Build an Alpha Brain Wave Feedback Monitor

THERE is nothing quite so pleasant as heing able to relax completely whenever you want to. Unfortunately, today's quick pace rarely leaves us the time to truly relax. Perhaps for that reason, scientists have come up with ,111 electronic approach to relaxation that might revolutionize the art of "calming cloWl~." Drawing on knowledge of general psychology, eastern meditation techniques, and, in particular, clinical clectroencephalographv, researchers in the field of alpha-wave feedback have progressed rapidlv in the last few years and made manv significant gains. Unlike the older forms of meditation, alpha-wave feedhack requires neither an avatar or guru. Researchers have found that the minute brain-wave frequency band between 7..5 and 1:3 Hz is continuously produced in meditative stages of Yoga and Zen. This is called the "alpha state." The assumption is that the length and intensity of alpha-wave production is an impartial measurement of the ahility to reach a special state of "relaxed awareness," found in certain types of meditation.