221: Your Brain on Meditation - From Beta to Bliss

About this episode

This episode explores how meditation affects brain activity and the different brainwave types involved.

In this episode, we explore what modern neuroscience reveals about how meditation changes the brain. Using EEG research, I break down the five main brainwave types—delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma—and explain how each one behaves during waking, sleeping, and meditating. You'll learn how meditation shifts the brain toward a state of relaxed alertness —a balance between calm and awareness—and how these measurable changes differ from both deep sleep and active wakefulness.

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Bright

Topics covered

• meditation
• brainwaves
• neuroscience
• relaxed alertness
• mental health

Keywords

• meditation
• brainwaves
• EEG research
• neuroscience
• relaxed alertness
• delta
• theta
• alpha
• beta
• gamma

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: neuroscience, EEG

Books & works: meditation

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