Your Supercomputer Brain

Use your brain correctly and achieve more success

by Ed Bernd Jr.

Your brain is a huge storehouse of information that you can use to help you make decisions about every aspect of your life...if you know how to access this information.

In fact, your mind can do more than detect the information that is stored on your own brain neurons. Your intuitive mind can detect any information - no matter where it is - if it needs that information to help you make the correct decision.

In order to access all of that information, you need to be able to function at the alpha brain wave level with conscious awareness.

Jose Silva, a lay scientist from Laredo, Texas, was the first person to realize the power of the alpha level and develop a system to harness that power.

Silva owned an electronics repair business when he first began to study psychology back in the late 1940s. In his studies, he read about a device called an electroencephalograph - EEG for short - that measures the pulsating electrical activity of the brain.

Sometimes these brain waves pulsate rapidly - 20 times per second (cps) when you are awake and active. Sometimes they pulsate slowly, as low as one-half of a cps when you are in deepest sleep.

The first frequency ever detected, by a scientist named Hans Berger, was 10 cps. He named it the "alpha rhythm." Later as he got more sensitive equipment, he discovered other frequencies: beta, 14 to 20 cps. Theta, 5 to 7 cps. Delta, below 5 cps.

Alpha was the first frequency detected because it was the strongest. It is also the most rhythmic, the most synchronous.

To Jose Silva, this made sense, because the 10 cycles alpha frequency is right at the center of the brain frequency spectrum.

Interesting, Berger's first subject was a young boy. The overall predominant brain frequency is young people is lower than it is in older people. The overall predominant brain frequency of a ten year old is ten cps. The overall predominant brain frequency of a five year old is five cps. The overall predominant brain frequency of a mature adult is 20 cps.

Because of his electronics background, Silva reasoned that the strongest frequency would be the best one for thinking. There would be the least impedance to the flow of electrical current -- and to the thought process, he suspected.

In order to learn what was happening, he obtained an EEG and began using it to see what was actually going on inside people's heads.

He brought individuals into his laboratory and connected them to the EEG, and then talked with them. He would ask them questions, and notice what their brain frequency was when sought answers.

Most people - about 90 percent - would remain at the 20 cps beta brain wave frequency as they thought about how to answer questions.

But a few people - about 1 in 10 - would dip into alpha as they thought about the question, and then return to beta and give their answer.

Silva began to notice something about the people whose minds seemed to search the alpha regions of the brain for answers: They tended to be more successful than the other 90 percent.

"I realized," Silva explained later, "that this indicated there is more information available at alpha than there is at beta."

To confirm his theory, he worked with a number of children. When children have their eyes focused, they are at beta. But it is very easy to guide them to alpha. So Silva would ask them questions, and then notice how much information they could give him while at beta. Then he would guide them to alpha, and there - at alpha - they could add to their answers.

"For instance," he explained, "I would ask them how many things they could do to clean a car. They would tell me they could wash it, and vacuum it. They would tell me everything they could think of. Then I would take them to alpha, and they would come up with more ideas. They could clean the hubcaps. Open the hood and clean the engine."

When you learn to enter the alpha level, you can detect the information you need to make decisions about every aspect of your life, including:

*Health decisions

*The optimum exercise program for you

*The ideal nutritional program

*Better relationships

*Business decisions

*Personal growth and fulfillment

*Your purpose in life

Jose Silva developed seminars and home study programs to teach people to enter the alpha level. He also developed a way you can learn on your own. It takes longer -- 40 days. Here's how:

For the next 40 days, when you first wake up in the morning, sit up in bed (go to the bathroom first if you need to), close your eyes, and count backwards.

*For the first ten days, count backwards from 100 to 1.

*For the next ten days, count backwards from 50 to 1.

*For the next ten days, count backwards from 25 to 1.

*For the final ten days, count backwards from 10 to 1.

After the first ten days, you can add an extra exercise: Mentally project yourself to your ideal place of relaxation. This is a place where you have been before, and have been passive and relaxed. It could be a favorite chair, the beach, a bubble bath.

After the 40 days of practice, just count backwards from 5 to 1, relax for a few moments at your ideal place of relaxation, and then start thinking about the decisions you need to make. Maintain minimum mental activity as you think about your situation. If you feel yourself getting a little excited, then do a 10 to 1 countdown to relax again.

At the relaxed alpha level, you can access more of the information stored on your brain neurons about what is going on with your body and your life.

You can also learn to use your intuition reliably and accurately to help you make any decisions you need to make.

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