Alpha Wave Music Vol1
Alpha Wave Music Vol1
1. Mind Ascension
2. Serotonin Sunrise
3. Love Without Condition
4. Inner Dawn
What Is Alpha Wave Music?
The big problem with most other meditation products using brainwave entrainments is that they miss out a major piece of the meditation jigsaw puzzle.
You see, most other products usually include the bog standard binaural beat, some natural sounds and a gong sound placed in there somewhere. What this does is very very little for actually inducing a fast positive brain change. This is why you have to use these products for months and months to get any kind of noticeable effects.
My meditation music on the other hand gives you an almost instant “feel good” hormonal rush!
This is because I am actually a musician and scientist with classical training in ancient indian vedic and gregorian music.
Rather than just throwing together a few sound files and putting some fancy packaging on it, which is what most other people are doing online right now, I wanted to go deeper and actually create something that works!
You see it can become very confusing as to what brainwave entrainment really is. There is so much disinformation around on the internet these days with so many “so called experts” trying to tell you what it is. I am actually a pharmacist with a masters degree and work alongside consultant psychiatrists, yoga practitioners and have helped 100′s of people with stress and depression without the use of drugs for several years, so I believe I am qualified to do this.
Let me explain to you how it works, why it works and how you can use it to your advantage….
Our ancient ancestors were actually very advanced when it came to the knowledge of meditation, music and its benefits to your body, mind and spirit.
The music they composed was actually dedicated to nurturing the soul and enhancing the mind, completely the opposite of the corporate chart nonsense you often hear on the radio these days!
They were also the pioneers of brainwave entrainment, the ancient tribes of Africa were actually using the techniques 1000′s of years ago.
Entrainment is the process of using one source (A) that is vibrating at a particular frequency to alter the frequency of another source (B) so that both B now vibrates at the same frequency as A.
This technique is also possible with your brain as your brain has a predominant frequency that it operates at when you are in different moods.
All brainwave entrainment really is, is the process of changing the frequency of your brain to the same frequency of an external source.
Sound has a profound ability to alter your brainwave state particular when it has a rhythm to it. Our ancient ancestors knew this. African tribes would use special ritual drumming techniques to take the members of their ritual into a deep hypnotic state. The medicine men would use this to invoke deep visions, aid the recovery from sickness and injury, even communicate with the spirits of the native lands.
Like the pulses of vibration that produces sound on a guitar string, your brain also creates pulses of vibrations. These vibrations are electrical impulses. Their activity can be measured by using an EEG (electroencephalogram) that measures the frequency of these pulses.
You measure the frequency of these pulses in Hertz (Hz). Your brain actually has a predominant frequency that it operates in any given moment, and this can be associated with your state of mind.
So the emotional state of your mind in any moment such as feeling happy, sad, frightened, sleepy or excited can be measured as a frequency.
There are 5 broad categories of brainwave frequencies that are associated with the different states of mind.
| Frequency range | Name | Brain State |
|---|---|---|
| 40 Hz | Gamma waves | Inspiration, Higher Learning, Focus |
| 13 to 40 Hz | Beta waves | Alertness, Cognition, Concentration |
| 7 to 13 Hz | Alpha waves | Relaxation, Visualisation, Creativity |
| 4 to 7 Hz | Theta wave | Dreams, Deep Meditation, Hypnosis, Intuition, Lucid Dreaming |
| < 4 Hz | Delta waves | Healing, Deep sleep, Detached Awareness, Out Of Body Experience, |
Beta Waves are associated with normal waking consciousness. When you are focused on activities such as working that requires a lot of thinking, doing calculations, and reading complex non fiction books for example, for prolonged lengths of time you can start to feel stressed out.
Alpha Waves are associated with light meditation. Your brain goes into this state when you are day dreaming. They also become more predominant when you close your eyes and relax your mind. This is a perfect state to be in for subliminal mind programming.
Theta waves are associated with deep meditation. They occur during heightened states of creativity and inspiration as you begin to process unconscious material
Delta Waves are associated with a deep sleep state or unconsciousness. Experts of deep meditation can consciously move into this state of mind and access the higher brain centres. After much practice out of body experiences and astral projection is possible during these meditative states.
How Can You Control Your Brainwave State?
For many thousands of years spiritual sages, rishis, yogis, shamans, monks, whatever you would like to call them, have been perfecting the process of meditation to induce deep meditative states. They would have to spend many hours a day of quieting the mind and controlling their brainwave states.
This is just not practical for most people to do in their hectic modern lifestyles. Fortunately with the advances of modern technology you can, using specially designed audio technology, train your minds to achieve whatever states you want just after a few short sessions.
The old method of doing this was using specially embedded binaural beats.
How Do Binaural Beats Work?
When you play two separate frequencies in each ear, say 140 Hz and 149 Hz, the difference in frequency is 9 hz. Your brain compensates for this difference and a third tone of 9 Hz is experienced. This will result in your brain being raised or lowered and tuned into the desired frequency. This is how binaural beats are produced. Headphones are essential for this to work. This is the least effective of all brainwave technologies.
Trypnaural meditations use the most effective and current of all brainwave entrainment technologies available today called “Isochronic Tones”
How Do Isochronic Tones Work?
These are by far the most powerful and effective brain trainers. They work by utilising equal intensity tones and increasing the pulse speed to synchronise your brain with the rhythm. The more distinct and clear wave from harmonises your brain much faster. The effects can be felt without headphones, but using them will greatly enhance the effects.
This actually mimics the same methods used by the ancient tribesman who would beat their drums to a special rhythm. But here it is specially designed to produce exactly the right frequencies in your brain to produce the desired benefits.
Get In Sync To The Rhythm Of Life
There are a few things that as a species we all share as a common bond.
We all have the same color blood, we all have a heart that beats with a pulse, we even share the same brainwave states that correspond to different levels of mood and of course we are all born on the same planet Earth.
There is another little known thing that we all share, but this is not just between humans, but all life on this planet
Just like a cell has a thin tiny cell membrane surrounding it, the Earth has a relatively thin layer of its atmosphere known as the ionosphere.
The ionosphere acts like a filter and prevents any harmful radiation emitted from the sun from reaching the surface of the Earth.
The existence of the ionosphere is an absolute prerequisite for the development and persistence of life.
The bottom of the ionosphere and the surface of the Earth’s crust create a cavity that acts as a medium for electromagnetic waves.
Tesla in his studies with electricity discovered that when lightening is produced in the top of the earth’s atmosphere, extremely low frequency radiation is also produced that can penetrate the Earth.
He calculated that the resonant frequency of the planet is 8Hz.
Tesla’s findings on this subject were ignored until much later in 1952 German physicist Professor W.O.Schumann predicted that there are electromagnetic standing waves in the atmosphere, within the cavity formed by the surface of the earth and the ionosphere.
This was confirmed in 1954 when measurements by Schumann and König detected resonances at a main frequency of 7.83 Hz. Since this discovery, several investigators worldwide have researched the Schumann resonance and they now have much more clarity about its characteristics.
The Schumann Resonance has been called the Earth’s heartbeat, because every living thing has grown up with this “pulse” or “tone” going on in the background.
When Dr. Schumann published his results in the `Technische Physik’ journal, physician Dr Ankermueller immediately made the connection between Schumann resonance and the rhythm of brain waves.
He was excited to find that the earth had the same natural resonance as the human brain, and contacted Dr. Schumann, who then assigned Dr. Herbert König to look into the phenomenon.
Dr Konig did some deeper research into this and discovered that the main resonant frequencies of Schumann waves begin at 4 Hz then having harmonics around 8 and 14 hz correspond directly to theta, alpha and beta wave patterns in the brain.
The peak of around 8hz that is the fundamental frequency of Schumann waves corresponds to the alpha brainwave states of peak performance and creativity.
Could it be that our brains evolved in harmony with the Schumann resonant frequencies and that nature is directly tuned into this “pulse” of our planet?
Many scientists have shown in recent times that there could well be a very strong link between biology and the Schumann resonances.
One pioneering scientist, Dr Neil Cherry has been leading this research.
“Dr Cherry’s own research, published in the Natural Hazards journal, Cherry (2002), shows that a natural electromagnetic signal, called the Schumann Resonances, generated by a tropical thunderstorms, and radiating around the world in the resonant cavity created between earth’s surface and the bottom layer of the ionosphere, is resonantly absorbed, detected and responded to by the brain because of the ELF frequency matching the frequency range of the spectrum of the brain EEG rhythms.”
“The Schumann Resonance signals provide synchronization of the ELF, daily and annual functions of the brain. The latter two are in support of the normal diurnal and seasonal solar activity. This provides the biophysically plausible mechanism to explain how sunspots on the sun, solar storms and sunspot cycles modulate cancer, cardiac, reproductive and neurological effects through modulating the melatonin/serotonin cycle in human populations. This confirms the importance of and sensitivity of the melatonin protective activity, including being a highly potent antioxidant being with naturally produced (by breathing) oxygen free radicals.” Cherry Enviromental Health Consulting
We live in world where the detection of Schumann waves has become increasingly difficult, especially in cities where there is large concentration of mobile phones, computers, T.V and radio signals creating an “electro smog”.
It has been hypothesized that this massive increase in electromagnetic interference has drowned out the normal exposure humans should get from the Schuman resonances.
This interference of the natural Schumann harmonics has linked to the rise in chronic illnesses such as cancer and heart diseases of people who live in cities and other areas of high electromagnetic interference.
This is also explains why many people get “cabin fever” from staying in doors for pro longed periods of time.
Many people who suffer from chronic diseases who spend long periods either at home or in the office usually find great relief from taking a vacation and spending time outdoors.
So it is really important to get out doors and spend time in nature. We are living creatures and being outside in the fresh air with the sky visible above us is what is most natural to us.
The primary (strongest) Schumann frequency is 7.83 Hz. Others include: 14, 20, 26, 33, 39, and 45 Hz
The primary frequency of 7.83 Hz actually correspond to Alpha brainwaves and so an understanding of this is a very important part of the Alpha Mind System.
Ancient mystics understood the presence of the Earth’s pulse thousands of years ago.
The ancient mystics also used meditation techniques to reach alpha states of awareness where their own brain activity would be in perfect harmony with the pulse of the planet.
This is the living pulse of the infinite oneness of our planet Earth that brings life and harmony to all things.
Interestingly the Schumann resonance 7.83 Hz also corresponds to 117 BPM (beat per minute) that is the measure of tempo of music.
Arpeggiated pieces playing at 16th note intervals at this tempo, directly correspond to 7.83Hz
Music played with 16th note arpeggiated riffs at tempos up to 150 BPM fall within the alpha wave range.
It is quite interesting that many ancient ritual drumming patterns from African tribes correspond to this. So to do the more recent “trance” music genres of Goa trance and progressive trance made famous by DJ’s like Tiesto.
Tiesto has been voted many times as the worlds most popular DJ playing to audiences of up to 250,000 people in some cases.
“Could this link between the Earth’s very own resonant pulse and the alpha wave inducing trance and dance music genres explain the rise of this new global culture of 1000’s of people congregating to celebrate life at dance music events with a combined feeling of oneness and unity for all?”
Baroque music of around 60 BPM composed by musicians like Mozart has also been shown in many experiments to help people improve their moods.
At 60 BPM notes played in a baroque style corresponds to a frequency of around 4HZ that is another natural harmonic of Schumann waves in the theta brainwave range.
However in a study by Balakrishnan Nair in 2010, to see whether baroque music can help dementia patients, some discrepancies occurred in the results with a conclusion drawn that many baroque pieces have varying tempo that can agitate the patients.
This knowledge inspired my creation of special musical pieces that instead use a repetitive trance inducing tempo rather than one that fluctuates, that harmonize directly to the Schumann wave harmonics. The effect of which has been truly profound.
