo Meditation: An Odyssey through Consciousness." In 2011, Didge Project released an jazz/world fusion of original music entitled "As One." Tyler's self titled original music debut with his own band "WawaAlchemy" was released in 2014. Tyler has created soundscapes in collaboration with yoga teachers in since 2008 and has performed at Wanderlust Festivals in California, Vermont and Oahu. Tyler works extensively with vocalist Aya creating soundscapes for yoga and meditation. Aya and Tyler released a record entitled "Oshuns of Love" in 2015 and host a weekly Sacred Soundbath Meditation at ISHTA Yoga NYC. Tyler currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

5 COMMENTS

  1. Thanks for the interesting read.
    Have you perhaps got links to the studies that show how the note of a didge can actually cause the effect of brainwave entrainment?
    In my understanding, the note of a didge is not quite tonally consistent enough to induce a frequency following response in the brain long enough to allow for entrainment to occur. The fluctuations in the notes produced by 2 didges would vary considerably over the minimum 8 minute time span for entrainment to happen