Samadhi A Heightened State of Awareness

While you are contemplating the brainwaves (EEG waves) gets slowed down. Normally brainwaves frequency, while we are fully awake to situations, remains in the range of 14 – 23 cycles/sec, which is known as Beta brain waves. But while contemplating upon some thing (focusing upon) this Beta brainwaves pattern gradually calms down to Alpha (9 – 13 cycles/sec) and on your deeper contemplation, from Alpha to Theta (5 – 8 cycles/sec) brain waves pattern further slowed down. But one need not to slip down to the extreme delta state (1.5 to 4 cycles/sec) because in this state one would be cut off totally from the external world, and fall into ‘Nirvikalpa’ Samadhi state (like in the state of coma).

In Nirvikalpa Samadhi State, with the lowering of brain wave patterns to minimum vibrations, our rate of respiration and heart beats too goes slowed down; as such the TIME SEEMS TO MOVE SLOW in this lower brainwave state and your awareness (Consciousness) goes sharpened and focused during this state.

Whatever is happening near about you seems to be ‘slowed down’ relatively (with respect to your awareness) and it reflects acutely into your awareness because of your HEIGHTENED AWARENESS and you are enabled to receive information even from inanimate things too in this state of deep contemplation or heightened awareness. With the slowing down of time (relative), even the events seem to move slowly and are therefore, noticeable acutely in our consciousness.