I'd be interested in reading your resources about alpha. I agree about the frame of mind.
Information that I have found says that children up to the age of about 10 are predominately in theta/alpha brainwave patterns. Then thoughout the teenage years the presence of alpha waves tends to become less as beta waves increase. However those trained in meditation at a young age or never went to school tend to retain higher levels of alpha wave pattern. It also showed that people who later learn to meditate have an increase of alpha wave functions.
If youngsters can do it why can't we all?
Other sources I have come across indicate that all brainwave patterns are all present at all times.. the intensity of each making up a unique signiture for each person. My research has also found that it is when the eyes are in soft focus that alpha waves do occur. This is commonly found during bouts of daydreaming... where the person is staring off into the distance. It seems to be a fact that when the eyes are focusing that beta becomes the main brainwave pattern.
Children don't seem to notice things as far into the distance or with a clarity of adults, might this be due to the fact that they are not functioning as as much in a beta state?
In an article that I came across on the web yesterday I found an interesting comment that testing equipment like EEG and biofeedback cannot tell exactly what the mind is processing ( 
browser crashed and I couldn't relocate the site for further reading). The article led me to wonder... What comes first?
Do we have to have 'right alpha' wave patterns first, to achieve/reach the accelerated learning state? Or is it because we train ourselves to enter the accelerated learning state that alpha waves start to appear?
Like learning to balance while riding a bike at first our reactions are wobbly but then the brain reacts, we get the feel for it and it, balance, becomes automatic.
It seems to me that it is feasable that the 'act of learning' to enter the accelerative learning state is more important than controlling the brain wave patterns. The brain wave patterns are perhaps a byproduct of entering the accelerative learning state.
It might even explain why the ones who trust the process have less difficulty than the ones who believe that they cannot 'relax enough' or believe that their brains 'have to' be functioning at a certain frequency for the whole photoreading thing to work.
In an article I found today it stated categorically that doubt is the ultimate blocker and "keeps the person functioning at the higher beta waves".
So now my musings become... How does one remove doubt? We usually recognise when we are doubting. How do we get ourselves out of that loop long enough to let go and try?
Yes I agree it is a "frame of mind that accompanies it".
Just my thoughts.
Alex
