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bob: NMR or EEG assessment would be very interesting. My real interest is in developing the ability to utilize whole brain functionality at will. Training up control of specific intermediate states would seem to be one approach. The Zen style sudden complete transition has a record of success and has the benefit of just happening (not to mention the drawback of just not happening).
Re: Developing ability to utilize the whole brain. I would think that the best way to do this is to break it down into sections to work on. Much like you do with your martial arts training ... built up your strength and speed through specific exercises and practice and eventually put it all together so that your mind and body work as one.
So, for example, to improve the visual ability - you would do specific exercises designed to improve peripheral vision or tracking ability. A really good way to do is through a Nintendo DS Lite game called "Flash Focus".
The Martial Arts that you do, take care of developing and using hand/eye coordination, balance and other physical/mental related skills.
Taking an NLP Practitioner course would be excellent for learning how your brain creates it's programs, thus giving you control over mood, state and beliefs (to name a few). Much of the knowledge is complimentary to controlling your mind as they teach in Buddhism, martial arts strategy (for lack of better word) -- being able to recognize weakness in your opponent and psych him out in battle. Of course there are other ways to learn this sort of thing but NLP puts it all together nicely in a compressed package of knowledge, knowledge that you would have to other wise search for in bits and pieces.
Back to Nintendo ... brain exercises such as you can do with Brain Age and Big Brain Academy are also useful in exercising all the different areas of the brain.
The AVS machines and Biofeedback are also useful for conditioning the nervous system as well as stimulating certain brainwaves. The ThoughtStream has Mental Games which also have many of the games that stimulate the brain. I like the Nintendo because it's more portable than mental games, where you need the computer. On the other hand, Mental Games is designed to interact with your physiology and given your stated desire ... it may just be the thing for you.
Finally, there is the nutrition aspect specific for improving brain function. Let me know if you want a list.
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bob: deep meditation appears to combine two unusually related states. Traditional meditators appear to reside in Theta but can be very aware of the outside. I have a suspicion that the binaural beat tracks I've used combine (probably some balance) of delta and beta(/high alpha)
LOL I've gotta get you off the delta thing. I'm telling ya, its only a good state for sleep and body regeneration.
In theta, you are aware of what's around you, you just are not paying particular attention to it because you are focused on the "inner planes" per se'.
If you use a BB in the delta range along with another beat in the Beta range, your brain will likely pick a range in the middle. I don't see this as an efficient way to achieve the goal. I suppose, if you want, you could try creating a program that is delta beta and then see for your self if the results are what you want. I don't think it would work .. but then I've been wrong before ... once. :icon_wink: ha ha
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bob: sounds like I didn't grow up perhaps :) ...or got stuck somewhere in subsequent childhoods. Seriously though: meditation opens the unconscious mind to progressive degrees. The state that you switch to following meditation need not be the same as during meditation. The claim that I am making is that I frequently function differently for some hours following meditation using claimed delta based binaural tracks. I am able to e.g solve complex design tasks whilst only seeing immediate decisions and just passively watching the present. Replaying the design route later leaves me to believe that the problem decisions were made from a sound position covering all the design facets. Looks like went to bed with a complex decision, woke with a really tidy, well thought through solution only only didn't need the 7 hours of background processing.
It makes sense that you would be in an altered state for hours after meditation. The effects of the AVS machines also last for a few hours after the session. I totally agree with you on the outcome, I'm just not certain of the details concerning how you got there. :-)
Is this program that you speak of a cd? Are you using it with a Proteus or Procyon? Does the program say that it is using Delta BBs or are you just figuring that it is delta?
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bob: I personally dislike this as a waking state, (possibly why I've never owned a TV...). I've found that hi-tec meditation has close to eliminated it.
Like it or not, theta is the twilight state that your brain naturally goes into as you fall asleep and naturally wake up to. The only way you can change that is by setting your alarm clock to wake you at a different point in your sleep cycle but you'd likely feel out of sorts for the day. If you are referring to a really groggy feeling, then it could be that you've been woken up during a delta cycle. The AVS machines on all programs, except the sleep ones, are designed to bring your mind back to a more alert state after the session.
Ah TV ... I love TV. Mindyou my butt isn't glued to the couch endlessly or anything like that but I do get a kick out of it.
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bob: I'll try running some of your alternative AVS sessions and see if the final outcome has a different bias. I'm fairly certain that I can increase beta with eyes open (unsurprising given the martial arts background) and am wondering if the theta region may also be under partial conscious influence...
You want to avoid doing the eyes open thing while using the machine. For what purpose do you want to increase your beta? Do you need better concentration? BTW, too much beta = anxiety.
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Label says spirulina, must read the "Use By:" date more carefully in future :)
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