Binaural Music - What It Is?
- By Bob Matthews
- Published 01/16/2012
- Self Help
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Bob Matthews
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Binaural music - maybe you've heard of it lately. If you have, you may have been wondering: just what exactly is binaural music and how can I use it to my benefit?
Binaural beats are a unique technology that can help to coax our minds into nearly any desired mental state-of-consciousness or mood that we want. In reality, the term "binaural music" is kind of a misnomer. The actual music itself is not binaural in nature. The music itself is just "ordinary", standard music - chosen to be congruent with the desired brain state. Binaural music really is a mix of appropriate music and binaural technology tones. This mixture creates the desired effect on our brains and gives us something pleasing to listen to at the same time.
Our brains operate at frequencies in the 1-30 Hz (cycles per second) range with sleep and unconscious mind states corresponding to the lower end of that frequency range. Awake, excited and alert states-of-consciousness correspond to the higher frequencies. Using a process called entrainment, we offer the brain sythesized electrical signals in the frequency range corresponding to the mind state we wish to create and wait for the brain to "lock on" or match frequencies with them.
So, if we wish to feel relaxed, we would present signals in the 5-8 Hz to our brain until it begins to follow the frequency with its brain waves. And this is no problem if we present these frequencies to the eyes i
n the form of flashing lights or LEDs. The eyes are able to see 5-8 Hz signals with no problem.
But, the normal hearing range for humans is about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. So if a 5 Hz signal is presented to us, it would be too low in frequency for us. Our ears are not capable of hearing it.
That's were binaural beats come in. Binaural beats refers to the technique whereby a different frequency is presented to each ear with headphones. So, if a 400 Hz signal is presented to one ear and a 405 Hz signal is presented to the other ear, our brain "takes the difference" of - or subtracts - the two signals and internally produces a 5 Hz signal.
This technique works because we use two signals that are both in the audible range - e.g. 400 Hz and 405 Hz. Our ears are capable of hearing both signals. Then, our brain miraculously does the subtraction and generates the 5 Hz difference frequency (called a beat frequency) internally to our head. So the ears never are required to attempt to hear 5 Hz.
As I said earlier, binaural music is a slightly misleading name. The music itself is not binaural. Binaural music is created by combining ordinary music with binaural beats. So, in a very simple example, the left ear would hear the left stereo music channel combined with one of the binaural tones (e.g. 400 Hz). And the right ear would hear the right stereo music channel mixed with the other binaural tone (e.g. 405 Hz. In this manner, we can listen to pleasing music while our brain does the binaural subtraction and locks onto the underlying binaural beats.
Binaural beats are a unique technology that can help to coax our minds into nearly any desired mental state-of-consciousness or mood that we want. In reality, the term "binaural music" is kind of a misnomer. The actual music itself is not binaural in nature. The music itself is just "ordinary", standard music - chosen to be congruent with the desired brain state. Binaural music really is a mix of appropriate music and binaural technology tones. This mixture creates the desired effect on our brains and gives us something pleasing to listen to at the same time.
Our brains operate at frequencies in the 1-30 Hz (cycles per second) range with sleep and unconscious mind states corresponding to the lower end of that frequency range. Awake, excited and alert states-of-consciousness correspond to the higher frequencies. Using a process called entrainment, we offer the brain sythesized electrical signals in the frequency range corresponding to the mind state we wish to create and wait for the brain to "lock on" or match frequencies with them.
So, if we wish to feel relaxed, we would present signals in the 5-8 Hz to our brain until it begins to follow the frequency with its brain waves. And this is no problem if we present these frequencies to the eyes i
But, the normal hearing range for humans is about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. So if a 5 Hz signal is presented to us, it would be too low in frequency for us. Our ears are not capable of hearing it.
That's were binaural beats come in. Binaural beats refers to the technique whereby a different frequency is presented to each ear with headphones. So, if a 400 Hz signal is presented to one ear and a 405 Hz signal is presented to the other ear, our brain "takes the difference" of - or subtracts - the two signals and internally produces a 5 Hz signal.
This technique works because we use two signals that are both in the audible range - e.g. 400 Hz and 405 Hz. Our ears are capable of hearing both signals. Then, our brain miraculously does the subtraction and generates the 5 Hz difference frequency (called a beat frequency) internally to our head. So the ears never are required to attempt to hear 5 Hz.
As I said earlier, binaural music is a slightly misleading name. The music itself is not binaural. Binaural music is created by combining ordinary music with binaural beats. So, in a very simple example, the left ear would hear the left stereo music channel combined with one of the binaural tones (e.g. 400 Hz). And the right ear would hear the right stereo music channel mixed with the other binaural tone (e.g. 405 Hz. In this manner, we can listen to pleasing music while our brain does the binaural subtraction and locks onto the underlying binaural beats.