 Have you ever tried meditating, but it was so difficult to do? When you sit in meditation, do you have questions like, what do I think about? How can I focus better? How can I get the best session out of my meditation? There are many, many articles and information online that tell you the best potions, the best crystals, the best room decor, the best lighting to give you the best meditation session, but actually meditation comes down to a science. And in this video, I'll tell you how to get down to a meditative state from a scientific way. If you're new here, subscribe to our channel, like this video and click the bell for notifications for each new video. I would say most people, when they think about meditation, they have one clear image that comes to their head. They think of a monk sitting on a mountain top surrounded by beautiful nature and quiet, maybe in a hand shape like this, chanting, om, for hours on end. Do you have that image also? In our fast-paced 21st century, who has the time to sit there and chant, om, to get a little bit of peace and quiet? So forget everything you know about meditation, forget the crystals, forget the lighting, forget everything that you think meditation should be. And let me explain to you meditation based on your brainwaves. In other words, meditation is not just for hippies. Meditation is science. Your brain produces a frequency based on how much activity or lack of activity there is going on inside. Even if you're sitting still, if you have a lot of mental activity, your brainwaves are looking like this. And you could be running around doing something, but if you're mentally calm, your brainwaves will be much slower. In a nutshell, meditation comes down to the state of your brainwaves. There are five brainwaves we experience, and this is the order from most active to least active. First one, most active brainwave is called gamma wave. In gamma, this is when you're in intense focus, when you're zoning in on something and nothing is bothering you. This is a high state of focus and alert attention. Next is beta wave. Beta is when you're in a normal state. You're in everyday conversation. You're maybe scrolling through your phone, maybe you're on the computer. When you're learning something, you out there watching this video, you're experiencing a beta state. Afterwards is alpha. Now, alpha is the important brainwave because alpha is the brainwave of meditation. This is when your brainwaves are calm, relaxed, but you're still focused. It's different from relaxed and sleepy, relaxed and focused. This is the meditative brainwave state. Next is theta, and theta is when you're experiencing light sleep. And then after that is the slow delta. When you're experiencing a deep level of sleep. So scientifically speaking, all meditation is for your brainwaves to be experiencing the alpha state. So whatever you do, if your brainwaves are in an alpha state, that's when you feel like you're in a meditation. So now you may be wondering, how can I get my brain to an alpha state? The easiest way to control your brainwaves is to control your breathing. It's not easy to mind control your way into relaxation, but the shortcut, the hack, that you can slow down your brainwaves is by slowing down your breath. Think about it. When you're in an agitated, excited state, how do you breathe? Very shallow and fast, right? Now think about the other hand, when you're in a very relaxed, calm state, how do you breathe? Deep and long. So when you're in some sort of anxiety or when you're in some sort of chaos and you can't focus, the hack to get your brainwaves to quiet down to alpha to experience the meditative state is to make your breaths long and deep. So even in your meditation session, when you're sitting down in your room and trying to meditate, focus on your breathing. Listen to your breath, feel your breath. If your breath is fast and shallow, your brainwaves will be very agitated and hyper. When you can change your breathing to long and deep, you will experience a drop, quieting of your brainwaves, and you will get a better meditation session. If you want to learn more in detail about how to breathe long and deep, I'll link a video in the description below of a past video I did about how to breathe to reduce anxiety. So in that video, you'll learn how to breathe long, deep breaths to calm down and quiet your brainwaves into a meditative alpha state. So in your next meditation session, focus on your breathing, take long, deep breaths, and let me know in the comments below how it went. I would love to hear what you have to say. So one more time, repeat after me. Meditation is science. Meditation is science. Meditation is science.