meditation and binaural beats?

Question

Do binaural beats work for meditation because it hard for me to concentrate and when i meditate i'm not sure if i am really in the meditative state, so i was wondering if this would help...

Also, if you use it for a while will it make it easier for you to meditate without it? .... Or could it make it harder?

Answer 1

This is a complicated method of developing a meditative state, and if you are finding it difficult, binaural beats might be overwhelming and not come naturally.

One point of interest, your first statement said it is hard for you to concentrate when you meditate. One goal in certain types of meditation is not to concentrate, but to let go of that kind of focus, allowing your thoughts to become more random.

More about your question, this answer is hard to do justice to such a complicated topic but I will try to shed some light.

In meditation, experienced meditates can simulate specific frequencies that stimulate glands which will produce hormones from the brain.
Some people can achieve better sleep if they can reach this level of meditation before bedtime. People who are able to use the binaural beats can produce the natural hormones to allow them to develop a feeling or phenomena achieved by entraining the brain to a specific frequency.

Binaural beats have also been used in the recovery of repressed memories and serious addictions. Also post traumatic stress disocrder can be treated, which can lead one back to memories and determine which are authentic memories versus false memories.

Often therapists use a method of causing the patient to simulate rapid eye movement when used in psychotherapy.
This is related to your question, causing the brain to calm and stimulating hormones produced by particular frequencies.

This is an interesting topic to study!

Answer 2

I believe that gadgets interfere with meditation. The aim is to calm the brain, and any intrusion is going to make things more difficult.
In order to calm tyhe brain, we first have to get it familiar with concentrating on just one thing, and not jumping around like an uncontrolled monkey. Her's a good starting meditation. I start all my meditations with this one.

Sit in a comfortable position, with a straight spine, and the eyes either closed, or out of focus.

This is a good one to teach our mind to concentrate, called the twenty-four second meditation. It involves picturing numbers made up of dots as shown on large digital displays. We commence by picturing the digits 24. When we can clearly visualise each dot which makes each of the two digits two and four, then we move to 23, and 22. The concentration on the dots helps to eliminate other thoughts from the mind, and with a little practice over a few days, we are able to move from 24 down through all the digits to 0. If another thought enters our mind during this process, then we must start again. This is why it takes a few days before we are able to succeed Once we can succeed then we are achieving an alpha state of mind, which is relaxed, and free of the linear thought process. This is the state of mind required for deep meditation, which we discuss later.

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Answer 3

Binaural beats are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, caused by specific physical stimuli. This effect was discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and earned greater public awareness in the late 20th century based on claims coming from the alternative medicine community that binaural beats could help induce relaxation, meditation, creativity and other desirable mental states. The effect on the brainwaves depends on the difference in frequencies of each tone: for example, if 300 Hz was played in one ear and 310 in the other, then the binaural beat would have a frequency of 10 Hz.

Answer 4

I have the Insights CDs which are binural beats for meditation and focus. It is the best I have ever used. In less that 24 minutes you will be in deep relaxation. You can buy the CDs at http://www.mercola.com
They are worth it.

Answer 5

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