Brainwave Entrainment - Binaural Beats, Monaural Beats, and Isochronic Tones

The Three Types of Brainwave Entrainment

Brainwave entrainment is becoming one of the fastest growing tools for improving lives and allowing people to reach altered states almost instantly. There are three forms of brainwave entrainment: binaural beats, monaural beats, and isochronic tones. Each works in a different way for entraining the brain and all three have been scientifically proven to work.

What is Brainwave Entrainment

Everything we experience is based on our brainwave frequencies. When we are energetic, productive, lazy, happy, sad, sleeping, dreaming, meditating, or whatever we feel, our brainwaves are at a specific frequency. They determine our entire state of mind. Brainwave entrainment are tools that change your brainwave frequencies to reach your desired state of mind.

Binaural beats, monaural beats, and isochronic tones each have their own benefits and disadvantages to entraining the brain. By knowing how each one works you can decide which one is best for you.

Binaural Beats

Binaural beats are the most popular form of brainwave entrainment. They have been around the longest and there is a much wider selection of these recordings to choose from. They entrain the brain by playing two separate frequencies in each ear. Say 450Hz is played in your left ear and 454Hz is played in your right. The brain works by compensating for the difference creating a brainwave frequency of 4Hz. In order for them to work properly you must wear head phones.

Advantages:

• Capable of entraining any desired frequency


• Wide selection of recordings to choose from


• Most scientifically proven and researched


• Can add soothing background noise without compromising effectiveness


• Whole brain functioning

Disadvantages:

• Must be high quality recordings to work properly


• Mandatory use of headphones


• Can sometimes take longer to entrain brainwaves

Monaural Beats

Monaural beats work by playing the two separate frequencies in each channel or speaker. The two frequencies in each channel combine creating a third frequency that our mind is able to entrain to. It’s an interference pattern that produces the desired frequency outside of your head.

Advantages:

• Does not require headphones

Disadvantages:

• Cannot entrain frequencies under 4Hz


• Must have no background noise to work properly


• Limited selection of products

Isochronic Tones

Isochronic tones turn on and off single spaced tones in a synchronized pattern, increasing the pulse speed, and entraining your brain with the rhythm.

Advantages:

• Do not require headphones


• Can entrain the brain quicker


• Can entrain one side of the brain at a time

Disadvantages:

• The sounds can be annoying


• No background noise can be added


• Cannot entrain frequencies under 4Hz


• Limited selection of products


• Can be more costly for recordings

The fact that monaural beats and isochronic tones cannot entrain the brain under 4Hz limits their ability. This is the main reason you won’t find that many recordings. But if you hate wearing headphones then certain recordings can work great for entraining your brain.

In order to understand how each one one works it’s best to try all three and decide for yourself. Personally, I prefer binaural beats anytime over monaural beats or isochronic tones but it depends on your personal preference and the type of effect you want to produce.

Brainwave Entrainment - Binaural Beats, Monaural Beats, and Isochronic Tones