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How Brainwave Frequencies Support the Best Stock Trading Psychology

August 27, 2025August 28, 2025Rik

The best Stock Trading psychology and success often hinges more on the state of mind than market moves. Emerging research shows how brainwave entrainment and listening to specific frequencies can shape mental states that support disciplined, confident trading.

The first step in understanding how to improve your trading is understanding how our brains naturally operate across frequency bands. The four key frequency bands are measured in Hertz (Hz). Hertz is the standard unit used to measure frequency (how often something repeats per second).

1 Hertz (1 Hz) = 1 cycle per second
10 Hz = 10 cycles per second
1000 Hz (1 kHz) = 1000 cycles per second

In sound, Hertz refers to the number of sound wave vibrations that occur in one second. For example:

20,000 Hz = the upper limit of what most humans can hear.
20 Hz = very low bass sound (felt more than heard).
440 Hz = the pitch of the musical note A above middle C (the standard tuning note for instruments).

The four key frequencies to measure brain wave patterns are:

Gamma (30–100 Hz): Enhances complex thinking and pattern recognition.
Beta (13 – 30 Hz): Fast, alert brainwaves associated with active thinking, problem-solving, and focus.
Alpha (8–12 Hz): Promotes calm focus and clear insight. It is said that we must get to alpha before enabling sleep.
Theta (4–7 Hz): Usually associated with sleep and dreams, and Rapid Eye Movement (R.E.M.) Encourages emotional processing and creative integration.
Delta (0.5 – 4 Hz): The slowest of all brainwaves, characterised by deep, rhythmic oscillations. Usually dominate in deep, dreamless sleep and is also known as the ‘healing state’ where your body heals, de-stresses and recovers.

Techniques like binaural beats or isochronic tones guide the brain into these states via its frequency-following response.

Scientific evidence underscores the benefit of this practice. A meta-analysis found that binaural beats reduced anxiety and improved attention and memory. Another study showed pre-operative listening to brainwave audio lowered anxiety before surgery. Gamma-frequency entrainment has also been linked to enhanced creative problem-solving.

For traders, brainwave audio becomes a powerful tool for stock trading psychology:

Before trading: Alpha-range audio induces relaxed alertness. This is ideal for clear, rule-based entries.
During trading: Sustained alpha or subtle theta support focus without reactive stress.
After trading: Theta waves aid emotional decompression and reflective integration, fostering long-term resilience.

While frequencies like 432 Hz or 528 Hz are often praised for calm states and balance, the strongest evidence centres on brainwave-specific entrainment aligned with trading states.

Bottom line: Sound frequencies don’t trade for you, but they shape the mindset from which disciplined, confident trades emerge. Use them consistently as a psychological ritual, and you’ll reinforce your best trading psychology over time.

If you would like to download specific audios to help your trading and your life overall, click the products below to access our audios:

Trade Beyond Limits (click here to download your audio)

TRADE Beyond Limits Audio Program
Benefits: Calm your mind during share trading and make the best rational decisions.
Duration: 0:35:00 minutes
Description: This hypnotic audio is designed to calm your mind to improve your ability to enhance your share trading ability by building the best neurological associations with trading well. This audio works at the level of identity and improves traders’ performance.
Format: MP3 Downloadable audio.

Trading Mind Beyond Limits – Set of 4 Audios (click here to download your audios)

Audio One (Before Trading 432 Hz): Helps you to let go of all your fears, anxieties and worries and feel safe and secure again. This anxiety relief music for meditation and/or sleep has been composed in a healing frequency our Root Chakra can resonate with and is here for you to lovingly help you find your way back to your natural and inherent state of confidence, stability, trust, and inner peace. Our Root Chakra (also called “Muladhara” Chakra) is the connection with the physical body, the physical world, and the energies of the earth. It represents security and stability and, being the first and lowest of our 7 main chakras, it is of fundamental importance to our balance. A person with an open and healthy root chakra lives with a stable sense of security, grounding, and deep trust. This person will feel safe and comfortable in their body and has developed an inner stability and security, regardless of changing and uncertain external circumstances.

Audio Two (Before Trading 528 Hz): 528 Hz love frequency music assists you in manifesting abundance, love, peacefulness, and harmony into your life. This miracle tone will clear away old fear and negative blockages. While listening, remember that love comes in many forms. Visualise, pray, or meditate on what kind of love you wish to attract into your life. Love of great abundance. Love of creating the life that you’ve always imagined for yourself. The Solfeggio frequencies make up an ancient 6-tone audio scale that is said to date back to biblical times and carry divine-like properties. In recent times, each frequency has been found to carry a specific set of healing, wellbeing, and spiritual benefits that it affords the listener. These include DNA repair, relief from past trauma, and opening the soul to spiritual experiences. We tune all of our music in the miracle tone, 528 Hz. 528 Hz (Mi) – Transforming Miracles (DNA Repair) 528 HZ, also known as the miracle tone, is the frequency that is thought to help return human DNA to its original state, removing impurities. By repairing your DNA, you’re not only enhancing your life energy, but your mindset also improves. You can expect to attain greater mental clarity, a heightened sense of awareness, and deep inner peace. Related to the chakra of the solar plexus, opening this chakra allows you to feel confident in yourself, greater self-worth and love, and be in control of your life.

Audio Three (During Trading 8-13 Hz): Alpha Waves (8-13 Hz) are a key frequency range that can unlock your brain’s full potential. These waves are associated with increased creativity and improved focus. Binaural beats technology enhances the power of Alpha Waves, helping you boost your brainpower and experience mental clarity like never before. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the music, the healing transmission, the beneficial frequencies, and affirmations, knowing that you are on your way back to perfect health. 7 Surprising Benefits of Alpha Waves for a Better Life • Improved focus and concentration • Increased creativity and problem-solving skills • Enhanced relaxation and stress relief • Improved sleep quality • Boosted mood and overall sense of well-being • Heightened mental clarity and alertness • Increased mental and physical relaxation.

Audio Four (After Trading 4-7 Hz): Theta wave entrainment (4–7 Hz) synchronises your brain hemispheres for deep relaxation, helps process emotions, and releases stress from wins/losses. This is a softer 432 Hz tone to let the nervous system reset. Theta “unlocks” potential and resources in our subconscious mind. In a balanced brain, all cell dendrites operate with the maximum information flow possible between both hemispheres. Listening to 432Hz music resonates inside our body, releases emotional blockages, and expands our consciousness. 432Hz creates Unity instead of separation. It expands our hearts and makes us more compassionate and loving.

How to Listen to These Audios

You can listen to these audios in whatever way feels most natural to you, either through headphones/earbuds at a comfortable volume, or simply playing them ambiently in your trading space.

To get the most benefit, create a space where you won’t be interrupted while listening. Though do understand that some audios can even cause you to feel sleepy, so be sure you set an alarm to awaken you and ensure that you haven’t put anything on the stove that needs your attention. Treat listening as a ritual that signals to your mind and body: “It’s time to trade.” The repetition builds a strong association between the audio and your trading state, helping you step into focus with greater ease over time.

Here are Some Helpful Guidelines to Listen to Audios

Before Trading – Listen to the first audio until you feel calm, centred, and ready. Trust your own intuition here—sometimes that may be five minutes, sometimes the full track. The practice of tuning into your own sense of “enough” is a valuable way to build self-trust.
During Trading – If you like, keep a track playing quietly in the background to help maintain a state of relaxed alertness. This can prevent you from slipping into stress or distraction, while keeping you sharp and focused.
After Trading – Use the final audio to decompress, release tension, and reset your nervous system. This is just as important as priming beforehand—it helps you process emotions from wins and losses so you can step away clear and balanced.
Mix and Match – You don’t need to listen to the entire sequence every time. You may choose to run through each audio in order, or just sample five to ten minutes from the ones that feel right for that session. The key is consistency: finding the flow that helps you access your best state.

Download Your Audios Here

Trade Beyond Limits (click here to download your audio)
Trading Mind Beyond Limits – Set of 4 Audios (click here to download your 4 audios)

Remember, the music is a tool. What matters most is the state you cultivate and reinforce: calm confidence before, sustained clarity during, and deep release after. With practice, simply starting the audio will be enough to trigger the state you want.

Warmest Wishes

Rik Schnabel
Brain UnTrainer | Speaker | Author
www.lifebeyondlimits.com.au

PS: Need some help? Organise a time to chat with R!k Schnabel here.

How NLP Training in Sydney Rewired My Mind and Transformed My Income

July 17, 2025August 12, 2025Rik

Rik Schnabel was certified by Chris Howard as an NLP Master Practitioner in Sydney, Australia

For well over 20 years, I’ve immersed myself in the study of how the mind works. I’ve examined neural patterns, communication pathways, and cognitive frameworks. But it wasn’t until I undertook NLP Training in Sydney that I experienced the most profound transformation, not just academically, but personally, emotionally, and financially. As an avid researcher, I had always approached human behaviour from a data-driven, analytical viewpoint. However, NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming offered something deeper than academic models. It provided a practical framework for change. It was the missing piece. And truthfully, I wish I had found it much, much earlier.

Waking Up to the Silent Saboteurs: Limiting Beliefs

When I began my NLP Training in Sydney, I assumed I’d acquire a few additional coaching techniques or behavioural models. What I didn’t expect was to confront the invisible prison of limiting beliefs that had quietly shaped and constrained my life.

I began to identify unconscious narratives like “I’m not good with money,” “Success is for other people,” or “You have to work hard for every dollar.” These thoughts weren’t just beliefs, they were neurological programs I had been running all my life. Programs that influenced every decision I made, especially financially.

NLP helped me identify, interrupt, and reprogram these beliefs. It was like finally seeing the virus in the code. Once I updated the operating system, my life changed dramatically. And yes, that’s me (on the left) in the photo, and if you’re wondering why I look like I’m nearly about to cry, it’s because if you’ve come from where I did, you’d understand how significant that moment was for me.

NLP Training Sydney and the Neuroscience of Emotional Freedom

One of the foundational elements of NLP is emotional state management. Through elegant techniques like anchoring, submodalities, and timeline work, I learned to neutralise negative emotions that had silently dictated my reactions; fear, guilt, doubt, even anger.

It’s important to note that these weren’t conscious choices. They were automatic responses built from past experiences. But as I discovered in my NLP Training in Sydney, emotional patterns can be rewired. With consistent application, I no longer defaulted to survival-mode thinking. I began operating from a resourceful, confident state, and that state had a direct impact on my income, relationships, and self-worth.

The Four Languages of the Mind

Another eye-opener during my NLP Training Sydney experience was the discovery that there isn’t just one form of English, but at least four primary versions we unconsciously use every day:

Visual: language of images and imagination (“I see what you mean”)
Auditory: language of sound and rhythm (“That rings a bell”)
Kinesthetic: language of feeling and movement (“That doesn’t sit right with me”)
Auditory Digital: language of logic and self-talk (“That doesn’t make sense”)

Understanding and recognising these patterns revolutionised my communication, both professionally and personally. I began to match and mirror others’ language styles, making my conversations more impactful and building a stronger level of rapport almost instantly. To say that communication made all the difference to my financial world, and ultimately my success, was only part of the picture.

The Link Between NLP and Income Potential

Now, let me address what I believe is one of the most overlooked, yet life-changing benefits of my NLP Training in Sydney: the effect on income.

Before NLP, I was unconsciously stuck in what I call a “poverty programming loop.” I earned a decent salary, but I was never able to break through to the next level. I’d rationalise it as being noble or humble, but beneath the surface, there was shame, fear of success, and a deep-rooted belief that “money is hard to get.”

During my NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner training, we did deep belief-change work around money identity and deservingness. I literally rewired my association with wealth, replacing outdated beliefs with empowering ones like:

“I create value, therefore I attract abundance.”
“Money is a reflection of the impact I make.”
“There is no ceiling—only what I believe is possible.”

Within 12 months of completing NLP Training in Sydney, my income had more than tripled. Not because I worked harder, but because I thought differently. I raised my value, raised my rates, and most importantly, I raised my self-worth.

Communication, Influence and Opportunity

When you combine empowered beliefs with clear, flexible communication, you become unstoppable. Doors began to open in places I didn’t even know existed. I was invited to speak at events, contribute to international research panels, and coach high-level clients. All because of the way I now communicated and carried myself.

I learned that NLP isn’t just about fixing problems, it’s about engineering excellence. Whether you’re a coach, entrepreneur, teacher, parent, or leader, the ability to influence with integrity and operate from a peak state is priceless.

Final Thoughts: Why You Should Consider NLP Training

There are few things in life that I can say permanently elevated every area of my existence but NLP Training in Sydney is one of them.

It woke me up to the unconscious drivers of my behaviour.
It gave me tools to heal, grow, and lead.
And most surprisingly, it gave me permission to thrive financially.

If you’re ready to upgrade your mindset, communication, and income potential, there’s no better investment than learning NLP. Not just theoretically but practically, experientially, and authentically. And if you have access to quality NLP Training from anywhere in the world, I highly recommend you take the leap. You can even dip your toe in the water with our Free NLP course, which will give you a taste of what’s in store for you here.

Because sometimes, the difference between where you are and where you want to be is simply one belief, one conversation, or one decision away.

Wealth Mindset: Wealth wasn’t meant to be hard, it’s hard-wired

June 28, 2017September 9, 2024Rik

A wealth mindset is a contentious issue for most, though my question today is simple. Is wealth hard or is it hard-wired?

On the topic of creating wealth. If I took a stab in the dark and asked you what your greatest frustration is? Would you say something like, “I can’t earn enough.” Though I bet few would say, “I’m just not hard-wired for wealth?” The latter of course is correct. Wealth is a set of do’s and don’ts, but most miss that those behaviors are found in a wealth mindset.