 So I've got a question from my buddy Finn and they say what is the best time to meditate? Is it in the early hours of the morning or in the evening or any other time in between? And I actually have some very specific advice for this question, which is going to really help you not just with meditation But with everything else as well. So by the way, I know this isn't about lucid dreaming It's kind of gonna relate back to this. I mean if you're new here I'm staff I teach lucid dreaming and consciousness, but this specific video is about meditation and brainwave frequencies Now I'm gonna answer the question very briefly now and say that the best time to meditate is There are two times okay first thing in the morning and also every time you have been in a stressful situation After you've been in that stressful situation then meditate now That's the basic answer those of you who are interested in just that you can probably click away now go on my channel What's something else anyone who wants a more detailed answer as well as one particular warning about the morning meditation session? Stick around so all throughout the day and night our brains operate in different frequencies different ranges of frequencies known as Brainwave frequency states brainwave states and these frequencies do different things They allow different parts of your brain to function They allowed a levels of access to your subconscious mind and it's incredibly important to realize this and to bear in mind When and how you do certain things throughout the day now clear example of this is when you first wake up in the morning Your brain is in what we call alpha the alpha brainwave state is between seven and a half and 14 Hertz Hertz is basically how you measure brainwaves and how fast they're running basically So it's measured in cycles per second and like I said alpha is seven and a half to 14 Hertz or cycles per second And you are in alpha when you first wake up now What does this mean okay? So if you're trying to focus on something if you're trying to do or study something or learn something alpha is where you want to Be okay alpha is like literally the top alpha means the first the best way or the best state to be in because it allows You to have enhanced learning you can focus on something But you're not being distracted by all of these different things You're focused on one thing and you're able to connect the two hemispheres of your brain the left and right hemisphere Most of the time we're in the left hemisphere left brain and what you want to do is to be able to synchronize the two hemispheres of the brain and Use both of them at the same time in what we call flow state now flow state is where you have both hemispheres of the brain Functioning at the same time sharing information and ideas and they are connected via the bridge in the middle of the two hemispheres called the corpus Colossum incredibly important state to be in and flow state for those of you who don't know is where you basically lose track of time You lose track of any other distractions and ideas and you focus just on the one thing that you do want to do now flow state Is the goal the holy grail for learning and studying focusing but here's one incredibly powerful warning for you Okay, by being an alpha by being in the alpha states you open up your subconscious mind And so that's how that's one of the reasons you're able to achieve flow state is by letting the subconscious mind flood into your conscious awareness and connect different ideas from all kinds of different parts of your brain doing your memories and Mix them together into a sparkling kind of cocktail of really interesting stuff Now the danger of that is that when you are now for brainwave state You are very open to suggestion any ideas and concepts and things will that you hear or experience during when you're in alpha state Will be absorbed by your subconscious brain like a sponge and this is why the first thing you should do when you wake up Is do not look at your phone. Don't consume any media. Don't watch the TV. Don't turn on the news Okay, that is the absolute worst time to do that because you will absorb those ideas and beliefs like a sponge So it's great for meditation because the goal of meditation is to get into either alpha or theta The theta is for really kind of deep meditation Most of us won't be doing that because most people don't meditate for more than about 10 minutes If you really want to get into theta and even delta in some extreme cases Then you need to be spending more time meditating That's when you want to look at things like mind machines like binaural beats By the way, there are some links in the description if you want to go that deep But most of you will just want to meditate and get into alpha alpha brainwave state Now this is great for meditation and in that sense you should meditate first thing in the morning because you're kind of already there You're already waking up in alpha. So it's the first thing you do when you wake up is to meditate You're already in that brainwave frequency range. So it's gonna be fairly easy to stay there now Why would you want to meditate after a stressful situation? Well, here's the main benefit of meditation It reverses and reduces aging by lengthening your tailor-mears by increasing your tailor-mears You reverse or slow down the aging process So what happens if you imagine tailor-mears like the kind of the caps on the ends of your shoelaces The little plastic caps in the shoelaces when the cap is gone The shoelace kind of frays and decays and splinters out into all these different pieces with the cap there or the tailor-mear In this case your chromosomes or the shoelace is protected. So it doesn't really decay as fast You know, it's protected against that. So by meditating you lengthen your tailor-mears You basically strengthen the protective caps on the ends of your chromosomes Which helps reverse or slow down the aging process. So why do you care about that? Well, in relation to stress stress is one of the biggest factors for aging and for health in general Okay, stress and in particular chronic stress is a very dangerous thing to experience on a long-term basis Because it will damage your cells. It will make your immune system weaker Your motivation levels will drop You'll get all kinds of health problems if you have chronic stress now chronic stress is usually caused by one or two things Every day. It might be like you get cut up in traffic You might you know not be able to park properly your boss shouts at you Okay, something stressful happens and you let that stress sit there all day and you don't let it go Some people just can't let things go easily. It's easier with practice But what you should really do is every time you know you are stressed You're in a stressful situation and you're annoyed you're angry take a minute to calm down when you think you've calmed down That's when you should meditate when you think you've already calmed down So if you try and meditate in the middle of being angry, you're not really gonna be able to do it It's gonna be quite difficult But if you wait until after you've you think you've calmed down and then you meditate you're gonna massively reduce that stress response Your hormonal response will lower down and calm down and you will massively decrease your stress levels You'll get back into alpha and away from beta So really what happens on your stress is your brainwaves go into beta But you're also really stressed and you have all kinds of stress hormones running through your body Now what you need to do is to meditate after you've been stressed bring yourself back to alpha and calm down Now you can meditate just before going to bed as well However, I wouldn't recommend doing this just before going to bed I like to meditate about an hour or so before I go to sleep But you can also meditate as sort of like a bridge between your working life and your relaxing life in the evening So to answer the question at the beginning very simply Okay, the best time to meditate after a stressful situation first thing in the morning and about an hour or so before you go to sleep That's when you're gonna get the most benefits, but I really want to just emphasize the alpha brainwave state Don't consume content. Don't look at your phone Don't do anything which could have ideas or concepts that you do not want in your subconscious mind when you're in the alpha brainwave state So in particular after you've meditated that sort of like the first half an hour after you finish meditating Do not check your social media. Don't watch videos on YouTube Don't do any of that stuff because there is always a risk that there will be something or some idea some concept Some belief that will be embedded there that will be stuck in your subconscious mind because you're in that alpha brainwave state The alpha state is basically like you're opening your subconscious mind and saying I'm gonna take in any information right now So it's great if you want to learn something if you're trying to learn if you're trying to learn a language If you're trying to focus on stuff Then you want the alpha brainwave state to be there because you want your subconscious mind to be engaged You want it to absorb things so it's great for language learning great for focusing and studying But terribly dangerous if you're consuming media or content with negative messages Programming things you don't want to have in your brain and in your subconscious mind negative beliefs and all of those dangerous things like that for most of you Just meditate in the morning for about 10 to 15 minutes with some binaural beats as well I'll put links to all of this in the description by the way And if you really want to go deeper with your meditation I would advise you to check out mind machines They're a really powerful way of you know how like I said before that that when you meditate You're taking your brain waves from beta which is like you're focused and you're thinking critically But you you're also stressed. You're also thinking about everything else you have to do It's a great brainwave state to be in for socializing and you know day-to-day activities But if you're trying to focus on something or meditate if you're trying to do those higher brain activities Those more important things you need to be an alpha and by the way if you want to meditate even deeper You need to be in theta or delta now to get to those brainwave states Typically you would have to meditate for about half an hour or more Usually it's more than an hour to get down into Delta. Okay, and that's for someone who's experienced in meditating If you want to shortcut that if you want to reach theta or delta without having to spend an hour There is a device called a mind machine Meditation machine or a light and sound machine basically It's like some goggles that you put on and some headphones that you put on and it's connected up to this device Which has a track list and these tracks are synchronized and produced to synchronize the effect of the in the goggles There are loads of flashing lights different colored flashing lights and then the headphones played by neural beats Bineural beats are a great way of creating what we call a frequency following response in your brain What this means is you hear this kind of sound these tones All right Slightly different frequencies one played in each year through stereo headphones and they create a frequency following response Which makes your brainwaves kind of follow along with that So if you listen to it for long enough, you'll reach that brainwave state Now a mind machine combines the binaural beats with a visual stimuli Gansfield frames or the flashing colored lights Basically synchronized perfectly to the binaural beats which makes your brainway is hard to explain really But it basically turns your brainwaves into the brainwaves that you want them to be a lot faster So without struggling of a way to explain that imagine that you're gonna be able to plug this thing up in for five minutes And get the same effect of an hour of meditation My machines are really powerful and like I said links to those are in the description. You should check them out They're pretty cool