BrainTap Meditations
Brain wave entrainment system for calming your nervous system
As part of our psychotherapy and mental health services, we employ a technology called BrainTap. BrainTap’s innovative technology produces “brainwave entrainment”- the harmonization of brainwaves to a specialized sound- much like meditation but requires no special training or experience. BrainTap produces the same relaxation response as meditation without the need for years of disciplined practice, giving your body precisely what it needs to get back in balance and reverse the effect of stress on the body.
BrainTap can be used in conjunction with psychotherapy to deepen the process and get results faster! You can add a BrainTap session onto any in person therapy session for just $27.
How does BrainTap work?
The specially designed BrainTap headset covers the eyes and ears, delivering gentle pulses of light and two types of sound. This synchronization of light and tone enables the user to enter various states of consciousness while achieving a deep and profound sense of relaxation. By triggering certain brain frequencies, the autonomic nervous system and the brain are able to become more balanced.
Benefits of BrainTap
With regular treatments, BrainTap has been proven to deliver a number of benefits, including:
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Extreme sense of calm and relaxation
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Better balance between right and left hemispheres of the brain
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Increased serotonin levels
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Feeling more rested (one 20 minute session can be like getting 4 hours of sleep!)
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Improved response to stress
How can I get started?
Bay Area Mental Health offers BrainTap sessions in our office. You may also purchase a unit from us if you’d prefer to undergo your sessions in the comfort and convenience of your own home. The BrainTap headset operates in conjunction with a corresponding app that can be downloaded to any Apple or Android device.
You can register for a FREE 30 DAY TRIAL of the APP to get a taste right from home, and if you like it you can contact us to test out the headset that makes the app so much more impactful.
How did we learn about BrainTap?
Our founder has struggled with chronic illness and her doctor recommended that she try Brain Tap. After using it for a few months with great results, she shared it with some of her clients who also had great results. We are proud to announce a partnership with BrainTap where we can pass along a discount to our friends and clients!
View the Catalog of Meditations
Check out the Research Behind the System
4 Key Elements of the Brain Tap Technology:
Guided Visualization
The visual imagery process involves you sitting aside a period of relaxation, during which you contemplate mental images depicting a desired result or goal. This exercise is done during the spoken word session to help you envision a consistent image (either literal or symbolic) of the results desired from the session. Visualization has been studied for decades, showing the power to affect mental states, improve physical and athletic performance and even heal the body. When combined with the other elements of BrainTap, these effects are increased and optimized.
10-Cycle Holographic Music
Another aid to the guided mediation is 10- cycle holographic music, which is a sonic technology that produces a 360-degree sound environment. In this sonic environment, the visualizations become more real to the mind, helping you take full advantage of the power of the visualizations by creating a more receptive learning state.
LED Light Therapy
The BrainTap headset delivers gentle light pulses that travel through the retina and ear meridians, sending direct signals to the brain and guiding you into unparalleled brain states. Pulsing light, in the correct pattern and intensity, can produce levels of deep relaxation known to affect serotonin and endorphin levels, which an average increase of 21% in one study. These increases not only can calm and relax the mind but also produce powerful effects in maintaining a positive outlook and optimistic thinking.
Binaural Beats
When two different tones, separated in frequency by only a few hertz, are introduced - one in each ear - the brain perceives a third, unique tone. Binaural beats work by creating this phantom frequency, which the brain then mimics. Your brain naturally follows this frequency, and you experience this deeply relaxed state. BrainTap’s algorithms have been shown to produce a state of calm and concentration in the brain, yielding the full effect of the guided visualization, and resulting in extraordinary levels of performance that would otherwise take years of practice to achieve.
This practice consists of equal intensity pulses of sound separated by an interval of silence. They turn on and off rapidly, but the speed depends on the desired brain frequency. The discrete nature of isochronic tones makes them particularly easy for the brain to follow. While binaural beats rely on balanced hearing in both ears, isochronic tones work effectively for nearly everyone, except for someone with complete hearing loss. This is the reason BrainTap’s algorithms incorporate both types of tones.