Holosync and brain waves: What you need to know.

Have you ever wondered why sometimes you feel relaxed and at ease while other times you are stressed out and nervous? Some days you can fall asleep easily, while other days you lay in bed tossing and turning for hours. Your mood, concentration, and emotions go through high and low periods all the time. Many of these changes are related to changes in your brain waves, or the electrical activity in your brain. Throughout your day, the electrical activity in your brain passes through five frequencies: Gamma, Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta. Recent advances in technology have let us understand these different states and how to influence them in order to feel more relaxation, sleep easier, learn faster, treat addiction, and recover repressed memories.

The Gamma frequency occurs when the frequency of your brain waves is 24 Hz (cycles per second) or higher. This frequency is usually associated with perception or consciousness. Researchers have recorded Gamma waves during periods of REM sleep and during the process of awakening. It has been proposed that Gamma is reached during higher mental activity and insight.

The Beta frequency is defined as a brain wave frequency between 12 Hz and 24 Hz. This state is linked to active thinking, anxiousness, and arousal. Most of us spend too much time in this state due to the stresses of daily life.

The Alpha brain wave frequency is from 8 Hz to 12 Hz. This is another aroused brain state similar to the Beta frequency, although a little slower. This is the most common brainwave state for most adults and is linked to normal waking consciousness. You are aroused and awake, but not anxious, jumpy, or hyper.

The Theta frequency of the brain ranges from 4 Hz to 7 Hz. This is the brain frequency most commonly seen in young children and it is more relaxed than the Alpha state. It is associated with deep relaxation, meditation, and especially learning and memory retention.

The Delta frequency of the brain is found below 4 Hz. This is the most relaxed brain state, associated with deep sleep, and is seen in advanced meditators and babies. Most adults don’t spend enough time in this state because stress and lack of sleep keep us in a higher state of arousal, even when we are trying to sleep or relax. When we are in Delta state, the brain is repairing itself, releasing good hormones such as melatonin, and eliminating stress hormones such as cortisol.

In modern society, with all its stress and lack of sleep, we spend too much time in the aroused brain states, such as Beta, and not enough time in Theta and Delta. This can cause health problem, lack of sleep, indigestion, ulcers, and other health problems. So how can you relax more? Meditation is one way, but it can take years to become proficient enough to see all of the benefits. A newer method is the use of a binaural beat program such as Holosync, which claims to entrain your brainwaves to a more relaxed state. Binaural beat programs play a different frequency in each of your ears, and this makes the brain form a third frequency making up the difference between the two. If this frequency is a Delta frequency, for example, the brain matches the Delta frequency and relaxes.

Some of the benefits that have been found are reduced learning time and sleeping needs, treatment of addictions, and recovery of repressed memories. Trials of Delta brain programs, such as Holosync, have shown beneficial changes in emotional problems, such as anxiety, and an increase in happiness and enjoyment of life.

Does HoloSync live up to all its claims of relaxation, slowing the aging process, increased learning capacity, and positive emotional change? The answer is that these areas are hard to quantify, and more experiments will have to be carried out in order to know the full extent of the benefits that can be received. But the fact is that most of Holosync’s claims do fit in with what we know about binaural beats and brain waves. Only after this technology has been around a little longer will we know for sure.