I had to catch a train next day morning at 6:30 AM to go to Pune for PUG meet, but I woke up at 6:00 AM by my second alarm which fortunately was successful for waking me up and realized I am late so I got ready as soon as possible and reached station and caught the train. In this process I realized I am having headache and kind of feel like I am stress, which was quite uncomfortable.

I did some research and found out, our brain consist of basically 4 waves- Alpha(7.5-14Hz, The Deep Relaxation), Beta(14-40Hz, The Waking Consciousness and Reasoning), Theta(4-7.5Hz, The Light Meditation and sleeping), Delta(0.5-4Hz, The Deep Sleep) and Gamma(above 40Hz, The Insight) waves. All waves are necessary to work properly daily to maintain a healthy life cycle. Let us try to understand it in terms of car gears, when we start a car it is in neutral and we put first gear to move it initially, as it get some speed we put second and then third and so on. We follow the reverse procedure to stop the car, i.e from fourth gear to first to slow it down. Now if we consider this 1,2,3,4 gear as different brainwave then it will be Delta (1^st gear), Theta (2^nd gear), Alpha (3^rd gear) and Beta (4^th gear). We won’t be talking about Gamma waves as I rarely have any knowledge about it.

So consider you are tired and you go to sleep, which is a deep sleep and so now you are experiencing Delta (1^st gear) wave, as you don’t stay in that stage for long so you come out of it and move to Theta stage (2^nd gear) but you are still asleep, at this stage you can hear little voices which is happening outside. Once you woke up normally you are lying on bed with consciousness then you are in Alpha Stage (3^rd gear) and finally when you are completely awake and active then you are in Beta (4^th gear) stage. This is the normal routine which we should follow ideally but due to the heavy lifestyle which most of us follow we follow pattern of 1^st gear and then directly to 4^th gear which you can relate now to my story of going for a meet.

In that I was in deep sleep (Delta wave) and because of my alarm I forced by brain to come out of that stage and get active (Beta wave) to catch the train because of which my brain started giving signs that boss you are not following the ideal routine and you need rest, so please rest and releases some signals which says “sleep sleep” but to avoid it I drink Coffee, forcing my brain to stay alive with me and to oppose it brain releases signals which caused headache giving warning it’s not good for your health.

So generally we should follow all gears of our brain for healthy life, which we are ignoring now days because of many factors. I just want to say, boss listen to your brain, if it is sending a signal then it is for some good reason 🙂

I hope you loved to read this post, let me know your thoughts on this by commenting and do share it to your friends who follow some hectic routine, this might help them 🙂