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#254 - Cory Allen - The Story Behind Binaural Beats

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Theta and the Binaural Beats

With binaural beats the idea is to try and affect what brain wave state that you're in on demand. The concept behind the actual audio tracks is to put one tone one of those tones in one ear at a particular frequency. And then ideally your consciousness is in shifted into that particular brain wave state. So by putting 100 Hertz in one ear 104 Hertz in the other year they're creating the difference that 4 Hertz because it's so close. They create that beating or that wobbling type of sound right.

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