<div><strong>Intimate Relationship</strong></div><div>Think of your most intimate relationship. Notice the amount of time your loved one spends with you. I bet it can’t be more the time your mobile phone spends with you. In other words the connection between you and technology is more intimate than you consciously know. </div><div> </div><div>From the times of the caveman inventing the wheel, marvelling at condensing and amplifying movement, totally unaware that a few centuries later his invention would result in mobility of trillions across the world. The wheel of technology like life itself has colours and shades, details and aspects to be explored in fascination. Technology is an integral part of life today. Exploring technology that makes you happy.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Brainwave Entrainment</strong></div><div>Have a back ache? No need to suffer, simply pop in a Asprin and you will be fine in a few minutes. Hey! you probably already know that? But do you know next time you are not feeling upto it you can simply wear your headphones, play your favorite brainwave entrainment recording, and within 10-15 minutes you will be in a different world.</div><div> </div><div>Around 60,000 - 80,000 incoherent thoughts in a day. To do nor not to do, living upto the glossy consumeristic lifestyle image, expenses versus income, relationship ideas on the way it should be versus reality, shoulds and shouldn’ts about life and the end result is a tired, stressed out brain releasing survival hormones and brainwaves in total chaos. Meaning you are alive physically but your spirit is dead. The zest for life missing. Hey! don’t take that seriously. It simply a mind pattern and your brainwave at a certain wavelength. That’s all! </div><div> </div><div>Our brain has several brainwaves. In our waking hour its beta brainwaves, the sleepy state is alpha brainwaves, a deeper state of sleep is theta and the deepest state is the state of delta brainwaves. Interestingly, one of the biggest differences between a stressed out person and a blissful meditating monk is the state of their brain i.e. their brainwaves.</div><div> </div><div>One of the tools used in Brainwave entrainment, to get you in the zone, are binaural beats.<br><br> German experimenter Heinrich Wilhelm Dove first discovered how binaural beats work in 1839. It wasn’t until 1973, however, that biophysicist Doctor Gerald Oster brought the benefits into mainstream awareness through an academic paper named ‘Auditory Beats in the Brain’ (Scientific American, 1973).</div><div> </div><div>The way it works is really simple. The sound effects certain cells in the brain. The other cells in the brain than replicate the new pattern and within minutes you have a brain without the chaotic brainwaves complete with a new wiring.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Putting to use </strong></div><div>Brainwave entrainment is very easily available on the www. However, it does depend on the engineer and the sound quality, compression etc for the real impact. One of the better websites I came across is <a href="https://www.binauralbeatsmeditation.com/">Binauralbeatsmeditation</a>.Try out their ChillPill recording for a few minutes and see what happens.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Gadget to Give You a Monk’s Peace of Mind</strong></div><div>In late 2014 I met with Rohan Dixit from the Silicon Valley, inventor of Brainbot. He spent several weeks “recording” the brainwaves of monks. He then created a band which anyone can wear around his or her chest. Within minutes it replicates the brainwaves of the monks in the chaotic brain. In other words, simply wear this $99 band and it gives you a monk’s peace of mind.</div><div> </div><div>You can read more about his invention and Brainbot <a href="http://www.thebusinessedition.com/stressed-no-worries-a-gizmo-to-calm-your-brainwaves-3508/">here</a>.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Making Happiness Fun</strong></div><div>Do you know Happiness is a science. Not only does the brain switch on an entire factory of happy hormones, the impact can be seen in the health of organs and physical appearance. If you want to increase your happiness, you need to be friends with happiness. Make happiness a habit. <a href="http://www.happify.com/">Happify.com</a> makes you do exactly that. Befriend happiness by spending time daily on developing mind patterns of happiness. </div><div> </div><div>For Android and iPhone users one of the best apps in developing positive mind patterns is <a href="http://www.mindhabits.com/mobileapps.php">PsychmeUp </a>Downloadable in free and pro versions, it not just changes the wave your brain is tuned but within days you will be able to notice substantial benefits. There is a sparkle of light in every situation, a well tuned brain can help you see that. This app is based on a research by McGill University on developing positive brain patterns.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Thoughts Pattern Movement</strong></div><div>You may have spend hours on the movement of stocks on the Sensex but have you noticed your own thought patterns? Have you ever indexed them? Have you ever questioned the trash in your mind?</div><div> </div><div>Well here are a few good apps I came across and used them with great success over months. Note, just getting aware of the trash is sometimes enough. </div><div> </div><div>Here are some interesting apps for you to become a SEBI i.e. the regulator to your own mind<br><br> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><strong>Thoughts Exchange</strong></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><a href="http://www.inflow.mobi/">Inflow Mood Diary</a></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> Available on iPhone, Android and Windows. There are free and paid versions. </span></div><div> </div><div><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><a href="http://moodlytics.com/download">Moodlytics</a></span> - Track your moods, emotions, make your emotion charts, set goals and even keep track of mood. Available on iPhone and Android.</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.excelatlife.cbtdiary&hl=en"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Cognitive Diary</span> </a>- Have you ever considered the relationship between event - thought and behaviour. This Android app helps you do exactly that. Why do you do what you do? It simply aids in what spiritual masters have always said “Know thyself”. </div><div> </div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><strong>The Last Word</strong></span></div><div>Seeing the mosquito struggling on the glass pane I can so understand the struggle of the mosquito. The mosquito thinks the transparent glass is space and it can somehow pass through the concrete glass. It believes in an illusion of space. The media bombarding content, mind building ideas and constructs on self images and ideas on how things should be blah! blah! …. all this resulting in a constant chase, one item, after another. Everyone wants to be a lion roaring, not even considering if the fish were made to fly and birds forced underwater they wouldn’t exist. Two humans don’t have the same fingerprints, yet we are programmed to chase the same trophy. Then another and then another….</div><div> </div><div>Imagine a little girl in India by the time she grows up is constantly bombarded tens of thousands of times with images and sounds that if you are fair you are beautiful otherwise you are ugly and a failure! Can this girl ever know what life is or would she forever be chasing what she has been programmed to chase?</div><div> </div><div>The illusion of future accomplishment for happiness i.e. postponing happiness if……. this happens results in a mad habit of chase. Simply a habit, a pattern in the mind. A habit that can be purged. Being present to life, in life, with life, makes you aware of so many colours, shades and things about life you never had known, even though life was always there with you. Technology today helps us get more intimate with life if we so choose.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><strong>Puneet Mehrotra is a business and technology columnist who besides writing on technology loves exploring the colors and shades of life. <br> Puneet@tbe.in</strong></div>
