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Introduction to meditation
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Meditation is something which takes getting used to. We are programmed in life, particularly by our educational system, to use our mind in a certain way. A piece of equipment called an electroencephalograph is used by scientists to measure the rate of brain waves, and it has been shown that when we start to meditate, the rate of these brain waves starts to slow down. When we are in our normal waking state, probably the state you are in right now as you are reading these words, or when you are making a phone call, cooking a meal or driving a car, we are in the Beta state. That signifies a brainwave rate of between 13 and 28 per second voltage. As you start to enter meditation, you move into the next category, Alpha, which is ten per second. Then, if you take it even further and you enter a deeper mystical condition, you are moving into Theta, which is perhaps between three and six per second. And finally there is Delta, which is associated with deep sleep and is below three per second.
Most people, who don't meditate or do any other kind of spiritual exercises, spend their lives in either Beta or Delta. Throughout the day they are in Beta and at night in Delta. People seem to have completely lost the art of meditation...Some of the benefits which have been claimed for meditation, and specifically the Alpha state, have included clearing up psychosomatic ailments, reducing the risk of stress-related illness, lowering blood pressure, and slowing down the ageing process. There is no doubt that meditation can transform your life.
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This extract...
is taken from Meditation - A Complete Workout for the Mind by Richard Lawrence
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