What is brainwave entrainment and what does it have to do with meditation? Often referred to as binaural meditation, many people claim this technology can enhance your meditation practice and actually accelerate your mental, emotional, and spiritual growth.
In fact, there’s a body of research which supports these claims. Brainwave entrainment has even proved effective in helping to heal people with trauma, mental illness, and addiction.
Whether you’re new to meditation, or a long-time practitioner, you might want to consider adding brainwave entrainment to your transformational toolbox.
We recently featured an article on this topic, but to help you understand more about this fascinating contemplative technology, I interviewed one of the leaders in the field of brainwave entrainment meditation on the OneMind Meditation Podcast.
Meet the soulful and inspiring John Dupuy, founder of iAwake Technologies and author of the award-winning Integral Recovery.
Discovering the Power of Brainwave Entrainment
John discovered the power of brainwave entrainment after tragedy struck and he lost his brother to suicide. That was the beginning in a series of painful and challenging events in his life.
Soon John was struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. He was already an on-again off-again meditator, but after four years of hardship and struggle, he discovered a new depth of faith through his spiritual practice.
The catalyst for this change was brainwave entrainment meditation.
As John tells it, the technology had a huge effect on his meditation practice, enabling him to go deeper and farther than he had before. It was this spiritual breakthrough that initiated a deep and lasting healing process.
It also led John to found iAwake Technologies, a company dedicated to sharing brainwave entrainment meditation with the world.
John is passionate about the potential of brainwave entrainment to support healing and spiritual growth. But he never claims that this technology is a surrogate for meditation.
On the contrary, John is a firm believer in the power of daily practice. Instead, he asserts that brainwave entrainment can enhance and deepen your meditation practice, not replace it.
In that spirit, we wanted to invite John to share his expertise and his story with the About Meditation audience.
→ Also, don’t miss this complimentary 20-min brainwave entrainment meditation track from John and the iAwake team.
In this episode, John and I explore:
-How binaural meditation unites the body and mind
-The healing properties of brainwave entrainment
-Why John meditated intensively to heal from personal trauma
-The discoveries in neuroscience that led to the creation of binaural technology
-How brainwave entrainment technology can help accelerate your access to deeper states of awareness
-How spirituality becomes a felt reality
-How brainwave entrainment improves your focus and creativity
-Why it’s in the suffering and pain where John finds the light
-Some of the scientific research demonstrating the efficacy of brainwave entrainment
-Brain science, Epigenetics, neuroplasticity, and the wonders of life-long learning
-How brainwave entrainment can accelerate your capacity for learning
Show Notes
- Get a free brainwave entrainment meditation music track
- (Disclosure: We have a business relationship with iAwake technologies. If you buy a program on the iAwake website, it will return an affiliate commission to About Meditation.)
- Learn more about iAwake Technologies and John Dupuy
- Buy Integral Recovery
Excellent podcast Morgan. I’ve been using a brainwave entrainment app called Beyond Meditation on my iPhone, it’s excellent. I used Holosync and Lifeflow also for a few years. Each year or so I change to a different brainwave/binaurals product. For someone like me who finds it hard to fall asleep it’s a godsend.
Thanks and take care. Ciaran.
Hi Ciaran,
Thanks so much for your comment and for sharing your experience. That’s super interesting to hear. I’ve only dabbled with it a little myself, but I’m growing more and more curious. I’ve always been more of a traditional cat, and found it easy to access deeper states of awareness through regular practice. But these days I have less time to practice and I’ve been thinking about supplementing with brainwave entrainment. Great to hear your endorsement and John certainly makes a strong case for it.
Thanks Morgan! If you have an iPhone or iPad try the free
Beyond Meditation app, otherwise as an intro to this field the OmHarmonics program is really, really nice.
..Also meant to say that as an old TM (Transcendental Meditation) practitioner I must say I also like the traditional way too sometimes.
Thanks Ciaran!
hi I suffer from anxiety can this help me please guide me on this
Thank you
Yes, meditation can help to calm your mind and reduce your anxiety. Start by sitting quietly for 20 minutes and (this is the hard part) not follow any thoughts. They try to keep your mind quiet and cut thoughts short and stopping them when/before they start.
You do not need anything else, but…..it can be helpful to try something like the iAwake recordings. Stick with it as it takes time to get our minds to quiet down.
Be patient and you will make slow and steady progress.
Good luck.
Mike
Hi Mike, That’s great. Thanks so much for you comment. Best, Morgan