Using EEG,
researchers have shown that when an athlete is in the flow, their
brainwaves are in phase. If you look at the EEG of someone who is angry
or frustrated or processing a negative emotion, you find their
brainwaves are desynchronized
Delta brainwave
frequencies have been shown to trigger cellular regeneration. Telomere
regeneration is sparked by ultra-slow brainwaves at 0.19 cycles per
second
Certain types of meditation will generate delta brainwaves. EFT will also generate delta frequencies
Certain theta
frequencies stimulate stem cell production; 7.8 hertz is a “magic”
frequency generated through meditation that is associated with a number
of beneficial changes in your body
EcoMeditation
that combines HeartMath’s quick coherence technique with tapping and
mindfulness. Meditation is defined as the ability to sustain an alpha
state for 15 seconds or more. EcoMeditation can get you into a coherent
alpha state in about four minutes
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"I was one of those people who was very focused on the effects of
energy therapies in the physical body. I did the first triple-lined,
randomized control trial showing how EFT affects cortisol levels. I've
been very focused on immunoglobulins, brainwaves, hormones and all the
things that we can measure in the body," Dawson says.
"I have a friend at Harvard who's a psychiatrist, who told me,
'It's the energy that's making those molecules be the way they are.' I
was always a little skeptical about that. But with him and others, [such
as] Dean Radin, Rollin McCraty … they all said, 'Dawson, it's the
energy. There is really a direct chain of causation between our thoughts
and things.'
But I thought, 'When I look at all the links in that chain, I'm
sure I'll find a lot of broken links.' I began to look at the studies,
the primary research … There were no broken links … It's just remarkable
to me how our thoughts literally create things in our bodies and all
around us."
Heart Coherence Allows Synchronistic Events to Occur
The term Dawson uses in his book is "synchronicity." And it was a
series of synchronicities that led to the writing of this book.
"One of those synchronicities, just one of many, [occurred when] I
was writing this chapter on synchronicity. I wanted to understand these
things called 'field line resonances.' These are scientific concepts.
The earth is like a giant magnet. It has a north pole and a south pole
[and] these lines of magnetic flux around the planet.
As a solar wind goes by the Earth, it literally plucks these
magnetic force lines like strings on a violin. I wanted to know more
about this really fascinating but very complex subject.
I was speaking at a conference with Dr. Joe Dispenza … After my
talk, they put me on a science panel. On the science panel was McCraty,
who had just done the most remarkable piece of research, the
authoritative paper on field line resonance. He told me all about it."
An interesting anecdote on synchronicity described in Dawson's book
was how he managed to find a set of keys he lost while snorkeling in
Hawaii. He retells the story:
"On this particular day, I snorkeled all over this big bay. I got
back to the Jeep, put my hands in my pocket to grab the keys. No keys …
So, my keys were lost and I thought I should get back to the water and
try and find them.
I spent about an hour [searching]. Now, I didn't panic. That's
the big thing. I talk a lot in the book about synchronous mind and being
in synchrony with the universe. I got into that state. It's the
synchrony of heart coherence; feeling totally fine, no panic.
I swam around this bay looking for them. But again, this is a big
bay. I'm looking for two tiny keys lost in the coral 10 to 12 feet
deep. There's no logical way of finding them. But my intuition said,
'Let's do this.' As dusk began to fall, a father with three teenage sons
got into the water …
My intuition said, 'Just go talk to them.' I said to them, 'I've
been noticing you, seeing you dive to the bottom. Did you, by chance,
find anything in the coral down there?' The youngest boy held up my
keys. The chances of that happening are infinitesimally small.
But when those things happen to you, again and again, it's like
the universe saying to you, 'Hey. Pay attention. Something's going on
here.' Synchronicity, when we're in sync, when we're in that state of a
heart coherence, when we meditate, when we tap away our stress, we enter
that space of what I call nonlocal mind.
In the nonlocal mind, we have access to information we don't have
at a level of local mind. I begin the book and end the book with this
really powerful plea to make that your life. That you aren't living your
life just kind of limited by what you see at the commission of your
local mind; that you open yourself to meditation every day, and to the
mystery of the nonlocal mind …
Nonlocal mind is doing all kinds of miracles in our lives and
nature all the time. If we just open ourselves to that level of
information, we gain access to levels of consciousness [and] knowing
that is far beyond the ones we have at the level of our small, little
local minds."
Being in the Flow
This synchronous mind Dawson is talking about is the same as what
athletes experience as "being in the flow" or "being in the zone." Using
electroencephalography (EEG), researchers have shown that when an
athlete is in the flow, their brainwaves are in phase. On the other
hand, if you look at the EEG of someone who is angry or frustrated or
processing a negative emotion, you find their brain waves are not in
step.
"It's not a figure of speech, it's literally a flow state," he says.
"You could actually measure the brain[waves], and then recreate that.
It's not a mystery anymore. We know the formula. We could reproduce the
formula. We can train anybody to acquire that kind of a state."
The book also discusses research showing how our brainwaves affect
our biology. Delta frequencies, for example, have been shown to trigger
cellular regeneration. Up until a few years ago, we didn't have the
equipment to measure really slow delta waves below one cycle per
second. Now, there's research showing that telomere regeneration is
sparked by ultraslow brainwaves at 0.19 cycles per second.
How do you generate delta brainwaves? Certain types of meditation
will get you there. Doing EFT will also generate delta frequencies.
Certain theta frequencies, meanwhile, stimulate stem cell production.
According to Dawson, the Schumann frequency of 7.8 hertz is a special
frequency generated through meditation that is associated with a number
of beneficial changes in your body. This is also why many integrative
cancer specialists are now stressing the importance of lowering stress
and incorporating meditation in their cancer treatment programs.
A Cancer Story
A woman named Beth Misner is writing a book about her cancer
experience, and how she drove her cancer into remission using nothing
but energy medicine. In March 2017, she was diagnosed with a
5-centimeter (2-inch) tumor in her right breast. The lymph nodes under
her right armpit were also inflamed and full of cancerous cells — a sign
that the cancer had spread into her limbic system. They also discovered
three areas of concern on her right lung.
Her doctor at MD Anderson in Houston (a famous cancer clinic) wanted
to initiate radiation right away, but Misner decided to wait. She
eventually decided to address her cancer on the level of energy. She
contacted Dawson for advice and suggestions. Dawson recounts what
happened next:
"She began to do chi gung intensively. She began to tap
intensively. She began to do energy medicine exercises, and got energy
medicine treatments. She cleaned up her diet. She got rid of stress in her life. She did a whole bunch of proactive things to shift herself at the energy level.
Now, this is March [when] she gets the diagnosis of MD Anderson.
By May, scans showed that all the lymph nodes under her right armpit
were completely clear, and the tumor shrunk from 5 centimeters to 1.4
centimeters. One of her doctors said, 'Well, it looks to me like it's
just necrotic. It's just dissolving. Her body has removed it.'
She, again, just kept on the energy techniques and later on her
bloodwork showed not a trace of cancer in her body. That's the power of
using energy. That's why I urge people, whatever your challenge is — it
doesn't mean this is the right approach for everybody — but pay
attention to stress. Pay attention to energy."
A very important side note here is that you have to make a choice,
and it's not necessarily an easy one. If you have chemo and/or
radiation, energy work will not be effective, as the treatments are
simply too toxic. Metabolic cancer therapies such as cyclical ketosis and fasting, on the other hand, can be very beneficial.
"I'm not saying [energy work] is going to work perfectly for
everyone. What I'm saying is look at your energy options. What 'Mind to
Matter' shows you is that my consciousness and energy has enormous
effect on the matter of your cells. If you're ignoring that leverage
point, you're ignoring the biggest possible leverage point of your own
health," Dawson says.
How to Get Into a Coherent Flow State
So, how do you get into a coherent state of flow? Lifelong meditators
can do it effortlessly, showing that it's a matter of training. Through
experimentation, Dawson developed a program he calls EcoMeditation that
combines HeartMath's quick coherence technique with tapping and mindfulness.
Dawson cites research showing that EFT can cause a 37 percent drop in
cortisol in just one week. And, when cortisol goes down, DHEA goes up,
because they make the same two precursors. It also improves many
beneficial enzymes. For example, in one week, baseline immunoglobulin
levels rose by 113 percent, basically more than doubling
immune-functioning markers. It also decreases sympathetic nervous system
activation.
"We know now, because we've looked at this in peak performers,
athletes, business people, financial experts, in people in meditative
monasteries and nunneries and people who are really focused on
meditation in the long term.
We know that meditation has these effects, but how do you get
there quickly? You can spend an hour with your eyes closed and not be
meditating. Or you can spend two minutes and enter a deep state. How do
you get there? I'm focused on that really intently now," Dawson says.
Dawson defines meditation as the ability to sustain an alpha state
for 15 seconds or more. EcoMeditation can get you into a coherent brain
state in about four minutes.
"You essentially are mimicking the breathing, the posture of that
10,000-hour Tibetan monk. If you do what they do, if you mimic with no
belief, no spiritual superstructure, and just give the physiological
cues to your body, you go into that what we call the 'awakened mind
state' just like that," he says.
Seven Steps to Awakened Mind
You can find a series of guided meditations by Church on InsightTimer.com, including entraining yourself with synchronicity and affirming inner peace.
There are seven steps to Dawson's EcoMeditation formula.1
For best results, set aside 20 to 30 minutes for this practice each
day. Studies suggest half an hour of meditation daily produces
noticeable changes in about a month or two, but even as little as 10
minutes a day can produce shifts in about 10 days.
1. First, tap each of the EFT acupressure
points (see diagram), while holding the intention that you are calm and
peaceful. While tapping, say to yourself (out loud or silently), "I
release any and all blocks to inner peace. I release all tension in my
body. I release anything in my past, present or future that stands
between me and inner peace."
2. Next, relax your tongue on the floor
of your mouth. This relaxes the hypoglossal nerve that runs from your
tongue into the vagal nerve, which tells your vagal nerve that you
aren't under threat. As a result, your whole body starts to relax. 3. Now, picture a large empty space behind your eyes. Simply doing this will put you into an alpha state. 4. Do the HeartMath quick coherence
technique, which involves slowing your breathing to six seconds per
in-breath and six seconds per out-breath (five breaths per minute). 5. Next, visualize your physical heart,
and imagine breathing in and out of your heart. This will put you into a
deep state of heart coherence. 6. With each out-breath, imagine a beam
of love flowing out from your heart toward a person or place that you
love. Hold this image for several breaths. Simply doing this will
generate delta, theta and even gamma brainwaves. Gamma is the wave of
happiness and integration.
"Most people don't have a gamma flare that lasts more than two seconds," Dawson says.
"But after a week of meditation, you live in that state where you're
having these flares of integrative brainwaves called gamma at the very
top of the band, and then people feel totally wonderful."
7. Lastly, bring the beam of love back
into your heart and visualize it flowing into any part of your body that
is uncomfortable or in pain. To end the meditation, take three deep
six-second breaths., then return your attention to the room and open
your eyes.
When to Meditate for Optimal Results, and What To Do When Stress Strikes
Dawson recommends doing your meditation first thing in the morning,
and to complement it with EFT during the day whenever stress might rear
its ugly head.
"If you wake up and the first thing you turn your attention to is
being in that alpha state, that dreamy state and meditating, then you
capture all benefits of being in that alpha state … I see this as
extending that sleep state out into your waking state," he says.
"[When] you start your day that way, you condition synchronicity.
You condition beta thinking … [R]esearchers find that people's
problem-solving ability goes up by 260 percent when they're in that
state. Their creativity doubles. Their productivity at work increases
dramatically. You're now a far more productive human being …
When you're going through the day and [stress gets triggered] …
that's when you tap … Usually within two minutes, you will see your
subjective units of distress scale go down to a low number, often a
zero. Then go about your day. Now, you're much calmer, and you're able
to proactively move through your day with this little technique to help
yourself recover.
Recovery time is pretty fast. After a while, you develop a
different and new homeostasis, where your irritability, your resentment
levels, your level of guilt, shame, anger and blame, all of these
negative emotions has to go way down."
Meditation Alters Your Brain Structure
According to Dawson, doing this meditation every day, your baseline levels of cortisol
and immunoglobulin will begin to improve. Certain feel-good hormones
will also increase. Once you get used to feeling good, that then becomes
your new normal. This has to do with the neuroplasticity of your brain. Dawson explains:
"Neuroplasticity is like the hardware in our brains — the
channels that conduct information, the neurons and the synapses that
carry the flow of energy of information in our brains. The ones you use
the most get developed … But the speed of this is extraordinary.
Within one hour of repeated stimulation, where there was just one
synapse, now there are two. That's in one hour of repeat stimulation.
If you stimulate that neural bundle for weeks, days, months and years,
it grows much bigger. Eventually, the software of your consciousness
literally creates the hardware of your brain."
One stunning story showing just how significantly you can change your
brain through meditation is recounted in Chapter 1 of Dawson's book.
Graham Phillips, a TV reporter, decided to try an eight-week meditation
program given by Monash University. He was a skeptic, and wanted to test
it out for himself.
"The experts there … did MRIs on every single region of his brain
... after which he began to meditate regularly and be mindful of the
course of his day. After two weeks, he found, behaviorally, he was much
less stressed. After eight weeks, he went back into the lab. Again, they
spent a whole day going over all of these tests with him. They also got
a second MRI to measure the volume of different parts of his brain.
This number sounds too crazy, it's almost like science fiction,
but they examined a part of the hippocampus, the dentate gyrus, which is
the memory or learning center that has to do with the regulation of
emotion … and found it grew by 22.8 percent … So, it's not just a
feel-good practice. It's literally reshaping the content inside your
skull."
Healing Can Be Learned
Research shows that when you expose cells to a frequency of 7.81
hertz, DNA replication becomes far more efficient. Importantly, certain
frequencies stimulate the reproduction of stem cells, while other
frequencies cause the stem cells to migrate and adhere where needed.
To use stem cells for healing, those are the three things required:
replication, migration and adhesion, and all three can be triggered
through meditation. "In the book, I have a list of the conditions that
are treated successfully with energy healing," Dawson says.
"The disease is a symptom of the dysregulation of your system.
Take cancer, for example. Those cancer cells can't live in a normal
healthy body. They only live in a body that is dysregulated. You want to
improve all those factors that are dysregulating you, then you'll see a
pervasive upwards spiral and good effect on your health generally," he says.
"The more I learn about the body, the more I see that the body is
a [self-]healing machine. The body heals naturally. You have to do
something pretty radical to stop the body from healing. When you load it
up with sugar, stress and things like that, you get in the way of
healing.
But your body is just an amazing healing machine, the way cells
proliferate. All you have to do is get out of the way. Get out of the
way by not stuffing things in your mouth, stuffing things in your mind,
stuffing things in your environment that hurt you and don't work for
you. If you just quit doing the bad stuff, then your body is naturally
going to heal …
Some people do need an external stimulus … Sometimes I will say,
'You need to go an energy healer. You need a boost energetically to get
the process going. Go get acupuncture. Go see an energy medicine
practitioner. Go see a therapist.' You need that external push for some
people's bodies …"
Mind to Matter
To learn more, I highly recommend picking up a copy of "Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality."
In it, Dawson lists 30 lifestyle practices that can make a big
difference in your physical and psychological health. You can also find
more information — including a free EFT mini-manual and Dawson's
published research — on his website, DawsonChurch.com.
"I want to inspire people [to take action]," he says. "You
will literally feel yourself changing when you [meditate every day].
That's the biggest gift that you can give yourself. Release that stress.
When you do that, your full human potential starts to shine. All those
parts of yourself that have been stuck, all those limiting stories you
start to let go of, then you can be.
The magnificence of you starts to come through. As you're hooked
up to your nonlocal mind in meditation, you get access to ideas,
solutions and all kinds of knowledge and wisdom you don't have when
you're stuck in the level of local mind.
Then suddenly, your life becomes way easier. You're living in
synchrony not just with other people around you, but with the whole
universe. That's what I call a synchronous life …
If you're listening to this … please, I'm asking you to raise
your hand now and make that commitment to meditating every day.
Meditation is free. It's online. Go there. Grab it. Try it out. You will
feel the shifts inside of yourself. But do that as your gift for
yourself for the new year."
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