Whole Brain Functioning and Meditation for Ordinary people
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Brain hemisphere integration is very important for utilizing the full capacity of the brain. It is wholesome and highly beneficial. Meditation is a good way to achieve whole brain functioning. Those who have difficulty meditating in the regular way can utilize brainwave entrainment audios and meditate almost effortlessly.
- Importance of Brain Hemisphere Integration
- Brain Hemisphere Lateralization and Synchronization
- How Meditation Facilitates Whole Brain Functioning
- Brainwave Entrainment Audios for Meditation
Importance of Brain Hemisphere Integration
It is a well-known fact that how we think affects every thing we do in life – health, wealth, relationships, and achievements. Successful people are positive thinkers and they have positive states of mind. In contrast, most ordinary people remain grooved in a cycle of negative thinking and beliefs. This, they take as “normal” state of their mind. However, in reality negative thinking and attitudes reflect a feeble mind – a mind that is not well developed or is fragmented. This is the status of people whose brains are highly lateralized, ie, dominated by either left or the right brain hemisphere.
On the contrary, people with well-developed mind have their brain hemispheres well integrated operating as an integrated whole unit. This automatically facilitates a balanced and clear thinking. A person with synchronized brain hemispheres is unlikely to fall prey to negative thinking, pessimism, or depression.
Brain Hemisphere Lateralization and Synchronization
Most people use their brain in a lop-sided manner – they either use more of their left or the right hemisphere. This is a chronic state called brain lateralization. This imbalance creates a reality filter that deprives much of life's richness, a primary cause of unhappiness. When the brain hemispheres function out of sync it leads to diminishing energy, awareness, and joy.
The good news is: it is possible to rectify this hemispheric imbalance. The hemispheres are synchronized when they begin to work together, communicate faster, and resonate at the same frequencies. When this happens, new neural connections form between the two hemispheres, resulting in what is called whole brain functioning. In fact, such synchronization is present at times of intense clarity, creativity, joyful inspirations, and peak performance. These incredible happenings have been observed on electroencephalograph (EEG) recordings. The conclusion is: Whole Brain is certainly Better Than Two Halves!
How Meditation Facilitates Whole Brain Functioning
Meditation has been the traditional method of facilitating brain hemispheric integration. Accessing deeper states of consciousness and lowering brainwave frequencies directly correlate with higher levels of whole brain functioning. As meditation progresses, the brainwave patterns progressively move from the general waking state of beta wave to alpha (alert and relaxed state) to Theta (creativity and healing) to finally to Delta (formless meditation) state.
Meditation is no longer an obscure practice and more and more people are learning it and injecting inner peace and balance in their lives. For example, Vipassana (mindfulness) meditation has become popular throughout the world. People who can not find much time take recourse to lessons and instructions in digital forms. There is a novel way to meditate: in the form of brainwave entrainment audios for people who think that they don’t have much mental discipline to learn meditation in the regular way.
Brainwave Entrainment Audios for Meditation
Brainwave audios provides ordinary people the opportunity to experience the entire range of mental states and convert their highly lopsided or lateralized brain into an integrated single entity functioning as a whole. Using brainwave audios for relaxation is becoming quite common now – given the stressful life we lead. There are several other ways to get benefits from this technology as indicated in the references at the end of the article.
Brainwave entrainment recordings allow anyone to meditate simply by playing the audio track. These audios have brainwave entrainment beats that can take the brain to brainwave states conducive to deeper meditation. The more a person meditates using the recordings the more his or her brain will heal from a state of fragmentation to wholeness. It results in clearer thinking, deeper feelings, and integrated functioning from a higher state frequency consciousness.
Read Further
Brainwave Technology and Its Applications
Top 6 Benefits of Brainwave Entrainment
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31st May 2011 (#)
Nice, Goodpal.
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1st Jun 2011 (#)
Thank you for sharing this very useful information. :)
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10th Oct 2011 (#)
مائنڈ سائنس :حواس خمسہ سے آزاد زماں اور مکاں سے آزاد یہ دماغ کی اس کیفیت میں دونوں ہمی فیرس مکمل میڈیدت ایک ہی فریکنسی اور انرجی جنریڑت کر رہے ہوتے ہیں اور کائناتی ذراتی انرجی سے منسلک ہوتے ہیں۔ لیکں ہمارے حواس خمسہ میں یہ صلاحیت نہیں کہ اس کو محسوس کر سکیں ہاں ہماری روح اور ذہین اس سے خوب مسرور ہورہے ہوتے ہیں۔ یہ کو ئی لمبی چوڑی کہانی نہیں صرف دیپ میڈیتیسن میں جانے کی ضرورت ہے
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23rd Feb 2012 (#)
Thanks Dr Fatehyab Ali Syed, I very much appreciate your time to write and share. I really wish I could learn other wonderful languages of the world.
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