Back in the early '90's I bought a binaural machine. It was awesome!! You could put it on, in a delta mode, lay down, and not wake back up for seven or eight hours! Unfortunately, it broke, and I've not replaced it..

A few years ago my father had a stroke, he lived with me for a year. He had total motor control, but his mathematical abilities, musical abilities, and words were sometimes jumbled. I would hook him up to this machine for an hour, along with his favorite music playing in the headphones. Afterwards, he would have the ability to play his guitar again. Nothing fancy, but he could play it. The effects only lasted about two hours. However, it seemed to be cumulative. Each time he used it, he could play more intensely, and for longer amounts of time. His speech, memory and math also improved. If I had to guess, I'd say it was creating new neural pathways for the information to get where it needed to go.

Lynda

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By Aletheia Luna

There are a stunningly vast array of benefits you can experience from listening to binaural beats – a fascinating form of soundwave therapy.

When one of America’s most famous living philosophers, Ken Wilber, was asked what the average person could do to raise their consciousness, he replied:

There’s already a technology that can be used to raise human consciousness. It’s called binaural beats.

Researchers and everyday people alike have mentioned the following benefits:

Reduced stress

Reduced anxiety

Increased concentration

Increased focus

Increased confidence

Increased motivation

Enhanced mood

Deeper sleep

Deeper meditation

Binaural beats have also been used in more esoteric forms of spiritual practice, such as:

Lucid dreaming

Astral projection

Kundalini energy work

Tantric stimulation

Best of all, it only takes on average around 7 minutes for the brain to entrain (or harmonize with the frequencies), so giving yourself between 7 to 30 minutes will help you to start feeling the effects. So what exactly are binaural beats?
What Are Binaural Beats?

From the trance-inducing sounds of drum beats in tribal shamanic cultures to the repetitive chanting of Tibetan monks, rhythmical sound has extremely powerful healing benefits.

Put simply, binaural beats are a form of rhythmic and repetitive sound frequencies which put you into a meditative state easily. It was a physicist named Heinrich Wilhelm Dove who discovered the way binaural beats work in 1839.

When the binaural beat sounds enter your ears they produce something in your brain called “brainwave entrainment.”
What is Brain Entrainment?

Brainwave entrainment is a fancy term that basically means altering your brainwaves to adjust to the pace and rhythm of a sound such as those created by binaural beats. When your brain waves synchronize to the sound waves of the binaural beats, the result is a state of deep relaxation.
How Do Binaural Beats Work?

If you’re the type of person who likes the nitty gritty details of how something works, read this section. BUT if you’re not, skip to the next section. In any case, binaural beats are quite fascinating.

Why?

Binaural beats work by sending two different frequencies to each of our ears. When hearing these two frequencies simultaneously, our brains create a third ‘phantom’ tone out of the mathematical difference.

Here’s an example:

If a 310 hertz sound frequency is sent to one ear, and a 315 hertz frequency is sent to the other ear, your brain will process these sounds in a way that results in hearing one 5 hertz frequency. Your brainwaves will then synchronize to this 5 hertz sound frequency.

Another example:

If you listen to 410 hertz in one ear and 400 hertz in the other, your brain will interpret these two simultaneous frequencies as 10 hertz, and your brainwaves will adjust to this new frequency.