Joe Dispenza explains the brain-wave hierarchy: high beta is stress and incoherence, low beta drops into alpha when you stop thinking and start feeling space. Alpha, he says, is the imaginative, creative state where the inner world becomes more real than the outer.
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Beta is when you open your eyes and you're kind of plugged into threedimensional reality like a like a character in a virtual reality experience like, "Oh, I got this body. I'm local. I'm aware that I'm in space and time. Okay, I I'm this person." And I got to process all this sensory information, what I'm seeing, what I'm hearing, what I'm smelling, what I'm tasting, what I'm feeling. And the brain's got to integrate it. And its job literally is to create coherence. And when you're doing that, all that integration creates what's called beta brain waves. But if I said, "Hey, we're going to take a test at the end. Don't worry about it. There's going to be 50 questions. Uh, and you got to get at least 40 to 50, and if you don't, we're going to put your name on the screen. You'll have to stay afterwards, but we'll call your name out." You would be like, "Turn the light bulb up a little brighter. You get more a little bit more awake. You kind of lean in, pay attention a bit more." It's almost like good stress, right? And but if you're really fearful, if you're really anxious, if you're really angry, if you're really frustrated, you're really judgmental. Now you're in that kind of high high high beta state. It's three times higher than low-level beta. And that's when you're driving your sports car in first gear on the freeway. The brain is is way way out of balance and it's incoherent. The brain is out of order and its patterns are interfering and there's energy being diminished in the brain. As you open your awareness to space and you're sensing space and you're feeling more of it and less of you, if you're feeling it and you're feeling space, you're not thinking, but you're feeling. And if you feel it, you no longer activate those circuits in your brain. And you begin to slow your brain waves down from high beta to mid-range beta to lowle beta. And all of a sudden, you start to relax and you move into alpha. And the moment you move into alpha, the voice in your head that's always talking to you, it's telling you things, it tends to kind of quiet down and the brain waves slow down and your inner world starts becoming more real than your outer world. And you kind of see in images, in pictures. The brain goes into an imaginary state. And that is the creative state.