265: Brain Training & Brain Mastery

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that your morning coffee blocks alpha brain waves states and that your evening glass of red wine encourages it? Did you know that the blue light from your cell phone affects both your hormones and your brainwave states? Our modern world tends toward imbalance, and the first step in the direction of health is understanding the how and why behind the imbalances so you can take action to create a better you.

On this week's Yoga Talk Show, we'll be discussing brain wave states, neuro-feedback, mind-body practices, and more.

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Listen & Learn:

How neurofeedback allows you to "see" what's going on in your brain
Why food, lifestyle and modern thought patterns often leave us imbalanced
The importance of DHA/EPA for brain health
Delta: deep meditation, sleep, stillness (collective unconscious / oneness)
Theta: memory, revelry, daydreaming, REM sleep, meditation, childlike thoughts
Alpha: flow state of creativity, pleasant focus, super-learning, peak performance, synchrony
Beta: waking, problem-solving, busy work, active-focused work

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Chris is a Neuroplastician and NLP Master who was mentored by Dr. Richard Bandler himself. He's a student of Shaolin, Qigong, Tai Chi, and Kung Fu. Chris uses all these tools along with nutrition, psychology, health and fitness training to help people overcome mental blocks and live an inspired life.

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

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0:27.3	dot com forward slash sign me up to claim your free prize now I've always been a really lousy hand balancer. It just was
0:34.9	something that never came naturally to me in yoga. I just was never great at
0:37.9	standing on my hands. I'm still not amazing, but I've made massive progress.
0:43.1	I can most days I can just wake up and jump on my hands and that's a really big accomplishment
0:46.8	for me even after all these years of yoga.
0:49.3	And one of the things I got very frustrated with is that yoga teachers teach handstand very poorly.
0:53.5	Now that's changing. There's a lot of really great inversion teachers out there, but
0:56.9	historically and even you know the majority of yoga teachers they teach handstand
1:01.1	really badly. They just tell you to go to the wall and keep jumping up and down.
1:04.0	And most people don't progress for a number of different reasons,
1:07.0	aside from just being a really poor training methodology,
1:10.0	we have a terrible ability to build grip strength in yoga and grip strength is essential.
1:15.8	It's really foundational for arm balancing, for inversions like handstand.
1:19.9	You have to be able to literally grip the floor.
1:22.4	When you look at a mat-based yoga class, it's very easy to... You have to be able to literally grip the floor.
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