The Power of Theta Brainwave to Heal

If you have ever watched a hypnotherapy show, you surely witness how participants selected from the audience, were able to perform incredible acts that under conscious awareness they would not imagine themselves capable of. These are not tricks, and it is not staged. It informs us of the untapped power dormant within us. I clearly recall how the body of a young, light weight girl under hypnosis was placed between two chairs whose backs faced each other so that her ankles were positioned on the edge of one chair’s back and her neck on the edge of the other without any support. Her subconscious received the command to be solid as a piece of wood. The hypnotherapist, who was a relatively big guy, stepped on a chair and then stepped on her body with his entire weight. She did not move, nor collapsed and her ribs suffered no damage. She would have been astounded had she watched herself do that but amazingly, this capacity resides within all of us. We possess much greater powers than we possibly can imagine. So the question arises, if we can do this under hypnosis, why not in our waking state?

We also drop into the theta brainwave when we stand on a top of a mountain surrounded by the immense beauty of nature feeling oneness with the entire universe! Moments during which we feel connected to all life and we know with certainty that there is a higher power and that we are a part of it. Children playing video games often enter a hypnotic state of trance that most likely is associated with a theta brainwave. Generally speaking, children up to age 13, spend much of their time in this state and for them it is in fact, normal. That is why it is essential to teach children creatively and imaginatively.

More Creativity, Inspiration, and Intuition

When we begin to daydream in the middle of the day and twenty minutes later we suddenly ‘wake up’ and realize that we have absolutely no idea what transpired around us during those 20 minutes, we most likely hitched onto a theta brainwave. Often, the ideas we come up with during our theta adventure are not subjected to our regular judging filters. We simply find ourselves in the flow (or in the zone). It is only after we regain our active beta state, that we enforce our critical selective thought processes and determined what deserves our attention as suppose to what is ‘irresponsible’, ‘illogical’, ‘unrealistic’ etc. .

Another example for a theta state is the phenomenon of the fakirs in India who can walk on burning coals without burning their skin. Stories of inconceivable acts people perform under crisis situations such as a woman lifting up a vehicle to save a child underneath it also demonstrate those super human powers we possess and is associated with theta. This brainwave is regarded as the brainwave of the subconscious and is largely responsible for all the programs and beliefs we have installed and which run our lives. That is one of the reasons it is so difficult to get rid of those beliefs despite the fact that we have already identified them. On the other side of the coin, if we strongly believe with all our might that it is in our power to do something, or to change something even if it seems as if it defies the laws of science, we will be able to do it. The theta brainwave is linked to creativity, inspiration, intuition and spiritual enlightment allowing us to act outside the predictable limitations of the five senses and our conscious perception.

Can We Train Our Brain To Slow Down?

Why are we not spending much more time in this amazing state? Why are we not accessing its power on a regular basis? It surely seems that if we could slow our brainwaves to theta, we could manifest more easily, heal more effectively, create new things and bring into reality new visions. We could express our highest potential and maybe even change the world...??

We actually do spend quite a lot of time in this magnificent state, actually, every night. However, we seem to have little or no control over it! It seems that the slower the brainwave, the more difficult it is for us to access it consciously. The conscious mind, by the mere fact of being conscious, cancels out the slow frequency states. The conscious mind observes reality through the 5 senses and becomes trapped by their limited perception of what is possible. We know that it is possible to train the mind to slow down. Through the experimental biofeedback technique, a group of alcoholics were trained during 15 separate sessions to slow their brainwave to alpha and theta. The experiment was conducted with two control groups, and the results were very promising, indicating substantial preference for this kind of treatment with long-range positive outcomes. But who has the money or access to these kinds of treatments?