![]() ![]() Dr Joe Dispenza in his book Becoming Supernatural describes “gamma frequency brainwaves as when the brain gets aroused from an internal event instead of an event that happens outside the body”. The sensation of such a gamma wave is beyond words. Last year, I had the great experience of being connected to neurofeedback under the expert hands of Thomas Feiner, the Head of the Institute for EEG Neurofeedback in Munich and we recorded my brain activity during meditation and in that meditation I experienced an extremely strong gamma wave and I recall exactly what Kounios and Beeman stated, my gamma wave rippled from the right anterior temporal lobe just above the right ear right across the cortex to the left lobe. Serious meditators experience gamma waves. But what Edison was inducing were those moments in time where he claimed he could develop ideas and find solutions which were not readily available to him in his normal awake state. He would do this by sitting in a chair holding heavy metallic balls and then whenever he nodded off, the balls would drop and wake him. An interesting story about Thomas Edison, one of our greatest inventors of all time is how Edison would consciously induce moments of insight. The conclusion from that leads to the question of whether the brain is reducing distractions and visual interference, which would then quieten the neurons in that area and allow insights and AHAs to flood in.įrom this, it is fascinating to think that our greatest moments of insight occur when we quieten the brain. Secondly, the spark of gamma initiated from the right hemisphere of the brain and thirdly, immediately prior to the burst of gamma waves a burst of slower, alpha-band activity of approximately 10 Hz was measured over the right occipital cortex. Firstly, insights or AHA moments definitely correlate with sparks of gamma waves and this spark occurred one third of a second before the test subjects consciously arrived at their answer. Various interesting findings came out of this study. ![]() The study itself measured neural correlates with test subjects who were asked to solve problems and compared sudden comprehension, that is insights, with analytical and logical problem-solving. In 2009, John Kounios and Mark Beeman from Drexel University and Northwestern University published a paper called “The AHA Moment – The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight”. The fascinating part is that these AHA moments and creativity are very much connected to gamma brainwaves, which are classified with a frequency of 30 Hz and above and associated with heightened perception, and even complex processing ability. We should be extremely skilled to constantly be provoking language insights and AHAs throughout the language learning process. And this is exactly the same for the language coach and the neurolanguage coach. I always say that the greatest feedback and the greatest evidence that we, as a coach, are really doing our job properly, is when we witness those continuous AHA seconds, that we have provoked through our coaching skills and expertise. ![]()
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