Stressful day impacts your sleep? Use binaural technique

Are you stressed out too much? Having sleepless night or difficult to get into sleep after you go to bed? This is very common among people in high profile job. After you move on from one meeting to another, handling all sorts of people both internal and as well as external to your organization, you have numerous things moving back and forth in your mind. In this situation, it takes time to slip into the sleep mode after you go to bed. Let us see, how the binaural technique helps us to resolve this problem.

Let’s first understand the root cause of this situation. I have discussed different states of mind in my other post Improve Mind - A Key of Success. The phenomenon of sleeplessness is closely associated with this concept. As we have already discussed, we have four states of minds Alpha, Beta, Theta and Delta. When we are conscious, we live in beta state. Too much activity and concentration increase the frequency of our brain wave. As the frequency gets increased, we feel tired. After we pass through a hectic day, we do have continuous high frequency. If you have noticed that after a long drive, the engine of the car takes substantial amount of time to come back to normal temperature. Our brain is no different from that. It takes long time to reduce the brain wave frequency. The time taken by our brain to reduce its wave frequency is different for different people. It may also happen that people spend sleepless the entire night. Once the brainwave frequency comes down and gets into the lower frequency zone, we fall asleep.

 



 

So what is the remedy for this? Different people do different things but what we are going to discuss here, is scientific and easy to achieve. The brain waves can be changed through sound and this particular phenomenon is called brain wave entertainment. In 1839, Heinrich Willhelm Dove discovered a method of entertainment, called binaural brainwave entertainment. Now, what is a binaural brain wave entertainment? Binaural refers to perception of sound of one frequency in one ear and of different frequency in another ear. As a result of different frequencies, our brain wave creates a third signal, which is the difference between the two frequencies. The frequencies of the beating in the ear should be below 1000 Hertz for the beating to be noticeable. And the difference between the two tones should be low otherwise the two tones will be heard separately. So if the frequency in one ear is 520 Hz and in another it is 510, our brain will create a third frequency at 10Hz. Once, our brain wave attains a low frequency, we fall asleep.

 

There are many businesses that provide brainwave entertainment in different forms. There are also sites, which provide this facility for free. You can try http://free-binaural-beats.com/. Go to the DELTA tab and select a MP3. However, when you try this one, remember to listen it in a quit and calm place. The musical system should be a stereo one and your ear-phone should be plugged in both the ears. This will induce delta wave in your brain. As a result, you will feel relaxed and get into sleep very soon. You can as well use this technique when you want to get a quick relaxation in between your work. In such cases, you may get into alpha mode.