How music and sound affects the Brain Part I

Hello Everyone, Mr. Rude is back with some good information about how frequencies effect the brain and how they motivate us in different ways throughout our daily lives. In this two part post I'm posting an article by Ben Greenfield that expalins how important these elements are to our lives that no one really thinks about. Ben greefield is a fitness guy and I myself was pretty suprised about what this guy had to say. I hope you find this information useful and educational. Thanks again to everyone who views my blog and comments. PEACE!!

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Most of us know that work out songs and music can help you to exercise harder
But if you understand how sound and music actually change your brain waves, you can use this knowledge to alter your mental and physical performance states with laser accuracy.
It sounds geeky, but I’m going to explain how…

At first glance, brain waves seem a bit like “woo-woo” science, and it can be a bit intimidating and confusing to understand how they work.
But here’s the basics, which will really help you when you’re listening to today’s interview with Dr. Jeffrey Thompson about how sound affects your brain.
Your brain is made up of billions of brain cells called neurons, and your neurons (just like the rest of your body) use electricity to communicate with each other. As you can probably imagine, these millions of neurons sending signals all at once produces an enormous amount of electrical activity in your brain, and this can actually be detected using medical equipment like an electroencephalography (EEG), which measuring electricity levels over areas of your scalp.
When you graph the electrical activity of your brain using EEG, you generate what is called a brainwave pattern, which is called a “wave” pattern because of its cyclic, wave-like nature.
And the brainwave patterns are generally categorized like this: