What are brain wave frequencies?
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Delta waves are usually associated with the dreamless, slow brain activity found in the deepest levels of sleep. Delta waves are experienced predominantly in newborn infants, as well as in healthy adults in deep rejuvenating sleep, or in very advanced states of meditation. At the delta level the body replenishes its energy, releases anti-aging hormones like human growth hormone (HGH), relieves stress, and boosts the immune system. The delta state rejuvenates your mind, body, and spirit. When your dominant brainwave is delta, your body is healing itself and "resetting" its internal clocks so to speak. Unfortunately, in today’s busy world, most of us are unable to achieve these levels of deep relaxation and sleep. During the Satorispace experience, brainwaves are gently guided to these levels, providing the ultimate mind/body/spirit experience.
Your brain is made up of billions of brain cells called neurons, which use electricity to communicate with each other. The combination of millions of neurons sending signals at once produces an enormous amount of electrical activity in the brain, which can be detected using sensitive medical equipment (such as an EEG), measuring electricity levels over areas of the scalp. The combination of electrical activity of the brain is commonly called a Brainwave pattern, because of its cyclic, 'wave-like' nature. Our mind regulates its activities by means of electric waves which are registered in the brain, emitting tiny electrochemical impulses of varied frequencies, which can be registered by an electroencephalogram.
These brainwaves are known as:
Beta The frequency when we are consciously alert, or we feel agitated, tense, afraid, with frequencies ranging from 13 to 60 pulses per second in the Hertz scale.
Alpha When we are in a state of physical and mental relaxation, although aware of what is happening around us, its frequency are around 7 to 13 pulses per second.
Theta More or less 4 to 7 pulses, it is a state of somnolence with reduced consciousness. Low theta is the point at which we begin to slip into the dream state. Alos into REM sleep.
Delta When there is unconsciousness, deep sleep or catalepsy, the brain emits between 0.1 and 4 cycles per second.
In general, we are accustomed to using the Beta brain rhythm. When we diminish the brain rhythm to Alpha, we put ourselves in the ideal condition to learn new information, keep facts, data, perform elaborate tasks, learn languages, analyze complex situations. Meditation, relaxation exercises, and activities that enable the sense of calm, also enable this Alpha state. According to neuroscientists, analyzing electroencephalograms of people submitted to tests in order to research the effect of decreasing the brain rhythm, the attentive relaxation or the deep relaxation, produce significant increases in the levels of beta-endorphin, norepinephrine and dopamine, linked to feelings of enlarged mental clarity and formation of remembrances, and that this effect lasts for hours and even days. It is an ideal state for synthetic thought and creativity, the proper functions of the right hemisphere. As it is easy for the hemisphere to create images, to visualize, to make associations, to deal with drawings, diagrams and emotions, as well as the use of good humor and pleasure. Additionally, learning is better absorbed if these elements are added to the study methods.
Why are Delta waves so important?
