Each moment of our lives, from death to birth, our brains are engaged in
an endless symphony of patterns. In AWAKENING THE MIND, Anna Wise reveals how a
careful understanding of the four types of brain waves, and the practice of
carefully designed meditation exercises that lead to a mastery of each type,
can vastly improve everyday focus, memory, concentration, and overall mental
awareness. Over the past three decades, Wise has measured the brain-wave
patterns of spiritual teachers, artists, high-performing business, athletes,
and other highly creative and productive individuals. She discovered that,
during periods of peak mental awareness and clarity, they all exhibited a
specific brain-wave pattern in which the four categories of brain waves -
alpha, beta, theta and delta, combined in a distinct configuration. In this
book, Wise provides meditation exercises specially developed to lead readers to
achieve that heightened mental state referred to as the Awakened Mind.