Brainwaves entrainment is not like soothing music!

Question: Is brainwave entrainment CDs are like ambient music ?

Answer:

No, brainwave entrainment CDs are based on isochronic tone or binaural beat.
Either it is beat or tone but not melody music, what they often do is that they mask the beat with music they also mask it with sound of ocean waves, rainfall or some noise.
The purpose of brainwave entrainment technology is brain hemisphere synchronization :

The scientific principle of entrainment can be utilized to resonate, synchronize or tune your brain to specific frequencies.

Entrainment is pretty simple. If you have two tuning forks of the same pitch, if you strike one and hold it near the other one, they will both resonate at the same frequency.

It also works with a piano. If you have two similarly tuned pianos in one room and strike a key, the stretched chord attached to the same key on the other piano will vibrate.

Let’s say that we have a bunch of pendulum clocks hanging on a wall. If we erratically swing all of the pendulums at different speeds. Over time, all pendulums on every clock will become synchronized. They will all be swinging together in unison.

How does this happen? The explanation to this is more in depth but in simple terms, it happens just like the law of gravity or the conservation of energy.

Given this fact and the fact that our brains operate much like a resonance chamber. Oscillating pulses and patterns of neural excitations ripple through our brains like never-ending waves in a dynamic pond of subtle electrical matter.

You see this is not something you will get from ambient music. Now, some music do have some effect such as shamanic drums and certain techno music they can induce some type of trance however this very different than hemispheric synchronization.

Brainwave entrainment are good to help with relaxation. Here is a few links for more info:
Binaural-Beat Induced Theta EEG Activity and Hypnotic Susceptibility
Auditory Brain Wave Stimulation in Treating Alcoholic Depression
Benefits of binaural beats
Isochronic tones and binaural beat
A-Z of Mind Expansion
Brainwaves entrainment and Binaural Beats

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