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Asilomar State Marine Reserve Waves

 Northern edge of Asilomar Beach, a beautiful area close to Monterey, CA... 

Brain Waves

State	Brain Wave Frequency	Associated With
Beta	14 – 21 cycles per second (cps) and higher	Waking State, the five senses. Perception of Time and Space
Alpha	7 – 14 cps	Light sleep, meditation, intuition. No Time & Space limitation.
Theta	4 – 7 cps	Deeper Sleep, Meditation.
Delta	0 – 4 cps	Deep Sleep. You are unconscious at Delta.

The Five Rules for Mind-Body Healing

Five major mental techniques that have important effects on the self-healing processes.

The Five Mental Techniques Are:

• The need for relaxation and quietude.
• Learning to focus your attention on one thing (e.g. breathing), which allows you to develop mental self-control and avoid distractions.(The above two points are achieved through meditation).
• Learning visualization or imagery techniques since pictures are the preferred language of the mind.
• Incorporating intent into the process, a wish for some goal to be reached and an expectation that it will.
• The evocations of strong positive emotions during the healing process.

It sounds simple right? But it’s much harder in practice before we have been trained to react to bad health and illness in the wrong way – by forgetting to observe the effect our mind has on the disease.

Your mind is the single most effective tool for benefitting your physical health.

Mindfulness

Certainly, mental rehearsal and thoughtful reflection can be useful at times. But there are better ways to do it than through the haze of unconscious preoccupation and absorption. If you have real problems, it will be important to work them with a clear mind.

If you are routinely out of touch with the present, you may miss more than the morning commute. You might be thinking of other things while playing with your children, lost in thought when you are with friends, missing tender moments with your lover, oblivious to the beauty of a sunny day or the place you are in short, missing out on life.

Mindfulness Meditation is about learning to experience life fully as it unfolds—moment by moment. One popular misconception about meditation is that it is a way to make your mind blank so you can escape from what you are feeling.   Jon Kabat-Zinn wants you to understand that meditation is an invitation to wake up, experience the fullness of your life, and transform your relationship with your problems, your fears, and any pain and stress in your life so that they don’t wind up controlling you and eroding the quality of your life and your creativity. It is not about running away, or manipulating mental states.

Through the practice of mindfulness, you can learn to develop greater calmness, clarity and insight in facing and embracing all your life experiences, even life’s trials, and turning them into occasions for learning, growing and deepening your own strength and wisdom.

In his program, internationally-known meditation teacher Kabat-Zinn shows you how to:

• Access your own deep inner resources for learning, growing and healing
• Enrich your experience of everyday living by being fully present in the moment
• Reduce stress by responding creatively rather than reacting mindlessly
• Bring greater clarity and understanding to everything you do
• Function more effectively within your apparent limitations and problems by cultivating your fundamental strengths
• Reestablish contact with your physical body to heighten and expand experiences of pleasure and vitality
• Reduce or overcome addictive or self-destructive behavior patterns
• Develop a strong daily meditation practice

Mindfulness Meditation can give you back a high degree of control in your life, beyond the automatic actions and reactions that so often drive our behavior. It can free you from being stuck in fear or uncertainty and help you to take life on as an adventure in growth and learning and feeling. Begin listening today, and discover what it’s like to see the world you actually have, not the one you think you are missing, and to live the life that is yours to live in its fullness, moment by moment and day by day.