Safety of binaural beats?
Posted in Binaural Beats on 11/20/2009 01:26 pm by HolisticLivingWhats the actual Safety of Binaural Beats? I just found out about them today. I mean I guess it’s no different then regular music or even TV how it stimulates your mind. Just didn’t know what to think though since everything connected with them seems to have the word Experimental.
11/20/2009 at 1:52 pm
Hi. I don’t think there are any safety issues at all, unless you’re playing the tones too loudly. I’m a physicist, and I got into them just out of curiousity—and that’s all they really seem to be. As two frequencies overlap in the air, they produce a beat frequency. Interestingly, it can happen physiologically as well when the two tones are played separately in the ears. The beat itself is what I believe is most important psychologically, not its mode of production. A simple repetive beat allows the mind to focus. Across the globe, percussion intruments of some kind, drums, etc are used as an aid to enter trances and meditative states. Even zen meditation uses the ringing of chimes to begin and end meditation. Ordinary music and TV is more entertaining, the pace changes so that you don’t lose interest. With a steady beat, you don’t have that crutch, and as such, the focus on a simple beat reinforces the skill of attention. I think what is “experimental” is whether or not these things give you super-human powers and the like . . .
11/20/2009 at 2:22 pm
I don’t know of any safety issues.
However, I suggest that you attempt to raise your level of consciousness by embracing the natural flow of the waves of energy in the brain rather than trying to artificially manipulate them.