The Awakened Mind of Creative Flow

 

"The awakening of awareness is like gradually awakening from sleep

and becoming more and more vividly aware of everyday reality -

only it's everyday reality from which we are awakening!"

 

~C. Maxwell Cade, Mind Mirror inventor

 

What are we awakening from? Our limited beliefs about ourselves and the nature of reality. To what are we awakening? The realization that our abilities are vast, our potential unlimited. 

 

The Awakened Mind brainwave pattern is an open flow of awareness between the conscious mind's intelligence (above, in red, orange, and yellow) and the subconscious mind's creativity, insight, intuition, and spiritual awareness (in blue and purple). The lucid, creative, and insightful Awakened Mind can accomplish just about anything.  

 

And, indeed, the Awakened Mind is the brainwave pattern of the world’s top performers and producers, from prize-winning athletes and corporate CEOs to scientific researchers, artists, psychics, and yogis and swamis. It was originally found in expert meditators and other highly developed, spiritually awakened people with a high degree of self-awareness and personal mastery.

 

These calm, balanced people tap their subconscious intelligence for solutions to challenges, to stimulate flow, and to serve self and others.  With practice—and a Mind Mirror®—anyone (with a normal brain) can expand their awareness into this ideal state of consciousness. 


who discovered the pattern?

The Awakened Mind pattern was discovered by British biophysicist and psychobiologist C. Maxwell Cade after his 1976 invention of the Mind Mirror EEG. Over two decades, this renowned scientist, Zen master, hypnotist, and clinical psychologist studied and trained what he called lucid awareness in more than 4,000 people. 

 

Succeeding Max Cade, American humanistic psychologist Anna Wise conducted 6,000 hours of research, authored two books, and taught at the iconic Esalen Institute for 30 years. She referred to this pattern as the high-performance mind of self-actualized people. 

 

In 2011, Judith Pennington founded the Institute for the Awakened Mind (IAM), co-developed the Vilistus Mind Mirror 6, and carried forward the Cade-Wise legacy. Since then, IAM's international consortium of certified practitioners have trained many thousands of people to attain the Awakened Mind of creative flow and peak performance. It is still the ideal pattern found in highly advanced people. 



what does awakened mind meditation feel like?

Drifting below thought, we rest in the quiet self-awareness known as pure mind, a realm of wisdom, light, and peace in which they feel united with all things. In this still point of consciousness, you may perceive an underlying fabric of reality and within it the presence of an indescribable feeling of oneness.

 

For many people, there is a sensation of resting in a luminous light that brings absolute understanding of what was not known or understood before. Insights arise, creativity flows, problems are solved. The brain loves the Awakened Mind pattern, which synchronizes and optimizes its mind, body, heart, and spirit. You will want to return to this pattern, again and again, until it is the way you live your life.


how does the awakened mind transform consciousness?

Our research shows that deepening into the lower, slower frequencies of the relaxed, sensory alpha bridge and the still slower frequencies of subconscious theta unfailingly quiets beta's conscious, thinking mind and its high-frequency stress, anxiety, and panic. Spending time in meditation's alpha-theta frequencies balances the brain and conditions a calmer way of being. The ultimate goal is to externalize this mental lucidity and physical relaxation as the eyes-open Awakened Mind pattern of peak performance. (See the array of benefits below.) 

Brainwave training is faster, more effective, and longer lasting when the meditator combines the self-training program's audio cues with one of our active, working Awakened Mind or Higher State meditations.

 

Engaged in listening to the verbal instructions, the conscious mind and body relax and engage in sensory activities that stimulate alpha. Once the alpha bridge opens, the conscious and subconscious levels of the mind engage in the work of self-discovery, healing, and transformation. Doing the work of personal transformation immediately orchestrates the Awakened Mind pattern and conditions it for externalization to everyday life.

 


Deepening into the subconscious, we recognize our negative self-talk and destructive patterns of behavior. Then we change them. Theta's essential being helps us see how. Often, resolving one issue removes a whole constellation of them. Confronting the personal obstacles that have held us back, perhaps for a lifetime, is not always easy. It takes courage and sometimes is painful. But not for long. 

 

Making what was unconscious conscious brings our issues out of the dark and into the light of day, where they lose power. Theta's deeper, core self - our essential being, or soul - comforts and supports us with its wisdom and high perspectives, all the while revealing to us our inner strengths. We gain an inner certainty of higher awareness and the realization of our true nature as infinite beings.

 

There is no force in the cosmos more creative, powerful, and healing

than our subconscious intelligence. 

It is directly connected to Universal Consciousness.

 

People engaged in conscious evolution consider it to be the most important work in the world, in great part because Awakened Mind work reveals creative powers that they did not know they had. 


how can the awakened mind benefit me?

During meditation and when externalized into waking life, the Awakened Mind sharpens the mind, improves health, and potentiates our inner resources. Some of many rewarding benefits include: 

  • balanced, coherent brainwaves and mental lucidity
  • deep tranquility and inner peace 
  • high levels of brain/mind integration with keener focus and sustained attention and awareness
  • an increased ability to think, plot, plan, imagine, and create
  • "aha" flashes of insight and inspiration
  • improved health on a cellular level
  • better physical coordination and improved reaction time
  • intensified sensory acuity and intuitive abilities
  • enhanced learning abilities
  • greater intelligence, better memory, and increased creative powers 
  • the potential for personal and spiritual growth and mastery

Inside the brain, the Awakened Mind's subconscious theta waves build new neurons (nerve cells) in the cortex and hippocampus, increasing our capacity for intelligence, memory, and learning. The Awakened Mind's theta waves also stimulate neuroplasticity: The brain rewires old patterns and behaviors into positive new ways of thinking and feeling. 

 

Nothing else offers this range of life-changing personal benefits.

 

Quieting the inner critic

Dispelling negative self-talk

Dissolving limited beliefs

Decreasing emotional reactivity

Releasing hindrances to personal and spiritual growth

Opening to higher and more expanded perspectives

Regaining confidence and belief in self


what are Awakened people like?

Anna Wise wrote in her book, The High-Performance Mind, that awakened people are self-actualized high achievers who are often at the top of their professions.

 

They are excited, enthusiastic, and successful people who enjoy an "aha" experience of life that is filled with peak moments of bliss. 

 

No matter what their spiritual orientation, they know how to quiet the mind, go within, and master their brainwaves for creativity, insight, healing, and a joyful, fulfilling life. 


Compassionate, empathetic, and helpful, they are warm-hearted, kind, peaceful, and balanced. They do not criticize, judge, or blame others, nor do they attempt to control the thoughts and actions of other people. Perceptive and insightful, they are naturally devoted to love and service arising from a deep devotion to humanity and the spiritual light of consciousness. Their characteristics include: 

 

Empathy

Compassionate nonattachment

Discerning non-judgment

Clear, lucid mental awareness

The spontaneous flow of creativity

Inner peace and outer equanimity

Service to self and others

Forgiveness and tolerance

Unconditional love