Brainwave Frequency

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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.