Going into an Alpha Wave mind state for Subliminal programming

[Shannon]

Alpha is only a part of light sleep. It's not where the majority of your time is spent while you sleep, and if you try to entrain alpha all night long, you'll either have your brain ignore it or it will mess up your sleep badly.

Now, using alpha to help relax, and then letting your brain do its thing, and then entraining beta to wake up, that can work. But you do not need binaurals to use subliminals effectively, if that's a worry. They work fine regardless of the state - as long as you're not in Delta, where perception apparently ceases.