Alpha Waves & how I use them & how I use them

Having flown back from Singapore on Friday, I had the most delicious sleep I have had all year yesterday. I was aware on waking of just drifting in this comfy, cosy, creative place. For many years now I have been aware that the state between drifting off to sleep and waking (I find the latter more useful), is a highly resourceful one. I am not quite asleep and not quite awake either. I can have rationale, sequential thoughts but they are connected ‘differently’. I am certainly more creative and resourceful and can resolve problems in minutes than might at other times take ages.

This state is when we produce Alpha brain waves; they range between 7-12 HZ. This is a place of deep relaxation, but not quite meditation. In Alpha, we begin to access the wealth of creativity that lies just below our conscious awareness – it is the gateway, the entry point that leads into deeper states of consciousness. There are all sorts of tools and techniques to help us access this, but we do as naturally as we wake and drift off to sleep. Alpha, if you like, is the borderlands between consciousness and unconscious.

I use this place/state for creating programs, writing articles and even this blog! A while back I wrote about Intuition, which is another way of using other parts of our brain. We so over use rational brains, our very language reflects this obsession. In reality, this obsession with ‘being rational’ is the equivalent to a carpenter trying to build everything with a only a hammer. Try using alpha to solve your problems and watch them melt away….

“Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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