About Brain States

Until recently, entering extraordinary states of heightened receptivity and peak performance have been predominantly attained by a disciplined few, practicing ancient techniques such as meditation, chanting, yoga and new re-vamped versions of the mystical traditions- such as progressive relaxation, auto-suggestion, hypnosis and biofeedback. The only problem is that these techniques take long periods of practice, discipline and often a leap of faith, to produce results.

But now there is an easier pathway, a new technology that can guide us directly into those beneficial states of deep meditation and heightened receptivity - where we can leverage the powers of the mind-body connection to attain optimal mental and physical performance. This new path uses sound waves to carry its listeners into the higher frequencies of consciousness, where profound transformations take place.

When pure, precise audio signals of different frequencies are delivered to the brain through stereo headphones, the two hemispheres of the brain function together to "hear" not the actual external sound signals, but a phantom third signal - a binaural beat.

Brain cells sympathetically resonate and vibrate in response to the binaural beat, in the same way a crystal goblet resonates and vibrates in response to a pure musical tone. Brain Sync tapes effortlessly guide brain activity into highly specific, organized, and coherent patterns that allow rapid access to remarkable states of expanded awareness.

Brain Wave Technology was originally discovered in the early 1970's by Gerald Oster, a biophysicist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In his EEG research he discovered that when different vibrations, or sound frequencies are delivered to the brain separately through each ear (as with stereo headphones), the two hemispheres of the brain function together to "hear" not the external sound signals, but a third phantom signal - a binaural beat.

For example, when a signal of 100 cycles per second enters one ear and 109 cycles per second enters the other ear simultaneously- the two hemispheres of the brain function together to "hear" not the actual external sound signals, but a phantom third signal - a binaural beat. In this example, the binaural beat would be a pulsation of 9 cycles per second - the exact mathematical difference between the two actual tones. Instead of hearing two different tones, you actually hear a rhythmic soothing pulsation beating at 9 cycles per second.

It was then further discovered that binaural beat frequencies could drive or guide brain activity into a wide variety of specific brain states.

Research results show that parts of the brain, and eventually large areas of the brain begin to resonate sympathetically to this "phantom" binaural beat, in what is known as the Frequency Following Response. In the example above the binaural beat is 9 cycles per second - which is in the relaxing range of brain wave activity called alpha.

In addition to driving brain activity into highly specific brain states such as: Beta for peak concentration and cognition, Alpha for relaxation and visualization, Theta for meditation, learning and memory, and Delta for sleep and healing; the rhythmic pulsations of binaural beats balance right and left sides of the brain producing a remarkable state called hemispheric synchronization. Scientists noted that this rare phenomenon was accompanied by flashes of creative insight, euphoria, intensely focused concentration, deep calm and enhanced learning abilities.

Brain Sync advances and refines a sophisticated sound recording technique called Harmonic Superimposition of binaural beat frequencies. Carefully tuned binaural beats are superimposed, layer upon layer causing different groups of neurons to fire at different frequencies.

Recent scientific research indicates that individual brain states ranging from sleep to creativity, are marked by combinations of different brain wave frequencies. The Brain Sync Harmonic Superimposition technique provides a number of highly specific binaural beat frequencies, and combines them simultaneously so that the binaural beats themselves create harmonic beat frequencies with the other binaural beats, to produce a highly specific brain state.

Window frequencies are binaural beats that are harmonically related in perfect mathematical intervals. Because harmonics govern everything from planet orbits to the proportions of the human body they provide a path of least resistance for the entrainment tones.