The Fascinating Role of Sound in BrainEcho Sessions

No matter where you go, you will find that music is a vibrant and integral part of every culture. No matter who you talk to, they likely have a connection to certain songs or bands that are especially important or meaningful to them.

Music is a universal language that connects us all.

Cereset sessions are so powerful because we use music, or more specifically, highly engineered musical tones, to reflect the brain’s activity back to itself in real time, creating what we call a “BrainEcho.” Using musical tones allows the brain to “hear” its own activity, enabling it to adjust based on what it hears. This process is akin to a new pianist hitting a “wrong” note, feeling discomfort from the dissonant sound, and then seeking to find the “right” note.

Creating a BrainEcho, a “musical” representation of the brain’s real-time activity, is like translating a book from English to Spanish or vice versa.

Here’s how it works: the brain has its own unique language called “brainwave” activity. Brainwaves are electrochemical signals that carry information, enabling the brain to communicate with itself and the body. In essence, brainwaves are the brain’s “words” and how it communicates thoughts, feelings, and actions to different parts of the brain and body.

When you want to pick up your coffee mug and take a sip, a series of brainwaves encodes this thought and communicates it to your eyes, arm, hand, fingers, eyes, and mouth.

Brainwaves may sound complex, but they are simply a form of energy like light and sound. Like light and sound, brainwaves are measured in hertz, which indicates how many times a frequency oscillates or cycles in one second.

The lower the brainwave frequency, the more information it can carry over long distances and the fewer times it oscillates in a single second. Lower frequencies are slower-moving waves that typically carry subconscious information, memories, and information associated with physiological processes like sleep.

The higher the brainwave frequency, the more cycles it completes per second, allowing it to travel faster. As a result, high frequencies typically carry information required for conscious activity, like problem-solving, speaking, and executing.

Music is also a form of energy measured in hertz. The lower the tone, the fewer times sound waves oscillate in a single second. The higher the tone, the more times they oscillate.

To create a brain echo, Cereset’s proprietary software identifies the brainwave frequencies and converts them into corresponding musical frequencies. This entire process, from recording the brainwave activity to converting it to a corresponding musical frequency (i.e. a musical tone), happens within 5 milliseconds.

This incredible speed allows the brain to recognize that it is listening to a musical representation (or an “echo”) of its own activity and performance. Because the brain has neuroplasticity, which is the ability to adapt and change, it uses the information to recalibrate its own activity. For example, the brain uses the BrainEcho to identify areas that are under-activated, over-activated, or out of balance and then self-correct, similar to how we use a mirror to reflect our image and correct our appearance.

Sound provides additional benefits, as the brain processes sound even when fast asleep. This allows clients to rest through their sessions without engaging consciously.

While a BrainEcho is not traditional “music,” music has been proven to encourage neuroplasticity (flexibility) in the brain and the formation of new connections. Music also engages the default mode network (DMN), which is key to creativity, problem-solving, and self-reflection.

The brain is the most complex system in the known universe; however, sound has given us a unique way to communicate with the brain and unlock its innate intelligence and self-healing abilities.

If you are curious how BrainEcho technology by Cereset might help unlock your brain’s innate ability to self-correct, contact your local Cereset center.