Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality

by Dawson Church

Gamma is the highest brain wave frequency (40 to 100 Hz). It’s most prevalent at times when the brain is learning, making associations between phenomena and integrating information from many different parts of the brain.

Gamma is associated with very high levels of intellectual function, creativity, integration, peak states, and of feeling “in the zone.”

High beta is your monkey mind. High beta (15 to 40 Hz) is the signature brain wave of people with anxiety, people experiencing frustration, and people under stress.

The more stressed people become, the higher the amplitude of the beta their brains produce. Negative emotions such as anger, fear, blame, guilt, and shame produce large flares of beta in the EEG readout.

Alpha (8 to 12 Hz) is an optimal state of relaxed alertness.

Theta is characteristic of light sleep.

Theta is also the dominant frequency of people under hypnosis, healers, people in trances, and people in highly creative states

The slowest frequency is delta. Delta is characteristic of deep sleep.

Emotions also create neurotransmitters. Among these are serotonin, dopamine, endorphins, oxytocin, and anandamide (Kotler & Wheal, 2017). Serotonin is associated with satisfaction, and dopamine with a sensation of reward. Endorphins block pain and increase pleasure. Oxytocin is the “bonding hormone,” and it stimulates feelings of closeness and intimacy with

others. Anandamide is called the “bliss molecule,” and it’s named after the Sanskrit word for happiness.

Your body produces one trillion new red blood cells per day (Wahlestedt et al., 2017). That’s a big number; with all its zeros it can be expressed as 1,000,000,000,000.

Each blood cell has a lifetime of about four months,

The lining of your digestive tract also undergoes rapid turnover. It’s replaced every four days. Your lung tissue? Every eight days. Even the densest of tissues, your bones, are constantly regenerating, with 10 percent of your skeleton being replaced each year.

There are about 84 billion neurons in the brain,

Our brains are replacing at least one neuron per second

When a patient has a liver transplant, half the liver of the donor is typically removed and transplanted into the body of the new host. Yet so fast do liver cells regenerate that within eight weeks the donor’s liver has grown back to its original size

study of psychologically normal people found that they had about 4,000 distinct thoughts each day. Of those, between 22 percent and 31 percent were unwanted and uncontrollable intrusive thoughts, while 96 percent of them were repetitive thoughts about daily activities

The Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Program says that 95 percent of our thoughts are repetitive and 80 percent of them are negative.

We think of material realities as facts, but in the quantum world, all possibilities exist simultaneously and then condense into probabilities.