Kulreet Chaudhary explains how rhythmic sounds like Tibetan singing bowls and mantras can synchronize your brain's frequency patterns, triggering meditative states without years of practice. Sound entrainment works because the brain is rhythmic, and external rhythms can directly shift its oscillatory states, potentially unlocking cognitive benefits that normally take decades of meditation.
Bulletproof radio, a state of high performance. Talk to me about sound entrainment though, and how that works. And I brought up the Tibetan Bell example. There may be others you know of, but how does sound entrainment work? So entrainment is something that we see in natural systems. We see them in ecological systems. Entrainment, when you see birds flying in formation, that's a form of entrainment. It was kind of first studied when pendulums that were in the same room would eventually entrain and start swinging together, even though their frequency initially was different. And it's just a way of nature and biology saving energy. Natural systems can become entrained by different things. Sound is one of the things that helps to entrain the brain in particular, and especially rhythmic sounds that has a very specific effect on the brain. And if you've ever studied brain physiology, your brain is a very rhythmic organ. I mean, it generates a lot of different frequencies depending which state it's in. And so instead of just waiting for your brain to generate those states and then the resulting electromagnetic waves, you can actually generate those states using external stimuli like sound. So you know, you talked about like the Tibetan singing bowls or if you've ever heard like Buddhist monks chanting or like for me, I in India am exposed all the time to the different ancient Sanskrit and Siddha Tamil mantras. Their enunciated in a very particular way. They're chanted in an extremely rhythmic way. And some of the oldest mantra, some of the oldest sounds in South India, when you analyze them, the only other place in nature that creates those kinds of sounds are actually bird songs. And so there's something about this rhythmic way of using chanting in different mantras that has a very specific effect on the brain. And the brain is actually, when we look at the effect, you can tell that it's actually made to respond to sound in this way. And these are the parts where I look at the things that we're trying to do and we're putting so much effort into it. If you understand just your basic biology, if you understand the brain's biology and understand that it responds to sound in a very predictable way, we would not have to do those 30, 40 years of meditation in a cave. We can introduce the technology that would fast forward that. And then maybe if we saw a society that did that in 30 years or now that we're both going to do this anti Aging in 150 years, when we have this conversation again, I'm going to say, I told you, I told you we were subhuman. Because all of a sudden, we will be unlocking aspects of our brain that we didn't even know we had access.
