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Meditation is probably the most powerful & effective method we know of for stress management. It has been on the cover of Time Magazine , the film director David Lynch promotes transcendental meditation and Dr. Herbert Benson has made a name for himself with three meditative techniques that invoke "the relaxation response". You can learn meditation just about everywhere nowadays. Everything from breathing techniques to machines for bio-feedback can help you learn to meditate. This page contains a 5 minute and 10 minute meditation training audio in video format. Both of these recordings are designed to help you reduce your brainwave frequency to alpha levels which is a fairly deep meditative state and can also be used for self hypnosis Using the alpha meditation training recordings you can go into a meditative state that would normally take weeks, maybe months of practice. In fact, the sound technology used for the meditation training recordings on this page use the same sound technology touted by holosync.com as the key to "meditating deeper than a Zen Monk" (this site is not affiliated with holosync) About Meditation and Brainwaves Researchers have discovered that certain brain wave frequencies correspond to different levels of activity.
You can read
more about it in another article by Time Magazine called "Alpha
Wave of The Future". Alpha 7–14 Hz - Relaxed with Alert Attention – A Basic Meditative State Theta 4–7 Hz - Deep meditative state- most people fall asleep in theta. Delta 0.5–4 Hz - Deep sleep
Benefits of Alpha Helps the body and mind relax very quickly. Note: Do not operate any machinery when listening to these meditation tracks as they are meant to relax you. You will hear the sound of bells towards the end of the track to let you know that the meditation session is finished. The bells ring twice on both tracks. Once to let you know the track it about to end and then a short gap so you can mentally prepare yourself. The finally bells signals the end of the track.
For a more involved meditative session use this recording...
Brain Plasticity: Anyone Can Become An Expert At Meditation Regular practice will rewire your brain to make it easier and easier for you to meditate no matter how old you are! A not so recent, but very important discovery by researches concerns the structure of the brain. It has been traditionally believed that when an individual becomes an adult the brain has become, more or less, fixed. This is one of the reasons for the beliefs that adults learn slower or are meant to have memory loss, as they grow older. These are now considered to be myths. Turns out that the brain remains malleable throughout your life. That is, your brain builds neural connections with your activities, giving you the ability to develop new habits your entire life. Read more in an article called "How The Brain Rewires Itself" You can download a free software program that you can use to adjust your brainwave frequency according to the activity you desire to do. It is called the ‘Brainwave Generator’ and is an easy and effective piece of software can. You can download a FREE copy at http://www.bwgen.com The Brainwave Generator program has an extensive help section (on the right of the menu toolbar, the same as any word processor). Read through the help section carefully before using it to get a firm grasp on the scientific principles it utilizes. To learn more about meditation read the following articles: About Meditation (studies, etc.) Breathing Meditation Technique 7 Instant Meditation Techniques |
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