In this edition of the Stress Cops PodCast Radio Show we bring you a stress free living article by pioneer brain/mind researcher and Stress Cop Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler. Learn what happens in your brain when you experience stress, and how to make your brain stress free. Discover an amazing secret of virtually instant stress reduction and stress management, and how you can benefit and begin to live a stress free life.
Stress has become a hot topic today because of its connection to several life threatening diseases and conditions. But stress is not what happens to us. It is our reaction or response to what is happening around (or within) us.
Stress is connected to measurable brain state that can be easily re-programmed to produce a stress free life. Here is how that works:
The human brain is not the mystery it once was. Modern neuroscience has provided insights and tools that have revealed amazing insights into how our brains work.
Your brain is a biochemical/electrical structure, and emits measurable electrical waves tied to specific mental states. Just as watching a flickering fire causes your brainwaves to slow and relax, engineered external sound stimulation also encourages your brain to relax into certain highly beneficial electrical patterns.
This is called brainwave entrainment, and is a proven method of actually training your brain to accomplish such things as: instant stress reduction, enhanced creativity, and even higher states insights and experiences.
Stress and Your Brain
When you experience stress you are actually experiencing a very distinct brain condition. This condition is marked by what we call Beta brainwaves. Beta brainwaves vibrate on the average from about 15 to 30 Hz, or cycles per second.
There is nothing inherently wrong with beta brainwaves. These are the same brain frequencies you normally use anytime you are talking or using your mind to try to solve a problem using the tools of logic.
But a problem can occur when these brainwaves become predominant and begin to spike into higher frequencies – and even override the contribution your more relaxed Alpha brainwaves are designed to offer.
Your Stress Free Brainwaves
Alpha brainwaves vibrate slower that Beta brainwaves -- between 7.5 and 13 Hz. These brainwaves are present alpha brainwaves when you are alert and relaxed, and not actively processing mental information. Alpha waves are usually strongest over your occipital (back of the head) and frontal cortex.
Alpha brainwaves are mentally integrative, promote mental resourcefulness, and allow you accomplish tasks in a calm, non stress manner. I personally feel alpha provides the bridge between the conscious and subconscious parts of your mind.
Alpha brainwaves rise from the white matter of your brain -- the “carriage” connecting all the parts of your brain together – and seem to be related to the highly desirable whole brain thinking experience.
You can increase alpha by closing your eyes or deep breathing.
Alpha brainwaves are linked to:
• Extroversion -- Introverts have fewer alpha brainwaves,
• Stress Free Living – Alpha-dominated brainwave states lead straight to very positive stress management capabilities,
• Whole Brain Thinking – The recently-discovered “higher states” phenomenon in which your entire cortex vibrates at one integrated frequency.
Alpha Brainwave Training
Properly engineered Alpha brainwave training creates an immediate shift from high stress beta brainwaves – to stress free Alpha brainwaves. This supports clear thinking, and an immediate increase in sensation and self-control.
But the benefits of this sort of brainwave training go far beyond the immediate benefits – as a regular practice of Alpha brainwave training actually teaches your brain to reproduce this highly beneficial brain state on its own.
Specially-engineered Alpha stress busting brainwave training is included in the online Quantum Brain Gym. For more detailed information on how your brain operates, and the uses of brainwave training to optimize your mental functioning, refer to The Secret World of BrainWaves, available in the Quantum Brain Gym free of charge.
By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
Pioneer Brain/Mind Researcher
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The author, Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler, is a pioneer brain/mind researcher, doctor of psychology, best-selling author, life adventurer, and international executive advisor. You will find more of her stress management and stress reduction articles at Quantum-Self.com -- the Self Discovery Community, and in the QuantumBrainGym -- the first online brainwave training center as close as your computer.
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