Alpha Brainwave Music

I went for a workshop on Saturday and was introduced to this alpha music to help sooth the mind. It is a calming music .. sort of like Kitaro's music.

Alpha is a brainwave and the alpha music helps the brain to drift into this slower brainwave. If your mind in alpha, it becomes relaxed , free of stress and is automatically using more of the right side of the brain.

I search the net and found that there are four types of brainwaves.

1. The Beta Wave has a frequency of 14 to 21 cycles per second.
- We use in our ordinary waking state. At this level, we reason, rationalize, and execute whatever chores we need to do.
However, it will increase with stress, as faster it goes as more stress and nervous you will get.

2. The Alpha Wave which has the frequency is from 7 to 14 cycles per second.
- This is the State of Mind where you are in a "relaxed alertness". You are calm and peaceful, with clear creative thinking, ideas, solutions and intuitive breakthroughs. This is the State of Mind, where you can reach your full potential.
3. The Theta Wave aka deep sleep state (between 4 and 7 cycles per second)
- All our emotional experiences are recorded here.

4.The Delta Wave is the deepest sleep with frequencies less than 4 cycles per second.
Typically encountered in total unconsciousness

According to the instructor, we can actually drift into the alpha brain wave by listening to alpha or meditative music, relaxation and meditation exercise. Painting can also drift you this state as you lost the sense of time when you doing your paint. People have been using this music as background to presentation to calm the audience.

What he's trying to say is, we can influence our personal space, our living space or our working space, by playing certain type of music...Interesting, I do feel relaxed when listening to it. But to what extent, I'm not sure yet :)