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Have you heard about binaural beats and brainwave entrainment? I’ve been hearing a lot about it recently from a variety of sources.

The most recent place I heard about brainwave entrainment was a blog post by Heather Vale Goss. She mentioned an interesting site that has some very cool programs that use entrainment to do things from improving your health and enhancing creativity to learning astral projection and lucid dreaming.

So what is brainwave entrainment?

To understand the value of what entrainment does you need to know about the different brainwave frequencies and when they occur. First is beta, which occurs when you are actively engaged in something. Next is alpha, which occurs when you are relaxed, maybe reading a book or watching a sunset. Then comes theta, a very relaxed state. When you go into theta you aren’t paying any attention to what you are doing and are open to great ideas.  When you take a shower and have a great idea or remember something that you couldn’t before are good examples of theta frequency. The last frequency is delta, which occurs in deep, dreamless sleep.

Researchers found that they can coax the brain into these frequencies with something called binaural beats.  This is brainwave entrainment. What they do is play a sine wave of one frequency in one ear and one of a different frequency in the other ear. The brain then gets entrained to a frequency equal to the difference between the two frequencies playing in your ears.

The first brainwave entrainment program I heard about was Holosync from Bill Harris’ Centerpointe Research Institute. If you have seen The Secret, then you will remember Bill Harris talking about one of his clients named Robert who hated his job and wanted to be a stand-up comedian. Robert was using Holosync. Bill Harris describes Holosync as the lazy man’s way to meditate. He uses binaural beats as I described above to induce meditative states and each subsequent level takes you into deeper and deeper meditative states.  It has a few other cool technologies built in to make the experience even better. I have used Holosync for a few years and highly recommend it. Go to the Holosync website and request the free demo CD.

Wayne Woodworth
Brainwave entrainment is just cool.

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Do you listen to your intuition? Do you even know what your intuition is?

Bob Proctor in 6 Minutes to Success defines intuition as the mental factor that allows you to tune into vibration. Everyone is transmitting thought energy, or vibrations, all day long. So, your intuition is your ability to pick up on what other people are thinking.

Bob suggests an exercise to demonstrate. Pick one person that you know and think about them calling you. Think about it frequently, all day long. The stronger your feeling of them calling you, the stronger the vibration that you put out. Chances are that they will call you before the end of the day, or the next time you talk to them they will probably tell you that they were thinking about calling you.

If you have watched The Secret or studied the Law of Attraction, then you understand the idea of inspired action.  Those inspirations are your intuition talking to you.  For me, that’s really what the Law of Attraction is all about.  As you probably know, it is highly unlikely that a million dollars or a new BMW is going to fall out of the sky and into your lap. What will happen though is that when you get into alignment with what you want, your intuition will guide you to do the things that will move you and your desires closer together.

The more you listen to your intuition, the stronger it will get.

Wayne Woodworth
My intuition told me that this would be a good post to write. What do you think?

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In the traditional medical approach, the parts of the body are all treated independently. Medical science is learning that those old ideas aren’t true. The body is actually very interconnected and nothing can take place in one part of the body that does not have some effect throughout the rest of the body.  These effects can be broadcast around by the fascia.

They have learned that the fascia is much more important than they realized and that it binds the body together down to the intracellular level.  In the past, the fascia has been treated as just another layer of tissue and pretty much ignored.  It is easy to see how the fascia surrounds the organs and muscles and separates the large structures of the body.  What they are finding now is that it also penetrates the cell and even the nucleus of the cell.

If you think back to high scho0l biology you might remember the picture of the inside of a cell.  It had several small structures called organelles that floated around in fluid. That’s not the case anymore.  Now they know that it is filled with a matrix that they are calling the cytoskeleton, which is an extension of the intercellular matrix, or fascia.  It also penetrates the nucleus of the cell and interacts with the DNA.

The importance of this interconnection is that it provides a communication channel for the body from any given point to all other points and even into the cells and nucleus without being impeded by the cell membranes.

Where this communication channel does run into problems with scar tissue.  Scar tissue is caused by cutting the skin and the underlying fascia, which as far as the communication aspect is concerned, is the same as cutting your phone line.  The scar tissue forms to repair the skin and knit the fascia back together but the communication path is still damaged. Fortunately, there are techniques that can help deal with the scar tissue, techniques like myofascial release.

The point I want you to get from this is that you are not a collection of parts that work independently.  You have a whole body that needs to be treated as a whole body.  Accidental injuries to the skin and cutting during surgeries have a greater significance than the forming of scar tissue because they damage the bodies ability to transmit information from one area to another.  Finally, it is possible, and important, to properly treat scar tissue to help keep the body functioning properly.

Wayne Woodworth
Myofascial Release is my favorite form of body work. Better than a massage.

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The body generates electrical and magnetic fields. That idea has been taught in Eastern traditions for thousands of years. Western traditions have always held to the idea that “if I can’t see it then it doesn’t exist”. Fortunately western science is now getting sophisticated enough that we can now measure these fields.

It turns out that the major systems of the body each generate their own fields that can be measured independently.  The first energy that medicine was able to detect were the electrical fields generated by the heart and brain.  This gave rise to the electrocardiogram to measure the heart’s electrical field, and the electroencephalogram to measure the brain’s field.  These are pretty common now but they have a rather significant problem.  The electrical field gets distorted as it passes through other tissues.  For example, the brain’s electrical field gets distorted as it passes through the dural tissue, skull, and scalp.

The solution is to measure the system’s magnetic field,  which does not get distorted.  Science has developed equipment that can measure the much weaker magnetic signals.  For the heart and the brain they are they magnetocardiogram and magnetoencephalogram.  Another benefit of these technologies is that they don’t require skin contact like the electrical counterparts do.

The heart produces the strongest fields,  followed by those generated by muscle contractions, brain function, and sensory responses.  That sensory responses generate measurable electrical and magnetic fields is interesting.  Just by seeing this page, your retinas generate a measurable electrical and magnetic response.

So, what does this mean for wellness?  I’m reading information that says that the body’s  systems effect each other through the energies that they generate.  I’m really interested in finding research that shows that we can help the body heal by applying external energies, such as magnetic and far-infrared, to balance and tune these fields that we can now measure.

If you want to read this information yourself, it is coming from Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis by James L. Oschman.

Wayne Woodworth
So psyched by this energy medicine that you can probably measure it.

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