The Science of Enlightenment

THE SCIENCE OF Enlightenment Enlightenment has often been described as: Peace Liberation One's Full Potential Oneness Happiness Support from with Creation 24/7 Environment Quotes LAO TZU ST. TERESA RALPH W. EMERSON HELEN KELLER C He who knows others is wise. CC I feel the flame of eternity in 66 Everything is stilled, and the soul is left in a state of great quiet and deep satisfaction." 66 Within man is the soul of the He who knows himself is whole; the wise silence: the my soul. " enlightened." universal beauty." 4 Enlightened Brain MEASURING FULL POTENTIAL What does an enlightened brain look like? TOTAL BRAIN FUNCTIONING: V Abundance of Alpha Waves Brain Wave Coherence In Rest and Activity TYPES OF BRAIN WAVES BRAIN WAVE COHERENCE GAMMA Active thought BETA Alert, working ALPHA Incoherent Waves Coherent Waves Inner wakefulness Communication Greater intuition THETA broken between Calm thinking before action Drowsy, light sleep frontal lobe and rest of the brain DELTA Mind-body Deep sleep One acts with coordination little foresight A COHERENT BRAIN IS A HIGH-PERFORMING BRAIN Athletes World Managers Musician Profes. Top Level Long term Class Musician Transcendental Athletes Managers Meditation (TM) BRAIN INTEGRATION SCALE This scale measures the coordination and restful alertness of the brain.* People who excel in activity have a more integrated brain. Interestingly, study participants who had practiced the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique long-term scored very high on the scale. *A measure that combines frontal coherence, the amount of global alpha waves (8-10 Hz, associated with inner wakefulness), and the brain preparatory response. 1 MeditationE PATH TO AN ENLIGHTENED BRAIN HIGHER ALPHA COHERENCE HIGHER COHERENCE EYES-OPEN Long-term TM >8 years During Transcendental Meditation Short-term TM <1 year FЗС3 FЗР3 F4C4 F4P4 EEG Electrode Pairs Eyes Closed TM Practice >Not Meditating 4 Meditating People who practice Transcendental Meditation long-term show higher brain coherence even when not meditating. 3 TYPES OF MEDITATION Meditation Category and EEG Meditation Practices FOCUSED ATTENTION Voluntary control of attention and cognitive processing Gamma 30-50 Hz Beta2 20-30 Hz Qigong Loving-Kindness- Zen Meditation Compassion Diamond Way Buddhism MINDFULNESS Dispassionate, non-evaluative awareness of ongoing experience Theta 5-8 Hz Zen Meditation Sahaja Yoga Concentrative Vipassana Meditation Qigong AUTOMATIC SELF-TRANSCENDING Automatic settling down of mental activity to a state of quiet, contentless self-awareness Alpha1 8-10 Hz Transcendental Meditation Tutomatic self-transcending is the only category of meditation characterized by Alpha EEG, which has been correlated with higher Brain Integration and increased success in life. ENLIGHTENMENT IS FOR EVERYONE EnlightenmentForEveryone.com DESIGNED BY GALAXY NINJA Sources Harung, H.S., Travis, F., Pensgaard, A.M., Boes, R., Cook-Greuter, S., Daley, K. (2011). Higher psycho-physiological refinement in world-class Norwegian athletes: brain measures of performance capacity. Scandanavian Journal of Sport and Science, 21(1), 32-41. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2009.01007.x Harung, H.S., & Travis, F. (2012). Higher mind-brain development in successful leaders: testing a unified theory of performance. Cognitive Processing, 13(2). 171-81. doi: 10.1007/s10339-011-0432-x Levine, P. H., Hebert, R., Haynes, C.T., Strobel, U. EEG coherence during the Transcendental Meditation Technique. In: Orme-Johnson, D., Farrow, J., ed. Scien- tific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers. Vol 1. Livingston Manor, New York: Maharishi European Research University Press; 1977: 187-207. Travis, F., & Shear, J. (2010). Focused attention, open monitoring and automatic self-transcending: Categories to organize meditations from Vedic, Buddhist and Chinese traditions. Consciousness and Cognition, 19(4), 1110-8. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.01.007 Travis, F., Harung, H., and Lagrosen, Y. (2011). Moral development, executive functioning, peak experiences and brain patterns in professional and amateur classical musicians: interpreted in light of a Unified Theory of Performance. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4), 1256-64. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.020 Travis, F.T., Arenander, A. (2006). Cross-sectional and longitudinal study of effects of transcendental meditation practice on interhemispheric frontal asym- metry and frontal coherence. International Journal of Neuroscience, 116(12), 1519-38. Travis, F.T. (1991). Eyes open and TM EEG patterns after one and after eight years of TM practice. Psychophysiology, 28(3a), S58. http://www.drfredtravis.com http://www.koepnick.de/Three%20Typs%20of%20Meditation.pdf http://www.medicalook.com/systems_images/Brain_waves_large.gif http://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/brain-integration-scale/2813 Brain Integration Scale