surfing gamma waves

When you bite into a food you’ve been craving or insert the last piece into a 1000 piece puzzle or receive a flash of insight on how to push your project forward — you’ve likely experienced a half second of gamma wave ripple throughout your brain.

Gamma waves are the strongest wave on the EEG spectrum. They occur fleetingly in most people. There are a few people who experience them nearly all day, no matter what their doing. These people can best be described as capable of Olympic level meditation. Most hail from India and Nepal. They’ve logged over 60,000 hours of meditation in their lifetimes.

Recently, a renowned neuroscientist gathered them together to study what happened in their brains. The most interesting takeaway had to do with gamma waves. They were everywhere and all the time.

To be clear, gamma waves are a good thing. Better than good, they are outstanding. They are associated with increased memory recall, increased sensory perception, increased focus, increased brain processing speed, increased calm and increased compassion.

If there were a real world human super power. All the time gamma waves would be that super power.

Here’s my point, if we started kids meditating one hour a day in school at the age of 6, we could nearly guaranteed that a student left their secondary education with more than 3,000 hours of meditation. Nowhere near 60,000 to be sure, but a good start and probably a well-oiled habit they could continue throughout their lives.

So, meditation proven to increase gamma wave frequency or photosynthesis elemental reaction equations proven to increase apathy?

Here a short video on the research if you’re curious about learning more.