Unearth the power of Brain-waves

Leveraging the power of Brain-waves in your favor is one of the greatest gift you could give to yourself.

Being an IT professional supporting different regions, I have worked in all timezones.

ANZ, APJ, IST, EMEA, EST, PST.

You name it & I have been there.

One day I pondered and realized that I have officially worked in every hour of the clock -- From midnight to 23:00 hours.

At different times in my career.

Quite evidently, irrespective of which timezone we work, our biological cycle (or body-cycle as some say) has to get adjusted to the time-cycle.

Especially, the sleep-patterns, the meals' timings & the exercise routines.

Not to mention office-work. Ofcourse!

However, one thing that occurred to me is irrespective of how long you work in a specific timezone, your body-cycle always crave to fallback to the local timezone you are living in.

Nature has designed our physiological activities to work in specific times.

And that is the reason, if we do certain tasks in hours we are not used to perform them in, the chances are that we would not get optimum results.

In extreme cases, if you try a little harder, you may succeed to get acclimatized to a different routines in odd hours. But it would not come organically.

And believe me its tough to be in that state.

My curiosity landed me new questions --

How could we optimize our productivity?

Would there be something that could be done outside of our conscious mind?

That is when I stumbled upon the theory & concepts of Brain Waves and Brain States.

Like any sort of waves, Brain Waves have frequency too.

In fact, there are 5 different frequencies in which these Brain Waves work.

Delta -- 0.3 to 4 Hz

Theta -- 4 to 8 Hz

Alpha -- 8 to 13 Hz

Beta -- 13 to 30 Hz

Gamma -- 30 Hz and above

Which frequency we are in depends solely on which state we are in.

What does that mean?

Lets see which states these frequencies are observed in:

Delta -- Deep sleep

Theta -- Deep relaxation / Light sleep

Alpha -- Sleepy / Passive attention

Beta -- Awake / During most activities in a day

Gamma -- Extreme focus/concentration / Insight

The fun part starts now.

This information has no relevance unless we use them to our advantage.

Take them alongside molding our habits and behavior and we could really optimize our efforts and energies.

You would have noticed that the frequency go quite low as we move from Gamma to Delta.

That means that as we tend towards Alpha we move towards a complete serene state to say the least.

In a broader term, lesser the frequency lesser are the disturbances -- external and internal.

Now, this is what I did.

To leverage these states, especially the first three in the list.

Delta, Theta and Alpha.

1) Towards the end of a day while transitioning from Beta to Alpha, I do following things :

a) Write down my tasks for next day

b) Be grateful to everything good that happened to me.

c) Slowly close eyes and take few deep breathes while lying down on my bed.

2) It usually takes me about 15-20 seconds before I move to Light sleep (Theta).

3) Subsequently, the state moves to Delta.

4) Very crucial to note here that though we think we have slept, our brain is still nudging along at a minimal frequency.

5) Theta and Alpha would continue to think/work on the last thing I did while awake.

6) Its like I am planting a seed before going asleep and allow it to grow into a sapling.

7) And next day when you wake up in the morning while still in Alpha state, I use gratitude.

8) Lastly, when I start my day with the tasks I wrote previous night, I would see I have something more than just tasks. I have got lot of insight and ideas for them.

It is so amazing how these brain waves work that not using them is a crime.

If you are someone who aspire to give your daily habits and more importantly your goals a much needed impetus, then do model this behavior.

Let me summarize it for you to use them yourself:

a) Think about those specific tasks or important activities you need to do next day.

Think long. Think in detail as much as possible.

b) Put them down in a journal or a piece of paper.

c) Be grateful to all good that happened to you for the day.

Besides attracting other great things, it also makes space for more positive thoughts and ideas.

d) Take few deep breathes while lying down before you slowly transition to light and then deep sleep.

Feel and see the miracle next day!

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