5 Brain Waves & What They Show

5 BRAIN WAVES & WHAT THEY SHOW
Brain Wave Basics

The dowsing state is invisible to observers. To someone watching a dowser, there is
no magical trance, no sign of an altered state. The dowser picks up a pendulum or
uses a deviceless method and gets a response, and the invisibility of the actual
dowsing process makes it look so simple. To an observer, dowsing appears to be as
straightforward as asking a question and getting an answer. Unless the dowser
explains the process, an observer does not even realize that the dowsing state is
the key part of dowsing...simply because you can't see it.
The simplicity of the dowsing process is part of its attraction. It also
contributes to the impression that dowsing is somehow a psychic power, rather than
a skill. While most masterful people make a skill look simple, whether it is
playing a piano or riding a horse, the average person quickly is able to see that a
great deal of skill and even talent are required for those activities. You don't
sit down at a piano and play a Chopin piece unless you are skilled and trained. You
don't ride a dressage horse without having a lot of practice.
It's not the same with dowsing. Anyone can pick up a pendulum and swing it. Anyone,
even someone untrained, can get a 'yes' or 'no' response with a dowsing tool. Lack
of proper technique is not obvious, as the most important technique is invisible:
the dowsing state. As such, people can fool themselves into thinking they are
dowsing when they are not, which is not the case with other skills.
It appears that many people consider themselves dowsers who never took a single
course in dowsing, nor even read a book about it. They watch someone dowse; they
decide it's easy; they figure anyone can do it. Sadly, those people are not really
dowsing. All they have to do to confirm that fact is to dowse about things that are
'tangible target dowsing,' things that can be confirmed. Unless their answers are
significantly more accurate than guessing, they are not dowsing, or at least, they
aren't accurate.
Tangible target dowsing is in our opinion (and that of some of our respected
colleagues) a vital part of the learning process. You get reinforcement for good
technique when you get correct answers, and you get a chance to improve when you
make a mistake. At least 80% of your dowsing should be this type of dowsing, not
the intangible target dowsing that pervades the market. You can't learn unless you
can see when you make mistakes (much like playing a piano will quickly show you how
adept you are at playing a piece).
We prefer to dowse about meaningful everyday subjects rather than dowse about coin
tosses and card suits. There are a number of reasons that 'tests' aren't a good
training exercise for dowsing. Instead, dowse about things you need and want to
know, but cannot know rationally. Our book 101 Amazing Things You Can Do With
Dowsing gives you plenty of examples, if you have difficulty thinking what to dowse
about.
We believe that the reason so many people are not good at dowsing is that they
aren't in a dowsing state and also lack proper training in making a good dowsing
question. (We've written a book on good dowsing questions. It's an excellent
companion to this book. It's much easier to describe the process of asking a good
question than it is to explain the dowsing state, because the dowsing state, as we
said, is invisible.) If you watch a master dowser in action, you will see that he
or she very quickly gets into a dowsing state, followed by a fairly quick answer.
This is a result of a great deal of practice. You might notice that the eyes and
focus of a dowser seem to shift a bit when the dowser goes into a dowsing state.
It's almost like they 'check out' briefly while dowsing, then slip back to normal
consciousness. It's a subtle shift, but you can sometimes see it in the eyes and
body set of masterful dowsers if you know what to look for.
Unfortunately, that is about the extent of any outward sign that a dowser is in a
dowsing state. The big change is going on inside the dowser, and thanks to modern
science, studies are now describing the changes in brain waves that occur when
dowsers dowse. This is as close as we can get to describing the dowsing state at
this time. It is merely an observation of changes in the electrical activity of the
brain, but it has brought us a step closer to understanding what the dowsing state
is. At the very least, it has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are major
changes in the brain during dowsing. This is what you would expect of an altered
state.
So let's talk about brain waves. There are several different types based on
frequency, and each is characteristic of a particular type of activity. Most of the
time, the average person is experiencing only one type of brain wave at any given
time.

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