StressCops.com: Stress Brainwaves

Brainwave Training for Instant Stress Reduction

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:40:50 GMT

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
© 2005 All Rights Reserved

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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Stress Reduction Brain Wave Training

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:58:00 GMT

In this edition of the Stress Cops PodCast Radio Show we bring you a special article about stress, and how and why so many doctors now recommend brainwave training for stress reduction and stress management.

There are five scientific facts you need to know about stress and your brain.

FACT 1: When you are in the grips of stress, there is a lot of intense stress related electrical activity going on in your brain.

FACT 2: This stress related brain activity can be measured using EEG (electro-encephalography) technology. EEG has been around since the 1930's.

FACT 3: Depending on what you are doing about your stress, this electrical activity goes through changes. If you manage to relax, your brainwaves are suddenly very different than when you are deep in the grips of intense stress, or trying to solve a complex mental problem.

FACT 4: There is now definite scientific proof that stress actually kills brain cells. And the cumulative effect of chronic stress is reduced mind power, less mental clarity, impaired judgment, and serious memory losses!

FACT 5: If you can learn to change your stress brainwave patterns, you will be able to create experience instant stress relief, more memory power, and even a higher IQ.

The Scientific Evidence
Problem 1. Loss of Brain Tissue from Stress
University of California at San Francisco researchers report that stress causes a serious loss of brain tissue (from brain cell death). And Washington University School of Medicine researchers report that even mild flare-ups of psychological stress damage memory and brain functions.

A major National Institute of Health study shows that even mild stress releases a brain enzyme linked to bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder. This explains why stress leads to disturbed thinking, impaired judgment, impulsivity, and the distractibility so common when you are stressed.

Solution:
Over 40 years of research and clinical studies into stress have proven that brainwave training can immediately reduce your stress, repair the damage, and train your brain to avoid future stress related damage. It is the ultimate stress management tool.

Problem 2: Physical Brain Shrinkage
Many researchers have found that certain stress related thinking patterns damage thinking and memory, and even result in physical brain shrinkage.

Dr Lupien of McGill University in Montreal studied brains scans of 92 people over 15 years. The brains of those experiencing the stress of low self-esteem had shrunk to 20% smaller than those who felt optimistic and good about themselves. The high stress individuals with low self-esteem also performed far worse in memory and learning tests.

Solution:
Research has proven your brain is capable of full recovery from stress. It is actually plastic, and with the correct stimulation can continue to correct the ravages of stress and expand, even into advanced age.

Researchers Siegfried and Othmer report that a regime of brainwave training can yield a 23% increase in IQ, plus substantial increases in self-esteem, motivation and stress free energy.

How Brainwave Training Works
There are two answers to immediate stress reduction: Pharmaceutical drugs, and correctly-engineered brainwave training.

Drugs build dependency, and do not solve the problem. Brainwave training, on the other hand, rapidly melts your stress and actually trains your brain to avoid future stress related brain damage.

What is Brainwave Training
In the simplest possible terms, brainwave training causes your brain to copy the brainwaves of happy, high-achieving, creative, successful individuals.

The immediate benefits include: Instant stress reduction, increased IQ and mental clarity, better mental focus and creativity, and even a reduction of headaches and insomnia.

The long-term benefit is that your brain is actually being trained to create these stress free mental states and habits all on its own. In addition to the extreme stress free relaxation brainwave training provides, you will build brainwave patterns proven to decrease the frequency and severity of stress -- and even overcome it altogether.

How Brainwave Training Works
Your brain is an electro-chemical organ. When a neuron (brain cell) is stimulated, it released a tiny electrical charge. Since billions of your neurons are constantly firing electrically, an electrical wave is creates – a brainwave.

Brainwave stress reduction training stimulates your brain using a well-understood process called brainwave entrainment. You experience a simple form of stress reduction brainwave entrainment when you watch a flickering fire, or listen to certain music.

What happens is that your neurons (brain cells) begin to fire in-time to the music or flickering flames – just like tapping your foot to music. The after about 6 seconds, your brain starts to reproduce the rhythm internally all by itself. This natural response is called brainwave entrainment.

The First Online Stress Management eZone
The Quantum Brain Gym is the first complete stress reduction brainwave training ezone.

The gym is a unique +500-page ezone as close as your computer. The gym has been packed with stress reduction and stress management tools by leading brain/mind researcher and neuropsychologist, Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler.

The author, Stress Cop Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler, is a pioneer brain/mind researcher, doctor of psychology, 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 web's first online brainwave training center.

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We always talk stress management and stress reduction.
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