Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171130 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Each moment of our lives, from death to birth, our brains are engaged in an endless symphony of patterns. In AWAKENING THE MIND, Anna Wise reveals how a careful understanding of the four types of brain waves, and the practice of carefully designed meditation exercises that lead to a mastery of each type, can vastly improve everyday focus, memory, concentration, and overall mental awareness. Over the past three decades, Wise has measured the brain-wave patterns of spiritual teachers, artists, high-performing business, athletes, and other highly creative and productive individuals. She discovered that, during periods of peak mental awareness and clarity, they all exhibited a specific brain-wave pattern in which the four categories of brain waves - alpha, beta, theta and delta, combined in a distinct configuration. In this book, Wise provides meditation exercises specially developed to lead readers to achieve that heightened mental state referred to as the Awakened Mind.

Customer Reviews

Inspirational but maybe check out THPM
Anna Wise worked with Maxwell Cade in the 70s. His objective at the time was to discover the EEG brainwave profiles that correlate with higher mental states. He discovered that advanced meditators all had a profile he called the "awakened mind". Since then Anna Wise has been working on stage-by-stage methods that she says can take you to that very state without an EEG, and this book explains those methods. She also gives advice on discovering and removing psychological blocks, the relationship of this kind of work to kundalini and good deal else.

The book is very good and will absolutely inspire anyone who has wondered about this possibility, however, a word of caution. This is her second and latest book, the first being "The High Performance Mind", and I have to say that they essentially contain the same material. She adds a few more visualisations in ATM and the later chapters are more "spiritual" reflecting, I believe, her own personal growth. What has been dropped from THPM is the diagrams of the various EEG brainwave profiles.

My conclsion is, if you are a glutton for this stuff, and I am, you should get both books. They are cheap and it is definitely worth it to get the full text. But, if you are interested in buyin an EEG get THPM, it will give you a better insight into the profiles you are expecting to see. If you will not buy an EEG, get ATM.

Enjoy!

Regards

Adrian