| For anyone who meditates, they know that it is a seriously life
changing practice. Meditation can: increase your life span,
improve your health, reverse signs of ageing, boost brain
function, increase performance, make you happier, bring you
peace, give you greater insight and give you greater control
over your life to achieve the success you want. Meditation
reveals the truth of things and enables you to manifest the life
you want.
It sounds to good to be true, but it is well known that all the
great sages known through history used meditation to actualise
their potential and reach the great heights that they did. What
is also true is that we now live in an age where the secret
power of meditation is no longer hidden from ordinary folks. And
for anyone who seriously wants to step up his or her life,
meditation is a way. Easy right? Well yes and no. It is true
that meditation is a discipline, and dedication to it brings
tremendous rewards. But, like any discipline, meditation takes
time to master.
The mind is constantly busy with what I call mental noise.
Without even realising it, it is running a constant stream of
thoughts to our subconscious mind. The trouble with this is
that, for most of us, the thoughts tend to be around stressors
and negatives in our lives, and because the brain keeps running
these thought without thinking about it, it literally becomes
addicted to these thoughts, and in turn these thoughts create
more stressors, which in turn feeds these negative thought
patterns again. Its not that we want to think these things, they
cause us pain, but our brains have become patterned to these
thoughts and has no other 'programme' to run - unless we give it
one. Now trying to change our programming is very hard to say
the least. This is where meditation comes in. Meditation will
literally wipe out those programmes. In time, your mind will
become tranquil, and with that tranquillity your life, as you
know it, will change. You will become attuned to the real you.
You will be on your way to actualising your greatest potential.
Now I know this may seem like a grand statement, but I promise
you, it is true. Since meditating regularly, my life has
literally opened up. I possess a calm I never thought I would
have. This benefit alone is enough, but this is just the
beginning. It is as if the doors of possibility have swung open
right in front of me and life is presenting to me on a whole new
level. I am realising I can have exactly what I want now.
I also realise that the idea of sitting quietly for an hour a
day might seem impossible to some. For me it took quiet a long
time to actually dedicate myself to it as a discipline. But
since doing so, I have come across a new meditation technique
that makes the benefits of meditation so much easier to achieve
and it has to do with certain sound frequencies. Without getting
too technical, the benefits of meditation are a result of the
brain being conditioned into certain brain wave states and what
science has discovered is that the brain can be entrained to
enter into these brainwave states by certain sound frequencies,
otherwise known as binaural beats.
The scientific term for this is Brainwave Entrainment and it is
basically meditation made easy with all the benefits of
disciplined meditation. Brainwave Entrainment (binaural beats)
put you into deeply relaxing meditative states (alpha, theta and
delta) and it is in these brainwave states that the mind is
reconditioned to the benefit of the listener as follows:
PHYSICAL/HEALTH BENEFITS: It 'grows' the brain by thickening the
connections between the corpus callosum. It lowers blood
pressure, reduces cholesterol, reduces metabolic rate, boosts
the immune system, smoothes the skin, and releases youth
hormones DHEA and Melatonin, while reducing the degenerative
hormone Cortisol.
MENTAL/EMOTIONAL BENEFITS: Most people's brains work in mono,
meaning that one side of the brain dominates, but by increasing
the connections between the two hemispheres through meditation
or brain entrainment, the brain actually begins to work in
stereo. It is believed that the brains of the world's greatest
thinkers worked in this way. By causing the brain to dip into
Alpha, Theta and Delta states more frequently, mental clarity
peaks, creative thinking is enhanced, as is intuition. Through
regular use stereoscopic brain functioning puts one into peak
performance states by getting the two sides of the brain to work
together rather than individually. Fortune 100 companies,
leading world minds and NASA are all known to use brain
entrainment to engage peak performance levels. A relaxed mind
causes a sense of well being, mental stress subsides, mental
clarity increases. It causes the mind to calm down, become
clear, and can even bring about a sense of elation. This is the
optimal state for succeeding in whatever you are focused on.
This is key, for focus is the key to changing your life, and
brain entrainment and meditation train the brain to become more
focused.
For more information on meditation and brainwave entrainment:
Positive Mind States
About the author: C. Gray Flynn. About Me -- I have spent many years in the study of personal
development. Diagnosed with leaukemia 11 years ago. I used the
power of meditation, autosuggestion and visualization to heal
myself. I knew I could do this because I realised it was the way
I was using my mind in the first place that made me ill.
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