How Brainwave Entrainment Works: 

Brainwave entrainment music involves using binaural beats to entrain brain waves to a specific frequency.

Entrainment is the principle that the rhythms in the human brain reflect the rhythms in the world. For music this effect is known in the scientific literature as the frequency following effect.

Brainwave entrainment audio uses rhythmic pulses in the music that emulate different neural patterns that are understood to be related to focused states, flow states, dream states and relaxed states of consciousness.

By listening to these rhythmic patterns, your brain has a shortcut for switching into these mental states and staying there for longer periods of time.

1. Laser Focus

Tap into the slower beta brain waves that make it easier to pay attention to a single point of focus.

A beta state in the higher frequencies of this brainwave range tends to be associated with stress, anxiety and restlessness.

The middle range of beta is good for having a clear mind so you can quickly solve problems and perform your daily tasks with low friction.

Listening to slow beta waves is where you find the sweet spot of relaxed attention, which is known in neurofeedback training as the Sensorimotor Rhythm (SMR 12 Hz - 15 Hz), which is often used to improve ADHD by reducing inattentiveness, restlessness and impulsivity.

2. Alpha Waves

Tap into a relaxed state of alpha brain waves to release from constantly thinking into flow.

The alpha state is associated with relaxation, meditation and flow states. As you slow your brain waves and relax into alpha you can tap into meditative states and flow states if you're fully engaged in an activity.

Listening to alpha waves is good for finding flow doing creative work like writing, graphic design, video editing and creating music. Slower alpha waves bring the brain into a more effortless immersion that happens along the borderline between alpha and theta waves.

3. Theta Waves

Tap into the effortless states of relaxation and dreamlike liminal states.

Listening to music with theta waves is a shortcut to accessing liminal states between waking and sleep for creative problem solving and lucid dreaming.

In the 21st century, few people remember many of their dreams and even fewer access liminal states for creativity, even though they were crucial to the creative process of many of the modern world's greatest inventors such as Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein.

4. Delta  Waves

Tap into delta waves for deep states of peace, compassion and tranquillity.

Delta waves are most strongly associated with the deep sleep state of dreamless sleep but they have also found to be produced in profound states of meditation involving loving kindness and heartfelt compassion.

If you struggle to fall asleep at night, listening to delta waves to fall asleep can help you switch off an overactive stress response (sympathetic nervous system) and induce relaxed feelings of tranquility and gratitude that make it easier to activate the relaxation response (parasympathetic nervous system).

5. Gamma Waves

Tap into gamma brain for peak states of hyperfocus and insight.

Gamma waves are the highest brainwave frequency and they are associated peaks states of learning, insight and hyperfocus. The brain produces spikes of gamma activity when we learn something new and during flow states on the alpha-theta borderline.

High gamma is also correlated with psychedelic states, which often see huge spikes in gamma activity. Gamma is also associated with rare brainwave patterns such as Lambda waves (+100 Hz) that are still quite mysterious to science.

About Me

I first got into binaural beats when I was in my freshman year at the University of British Columbia when a friend recommended I try using them to help me focus for long hours on my studies.

Having ADHD, I often struggled to study, especially on the things that didn't interest me, and many days I'd sit down to study after having my morning coffee and I just couldn't get my brain to focus.

I found that listening to binaural beats in higher beta and gamma frequencies could shift my brain into a focused state and help me to sustain my concentration on the days when I would struggle to get anything done.

Over the years of playing around with different binaural beats tracks, I got into making my own tracks and working with musicians to create soundtracks for them.

I put together this Flow State Music Brainwave Entrainment Collection with some of my favourite tracks I use for focusing, getting into flow states and states of deep relaxation.

I've found binaural beats to be indispensable tools for focusing and for getting out of my head when I'm struggling with stress and worries.

I hope you enjoy this brainwave entrainment music collection and please share your feedback and suggestions as I'm regularly updating it with new tracks.