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Meditation- we have all heard about it in some way or the other. We all likely have some pre-conceived notions about what meditation is and perhaps, misconceptions about what meditation truly is.
You also may be aware that meditation has become quite popular of late. There are so many options and techniques that we now have access to on website portals and what we hear from colleagues and family members. It is enough to confuse us and give us a reason to steer away from the potential benefits it offers.
Meditation, in fact, in its varied forms, offers us tremendous benefits that are far-reaching in every aspect of one's life.
If we are experiencing fear, anxiety, worry, anger or a sense of hopelessness, it can restore calm, peace and tranquility to your senses. In fact, meditation can be practiced just about anywhere, although a quiet place away from potential distractions are preferred sites. Meditation is simple, inexpensive and does not require any special equipment.
Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years. While it can be used to reduce stress and allow for relaxation, there are many more benefits that can alter the very fabric of your existence and how you relate to others and everything in nature. It is, in fact, the quantum model of reality that helps us explain the benefits of meditation and offers to begin a sound explanation to what occurs during meditation and why it is so effective.
When in meditation, we are entering the eternal NOW, requiring us to get beyond our known associations, to the various people, objects and places in our life. It is these external 3 dimensional experiences that we overcome in order for us to break free from our conditioned experiences in linear time. That is, that which creates our past and predictable future.
When we are able to effectively meditate, the ultimate result creates previously-discussed heart and brain coherence, causing us to relax at a deep level that can cause us to lose track of space and time. It is in the quantum field where space and time have no true relevance.
To truly benefit from practicing meditation requires us to take the time to sustain this practice on a regular basis, independent of the people and conditions in our environment. Regular sustained practice of such meditation begins to open that door between the conscious and subconscious mind. this then results in the writing of new subconscious programs. The more we do this, the more we expand our life in new directions.
There are so many proven benefits to practicing regular sustained meditation.
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Meditation can best be described as the process of inner self-discovery. The portal to our connection to the universe, of which we are an integral part of.
The goal of meditation is to get beyond the analytical mind, to slow your brain wave patterns and enter a subconscious state. This results in an ordered state, creating coherence in your body.
Most of us would admit that stress is an integral component of our daily lives, so much so that we come to anticipate feelings of anxiety and accept it as a necessary component of our daily routine. Imagine an existence without anxiety, and the myriad of benefits derived from a life free of stress.
Satori is what we experience in silence and stillness. Satori is sudden enlightenment. It is a moment of total presence, of no mind and of no thought, but a flash of insight and awakening of the light of our own consciousness.
Relax your mind, clear all thoughts, letting them float away. Take slow deep breaths, feeling the breath as it travels to the area of your heart. Feel graditude for someone special in your life.
Relax and unwind to the natural beauty of Oregon with this 10 minute meditation session.
The secret of meditation is to release all thoughts and inhibition. Listen carefully to the silence beyond the mind.
Take slow deep breaths, observing the breath as it travels down toward your heart. Allow feelings of gratitude and peace to enter the quiet space you have created.
As children, when we looked in to a kaleidoscope, we were mesmerized by the colorful patterns that had a seemingly magical quality that brought us a sense of peace and relaxation. Please enjoy this 10 minute meditation featuring an array of such kaleidoscope patterns…
For many of us, we have tried meditation and made a concerted effort to realize the benefits it promises. Change, however, is not always easy. When we think we have failed at making meditation work, remember that mastering the skill of quieting the mind and connecting to our higher self often takes perseverance.
“The highest form of meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain without thought, the universe will open its doors to you.”
OK, so most of us know that meditation is not new. Not by any stretch of the imagination. More recently, there has been a great amount of research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and neurobiology that has discovered what is happening to our brain, heart and other organs during meditation- and that it truly improve the lives of those who practice meditation on a regular basis.
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a useful tool to study brain activity during various meditation techniques. Essentially, it measures the electric field of large groups of neurons of the brain and their activity. Brain activity frequency can be classified into five general wave categories. Delta waves (<4 Hz) are associated with deep sleep. Theta waves (4-8 Hz) represent various aspects of cognition, learning and tapping in to the wisdom that ancient cultures and recent studies have ascribed to the pineal gland. Alpha waves (8-12 Hz) calm the nervous system, lower stress levels and promote relaxation. Beta waves (13-30 Hz) are associated with an alert brain and is the frequency that many of reside at during our waking hours. Gamma waves (30-100 Hz) are associated with stress and anxiety.
Many studies show the connection the alpha and theta frequencies to meditation. Thus, it is possible that meditation practice can relax us and deal with anxiety and negative emotions.
By allowing ourselves to access these frequencies, we open the door to information that otherwise would not be available. We connect ourselves to this Unified Field. This is where all possibilities exist, as research in quantum mechanics has revealed to us.
While it is true that quantum physics and current research is now validating the many benefits of meditation, truth be known, ancient civilizations have long ago discovered the wonders meditation offers those who practice it on a regular basis.
"It is your soul that is your guru. Simply quiet the mind and become aware of the wisdom of your higher self"
We display five different types of electrical patterns, or "brain waves", across the brain cortex. These brain waves can be observed with ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY (EEG). This very useful tool allows us to observe brain wave patterns. Our understanding of the importance of each unique brain wave pattern has served as a medical diagnostic tool for many years. Further, and more recently, our knowledge of how we are able to access and sustain higher frequency patterns and the benefits we derive from them are an integral component of quantum mechanics.
Each pattern serves a purpose to help us cope with a variety of circumstances that we encounter in our lives. Whether it be dealing with a stressful situation at work, running from a hungry bear in the woods, winding down after a long day, or during our sleeping hours.
GAMMA WAVES:
This brain wave pattern isa associated with the completion of complex or newly-learned tasks. They are also related to memory and information processing. It has been shown that those of us with learning disabilities tend to have lower gamma wave activity. Excessive gamma wave activity is associated with anxiety, high arousal and stress.
BETA WAVES:
This particular wave pattern is known as high frequency-low amplitude, and are most commonly observed when we are awake. This wave pattern is involved with conscious thought, logical thinking and tends to have a stimulant effect on us. This pattern is observed when we are focussing on our school work or work-based activities. Leaning on the higher end of beta frequencies can also lead to excessive stress or anxiety. When you ingest caffeine or other stimulants, your beta wave activity will increase.
ALPHA WAVES:
This frequency range can be thought of as our bridge between conscious thought and our subconscious mind. When in this frequency range, it helps us calm down, promoting a deep sense of relaxation and tranquility.
THETA WAVES:
This wave pattern is involved with daydreaming and sleep. They are associated with experiencing and feeling connection to others on a deep level. This is the brain wave pattern that is associated with connecting to the unified field, where we begin to disconnect with our third dimensional selves, allowing for us to enter the matrix that connects with others and all other entities that exhibit a high frequency vibratory pattern.
DELTA WAVES:
These are the slowest recorded brain wave patterns, and historically are found in infants and young children. As we become older, we usually exhibit much less of this pattern. This wave pattern is associated with the deepest levels of relaxation. Recent evidence is showing us that when in this wave pattern, we are able to access or autonomic body functions, including heart rate and digestion. When in this pattern, it is becoming known that we are able to heal ourselves. It is also the frequency range associated with healers, yogis and shaman.
During meditation, theta wave patterns are most abundant in the frontal cortex of the brain, corresponding to higher levels of cognition. This creates the potential for our conscious mind to begin to associate with the subconscious realm, opening the door to a whole new world of possibilities never imagined by the conditioned mind.
It is the analytical mind that segregates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind. The way we get beyond the analytical mind is by slowing down our brainwaves from beta to alpha brainwave states.
In beta brainwave, our attention is on the outer world, making us consciously aware that we are a body located in space and time. In high-beta brainwaves, however, the alarm system is switched on and we become narrow-focused on all the elements in our material world. This is because we are paying attention to a threat - or a perceived threat - in our external environment. In turn, we become object-focused.
So, what we want to do in meditation is to slow down our brainwaves in order to suppress the activity in our thinking brain or neocortex, otherwise known as the seat of the conscious mind. The neocortex attempts to analyze and make sense of the outer world, but if we close our eyes and tune out the incoming sensory information, our brainwaves begin moving from beta to alpha. Alpha brainwaves are essentially a resting state of the body, which allows us to dream or imagine more creatively in pictures and images. In a very real way, the voice in our head that is always talking to us quiets down, and as a result, we become less analytical.
If we are able to achieve this pattern, energy begins to move into the limbic or midbrain, which is the seat of the autonomic nervous system, also known as the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the operating system of the body. It controls heart rate, digestion, blood sugar levels, body temperature, hormonal secretions, temperature regulation, and more. Thus, if we can consciously tap into the autonomic nervous system, we can begin to influence the way our body functions physiologically.
If we are attempting to change our health and reprogram our autonomic nervous system from a state of stress back into balance (stress is when our autonomic nervous system moves our brain and body out of homeostasis or balance), doing the exact opposite we can change our brainwaves from beta to alpha.
To do this, we move our attention from being narrow-focused (or object focus) on to the things or people in our external material world, to opening and broadening our focus to space or nothingness. In doing so, we take our attention off the material world and place it on the immaterial world of energy. The act of “sensing or feeling” the space around us automatically quiets our brain’s thinking and analyzing. As all of our attention begins to slowly become focused on our inner world, it’s as if our body falls asleep, even though our mind is awake. Our body forgets it’s position in space and time; so the environment simply falls away.
When this happens, the lights also go out on our memory bank of the neocortex, which essentially is stitched into the fabric of the known self. That means we forget about our personality (or our identity), which has been identifying with all of the people and objects in our external environment at certain places and times. This is the identity that has developed over a lifetime through our history, education, family, culture, etc. Now we have descended our consciousness into a deeper layer of brainwaves called theta brainwaves. This is a very hypnotic state whereby we become more open to information, and thus more suggestible.
When all of that falls away, we no longer associate from everything known in our material 3D reality. This is the key that unlocks the door of the quantum field. It’s on the other side of this door where we can begin to have a conscious influence over our body. When the door between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind is open, we are open to the suggestibility to information. Therefore, we can reprogram our subconscious mind.
At the same time, by no longer putting our attention on matter, but instead on energy or frequency, we enter the quantum field. We become pure consciousness and we can create reality as more energy and less matter. And we can execute greater effects on the world of 3D matter.
Benefits of Meditation:
- Reduces stress
- Improves sleep
- Promotes improved health
- Decreases blood pressure
- Helps control pain
- Slows the aging process
- Improvement of metabolism
- Elevates energy levels
- Promotes peace and tranquillity
During meditation, we begin to slow our brain wave patterns. That is, when we move from beta wave patterns, and ultimately, to alpha and theta wave patterns. it is when we are in high beta wave pattern, we are essentially separate from our operating system, which is where we are able to make profound changes in how our body operates. In other words, when we are in a beta wave pattern, we relay incoherent messages to our body. This is analogous to a group of rowers in a boat paddling along at different speeds and frequencies. The result of this is that the boat does not glide through the water in smooth fashion. Rather, it moves in a disorderly direction and becomes slower, causing each rower to work harder to keep the boat moving along its intended course. Unnecessary energy is utilized during this process.
Now, let us examine what occurs when we move towards alpha wave patterns. We experience the opposite circumstance. That is- we begin to move into COHERENCE. It is though the heart-brain connection that we are able to achieve this higher ordered state. This, in turn, promotes coherence with the rest of the body. As will be discussed in other sections, we are then able to send such coherent messages to other important energy centers within our body, Instead of working independently, these energy centers which control the organs, and ultimately, each cell within us, work as a cohesive unit and operates like the rowers in our boat working together to glide through the water to our intended goal quicker, with less effort and less energy used.
To take it one step further, we are quickly learning that when we are operating with coherence, we can positively affect our organs, and even heal them from diseases and illnesses that were created from prior internal discordance. When we are able to consistently slow our brain wave patterns, we can begin to reprogram our autonomic nervous system, which is controlled by these energy centers.
OK, a few important words about our bodies is very helpful in truly grasping the proven benefits of meditation and connecting with our higher energy centers.
The autonomic nervous system is part of the nervous system that supplies the internal ogans to include the blood vessels, stomach, intestine, liver, kidneys, urinary bladder, genitals, lungs, pupils, heart, as well as the sweat, salivary and digestive glands. The Autonomic Nervous System has 2 main divisions:
1. Sympathetic Nervous System
2. Parasympathetic Nervous System
The autonomic nervous system receives information about the body and external environment, It responds by stimulating body processes, usually through the sympathetic system, or inhibiting them, through the parasympathetic division.
The autonomic nervous system controls internal body processes, such as the following:
It is now well-established that when we are in a coherent state, we can directly effect the energy centers that control the Autonomic Nervous System, allowing for homeostasis. Organs and cells within our body function better, and can even allow for healing of certain pathologic states.
The sympathetic nervous system is primarily affected by anxiety, tension, fatigue and depression. Research has shown that meditation can significantly reduce the many negative effects brought on by these emotional states. By activating the parasympathetic nervous system, meditation slows our heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure and sweating.
When we truly think about it, the anxiety brought on by our fast-paced society is actually self created. Meditation is our key to restore our natural balance- to restore peace and harmony, and ultimately, pure unbridled happiness. On a physiological level, practiced meditation enhances breathing and oxygen uptake. It also improves nutrient flow and all the benefits associated with feeling relaxed and connected with others.
What is the Default Mode Network?
The default mode network can also be described as the “voice inside your head”.
Common examples that many of us may relate to are such statements as:
“I really need to lose weight”,
“ I can’t do that, my parents taught me to not behave like that”,
“ I need to work harder to impress my boss”
“ I am not good enough”
“I am not worthy”
“I must not act so stupid all the time”
These inner dialogs are always with us. They all come from that nagging, always-on, defeatist voice that always seems to be “open for business”. In Eastern Traditions, we call this the “Monkey Mind.” Science describes that voice as the default network mode or DMN.
Researchers have studied the default network mode for a few decades now. It is a group of brain regions (the medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, and the inferior frontal lobe) that are important for our survival.
It’s most active when we are awake. When we do what human beings will — thinking about ourselves, remembering the past, imagining the future… Anything but being focused on what’s happening right now.
The DMN is useful because it’s involved in our memory, particularly autobiographic episodic memories — These are daily memories that play a role in helping us make a model of the world, predict the future, based on past events.
But although the default network mode is essential, it has its drawbacks. Recent research has associated diseases such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia with the DMN.
Since those discoveries, researchers started looking for answers. In particular, how to reverse the effects of the DMN, or even control it.
What they found is that therapies like meditation can influence the default mode network.
But what the research showed us is that the DMN isn’t designed to make us happy. Its primary evolutionary use is to protect us. And one study proved just that.
A Wandering Mind Is An Unhappy Mind
A 2010 study by Matthew Killinsworth and Daniel Gilbert described how they developed a smartphone app that asked people throughout the day what they were doing and how happy they were.
Based on a quarter of a million queries posed of about 5000 people from 83 different countries, they found that people think most of their past or future.
What the researchers concluded was that people end up more unhappy if they let their minds wander.
Luckily, that mind-wandering isn’t always on.
There are times we are free of that voice. When we are doing something active. Something we love to do.
In those moments, we feel at our best. That’s when we find ourselves in the “FLOW.”
Tap Into The Flow
Flow is well known to most of us. You also may know it under a different name like — “runner’s high”, or being in “the zone”.
Science defines flow as an optimal state of consciousness. In flow, we perform and feel our best. The task we are doing absorbs us so much that everything else seems to disappear into oblivion.
We all have experienced this state at one time or the other. Things like your sense of self-consciousness vanish entirely, time dilates — which is a fancy way of saying it passes strangely. As if time really did not exist…
Even our decision-making happens effortlessly. Every decision and action flows seamlessly into the next. Flow is as close to picture-perfect decision-making as we can get. That’s why it’s called flow.
Now, to understand flow and how it works, we need to delve into basic neuroscience. That’s where things become interesting.
There are two crucial points we need to understand.
From a neuroanatomical level, we use less than 10% of our neurons available for conscious thought.
To experience heightened human performance, this would suggest that we activate our neurons to an overdrive state. As it turns out; that is not true.
Rather, components of our brain actually slow down, or become partially deactivated. We know the name for that state as transient hypofrontality.
Frontality refers to your prefrontal cortex or the executive function of the brain.
It is where our higher cognitive functions resist. Our sense of will, morality, a sense of self and complex decision-making all comes from our prefrontal cortex.
Also, our dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex— known as our “resident critic” — is also deactivated.
When that happens, magic takes front and center. We feel instantly free of ourselves. We experience thoughts of freedom and limitless possibilities. We may say that we feel invincible.
The brain also produces 5 of the most potent neurochemicals. No exogenous therapy is required. This is an “inside job”.
These are all performance-enhanced neurochemicals, but also feel-good pleasure drugs.
The brain releases neurochemicals named norepinephrine, dopamine, anandamide, serotonin, and endorphins. The brain combines these neurochemicals in amazing concert.
One of those neurochemicals is called dopamine.
We associate dopamine with learning, creativity, and motivation — It makes us capable of processing more information, making us more cognizant of our surroundings. We are more adept at “seeing” more than we ever before thought possible.
Unfortunately for us, the brain’s default mode is the opposite of this enjoyable state of high focus and high performance.
The good news is that meditation can allow us uninhibited access to this flow state. And, if we can stick with the practice of meditation, we can enter realms that raise us to higher levels of consciousness. Levels that catapult us above third dimensional consciousness that many consider to be an illusion.
Meditation Is the Antidote
Meditation has gained much scientific interest in the last few decades. And for a good reason. Meditation can change the brain, including long-established neuronal networks that become our default mode. A study from the Harvard Medical School found that when people went through 8 weeks of meditation, critical areas of the brain that associate with awareness, stress, and empathy change.
They established new grey matter tracts in their cerebral cortex which connects to attention and emotional integration.
Also, the grey matter in the amygdala, the brain’s emotional center, becomes hypo functioning.
They gained more control over their emotions.
Besides those changes, meditators can also quiet the inner voice.
Since research has shown that meditation has enormous benefits, high performers in the athletic and business arena include meditation in their routine. It might surprise you at how many high achievers do meditation.
Meditation, a Tool for Success
Such successful performers know that is meditation is a game-changer. Not just professionally but also personally. The benefits are truly profound.
Summary
A common assumption that we make, often somewhat subconsciously, is that happiness depends on external factors like having a big house with a pool, a fast car and all those material possessions that the media inundates us with, coercing us to purchase for the betterment of our lives….
We look for escape routes: excursions to Disneyland, buying clothes, filling our homes with material items to make us feel more complete.
What we are in fact doing is fulfilling our pleasures/desires to temporarily forget how truly unhappy we have become.
The tendency towards negativity is what the brain’s default mode network is all about.
Fortunately, the brain is plastic — meaning that it is changeable.
We can form novel neural pathways that allow for true happiness. We can choose our destiny. Beyond the illusion, there is a knowing- a remembering of who we really are. What our purpose on this planet is, and the pacts we made long ago. In those moments beyond the conditioned default mode network, there is clarity in the realization that perhaps something very special is within our midst. We only must close our mind’s eye and allow our inner child to awaken to the wonder around us…
At some point, many of us have experienced the following thought process:
“OK, I know that I want to change my life. But here is the deal…”
“This process of change is not working for me; it’s taking too long; I do not think that I am cut out for meditation anyway. I just can’t seem to relax and quiet the mind”, so to speak. “I must be doing something wrong.”
Many of us contemplate quitting this practice and some think they have already failed. We might not say it out loud because we are still trying to keep up the appearance that we are creating a new self, but sometimes we feel worse than ever. In the meantime, the old self is always happy to return and resume the perceived steering wheel of the vehicle. While it takes an enormous amount of energy and awareness to stay conscious of our unconscious thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, it also requires a great amount of self-compassion as we allow for this new paradigm to manifest.
We can discuss about the common experiences and characteristics of people who have succeeded in transforming themselves, but there is another experience that every one of us can relate to, and which is rarely discussed. All of us have experienced the frustratingly long lag between cause and effect, between the thought of wanting something to the experience of having it. We can express this as the space, and thus the time, between the separation of one point of consciousness and the other.
When we are in the middle of the river of change, sometimes it feels good to default to our senses to prove to ourselves that change hasn’t occurred. We look around our familiar environment to see if anything has transformed. Unfortunately, our senses can’t perceive any difference. The fact that our senses don’t perceive a shift in our reality makes us feel that lack even more acutely, and we default to those old feelings of impatience, frustration, resentment, and failure.
Keep in mind though, that we are learning a skill. A skill which requires a lot of time and practice. Master musicians, nurse practitioners, doctors and athletes spend many years to develop their skills. In this case, we are mastering ourselves. We are learning to practice with our “eyes” open in the game we call our life, and it takes diligence to be conscious of all the thoughts and actions that are driven by those aroused emotional states.
Here is an example. If we normally get out of bed around 7:00 am to be at work on time, we might want to start waking up at 6:00 a.m. to give ourselves time to meditate, clear our mind and set positive intentions for ourselves. Initially, it is going to feel uncomfortable for a while as our bodies adjusts to a new circadian rhythm. We may think, So what? The alternative is not to change. However, the next morning we look with our senses at our same life through the lens of the same body and its familiar emotional states, hoping we won’t feel the same. Lo and behold, our senses are still dead asleep—and after doing this for “a while” we don’t experience any change. Getting up early seems more impossible than before because our body feels literally stuck in the past every morning. All our body wants is the familiar chemical state associated with sleeping in, and since it has been conditioned to be the mind, it wants what it wants.
This is the trap for many of us. When we come back to our senses from meditation, we literally come back to our senses. When we don’t see an immediate result in our environment, the emotions of lack and separation kick back in. Then we fall for the belief that it hasn’t manifested.
When our environment doesn’t match what we created in our meditation, we are experiencing that lag—that time between cause and effect, between the thought and the experience, between one point of consciousness (I want it) and the other point of consciousness (getting it). When we experience that lag, and that interval is a long time, most want to give up on becoming the new self.
In our worlds today, we are catered to a host of on-demand services that, most of the time, the interval between the thought of what we want and the experience that it offers has been shortened with technology. As a result, we subconsciously feel entitled to get what we want without waiting too long. But that’s not how creating change happens outside the three-dimensional world. When we are just learning how to create, sometimes the lag signals frustration and impatience, and that’s when we revert to matter trying to change matter: pushing, controlling, competing, fighting, forcing, wishing, hoping, predicting, or whatever we think will get us to the outcome faster—and it usually involves trying to do more in a shorter amount of time.
Imagine that we want to become a kinder, more understanding person. After meditating, we get in our car and drive to work. As we merge onto the highway, another driver cuts us off resulting in a minor fender bender with the car behind us. Without pausing to collect ourselves, we immediately feel anger and place blame—not only on the driver who cut us off, but also on the person behind us for following too closely. Finally, we save some frustration and blame for ourselves for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. What happened to all that kindness and understanding? We then think back to our morning meditation and wish we had acted differently. We convince ourselves that we must be doing something wrong.
Once we decide we are not doing it right, or that we have failed at meditation, there is even more judgment and impatience because of the separation and lack we feel from being our new self in our new life. We want to see it sooner and we get stuck in the urgency of trying to get to an outcome. When our senses confirm that nothing has changed despite all our hard work, we respond with even more emotional reactivity. When we look for someone to blame, we’ve already returned to the old self—after all, the new self has no interest in blaming. Until we remember that we are the new self instead of the old one, we can’t change. The fact is, nothing can ever change in our life until we change.
When we perceive lack, the lens through which we are looking at reality is still a conditioned, unconscious program that says: OK, so where is it? If we are looking for something or somebody we want, we are separate from that thing or person because we are not feeling the emotions associated with having it. If we were feeling the emotions of pure love, we wouldn’t be looking for it—instead, we would feel like it has already happened.
So, just how do we open our eyes from meditation and avoid the unconscious programs in our waking lives? The first step is becoming aware and staying awake with eyes open. Consciousness is awareness, awareness is paying attention, and paying attention is noticing. Can we become skilled at observing without attaching charged emotions to what we see, and can we notice that we have temporarily become unconscious without judging ourselves?
It is simply about catching ourselves in the act of forgetting and then remembering. The question is not whether we are “doing it right.” The question is, how many times do we have to forget until we stop forgetting and start remembering? In other words, how many times do we need to go unconscious before we can stay conscious? That’s how we master ourselves and evolve in the game of life.
Recognizing and recalling what quantum physics has shown us can be helpful in those moments wen we carry doubts of our intentions and where we are going on this journey. Beyond our senses, beyond the illusion, there is an opportunity to raise our awareness, and ultimately, to raise our consciousness so that we can open doors to endless possibilities that transcend the 3rd dimensional box we find ourselves trapped in. Many agree now that this is our destiny as we enter a new paradigm that follows the vibrational offerings of our earth, galaxy, and universe.
An incredibly complex disease, anxiety has an interwoven variety of biological, psychological, and sociological contributing factors.
Relieving Anxiety: Meditation Neutralizes Thought Polarity
Why The Anxious Mind Is Afraid of Itself
Truth be told, we live in a polarized society that tends to put a label on most everything — black or white, rich or poor, Democrat or Republican, religious or atheist, and so forth.
Similarly, humans tend to put labels on their thoughts. This is a "good" thought, that is a "bad" thought, I "should" think this, I "shouldn't" think that, etc.
Like a river current, the tumultuous, "afraid-of-itself" mind can compromise our health and happiness against our will and essentially carry us into hostile territory. This can promote feelings of powerlessness. Essentially, we become victims of our own mind.
Fortunately, meditation is an excellent practice to reclaim our castle, no matter how long it has been under the cruel, authoritative reign of anxiety.
How Meditation Makes the Mind Fearless
So just how does meditation work? When a random thought appears, meditation trains the mind to simply view it as a thought. There is no labelling as it being a good or bad thought. Just a thought. Such thought is recognized by our conscious awareness, and we allow such thoughts to slowly drift away, like a leaf floating down a lazy river.
For example, common thoughts such as: "I am such a failure. I am not intelligent enough to take on this amount of responsibility or I am not able to achieve my dreams because someone of authority told me that me that I am not qualified to take on such new responsibility."
The experienced meditator would instead think, "Oh, there's that thought again. I have had it before; I have been here before. Thoughts come and go; this one is not so special."
Meditation's true power resides not in any kind of "unnatural" or "forced" positive thinking, but in its ability to help us "let go" of such thoughts.
Why Meditation Builds Your Mindful Muscle
Instead of buying-in, getting frazzled, or having a knee-jerk reaction to the array of silliness, craziness, and scariness that enters the human mind, meditation teaches us that no one thought deserves our undivided attention.
There is never a need to chase the rabbit down the endless hole. Thoughts come and thoughts go, like waves crashing upon the shore.
Meditation allows us to understand at the very deepest levels, how our thoughts, emotions, and mind intertwine.
This fundamental transformation keeps fear and worry permanently at bay.
How Mindful Meditation Tames the Anxiety-Ridden "Monkey Mind"
What Is The "Monkey Mind"?
It has been said that the human mind is like a room full of wild monkeys — jumping around, chattering endlessly, carrying on all day and all night.
Of the dozens of monkeys clamoring for our attention, the loudest, most powerful voice is their highly influential troop leader — FEAR.
The fear monkey constantly pulls the alarm, points out every single pothole in our path, makes up an infinite number of "what-if scenarios," while ensuring that such anxious thoughts always stay at the forefront of our mind.
Can We Fight or Banish the Monkeys?
The problem is, the monkeys are built into the very fabric of our consciousness, they are of the essence and nature of the mind.
Fighting them makes about as much sense as diving headfirst into a sidewalk to cure a cold, or roundhouse kicking a brick wall to eliminate athlete's foot. The mind monkeys are a part of all of us.
Simple yet elegant, there is one solution... These monkeys need to be tamed.
How & Why Mindfulness Meditation Tames the Monkeys
Practicing mindful meditation teaches us to pay attention to our chattering monkeys, to know them, to listen to them, to understand them.
With each session, we become more familiar with how they behave, their habits, their good sides, their bad sides, their triggers, their quirks, what makes them tick.
Like an expert animal trainer, meditation's face to face interaction with the monkeys will, in time, build a mutually beneficial, trusting relationship.
Once we become their master, they learn to be docile, gentle, and submissive. With enough time, meditation can even make them benevolent, kind, and peaceful.
Taming the mind will help make us an infinitely calmer, much happier person, free from the wild shenanigans of fear, worry, and anxiety.
Meditation Deactivates the Brain's "Anxiety-Center" Amygdala
Does The Human Mind Love Fear?
A study by the Media Research Center analyzed the ratio of "good" to "bad" news broadcasts for three mainstream networks: ABC, NBC, and CBS.
What did they find? A surprise to few, up to 85% of the stories aired were categorized as — negative.
We know that all humans require food, warmth, water, and sleep. But is it also built into human DNA to crave doom and gloom?
Is focusing our attention on natural disasters, war, terrorism, crime, incompetence, scandals, and corruption a function of our biology or did we get here through conditioning? Is it about nature or nurture?
How Our Brains Are Programmed to Worry
According to John Cacioppo, Director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, we can blame it on the brain.
Even from an early age, when we watch news programs with less than positive topics, our brain scans become active, suggesting a built-in "negativity bias." What happens when we watch good news? The opposite, the brain's electrical activity is quiet.
It is we, the readers and viewers, the owners of the eyes "glued to the screen," who are biologically programmed for a steady diet of doom and gloom.
Our Brain's Fear Center: The Amygdala
At the top of the list, it is our "fear center", the amygdala, an almond shaped group of nuclei located deep within the temporal lobe of the brain.
NY Times bestselling author and founder of the "X-Prize," Peter Diamandis, may have said it best, "Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear."
While there are no guarantees in life, too much activity within our primitive "fear center" amygdala promotes anxiety of prominent proportion.
What if there was a way to upgrade this fear-based brain region healthily and naturally? We can, and this is through meditation.
How Meditation Deactivates This Anxious Brain Region
Researchers from Boston University and Harvard Medical School performed functional MRI brain studied on participants before and after a series of mindfulness meditation classes — with amazing results.
In a mere 8 weeks, along with far fewer "distress signals" transmitted throughout the brain, the meditators' brain imaging for "fear center" electrical activity had gone silent.
What surprised the scientists the most, however, was that their "anxiety engine" amygdala somehow managed to physically decrease in size. This discovery has significant implications.
Knowing that it is indeed possible to, like the light switch in our bedroom, turn off our primitive brain hardware (amygdala), we can put a variety of stress related physical, emotional, and mental disorders in our rear view mirror.
Freshly minted meditators often report drastic anxiety relief as the very first tangible benefit, the first step on a never-ending staircase of incredible transformations.
Reversing Anxiety: Meditation Activates the Body's Relaxation Response
Why Everybody Is Stressed Out
We are living in stressful times. Whether it be the demands placed on us at our daily jobs, managing difficult relationships at home, and a host of family commitments we face makes living in this chaotic, fast-paced world even more challenging.
In a 2010 American Psychological Association survey, 75% of Americans reported that their stress levels were so high that they felt physically unhealthy.
But we may have been told that stress is all in our head, right? How could it possibly harm our health, as these surveyed people seem to tell us?
How The "Fight or Flight" Response Triggers Anxiety
The relevant issue is, evolution has hard-wired our DNA to physiologically react in stressful situations — our heart races, our breathing becomes shallow, our blood vessels clinch up, our pupils dilate, our muscles tighten, all in preparation to either flee or fight.
The uplifting news is that our body has a built-in stress-defense mechanism — it's called the parasympathetic nervous system. Our ability to stay anxiety-free is directly tied to activating this part of our autonomic nervous system.
So, what is the best way to activate the parasympathetic nervous system? Meditation, of course.
Meditation Controls Anxiety Through The "Mind-Body Connection"
In the 1970's, Harvard University physician Herbert Benson observed that well over half of his patient visits had much to do with stress related disorders, like anxiety.
In essence, what Dr. Benson discovered was the true power of the meditative mind-body connection — slower metabolism, controlled breath rate, reduced heart rate, and controlled brainwave activity all combined to make the ideal scenario for healing.
Meditation Reverses Anxiety Through The "Relaxation Response"
By using meditation to simultaneously activate the parasympathetic nervous system while deactivating the body's "fight or flight" stress mode, his patients reversed countless health issues, with anxiety often the first domino to fall.
Dr. Benson's bestselling book, "Relaxation Response," has sold millions of copies, providing great momentum to the mind-body movement, and stands as another example of hard science confirming ancient wisdom.
Meditation Boosts Anti-Anxiety Neurotransmitters: Serotonin & GABA
Why GABA & Serotonin Are So Critical
Intimately associated with our magnificently complex brain's 100 billion neurons are a web-like network of information relayers known as "neurotransmitters."
Regarding the anxiety-prone, there are two crucial neurotransmitters: gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) & serotonin.
When levels of these two key brain chemicals decreases, our stress defense shield decreases — making us vulnerable to anxiety and its associates: worry, restlessness, nervousness, insomnia, etc.
If we are taking anti-anxiety medications, these drugs are likely targeting these two chemical messengers.
Why Anti-Anxiety Meds Aren't Cool
The problems with anxiety and depression medication are many, including feelings of being zoned out, dependency, dizziness, drowsiness, poor concentration, memory loss, confusion, headache, blurred vision, insomnia, weight gain, fatigue and nausea.
More so, clinical studies have shown that some of these medications are no more effective than a placebo, or of no apparent benefit.
Fortunately, a natural solution exists. Backed by extensive peer-reviewed research and centuries of anecdotal evidence, meditation can heal anxiety in surprisingly rapid fashion.
How Meditation Supercharges Neurotransmitters
So, what's the data? For serotonin, as evidenced by a highly cited University of Montreal study as well as numerous other studies, it is well understood that meditation boosts this prime neurotransmitter to "anxiety-resistant" levels.
The association of GABA levels and meditation are also well-described. One study by a group of psychiatrists at the Boston University School of Medicine found an incredible 27% increase after less than one hour of meditation!
Strengthening the case, researchers believe that practicing mindfulness has a very strong neurotransmitter "cumulative effect," with amazing implications for the anxiety sufferer.
GABA & Serotonin: How Meditation Fills Your Tank
To illustrate how it works, what would happen if we put $15 of gasoline into our tank each morning, while using only $10 worth on our daily commute? Well, our gasoline tank would eventually get full and stay full.
For our brain, meditation does much the same, filling up with the most purely refined GABA & serotonin, replenishing more high-quality octane than stress can deplete.
When our tank is always full of these naturally calming, feel-good neurotransmitters, we become immune to the mileage (anxiety, depression, bad habits, etc.) which would otherwise have us on the side of the road calling for a tow-truck.
Would we rather take a side-effect ridden pill to feel calm and happy for a little while? Or fundamentally upgrade our biology to be forever "anxiety immune"?
Meditation Cancels Out Anxious Brainwaves
You Are Your Brainwaves
Day and night, our brain fires electrical signals which combine to form a unique "fingerprint" called a "brainwave pattern."
Our whole essence as a living, breathing human being, from our biological makeup to our thoughts, moods, and emotions (especially anxiety) can be directly measured within our brainwave patterns.
If we feel the jitters of anxiety, then our brain is likely firing fearful, worrisome "beta" brainwaves (13 – 40 Hz) left and right, more than the average person.
What if it was possible to upgrade our anxious beta brainwaves to the happiest and healthiest states: Alpha, Theta, and Delta? Well, we can, through meditation.
How Meditation Harnesses Your Cool & Calm Brainwaves
Meditation Elevates Anti-Anxiety, Feel-Good Endorphins
Why Endorphins Are a Natural Anxiety Reliever
Whether it's yoga, jogging, weightlifting, swimming, or the like, most of us are aware that physical exercise is a great long-term solution for chronic anxiety.
Then, why is exercise effective at all in curing what is ultimately a mental disorder?
Exercise alleviates anxiety for a variety of reasons, mainly to the release of endorphins.
Meditation: A Powerful Endorphin Booster
Manufactured mostly in our brain and spinal cord, endorphins are a type of neurotransmitter best known for improving brain function, reducing stress, elevating mood, relieving pain, and helping us sleep better at night.
Endorphins' wide spectrum of benefits, in essence, creates a worry-free and fear-free mental utopia where anxiety cannot, will not, and does not exist.
Is there a better natural endorphin booster than physical exercise? Yes!
A 1995 study by (Harte et al) published in the Biological Psychology Journal, tested the neuro-chemical release of two groups — 11 elite runners and 12 highly trained meditators — after running and meditation, respectively. What did they find?
As the scientists suspected, both groups had boosted their endorphin levels.
How Meditation Smothers Anxiety: Endorphins
Interestingly, meditation scored higher than exercise on all "great mood" test markers.
Joggers have coined the term "runners high" to describe how wonderful they feel after a long run. This euphoric, happy, and Zen-like state of bliss goes a long way to explain why so many of them look forward to hitting the pavement, day after day.
Fortunately, meditation gives all of us access to this powerful anxiety melting, mood elevating endorphins whenever we so desire.
Meditation Re-Focuses the Anxious, Wandering, & Distracted Mind
How The Wandering, Distracted Mind Leads to Anxiety
Blaise Pascal, the 17th century French philosopher, perhaps said it best: "Considering distraction... I have discovered that the unhappiness of man arises from one single fact, that he cannot stay quietly within his own chamber."
A Harvard University study revealed that people were happiest when in a kind of fully immersed, deeply absorbed, present mind state. Some have described this as being in the “flow”.
Whether the subjects were socializing, writing, shopping, or reading, the researchers found that the best predictor for anxiety was how distracted they were, how much they wandered during the activity — not the activity itself.
In our current daily barrage of Facebook/ Twitter updates, YouTube videos, Netflix movie marathons, shiny new blog posts, iTunes podcasts, up to the minute breaking news, and other mediums driving our collective attention span — it may be no surprise that anxiety levels are at an all-time high.
Meditation: The World's Best Antidote to Distraction
The very best way to fully harness and master our infinite mind power, mindfulness provides the perfect toolkit for our chronic anxiety-prone, attention diverted world.
In fact, meditation has been scientifically proven to turn off the "distracted" area of the brain.
Internationally acclaimed Harvard brain researcher, Dr. Sara Lazar, discovered that one brain region responsible for the "wandering mind," the posterior cingulate cortex (PCT), becomes deactivated during meditation.
Corralling the so-called "wandering mind" invites in a wonderful world of benefits, negating many of the reasons we become anxious.
How Meditation Corrals the Wandering Mind
Moreover, it is thought that meditation disables distraction by filtering stimuli before it reaches our gatekeeping thalamus.
As a river dam ensures that the optimal amount of water is always available downstream to households, agriculture, and industry, meditation upstream filters the less important data, sending only the most beneficial information downstream.
As a result, the "gulf" of the meditative mind (thalamus) never has to micromanage the barrage of distracting, happiness-robbing information which directly contributes to chronic anxiety.
Meditation Strengthens the Anxiety-Relieving Prefrontal Cortex
Where Is the Anxiety Command & Control Center?
As we evolved to our present human form, one region of the brain has risen to prominence.
From dark caves to sunlit skyscrapers, from incoherent grunting to the world wide web, from the muddy riverbanks to the far reaches of the solar system — we can be thankful to our prefrontal cortex.
Known as the brain's "thought orchestrator," higher functioning "CEO," and emotional regulator — the "prefrontal cortex" has been identified as the primary distinguishing characteristic between ancient and modern man.
Big Prefrontal Cortex, Little Anxiety
A cited study published in “The Lancet" — performed functional MRI on 17 anxiety & depression sufferers. What did they discover?
Like the skinny legged guy at the gym who trains his chest and arms seven days a week, the participants left prefrontal cortexes were extraordinarily weak when compared to other parts of the brain.
Scientists know that weakness or abnormality within the prefrontal cortex impairs decision making and brainpower — while opening the door to worsening anxiety and depression.
Imagine if we could upgrade this amazing region of the brain, and in essence — hack evolution.
How Meditation Evolves the Brain Beyond Anxiety
A landmark 2005 study by Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Sara Lazar and colleagues showed that the brains of meditators had remarkably more "thickness," "folds," and overall "surface area" in their left prefrontal cortexes — with magnitude directly tied to experience (the more meditation, the stronger the effect).
A study with profound implications, meditation is now seen by many within the neuroscientific and psychological research communities as the "holy grail" for a variety of mental health issues, especially anxiety and depression.
Is there any wonder why doctors find meditators' to be the smartest, happiest, and healthiest patients?
Traditional meditators have been anxiety-free, happy people for countless centuries, now confirmed by modern science.
Meditation Extinguishes the Body's Anxiety Inflamed "Wildfire"
The Inflammation & Anxiety Link
"Extensive research has shown that brain inflammation is connected to virtually all types of mental illness... [including] mood disorders like depression and anxiety."IntegrativePsychiatry.net
What's the best way to prevent a massive 100,000-acre wildfire? Light a small one.
Through what is called a "controlled burn," park authorities prevent wildfires by burning away the dense, highly combustible plants and trees within a forest.
Likewise, through a process called "inflammation," our immune system prevents disease by burning away the body's heavy build-up of unwanted intruders, with stress being a major contributor.
Like a controlled burn growing into an uncontrollable wildfire, inflammation within the body can inadvertently fan its flames into something more sinister.
How Cortisol Inflames Anxiety
Chronic inflammation, especially within the brain, is a self-perpetuating, toxic body condition — the preferred medium for anxiety to proliferate.
Wake Forest School of Medicine professor Floyd Chilton, Ph.D. outlines the severity of the problem in his 2005 bestselling book "Inflammation Nation."
With stress as the leading contributor, Dr. Chilton believes that we are living amid a chronic inflammation epidemic, with statistics becoming more alarming by the year.
Stress, anxiety, and inflammation live within a self-perpetuating ecosystem where if you boost one, you boost the other two. More stress increases inflammation, which tends to proliferate anxiety.
A whole host of disease processes, starting with anxiety, can be linked to the body's chronic inflammation "wildfire" — arthritis, asthma, cancer, depression, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, just to name a few.
As it turns out, we know the culprit. It is the body's main endogenous stress hormone — cortisol.
How do we reduce the amount of cortisol within the body, and therefore extinguish inflammation and all its chronic anxiety flame-fanning effects? Meditation.
How Meditation Extinguishes Cortisol, Anxiety
Researchers from the University of California (Davis) and Rutgers University found mindfulness meditation to dramatically reduce cortisol levels, with one study showing a precipitous 50% decrease in cortisol levels.
These results were seen after only a few meditation sessions. The good news is that we don't need to practice meditation for years to experience the myriad of benefits gained.
By abating the hormone responsible for precipitating many diseases, especially generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), meditation is an easily available resource for promoting our health and happiness.
(Note: Additional research: In addition to lowering cortisol levels, meditation also reduces inflammation by altering the expression of pro-inflammatory genes. Surprisingly, it takes as little as 8 hours for this to occur.)
Meditation Calms Busy, Anxious Thoughts
We Fuel Anxiety With 70,000+ Thoughts Per Day
Like a machine gun, the anxious mind fires one fearful and worrisome thought after another:
"Why did I say something so stupid? Why don't they like me? What happens if I lose my job? Why don't I have any energy? Will anyone ever truly love me? Will I ever have enough money? Why can't I be successful? Why can't I lose this weight?"
In fact, scientists estimate the number of human thoughts at around 70,000 per day — meaning a worried, anxious mind can literally generate a new negative thought every few seconds!
While we all have troublesome thoughts from time to time, the difference for the anxious mind is the sheer level of bombardment is far beyond that of a normal person — it is easy to see why so many anxiety sufferers feel paralyzed as they go about their daily routine.
How Meditation Gets Us Off the Anxiety Hamster Wheel
What is the best way to quiet the overactive mind?
Meditation. By removing a permanent meditative breather from the "hamster wheel" of anxiety, we no longer burn through precious resources or utilize valuable energy on unproductive fear-based thoughts.
What does this mean, exactly? Well, no more negative "what-if" scenarios, no more "next-turn" catastrophes and no more expectations of "doom and gloom" waiting around the next corner. The meditative mindset is truly a beautiful thing.
Instead of rehearsing yesterday's tragedies and borrowing tomorrow's troubles, meditation's present moment focus puts an abrupt end to happiness-robbing, nerve-fraying mental time travel.
How Meditation Quiets the Mind
When we no longer buy into our fears and worries, when we no longer overthink the past, when we no longer worry endlessly about the future — we get to experience the silence between the thoughts.
In this way, meditation allows the mind to finally experience itself in its truest, purest, most natural state — that of stillness.
Far beyond the healing properties of practiced meditation, there is so much to be gained from tuning in to our true self. Many of these benefits are so amazing that it may at first be difficult to comprehend the seemingly mysterious events that await us as we delve in to a new paradigm, beyond thought and what are senses are able to perceive.
The pineal gland is the most mysterious organ in the endocrine system. The pineal gland is also referred to as the epicenter of enlightenment, the seat of the soul, or the “third eye”. This tiny pea-sized gland is shaped like a little pinecone. It resides in the center base of our brain. It is sensitive to light and produces the hormone melatonin, which is critical for our sleep cycles.
What is perhaps the most incredible function of the pineal gland is that it releases N-dimethyltryptamine, better known as DMT. DMT is also called the “spirit molecule”. It is considered by many to be among the most powerful psychedelics that we can experience. Those who have used DMT report mystical experiences often far stronger then with other psychedelics. They feel that they had been taken to alternate realities, including interactions with sentient interdimensional beings. Often, their worldview changed by visceral experiences that seemed more real than their daily experiences.
In real terms, the pineal gland can produce the molecule which can transcend our consciousness into the higher dimensions and connect us to the divine oneness of the universe. When we sleep, the pineal gland produces small amounts of DMT, which is the driving force behind our dreams. what is even more astonishing is that during death, the pineal gland floods the brain with a huge dose of DMT, which helps our consciousness leave the body and re-join the spiritual world. According to many ancient and modern sources, the pineal gland, or the third eye, may hold a secret to spiritual wisdom, inspiration, and psychic awareness. Utilizing its powers could be vital for the physical, mental, and spiritual health while also being a gateway to higher consciousness.
The pineal gland has, in fact, been a subject of much interest since ancient times. Galen described it in the third century, and the philosopher René Descartes identified the pineal gland as the seat of the soul. Descartes was one of the few philosophers who was experienced in vivisection and anatomy. He correctly pointed out the unique nature of the pineal gland’s location in the brain. It is widely believed that the pineal gland is the key to our spiritual awakening and psychic abilities. Traditionally, the pineal gland is said to be the third eye chakra, otherwise known as the Anja chakra, which is located between our two physical eyes. Almost every ancient civilization knew about the pineal gland. We can clearly see this in their symbolism. The pinecone has served as a symbolic representation of human enlightenment. The third eye and the pineal gland are recognized throughout the world beginning with one of the oldest civilizations, namely the ancient Sumerians. We can see many references to the pineal gland. They depicted the Anunnaki gods holding a pinecone in almost all their depictions. In a particular depiction, we can see an Anunnaki holding a pinecone and using it to influence a stylized tree, which resembles the structure of DNA. The DNA strand was discovered thousands of years later in the 19th century. In ancient Egypt, the most prominent symbol, the eye of Horus, can be directly used as a map of our brain. It bears an uncanny resemblance to the center of our brain and the pineal gland. Also, the serpent crown shown on Egyptian and Nubian royalty is also considered a third eye reference and is a symbol of wisdom, power, and protection.
Also astonishing is the fact that third eye symbols are also present in the New World religions of the ancient Maya, Aztec, Toltec, Olmec, Inca, and Pre-Inca cultures. There is a long history of the third eye in the so-called occult tradition or hermetic tradition.
Using a microscope, we discover that the pineal is made up of cells that have the same features as the rod-shaped light-sensitive cells found in our retinas. The pineal receives signals that travel down the optic nerves just as our physical eyes. It seems the primitive 3rd eye once functioned as an organ of sight before our current set of eyes.
The third eye organ does not play a key role in our daily lives. It must be intentionally awakened or activated. Our pineal glands may be activated to spiritual world frequencies, which can enable us to access the higher dimensions of consciousness and allow for a sense of all-knowing euphoria and oneness all around us. If the pineal gland is tuned into proper frequencies with the help of deep meditation or various other spiritual and esoteric practices, a person will be able to have out-of-body experiences, popularly known as astral travel or astral projection.
With more advanced practices and ancient methods, it is also possible to influence and feel the thoughts and actions of people in the physical world. Activating the power of the third eye is the doorway to such abilities such as telepathy, clairvoyance, lucid dreaming, and auras.
Even minor benefits such as improved quality of sleep and enhanced imagination, the illusion of separation between self and spirit dissolves when the third eye connection is cultivated. When we “open” our third eye, we can access the higher dimensions. We can “awaken” within the dream, to walk between realities, and surpass the limitations of humanity. If our third eye is blocked however, it can lead to confusion, uncertainty, cynicism, jealousy, and other low frequency emotions. Through an open and vibrant third eye, the highest source of ethereal energy may enter. While the physical eyes perceive the physical world as we see it, the third eye sees the true world, a unified whole with an unyielding connection to spirit.
In the interest of our health at the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels, we can benefit by learning to access high frequency energy through activating our pineal gland. This type of healing energy is important to our health, as it raises the frequency of our body and soul. When we surround ourselves with high frequency energy, our health improves. On the other hand, when we surround ourselves with low frequency energy, our health deteriorates. According to recent peer-reviewed studies, a healthy human body ‘s frequency rates are between 62 and 78 MHz. Frequencies below 62 MHz can make the human body vulnerable to illness and disease.
After knowing this important information, we may be wondering: if everyone has a pineal gland which allows for these amazing benefits, why do we seem to be surrounded with unhappy people, suffering to survive, working as slaves without questioning why this is so? This is partly because most people’s pineal glands are calcified. The pineal gland often calcifies as we age. This is currently believed to be the result of certain minerals in our diet and dental care products. A much-studied mineral is fluoride, which has been an additive to toothpaste and community drinking water. Jennifer Luke, who carried out the first major study of the effects of sodium fluoride on the pineal gland, determined that the pineal gland is a target for fluoride because it absorbs more fluoride than other organs in the body, more so than our bony skeleton.
Prior to activating our pineal gland, we need to ascertain that we limit any source of fluoride from our daily routine. The African tamarind fruit has been shown to be effective at eliminating fluoride from the body. A recent study found that children given tamarind excreted more fluoride in their urine compared to a control group. Another natural detoxifier is raw apple cider vinegar. it helps to decalcify the pineal gland due to its malic acid properties. Malic acid is an organic compound that gives fruits its sour taste. When administered as a supplement, it supports the digestive system and helps the body remove excess fluoride.
When we decalcify our pineal gland, we can initiate practicing the various methods for activating our pineal gland. The most effective method is through meditation. Achieving a deep state of meditation and then focusing our energy into the area of our third eye chakra can be an incredibly powerful method for activating our pineal gland. This may require practice and concentration, but it is one of the best ways to open our third eye. A particular good time to practice activating the third eye is shortly after awakening from a night’s rest, since our brain will be in a theta state. Generally, this is a good time for spiritual practice. Allow for stillness and focus awareness on the pineal gland. The more we practice using our pineal gland to see beyond the material world, the better the ability to access high frequency energy and consciousness.
Sungazing may also play a role in activating the pineal gland. Sungazing is the process of staring at the sun during sunrise or sunset. It is during this time that light rays emitted from the sun are safer for our physical eyes. Sungazing can be beneficial to activate the pineal gland. Also, the pineal gland is activated with exposure to magnetic fields.
Many studies with birds and other animals show that the pineal gland monitors magnetic fields and assists the body in orienting to space by acting as a navigational center. This magnetic or receptive capacity also explains why geomagnetic storm and environmental stress can affect the pineal gland leading to problems with circadian rhythm.
The heart also generates a strong electromagnetic field that permeates the entire body. When the heart is activated with the high frequencies of love and compassion, its electromagnetic field is amplified and expanded. The pineal gland’s sensitivity to electromagnetic energy causes it to begin vibrating and activating together with the heart. As these two organs act together, their high vibration opens the third eye to greater inspiration, intuition, and inner vision. Because of the pineal gland’s connection with spatial orientation and circadian rhythms, our perception of space and time often shifts when the pineal is in a highly aroused state. Such experiences have been described by meditators for ages and this is also the reason why the passage of time is so different during meditation.
Another amazing way of stimulating the pineal gland is the uplifting and healing power of the “third eye kiss”. If we have ever kissed someone on the forehead, then we would know how interestingly intense it is. We would be amazed how something so simple can be so emotional. A kiss on the forehead represents a kiss on the third eye. It is much deeper than most people can realize. It is like kissing the person’s soul. When the lips meet the forehead, we get a sense of awakening being brought from within. A kiss on the forehead will stimulate the pineal gland as well as the pituitary gland. The result is releasing melatonin. Melatonin is what helps us get a good night’s sleep. So essentially, a good night’s kiss on the forehead might be benefiting us in more ways than we can realize. The third eye kiss will bring about a sense of security as well as well-being. The third eye kiss is a very uplifting experience for everyone that has the right people around them, and of the right circumstances.
Another way to open our third eye is with a charged amethyst crystal. This exercise is best done outside in nature and when the sun is either rising, setting or at its highest point in the sky. Take a few deep breaths in and out. As we do this, visualize the purple energy of the amethyst going into your third eye and filling it up with activated energy. Hold the amethyst in place, close your eyes and look up directly into the sun. Allow the sun to warm the crystal and activate it once the sun and your crystal meet. Takes seven deep breaths. We may need to repeat this exercise a few times but when used in conjunction with meditation and a healthy diet, we will be well on our way to super charging our third eye. By activating our third eye, we will be able to see, understand and enjoy the sights and sounds of the previously hidden world, allowing us to optimize and perfect our present life using this vast reserve of new information, become an experienced observer of the unseen, make the impossible possible. and unlock our full potential.