Your brain’s photoreceptive abilities are how light regulates your sleep and even aspects of organ function. Light-sensitive brain pathways regulate circadian clocks that help time your organ and gland secretions. Experientially speaking, the governing power of light-activated brain cells may explain why your whole system hates jetlag so much.

Brainwave Entrainment leverages the fact that these nerve cell clusters deep in the brain respond to light. High-frequency LED light is gently beamed straight into the brain through these light-receptive pathways and triggers desirable brainwave frequencies. It achieves this through the universal principle of entrainment. ‘Entrainment’ is when one system impacts the motion or frequency of another system by coming into contact with it. When neurons are stimulated by light pulsing at the same frequency as Delta brainwaves, for example, they respond by generating their own electrical pulses at the corresponding frequency.

In the same way that we need a consistent variety of nutrients to remain physically healthy, we also need a variety of brainwaves to stay emotionally and psychologically healthy. When we see a persistently stressed, anxious, aggressive, or depressed person, we see a person who is chronically ‘overdosing’ on specific brain frequencies and starved of others.

We are a chronically over-stimulated society. The intensity, type, speed of information, and interaction that we are bombarded with throughout our lives is deeply unnatural. For most of the last ½ million years, our nervous systems evolved in the context of an indigenous lifestyle. We were living off the land, in a relatively quiet existence, where time was spent interacting with a relatively small number of other individuals. This lifestyle caused fairly infrequent spikes of stress. Now, most of us lead a life of continuous smartphone alerts, intrusive advertising media, and busy traffic. This environment/lifestyle leads to a preponderance of highly aroused brainwaves.

In those of us who struggle most to cope with life, dysregulation of brainwave patterns is known to be a predictable finding. Overstimulation in specific brain areas is linked to sleep problems, nightmares, anxiety disorders, hyper-vigilance, impulsive behaviour, anger/aggression, agitation, depression, and chronic nerve pain. In contrast, under-arousal in specific brain areas leads to some types of attention deficit, depression, insomnia, and chronic pain.

Furthermore, a combination of under-arousal and over-arousal is seen in anxiety, depression, and ADHD cases.
Most people report that the sessions are relaxing and peaceful or like they ‘switched off in a way that they found very unfamiliar or usually challenging. Most sessions also trigger beautiful relaxing colours and patterns that are generated by light-receptive nerve cells deep in the brain. Immediately after a session, it is common to feel floaty, relaxed, or emotional. DeepWave sessions can dramatically improve mood, mental acuity, sleep, physical symptoms, sleep, and performance with repeat exposure.