Hello my friends welcome back to daily breath. I'm Deepak Chopra.

Our new series is called Total Meditation. If you'd like to learn more about

what we'll be discussing, you can pick up my new book, Total Meditation,

Practices in living the Awaken Life.

Well-being is a state of holiness

and your life cannot be whole until the body mind is whole. Let's discuss total consciousness

and what today science calls the alpha state. In totality the body meditates along with your mind. Our brain waves go through several cycles depending on our state of

consciousness. Alpha waves are a frequency range of brain activity that can organize in sync in our brain when we meditate.

And this can be seen through an EEG or electroencephalograph.

Alpha wave activity increases in the brain during meditation.

Alpha waves indicate that the body mind is doing relaxation.

Alpha waves appear when you close your eyes and rest.

But if you're not tired or asleep,

because when you're tired or asleep because when you're tired or asleep there's a different kind of

activity called rapid eye movements with different frequency of brain waves. So states of human awareness beyond relaxation also occur and in

these states alpha waves dominate. So when there's smoothly flowing thoughts,

when you're alert in the moment, when you're in meditation, when you're in

creative activity, when you are in creative activity, when your mood is stable, when you are not

depressed by joyful, the relaxed state is also alert and in this state alpha waves appear in the brain.

This is how we know that you're in a state of meditation.

So what we can see from this is that it is not contradictory

to be relaxed and alert at the same time and that's exactly what happens in

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