The Science

Meditation

  • Meditation can change your brain– for the better. Decrease fear, anxiety, and stress by reducing the size of the amygdala. (1)

  • Improve one’s working memory and executive decision making by increasing the gray matter in the frontal cortex.

  • Enhance one’s attention span by increasing the resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) between the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC.)(2)

  • Increase one’s cortical thickness in the left hippocampus which assists in learning, cognition, memory, and emotional regulation. (3)

  • Increase one’s emotional intelligence by increasing the internal consistency of the tempor temporoparietal junction (TPJ). (4)

The Resonate Experience

  • Resonate Labs’ proprietary technology is built on the science of neural entrainment.

Vibration

  • Our synchronized vibrations activate the parasympathetic nervous system by stimulating the vagus nerve.

  • - This stimulation moves the body and the brain out of a fight or flight response towards more relaxed states of consciousness.

    - Audible sound vibrations are delivered via transducers to invoke relaxation, and alleviate stress. (5)

Sound

  • We use monaural beats, binaural beats, isochronic tones are carefully calibrated to take you deeper into your subconscious. Sounds too good to be true? Read some of the benefits here.

  • - Improved mood

    - Reduction in anxiety prompted by binaural beat stimuli in the delta - theta range

    - Improved focus (6)

Light

  • The immersive lights in our goggles activate the brain’s frequency following responses (FFRs), thus guiding the mind to meditative states.

  • - Light is the quickest stimuli for gamma wave entrainment.

    - Gamma wave entrainment positively affects mood, memory, and cognition. (7)

References

Meditation - 1 to 4

1.  Lazar, S. W., Kerr, C. E., Wasserman, R. H., Gray, J. R., Greve, D. N., Treadway, M. T., McGarvey, M., Quinn, B. T., Dusek, J. A., Benson, H., Rauch, S. L., Moore, C. I., & Fischl, B. (2005). Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport, 16(17), 1893–1897. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.wnr.0000186598.66243.19

2.  Kral, T., Lapate, R. C., Imhoff-Smith, T., Patsenko, E., Grupe, D. W., Goldman, R., Rosenkranz, M. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2022). Long-term Meditation Training Is Associated with Enhanced Subjective Attention and Stronger Posterior Cingulate-Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Resting Connectivity. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 34(9), 1576–1589. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01881

3.  Lazar, S. W., Kerr, C. E., Wasserman, R. H., Gray, J. R., Greve, D. N., Treadway, M. T., McGarvey, M., Quinn, B. T., Dusek, J. A., Benson, H., Rauch, S. L., Moore, C. I., & Fischl, B. (2005). Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport, 16(17), 1893–1897. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.wnr.0000186598.66243.19

4.  Lazar, S. W., Kerr, C. E., Wasserman, R. H., Gray, J. R., Greve, D. N., Treadway, M. T., McGarvey, M., Quinn, B. T., Dusek, J. A., Benson, H., Rauch, S. L., Moore, C. I., & Fischl, B. (2005). Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport, 16(17), 1893–1897. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.wnr.0000186598.66243.19

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5. Boyd-Brewer, C., & McCaffrey, R. (2004). Vibroacoustic sound therapy improves pain management and more. Holistic nursing practice, 18(3), 111–119. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004650-200405000-00002

6. Chaieb, L., Wilpert, E. C., Reber, T. P., & Fell, J. (2015). Auditory beat stimulation and its effects on cognition and mood States. Frontiers in psychiatry, 6, 70. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00070

7. Sharpe, R., Mahmud, M., Kaiser, M. S., & Chen, J. (2020). Gamma entrainment frequency affects mood, memory and cognition: an exploratory pilot study. Brain informatics, 7(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40708-020-00119-9