In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that I was going to talk about alpha brainwaves. Alpha what? What the hell are these and why are they important? Basically your mind operates on different levels of consciousness. These levels of consciousness are dependant on many factors, like time of day, what you ate, what drugs you took, whether you woke up in bed today and found Jessica Alba snuggling up in bed next to you, etc. Basically anything and everything affects your brainwaves.
The science community has broken down these ‘waves’ into a few major groups. Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta. Most people live their daily lives in the beta brainwave state. This is when you brain is most awake and you are more or less in full consciousness and aware of your surroundings. Alpha waves occur when you are in dreamstate, semi-dreamstate, day-dreaming, or upon awakening from sleep, or falling into sleep. Theta waves occur during deep sleep. Delta waves occur during super deep sleep. Zeta waves occur when you are dead. LOL.
So how can we make use of these states to improve our lives? I wrote an article in my previous blog entry about visualization. Some people have trouble visualizing. For these groups of people, I recommend doing visualization exercises in the alpha brain wave states. An easy way to do visualization exercises are just as you are about to fall asleep, or just upon awakening. Your mind will be tuned to the alpha frequency naturally without much trying.
A benefit of doing visualization in alpha states is that, the brain is more open to suggestion. Mind programming can be easier in these states and the effects more long-lasting and effective. How do I know all these? I don’t know. I read. I study. I research. I experiment. I am the oracle.
Another easy way to make use of alpha states is to do affirmations during these states of mind. You will find that your mind is more suggestable to the effects and carry on these affirmations to actuality in beta states.
For those of you hard headed beta caffeine-amphetamine-loaded junkies who remain in beta all their lives and have trouble falling asleep and going to alpha, you might want to try bio-feedback mechanisms such as flasher.exe or bi-aural beats to trigger alpha brain wave states. Flasher is a simple pc program which flashes your monitor screen like a strobe light and syncs your brain to the speed of which they strobe. You can even control the frequency of the flashes to determine exactly how ‘deep’ you want to go. Bi-aural beats are also another feedback mechanism, in the form of modulating sounds, which trigger different states in the brain. ‘Brainwave Generator’ is a good tool which allows you to access different states of mental prowress. There are even settings like ‘The Awakened Mind’, etc in this program, which trigger beta waves. Check them out, they are pretty interesting.