Your brain operates much like a resonance chamber or a tuning fork. When you hold two similarly tuned tuning forks together and strike one of the them, the other will also vibrate at the same frequency. The vibrational rate or vibratory frequency determines the pitch of the tone.

Our brain produces waves of currents that flow throughout its neural pathways. The type of brainwave is defined by the frequency at which it is pulsing, and this particular rate of pulsation determines our respective state of mind at any given moment in time.

There are four common types of brainwave patterns, but due to the complexity of our brains there are often several patterns interacting at one time. It is the predominance of one particular brainwave frequency that determines our state of mind.

For example, if you are in a beta state, there may be trace levels of alpha and theta but they would minimal compared to the dominating amount of beta present.

All of these brainwave states have been scientifically studied and categorized by the subjective states that each range will produce.

Below is a simple list containing the four common types of brainwave frequencies along with their characteristic features and associated mental states. The frequencies are measures in hertz (Hz) which is roughly translated as beats per second or cycles per second.

The Four Common Brainwave Patterns and Behavioral Traits
(excluding ranges higher than beta such as gamma and hypergamma)

Some History Behind the Brainwave Phenomena

Brainwave entrainment occurs naturally in our environment. Binaural beats (binaural beat frequencies) and isochronic tones are two of the main ingredients in Mr. Brainwave's psychoacoustic recipe.

The process of reproducing this entrainment effect using audio technology was originally developed in the early 1970's by Gerard Oster, a biophysicist from NYC.

Your brain is always producing electromagnetic brainwaves that have a measurable frequency and magnitude. Scientists and neurologists have commonly used a machine known as an EEG (electroencephalogram) to measure frequency responses by placing sensors on a patient's scalp.

The characteristics of your brainwaves at any given moment determines your mood and state of mind. The frequency range and magnitude identify whether you are stressed, aroused, alert, creative, asleep or anywhere in between these states.

We are always expanding our knowledge of how our brainwaves can be harnessed to create peak states of consciousness. For example, the best moments of creativity, those Eureka! flashes, occur mostly when theta waves are predominant.

What is the "Hypnogogic" State?

The hypnogogic state verging between waking and sleeping is characterized by theta brainwave activity. This explains why we have such great ideas before falling asleep.

It is noted in history books that this "border-zone" time period has been utilized by many scientists and other great thinkers who have had flashes of insight while experiencing this holistic state of mind.

Einstein came up with the theory of relativity in this state, and likewise, one of the Watson and Crick pair conceptualized the double helix of DNA in this highly visualistic mind state successfully cracking the illusive architecture of DNA.

Time spent in this "border-zone" can be time very well spent. All this information about brainwaves is a preamble to the matter of entraining your brainwaves to specific frequencies.

You can now use the process of brainwave entrainment to tune your brainwaves to any brainwave range. You can experience theta, alpha, delta or even combinations of ranges using multi-layered frequencies that blend several brainwave ranges into one synergistic brainwave pattern.

Brainwave entrainment through technological synthesis allows the user to experience a multitude of combinations of mood, creativity, relaxation, problem solving, dopamine release, and other powerful frequencies.

The breakthrough occurs when we use this principle of entrainment to synchronize our brainwaves to specific chosen frequencies. We can do this easily by using binaural beat audio technology, isochronic tones, and monophonic entrainment tones.

Visual stimulus by light and color is also possible, which is where the use of audiovisual synthesizers becomes useful. These machines will be explained later, as they can be very important in "shaking up" developmental blocks and allowing the mind to rebuild itself due to the excessive stimulus these machines provide to the brain hemispheres through synergistic application of audio and photonic entrainment.

The Two Hemispheres of the Brain

Our brains have a left and a right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is linear, logical, practical, and time orientated. The right hemisphere seems to be much more non-linear, abstract, creative, holistic, and non-logical.

We tend to use one hemisphere at a time, or better said, we will favor particular hemispheres depending on what we are doing. An accountant probably uses less of his right hemisphere than an artist would during the course of his workday.

If you are doing math you would be using more of your left side. If you are painting a picture, you would have more right hemispheric activity.

Obviously, it is not that simplistic because both hemispheres are constantly interacting and both can be in use at the same time.

These hemispheres are connected by the corpus callosum. It serves as a conduit or a bridge between both sides. This bridge can literally be exercised and strengthened until it is physically larger and more capable of transmitting data, thoughts and feedback between hemispheres.

The famous clairvoyant healer Edgar Cayce was found to have an unusually large corpus callosum, but couldn't it be that most individuals simply have not developed this hemispheric bridge?

What is Hemispheric Synchronization?

By merging both hemispheres and allowing them to work together we can increase our mental fitness and enhance our cognitive functioning in general. It is basically like having a faster computer processor capable of working at faster speeds. Increased integration creates better performance.

Through brainwave entrainment technologies, you can increase your natural hemispheric synchronization.

When simply listening to any Mr. Brainwave product, your brain naturally synchronizes to balance hemispheric activity and adjusts brainwave activity to match the embedded brainwave carrier frequencies. This audio-induced hemispheric coherence produces an optimal state of holistic whole-brain synergy.

Due to the properties of Binaural Beats requiring both hemispheres to work in unison to perceive the carrier frequency, Binaural Beats are an excellent tool for building the corpus callosum much like a personal trainer trains the body for growth.

The Power of Psychoacoustic Technologies

The scientific principle of entrainment can be utilized to resonate, synchronize or tune your brain to specific frequencies.

Entrainment is pretty simple. If you have two tuning forks of the same pitch, if you strike one and hold it near the other one, they will both resonate at the same frequency.

It also works with a piano. If you have two similarly tuned pianos in one room and strike a key, the stretched chord attached to the same key on the other piano will vibrate.

Let's say that we have a bunch of pendulum clocks hanging on a wall. If we erratically swing all of the pendulums at different speeds. Over time, all pendulums on every clock will become synchronized. They will all be swinging together in unison.

How does this happen? The explanation to this is more in depth but in simple terms, it happens just like the law of gravity or the conservation of energy.

Given this fact and the fact that our brains operate much like a resonance chamber. Oscillating pulses and patterns of neural excitations ripple through our brains like never-ending waves in a dynamic pond of subtle electrical matter.