Balance

I believe in energy and the best way I have to interpret energy is by waves. I can hear the sound waves and I also have the ability to select what I hear by discriminating all around and focus on what I chose to hear. Now I can hear the insects outside, the highway far away, the a/c, or my own hart pumping. To me, that is the key, were I place my attention.

When we are awake we have at least to mayor electrical patterns that our brain emits, the right side is believed to emit Alpha waves. This is when we are receptive, intuitive, relaxed, imaginative... If we are not aware, we can be in the alpha state for only about an hour a day. Usually just before or after sleep.

The left side emits faster waves called Beta and this is were most of us live. I call it the automatic state. This is when we are active, tense, talking, driving... If you think about it, we do at least 90% of our activities in auto pilot. e.g. Once you learn how to drive, you don't pay attention to the gears or the brakes ( as long as they are working ) or if you know a language, you speak and you are not debating what verb or adjective goes before or after, you just act. My problem with the auto pilot is that if I happen to learn something wrong and I store it on the back on my brain, when I use it, I am not aware that is wrong or that there might be a better way. I need someone, or something to make me aware of the problem.

Statements like, the closest you have from your eyes is your nose and we can hardly see it, or when you point your finger at someone there is 3 fingers pointing at you, seem appropriate.

The balance I am looking for is to be open and receptive to this alpha waves. But I won't let them in unless I am relax. I try to recognize the signs and which activities take me to one or the other and how and when can I combine both. e.g. an artist is composing music or a paining they have to be in both, one is the creative state of mind and the other is the auto pilot. I am not able to compose music as I am able to imagine and have ideas but since I don't know the language of music I am not able to communicate my message. That doesn't mean that I can't, it just that I am not interested.

One of the most powerful statements I ever heard was " be here now" meaning: when we are eating, enjoy and bless your meal (we may end up loosing weight since we won't over eat) if we are having a conversation with a love one or a client, be here now, we may be able to learn about them. Be here now is being mindful of what we do and how we feel so we can be in an alpha and beta state interchangeably.