Alpha, Theta, Delta waves

Jeroen

I came across a presentation by Vishant Lakhani, the CEO of MindValley (undoubtedly a great salesman) on YouTube about a self-help programme called The Silva Method. It was based on work done by Jose Silva, a radio repair engineer, in the 1950’s and 1960’s on a self help program which is focussed on harnessing the mind’s sleep states. It went on to sell millions of copies of books.

Supposedly the Silva Method enables you to bring the mind into the sleep states characterised by Alpha and Theta brainwave patterns, which are naturally present in the five minutes after you wake up. This is similar to a meditative state, and has positive effects on learning, creativity, intuition, stress recovery, and so on. The more extreme claims by Lakhani on ‘manifesting life goals’ I am a lot less willing to credit.

Now of course I am somewhat familiar with this, since I have spent a lot of time on the boundaries of sleep. But I had more become overwhelmed by visions which I was called to explore, and had never thought to direct it’s effects like this, into a range of beneficial properties.

It seems like a good source of further experiments and methods, looking at the Silva Method.

lobster

Didn't work for me. From what I remember, the technique we used was meant to create an astral body (out of body experience).
The technique involved the corpse posture. Gentle massage to increase relaxation and someone reading a series of visualisations

Jeroen

@lobster said:
Didn't work for me. From what I remember, the technique we used was meant to create an astral body (out of body experience).
The technique involved the corpse posture. Gentle massage to increase relaxation and someone reading a series of visualisations

Yes… some people with overactive imaginations probably get sucked into that but it’s not my cup of tea. I’m more specifically interested in what happens on the boundary of sleep.