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S017b - Brainwave Sound Frequencies
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The Consciousness Code: Sound Frequency and Synchronicity
A potential pathway to synchronicity: sound frequency and entrainment
https://www.wholehuman.emanatepresence.com/s017equi1.html
EquiSync brainwave entrainment Soundscape from the Vibrasphere collection:
https://youtu.be/mSj_DdRbolU?si=OvVunDi1F1lCHZbt
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EquiSync Soundscapes are one of three main parts of the AHA! daily practice. I combine them with a mantra and divination method. The Soundscapes also stand alone and offer a rich variety to select from. The Soundscape linked is one of my favorites, for a Delta brainwave pattern. All that's needed is a simple headset with no bass boost or noise cancellation, as pictured.
KEY POINTS
Frequency is the number of repeats of a sound wave. It evokes an immediate subconscious emotional response.
Rhythm, the carrier of frequency, is embedded in physiological processes, social, and sensory inputs.
Entrainment is a rhythm that mirrors the rhythm of an oscillating body to synchronize with another system.
Sound frequency and entrainment could be forms of nature by which to investigate synchronicity.
Written by Bernard D. Beitman M.D. and Ruslana Remennikova, MS.
Since the beginning of human civilization, history has shown a correlation between sound and cognitive, mental, and physical wellness.1 In most experiences, sound is part of a larger context. In terms of physics, a sound is composed of a waveform called frequency expressed in Hertz (Hz), a standard international measurement. Although frequency is used as a measurement in electromagnetic radiation, computing, and other electrical technologies, for sound, one Hz is equal to one completed cycle per second or the number of times a sound wave repeats itself in one second. Frequency is the overlap of vibration and synchronization in the fields of neuroscience, biochemistry, physics, and sonics.
When an object is in motion, its oscillating movement is a vibration. Frequency is the measure of how many times per second that motion repeats. For instance, when a harp string is plucked (e.g. the A above middle C musical note), its vibrating movement emits a frequency of 440 Hz. The musical note vibrates at a frequency of 440 Hertz or 440 regular back and forths per second.
Frequency elicits an immediate response in humans -- 30 milliseconds faster than visuals2 -- and sets the tone for the emotional state of an experience. The conducive behavior of frequency is evident in the language of brain waves. There are five widely recognized brain wave states characterized by their frequency bands: Gamma (>35Hz; concentration), beta (12-35 Hz; busy, active mind), alpha (8-12 Hz; reflective, restful), theta (4-8 Hz; deeply relaxed, dreamy), delta (0.5-4 Hz; unconscious).
Psychology and Frequency
A 900-adult study performed by Sentient Decision and Made Music studio found that the subconscious emotional appeal of a sound is 86% correlated with our conscious desire to engage with an experience or avoid it.3 The experiment quantified the impact of sound on people’s subconscious emotional responses as it relates to a variety of experiences using a refined computerized technique called Implicit Association Testing (IAT). IAT measures the stretch of an individual’s associations between concepts and emotions, in this particular study using sound frequency as the variable.
The experiment evaluated twenty short-form sounds on an emotional appeal and respondent’s desire to engage or avoid an experience associated with them. The subset consisted of ten naturally-occurring sounds and ten designed sounds associated intentionally with a product or brand (e.g. a home security keypad alert). It coupled visual queues and response time, prompting participants to accurately sort emotions, primed by a short sound clip. The results suggest a method to explore conscious desire (experiences that we seek out) and introduce a fascinating synchrony.
The most unpleasant sound tested was a pained scream and the baby laughter was the most pleasant. (3) The study found that the subconscious emotional appeal of a sound is highly correlated with our conscious desire to engage with an experience or avoid it. The synchronization between emotional valence and sound introduces the physics concept of entrainment. Like Gravity, entrainment, the synchronization of two more rhythmic cycles, exists everywhere around us, all the time.
Entrainment
Although the aforementioned study examines the emotional correlations to sound frequency, the experience of an emotion generally accompanies a physiological or behavior change in the body and state of being. Clinical research demonstrates the positive effects of low frequency within hemodynamic, neurological, and musculoskeletal systems using rhythmic sensory stimulation. 4Rhythmic sensory stimulation is broadly conceived as entrainment.5
Entrainment is an organic rhythm that mirrors the rhythm of the stimuli. In nature, a maple leaf will fly the same speed as the wind gusts. A stick will float as fast or slow as the river’s current. In moon cycle synchronization, women who spend a lot of time together menstruate at the same time.
In sound healing, the brain wave frequency locks into phase with an oscillating sound frequency from the use of instruments to vibrate in a calmer, harmonic state. When brainwave entrainment elicits this relaxation response, the body’s metabolism and circulation slows down, lowering the heart rate, pulse rate, and blood pressure and can even lead to a drop in body temperature.
This physiological phenomenon is not only the basis of inducing deep relaxation, enhanced focus, trance, reflection, and sleep, but also introduces a broader conversation about the heart of the connection between the science of consciousness and synchronicity.
To explore the waves of synchronicity through entrainment in meditative practices, it is important to consider meditation as it relates not only to the business, education, and self-help cultures in the West, but also as a system of rhythmic vibration on the neurobiological development of the brain. A search on the word "meditation" on pubmed yields nearly 10,000 articles. One study revealed the brain’s activation during focused attention, open monitoring, and self-transcending meditations by distinct EEG patterns.
Another study estimated that the brains of meditators at the age of 50 are 7.5 years younger than those of controls. Therefore, it is evident that the effects of entrainment (or the ability of an oscillating body to synchronize with another system) in a meditative practice directly affect brain patterns, consciousness, mindfulness, and awareness.
Given their omnipresent and ubiquitous nature, rhythms are embedded in physiological processes, social interactions, and sensory inputs. Synchronicity is a rhythmic organic form of nature. Similar to any vibrating system, synchronicity is characterized by rhythmic stimulation.
In the next article, synchronicity will be examined through the lens of consciousness, awareness, and the neurobiology of meditation as it relates to sonics and entrainment in order to coalesce the recognition of rhythmic patterns in nature.
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LINKS AND WAYS TO SUPPORT
Drumscape by EquiSync: (used with mantra):
https://youtu.be/dx8Qb1tAtzE?si=CIT2nmKn9jYKuTG0
Emanate Presence on X: https://twitter.com/EmanatePresence
Oneself Mantra YouTube Video:
https://youtu.be/GBBmxJbzONw?si=5iHOZoSudaPwdCtJ
Like (if you like), Reply and Repost
Website: https://www.wholehuman.emanatepresence.com/
"Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much." - Helen Keller
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
#AQ #EQ #Growth #KnowThyself #Mindfulness #Soul #Source 👍
The 'AHA!' practice has three main parts --
1. Mantra: 'A Call to Higher Aspects of Oneself'
2. Brainwave entrainment soundscapes to reduce brain noise (EquiSync recommended)
3. Divination: A way to access Superconsciousness for specific purposes
A dodecahedron die (pictured below👇) is part of a daily practice that helps return focus to constant felt connection with higher aspects of Oneself. The art is generated by @fuups.
REPRINTED FROM PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
The Consciousness Code: Sound Frequency and Synchronicity
A potential pathway to synchronicity: sound frequency and entrainment
https://www.wholehuman.emanatepresence.com/s017equi1.html
EquiSync brainwave entrainment Soundscape from the Vibrasphere collection:
https://youtu.be/mSj_DdRbolU?si=OvVunDi1F1lCHZbt
G
EquiSync Soundscapes are one of three main parts of the AHA! daily practice. I combine them with a mantra and divination method. The Soundscapes also stand alone and offer a rich variety to select from. The Soundscape linked is one of my favorites, for a Delta brainwave pattern. All that's needed is a simple headset with no bass boost or noise cancellation, as pictured.
KEY POINTS
Frequency is the number of repeats of a sound wave. It evokes an immediate subconscious emotional response.
Rhythm, the carrier of frequency, is embedded in physiological processes, social, and sensory inputs.
Entrainment is a rhythm that mirrors the rhythm of an oscillating body to synchronize with another system.
Sound frequency and entrainment could be forms of nature by which to investigate synchronicity.
Written by Bernard D. Beitman M.D. and Ruslana Remennikova, MS.
Since the beginning of human civilization, history has shown a correlation between sound and cognitive, mental, and physical wellness.1 In most experiences, sound is part of a larger context. In terms of physics, a sound is composed of a waveform called frequency expressed in Hertz (Hz), a standard international measurement. Although frequency is used as a measurement in electromagnetic radiation, computing, and other electrical technologies, for sound, one Hz is equal to one completed cycle per second or the number of times a sound wave repeats itself in one second. Frequency is the overlap of vibration and synchronization in the fields of neuroscience, biochemistry, physics, and sonics.
When an object is in motion, its oscillating movement is a vibration. Frequency is the measure of how many times per second that motion repeats. For instance, when a harp string is plucked (e.g. the A above middle C musical note), its vibrating movement emits a frequency of 440 Hz. The musical note vibrates at a frequency of 440 Hertz or 440 regular back and forths per second.
Frequency elicits an immediate response in humans -- 30 milliseconds faster than visuals2 -- and sets the tone for the emotional state of an experience. The conducive behavior of frequency is evident in the language of brain waves. There are five widely recognized brain wave states characterized by their frequency bands: Gamma (>35Hz; concentration), beta (12-35 Hz; busy, active mind), alpha (8-12 Hz; reflective, restful), theta (4-8 Hz; deeply relaxed, dreamy), delta (0.5-4 Hz; unconscious).
Psychology and Frequency
A 900-adult study performed by Sentient Decision and Made Music studio found that the subconscious emotional appeal of a sound is 86% correlated with our conscious desire to engage with an experience or avoid it.3 The experiment quantified the impact of sound on people’s subconscious emotional responses as it relates to a variety of experiences using a refined computerized technique called Implicit Association Testing (IAT). IAT measures the stretch of an individual’s associations between concepts and emotions, in this particular study using sound frequency as the variable.
The experiment evaluated twenty short-form sounds on an emotional appeal and respondent’s desire to engage or avoid an experience associated with them. The subset consisted of ten naturally-occurring sounds and ten designed sounds associated intentionally with a product or brand (e.g. a home security keypad alert). It coupled visual queues and response time, prompting participants to accurately sort emotions, primed by a short sound clip. The results suggest a method to explore conscious desire (experiences that we seek out) and introduce a fascinating synchrony.
The most unpleasant sound tested was a pained scream and the baby laughter was the most pleasant. (3) The study found that the subconscious emotional appeal of a sound is highly correlated with our conscious desire to engage with an experience or avoid it. The synchronization between emotional valence and sound introduces the physics concept of entrainment. Like Gravity, entrainment, the synchronization of two more rhythmic cycles, exists everywhere around us, all the time.
Entrainment
Although the aforementioned study examines the emotional correlations to sound frequency, the experience of an emotion generally accompanies a physiological or behavior change in the body and state of being. Clinical research demonstrates the positive effects of low frequency within hemodynamic, neurological, and musculoskeletal systems using rhythmic sensory stimulation. 4Rhythmic sensory stimulation is broadly conceived as entrainment.5
Entrainment is an organic rhythm that mirrors the rhythm of the stimuli. In nature, a maple leaf will fly the same speed as the wind gusts. A stick will float as fast or slow as the river’s current. In moon cycle synchronization, women who spend a lot of time together menstruate at the same time.
In sound healing, the brain wave frequency locks into phase with an oscillating sound frequency from the use of instruments to vibrate in a calmer, harmonic state. When brainwave entrainment elicits this relaxation response, the body’s metabolism and circulation slows down, lowering the heart rate, pulse rate, and blood pressure and can even lead to a drop in body temperature.
This physiological phenomenon is not only the basis of inducing deep relaxation, enhanced focus, trance, reflection, and sleep, but also introduces a broader conversation about the heart of the connection between the science of consciousness and synchronicity.
To explore the waves of synchronicity through entrainment in meditative practices, it is important to consider meditation as it relates not only to the business, education, and self-help cultures in the West, but also as a system of rhythmic vibration on the neurobiological development of the brain. A search on the word "meditation" on pubmed yields nearly 10,000 articles. One study revealed the brain’s activation during focused attention, open monitoring, and self-transcending meditations by distinct EEG patterns.
Another study estimated that the brains of meditators at the age of 50 are 7.5 years younger than those of controls. Therefore, it is evident that the effects of entrainment (or the ability of an oscillating body to synchronize with another system) in a meditative practice directly affect brain patterns, consciousness, mindfulness, and awareness.
Given their omnipresent and ubiquitous nature, rhythms are embedded in physiological processes, social interactions, and sensory inputs. Synchronicity is a rhythmic organic form of nature. Similar to any vibrating system, synchronicity is characterized by rhythmic stimulation.
In the next article, synchronicity will be examined through the lens of consciousness, awareness, and the neurobiology of meditation as it relates to sonics and entrainment in order to coalesce the recognition of rhythmic patterns in nature.
###
LINKS AND WAYS TO SUPPORT
Drumscape by EquiSync: (used with mantra):
https://youtu.be/dx8Qb1tAtzE?si=CIT2nmKn9jYKuTG0
Emanate Presence on X: https://twitter.com/EmanatePresence
Oneself Mantra YouTube Video:
https://youtu.be/GBBmxJbzONw?si=5iHOZoSudaPwdCtJ
Like (if you like), Reply and Repost
Website: https://www.wholehuman.emanatepresence.com/
"Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much." - Helen Keller
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
#AQ #EQ #Growth #KnowThyself #Mindfulness #Soul #Source 👍
The 'AHA!' practice has three main parts --
1. Mantra: 'A Call to Higher Aspects of Oneself'
2. Brainwave entrainment soundscapes to reduce brain noise (EquiSync recommended)
3. Divination: A way to access Superconsciousness for specific purposes
A dodecahedron die (pictured below👇) is part of a daily practice that helps return focus to constant felt connection with higher aspects of Oneself. The art is generated by @fuups.
S017a - Flow by EquiSync, Part One
When I first learned of EquiSync in 2013, they were just starting.
My partner and I were houseparenting six at-risk teenaged boys, and I tested several devices and modalities on myself, including HeartMath and various types of brain entrainment. In the end I abandoned all as none seemed to fit the boys or me.
Recently, EquiSync popped up by synchronicity on my screen, and now apparently I'm ready. The technology has come a long way, and their Deepereum is beautifully customizable. The more I explore and experiment, the more is discovered and realized. After six days I'm noticing significantly improved sleeping patterns and other benefits. Just before posting, I experienced a pleasant altered state while using this tool.
This post is the first half of an email newsletter from EquiSync. There's no affiliation, and it's not monetized.
REPRINTED FROM EMAIL NEWSLETTER BY EQUISYNC
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." — Lao Tzu
The "Flow State," Meditation, & Ultimate Happiness
His shoes rhythmically pounding the pavement. No thoughts enter his mind. Heartbeat and stride in perfect sync. Time doesn't exist. No awareness of himself or the world around him. Mile after mile, he's totally immersed in the experience. Nothing else exists. Flow.
In his quest to "reverse engineer" happiness, Hungarian psychologist Dr. Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi interviewed a series of world class mountain climbers, chess players, tennis players, ballet dancers, surgeons, and other "self-actualized" high performers.
He outlined his incredible findings in the book "Flow: The Psychology of Happiness," becoming an overnight bestseller. So, what's this flow state all about?
In an interview with Wired magazine, Dr. Csíkszentmihályi described flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you are using your skills to the utmost."
Why Flow Makes Us Happy
Why does flow make us so happy? According to Dr. Csíkszentmihályi, the human mind can only process about 110 bits of information per second. For example, listening to someone speak takes about 60 bits, the reason we can't listen to two people at once.
It's when we are making, doing, creating, and/or playing that our mind has no room for anything else. That's when our full abilities get put to use, all 110 bits per second.
And if we love our chosen activity and are good at it, whatever "it" may be (usually a favorite hobby, sport, or creative endeavor), then our magical "flow" state gets unlocked. And this makes us happy.
We have all heard of the "starving" artist, writer, musician, or composer who would get so lost in their work that they forgot to eat, drink, and sleep. For them, when words, musical notes, and colors "flow" from their consciousness, then nothing else really matters.
So, how long does this "high" last? According to Harvard psychologist Dr. Teresa Amabile, achieving an uninterrupted creative flow state leaves us feeling ecstatic, motivated, and fulfilled for (up to) three days afterward. A powerful drug indeed!
Think back to a time when you experienced flow. What were you doing? Were you gardening, painting, or hiking? Maybe you were dancing, woodworking, or writing? Did your sense of self fade into oblivion? Did time disappear? Did the world drop out of sight? Were your mind, body, and soul absorbed by the moment?
The "Flowing" Brain
In the 30+ years since the publishing of Dr. Csíkszentmihályi's groundbreaking book, neuroscientists have developed a much deeper understanding into the "flow state" brain workings....
(Continued on the Next Post)
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LINKS AND WAYS TO SUPPORT
Drumscape by EquiSync: (used with mantra):
https://youtu.be/dx8Qb1tAtzE?si=CIT2nmKn9jYKuTG0
Emanate Presence on X: https://twitter.com/EmanatePresence
Oneself Mantra YouTube Video:
https://youtu.be/GBBmxJbzONw?si=5iHOZoSudaPwdCtJ
Like (if you like), Reply and Repost
Website: https://www.wholehuman.emanatepresence.com/
"Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much." - Helen Keller
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
#AQ #EQ #Growth #KnowThyself #Mindfulness #Soul #Source 👍
The 'AHA!' practice has three main parts --
1. Mantra: 'A Call to Higher Aspects of Oneself'
2. Brainwave entrainment soundscapes to reduce brain noise (EquiSync recommended)
3. Divination: A way to access Superconsciousness for specific purposes
A dodecahedron die (pictured below👇) is part of a daily practice that helps return focus to constant felt connection with higher aspects of Oneself. The art is generated by @fuups.
When I first learned of EquiSync in 2013, they were just starting.
My partner and I were houseparenting six at-risk teenaged boys, and I tested several devices and modalities on myself, including HeartMath and various types of brain entrainment. In the end I abandoned all as none seemed to fit the boys or me.
Recently, EquiSync popped up by synchronicity on my screen, and now apparently I'm ready. The technology has come a long way, and their Deepereum is beautifully customizable. The more I explore and experiment, the more is discovered and realized. After six days I'm noticing significantly improved sleeping patterns and other benefits. Just before posting, I experienced a pleasant altered state while using this tool.
This post is the first half of an email newsletter from EquiSync. There's no affiliation, and it's not monetized.
REPRINTED FROM EMAIL NEWSLETTER BY EQUISYNC
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." — Lao Tzu
The "Flow State," Meditation, & Ultimate Happiness
His shoes rhythmically pounding the pavement. No thoughts enter his mind. Heartbeat and stride in perfect sync. Time doesn't exist. No awareness of himself or the world around him. Mile after mile, he's totally immersed in the experience. Nothing else exists. Flow.
In his quest to "reverse engineer" happiness, Hungarian psychologist Dr. Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi interviewed a series of world class mountain climbers, chess players, tennis players, ballet dancers, surgeons, and other "self-actualized" high performers.
He outlined his incredible findings in the book "Flow: The Psychology of Happiness," becoming an overnight bestseller. So, what's this flow state all about?
In an interview with Wired magazine, Dr. Csíkszentmihályi described flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you are using your skills to the utmost."
Why Flow Makes Us Happy
Why does flow make us so happy? According to Dr. Csíkszentmihályi, the human mind can only process about 110 bits of information per second. For example, listening to someone speak takes about 60 bits, the reason we can't listen to two people at once.
It's when we are making, doing, creating, and/or playing that our mind has no room for anything else. That's when our full abilities get put to use, all 110 bits per second.
And if we love our chosen activity and are good at it, whatever "it" may be (usually a favorite hobby, sport, or creative endeavor), then our magical "flow" state gets unlocked. And this makes us happy.
We have all heard of the "starving" artist, writer, musician, or composer who would get so lost in their work that they forgot to eat, drink, and sleep. For them, when words, musical notes, and colors "flow" from their consciousness, then nothing else really matters.
So, how long does this "high" last? According to Harvard psychologist Dr. Teresa Amabile, achieving an uninterrupted creative flow state leaves us feeling ecstatic, motivated, and fulfilled for (up to) three days afterward. A powerful drug indeed!
Think back to a time when you experienced flow. What were you doing? Were you gardening, painting, or hiking? Maybe you were dancing, woodworking, or writing? Did your sense of self fade into oblivion? Did time disappear? Did the world drop out of sight? Were your mind, body, and soul absorbed by the moment?
The "Flowing" Brain
In the 30+ years since the publishing of Dr. Csíkszentmihályi's groundbreaking book, neuroscientists have developed a much deeper understanding into the "flow state" brain workings....
(Continued on the Next Post)
###
LINKS AND WAYS TO SUPPORT
Drumscape by EquiSync: (used with mantra):
https://youtu.be/dx8Qb1tAtzE?si=CIT2nmKn9jYKuTG0
Emanate Presence on X: https://twitter.com/EmanatePresence
Oneself Mantra YouTube Video:
https://youtu.be/GBBmxJbzONw?si=5iHOZoSudaPwdCtJ
Like (if you like), Reply and Repost
Website: https://www.wholehuman.emanatepresence.com/
"Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much." - Helen Keller
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
#AQ #EQ #Growth #KnowThyself #Mindfulness #Soul #Source 👍
The 'AHA!' practice has three main parts --
1. Mantra: 'A Call to Higher Aspects of Oneself'
2. Brainwave entrainment soundscapes to reduce brain noise (EquiSync recommended)
3. Divination: A way to access Superconsciousness for specific purposes
A dodecahedron die (pictured below👇) is part of a daily practice that helps return focus to constant felt connection with higher aspects of Oneself. The art is generated by @fuups.
S018a - Sol Mini-Series: EquiSync Creativity
Ultimate Guide
When I first learned of EquiSync around 2013, they were just starting. The technology has come a long way. The more I explore and experiment, the more is discovered and realized.
Posts in this segment have become a mini-series of email newsletter reprints from EquiSync. There's no affiliation, and it's not monetized.
REPRINTED FROM EMAIL NEWSLETTER BY EQUISYNC
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
"Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert Einstein
The Ultimate Guide To Creativity & Meditation
Looking to win the great "space race" against its Cold War rival, NASA spent much of the early 1960's hiring the world's best and brightest rocket scientists and engineers.
With a tsunami of applicants and the need to separate the contenders from the pretenders, NASA commissioned Dr. George Land, a highly respected University of Minnesota professor and Pulitzer Prize nominated author, to design a highly specialized "divergent thinking" creativity test.
Ultimately, with the 1969 moon landing just a few years later, his test design efforts were a boon for NASA, helping them on-board some of the world's most innovative thinkers, bringing the space race to an emphatic close.
But Dr. Land and colleagues were left with a few big questions. What's the origin of human creativity? Are we born with it? Is it learned? Is it something else entirely?
Looking for clues, the researchers administered the same test to 1,600 five-year-olds. How'd they do? Shockingly, a whopping 98% of the children scored at the "creative genius" level!
Captivated by the results, the scientists decided to do a longitudinal study, testing the same group of kids 5 years later, and again 10 years later. What did they find? At age 10, only 30% of the children scored at the same level. At 15, that number had dwindled to 12%!
Disturbed and intrigued by the clear and present downtrend (plummeting from 98% to 12% in just 10 years!), the scientists wondered, how (un)creative are adults? To find out, they administered the same test to 280,000 adults (25+ years old). Pathetically, a mere 2% scored at the creative genius level! Their suspicions were confirmed.
So, if creativity is not learned, but rather "unlearned," what's the reason? Why are 98% of us "creative geniuses" as children but only 2% as adults? Why such a steep drop?
In this article we explore:
"Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up." — Pablo Picasso
The truth is, our inner "painter, composer, inventor, innovator, etc" gets muzzled from the day we enter our highly structured, "no thinking outside the box" educational system.
Year after year of cramming our little brains with (soon to be forgotten) facts and figures, only to spit them back out on a fill in the bubble, standardized test really suffocates our precious little imaginations.
With a school system that rewards compliance and obedience rather than originality and ingenuity, when it's time to "graduate" into the work force — we are, in essence, programmed robots....
(to be continued)
The Sol series is on the Whole Human website:
https://linktr.ee/emanatepresence 👍
S018b - Sol Mini-Series: EquiSync Creativity
Innovation
(continued)
When I first learned of EquiSync around 2013, they were just starting. The technology has come a long way. The more I explore and experiment, the more is discovered and realized.
Posts in this segment have become a mini-series of email newsletter reprints from EquiSync. There's no affiliation, and it's not monetized.
REPRINTED FROM EMAIL NEWSLETTER BY EQUISYNC
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
Creativity Breeds Success, Happiness
Why meditation is the world's best creativity exercise
If NASA made a pre-employment test to find the "1 in 50" people who "held on" to their imagination beyond childhood, you know, the 2% of creative geniuses still left in the "adult wild," then you can bet these folks are the innovative "old system breaking" and "new system making" superstars topping their respective field(s) — whether it's technology, engineering, entrepreneurship, design, art, healthcare, business, science, or else.
With some of the world's heaviest hitters having little more (and sometimes less) than a high school education, billionaires like Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Richard Branson — perhaps it's time we rethink our "memorize, test, and forget" educational system?
With our imagination entering hibernation at some point during our "youngsterhood," we seldom get to experience the highly euphoric "flow" state as adults. Where, in the midst of making, building, and designing cool new things, we totally lose ourselves in the creative process. Where minutes fade into hours, and we forget to eat, drink, and sleep because our creative "high" is all that really matters.
Is there any surprise that, according to a recent Gallup poll, about 70% of us are miserable with our jobs? While 84% of those in creative fields view themselves as happy and fulfilled?
The World Needs Us To Be Creative
The science of creativity and the brain
The thing is, the world needs us to be creative. Books don't author themselves. Inventions don't invent themselves. Music doesn't write itself. The by-product of creativity is every great achievement the world has ever seen.
Whether it's Michelangelo's David, Bell's telephone, Beethoven's 5th symphony, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Gutenberg's printing press, Thomas Edison's electricity, the Wright Brother's airplane, Alexander Fleming's penicillin, or Al Gore's internet (kidding on that one, couldn't resist!), we need "out of the box" thinking to invent useful things, create timeless works of art, solve problems from new angles, find new cures, and so on.
If we had kept with yesterday's brainchildren then we would all be riding around in horse and buggies instead of Uber, carrying around "Zach Morris" brick-phones instead of sleek iPhones, driving to Blockbuster instead of logging into Netflix, and "seeking knowledge" via AOL instead of Google. Without innovation, the world stands still.
Staying Relevant Requires Creativity
Why the world needs creative thinking
Our ability to work and contribute to the world are also on the line. To survive automation, according to multiple outlets, including the US Department of Education, the World Economic Forum, and Bloomberg, the jobs of tomorrow will depend on "creative problem solving." Staying relevant in today's world requires "out of the cubicle" thinking. So cliche yet so true.
We need creativity in our personal lives too. Whether it's transforming a near-empty fridge into a hearty dinner for the kiddos, fashioning a barren closet into a last minute Halloween costume, fabricating a heartfelt (yet budget-sensitive) birthday gift for that special someone, or masterminding our way to a thriving "lifestyle business" — creativity's only limit is our imagination.
Luckily, we are creative by nature. It's in our genes. It's in our brains. Then, what's the best way to bring our creativity back to life?
Meditation. And the reasons why could fill a library. Here are a few:
S018c - Sol Mini-Series: EquiSync Creativity
The Brain's "Bridge"
(continued)
When I first learned of EquiSync around 2013, they were just starting. The technology has come a long way. The more I explore and experiment, the more is discovered and realized.
Posts in this segment have become a mini-series of email newsletter reprints from EquiSync. There's no affiliation, and it's not monetized.
REPRINTED FROM EMAIL NEWSLETTER BY EQUISYNC
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
Luckily, we are creative by nature. It's in our genes. It's in our brains. Then, what's the best way to bring our creativity back to life?
Meditation. And the reasons why could fill a library. Here are a few:
How Meditation Supercharges Creativity
Why developing creativity through meditation is so critical
A Highly Connected Brain Is A Highly Creative Brain — While Dr. Roger Sperry's "split-brain" studies won him a Nobel Prize in 1981, much of the latest research suggests that, rather than simply being a "right brain" function, creativity is actually a "whole brain" function, requiring a scale of neuro-networks to fire together.
How mindfulness boosts creativity into the stratosphere
As the bundle of 200 million nerve fibers connecting the left and right brain hemisphere(s), upgrading our "corpus callosum" (CC) cranks up "whole brain communication," and according to the work of a world-renowned Caltech neurosurgeon, Dr. Joseph E. Bogen, really gets the creative juices flowing.
In case you caught any of the news articles, after detailed pictures of Albert Einstein's brain surfaced in 2013 (to the delight of neuroscientists), a couple of unique features dropped jaws. One was the great physicst's incredibly well-connected, thick, and brawny "corpus callosum," ground zero for his "out-of-this-world" creative genius.
Fortifying The Brain's "Bridge" — Luckily, to strengthen your corpus callosum, you don't need to tape on a funny looking mustache, grow kooky white hair, wear an unkempt "roaring" 1920's professor suit, or memorize the theory of relativity. There is another way. It's called meditation.
If you want more creative ideas then meditation is the secret
As shown by a 2012 UCLA School of Medicine study, meditation cranks up the corpus callosum, making it bigger, stronger, thicker, and in-turn, more well-connected. Yes, very much like Einstein.
(Note: We aren't saying that meditation will make us the "next Einstein," it's more about being the best version of "us." Meditation helps you reach your potential better than any other medium.)
How the best way to be more creative is meditation
The Great Creative "Brain Dance" — A meditation supercharged corpus callosum opens the door to what's called the creative "brain dance." What's that? After mapping the noggins of 163 volunteers taking part in "imagination exercises," Harvard researchers found three highly active subnetworks (which don't typically work in unison). Keeping this short, they are the "new idea igniting" default mode network, the "brainstorming & idea sorting" salience network, and the "will this crazy idea actually work?" executive function network.
Drivers Of Creativity — Another study by a team of Dutch psychologists (Colzato et al) found that meditation stimulated very important "drivers" of creativity, including "divergent thinking" (brainstorming creative uses for an everyday object, such as a paperclip), "convergent thinking" (which solution works best?), "working memory" (keeping creative ideas from "flying away"), and "cognitive flexibility" (openness to new ideas and experiences).
Why creative people have the brightest futures
On the results, the team told Mindful.org: "To be creative, you need to have, or be trained in, the ability to observe, notice, and attend to phenomena that pass your mind's eye."
So, where is the mind's eye? The subconscious mind.
The Sol series is on the Whole Human website:
https://linktr.ee/emanatepresence 👍
S018d - Sol Mini-Series: EquiSync Creativity
(continued)
Why enhancing creativity is so critical to the future of mankind
Accessing The Subconscious Mind — While this article is focused on the brain, since creativity effectively "lives" in the subconscious mind, we must mention it here.
We all know the iceberg metaphor. While our "above the surface" conscious mind is "just the tip" of our potential, our "under the surface" subconscious mind is where our true power resides.
Everything that happens to us but never notice, our dreams, our long lost memories, and zillions of other data points are all held by the near infinite reservoir that is our subconscious mind. Creativity lives there too.
Unlocking this treasure trove requires us to simultaneously quiet our "monkey" conscious mind while diving into our deeper, far more powerful subconscious mind. And that's precisely what meditation does! The chart on this page shows our subconscious mind's ocean of superpowers, and how meditation helps us dive right in.
Meditation's Legendary Impact On Creativity
Why creative thinking makes the world go round
Meditation's ability to magnify creativity is growing in legend. Especially in the business world.
In the early 1980's, Walt Disney was at a creative crossroads. In hopes of "accessing new creative directions," executives called in high profile psychotherapist and meditation teacher "to the Hollywood stars," Dr. Ron Alexander. After seeing the massive creative leaps by those who finished his mindfulness course, the Walt Disney company adopted mindfulness on a broad scale. And the rest, as they say, is history.
How meditation rocket launches our creative problem solving ability
Over the next decade, with new Disneylands springing up in cities like Paris and Tokyo, groundbreaking animation patents hitting the books, and blockbusters like "The Little Mermaid," "The Lion King," and "Beauty & The Beast" gracing movie screens (to all the world's delight!), meditation's affect on the company, especially within its creative department — has been momentous.
Why successful people are masters at creativity and how meditation unlocks this ability
Other companies have followed in Disney's footsteps. Since 2007, Google has offered a mindfulness course aptly named "Search Inside Yourself." Apple, Nike, and other heavy hitters have also tapped into meditation's wide spectrum of creative benefits.
Creativity Makes Life Better In All The Ways
How boosting creativity is the secret to both happiness and success
"How will awakening my creativity change my day-to-day life?"
Creativity fuels passion, meaning, and purpose. Instead of hitting the snooze button (as we dread yet another mundane day at the dreary office), we spring out of bed looking forward to designing, making, and building cool new things.
How meditation is the secret to becoming more innovative and ingenuitive
Creativity has no limits. In this way, the creative process forces us to expand our boundaries each and every day. In turn, we grow. Perpetually. And it's wonderfully fulfilling. High level creatives know this, and experience a sense of joy felt by few in the world.
Instead of ignoring the wonderful brilliance and beauty all around, creativity allows us to experience life through the eyes of a child. From this "higher" perspective, life stays forever fresh and new. Speaking of:
"Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure imagination, Take a look, and you'll see into your imagination, We'll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation, What we'll see will defy explanation, If you want to view paradise simply look around and view it, Anything you want to, do it, Want to change the world? There's nothing to it..."
As the great Willy Wonka (of the Chocolate Factory fame) so eloquently put it, whether it's changing your life or changing the world, creativity is the key. It lives in all of us, awaken yours with meditation.
The Sol series is on the Whole Human website:
https://linktr.ee/emanatepresence 👍
Ultimate Guide
When I first learned of EquiSync around 2013, they were just starting. The technology has come a long way. The more I explore and experiment, the more is discovered and realized.
Posts in this segment have become a mini-series of email newsletter reprints from EquiSync. There's no affiliation, and it's not monetized.
REPRINTED FROM EMAIL NEWSLETTER BY EQUISYNC
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
"Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert Einstein
The Ultimate Guide To Creativity & Meditation
Looking to win the great "space race" against its Cold War rival, NASA spent much of the early 1960's hiring the world's best and brightest rocket scientists and engineers.
With a tsunami of applicants and the need to separate the contenders from the pretenders, NASA commissioned Dr. George Land, a highly respected University of Minnesota professor and Pulitzer Prize nominated author, to design a highly specialized "divergent thinking" creativity test.
Ultimately, with the 1969 moon landing just a few years later, his test design efforts were a boon for NASA, helping them on-board some of the world's most innovative thinkers, bringing the space race to an emphatic close.
But Dr. Land and colleagues were left with a few big questions. What's the origin of human creativity? Are we born with it? Is it learned? Is it something else entirely?
Looking for clues, the researchers administered the same test to 1,600 five-year-olds. How'd they do? Shockingly, a whopping 98% of the children scored at the "creative genius" level!
Captivated by the results, the scientists decided to do a longitudinal study, testing the same group of kids 5 years later, and again 10 years later. What did they find? At age 10, only 30% of the children scored at the same level. At 15, that number had dwindled to 12%!
Disturbed and intrigued by the clear and present downtrend (plummeting from 98% to 12% in just 10 years!), the scientists wondered, how (un)creative are adults? To find out, they administered the same test to 280,000 adults (25+ years old). Pathetically, a mere 2% scored at the creative genius level! Their suspicions were confirmed.
So, if creativity is not learned, but rather "unlearned," what's the reason? Why are 98% of us "creative geniuses" as children but only 2% as adults? Why such a steep drop?
In this article we explore:
- Why our creativity dwindles as we get older.
- How adults who have "held-on" to their creativity are often the most successful people (regardless of their field).
- How the "starving artists" of the world might be the happiest of us all.
- Why the world needs us to be creative.
- How staying relevant (and employed!) in the near future requires creativity.
- Where creativity lives in the mind/ brain.
- How and why meditation is the best tool for awakening creativity.
- How multiple companies (including Walt Disney, Nike, Apple, & Google) use meditation for its massive creative benefits.
- And much more.
"Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up." — Pablo Picasso
The truth is, our inner "painter, composer, inventor, innovator, etc" gets muzzled from the day we enter our highly structured, "no thinking outside the box" educational system.
Year after year of cramming our little brains with (soon to be forgotten) facts and figures, only to spit them back out on a fill in the bubble, standardized test really suffocates our precious little imaginations.
With a school system that rewards compliance and obedience rather than originality and ingenuity, when it's time to "graduate" into the work force — we are, in essence, programmed robots....
(to be continued)
The Sol series is on the Whole Human website:
https://linktr.ee/emanatepresence 👍
S018b - Sol Mini-Series: EquiSync Creativity
Innovation
(continued)
When I first learned of EquiSync around 2013, they were just starting. The technology has come a long way. The more I explore and experiment, the more is discovered and realized.
Posts in this segment have become a mini-series of email newsletter reprints from EquiSync. There's no affiliation, and it's not monetized.
REPRINTED FROM EMAIL NEWSLETTER BY EQUISYNC
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
Creativity Breeds Success, Happiness
Why meditation is the world's best creativity exercise
If NASA made a pre-employment test to find the "1 in 50" people who "held on" to their imagination beyond childhood, you know, the 2% of creative geniuses still left in the "adult wild," then you can bet these folks are the innovative "old system breaking" and "new system making" superstars topping their respective field(s) — whether it's technology, engineering, entrepreneurship, design, art, healthcare, business, science, or else.
With some of the world's heaviest hitters having little more (and sometimes less) than a high school education, billionaires like Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Richard Branson — perhaps it's time we rethink our "memorize, test, and forget" educational system?
With our imagination entering hibernation at some point during our "youngsterhood," we seldom get to experience the highly euphoric "flow" state as adults. Where, in the midst of making, building, and designing cool new things, we totally lose ourselves in the creative process. Where minutes fade into hours, and we forget to eat, drink, and sleep because our creative "high" is all that really matters.
Is there any surprise that, according to a recent Gallup poll, about 70% of us are miserable with our jobs? While 84% of those in creative fields view themselves as happy and fulfilled?
The World Needs Us To Be Creative
The science of creativity and the brain
The thing is, the world needs us to be creative. Books don't author themselves. Inventions don't invent themselves. Music doesn't write itself. The by-product of creativity is every great achievement the world has ever seen.
Whether it's Michelangelo's David, Bell's telephone, Beethoven's 5th symphony, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Gutenberg's printing press, Thomas Edison's electricity, the Wright Brother's airplane, Alexander Fleming's penicillin, or Al Gore's internet (kidding on that one, couldn't resist!), we need "out of the box" thinking to invent useful things, create timeless works of art, solve problems from new angles, find new cures, and so on.
If we had kept with yesterday's brainchildren then we would all be riding around in horse and buggies instead of Uber, carrying around "Zach Morris" brick-phones instead of sleek iPhones, driving to Blockbuster instead of logging into Netflix, and "seeking knowledge" via AOL instead of Google. Without innovation, the world stands still.
Staying Relevant Requires Creativity
Why the world needs creative thinking
Our ability to work and contribute to the world are also on the line. To survive automation, according to multiple outlets, including the US Department of Education, the World Economic Forum, and Bloomberg, the jobs of tomorrow will depend on "creative problem solving." Staying relevant in today's world requires "out of the cubicle" thinking. So cliche yet so true.
We need creativity in our personal lives too. Whether it's transforming a near-empty fridge into a hearty dinner for the kiddos, fashioning a barren closet into a last minute Halloween costume, fabricating a heartfelt (yet budget-sensitive) birthday gift for that special someone, or masterminding our way to a thriving "lifestyle business" — creativity's only limit is our imagination.
Luckily, we are creative by nature. It's in our genes. It's in our brains. Then, what's the best way to bring our creativity back to life?
Meditation. And the reasons why could fill a library. Here are a few:
S018c - Sol Mini-Series: EquiSync Creativity
The Brain's "Bridge"
(continued)
When I first learned of EquiSync around 2013, they were just starting. The technology has come a long way. The more I explore and experiment, the more is discovered and realized.
Posts in this segment have become a mini-series of email newsletter reprints from EquiSync. There's no affiliation, and it's not monetized.
REPRINTED FROM EMAIL NEWSLETTER BY EQUISYNC
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
Luckily, we are creative by nature. It's in our genes. It's in our brains. Then, what's the best way to bring our creativity back to life?
Meditation. And the reasons why could fill a library. Here are a few:
How Meditation Supercharges Creativity
Why developing creativity through meditation is so critical
A Highly Connected Brain Is A Highly Creative Brain — While Dr. Roger Sperry's "split-brain" studies won him a Nobel Prize in 1981, much of the latest research suggests that, rather than simply being a "right brain" function, creativity is actually a "whole brain" function, requiring a scale of neuro-networks to fire together.
How mindfulness boosts creativity into the stratosphere
As the bundle of 200 million nerve fibers connecting the left and right brain hemisphere(s), upgrading our "corpus callosum" (CC) cranks up "whole brain communication," and according to the work of a world-renowned Caltech neurosurgeon, Dr. Joseph E. Bogen, really gets the creative juices flowing.
In case you caught any of the news articles, after detailed pictures of Albert Einstein's brain surfaced in 2013 (to the delight of neuroscientists), a couple of unique features dropped jaws. One was the great physicst's incredibly well-connected, thick, and brawny "corpus callosum," ground zero for his "out-of-this-world" creative genius.
Fortifying The Brain's "Bridge" — Luckily, to strengthen your corpus callosum, you don't need to tape on a funny looking mustache, grow kooky white hair, wear an unkempt "roaring" 1920's professor suit, or memorize the theory of relativity. There is another way. It's called meditation.
If you want more creative ideas then meditation is the secret
As shown by a 2012 UCLA School of Medicine study, meditation cranks up the corpus callosum, making it bigger, stronger, thicker, and in-turn, more well-connected. Yes, very much like Einstein.
(Note: We aren't saying that meditation will make us the "next Einstein," it's more about being the best version of "us." Meditation helps you reach your potential better than any other medium.)
How the best way to be more creative is meditation
The Great Creative "Brain Dance" — A meditation supercharged corpus callosum opens the door to what's called the creative "brain dance." What's that? After mapping the noggins of 163 volunteers taking part in "imagination exercises," Harvard researchers found three highly active subnetworks (which don't typically work in unison). Keeping this short, they are the "new idea igniting" default mode network, the "brainstorming & idea sorting" salience network, and the "will this crazy idea actually work?" executive function network.
Drivers Of Creativity — Another study by a team of Dutch psychologists (Colzato et al) found that meditation stimulated very important "drivers" of creativity, including "divergent thinking" (brainstorming creative uses for an everyday object, such as a paperclip), "convergent thinking" (which solution works best?), "working memory" (keeping creative ideas from "flying away"), and "cognitive flexibility" (openness to new ideas and experiences).
Why creative people have the brightest futures
On the results, the team told Mindful.org: "To be creative, you need to have, or be trained in, the ability to observe, notice, and attend to phenomena that pass your mind's eye."
So, where is the mind's eye? The subconscious mind.
The Sol series is on the Whole Human website:
https://linktr.ee/emanatepresence 👍
S018d - Sol Mini-Series: EquiSync Creativity
(continued)
Why enhancing creativity is so critical to the future of mankind
Accessing The Subconscious Mind — While this article is focused on the brain, since creativity effectively "lives" in the subconscious mind, we must mention it here.
We all know the iceberg metaphor. While our "above the surface" conscious mind is "just the tip" of our potential, our "under the surface" subconscious mind is where our true power resides.
Everything that happens to us but never notice, our dreams, our long lost memories, and zillions of other data points are all held by the near infinite reservoir that is our subconscious mind. Creativity lives there too.
Unlocking this treasure trove requires us to simultaneously quiet our "monkey" conscious mind while diving into our deeper, far more powerful subconscious mind. And that's precisely what meditation does! The chart on this page shows our subconscious mind's ocean of superpowers, and how meditation helps us dive right in.
Meditation's Legendary Impact On Creativity
Why creative thinking makes the world go round
Meditation's ability to magnify creativity is growing in legend. Especially in the business world.
In the early 1980's, Walt Disney was at a creative crossroads. In hopes of "accessing new creative directions," executives called in high profile psychotherapist and meditation teacher "to the Hollywood stars," Dr. Ron Alexander. After seeing the massive creative leaps by those who finished his mindfulness course, the Walt Disney company adopted mindfulness on a broad scale. And the rest, as they say, is history.
How meditation rocket launches our creative problem solving ability
Over the next decade, with new Disneylands springing up in cities like Paris and Tokyo, groundbreaking animation patents hitting the books, and blockbusters like "The Little Mermaid," "The Lion King," and "Beauty & The Beast" gracing movie screens (to all the world's delight!), meditation's affect on the company, especially within its creative department — has been momentous.
Why successful people are masters at creativity and how meditation unlocks this ability
Other companies have followed in Disney's footsteps. Since 2007, Google has offered a mindfulness course aptly named "Search Inside Yourself." Apple, Nike, and other heavy hitters have also tapped into meditation's wide spectrum of creative benefits.
Creativity Makes Life Better In All The Ways
How boosting creativity is the secret to both happiness and success
"How will awakening my creativity change my day-to-day life?"
Creativity fuels passion, meaning, and purpose. Instead of hitting the snooze button (as we dread yet another mundane day at the dreary office), we spring out of bed looking forward to designing, making, and building cool new things.
How meditation is the secret to becoming more innovative and ingenuitive
Creativity has no limits. In this way, the creative process forces us to expand our boundaries each and every day. In turn, we grow. Perpetually. And it's wonderfully fulfilling. High level creatives know this, and experience a sense of joy felt by few in the world.
Instead of ignoring the wonderful brilliance and beauty all around, creativity allows us to experience life through the eyes of a child. From this "higher" perspective, life stays forever fresh and new. Speaking of:
"Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure imagination, Take a look, and you'll see into your imagination, We'll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation, What we'll see will defy explanation, If you want to view paradise simply look around and view it, Anything you want to, do it, Want to change the world? There's nothing to it..."
As the great Willy Wonka (of the Chocolate Factory fame) so eloquently put it, whether it's changing your life or changing the world, creativity is the key. It lives in all of us, awaken yours with meditation.
The Sol series is on the Whole Human website:
https://linktr.ee/emanatepresence 👍
Creativity Multiplied: How Meditation Unlocks Innovative Thinking, Creative Ideas, & More
What's The Origin Of Human Creativity?
Why creativity is the secret to success
Looking to win the great "space race" against its Cold War rival, NASA spent much of the early 1960's hiring the world's best and brightest rocket scientists and engineers.
With a tsunami of applicants and the need to separate the contenders from the pretenders, NASA commissioned Dr. George Land, a highly respected University of Minnesota professor and Pulitzer Prize nominated author, to design a highly specialized "divergent thinking" creativity test.
Ultimately, with the 1969 moon landing just a few years later, his test design efforts were a boon for NASA, helping them on-board some of the world's most innovative & creative thinkers, bringing the space race to an emphatic close.
But Dr. Land and colleagues were left with a few big questions. What's the origin of human creativity? Are we born with it? Is it learned? Is it something else entirely?
Why we lose creativity as we get older
Looking for clues, the researchers administered the same test to 1,600 five-year-olds. How'd they do? Shockingly, a whopping 98% of the children scored at the "creative genius" level!
Captivated by the results, the scientists decided to do a longitudinal study, testing the same group of kids 5 years later, and again 10 years later. What did they find? At age 10, only 30% of the children scored at the same level. At 15, that number had dwindled to 12%!
Disturbed and intrigued by the clear and present downtrend (plummeting from 98% to 12% in just 10 years!), the scientists wondered, how (un)creative are adults? To find out, they administered the same test to 280,000 adults (25+ years old). Pathetically, a mere 2% scored at the creative genius level! Their suspicions were confirmed.
Why Creativity Is "Unlearned"
Why meditation is such a powerful tool for enhancing creativity
So, if creativity is not learned, but rather "unlearned," what's the reason? Why are 98% of us "creative geniuses" as children but only 2% as adults? Why such a steep drop?
"Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up." — Pablo Picasso
The truth is, our inner "painter, composer, inventor, innovator, etc" gets muzzled from the day we enter our highly structured, "no thinking outside the box" educational system.
Year after year of cramming our little brains with (soon to be forgotten) facts and figures, only to spit them back out on a fill in the bubble, standardized test really suffocates our precious little imaginations.
With a school system that rewards compliance and obedience rather than originality and ingenuity, when it's time to "graduate" into the work force — we are, in essence, programmed robots.
Creativity Breeds Success, Happiness
Why meditation is the world's best creativity exercise
If NASA made a pre-employment test to find the "1 in 50" people who "held on" to their imagination beyond childhood, you know, the 2% of creative geniuses still left in the "adult wild," then you can bet these folks are the innovative "old system breaking" and "new system making" superstars topping their respective field(s) — whether it's technology, engineering, entrepreneurship, design, art, healthcare, business, science, or else.
With some of the world's heaviest hitters having little more (and sometimes less) than a high school education, billionaires like Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Richard Branson — perhaps it's time we rethink our "memorize, test, and forget" educational system?
With our imagination entering hibernation at some point during our "youngsterhood," we seldom get to experience the highly euphoric "flow" state as adults. Where, in the midst of making, building, and designing cool new things, we totally lose ourselves in the creative process. Where minutes fade into hours, and we forget to eat, drink, and sleep because our creative "high" is all that really matters.
Is there any surprise that, according to a recent Gallup poll, about 70% of us are miserable with our jobs? While 84% of those in creative fields view themselves as happy and fulfilled?
The World Needs Us To Be Creative
The science of creativity and the brain
The thing is, the world needs us to be creative. Books don't author themselves. Inventions don't invent themselves. Music doesn't write itself. The by-product of creativity is every great achievement the world has ever seen.
Whether it's Michelangelo's David, Bell's telephone, Beethoven's 5th symphony, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Gutenberg's printing press, Thomas Edison's electricity, the Wright Brother's airplane, Alexander Fleming's penicillin, or Al Gore's internet (kidding on that one, couldn't resist!), we need "out of the box" thinking to invent useful things, create timeless works of art, solve problems from new angles, find new cures, and so on.
If we had kept with yesterday's brainchildren then we would all be riding around in horse and buggies instead of Uber, carrying around "Zach Morris" brick-phones instead of sleek iPhones, driving to Blockbuster instead of logging into Netflix, and "seeking knowledge" via AOL instead of Google. Without innovation, the world stands still.
Staying Relevant Requires Creativity
Why the world needs creative thinking
Our ability to work and contribute to the world are also on the line. To survive automation, according to multiple outlets, including the US Department of Education, the World Economic Forum, and Bloomberg, the jobs of tomorrow will depend on "creative problem solving." Staying relevant in today's world requires "out of the cubicle" thinking. So cliche yet so true.
We need creativity in our personal lives too. Whether it's transforming a near-empty fridge into a hearty dinner for the kiddos, fashioning a barren closet into a last minute Halloween costume, fabricating a heartfelt (yet budget-sensitive) birthday gift for that special someone, or masterminding our way to a thriving "lifestyle business" — creativity's only limit is our imagination.
Luckily, we are creative by nature. It's in our genes. It's in our brains. Then, what's the best way to bring our creativity back to life?
Meditation. And the reasons why could fill a library. Here are a few:
How Meditation Supercharges Creativity
Why developing creativity through meditation is so critical
A Highly Connected Brain Is A Highly Creative Brain — While Dr. Roger Sperry's "split-brain" studies won him a Nobel Prize in 1981, much of the latest research suggests that, rather than simply being a "right brain" function, creativity is actually a "whole brain" function, requiring a scale of neuro-networks to fire together.
How mindfulness boosts creativity into the stratosphere
As the bundle of 200 million nerve fibers connecting the left and right brain hemisphere(s), upgrading our "corpus callosum" (CC) cranks up "whole brain communication," and according to the work of a world-renowned Caltech neurosurgeon, Dr. Joseph E. Bogen, really gets the creative juices flowing.
In case you caught any of the news articles, after detailed pictures of Albert Einstein's brain surfaced in 2013 (to the delight of neuroscientists), a couple of unique features dropped jaws. One was the great physicst's incredibly well-connected, thick, and brawny "corpus callosum," ground zero for his "out-of-this-world" creative genius.
Fortifying The Brain's "Bridge" — Luckily, to strengthen your corpus callosum, you don't need to tape on a funny looking mustache, grow kooky white hair, wear an unkempt "roaring" 1920's professor suit, or memorize the theory of relativity. There is another way. It's called meditation.
If you want more creative ideas then meditation is the secret
As shown by a 2012 UCLA School of Medicine study, meditation cranks up the corpus callosum, making it bigger, stronger, thicker, and in-turn, more well-connected. Yes, very much like Einstein.
(Note: We aren't saying that meditation will make us the "next Einstein," it's more about being the best version of "us." Meditation helps you reach your potential better than any other medium.)
How the best way to be more creative is meditation
The Great Creative "Brain Dance" — A meditation supercharged corpus callosum opens the door to what's called the creative "brain dance." What's that? After mapping the noggins of 163 volunteers taking part in "imagination exercises," Harvard researchers found three highly active subnetworks (which don't typically work in unison). Keeping this short, they are the "new idea igniting" default mode network, the "brainstorming & idea sorting" salience network, and the "will this crazy idea actually work?" executive function network.
Drivers Of Creativity — Another study by a team of Dutch psychologists (Colzato et al) found that meditation stimulated very important "drivers" of creativity, including "divergent thinking" (brainstorming creative uses for an everyday object, such as a paperclip), "convergent thinking" (which solution works best?), "working memory" (keeping creative ideas from "flying away"), and "cognitive flexibility" (openness to new ideas and experiences).
Why creative people have the brightest futures
On the results, the team told Mindful.org: "To be creative, you need to have, or be trained in, the ability to observe, notice, and attend to phenomena that pass your mind's eye."
So, where is the mind's eye? The subconscious mind.
Why enhancing creativity is so critical to the future of mankind
Accessing The Subconscious Mind — While this article is focused on the brain, since creativity effectively "lives" in the subconscious mind, we must mention it here.
We all know the iceberg metaphor. While our "above the surface" conscious mind is "just the tip" of our potential, our "under the surface" subconscious mind is where our true power resides.
Everything that happens to us but never notice, our dreams, our long lost memories, and zillions of other data points are all held by the near infinite reservoir that is our subconscious mind. Creativity lives there too.
Unlocking this treasure trove requires us to simultaneously quiet our "monkey" conscious mind while diving into our deeper, far more powerful subconscious mind. And that's precisely what meditation does! The chart on this page shows our subconscious mind's ocean of superpowers, and how meditation helps us dive right in.
Meditation's Legendary Impact On Creativity
Why creative thinking makes the world go round
Meditation's ability to magnify creativity is growing in legend. Especially in the business world.
In the early 1980's, Walt Disney was at a creative crossroads. In hopes of "accessing new creative directions," executives called in high profile psychotherapist and meditation teacher "to the Hollywood stars," Dr. Ron Alexander. After seeing the massive creative leaps by those who finished his mindfulness course, the Walt Disney company adopted mindfulness on a broad scale. And the rest, as they say, is history.
How meditation rocket launches our creative problem solving ability
Over the next decade, with new Disneylands springing up in cities like Paris and Tokyo, groundbreaking animation patents hitting the books, and blockbusters like "The Little Mermaid," "The Lion King," and "Beauty & The Beast" gracing movie screens (to all the world's delight!), meditation's affect on the company, especially within its creative department — has been momentous.
Why successful people are masters at creativity and how meditation unlocks this ability
Other companies have followed in Disney's footsteps. Since 2007, Google has offered a mindfulness course aptly named "Search Inside Yourself." Apple, Nike, and other heavy hitters have also tapped into meditation's wide spectrum of creative benefits.
Creativity Makes Life Better In All The Ways
How boosting creativity is the secret to both happiness and success
"How will awakening my creativity change my day-to-day life?"
Creativity fuels passion, meaning, and purpose. Instead of hitting the snooze button (as we dread yet another mundane day at the dreary office), we spring out of bed looking forward to designing, making, and building cool new things.
How meditation is the secret to becoming more innovative and ingenuitive
Creativity has no limits. In this way, the creative process forces us to expand our boundaries each and every day. In turn, we grow. Perpetually. And it's wonderfully fulfilling. High level creatives know this, and experience a sense of joy felt by few in the world.
Instead of ignoring the wonderful brilliance and beauty all around, creativity allows us to experience life through the eyes of a child. From this "higher" perspective, life stays forever fresh and new. Speaking of:
"Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure imagination, Take a look, and you'll see into your imagination, We'll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation, What we'll see will defy explanation, If you want to view paradise simply look around and view it, Anything you want to, do it, Want to change the world? There's nothing to it..."
As the great Willy Wonka (of the Chocolate Factory fame) so eloquently put it, whether it's changing your life or changing the world, creativity is the key. It lives in all of us, awaken yours with meditation.
What's The Origin Of Human Creativity?
Why creativity is the secret to success
Looking to win the great "space race" against its Cold War rival, NASA spent much of the early 1960's hiring the world's best and brightest rocket scientists and engineers.
With a tsunami of applicants and the need to separate the contenders from the pretenders, NASA commissioned Dr. George Land, a highly respected University of Minnesota professor and Pulitzer Prize nominated author, to design a highly specialized "divergent thinking" creativity test.
Ultimately, with the 1969 moon landing just a few years later, his test design efforts were a boon for NASA, helping them on-board some of the world's most innovative & creative thinkers, bringing the space race to an emphatic close.
But Dr. Land and colleagues were left with a few big questions. What's the origin of human creativity? Are we born with it? Is it learned? Is it something else entirely?
Why we lose creativity as we get older
Looking for clues, the researchers administered the same test to 1,600 five-year-olds. How'd they do? Shockingly, a whopping 98% of the children scored at the "creative genius" level!
Captivated by the results, the scientists decided to do a longitudinal study, testing the same group of kids 5 years later, and again 10 years later. What did they find? At age 10, only 30% of the children scored at the same level. At 15, that number had dwindled to 12%!
Disturbed and intrigued by the clear and present downtrend (plummeting from 98% to 12% in just 10 years!), the scientists wondered, how (un)creative are adults? To find out, they administered the same test to 280,000 adults (25+ years old). Pathetically, a mere 2% scored at the creative genius level! Their suspicions were confirmed.
Why Creativity Is "Unlearned"
Why meditation is such a powerful tool for enhancing creativity
So, if creativity is not learned, but rather "unlearned," what's the reason? Why are 98% of us "creative geniuses" as children but only 2% as adults? Why such a steep drop?
"Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up." — Pablo Picasso
The truth is, our inner "painter, composer, inventor, innovator, etc" gets muzzled from the day we enter our highly structured, "no thinking outside the box" educational system.
Year after year of cramming our little brains with (soon to be forgotten) facts and figures, only to spit them back out on a fill in the bubble, standardized test really suffocates our precious little imaginations.
With a school system that rewards compliance and obedience rather than originality and ingenuity, when it's time to "graduate" into the work force — we are, in essence, programmed robots.
Creativity Breeds Success, Happiness
Why meditation is the world's best creativity exercise
If NASA made a pre-employment test to find the "1 in 50" people who "held on" to their imagination beyond childhood, you know, the 2% of creative geniuses still left in the "adult wild," then you can bet these folks are the innovative "old system breaking" and "new system making" superstars topping their respective field(s) — whether it's technology, engineering, entrepreneurship, design, art, healthcare, business, science, or else.
With some of the world's heaviest hitters having little more (and sometimes less) than a high school education, billionaires like Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Richard Branson — perhaps it's time we rethink our "memorize, test, and forget" educational system?
With our imagination entering hibernation at some point during our "youngsterhood," we seldom get to experience the highly euphoric "flow" state as adults. Where, in the midst of making, building, and designing cool new things, we totally lose ourselves in the creative process. Where minutes fade into hours, and we forget to eat, drink, and sleep because our creative "high" is all that really matters.
Is there any surprise that, according to a recent Gallup poll, about 70% of us are miserable with our jobs? While 84% of those in creative fields view themselves as happy and fulfilled?
The World Needs Us To Be Creative
The science of creativity and the brain
The thing is, the world needs us to be creative. Books don't author themselves. Inventions don't invent themselves. Music doesn't write itself. The by-product of creativity is every great achievement the world has ever seen.
Whether it's Michelangelo's David, Bell's telephone, Beethoven's 5th symphony, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Gutenberg's printing press, Thomas Edison's electricity, the Wright Brother's airplane, Alexander Fleming's penicillin, or Al Gore's internet (kidding on that one, couldn't resist!), we need "out of the box" thinking to invent useful things, create timeless works of art, solve problems from new angles, find new cures, and so on.
If we had kept with yesterday's brainchildren then we would all be riding around in horse and buggies instead of Uber, carrying around "Zach Morris" brick-phones instead of sleek iPhones, driving to Blockbuster instead of logging into Netflix, and "seeking knowledge" via AOL instead of Google. Without innovation, the world stands still.
Staying Relevant Requires Creativity
Why the world needs creative thinking
Our ability to work and contribute to the world are also on the line. To survive automation, according to multiple outlets, including the US Department of Education, the World Economic Forum, and Bloomberg, the jobs of tomorrow will depend on "creative problem solving." Staying relevant in today's world requires "out of the cubicle" thinking. So cliche yet so true.
We need creativity in our personal lives too. Whether it's transforming a near-empty fridge into a hearty dinner for the kiddos, fashioning a barren closet into a last minute Halloween costume, fabricating a heartfelt (yet budget-sensitive) birthday gift for that special someone, or masterminding our way to a thriving "lifestyle business" — creativity's only limit is our imagination.
Luckily, we are creative by nature. It's in our genes. It's in our brains. Then, what's the best way to bring our creativity back to life?
Meditation. And the reasons why could fill a library. Here are a few:
How Meditation Supercharges Creativity
Why developing creativity through meditation is so critical
A Highly Connected Brain Is A Highly Creative Brain — While Dr. Roger Sperry's "split-brain" studies won him a Nobel Prize in 1981, much of the latest research suggests that, rather than simply being a "right brain" function, creativity is actually a "whole brain" function, requiring a scale of neuro-networks to fire together.
How mindfulness boosts creativity into the stratosphere
As the bundle of 200 million nerve fibers connecting the left and right brain hemisphere(s), upgrading our "corpus callosum" (CC) cranks up "whole brain communication," and according to the work of a world-renowned Caltech neurosurgeon, Dr. Joseph E. Bogen, really gets the creative juices flowing.
In case you caught any of the news articles, after detailed pictures of Albert Einstein's brain surfaced in 2013 (to the delight of neuroscientists), a couple of unique features dropped jaws. One was the great physicst's incredibly well-connected, thick, and brawny "corpus callosum," ground zero for his "out-of-this-world" creative genius.
Fortifying The Brain's "Bridge" — Luckily, to strengthen your corpus callosum, you don't need to tape on a funny looking mustache, grow kooky white hair, wear an unkempt "roaring" 1920's professor suit, or memorize the theory of relativity. There is another way. It's called meditation.
If you want more creative ideas then meditation is the secret
As shown by a 2012 UCLA School of Medicine study, meditation cranks up the corpus callosum, making it bigger, stronger, thicker, and in-turn, more well-connected. Yes, very much like Einstein.
(Note: We aren't saying that meditation will make us the "next Einstein," it's more about being the best version of "us." Meditation helps you reach your potential better than any other medium.)
How the best way to be more creative is meditation
The Great Creative "Brain Dance" — A meditation supercharged corpus callosum opens the door to what's called the creative "brain dance." What's that? After mapping the noggins of 163 volunteers taking part in "imagination exercises," Harvard researchers found three highly active subnetworks (which don't typically work in unison). Keeping this short, they are the "new idea igniting" default mode network, the "brainstorming & idea sorting" salience network, and the "will this crazy idea actually work?" executive function network.
Drivers Of Creativity — Another study by a team of Dutch psychologists (Colzato et al) found that meditation stimulated very important "drivers" of creativity, including "divergent thinking" (brainstorming creative uses for an everyday object, such as a paperclip), "convergent thinking" (which solution works best?), "working memory" (keeping creative ideas from "flying away"), and "cognitive flexibility" (openness to new ideas and experiences).
Why creative people have the brightest futures
On the results, the team told Mindful.org: "To be creative, you need to have, or be trained in, the ability to observe, notice, and attend to phenomena that pass your mind's eye."
So, where is the mind's eye? The subconscious mind.
Why enhancing creativity is so critical to the future of mankind
Accessing The Subconscious Mind — While this article is focused on the brain, since creativity effectively "lives" in the subconscious mind, we must mention it here.
We all know the iceberg metaphor. While our "above the surface" conscious mind is "just the tip" of our potential, our "under the surface" subconscious mind is where our true power resides.
Everything that happens to us but never notice, our dreams, our long lost memories, and zillions of other data points are all held by the near infinite reservoir that is our subconscious mind. Creativity lives there too.
Unlocking this treasure trove requires us to simultaneously quiet our "monkey" conscious mind while diving into our deeper, far more powerful subconscious mind. And that's precisely what meditation does! The chart on this page shows our subconscious mind's ocean of superpowers, and how meditation helps us dive right in.
Meditation's Legendary Impact On Creativity
Why creative thinking makes the world go round
Meditation's ability to magnify creativity is growing in legend. Especially in the business world.
In the early 1980's, Walt Disney was at a creative crossroads. In hopes of "accessing new creative directions," executives called in high profile psychotherapist and meditation teacher "to the Hollywood stars," Dr. Ron Alexander. After seeing the massive creative leaps by those who finished his mindfulness course, the Walt Disney company adopted mindfulness on a broad scale. And the rest, as they say, is history.
How meditation rocket launches our creative problem solving ability
Over the next decade, with new Disneylands springing up in cities like Paris and Tokyo, groundbreaking animation patents hitting the books, and blockbusters like "The Little Mermaid," "The Lion King," and "Beauty & The Beast" gracing movie screens (to all the world's delight!), meditation's affect on the company, especially within its creative department — has been momentous.
Why successful people are masters at creativity and how meditation unlocks this ability
Other companies have followed in Disney's footsteps. Since 2007, Google has offered a mindfulness course aptly named "Search Inside Yourself." Apple, Nike, and other heavy hitters have also tapped into meditation's wide spectrum of creative benefits.
Creativity Makes Life Better In All The Ways
How boosting creativity is the secret to both happiness and success
"How will awakening my creativity change my day-to-day life?"
Creativity fuels passion, meaning, and purpose. Instead of hitting the snooze button (as we dread yet another mundane day at the dreary office), we spring out of bed looking forward to designing, making, and building cool new things.
How meditation is the secret to becoming more innovative and ingenuitive
Creativity has no limits. In this way, the creative process forces us to expand our boundaries each and every day. In turn, we grow. Perpetually. And it's wonderfully fulfilling. High level creatives know this, and experience a sense of joy felt by few in the world.
Instead of ignoring the wonderful brilliance and beauty all around, creativity allows us to experience life through the eyes of a child. From this "higher" perspective, life stays forever fresh and new. Speaking of:
"Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure imagination, Take a look, and you'll see into your imagination, We'll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation, What we'll see will defy explanation, If you want to view paradise simply look around and view it, Anything you want to, do it, Want to change the world? There's nothing to it..."
As the great Willy Wonka (of the Chocolate Factory fame) so eloquently put it, whether it's changing your life or changing the world, creativity is the key. It lives in all of us, awaken yours with meditation.
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432 Hz: This frequency is known as the "natural frequency" and is said to have a calming effect on the mind and body. It's often used in music therapy to promote relaxation and reduce stress.
528 Hz: This frequency is known as the "love frequency" and is said to have healing and restorative properties. It's also believed to help with DNA repair and to promote a sense of well-being.
7.83 Hz (the Schumann Resonance): This is the frequency of the Earth's electromagnetic field, and it's said to have a grounding effect on the body. It's also believed to help with sleep, reduce stress, and improve overall health.
10 Hz (Alpha Waves): This frequency is associated with the alpha brain wave state, which is a state of relaxed focus and creativity. It's often used in meditation and relaxation techniques to promote a calm and focused mind.
40 Hz: This frequency has been linked to gamma brain waves and is said to stimulate memory and cognitive function. It's also been studied for its potential to help with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of cognitive decline.
256 Hz: This frequency is often used in sound therapy to enhance mental clarity and concentration. It's believed to help with focus and problem-solving skills.
639 Hz: Known as the "relationship frequency," this tone is said to promote harmonious relationships and communication. It's used in various healing practices to improve connections with others.
3.5 Hz (Delta Waves): Delta brain waves are associated with deep sleep and rejuvenation. This frequency is essential for a restful night's sleep and is often used in sleep-inducing techniques.
18 Hz: This frequency is associated with increased energy and alertness. It can help boost motivation and productivity, making it useful during times of fatigue.
120 Hz: This higher-frequency sound is used in some therapeutic practices to stimulate creativity and inspiration. It's thought to enhance artistic expression and problem-solving abilities.
432 Hz: This frequency is known as the "natural frequency" and is said to have a calming effect on the mind and body. It's often used in music therapy to promote relaxation and reduce stress.
528 Hz: This frequency is known as the "love frequency" and is said to have healing and restorative properties. It's also believed to help with DNA repair and to promote a sense of well-being.
7.83 Hz (the Schumann Resonance): This is the frequency of the Earth's electromagnetic field, and it's said to have a grounding effect on the body. It's also believed to help with sleep, reduce stress, and improve overall health.
10 Hz (Alpha Waves): This frequency is associated with the alpha brain wave state, which is a state of relaxed focus and creativity. It's often used in meditation and relaxation techniques to promote a calm and focused mind.
40 Hz: This frequency has been linked to gamma brain waves and is said to stimulate memory and cognitive function. It's also been studied for its potential to help with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of cognitive decline.
256 Hz: This frequency is often used in sound therapy to enhance mental clarity and concentration. It's believed to help with focus and problem-solving skills.
639 Hz: Known as the "relationship frequency," this tone is said to promote harmonious relationships and communication. It's used in various healing practices to improve connections with others.
3.5 Hz (Delta Waves): Delta brain waves are associated with deep sleep and rejuvenation. This frequency is essential for a restful night's sleep and is often used in sleep-inducing techniques.
18 Hz: This frequency is associated with increased energy and alertness. It can help boost motivation and productivity, making it useful during times of fatigue.
120 Hz: This higher-frequency sound is used in some therapeutic practices to stimulate creativity and inspiration. It's thought to enhance artistic expression and problem-solving abilities.
Delta Rainscape / Track 14 / 20 minutes / 108 Hz
Harmonic Multilayering / Isochronic Tones
https://youtu.be/yq0UQGzhld0?si=7sCJfha7grvr5GEg
(Works best in relaxed position, attention on the breath,
headphones that are simple and comfortable.
More suggestions are on the EquiSync website.)
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
Harmonic Multilayering / Isochronic Tones
https://youtu.be/yq0UQGzhld0?si=7sCJfha7grvr5GEg
(Works best in relaxed position, attention on the breath,
headphones that are simple and comfortable.
More suggestions are on the EquiSync website.)
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
Delta Drumscape / Track 60 / 10 minutes
Harmonic Multilayering / Combo / 417 Hz
https://youtu.be/dx8Qb1tAtzE?si=jZW9Mtmvey1Wr6xm
(Works best in relaxed position, attention on the breath,
headphones that are simple and comfortable.
More suggestions are on the EquiSync website.)
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
Harmonic Multilayering / Combo / 417 Hz
https://youtu.be/dx8Qb1tAtzE?si=jZW9Mtmvey1Wr6xm
(Works best in relaxed position, attention on the breath,
headphones that are simple and comfortable.
More suggestions are on the EquiSync website.)
https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/
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Ace Life With "Fluid" Intelligence
While the school system is great for building "crystallized" intelligence (long term memory, basic knowledge, & vocabulary), "fluid" intelligence is king and ruler of the real world. A nicely illustrative quote:
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." — Bruce Lee
To thrive and prosper in an ever-changing world, we need to "be water" in every situation and every environment. Fluid intelligence measures our ability to adapt to change, our ability to be resourceful, our ability to see patterns and relationships, and our ability to solve new and novel problems.
In this article we explore:
Characteristics of High Fluid IntelligenceCognitive Flexibility — While the "4.0-GPA-type" is more likely to be cognitively "rigid," or to the extreme, a "know it all" (a common pitfall of high crystallized intelligence), people with high fluid intelligence are cognitively flexible. As the great Socrates once philosophized, "I know one thing... that I know nothing."
In our ever-changing world, we must stay open to new ideas, potentials, and possibilities.
Recognize Change Early — Because they recognize patterns long before the rest of us, people with high fluid intelligence experience change in slow motion. With their "Matrix-like" ability to "bend" time, adjusting to an ever-shifting status-quo is natural and easy.
Light on Their Feet — Because people with high fluid intelligence see change as vital and necessary, they don't get set in their ways. In a world where "data is the new oil," making adjustments and "pivoting" in the face of fresh information is essential to staying relevant. Life's true valedictorians understand this, and stay light on their feet as a result.
Masters of Uncertainty — We live in an uncertain world. With night vision goggles, people with high fluid intelligence have the well-tuned intuition and magnetic gut-feel to find their way through the dark. Whether dropped on a deserted island or elevated to the helm of a startup, with their "swiss-army-knife-like" resourcefulness and uncanny ability to navigate uncertainty — they always figure out a way to thrive.
Always Have Backup Plans — While the rigid "crystallized thinker" is more likely to get stuck on one solution, people with high fluid intelligence always have a plan A, B, C, D, and all the way to Z if needed. Because they envision infinite roads to success, when faced with a seemingly immovable object, they always find their way around it, under it, over it, or taking a different road if required. Their motto is "I'll find a way... I always do."
Growth Mindset — With their curious nature and naturally ingrained "growth mindset," people with high fluid intelligence aren't afraid to go out of their comfort zone. Why? Because that's how you grow. That's how you expand your limits. In the dojo that is life, there is always some ability to hone and some skill to master.
Aren't Afraid To Fail — To become a black belt at anything, you must first be a "mistake-making" white belt. In this way, failure is never permanent. It's data. It's useful. It gets you one step further to figuring out what works, one step closer to achieving that black belt. Fail hard. Fail fast. Fail often. It only makes you better. Fluid intelligence opens our eyes to this paradox.
They Fall Forward — While people with high fluid intelligence are not immune to getting knocked down (no one is), they do have the resilience, adaptability, and flexibility to never be down for the count. When they fall, it's always forward.
Are Leaders, Not Followers — Hope and change are two sides of the same coin. Because people with high fluid intelligence are masters of change, they are naturally full of hope. As a result, crowds often gather behind them. Instead of followers, they are more likely to be leaders, founders, groundbreakers, movers, and shakers.
How Meditation Increases Fluid Intelligence
Understanding the "meditation → fluid intelligence" link starts with how they stuff "all that brain" into one container... Say what? We'll explain.
One might question, since meditators "grow" a number of different brain regions through neuroplasticity (like the insula, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, etc), wouldn't they eventually need really big craniums to house all that powerful gray matter? Of course not, that's ridiculous! Building a big beautiful brain has nothing to do with becoming a human bobble head doll.
Meditation increases brain size/surface area by making its outward features (known as "gyri") more grooved, wrinkled, ridged, and folded. This process of "gyrification" is a bit like stuffing your whole wardrobe into one tiny suitcase. Don't worry, it's a very good thing. We actually want our brain to look like a super-complex maze.
Gyrification: Spring-Loading The BrainThe more intricate and detailed we make its outward features (through neuroplasticity & gyrification), the further we get from "smooth-brained" lower animals. In this way, harnessing the power of meditation to "pack-in" loads of gray matter not only "spring-loads" our brain power, but also slingshots our place on the evolutionary timeline. Darwin would approve.
Back to fluid intelligence. Where does "fluidly-intelligent" activity occur in the brain? In the thin, outermost surface layers (of the cerebral cortex, especially). On the edges. Then, like a compressed spring, a brain with compact outward features would catapult this "MacGyver-like" ability, right? Yes!
For meditators, with their grooved, wrinkled, and ridged brain features all "packed in nice and tight" (of the cerebral cortex, especially) — their brains are naturally wired for high fluid intelligence. "All that brain" stuffed into one cranium. That's the magic.
Honorable Mention
Want more? Meditation also strengthens two "hot bed" fluid brain regions, the "dorsolateral prefrontal cortex" and the "anterior cingulate cortex." The ancient mind practice also makes us "gritty" and mentally tough, boosts emotional intelligence, balances our brain, powers-up creativity, and magnifies intuition — all linked to fluid intelligence. We could go on, but you get the picture.
So, you didn't graduate at the top of your class? No problem. Fill up your fluid intelligence and become the valedictorian of life. Stand atop the podium with meditation.
Ace Life With "Fluid" Intelligence
While the school system is great for building "crystallized" intelligence (long term memory, basic knowledge, & vocabulary), "fluid" intelligence is king and ruler of the real world. A nicely illustrative quote:
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." — Bruce Lee
To thrive and prosper in an ever-changing world, we need to "be water" in every situation and every environment. Fluid intelligence measures our ability to adapt to change, our ability to be resourceful, our ability to see patterns and relationships, and our ability to solve new and novel problems.
In this article we explore:
- Nine common characteristics of people with high fluid intelligence.
- Why people with high fluid intelligence graduate as valedictorians of the real world.
- What makes the "high fluid IQ" brain so unique.
- How meditation fills fluid intelligence to the brim.
- And much more.
Characteristics of High Fluid IntelligenceCognitive Flexibility — While the "4.0-GPA-type" is more likely to be cognitively "rigid," or to the extreme, a "know it all" (a common pitfall of high crystallized intelligence), people with high fluid intelligence are cognitively flexible. As the great Socrates once philosophized, "I know one thing... that I know nothing."
In our ever-changing world, we must stay open to new ideas, potentials, and possibilities.
Recognize Change Early — Because they recognize patterns long before the rest of us, people with high fluid intelligence experience change in slow motion. With their "Matrix-like" ability to "bend" time, adjusting to an ever-shifting status-quo is natural and easy.
Light on Their Feet — Because people with high fluid intelligence see change as vital and necessary, they don't get set in their ways. In a world where "data is the new oil," making adjustments and "pivoting" in the face of fresh information is essential to staying relevant. Life's true valedictorians understand this, and stay light on their feet as a result.
Masters of Uncertainty — We live in an uncertain world. With night vision goggles, people with high fluid intelligence have the well-tuned intuition and magnetic gut-feel to find their way through the dark. Whether dropped on a deserted island or elevated to the helm of a startup, with their "swiss-army-knife-like" resourcefulness and uncanny ability to navigate uncertainty — they always figure out a way to thrive.
Always Have Backup Plans — While the rigid "crystallized thinker" is more likely to get stuck on one solution, people with high fluid intelligence always have a plan A, B, C, D, and all the way to Z if needed. Because they envision infinite roads to success, when faced with a seemingly immovable object, they always find their way around it, under it, over it, or taking a different road if required. Their motto is "I'll find a way... I always do."
Growth Mindset — With their curious nature and naturally ingrained "growth mindset," people with high fluid intelligence aren't afraid to go out of their comfort zone. Why? Because that's how you grow. That's how you expand your limits. In the dojo that is life, there is always some ability to hone and some skill to master.
Aren't Afraid To Fail — To become a black belt at anything, you must first be a "mistake-making" white belt. In this way, failure is never permanent. It's data. It's useful. It gets you one step further to figuring out what works, one step closer to achieving that black belt. Fail hard. Fail fast. Fail often. It only makes you better. Fluid intelligence opens our eyes to this paradox.
They Fall Forward — While people with high fluid intelligence are not immune to getting knocked down (no one is), they do have the resilience, adaptability, and flexibility to never be down for the count. When they fall, it's always forward.
Are Leaders, Not Followers — Hope and change are two sides of the same coin. Because people with high fluid intelligence are masters of change, they are naturally full of hope. As a result, crowds often gather behind them. Instead of followers, they are more likely to be leaders, founders, groundbreakers, movers, and shakers.
How Meditation Increases Fluid Intelligence
Understanding the "meditation → fluid intelligence" link starts with how they stuff "all that brain" into one container... Say what? We'll explain.
One might question, since meditators "grow" a number of different brain regions through neuroplasticity (like the insula, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, etc), wouldn't they eventually need really big craniums to house all that powerful gray matter? Of course not, that's ridiculous! Building a big beautiful brain has nothing to do with becoming a human bobble head doll.
Meditation increases brain size/surface area by making its outward features (known as "gyri") more grooved, wrinkled, ridged, and folded. This process of "gyrification" is a bit like stuffing your whole wardrobe into one tiny suitcase. Don't worry, it's a very good thing. We actually want our brain to look like a super-complex maze.
Gyrification: Spring-Loading The BrainThe more intricate and detailed we make its outward features (through neuroplasticity & gyrification), the further we get from "smooth-brained" lower animals. In this way, harnessing the power of meditation to "pack-in" loads of gray matter not only "spring-loads" our brain power, but also slingshots our place on the evolutionary timeline. Darwin would approve.
Back to fluid intelligence. Where does "fluidly-intelligent" activity occur in the brain? In the thin, outermost surface layers (of the cerebral cortex, especially). On the edges. Then, like a compressed spring, a brain with compact outward features would catapult this "MacGyver-like" ability, right? Yes!
For meditators, with their grooved, wrinkled, and ridged brain features all "packed in nice and tight" (of the cerebral cortex, especially) — their brains are naturally wired for high fluid intelligence. "All that brain" stuffed into one cranium. That's the magic.
Honorable Mention
Want more? Meditation also strengthens two "hot bed" fluid brain regions, the "dorsolateral prefrontal cortex" and the "anterior cingulate cortex." The ancient mind practice also makes us "gritty" and mentally tough, boosts emotional intelligence, balances our brain, powers-up creativity, and magnifies intuition — all linked to fluid intelligence. We could go on, but you get the picture.
So, you didn't graduate at the top of your class? No problem. Fill up your fluid intelligence and become the valedictorian of life. Stand atop the podium with meditation.
EquiSync Deepereum Soundscape #14 is a gentle, steady rain with enough variation to be interesting.
I sometimes set it on 20 minutes, Theta Brainwaves, Harmonic Multilayering, Binaural Beats, Horizontal Modulation.
With the sound of the rain in my headphones, my focus is on breathing, while visualizing golden rain from the Source I Am soaking through my brain, washing out the pain, soaking down my body, releasing all unneeded tension, allowing the Us of Me to live in the Flow and from the Soul.
I sometimes set it on 20 minutes, Theta Brainwaves, Harmonic Multilayering, Binaural Beats, Horizontal Modulation.
With the sound of the rain in my headphones, my focus is on breathing, while visualizing golden rain from the Source I Am soaking through my brain, washing out the pain, soaking down my body, releasing all unneeded tension, allowing the Us of Me to live in the Flow and from the Soul.
EquiSync Deepereum Soundscapes (that work for me...)
Track #2
Track #7
Track #10
Track #14
Track #24
Track #31
Track #35
Track #44
Track #74
Track #75
Track #84
Track #88
Track #90
Track #96
Track #2
Track #7
Track #10
Track #14
Track #24
Track #31
Track #35
Track #44
Track #74
Track #75
Track #84
Track #88
Track #90
Track #96
