Oh, and the thousands upon thousands of scientifically rigorous studies that have been done on meditation and mindfulness.) Here are ten ways to sharpen your sixth sense.
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Apparently, it doesn’t matter to some scientists that millions of people attest to the difference that these practices have made in their personal or professional lives. Binaural beats are just one of the punching bags of materialistic scientists, joining such practices as meditation and mindfulness. ( Sidenote on scientific criticism of binaural beats: The rub lies with mainstream science’s rejection of subjective “feeling states,” claiming that these are neither reproducible nor observable. Even the most skeptical studies document that binaural beats produce advertised brainwave frequencies. It must be reiterated at this point that properly produced binaural beats are scientifically sound (see this 2019 metanalysis, published in the journal Psychological Research for one of the latest examples.). High-level information processing, high focus High-end: Anxiety-dominant, active (potentially overactive) Here’s a list of frequencies and their known cognitive correlations: Brainwave How it shifts depends, among other things, on the beat’s frequency. Your conscious mind won’t detect the difference, but your brain certainly will, and, as a result of the beat exposure, will “shift” how it is operating. For example, if the rhythm you hear in your left ear is 140 Hertz (Hz), while in the right ear, it’s 100 Hz, your brain will perceive a 40 Hz pulsation. The difference between these frequencies enters the brain as a pulse. ( Source)īinaural beats work by exposing both ears to slightly different frequencies. The same meta-analysis that found significant effects on anxiety also reported medium-sized effects on different kinds of memory, both short- and long-term.” ~ Seth J. “…Binaural beats appear to improve the related processes of memory and attention. And the quality of our existence – how happy we are – depends a lot on how we direct and sustain our attention.Įnter binaural beats. The people, places, things, emotions, mental activity – anything and everything – to which we attend shapes our reality. In just nine words, the father of modern psychology explains why attention is of critical importance. James’ words aren’t mere platitudes or useless hyperbole. Try memorizing it – because it’s that important to your life. Read the above quote a couple of more times, slowly.ĭid you read it? Good. “For the moment, what we attend to is reality.” ~ William James First Thing’s First: Attention Determines Our Reality Let’s briefly discuss why attention is so crucial to our happiness. We’ll use the latest and greatest in scientific research and a favorite brain hack to help get us there.
We’re going to talk about the flow state – and how you can get into it in as little as a couple of minutes. Now, if dispersed attention is one end of the mental state spectrum, then ‘flow’ – a term coined by famed psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – is its polar opposite. James would be thrilled, remarking in his book that education in attention would be “an education par excellence.”
So says the latest scientific research.Įxcited? You should be! Mr. You can sharpen your attentional faculties – and become as “laser-focused” as you want to. Go to a restaurant and see how many children fail to get the notice of their parents. Sit at a café and see how many people are staring blankly at their smartphone. Fast-forward to present-day, and our attention is as “dispersed” as ever.
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