Effortless Breathing- Change your brainwaves – Alpha Theta Breathing

Effortless Breathing- Change your brainwaves

Weight Loss Through Aware Breathing

*Breath is life. How we breathe reflects what’s happening in our  body, feelings, thoughts and
actions. This is the first part of a series in how to breathe 10-50% more deeply and effortlessly,
as well as how to change your brain waves with a style of breathing developed by the Menninger
Brain Institute. This is combined with the ancient wisdom of yoga and qigong to allow you to
breathe naturally. Our natural breath is like the waves of the ocean washing upon the beach and
back into the sea again.

Have you ever noticed when you’re anxious your breath becomes more rapid? How do you feel
when you hold your breath or breathe very shallow? Is there any difference in how you breathe
when you’re feeling irritated by traffic, triggered by what someone says or does, or when you are
relaxed?

Watch a baby and you’ll notice that they first breathe into the abdomen and then the breath
expands, throughout the ribcage, and in the lower back. It’s important to become aware of how
your breath. Do you first breathe and expand your abdomen or does your chest rise first? It’s
very common to breathe by first expanding your chest, which can tighten your shoulders and
restrict up to 20% or more your breathing capacity. Since the brain takes 20% of the available
oxygen and life force, this is crucial. Statistically we lose 10% of our breathing capacity after age
40 due to shallow breathing. If we have adopted shallow breathing as a child due to a stress
filled environment, then this can be a crucial factor in contributing to aging, pain and disease.
How do we change this?

Abdomen Breathing: Place your hand on your abdomen or put a book on your stomach while
lying down. As you breathe in, allow your abdomen or the book to rise first. Then allow the
breath to open up like opening an umbrella or blowing up a balloon. Notice how easy or hard it
is. For most people this takes practice at first. Be patient. Practice 7 minutes or more one to
three times daily. As you exhale, smile.

Yoga Breathing Mudra – enhances effortless breathing while gently balances five chakras. Place
your fingers in this position. During the 25 years I have worked with clients, 90% have found
their breath increases effortlessly. The position of your fingers affects your chakras beneficially,
as well as countless number of nerves in your whole body. Because of unresolved grief, the
muscles in your chest can become constricted. This will help release this constriction.

1. Thumb, middle, little finger gently pressed together (palm to palm)

2. Both index fingers move behind the middle finger (don’t strain)
3.  Right ring finger in front of left (increases inhale in 80% of people)
4. Left ring finger in front of right (increase exhale in 80% of people)
5. Whenever you inhale or exhale change the position of your ring finger.

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 Yoga Breathing Mudra

Now allow yourself to breathe into your abdomen first with the breath flowing like a wave
opening up your chest. Allow your shoulders to remain relaxed. As you exhale, smile.

Allow yourself to practice to 7-30 minutes one to three times or day or whenever needed.

Qigong Effortless Breathing   (Breathing Exercises, Meditation for beginners and for advanced)

As you smile, allow your tongue to touch the roof of your mouth as far back as possible, without
tightening the tongue (it’s important to keep your tongue relaxed for this to be effective). For
many people this will allow your inhale to increase significantly. As you exhale place the tip of
your tongue below your front lower teeth. This will increase your exhale. This Qigong practice
also balances 12 acupuncture meridians of your body. This tongue exercise also makes it easier
to practice this aware breathing at any time. It’s still important to practice the Yoga breathing
mudra because it has different healing and transforming effects.

“Weight Mastery Through Aware & Effortless Breathing

For many people working out can be extremely helpful to losing excess weight. At the same time,
statistically over 80% people who lose excess weight will gain it back with 2-3 years. One of keys
to successfully losing excess weight and keeping it off is dissolving your accumulated stress load.
Alpha breathing can be a wonderful aid in this process. Before you choose what you’re going to
eat, allow yourself to take 3-7 alpha relaxing centering breaths. This will help you make wiser
more healthier decisions about what foods you’ll be consuming. Then before you start eating,
allow yourself to take 1 alpha breath. Then take a bite of food and eat it. Then take another alpha
breath. Repeat alternating breathing with taking one bite of food through some or all of your
meal.  Many people unconsciously manage their stress level and reward themselves with
unhealthy food choices or too much food. This unconscious addictive response will dissolve
through interrupting the pattern through Effortless Alpha breathing. Practice Alpha Breathing
practices outlined in the rest of the blog.

Alpha, Theta, Delta Breathing- from indications of Mennenger Brain Institute and Jack Swartz

The Mennenger Brain Institute studied thousands of people and found certain breathing
patterns created consistently certain brain wave states.
Beta brain waves are emitted in the consciously alert, tense, afraid irritated state. Frequencies
range from 13 to 60 pulses per second in the Hertz scale.

Alpha brain waves arise in the state of physical and mental relaxation while still being aware of
what’s happening.  (7 to 13 pulses per second)

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Theta brain waves occur in either sleep or deep meditative state.  (4 to 7 pulses)

Delta brain waves occur with deep sleep, very deep meditation or unconsciousness (brain waves
emitted .1 to 4 cycles per second)

Experiencing life in the Beta brainwave state:

Most people spend most of their life in the Beta brain wave. The potential to experience more
aging, disease and pain increases in the Beta state. It’s easier to be more reactive, moody and
triggered by life in the Beta state.

“The calm, relaxed, centered, creative and intuitive alpha brainwave state:

In the Alpha state, we are calmer, centered, intuitive; able to absorb, learn and retain new
information- it’s ideal and feels so good! The attentive relaxation or Alpha state that effortless
breathing, meditation, yoga, qigong, tai chi, prayer, relaxation exercises, and hypnosis improves
the quality of each moment of our life. In alpha our body also produces more endorphins
helping dissolve pain or inflammation.

You may want to spend more time in Alpha, Theta and Delta brain waves. Why not?  My clients
enjoy and derive great benefits from a massage therapy session where the Alpha-Theta state is
also gently induced through Biofeedback and the Original Chi machine. Just imagine how much
more energy, peace, clarity of intuition, confidence this will help you experience? Also,
remember the more Alpha brainwaves, the more endorphins the body creates dissolving pain
and inflammation. Ninety percent of pain and disease is thought to be from inflammation and
congestion internally. Breathe your way to radiant health, longevity, inner peace and vitality.

Beta Brain waves: inhale to a 4 count      4   hold or pause         4  exhale            4  hold   (any
combination of this give you an beta brain wave)

Alpha Brain waves: inhale to a 4 count, pause or hold 8     exhale slowly with peaceful smile 8
hold 4             remember not to strain

Theta brain waves: inhale to a 4 count hold to a 8 count 16 count exhale with a soft smile to a 16
count and then pause to a 4 count

Delta brain waves: inhale to a 4 count                pause to an 8 count           exhale with a gentle

smile to a     24    and pause to a 4 count

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Don’t strain you can harm yourself.  I would suggest you do Alpha breathing techniques 7-30
minutes or more daily.  Combine it with abdomen breathing, yoga breathing madras and qigong
effortless breathing.  Slowly build up to Theta and Delta breaths after doing Alpha breathing at
least 6 months.

Meditation and prayer:  The focus or intent of heart and mind

Elevating and expansive feelings and thoughts empower your breath in many ways.  The healing
and transforming effects of affirmation, prayer, mantra, witnessing, mindfulness meditation,
gratefulness and love are so vitally important in an aware life.

Learning how to meditate:

“There are many paths to the top of the mountain. The view is the same.” There are many paths,
practices to realizing the vastness of love, peace, bliss and inner freedom of being One  (One
with God, Supreme Consciousness, Tao, Creator of All that is, Beloved, many are the Sacred
Names of that Eternal mystery).  As one Himalayan yoga said: “Be that what you really are.
Don’t pretend to be what you are not.”

I have been teaching meditation practices for over 30 years to people all spiritual, meditative
paths of all levels of experience and every religion.  It is an amazing challenge how to still the
restless mind so that you can experience that ineffable state of peace and bliss. If you’re
interested in sessions or private instruction either locally in Santa Rosa, Petaluma Ca. or phone
or Skype sessions from anywhere in the U.S. please contact me.
www.robertlabensart@gmail.com

In my upcoming blogs :    Effortlesss Breathing pt. 2 & 3 

I will relate:  how to use Effortless Breathing along with:

Akido breathing:  

Qigong Cellular Breathing technique:

Mantra Yogic breathing – Experiencing the Divine Presence

Inner Smile Qigong Breathing:

Emotional Release and Clearing through your Breath

I have found that many people who have been meditating for 10-20 years or more experience
such peace, inspiration and centering in their meditations, but have many difficult challenges in
applying it in their relationships and in their workplace. If only relationships would be as
peaceful and loving as meditation. Many of these people have told me that by learning and using
hypnosis, qigong, yoga emotional release and clearing techniques that it has not only made a
major difference in deepening their meditations but has tremendously helped improve the
quality of all their relationships.

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Please consider going on my website and click on either Hypnotherapy or Beyond
Hypnotherapy to find out more.  These approaches can be combined with effortless breathing
and meditation.

“Beyond Hypnotherapy techniques allow one to clear the intensity of upsetting feelings,

addictive or sabotaging behaviors, and trauma fairly easily. By combining effortless breathing,
meditation or prayer with these approaches, it enables you to release and clear the underlying
emotional causes behind the restless mind. It’s amazing how much these awareness techniques
help.

Experience private sessions in Hypnotherapy or in Emotional Release and Clearing techniques

In Santa Rosa, Petaluma, San Rafael, CA

Tumo Breathing Mastering Circulation Of Blood & Qi

An essay on generating internal heat & accelerating metabolic rate for healing

The Author, Jeff Primack, has studied with many Qigong masters from all over the world and
has taught more than 20,000 people in live seminars. He also maintains the Qigong.com
website.

The first time I saw Wim Hof was on the Today Show with Matt Lauer. He was immersed in a
tub of ice up to his neck in New York’s Times Square.

Matt asked Wim, “Are you cold?” Wim made no response – he was visibly deep in meditation.
Matt turned instead to the doctor on site monitoring Wim’s progress, asking “How does Wim
stay in the ice for 90 minutes and not get frostbite?” The doctor replied, “See Wim’s cheeks…
they are red. Wim has control of his blood circulation.”

Lauer was in utter disbelief. He demanded, “Wim, how are you doing this?” Wim turned, not
toward Matt, but looked directly into the camera and said, “I am using Tumo breathing to stay
warm.”

Immediately upon seeing this video I sent Wim Hof an email. At that time, I had been teaching
Tumo practices for 10 years and never had I seen a Westerner demonstrate its mastery to that
degree. In the email I requested he come to Miami and teach a small group of advanced Qigong

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instructors and myself his technique. When we spoke, Wim Hof was thrilled at the idea of
people wanting to attain this discipline and eagerly agreed to come to Miami And share his
knowledge with us.

On the first day of our training with Wim, we were blown away by how similar his breathing
technique was to our 9-Breath Method – a use of breath I had created years before that has in
turn become the institution for Supreme Science Qigong. The next few days were extremely
intense. On day five, our training was put to the test inside a -20 degree walk-in freezer, and
concluded as we, one by one, immersed ourselves in a tub of wet ice for 15 minutes. Every
instructor, including myself, was able to stay warm using the breathing method.

How did we do it? Well…when a person absorbs enough Qi, in this case through breath, the
body PULSATES WITH STONGER BLOOD FLOW and this, in its simplicity, is what causes
people to stay warm, even when immersed in a tub of ice. The medical and healing implications
of controlling blood flow to this degree are quite profound.

Most people are not interested in this particular type of “Ice Training,” however, the concept is
extremely important because mastering blood circulation is Really the heart of Qigong and all
true healing modalities. Chinese medicine teaches that “Qi moves the Blood.”

It maintains that nearly all diseases are a result of impaired blood circulation.When the human
body pulsates with blood and Qi at high enough levels; inflammation is reduced, hormones are
increased, bliss is experienced and physical pain is reduced and/or eliminated altogether. One
does not have to enter the ice to benefit from Tumo breathing. It can be performed in mediation
right from your living room.

More than 4,000 years ago Chinese medicine said, “Blood is the mother of Qi”.

The Old Testament Leviticus 17:11, “For the life of the flesh is in the Blood.”

In Chinese medicine, a Qi blockage is simply a small area in which the blood cannot flow; an
area where disease may occur. For example, people who may experience ‘knots’ in the stomach
or bad digestion usually find improved results of these symptoms with Qigong.

Blood can work itself through closed off capillaries when a person is relaxed and increasing Qi in
that area. Wherever Qi goes, blood follows.Normal healthy people use about 60 percent of their
circulatory system.When our Qi increases, this percentage also goes up. Microcirculation to the
brain and organs, when improved, greatly benefits our health. The electric effect of Qigong on
the nervous system also plays a role.

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Using breathing techniques like the 9-breath method we can create a full body vibration within
minutes. These electrical impulses travel along the nervous system and rejuvenate us.

Tumo breathing can be used in large groups of 500 or more people to permanently activate the
central nervous system. When people hold hands during these breathing techniques, an
Electrical impulse travels through the arm and out the palm, enabling people who normally
don’t feel energy to feel it strongly. By training our nervous sys-Tem through continued
exposure to this high level of Qi-energy we can move beyond healing our bodies and actually
begin the process of biological enlightenment.Let me explain.

Most Qigong masters believe that enlightenment is a biological process. It begins within the
physical body where it manifests as a warm pleasant humming in the abdomen throughout the
day. Older Qigong masters are often sexually active into their 90s.

Taking the physical body on the journey to enlightenment is what Qigong is all about. Only after
health problems have been removed or greatly lessened is it possible to enter states of
consciousness that otherwise were unattainable. In Qigong, these states of consciousness are
referred to as “gates.”

Passing through these gates allow our mind and body to merge with what I call the “True
Source” or what many call God, Tao etc. It is the white light that some have seen in mediation.
The light is healing, euphoric and many experience it while practicing advanced breathing
techniques.

Your body is the vehicle to enlightenment and entering higher states of consciousness. Qigong at
its highest levels will help people enter these gates and heal the physical, emotional and mental
levels of their being.

Thrangu Rinpoche on Gentle Threefold Breathing

The following article is from the Autumn, 2011 issue of the Snow Lion Newsletter and is for
historical reference only. You can see this in context of the original newsletter here.

USUALLY WHEN WE BREATHE, we breathe in and, as soon as we have finished breathing in,
we immediately start breathing out. And as soon as we have finished breathing out, we start
breathing in again. There is never any space or gap in between the in-breath and the out-breath.
Now, many different ways of focusing the mind on the breathing have been taught....There are
basically six methods taught in the abhidharma. But here we have something different from any
of those. This is called gentle threefold breathing. It is called gentle because there is no
particular attempt to manipulate the breathing, except that instead of breathing in and then

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immediately breathing out, after breathing in, you wait before you breathe out...here the
duration of the inhalation, of the retention, and of the exhalation should all be equal, three equal
periods within each complete breath.

In doing this, some people combine the phases of the breath with the mental repetition of the
three mantra syllables: OM AH HUM (HUNG)OM coordinated with the in-breath, AH with the
retention of the breath, and HUM (HUNG) with the out-breath. But what is most important
here is simply to recollect, as they occur, the inhalation, retention, and exhalation, so that, while
you are inhaling, you are aware that you are doing so; while you are retaining the breath, you are
aware that you are doing so. In the beginning, it is recommended that beginners start with
doing, for example, twenty-one of these breaths as a series, and it is important to practice with
enough mindfulness so that, while you breathe in, and so forth, you maintain an awareness of
what part of the breathing process you are in.

from The Ninth Karmapa s Ocean of Definitive Meaning by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche,
edited, introduced and annotated by Lama Tashi Namgyal.

The Vajra Recitation (Om Ah Hung Breathing)

1. Get into a comfortable position with a straight spine while binding the lower wind
upwards and pressing the upper wind downwards (Union of the Winds) called the Vase
Breathing by gently squeezing the anus.
2. Settling the mind at the navel and visualizing a flame the size of a lentil seed and also
think of the three channels. (The mind should be pinned onto the flame all the time with 70% of
the focus on the fire and 30% of the focus on the wind.)
3. Breath in while reciting OM mentally. The wind you breathed in flows into the left and
right channel, descending to the junction point where the three channels meet just below the
navel and enters the middle channel while slightly fanning the flame (the flame becomes
brighter and hotter).
4. Once the wind has entered the middle channel (do not need to direct the wind
consciously into the channels) hold the breath while mentally reciting AH and observing the
nature of the mind while keeping your mind on the flame. Hold the breath within a comfortable
time frame.
5. Breath out while mentally reciting HUNG. The wind reverses by traversing the left and
right channel to both nostrils to be breathed out.

Jack Schwarz – breathing exercises

Jack Schwarz’s book “Voluntary Controls” gives some fantastic and alternative insights into the
power of the mind as well as exercises on how to develop this power.

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Here is some specific info on breathing.

Jack Schwarz’s book – Voluntary Controls

Proper breathing will help to assure your spiritual development. You will have at your disposal
your full intuitive and energetic capacities, and your body will be fully expressing this undiluted,
unadulterated mental energy. Among the research projects in which I have participated, some
concentrated on the self-regulation of physiological processes through controlled breathing. We
found that the respiratory rate has a tremendous influence on states of consciousness. As the
subject of these experiments, I had electrodes attached to my body to monitor changes in the
electric patterns in my brain and in muscle tension and activity. We attempted to find out if cer-
tain brain wave patterns correlated with specific breathing patterns. We noted whether the
breaths were long or short and when most of the air was drawn into the upper lungs (thoracic
breathing) or deep into the lower lungs (abdominal breathing). The results showed that when
my brain waves were in the alpha state (usually experienced as a calm, relaxed state of mind),
thoracic breathing was equal to abdominal breathing, both rather slow and steady. In the theta
state (subjectively experienced as a deep, still, nonattached condition with some hypnogogic
images), the upper lungs were filling with air only as a side effect of the action of abdominal
breathing. Oddly enough, my diaphragm was exhibiting rapid rhythmic patterns of movement at
this time. When instructing my classes in different breathing techniques, I have found that
altering breathing patterns is very effective in creating alterations in consciousness. This is a
voluntary method of amplifying internal awareness as well as relaxing the body.

When we are not concentrating on our breathing, most of us are doing clavicular breathing.
Movement is in the upper chest, in the region of the thorax where the clavicles are. This shallow
type of breathing is very inadequate because it does not really fulfill our oxygen needs. The body
cannot relax if it is constantly craving oxygen. In the meditative state, the energy level of the
brain is not necessarily reduced, so oxygen is in as much demand as ever.

If we expand the area involved in breathing, deepen and broaden our intake using our
nonexistent wings, this is intercostal breathing. If we use the middle portion of the rib cage, the
lungs can fill themselves a bit more fully. Both shallow and intercostal breathing, however, are
characteristic of the beta brain wave state. Beta waves indicate a lack of concentrated energy;
there is too much tension being produced by this limited breathing to receive and disperse the
amount of oxygen inhaled.

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A more satisfactory pattern is dual breathing, which involves both the thorax and the
diaphragm. By bringing the abdomen into play, we give the diaphragm more space to move
downward during inhalation, allowing the lungs to fill themselves more fully. This begins to

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achieve our main objective, which is to make full use of all our capacities—physical, mental, and
spiritual. When our lungs are thoroughly filled by each breath, even the most sensitive parts of
our organism will receive prompt delivery of the energy they require in order to operate at their
greatest potential.

The breathing pattern that is most suitable for meditation is paradoxical breathing, which is
mostly abdominal and slightly thoracic. When an individual breathing in this pattern is
monitored for brain waves and muscle activity in the chest and abdomen, these two indicators
become synchronized. The energy patterns relayed to the monitoring machines (the
electroencephalograph and the electrocardiograph) by the electrodes on the head and body are
aligned, harmonized. This type of breathing may be contrary to the way you think you should go
about consciously increasing your intake. It is not enough to expand your chest, to fill the lungs
fully. The diaphragm has to be allowed to expand fully as well, and this can only be done by
expanding the abdomen to make room for the expanded diaphragm.

To begin paradoxical breathing, inhale deeply, and voluntarily pull in your abdomen. When you
exhale, push it out again. This movement is contrary to normal abdominal breathing, during
which the abdomen appears to expand as the lower lungs fill with air. It takes conscious effort to
reverse this normal pattern and breathe paradoxically.

Next, begin a cycle of timed breaths. The first breath is characteristic of intercostal breathing,
which dominates in the alpha state, with inhalation time equal to exhalation time. Mentally
count the time for each movement:

Breathe in: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Hold in the breath: 1, 2, 3, 4

Exhale: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

As you concentrate, your inhalation will quicken, leading to this new pattern:

Inhale: 1, 2, 3, 4

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Hold: 1, 2, 3, 4

Exhale: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Then:

Inhale: 1, 2, 3, 4

Hold: 1, 2, 3, 4

Exhale: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

The ability to extend the exhalation so much longer than the inhalation shows that the
inhalation must be very deep. The more oxygen you are able to hold in after a quick intake, the
slower and longer your exhalation can be. The final stage of timed breathing that must be
accomplished and set as a pattern for meditation is:

Inhale: 1, 2, 3, 4

Hold: 1,2, 3, 4

Exhale: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,

17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,

30, 31, 32

Once you have achieved this pattern and your body can exercise it comfortably, cease
concentrating on it. You have regulated your breath, and it is time to move to the next stage of
meditation. Even at this preparatory stage, the three-part cycle of bringing something that is
unconscious to your awareness, regulating it voluntarily, and letting it go must be completed.
Trust that it will retain the new form you have given it. In other words, trust yourself.

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The next set of exercises will focus on another quality of breath. Visualizations that use the
image of inhalation and exhalation can make you aware of the subtler psychic functions of
breath as an energy that nourishes and cleanses you. Use these images (or other visualizations
that you have created) whenever you feel that the particular awareness they offer you is helpful
to your meditation. Alone, they are effective in producing a relaxed but energized state of being.
Remember that all the exercises and methods in this book are ingredients that you can mix in
your own ways for your own purposes.

While you are practicing these exercises (or any meditative technique), train yourself to
disregard your breathing pattern. If you happen to notice that it is no longer in the paradoxical
rhythm, do not stop your meditation in order to correct it. Complete the exercise. During the
period of review, consider why a different pattern instated itself. Then, on the basis of the
effectiveness of the meditation, evaluate this other pattern.

Envision the air that you are inhaling to be a pale blue cloud. Inhale all that cloud. Then exhale
it, carefully noticing any color changes in the cloud. Perhaps it will have turned pale gray,
perhaps some other tone. This shows that you have absorbed the nutrients within it while it was
in your body.

Expand your breathing apparatus from your nose to your entire covering, the skin. Imagine that
all the pores are inhaling and exhaling. You can feel the tingling electric quality of pores popping
open and closing up over every part of your body. It is very much like the sensation you
experience after you have been out in the snow and suddenly come into a warm room. Feel every
part of the surface of your body breathing in and breathing out the cleansing, vitalizing oxygen
in the air surrounding you.

In your imagination, place a crystal or jewel on the center of your forehead. Now breathe
through the jewel. Notice whether the inflow and outflow of air are colored. Do they undergo
any changes in color? What happens to the jewel itself? Imagine it to be one color, then another,
and observe what effect the breath moving in and out has upon the color of the jewel.

When you have completed any visualization or meditation, begin to come back to waking
consciousness by transferring your focus from your imagination to your breathing, following it
in and out, until it brings you into the external world.

How to Reach a Theta State of Mind Without Machines

By Tom Von Deck

It is easy to reach a Theta state of mind without binaural beats, metronomes or other nicknacks.
Here you will learn how to enter a Theta state with a quick visualization exercise PLUS how to
use it for intuitive work.

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A Theta mind state gives a surprisingly powerful boost to intuitive work and your ability to
access the subconscious mind.

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First of all, you know what a Theta state is, right? Theta brainwaves correspond to a state of
mind associated with dreams and waking dreams, as well as a deep meditative state.

Theta brainwaves are slower than the Beta and Alpha activity we normally have in daily life.
They vibrate at between 4 and 8 cycles per second. Theta states are normally responsible for
those “Eureka!” moments of well known inventors and scientists. They are highly creative states.

In a Theta state, you tap into the creative and intuitive resources of your mind. When you can
consciously control this state of mind, then problem solving and tapping into your intuition
becomes much easier. Goal achievement also becomes a much easier and more efficient process.

It really is super duper simple to achieve a Theta state without any gadgets or machines. I mean
it. Honest. Just do the following visualization.

We’ll start with the optional grounding part. It is important to visualize going into the Earth, at
least some of the time. Entering a Theta state of mind through this type of exercise can be very
un-grounding. If you do this visualization often, you’ll want to do yourself a favor and keep
grounded.

Grounding Exercise to Prepare for the Theta State

Credit: B.A. Bowen

Credit: B.A. Bowen

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1. Close your eyes and relax. Imagine yourself as a ball of white light in the center of your chest.

2. Travel downward toward the belly, gathering your body consciousness into that ball. The ball
becomes bigger and brighter as you gather that consciousness.

3. Travel down through the groin and through the thighs, knees, ankles and feet. You continue to
become larger as you do this.

4. Go through the bottoms of the feet until you’re a few feet into the Earth.

5. Go a few hundred feet deeper into the Earth’s crust. Find a very large rock.

6. Attach a cord to yourself. Attach the other end of the cord to this very large rock.

7. Head back up to the bottoms of your feet. Go back up through your feet, ankles, knees, groin
and belly. Gather your body consciousness even more.

Now you’re back where you started. Now we will continue with the beginning of the Theta
exercise. This part is not optional.

Visualization for Entering a Theta Mind State

1. You are a ball of white light in the middle of your chest. Your eyes are closed.

2. Travel upward toward your neck, gathering your body consciousness into your ball. You, as
the ball, are growing bigger and brighter as you do this.

4. Go through the jaw and the head while continuing to gather the body consciousness. Stop at
the fontanel (crown) at the top of your head.

5. With a little bit of a pop, exit the fontanel and go three feet above your head. Look around.
You are now in a Theta state, but we’re not done yet. We need to reinforce this state of mind.

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6. Go up a few hundred feet and look around.

7. Keep going past the sun and the moon and through millions of galaxies.

8. Go past the universe.

9. In the distance is a ball of bluish white light. As you approach it, this ball gets bigger and
bigger until it’s right there in front of you.

10. Enter this light. You are in a whole new plane. Keep going through this light until it is all that
exists.

11. Let the light wash through you and cleanse all your tension and impurities. Bathe in the light.

As soon as you, as the little ball of light, exited through the crown, you reached a Theta
brainwave state. You went up further, past the galaxies, past the universe, into the ball of light to
the place where only the light exists. The extra steps in the visualization are to ensure that you
are solidly in Theta.

You can use this Theta visualization as a meditation by sitting in the place of light that you
entered in the visualization. You can also ask questions to tap into your intuition and solve
problems, such as “What do I have to do today to get that job”.

If you practice visualization for manifestion work, you can do your visualizations in the place of
light you entered in the exercise. This will enhance your ability to achieve your goal.

When you ask questions or visualize a goal after reaching a Theta state, do not be impatient.
Intuitions will come through visual, kinesthetic, “direct knowing” and/or audio channels – but
not necessarily right away.

Intuitions may come within a few seconds or minutes, or they may come the next day. They will
manifest more quickly with practice. The key is to let go and allow these things to come up.

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Do not try to interpret what comes up. Just take note of everything that goes through your mind.
Write them down if you have to. Let your conscious mind process the information. Then,
suddenly, you may have a “Eureka!” moment.

I find it easiest to use this method to answer other people’s questions. Try partnering up and let
your partner ask the questions. Don’t interpret anything. Just tell them exactly what you see,
feel, “know”, etc – no matter how ridiculous it seems. The feedback may surprise you.

For example, if you see a kangaroo playing double dutch with two little girls, tell them that. They
might just say, “Oh my God! I once saw a kangaroo playing double dutch with two little girls
when I was five years old!” Or the connection may be more subtle but profoundly meaningful.

If you partner up, rap up the session by going back up to the light and letting it rinse you.

If you want to solidly anchor yourself in a state of mind that is conducive to achieving your goals
and really get the most out of the Theta brainwave state, I would recommend a solid meditation
practice.

The exercise you learned is an adaptation of Vianna Stibal’s Theta Healing visualization. The
basis of Theta Healing is to reach a Theta mind state and use that for all kinds of applications
from changing subconscious beliefs to spiritual healing and psychic work. Her visualization is a
little more elaborate to allow for advanced Theta state applications.

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