Brainwave Activity Levels and Their Spiritual Significance

Mark Virkler's picture

Biblical meditation involves down-shifting from my normal daytime state where I live in Beta waves, and entering the Alpha brain wave state, which is more relaxed. Alpha is also the state we are in during light sleep where we have our dreams and receive revalation from God.

I find the best times to meditate are morning and evening or when I awaken during the night (Gen. 24:63; Ps. 4:4) as these are times that the door to the heart/subconscious is wide open. The Lord has told me that when I awaken in the morning, I am not to go to my emails or the news or any other busy work. Since I am still in the Alpha state I am to tune to flow and do two-way journaling, releasing the creative solutions God has birthed through my spirit during the night. This is a golden time for me to be with Him and to receive His wisdom. This is my most creative time of the day. (If you are not a morning person, you may find evening is your most creative time of the day.)

Brainwave activity levels: What they feel like and their spiritual significance

Gamma waves (40-100 EEG’s) 

This state is generally entered when one is relaxed and in Alpha or Theta, and the Holy Spirit takes over in a powerful way. Illumination, insight, revelation, compassion and spiritual experiences occur. New neural pathways are created in the brain when such insight take place. Some people are overcome and fall down under the power of God when this happens, while others experience it as a deeply moving spiritual encounter or one of great revelation and insight (Acts 9:1-9).

Application: Ask yourself, “When have I experienced this state?” Record the answer in your journal.


Beta waves (14-32 EEG’s)

The normal daytime state of adults; conscious thought; more aware of the outer world than the inner world. You analyze, reason, evaluate, anticipate, forecast, set your will, and choose intentions. You are self-conscious and conscious of world around you. It is the survival state or stress state, which consumes your energies. Brainwaves are not coherent. Parts of the brain are not communicating well with other parts of brain.

Spiritually speaking, when you are controlling your mind yourself, you are doing what the Bible calls a dead work or a work of the flesh (Heb. 6:1, 2; Jn.6:63). A better approach is to reason together with God (Isa. 1:18). You present your reasoning powers to the Holy Spirit and allow His flow to guide your reasoning process (Jn. 7:37-39).

To reason together with God, we: 1) picture Jesus at our right hand (Acts 2:25), 2) ask for His input on the situation we are facing, and 3) tune to flow (Jn. 7:37-39) allowing His flowing thoughts to fill our minds. Now, we are reasoning TOGETHER with God, and are experiencing what the Bible calls the “mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16).

Application: Ask yourself, “When have I experienced the Beta state?” Record the answer in your journal.


Alpha waves (8-13 EEG’s)

It is a relaxed, meditative, imaginative state. This is when you are more aware of the inner world than the outer world. In this state you ponder and meditate. Closing your eyes and choosing to go inward aids you in entering the Alpha state (as 80% of sensory information is derived from sight).

Children five to eight years old live normally in this state. We are commanded to become as children so we can enter the Kingdom (Matt. 18:3). We see how this works by reflecting on how kids live. They live in the Alpha state of imagination/spirit, talking with "invisible" playmates in "make believe" worlds. Their inner world is more real than their outer world.

This is the state you are in when you dream. Ask for illuminating dreams as you fall asleep (Song of Solomon 5:2). God promised that He would speak to you and reveal Himself in dreams (Num. 12:6). Dreams can instantly transform your heart attitudes as well as your body as God gives to you even in your sleep (Ps. 127:2 NASB).

This is the inspired state where what you are seeing is transforming you (2 Cor. 3:18; 4:18; Heb. 11:3). Using the eyes of your heart and seeing Jesus at your right hand (Acts 2:25; Ps. 16:7; Eph. 1:17,18) is a great aid in entering and living in this state, as is ceasing your own strivings (Heb. 3, 4).

This is the place where habits and behaviors reside. This is a creative state – which means your energies are free to re-create your body. Coherent brain waves appear. You lose self-consciousness and become “in spirit.” One can cultivate this lifestyle. It is called “abiding in Christ,” tuned to the heart or spirit or tuned to God. You are tuned to flowing thoughts, flowing pictures, and flowing emotions.

Both “tapping” (part of Emotional Freedom Techniques) and praying in tongues take you into the Alpha state. Evidence you are in this state can be confirmed through biofeedback or even better, with the heart monitor we describe in Chapter 11 of our book Unleashing Healing Power Through Spirit-Born Emotions (available December 2017).

Twenty years ago, I learned through biofeedback that I needed to put my feet up on a footstool, lean back and put a big smile on my face in order for me to enter this relaxed state. During this last year, I learned even more by using the emWave®2 heart coherence monitor.

It taught me I needed to be tuned to my heart, sensing God’s Kingdom emotions of love, joy, peace, compassion and thankfulness and to be radiating them out to others to be in this state. When doing these things, the emWave®2 would register that I was in high heart coherence.

Application: Ask yourself, “When have I experienced this state?” Record the answer in your journal.


Theta waves (4-8 EEG’s)

Experienced as sleep, hypnosis, part of the subconscious. Children two to five years old live continuously in the Theta and Alpha states.


Delta waves (0.5-4 EEG’s)

Deep sleep, part of the subconscious. Re-creation takes place here. Children birth to two years old live in this state.


 

Related Resources: 

How to Hear God's Voice!   

Related Blogs: 

How to Hear God’s Voice   
Add new comment

Add new comment

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

Results

Results 1 - 10 of 479

Pages

4 Keys to Hearing God's Voice

4 Keys to Hearing God's Voice

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 305 Pages | Retail: $16.99

Have you ever wished you could just sit down and have a long talk with the Lord? Wouldn't it be wonderful to move beyond having a theology that states that God loves you to actually hearing Him whisper words of love into your heart? When you're worried or confused, wouldn't you love to see the situation from His perspective and hear how He wants you to respond?


Price: $14.95

Dialogue with God

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 296 Pages

This top seller for 30 years from Bridge Logos provides a narrative, right-brain presentation of the principles of how to hear God's voice. Especially enjoyable for personal use, it makes a great gift for introducing a loved one to the voice of God. This book teaches the four keys to hearing God's voice in readable style, and also devotes two entire chapters to moving samples of people's journaling (i.e. their two-way dialogue with God).

Price: $17.95
Hear God's Voice Guaranteed Package

Hear God's Voice Guaranteed Package

9 Books | 10 CDs | 10 DVDs | Save Over 20%

Have you ever wished you could just sit down and have a long talk with the Lord? Wouldn't it be wonderful to move beyond having a theology that states that God loves you to actually hearing Him whisper words of love into your heart? When you're worried or confused, wouldn't you love to see the situation from His perspective and hear how He wants you to respond? When things don't seem to be going your way and your prayers aren't answered the way you had hoped, wouldn't it be great to hear Him tell you where He is in the midst of it, and what He is working out in your life? Are you ever just a little bit jealous of others who say with such confidence, "The Lord said...."?

Price: $175.00

How to Hear God's Voice

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 317 Pages

We recommend that you order the newest revision of this book titled 4 Keys to Hearing God's Voice. It includes 95% of the content of How to Hear God's Voice but is reorganized so it fits perfectly with the 10 DVDs on this subject by Mark Virkler. In addition, it gets you started using the four keys earlier in the book and gives you more journaling samples and exercises. Since we have removed the large margins, it is a smaller and less expensive book.

Price: $24.95

Prayers That Heal the Heart - Revised & Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 320 Pages

Prayer counseling that breaks every yoke! Everything you need to experience deep healing of your soul and spirit.

Did you know that you don’t need to be continually plagued by negative thoughts, feelings, pictures or memories?

It is not part of the "human condition" to feel the constant nagging of doubt, insecurity, or anger. No matter what sin you are trying to overcome, what lie you think you’ll always believe, or what traumas your heart has suffered in the past, you will receive total freedom and restoration by praying these prayers in faith. 

Price: $19.95

Twelve Weeks to Spiritual Mastery - Group Coaching

A group coaching experience with Mark Virkler

Because I could not find a Spirit-anointed teacher/coach, I spent ten extremely frustrating years seeking to hear God’s voice!!! Suggestions offered did not help me, things like: “You just know that you know. It is a still small voice. He speaks from your heart.” No one could give me the answer I needed which was: Hearing God’s voice is as simple as quieting yourself down, fixing your eyes on Jesus, recognizing His voice as spontaneous, flowing thoughts and writing down His flow as it is coming. Test what you have written after the flow is done, NOT while it is occurring.

Price: $1,200.00

Counseled by God

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 146 Pages

Have you ever been defeated by negative emotions such as anger, fear, guilt, inferiority, condemnation or depression? Have you tried to fight them off unsuccessfully? Is there an answer that is deeper than simply trying to mentally reason yourself out of these emotions? Is there a way that Jesus can speak a word of life into the depths of your emotional despair and bring healing on a deep level? Is there a form of Christian counseling that begins and ends with the movement of Christ within your heart, rather than simply with the words of man?

Price: $10.95
Hear God Through Your Dreams Workbook Cover

Hear God Through Your Dreams Workbook

by Mark and Patti Virkler | 92 Pages

A newer book has been released that accompanies this workbook: Click here for Hearing God Through Your Dreams by Charity Kayembe and Mark Virkler (featured on Sid Roth's "It's Supernatural", with almost a million views just on YouTube).


Do you often wake up feeling there was a significant message in your dream, but you’re just not sure what it is? Like Daniel and Joseph, do you long to be able to help others understand their own dreams and win them to Christ as you explain His night messages to them? Wouldn't it be nice if you could receive mid-course corrections from the Lord while you sleep? Do you wish you could be receiving divine inspiration, creative solutions to problems, and direction from the Lord during that third of your life that you’re “just” sleeping?

Price: $11.95

Hearing God Through Your Dreams

by Mark Virkler and Charity Virkler Kayembe | 292 Pages

Learn How to Hear God’s Voice, Even When You Are Sleeping

It is always fun to be on the winning team. Well look what God has done with Charity's new dreams teaching. It has taken off like a rocket with a live TV interview on Cornerstone Network and her Sid Roth interview which has almost a million views on YouTube!

Price: $16.99

Everyday Angels

by Charity Virkler Kayembe and Joe Brock 289 Pages

You can partner with Heaven’s angelic hosts!

Do you have guardian angels? Does God want you to know them? Find out what Scripture reveals and how YOU can interact with the company of Heaven!

The supernatural realm permeates our natural world! Therefore, experiencing angels should be an everyday occurrence–we simply need to open our spiritual eyes to their reality and role in our lives.

Price: $16.99

Pages