“Hack” Your Brain for Stress Relief

"Hack" your brain?  Yes, you can! Join me this Wednesday June 11th at 7:15 for “Release Stress with Brain Wave therapy” at the Sand Hills Community Wellness Center at 57 Sand Hills Road, Kendall Park, NJ.  Register here

Allow me to introduce you to your brain; there’s lot’s going on in there- electrically, hormonally, biochemically. This week’s class shows you yet another super easy way to induce a state of relaxation. 

Brain Entrainment or Brain Wave therapy is a way of getting your brainwaves to flow at a certain ‘wavelength’ that is associated with being in a relaxed state    The brainwaves associated with being in a relaxed state are called “Alpha Waves” 

Your thoughts are really all about communication.   The billions of cells in your brain communicate with each other electrically and how they communicate can actually be measured.   The combination of all this electrical communication causes ‘brainwaves’.  These ‘brainwaves’ typically fall into one of 5 different kinds of waves- Alpha, Beta, Theta, Delta or Gamma.  Each brainwave is associated with different frequencies which translate into different states of being- from Alpha being relaxed and receptive to Beta’s manic and frantic to Delta’s deep sleep patterns.  

Brain Entrainment is a way of using technology to ‘hack’ your brain waves and reset them to where you want to be (and how you want to feel).  Pretty cool, isn’t it?

So what’s this topic got to do with managing your stress levels?   While most people think of stress as an emotional state of being that is influenced by the events happening around us, stress has its beginnings in our brains- specifically in the part of our brain called the Limbic System (or ‘emotional brain”).   And the funny thing about your Limbic System is that it cannot tell the difference between what is actually going on around you or from a memory or worry.  When you experience a stressful memory or worry about the future in any way, your brain kicks off the stress response; “Fight or Flight”   So basically, your thoughts control whether you feel stress or not and because of this, most of us end up being in a state of stress or ‘fight or flight’ all the time.  This ‘fight or flight’ state of being ends up raising your blood sugar, blood fats, cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate and more- paving the way for chronic diseases like obesity, overweight, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and stroke.

Plug in to this great technology that can reset your brain in just a few short minutes and 'catch the Alpha Wave'.  You’ll feel relaxed, refreshed and quieted just by plugging in your headphones and listening.  Bring headphones and a yoga mat.

Release Stress with Brain Wave therapy is being offered this Wednesday night June 11th in a series of Relax & Renew classes at the Sand Hills Community Wellness Center, 57 Sand Hills Road, Kendall Park, NJ 08824.  $12.00 pre- register (click here) or $15.00 at door. 

 Call 732-735-3209 for more info.

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