
This is your normal waking state and while it's associated with logic, reasoning, and alertness, it's also where you're most like to feel stress and anxiety. You start out in a state of beta brain waves, with the electrical impulses in your brain clicking along at somewhere between 14 and 40 cycles per second.

This is pretty much what happens when you meditate on your own. As a result, the right frequencies can induce a meditative state in a listener. The idea here is that if you listen to two different sound frequencies, one in each ear, the interaction of the two frequencies creates a sort of pulsing or hum that influences your brain waves. They use a combination of neurolinguistic programming and binaural beats to actually alter your brain waves.

And those that claim to help alter your behavior, break a habit, or solve a problem-well, those never really work, do they? At best, they'll help you get to sleep a little quicker.īut Paraliminals are really different from regular subliminal recordings or relaxation CDs. I've never been a huge fan of meditation or relaxation CDs.
