What Are Theta Brain Wave ?
Theta brain waves are the slowest brainwaves and are the brainwave state of the subconscious mind. likes what i write in the past on the "Konwledge base" article, this is the one category about them.
Theta waves mostly occur, when we aren't actively thinking. They
nearly always occur in sleep during dreams and in meditations. So, these
activities all require some sort of non-verbal thinking, which is
mostly shutting off the brain.
There is one exception to it, though. People, who are engaging in a
creative activity such as painting, drawing, making music (either
thinking of it or playing it on an instrument) have a lot of theta brain
waves activity (and alpha waves). Creativity is a subconscious process
and thus the mind has a lot of theta waves.
Importance of Theta Waves
Theta
waves play a very important role in the human mind. They represent the
subconscious mind and everything what has to do with it. Stressed out
people spend too much time in the beta brain wave state of mind. This
results into a huge deficit in alpha and theta waves (in other words,
they were not able to have some time for themselves in order to relax).
Consequences can be that the brain produces only little to no alpha and
theta waves. People often experience this as not being able to really
connect to their emotional selves or to their creativity, for example.
Another phenomenon is the so called "Alpha Block". There are theta brain
waves and a lot of beta brain waves, but no alpha waves. Thus,
subconscious material (unfulfilled creativity, memories, emotions and so
on) cannot become conscious, since alpha waves work as a bridge between
the two minds.
So, having a healthy amount of theta waves (and alpha waves) is necessary to be able to "access" our subconscious mind.
Theta waves do play a very important role in the human's self-healing
abilities and in (super-)learning. Since these topics are too long for
this article, I recommend you to read the article on the correlation of
theta waves and self-healing and the article on super-learning with
theta waves.
Theta Waves in Meditation
Theta
waves play a key role in meditation. When we start to shut off our busy
minds and simply concentrate on either our breathing or on the mere
fact that We Are (or on something else), the amount of beta brain waves
reduces to a minimum and our brain produces a lot more alpha and theta
waves. After some time, the meditator will access the theta state of
mind, which is very exciting (in my opinion). Creativity and learning
are enhanced and one might also "see" very personal pictures. In
therapy, accessing a deep level of the theta mind can be very useful to
treat difficult mental problems.
How to increase Theta Waves in your brain
There
are two ways to increase theta waves. One way is listening to binaural
beats. The other one is, let's say, a natural way of increasing theta
waves.
The "natural" way are special meditations. On YouTube, they are
called "fantasy guided meditations". These meditations are very sutiable
for beginners. What one does is listening to a person, who tells you
what to imagine. You are often required to imagine a nice, safe
landscape and then you start exploring it. Important words are "through,
around, in, to" and so on (words that imply deeper exploration). Guided
meditations work even better when they are combined with a binaural
beat track.
For each purpose, there are many guided meditations. If you think,
there's something deep inside you, a feeling or emotion, that you should
connect with, but can't, then it is advisable to look for exploring
emotions based meditations.
In the book "The High Performance Mind", one can find many really
helpful scripts for guided meditations (the book has also a lot of
scientific information on brainwaves).
The alternative would be simply listening to theta binaural beats.
The brain becomes stimulated to a frequency the better you can simply
turn off your brain from any random thoughts (it is not easy to "turn
off" your brain, so unexperienced meditators might have some troubles at
the beginning). The following section will show you which frequency
will give you which benefits mostly. Of course, all frequencies will
give you more or less all of the benefits, but each has its focus.
Benefits of Theta Waves with Frequency list
- 8 Hz - good for learning new information; good for self-visualization in self-healing
- 7.5 Hz - creative thought of art, music, maths, science; good for guided meditations; Awareness of the Self
- 7 Hz - treatment of sleep disturbances; mental and astral projections; linked with psychic abilities
- 6.5 Hz - center of theta frequency; activates the creative frontal lobe
- 6 Hz - long term memory stimulation; helps to reduce unwillingness to work (you become less lazy; I tried that out and it worked in my case!)
- 5.5 Hz - shows vision of growth needed ("Inner Guidance")
- 5 Hz - unusual problem solving; reduces amount of sleep needed; very relaxed states are attained
- 4.5 Hz - wakeful dreaming, vivid imagery
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