Brainwave Entrainment

Meditating in a quiet forest is easier than in a noisy building site. Relaxing in a candlelit bubble bath is also easier than in a fluorescently lit train station. Even the busiest non-meditating minds among us get these memos. Our brainwaves constantly respond and react to the ingredients of our environment. Light is one of the natural environment ingredients that impact our brainwave activity.

The basic concept behind Brainwave Entrainment is the triggering of desirable brain frequencies through external brain stimulation. The most popular and well-known type of Brainwave Entrainment is acoustic. Thousands of examples of these binaural and isochronic frequency tracks can be found on YouTube. But what about light?

Photic (light) brainwave entrainment uses high-speed led lights to stimulate healthy and desirable brain frequencies.
The brain’s hypothalamus, septum, pineal, and parietal structures contain scientifically well-documented light-receptive cells. Most people aren’t aware that we have ‘non-visual photoreceptor’ neurons inside our brains. That means nerve cell clusters deep inside our brain respond directly to light, like those in our skin and eyes.

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.

DeepWave Complements Successful Management Of

DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS

PHYSICAL RELAXATION

PERFORMANCE FLOW

MOOD REGULATION

STRESS REDUCTION

DEEP MEDITATION

INSPIRATION

INSOMNIA

PTSD SYMPTOMS

DEEP RELAXATION

CREATIVE UNBLOCK

ANXIETY SYMPTOMS

INCREASED RESILIENCE

MENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS

DeepWave Complements Successful Management Of

INSPIRATION

STRESS REDUCTION

MOOD REGULATION

PHYSICAL RELAXATION

DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS

INSOMNIA

PAIN REDUCTION

DEEP RELAXATION

CREATIVE UNBLOCK

PERFORMANCE FLOW

PTSD SYMPTOMS

DEEP MEDITATION

ANXIETY SYMPTOMS

INCREASED RESILIENCE

MENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS

Session Selection

Individual Session

 

If you are looking for a little relaxation, support for a creative idea, or if you simply need a stimulation free 30 minutes, then a single session is ideal. Repeat this as needed to help add some calm and balance back into your life. 

Course Of Sessions

 

If you are looking at supporting a specific outcome, we recommend a course of sessions. A course typically lasts five or ten weeks, where one or two light sessions per week can be scheduled. 

This course protocol is then repeated every 2 to 3 months. Maintenance or relaxation sessions can be completed weekly or fortnightly between this more focused period; this is especially recommended if work or life stresses are significant.

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Session Selection

What to expect - DeepWave - A lady sitting on a rock

Individual Session

A single session is ideal if you are looking for a mental reset, support for a creative idea, or if you need to switch off for a few minutes. Repeat this as necessary to help add calm and balance to your life. 

DeepWave - What to expect A person meditating in the mountains

Course Of Sessions

We recommend a course of sessions if you are looking at supporting a specific outcome. A course typically lasts five or ten weeks, where one or two light sessions per week can be scheduled. 

This course protocol is then repeated every 2 to 3 months. Maintenance or relaxation sessions can be completed weekly or fortnightly during this more focused period; this is especially recommended if work or life stresses are significant.

Session Selection

Individual Session 

A single session is ideal if you are looking for a mental reset, support for a creative idea, or if you need to switch off for a few minutes. Repeat this as necessary to help add calm and balance to your life. 

Course Of Sessions

We recommend a course of sessions if you are looking at supporting a specific outcome. A course typically lasts five or ten weeks, where one or two light sessions per week can be scheduled. 

This course protocol is then repeated every 2 to 3 months. Maintenance or relaxation sessions can be completed weekly or fortnightly during this more focused period; this is especially recommended if work or life stresses are significant.

FAQs

If you are working towards almost any specific wellness or performance goals, it’s entirely possible that Brainwave Entrainment might assist you. However, there is never any certainty that it will work in your particular case until you have tried it. It’s a bit like a specific exercise program or diet; no matter how good it is, there will always be someone who doesn’t get the same benefits others do. If you want to discuss the likelihood of Brainwave Entrainment working in your unique case, we are always available to talk.

Wellness plans are created to fit the person, as we are all built differently with individual life experiences. Protocol (treatment plan) should and will vary accordingly. However, there are guidelines we follow if we are targeting specific outcomes, which include a standard approach to treatment frequency and duration with the variation coming from the session type recommended/provided.

Outcome plans will typically consist of 7 to 10 sessions over five weeks. The duration can vary depending on your availability.

You have light receptive cells in your brain’s parietal lobe, septum, pineal organs and hypothalamus. Light-based Brainwave Entrainment sessions are thought to primarily affect these brain areas. It is also believed that parts of the brain (particularly those that modulate fight or flight and pain) become ‘quieter’ during sessions. Each session is designed to target a specific or several specific brainwave frequencies.

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