Increase cognitive function, decrease stress and smooth out the communication between areas of your brain to improve your mental health. Learning to consciously increase alpha activity while at rest has a number of benefits to: resilience building, improving distress tolerance, decreasing fear and better focusing the mind. Open Focus Technique: developed by Princeton psychologist Dr. Les Fehmi, powerfully triggers a synchronized alpha response in the brain. In this episode Cavan discusses the benefits of open focus and shares how to make use of the skill, integrating it as both a meditation for self-care, but also a day to day neurohack you can apply in times of need.