The Brain on Silent: The Science Behind a Silent Brain
The Brain on Silent: The Science Behind a Silent Brain.
Benefits Silent Brain Training™
Silent Consciousness
Silent consciousness refers to a state of awareness or perception that is devoid of any external manifestations or expressions. It is characterized by an absence of verbal or physical communication, yet it encompasses a deep level of internal cognition and introspection. Silent consciousness can be experienced during meditation, deep contemplation, or moments of profound insight. In this state, individuals may achieve a heightened sense of self-awareness and connection to their inner thoughts, emotions, and intuition. It allows for a profound exploration of one’s own consciousness without the need for external validation or communication.
Kelly Granite Enck works with severe cases of anxiety, trauma, panic attacks, and OCD as a Rapid Resolution Therapy Practitioner and Hypnotherapist. To help her clients overcome anxiety in a single session, she created Silent Brain Training (SBT). The goal of Silent Brain Training is to transcend the inner voice, or what is also called ego, to reach pure consciousness, known as Silent Consciousness. Silent consciousness is a state of being, in which the mind is free from all thoughts, and inner dialogue, and one is fully engaged in the present moment. This state is also known as self-realization or pure consciousness, where one experiences the absolute truth of existence beyond the limitations of the ego and individual identity. The ego or individual identity is a construct of the mind, created by identification with thoughts, emotions, and external objects. Through self-inquiry, one can question the nature of the self and discover that it is not limited to these constructs but is instead pure consciousness. By focusing on this pure consciousness and letting go of all thoughts and attachments to the ego, one can enter into a state of silent consciousness.
"The term "Brain Stillness" is used to describe the state of no longer identifying with one's thoughts. You are not the thinker of the thoughts. The brain pops thoughts into our awareness all the time, creating the emotions, feelings, and sensations that cause all our suffering. The data from our experiences can be stored in the neural pathways in a way that creates negative thoughts. You may not even recall the events, however, the data is stored until you clear it by not engaging with your thoughts. If you do not go down the neural pathways, they go away, and so do the negative emotions, feelings, and sensations associated with them. In this process, your brain physically changes to become bigger and more powerful as it stops producing the stress hormone, cortisol. The good news is, that we are not the data that creates the thoughts and therefore we are not the thoughts. We are electromagnetic fields of infinite potentialities, blocked by the distraction of thoughts. Our potential gets filtered by engaging with thoughts that create negative emotions, feelings, and sensations. Thoughts hypnotize us to engage with them in the illusion that we are a separate self that needs to be protected from negative outcomes when thinking is the problem. We are actually the dog chasing its tail.
The brain loves to protest. The key is to train your brain to be still, to stop its constant "rumination." The thoughts create the experience of being the reactor or victim of every experience, rather than the creator of every experience. All suffering ends when one stops engaging with the brain's data which creates the thoughts. We are living in a magical matrix of our creation, and here on Earth to become more responsible creators, with All That Is.
Every particle seen and unseen is seeking its best outcome with Joy and Vitality, when we are in this state of Brain Stillness, in creation mode we too are seeking our best outcome with Joy and Vitality. Ideally once Enlightened, you can see to it that each step you take is ideally suited towards the outcome you hope to achieve in the end," staying in creation mode (silent brain) each moment rather than reactor mode (engaged in rumination), one might call this mindfulness.
At the root of every creation is love. If you look at the depths of trauma, PTSD, guilt, or pain, you will find at its core the need for love. Even guilt itself is a lack of love because one's data/thoughts have created self-punishment for not doing better. So a person filled with guilt and self-hate, might even hear a thought that says, kill yourself, but this is just the data, this is not you, or the whole self, this is the brain processing data, you are not your data, you are not your thoughts, laugh if you catch yourself in inner dialog with the data and turn off the TV. Also, get in the habit of doing physical exercise every day. Working out is the fastest way to create some beta-endorphins to pull out of a cycle of depression, if you can't call 911 for help.
What is our purpose here on Earth, you might ask? According to the Seth Material which is the most evolved information on the planet, our purpose is to become responsible creators, with All That Is rushing in to help. While on Earth we are playing with the illusion of TIME. We see our creations here because we are hypnotized by the illusion of time. Time allows us to see the material creations of our thoughts and beliefs as they create the reality we experience, to give us feedback.
We had a 1 and 400 Trillion chance to be here on Earth right now with the perfect combination of oxygen, gravity, and many other factors required to support the universe and enable humans to survive. We are here to evolve consciously, to become greater creators of our lives.
I have pulled key points out of the scientific journal titled, "The Brain On Silent," which was of particular interest to me, based on my experience with training brains to be silent, which is the state of the present moment, fully conscious. Dr. David R. Hawkins MD describes the final run on the journey to obtain Enlightenment as Silence. In Buddhism “silent consciousness",” is defined as consciousness without reportable contents. It helps to understand the definitions used when describing the Silent Brain, Present Moment, and Enlightenment, which is why I found this collection of translations below by David R. Vago and Fadel Zeidan so helpful. ~Kelly Granite, Hypnotherapist
The Brain on Silent: By David R. Vago and Fadel Zeidan I have pulled key points out of the scientific journal titled, "The Brain On Silent," which was of particular interest to me, based on my experience with training brains to be silent, which is the state of the present moment, fully conscious. Dr. David R. Hawkins MD describes the final run on the journey to obtain Enlightenment as Silence. In Buddhism “silent consciousness",” is defined as consciousness without reportable contents.
"The Classical Buddhist Abhidharma Perspective "Stability and stillness of mind provide freedom from destructive types of emotion and cognition (e.g., anger, craving, greed, lethargy, hyper-excitability) that are rooted in excessive self-absorption or perseveration.
The following metaphor is commonly used to describe how the foundation of mindfulness may contribute to the benefits of a still mind, focusing on cultivating attentional stability and reducing unintentional mind wandering. If a stone is tossed into a still lake, the ripples are clearly visible. Yet, when that lake is unsettled, a single stone's effect is barely noticeable. The same is true of the mind,83 in that a restless mind that is fraught with many thoughts and emotions is easily distracted, inefficient, and unable to adequately encode information for later retrieval. Furthermore, if one leaves a glass of muddy water still, without moving it, the dirt will settle to the bottom, and the clarity of the water will shine through. Similarly, in mindfulness-based meditation, in which attention is trained to continually return to a single point of concentration, thoughts, and emotions settle into what is described as the mind's natural state of stillness, ease, equanimity, and sensory clarity. In the text Stages of Meditation, an 8th century Indian Buddhist contemplative, Kamalasila describes 10 sequential stages of attention training, referred to as “taming the mind” or “calm abiding” (Pāli: samatha) that begins with an effortful form of focused attention (FA) and progressively advances toward a state of effortless and objectless awareness.82 Stability of attention refers to sustained concentration and vigilance that remain unperturbed by distraction or interference from discursive mind wandering, while clarity refers to the phenomenal intensity with which sensory or mental content is experienced.82,85 Insight practice (Pāli: vipassana), a form of open monitoring (OM) meditation, typically follows calm abiding training to facilitate meta-awareness of one's own mental habits, increasing the aperture of awareness to all sensory and mental objects that naturally arise and pass. Mindfulness meditation is often taught as an interplay between calm abiding and insight meditation. Therefore, according to the classical Buddhist Abhidharma, one depiction of a restful mind requires concentration but is calm, alert, and holding an object or stream of objects in effortless awareness. Stages of jhāna practice have been observed in one functional MRI (fMRI)/electroencephalography (EEG) case study of a long-term Sri Lankan Khema practitioner who was able to progressively move through each of the eight stages of form and formless absorption practice. Interestingly, the study suggested that ventral striatal activity corresponds to the subjective experience of joy during the early stages. In the historical Hindu context of the yoga suttas, samādhi is believed to represent nondual or transcendent states of conscious awareness and absorption where the sensory or mental object is known directly, beyond name and form, and a feeling of unity or oneness is experienced with the object of meditation. These descriptions of concentration practice suggest that, through practice and depth of concentration, mental quiet shifts from stable perception of an object to a state of non-dual awareness where there is a dissolution of self–object distinctions.  |
In contemporary contexts, comparisons have been drawn between states of mindfulness in concentration and experiences of “flow,” “the zone,” peak states of performance, and the opposite domain—“zoning out.” Although there are clear similarities of samādhi with states of flow, distinctions can be made.
Zen traditions heavily emphasize methods that focus on achieving “inner stillness.” Mindful awareness: stillness in nonduality Later stages of both jhāna and samatha practice place less emphasis on engagement and disengagement with objects of attention and more on nonduality, which refers to the eventual dissolution of the subject–object distinctions, nonconceptual awareness, and a phenomenology described as the true nature of mind—an ultimate form of stillness. Nonduality is most commonly equated with the concept of reflexive awareness (Sanskrit: svasamvitti)95 or “bare attention,” coined by the German-born monk Nyanaponika Thera in his book, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation.3 This nonconceptual emphasis on living in the here and now is believed to have contributed to the foundations of contemporary mindfulness and of the therapeutic recipe for well-being. In traditional non-dual practices of mindfulness (e.g., Chan, Zen, Mahamudra, Dzogchen),97 there is emphasis on the subject–object distinction as the root of suffering. The Sanskrit author Santideva describes this state of stillness as “remaining like a piece of wood,” such that any impulse toward a particular thought, emotion, or behavior can be heedfully detected but denied full engagement before the mental event requires cognitive resources. There is clear instruction to avoid self-reflective processing and maintain focus in the present; yet, the idea in this practice is not to cultivate a state of samādhi, but rather to release any effort, let go, and not engage with any object.
The nondual state has been referred to in Tibetan styles of Dzogchen as “open presence” (Tibetan: rigpa chogzhag) and also as “awakening” (Pāli: bodhi) or “Nibbana.” Many Buddhist traditions see this as a goal state, where there is a cessation of all “unwholesome” states and all phenomena, including space and time.
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Conclusion
As research progresses in this field, it is likely that differences between novice and advanced meditators will become apparent and may account for discrepancies in the ability to sustain/maintain non-conceptual forms of awareness during meditation and the speed with which practitioners can make discerning judgments. Indeed, even the greatest meditators report fluctuations in the level of clarity with which meditative quality is experienced over time. Thus, future research would benefit from having closer measurements of neurophysiological changes as they directly relate to first-person reports on the phenomenology of experiences, such as clarity in the context of meditation or the state of PRESENT and throughout daily life. " ~ David R. Vago and Fadel Zeidan
Kelly's note: for the serious seeker of living in the present moment, awakened, I would read the book, "The Nature of Personal Reality" by Seth
"A negative thought, if not erased, will almost certainly result in a negative condition.
Say to yourself, "That is in the past. Now in this new moment, this new present, I am already beginning to change for the better."
It does not do to repress negative thoughts, such as fears, anger, or resentment. They should be recognized, faced, and replaced." We do this in my Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT) session. It's fun and exhilarating!
Rapid Resolution Therapy Session with included Silent Brain Training, allow 3 hours for the session to run over in time. Get Ready to go from victim/reactor of thoughts to the Director Creator. Thoughts create the me and I story, when you surpass the last hold on these you are free! Learn how....with my Rapid Resolution Therapy Session!
Claim your Power -I AM, All That Is, You are here to learn that consciousness creates form, you create your reality based on your thoughts and core beliefs, your beliefs can be moved around like furniture in a house, and if you find a limiting belief, you can toss it and a whole group of them goes with it! You are here to become a responsible creator. You form your reality from your inner reality, it's a mirror. Silent Consciousness is reality still waiting for your action, everything is in action, your heartbeat, all energy, it moves based on what you give attention to...you literally create the experience you are having...we create together as well. I love this quote from Hercules 540 BC, No man steps in the same river twice for the river is not the same and man is not the same. Time is an illusion, the Present Past, and Future are simultaneous, you can move in all three directions, and you are the creator enjoy creating! Love Kelly
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