Guest guest Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Bobby, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. Perhaps we can get essays like yours in the next HS mag issue. For those who are interested, we are seeking articles on yoga, meditation, health, nutrition, diet, and related topics. Thanks Love, Harsha --- "texasbg2000 <Bigbobgraham" <Bigbobgraham wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > In thinking about what meditation is and does, I > have been > remembering some of my earlier research into > brainwave activity. > > A picture of a brain cell, or neuron, shows a cell > with a long tails, > called dendrites. On the dendrite are synapses or > connecting points > for transferring electrical current to a synapses on > another cell. > Some neurons have a lot of synapses clusters, > meaning they can > connect with a lot of other cells. Some tails are > very long and can > weave through the other cells making connections in > a complex way. > This produces a practically limitless potential for > storage and > retrieval. > > A brainwave is millions of neurons firing in tandem. > The clusters of > cells that fire alters depending on the function: > logic, memory, > meditation, etc. The frequency of the firing is the > subject of this > post. > > The frequency of the firing is what is referred to > as alpha, beta, > theta, and delta. Frequency is how long the > electrical pulse lasts, > that is how many pulses per second. Beta is the > highest frequency > with the biggest range, from ordinary thought to > panic. Beta may be > boom...boom...boom...boom...boom. Or it may be > boomboomboomboomboom. > > Alpha has a longer duration, > boom......boom......boom......boom; > leading to theta, > boom.........boom.........boom..........boom; and > then to delta or sleep where very slow firing > occurs. > > Beta is ordinary thought and body consciousness. > Theta is creative > and discovery oriented, and reaches those clusters > of brain cells > that ordinary beta is ignoring in its zeal to > produce and act. > Alpha is between the two and has been described as a > bridge between > them. > > Alpha is the target for medtitation. For me Alpha > is the feeling of > love or centeredness. Connectedness. If it lasts > more than a few > seconds then I am meditating. But discriptions are > useless, one must > know what it is and not what it is like. > > From alpha, the sky is the limit. > > High beta can be a challenge to deal with and that > seems to be the > area of competition for various techniques. One may > be better than > another depending on well discussed variables. > > The Delta brainwave, or sleep, falls below the > frequency required to > maintain the ego. In this it is similar to Nirbija > Samadhi except > that graphs showing the relative proportions of > brainwave activities > depict the alpha and theta brainwaves to be > dominant, and beta and > delta to be absent in Nirbija Samadhi. > > This is based on my interpretaion of the books "The > High Performance > Mind" by Anna Wise, "Megabrain" by Michael > Hutchison, "The Dragons > of Eden" by Carl Sagan, and my experiments with > Brainwave Entrainment > for several years. > > LOve > Bobby G. > > ===== /join Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Hi, There is published brainwave material from England in particular, but unfortunately I don't have the references anymore. They were lost in a move. But I remember that Zen masters were tested and we able to be in Delta while still awake and functioning. Some "deep meditators" apparently could still function from a Theta state. A group in California tested me and other meditators in deep meditation after we had been doing a lot of work in Raja and Hatha Yoga. Some of us got into high Delta states while still aware. None of us made it into Theta. Alpha is relatively easy to achieve by just watching one's breathing or by focussing on relaxing visualizations (green meadows, gentle wave, floating in a boat down a lazy river, etc. and letting go from there). Tension and release of the major muscle groups will lead to deep relaxation and facilitate the move into Alpha. Just some little notes to support the comments by Bob. Has anyone else in the group actually been brainwave tested in a meditation context? Please share if you have. John L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2003 Report Share Posted February 10, 2003 , "John Logan <johnrloganis>" <johnrloganis> wrote: > Hi, > There is published brainwave material from England in particular, but > unfortunately I don't have the references anymore. They were lost in > a move. But I remember that Zen masters were tested and we able to be > in Delta while still awake and functioning. Some "deep meditators" > apparently could still function from a Theta state. Namaste John, IMO, with all due respect, these experiments are like checking the running of a car engine, after the driver has got out and moved away. They say nothing of what is actually happening/or non happening to the driver. They are very much in the obe, life after death, area where it is all at a very basic level, subtly that is. Of course we haven't reached the level of science available to Hiranyakasipu yet, but even then it is only examing the material and lower etheric energies. With meditation there is no mind..........ONS....Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2003 Report Share Posted February 10, 2003 > > Alpha is relatively easy to achieve by just watching one's breathing > or by focussing on relaxing visualizations (green meadows, gentle > wave, floating in a boat down a lazy river, etc. and letting go from > there). Tension and release of the major muscle groups will lead to > deep relaxation and facilitate the move into Alpha. Hi John: Thanks for this. The studies that have been done on meditators is really the interesting part of this. They show how to go toward the light so to speak. I got a lot of good from my experiments. I learned what alpha feels like. Also it helped me work through the sleepy feeling I get from high theta. I learned to fight off the sleep until the desire to sleep is just another sensation. The thing in the morning is that we are coming out of delta through theta to beta. The coffee or tea helps in that. The same thing can be done by willing the brain to be more active. Coffee tastes good though. Love Bobby G. > Has anyone else in the group actually been brainwave tested in a > meditation context? Please share if you have. > > John L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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