Meditation has wonderful benefits. It can help improve your physical and mental health, release stress, and even tap into your mind’s deepest potentials and explore an exciting variety of altered states of consciousness. But to get the most out of your meditation sessions, you need to be able to relax your mind properly, and this is where many people have trouble.

Most beginners know the frustration of sitting down to meditate and realizing how uncontrollable their minds are. Your thoughts jump all over the place and resist any attempt to focus for a long time on the object of meditation. And as for achieving that mythical state of ‘no thought’, forget it! It’s very easy to end a meditation session feeling like you’ve just wasted your time, because all that’s happened is that your mind has run wild with itself, repeating problems or trivia over and over again.

Too many beginning meditators give up before they get past this stage. And that’s a shame, because if you give up, you’ll never experience all the great things meditation has to offer. With traditional meditation methods, you just keep practicing, day after day, and eventually controlling and focusing your thoughts becomes easier. But this can take months or even years.

Fortunately, modern technology can help you achieve and maintain a state of deep mental relaxation more quickly and easily than is normally the case. Thanks to brain wave training, you can start experiencing the benefits of meditation sooner rather than later.

What is brain wave training?

When you hear a rapidly repeating sound of a specific frequency, the brain has a natural tendency to follow it and match its own brain waves to the frequency of the sounds it’s hearing. This is called “frequency tracking response.”

As you meditate, your brain waves will slow down, until you are efficiently producing brain waves in the alpha (8 to 12 Hz) or theta (4 to 7 Hz) regions. By listening to a brain training recording that incorporates sounds in these frequency ranges, your brain will be able to access these states more easily – this is brain wave training.

There are three commonly used types of sound-based brainwave entrainment: these are binaural beats, monaural beats, and isochronous tones. All three work very well, although many people find the isochronic tones to be the most effective. But it’s always a good idea to experiment and see what type works best for you.

Regular use of a brainwave entrainment recording while meditating will make it easier to achieve a state of deep mental relaxation. And best of all, with constant practice, your brain will get used to reaching this state, and eventually you may no longer need to use the recording.