Evolve Your Brain

a crucial insight. At some point, all those I interviewed had to fight against the notion that one’s thoughts are uncontrollable.

The aim of this book is for you to see that change and evolution are all about breaking the habit of being the “you.”

To evolve is to overcome the conditions in our life by changing something about ourselves.

Like a hostage onboard a hijacked flight, we feel as though we are strapped into a seat on a destination not of our choosing, and we fail to see all the other possibilities that are available to us.

We need not wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon or go beyond what we have been told is possible. If we do, we make science another form of religion

As I said in chapter 1: Thoughts matter and they become matter. We can’t separate them like Descartes did. Our thoughts influence physical phenomena; they interact with all the matter in the universe. In truth, our personal reality is just a reflection of our personality

The next stage in our evolution—wisdom—involves becoming subconsciously great, noble, happy, and loving, and that will feel as easy and normal as brushing our teeth

Last is a subconscious level called Delta state. When we are experiencing deep restorative sleep, our brains are producing Delta waves. For the most part, in this state, we are completely unconscious and catatonic, and there is very little activity in the neocortex

The third state we can enter is called the Theta state. We’ve been in this state when we are halfway between a wakeful condition and asleep. The door between Alpha and Theta is like a half-awake, somewhat conscious state, but the body is relaxed and catatonic

We enter what is called the Alpha state. This is a light meditative state, but just as when we are in Beta state, we are conscious (but less conscious of the external world)