Optimise Your Brain’s Peak Potential With Braintap- Dr Patrick Porter

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So at night when we sleep, we actually go through Alpha Theta Delta, we keep cycling through them. And that's what builds up our neurotransmitter bank account. So if we don't get the deep sleep that we need, we don't build up those neurotransmitters and we can't think as clearly as precisely, or show up as our best self.

Welcome to the high performance health podcast with your host, Angela Foster, the show where we talk about everything you need to break through limits and achieve a high performance, mind, body and lifestyle.

Brands gonna get into some exciting things about the brain today, and specifically different brainwave states and how you can access them, you're going to be learning all about delta theta, alpha and beta brainwave states and another brainwave state actually, that I hadn't heard of, which is SMR, and how you can do SMR brain training. We also talk about gamma, wave brain training as well, and how your thoughts create your reality and the whole kind of world of quantum physics. It's a very exciting episode with Dr. Patrick Porter, who knows everything really about the way the brain works and how to influence it with specific affirmations and isochronic tones and binaural breeds. He's the founder of brain tap, which is an incredible device that I've been playing with over the last few months. And I've got to the point now, where I'm brain tapping three times a day since I recorded this episode, not three times every day, but certainly every day, twice a day, and sometimes three times a day. And I have noticed profound changes in my mental attitude, my disposition in the energy that I'm able to bring in my sleep, my sleep is like off the charts in terms of my ability to go into slow wave deep sleep. And I'm tracking that with both my aura and my whoop. So follow me on Instagram at angelasdfoster if you're not already, because you can connect with me over there on insights that I'm sharing. But yes, I've noticed profound changes in my sleep, but also just in synchronicities in life, and the energy I'm bringing and the people and opportunities I'm attracting into my life who really, really dedicating or should I say having a dedicated practice to training my brain. So this kind of goes beyond meditation is really exciting. You can probably tell by my voice. I'm really, really excited with this. And I actually can't wait to share it with you. So without further delay, let me let me introduce you now to Dr. Patrick Porter. Dr. Patrick is an award winning author, educator, researcher, entrepreneur, and speaker. He also won the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 by the interdisciplinary association of functional neurosciences and rehabilitation. He is also the dean of mind based studies at the International quantum University of integrative medicine. His sleep RX programme was voted best sleep application of the Year by Health magazine. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, and Business Week, he's been a TV and radio personality for over 10 years, he's created more than 1200 personal development programmes and successfully marketed more than 3 million products worldwide. His newest brain training platform brain tap is distinctively designed to activate the brains neuroplasticity. The brain tap headset uses light and sound technology in combination with Dr. Porter's proprietary guided visualisation audio sessions, to help you achieve brain fitness, overcome stress, lose weight, stop smoking, manage pain, accelerate learning, enjoy superb sleep and make any number of lifestyle improvements. And as you just heard, I have been seeing profound changes in my own life from using a brain tap. And that's why I'm absolutely delighted to introduce you now to Dr. Patrick Porter. So this is going to be a fun podcast today because we're going to be talking all about brain training. And it's something that I've just really started playing with. Those of you listening will know that I'm always trying out different nootropics always trying to enhance my brain function and using different things like meditation and breath work, different techniques. But on my guest on today's episode is Dr. Patrick Porter, who is actually the CEO and the founder of a company known as a brain tap. First of all, Patrick, a very warm welcome to the show. It's great to have you here.

It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, we were just talking offline. Thank you for coming on about about how the first time I use this I went into one of the deepest sleeps I've had and that's someone who is a very, very light sleeper. So I'm very excited. It's something I'm quite new to and I'm excited to learn more. I guess a really good place to start is first of all for people listening is to start with the basics and talk about the different brainwave states what they are and when we might want to access each one of those.

Sure. So right now Angela, we're in a we're in a brainwave state known as beta, and we're in all the brainwave states hopefully so I'm going to explain how they work. We call it a symphony of brainwaves. because there's a lot of misconception out there about one brainwave being more important than the other. All of these brainwaves are important in the right context. So kind of think about as state dependent brainwaves. So we need beta to interact with life. And we call this the reactionary mind because most people have too much beta. Now beta. Also, when you're in a beta, too much beta brain, you overproduced dopamine. And that's why most of our addictions are dopamine addictions, like whether it's gambling, alcohol, drugs, pornography, whatever it is, all of those are actually tricking the brain to get more dopamine in dopamine is an exciter. So that means that it's it's meant to get you up and moving. But if you're sitting in a chair, like playing a computer game, it's going to your brain is gonna fry. You know, in fact, some of the studies we've done with computer brains, I mean, when people do in computer games, I would really limit time on those. Now, when you drop down below beta, there's a brainwave called alpha. Alpha is when most people are really familiar with because it, it actually is one where you're when you're with family or friends, people you love being with time seems to fly, you know, the, there's a Jim Croce song, you never have enough time to do the things you really want to do. Because when you're in that zone, there's no time, time only happens in the domain of beta. So there's no time. So like, if you're doing if you're a creative artist, and you're sitting behind the easel, and you wonder where the day go, you know, that's why they have to get artists to eat, you know, somebody has to make sure they're being fed. But it's a creative place, we should have 45% of our brain should be in beta when we're awake. 30% of our brain should be an alpha. Now, those two working together actually create almost an infinite amount of energy. Because we get energy when we get out of beta beta robs us of energy, like if we're doing our taxes, or we're exercising strenuously. That's why our body burns out, because beta uses a lot of energy. Alpha is almost, you're getting into a flow state. Now alpha also triggers the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. So when you get into that alpha state, you're going to be producing that your brain is going to be telling your gut, hey, it's time to produce acetylcholine. Now, when we get into the next brainwave, which is called theta. Theta, by the way, is the one that most adults around the world that we measure with our neuro check technology that they're missing, you know, we've done 30,000 scans. And I would say that at least 90% of them have less than 3% theta. And that's a problem. That's why two thirds of the world isn't sleeping. It's data that has to be trained, not delta, although I will get into that in a moment. Theta is the inventive mind. It's a very small brainwave bandwidth, that most of the inventors they've associated with, like if you have a problem in your lab, like whether it's Edison or Einstein, and, and Tesla, they all had a method of going into their subconscious and retrieving a solution to their problems in what neuroscience is saying that happens through like an epiphany, but it happens in the brainwave state called theta. So think of infinite possibilities and theta, that's where you're super creative. If we drop down one more into delta, delta is deep sleep, and you were talking about your aura ring and measuring deep sleep, every biohacking technology has a different way of measuring, I would say that aura is probably the easiest to master bio straps is not is not as friendly, you have to do a lot, a lot more deep sleep to get the scores, you know, so we've done a lot with that. But the Delta needs to be triggered, because delta has to do with the subconscious healing getting into the real deep parasympathetics. But also, it's the only time the brain opens up the glial Informix system. So what's important about that, especially for biohackers, is you while you're building up this great body and exercising and breathing and all these things, if we can't get the toxins out of the brain, we're going to have a leaky brain. So most people have heard of leaky gut. So if you have a leaky gut, you probably have leaky brain because there's a there actually is a brain biome as well. Now, the newest brainwave on the block is gamma. And a lot of people are doing a lot with gamma now. And we can talk a little about that if you if you'd like here today for gamma is a higher level of creativity and problem solving. We used to think it was only about you know, anxiety, stress and all these other disorders because between a brainwave of 22 cycles per second and 40 it can be a little chaotic, you know, you can get anxious and stressed out but once you reach that 4040 beats per second, that's the gamma bass drum. Think of that like the like in a band, we have the bass drum, keeping the whole band together in the rhythm. That's the gamma and now we know that gamma is super important for helping people overcome whether it be dementia or Alzheimer's because that that gamma actually breaks down amyloid plaque which which of plaquing happens in the brain, mostly because of inflammation. And I would say primarily because of sugar addiction. You know, people eating too much white sugar and things in their brain is stressed out or any other foods they're eating. So these are the five brainwaves, they're all important. The two main ones while we're awake are beta and alpha, the but we need to go through all of them. So at night, when we sleep, we actually go through Alpha Theta Delta, we keep cycling through them. And that's what builds up our neurotransmitter bank account. So if we don't get the deep sleep that we need, we don't build up those neurotransmitters. And we can't think as clearly as precisely or show up as our best self, you know. So that's where the energy in the reason for sleep is so important. And what happens with brain tap is we compress a sleep cycle and as small as 10 minutes, or as long as 30 minutes, we actually have some that are 40 minutes, depending upon, I have a journey to Egypt, it's 40 minutes. So that's a deep Delta recycle. So a lot of people use this app for jetlag so that they basically get back on the right timezone. So those are the five primary brainwaves that we talked about. What

I mean, when I've heard gamma talks about actually a little bit more recently is I think Dr. Joe Dispenza, talks about it when he's seen, and he's done brain scans on people. And they have that spontaneous healing, where they're signalling new genes to work in New urges to work in new ways, or new genes even that they have switched into gamma, I think that's what he's observed if I'm right. So a healing frequency from from what I hear,

if somebody has a high or a deep spiritual experience, they're probably going to trigger a lot of gamma. When we did a study in Dallas with Dr. Rosenthal with PTSD in the military, some of the vets did not want to do a psilocybin with brain tap, they just wanted to do brain tap. So we mapped the brains of people on a psilocybin. And it was really fascinating to see how much gamma they were producing with these plant based medicines. Their brain just went off the chart with gamma, we've never seen that before. So what I did was I created the gamma series, the time brain tap, and people started having a psilocybin trips without a psilocybin. One of the ways the brain, the brain works and all things is it's all reactionary. So we just finished a study in Brazil, with the Brazilian government actually paying a quarter million dollars to prove that brain tap could replace opioids. And we proved it, we get better results in opioids with brain tap, because we can trigger the opioid receptors in the brain and cause people to be pain free. So not everybody can do it. But about 80% of the people can experience pain free states just by using brain tap. I mean, I went through painless surgery with my shoulder, where my dad trained me and I had my shoulder opened up and a piece of my collarbone put over with the screw nothing more than relaxation techniques, the same ones we use in brain cap. So are we can we can do that. If we're trained. You got to train the brain, though. But the nice thing about the technology we have is you don't have to learn, you just have to experience it in the brain will take you into those those states.

Yeah, it's interesting, I want to go on to that. Because when you're talking, they're actually about about gamma and like data and the different frequencies. I had a very spontaneous healing experience myself when I was in hospital with pneumonia. And I had like a chest X ray, they knew I had pneumonia, but they thought because of the size of the lymph glands that I had lung cancer. So they gave me a CT scan, and ran a die through and what they found that she was know that the lungs were just heavily infected both bacterially and virally. So they immediately admitted me into hospital. And when they took my blood, they found I was neutropenic. So that was a concerning time, because the next 48 hours were quite critical as to whether I was going to be intubated. Because obviously the the IV antibiotics were going to help with a bacterial but we had this viral issue. And I was suffering with clinical depression at the time. And whilst in the in that state, I had very high fevers, which I thought and Joe Dispenza talks about this gave way to this sort of lucidity. And I transitioned into a very peaceful state, and from their experience and and really connected with my purpose and decided like, What the hell have you been doing? You know, I've been suicidal thinking about this all the time. I'm sort of retracting this. I've got three kids, and I need to be a mother to them. Because here I am really faced with my life potentially ending. And I had this spontaneously spontaneous healing experience, because within 48 hours of me making that decision, my blood work changed, and my white blood cell count came back is really, really interesting. I find it so fascinating.

Yeah, but most people don't realise the power of the cycle immunology, which means how our psychology affects our immune system. You know, if, if you're at a state of fear and anxiety, actually, they one of the studies they just showed which was fascinating, was about light. And we're talking about gamma, but I want to just kind of talk about ourselves as light you right now and I the reason you can see me and I can see you is you are emitting light, you're emitting light in the bandwidth also of a 10 date. 60 nanometers. That's why we can see you at night. So like our science officer developed the clothing for a football player over here in the US called Tom Brady. He has recovery where where we can reflect our own infrared light Get back at us. So we have healing energy other saying that

because he has that, I think you can buy it. That's what that's doing is it? Yes,

it's reflecting back when when our science opportunity put ceramics in it, that reflect back the infrared light. So when you get into these higher higher states of gamma, they know that you produce 200 times more light energy. Now what that light energy is doing is it's instructing your mitochondria to change your gene, your gene expression, every, every 40 seconds, your genes are expressing based on what's happening in your environment. And the biggest determiner is your thoughts. So your thoughts, your foods, your environment, all of those things go into it. So when they map the human genome in 2013 2003, they only map 1%. That's because we didn't have the technology to know what the other 99% was doing. Now we have that, we know that 99% changes every 40 seconds. So when you had that light experience, when you had that gamma experience, you if we could have you on an infrared light camera, we probably would have seen an enormous amount of infrared light, rewriting your DNA, retraining you to show up as your best self. And that can happen every day with the Bible. That's why you're in biohacking. I mean, you're doing that every day by the choices you're making. And so now the best the best, you the best version of yourself in the infinite amount of genetic variations that you could be, is showing up at that moment. Because you've provided it the right inner information. And in light energy is the most under prescribed. And most people think it's a physical thing. But there's also a an inner spiritual, you know, light, you know, almost every religion talks about it from and when you go to these gurus in India, which I'm fortunate enough to travel through India a lot, they will give you the light, they'll touch you right here on the third eye, and you will have like a lightning bolt. So they know how to transfer that energy. You know, not everybody can do it. But I mean, everybody has the potential to do it. But you know, there's training involved. So what I what I often found, and I had an experience of instantaneous healing in the hospital that happened overnight, where I had a bisulfite poisoning. And so you know, I know those things are possible. So it's because we're changing all the time. So what as we know more and more about this, the biggest problem people have is they don't have enough energy at the cellular level, to make those switches to flip the switch, you know, if and when we measure the energy across the brain, for instance, with our neurotech week, when we did our dementia study, most of the women in the study, from an energy standpoint of zero to 100, they were below 10, which means that their potential for energy was 100. But they were only activating about 10% of their energy. So that means their genetics, that's why they were having dementia and they were heading for Alzheimer's was that's a form of neuroplasticity is a form of energy. That's really what we're measuring. When we're talking about neuroplasticity in the brain, the more energy we can bring in, the more our genes can express at their healthiest point. So when we bring energy into the brain, the brain is the biggest energy hog we have. So it weighs 2% of the body's weight but uses 25% of the ATP. So when we when we bring that energy in, if we can get the master programmer, let's say the hardware online, which I don't believe are the hardware, so don't get me wrong, I don't think we're the brain or the body of it, or at all we're spiritual beings expressing through these experiences. So but what happens is there's some confusion, there's a translation problem from this higher order of thinking to our physical reality. So what you experienced was one of those, one of those moments, and I think people are gonna start like

a transcendental moment effectively. Yeah, and I've only it's interesting, because when I used that brain tap, it took me into a state that usually actually I have to get into a very deep state of meditation to access the only other time I've accessed it. I would say, apart from that hospital experience that effectively apart from with the brain tap was actually when I went into hypnosis, and I was being hypnotised. And I was in a very deep state state of hypnosis, because I'd been there for two hours. And it was as I was coming out, and then the person that was guiding me, asked me to connect with my inner self and who I was. And it was absolutely incredible, because I suddenly wasn't no body, no person, and literally, and it sounds incredibly arrogant to say it in this way. But it's not. It was like a beautiful experience, because I felt like I really connected with the inner spirit of me, and the impact I wanted to make on others and what I wanted to do, and I think that's when you do become really mission driven, right. But it's profound. It's super interesting. But what you're saying is this can take you there quicker as quickly as psychedelics.

Well, yeah, what we do when we get more theta, or gamma, we that's a pretty it produces GABA. GABA is a precursor to DMT. And if anybody's ever done a DMT trip, they know that every cell of our body has DMT in it. So if we can ask activate that. And there's a region in the brain just on the, to the right of the centre, where almost every spiritual experience ever recorded, is done. So what I did in the gamma series is I triggered that area, so that you have the frequencies that put you in the best opportunity to have those experiences because we're think of our brain like a transmitter and receiver, like we would have in our automobile to pick up a radio station, although we're picking up cosmic waves, but it's, it's still there, we're, we're using that and nobody knows where our thought is located. But we know we have them, you know. So we have this hardware. So part of it is just tuning in on these different, I tell people that these brainwaves are like Wi Fi networks, but they're healthy. To get to put it into perspective, the Earth has a frequency of 0.5 to 100. If we were on a spaceship coming toward her, that's what we would measure the earth frequencies. But a lot of the frequencies we're dealing with on our planet right now are not healthy frequencies. You know, there are a lot like no J frequencies, right frequencies. But when you look at 5g, for instance, the reason that's a problem is 50 million pulses per second. And every cell has something called a chroma form, which is a little battery that absorbs energy in the form of light, sound or vibration. So when it's getting hit 50 million times per second, the body's trying to figure out what that what that signal is doing. So it can adapt, and it's way too much. That's why people have a cell danger response the cells, just like we would if we were really stressed out and upset, we might get into the foetal position and cry or whatever, you know, that's what the cells are doing when they get hit by that. Now only luckily, only 20% actually have a physical exposure that shows up, but it's affecting everyone. So part of it is keeping that open mind that positive outlook to keep the psycho immune system functioning at its highest level optimism is the key, I guess I'd say for the brain to function at its highest level.

I agree with that DMT. There you can also activate that through certain breathwork practices, right when you accelerate the breath almost like in that sort of Wim Hof style when you're like quick lawful breasts that you're in and out quickly, or even like Tony Robbins talks about, and I think it's backed by an MIT study where you're sort of in like that and you're activating energy.

Yeah, I mean, we did. I've been I had three published papers this year on breathwork alone with their in PubMed that I did with the Ames Institute, where we showed everything we do with brain tap, you can do with breath work, the only problem is it takes work. So, you know, in India, in India, they can't afford the headset. But like in our dementia study, we showed the two hemispheres were off balance, so the left hemisphere was actually slowing down or had less energy, it should be matched 10.8 volts across the frontal lobe. But what what happens as we get older, unfortunately, is one hemisphere tends to slow down over the other, and that's where dementia comes in. So we show that through doing a prana Yama where you hold the nose, and you go back and forth, that's actually activating the difference hemispheres at about six weeks, just like using brain tap, if you do the breath work three times a day, you can balance that brain, but you got to keep doing it too. It's one of those things. That's why the Guru's and the people. I mean, in India, they even have Cronos therapy, which is light therapy right from the sun. They knew that if a if somebody was having a mental issue, like depression, anxiety, stress disorders, they actually talked about it in their Vedas, they would have them sit outside two hours before sunrise. Now, the interesting thing about two hours before sunrise, in why I tell people like taking chimp traditions and make modern technology is two hours before sunrise, there's more infrared light hitting the planet than any other time of the day. So if you want to do infrared light therapy without buying, like the light you have behind you, you know, you'd want to go outside and do it. Now the problem is we have a lot of pollution. Now it's not as you know, it's not as readily available. But that's when the sun is that's when are they knew the brain would be healed through infrared light. Now we know that today, you know, like in photobiomodulation in the brain, we know that infrared light can heal the brain. Now, how do they know it? 10,000 years ago, I have no idea but they it's in the scriptures.

Interesting. And before we get into the device actually there when we're talking about these brainwave states, there's something that I've really liked your input on, because I know like a lot of people listening to this podcast will be interested in this because they're biohackers and they're also really trying to optimise productivity, creativity and function. And it's something I do a lot with my clients. The thing that I'm always perpetually playing with in terms of these brainwave states is not just the evening is actually the morning routine, and just really, really trying to get that right. And now I'm looking at that in relation to the female menstrual cycle and how that's affected as well. But one thing that I found is sometimes if I can I do different things, right? So you can really prime your state and I can imagine you can do this with brain tap which is what I'm doing be experimenting with over the next few weeks. You can do it with different breathwork techniques with meditation with going into a deep sense of relaxation first. But what's also interesting I found and I think Steven Kotler talks about this in the in the flow collective, is that you can also get out of bed and go or I can certainly as a morning person, and go straight into work. Now, when I do that I'm talking about use the bathroom then straight to work. Without any caffeine, sort of 430 in the morning, I'm highly, highly productive. And time. Although I must be in a beta brainwave state because it's very active, then I do lose sense of time, and I can get a so much work done. But what I also find is that is highly depleting, like the recovery that's required after that session is much greater than if I warmed up to go into it and primed my brain. And I just wondered if you could enlighten on this because I'm always trying to optimise these.

Well, there's a brainwave, actually, between beta and alpha called SMR sensory motor rhythm. That's the one for cognition and focus. And that's the one you're using in the morning. So what we've done is we've created sessions called Digital coffee that the wakeup series, and it wakes that brain up, most people aren't like you, I would say two thirds of America, in our world don't wake up, they go, they bark with blinded eyes to the coffee machine in the middle of the coffee starts waking them up. And that's not a good regulating nervous system. So what we find is, it's always good to do power burst, like what you're doing. But recovery, it's more about to recover, I don't know if you need to, I would fix that it sounds like a really productive thing to do. But what I would do is that the when you find that burnout point, or that time when you're starting to feel the initial return, we did a study with a soccer team here called Kansas City spar, which is our professional soccer league. And what we did was we showed them with a professional athlete, you can get an HRV, before they work out after they work out for hours after their workout, they should be back to normal, right, they should be back to their baseline. So what we showed them was, if they could do that, we showed them that it worked. But then we showed them, Hey, do brain tap after your workout, they got better recovery in 20 minutes. And now they could go on and live the rest of their day. So in your case, what I recommend is when you get to that burnout, go ahead and do the 10 minute session, then you'll have a new morning. Because it's what it does, it shows that we could bring back up to 80 to 90% of the energy they had when they woke up by doing that 20 minute session after their workout. So now they didn't they weren't burned out. And a lot of them were going to have a beer to calm down and things like that, we found that once they relaxed their nervous system, they didn't have to go do those destructive behaviours, they could stay positive. And in fact, we showed him what when we showed him with the neuro check what one beer does, it took the average person 12 hours to recover from drinking one beer, and we got him to stop drinking so much during the season. You know, it's different things, because that's, you know, they, they're young athletes are professional so they can get away with it. But eventually, they're not going to be a pro athlete anymore. So you got to I told him, We got to start the positive behaviours now instead of waiting to retire,

you know, alcohol, alcohol destroys this for me, I I'm not drinking alcohol, because I just find that it, it depletes the brain quite significantly, and it will it work. First of all, it smashes my HRV, which is really annoying, because then I look at my scores. And also it is harder to get out of bed and I can't reach that peak state. Even if I've had one glass of wine, I love wine. But it doesn't it's not conducive to that. And I find that with alcohol, the longer the period that you go without alcohol, the more sensitive obviously become to it right? And the less then you want it because you really notice the difference in what's happening. And the longer you haven't had it, the more you can maintain that peak state without needing so much recovery.

Right? Exactly. Yeah, sugar, it's all down to how the body processes that sugar and sugar is the death kill to the brain. I mean, you can, most people don't realise too, that stress is the death killed of the brain because your liver produces as much sugar as a candy bar, just from one stressed out event. So I wrote an article how stress is more fattening than chocolate. Because people don't realise that, you know, people that don't eat sugar go, why do I have diabetes? Because you're stressed out your your body produces the show, that's why we don't need as much sugar as people think, well, our body produces it, we have to, you know, more needs, you know, ketone friendly kind of foods, you know, that feed our brain, the right, the right fats and things of that nature.

So while you're saying interestingly then for people who are and I do quite a bit with genetic testing, so people that are listening to this and maybe done that they know their Chrono type or they just feel that they are productive in the morning. Actually, it might be better to be getting straight stuck into something and postponing that meditation or brain tap session after that first sort of no 90 minute run, rather than trying to prime because what I find is I've actually almost slowed is creating a bit of a ramp up that I've got to climb I'm together,

right? I think everyone needs to look at your your universe of one. There's no matter how many, no matter how many trees. That's why biohacking is so important right now as people can measure their own results, figure out what works for them. But it's got to be consistent and you got to go for it 100% You can't try something out. 90% Let's say Wayne Dyer was always fond of saying you have to cast out all doubt for the two, three main. So you have to, if you're gonna go for it, you got to go for it commit to three to five days of just doing everything right, see how good you feel. And if you have the ability to measure it, like with your aura, ring, bio, strap, Apple Watch, whatever, you'll see those results, especially if you've been drinking, if you're somebody that thinks you need to drink every night, if you we have sessions, which they could listen to, that was my background, I've worked with addiction therapy, that was what I did before. My my clinics were all about helping people overcome addictions, we have a we had 108 of them here in the United States. So the when I sold that company, then started doing this a few years later, it's still the same technology, we people get addicted to emotions, too. They get addicted to anger, they get addicted to resentment, they, but you want to be addicted to joy and happiness, in love and all those things. Because actually, in the one study that I was talking about with the light that shows our bodies light, it showed people who are in joy and happiness and gratitude actually produced 200 times more light as well. So that seems to be the magic number, and they can measure that light. Now we all have this, we're all pushing these photons out all the time. So you know, we're we're projecting that out. And so we're sharing our light with people when we spend time with them. You know, it's more than just a conversation at a conscious level. There's a subconscious interaction with with your our biologics, not just our conscious thoughts.

How interesting about the light, because I knew that you could measure the field like the heart is emitting? And actually you notice that right? Don't you if you're if you're at a party, or you can feel the energy sphere of the person that's coming, and sometimes, there is not a match for you, right? But it's almost as though they yours is a match for them. And they want to come closer and closer. But actually, it can feel a little bit intrusive. Because you feel it's quite interesting.

Yeah, when my dad used to teach silver, which was the method of meditation,

they used the silver method. Yeah, he was

one of the first self instructors here in the US, I grew up with it. In the, he used to say when he got to sit down in there, the whole group of Silva would say this, I'm gonna go ahead and sit your aura. Now. This is back in the 70s and 80s. So people thought they were nuts. But now we know that's what they were doing. They were really doing that we have this field that can extend 18 feet around us, depending upon how open we are in, the more stressed we are that field actually collapses. So you know, we're open and receptive, we have an open field. And, you know, when we're basically looking at life, like what they call a new mind, and just curious, all that energy is there to absorb reality in what's going on around us.

And like attracts like, right? So this is why I kind of for people who, you know, I don't think this is going to be too woowoo for people listening people who are into like the law of vibration, and the law of attraction, which is kind of secondary to that. This is how it's happening. Right? So if you regulate those emotions,

yeah, everything is magnetic in nature, we have this light sound of vibration, and it's it's being attracted. There's something called a strange attractor. And in, in physics, and in quantum physics, they've latched on to that. So your thoughts become the strange attractors. That reality kind of collapses on and creates what you're thinking about most. And it's mainly because one of the things in neuroscience that might blow some listeners away, is we take in 2000 pieces of information through our eyes every second, but our brain feeds our our eyes feed to our brain 10 million pieces of information every second. So neuroscience will tell us we're making it all up. So what's going on? Because we're only getting 2000? How are we getting 10 million. But there's something some higher order of thinking in our ears taken 25,000 pieces of information, but we're only sorting out and using about 40 as well. So we're using a very limited amount of the information available to us. And that's why as we open up these filters, and start to realise the world we live in as much bigger and brighter and and bolder than we thought then things open up for us and those opportunities show up or those people show up. Those relationships show up. They were always there. It's just we were hiding them from ourselves because of whatever self sabotaging a system we had in place thinking we didn't deserve it or something.

Yeah. And actually, you can have whatever you want, right?

In an infinite universe, there's plenty for everybody. And if somebody's running around with a finite universe, then obviously everybody's the guy with the most toys wins. But the reality is there's enough toys for everybody. You know, there's there's no lack. In fact, when somebody says there's too many people on earth, they did a study and if everybody had as much room as they have in an apartment in a luxury apartment In Japan, everyone on earth could live in Texas. So we're not overpopulated. It's because we live in a world of greed and, and self sabotage and everybody's trying to take from everybody else. I don't know how to fix it, I'm just that's the problem. I think we have to fix ourselves and realise that we live in a space of infinite abundance. And we teach that to our family and friends. And those are the people we hang out with. And we start changing the paradigm of what we're doing. Because, you know, eventually it's going to happen, because people are waking up and realising that the fear is not working, the greed isn't working, you know, in those states don't, aren't conducive to healthy living, they're not conducive to our brain, because those are all beta states. And when you think about love, peace, gratitude, those are all Alpha Theta states, those are all parasympathetic states are what I call the thriving brain states, instead of the Survivor Brain states of, you know, certain survivor is like, I gotta get as much as I can, because the earth coming to an end or, you know, or that I need to have this, this car, that car. So it's, that's, that's why Buddha said, all unhappiness stems from unfavourable comparisons. So you know, as we as we think about it, also, I believe that with brain fitness, when we start to maintenance our brain, which means our thoughts, actions, and behaviours, when we start to monitor that in a unique way, what happens is we start to predict our future, instead of letting our future predict our life, we start to predict the movements we make, and we start to change conscious reality, how we consciously participate in creating what we want. And that's all part of just using I mean, there are certain people that know, you could take everything away from today, and a year later, they would be successful again, just because they have a mindset, they don't know how to fail, you know, they might have failed miserably, but they don't, they'll realise it, they just pick up, pick themselves up off the ground, and they do it again, and they're more successful than before.

Um, what do you think that is, because you've obviously been incredibly successful, you've have multiple businesses, you had me too, I would say it would be to your advantage that your father was training the Silva method, right? From from a very young age, you were exposed to things and I look at my own children, you know, growing up now, I used to be a lawyer. But with a mum, as a coach, I talk about completely different things that I definitely didn't hear as a child, and that must be infusing into them, right. But what do you think is, because you said, you know, go all in, like, if you're going to do something for at least three to five days go? Well, then and I think that a lot of people are saying, you know, you want to make a decision, because everything changes when you make a decision. And that comes from the Latin word to cut off, right? You've got to burn the boats to be able to do. But I'm really curious, because you've had a tremendous amount of success. What do you credit that with, in terms of your own brain optimization and state?

I think mine was that I learned these micro changes, you know, that, that I didn't have to be hit by a bolt of lightning like solenoid to Damascus, and change my religion. What happened was slowly over time, my dad had me actually read a book called As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, and that, that I that was my, that was my penance for one whole summer when I was 12 years old and changed my life. Because it taught me that my thoughts create my reality, what I think about, I bring about all those kinds of things that people are kind of quoting today, but I learned it at 12. Instead of waiting till I was 32. I tell people, I had my midlife crisis when I was a teenager, not when I was 30 years old, because a lot of people are waiting for a breakdown to have a breakthrough. And you don't have to have a breakdown, to have a breakthrough, you can choose to change. The problem is that some people, even though they're good enough, is not good, but it's good enough for them, they would rather have the pain that they have. Now. You know, the old saying is, you know, the bird only flies from the pain of staying in the nest is more severe than the pain of starvation, you know, then they finally leave. So when people get comfortable, comfort is the curse to change and transformation. And also thinking you know, it all, you know, there are so many people out there that they find one truth. And that one truth for them is everything. I don't believe there's one truth, I believe that someone today somewhere, is creating something that we'll all learn about in 10 or 15 years. It's gonna revolutionise what we're doing. And we don't know who they are. We don't know when they are, you know, but it's kind of happen because that's the way that the human brain and mind works. I believe in the morphogenetic field theory that you know, that they proved with rats. I don't know if you've heard this study, but are they? What they do is if you're one rat runs a maze, they can't use that maze in any college in any university. Because every rat knows that maze once one knows it. Yes, yeah. So if rats have a group consciousness, I believe that consciousness one

maze with one set of rat, they can never use it in a study again,

right? So when they when they did the Like for instance, they always tell the story of the four minute mile right When, how did when we broke the format, nobody did it, nobody did it. But as soon as they did it, within five years, high schools were doing high schoolers were doing. So it's like, it's just, we have barriers that we put in place in our minds. And we don't know the extent of what we can do or how we can do it. I mean, we don't know. I mean, we know just like healers, like I was talking about the infrared light, there's a reason that some healers are better than others, they shine more light, they bring more presence with them. And that has to do with their confidence. And you have to when we're talking, you've got to be sure of yourself. That's why you have to cast out the doubt. And I think that, you know, when we talk about epiphanies, most people aren't willing to have those epiphanies they're so locked into, there's the story of how to capture monkeys in the wild. I don't know if you've heard that. But they say if you want a monkey a certain size, you just find it. You have a cam that's tied to a stake, and you have just enough room for the monkey to get their hands on with a potato, and they won't let go the potato. And basically somebody could walk up behind them rather trapped in that trap, pop on the head, they wake up in the Chicago zoo, because they're not willing to let go the potato that potatoes, they're past thinking, if we don't learn to forget who we were, or bless ourselves, like I, how I evolved a little bit I think was I have a chapter in my one book, awaken the genius that I was blessed to be the son of an alcoholic. Because if I wasn't blessed to be sentimental, garlic, I'd be the alcoholic. You know, my dad luckily got held through Silva and other methods. And now I don't have to be and none of our nine kids had to be. So it's like, we had a choice at that point. So I think those people that survive and thrive, have choices, if you can learn to be a choice generator, you know, always have choices. Because the worst thing you can do to a person is take away hope. And that's what happened the last two years, unfortunately, they they robbed everybody of their hope. They robbed everybody of their expectancy of true justice. And in the right for health and vitality. They took away things that we took for granted. And the brain said, Wait a minute, that's why suicides are up. And, you know, people are getting some more.

So now, Patrick, because we're following it immediately with this threat that now financially first, you potentially can step outside your house and catch a virus that was gonna kill you. And now you're not going to be able to afford to eat and you know, I was looking at it like, the other day, I very rarely read the news. But I was like, I wanted to see what is the media because I don't like the way they condition you. And I was like, I just want to see what what are they putting out at the moment because people are scared. And you know, I hit on an article and immediately it's like, here's how not to get food poisoning when you're trying to batch cook to save money. I mean, like that is just on every single level is inciting fear, right? You don't have enough money to buy fresh food every day, you're gonna have to batch purple now you're probably going to get Campylobacter or salmonella, like it's conditioning to fear, which is, I think scary when you when you think about it. Because if you can control people very effectively if you make them scared,

yes. Well, when when I used to boxer do martial arts and competitions, I knew as soon as I got the person angry, or upset, or any negative emotion you win, because you're not going to operate. So keeping people calm, relaxed, the best thing people can do if you're fearful of your food supply, go learn that you can cook your you can they say we could have a walled garden, every house could have a walled garden, take care of all their food supplies, right in their own home. So there are grow lights and things like that if you want to, I mean, what I tell people is look for the solution is as long as your brain knows there's a solution, you're going to stay positive and upbeat. But as soon as you take away all the options, and you're like a caged animal, and you know then not only does the body that's when the the, the digestive system gets off, because we have a thinking gut, that's our second brain. And if that gets irritated to the point that we can't even capitalise digest or use food, we're not getting the minerals and nutrition, we could be taking the world's greatest supplements and just eliminating them out. Because with the nervous systems offline because of stress, it's not going to metabolise what you're eating. So that's why prayer is so important that you don't have to pray specifically, but you have to calm down before you eat, you know, set your body up just like you would for lifting weights or exercising and you kind of psych yourself up you got to psych yourself down to get the nervous system to digest that food. And some in the you know, that's why a lot of people pray not not specifically for that reason they're giving thanks. But the real the physiological reason is Virginia Han out of California University did a study where she showed the energy through cleric Kirlian photography of how when somebody prayed to actually add an energy to their food, and when somebody didn't eat when somebody was eating junk food, and they knew was junk food, but they didn't pray or anything like that. It actually robbed them of energy. She showed it on it.

But I almost think he could go beyond that right that if you You have somebody who is angry in the kitchen and they're shouting, and they're making that food, the transference of energy could be quite negative. Whereas when food is prepared with love, I just think it's more nourishing.

Oh, yeah, when I studied with Yogi Bhajan, who brought Kundalini yoga to America, I was lucky enough to be in Phoenix, their ashram was there for five years. And I used to eat with them at least four times a week. And then when they prepared the food, they would tell you everything that was in it, and the last ingredient was always love. And I could tell you, the food was really good. And I was cheap. So it was only like, $5 to have a meal. And I was single. So it was, it was really, it was really good, vegetarian food. And at that time, you know where you had it. But they've always I do believe that you can feel that I mean, I've eaten food at restaurants and gotten sick afterwards. And you know, it, I don't everybody else was eating the same thing. But I think I picked up something that was energetic about the food, because I'm very sensitive to that. So but I just cleared out and go on, you know, so I'm very lucky, my body won't keep something negative in.

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So first thing is we've got to clear out the past. So that means there's a saying in the Bible says you can't put new wine in old wineskins. What he was talking about there was you can't put new thoughts and old thought patterns. So what we're doing here is we're saying that when you're doing your meditation, whether it be brain tap, whatever meditation, you're doing mindfulness, when that thought comes up that negative thought about your past, if you just stuff it, there's a book called emotions buried never die, you know, the, it talks about this. But what what I would recommend they do and this is what's in brain tap, is take that memory and make it black and white. Make it black and white, because a coloured image in our mind has has movement in time, we need to still make it a still frame, make it a snapshot, put it behind and figure out what did I learn from that experience? And I'll give you an example. I was doing a therapy session with somebody on stage in New York. And she looked like she was going through a funeral. I mean, she looked like the average New Yorker, all black, you know, nothing. Being in she looked and I said, what's going on? She said, Well, I've been depressed for five years. And we found out she was raped in Central Park, which is terrible. What was happening was, when she stored those memories, they were right here. Every morning, she'd wake up, she was being raped again, she would remember that. And they never found them. You know, she so she never got even she? And I said, Well, you know, that's a terrible thing. We can't go back and change it. But what's happening right now is those thoughts, you're basically reliving them every day. So let's put it behind you. You know, let the universe take care of it. Because it's not serving you to replay it. You're never gonna find those people. You're never gonna get even. You're never gonna do this. So let's put it behind in black and white. So what could you have done differently than we found out? Well, I could have ran during daylight hours instead of 11 o'clock at night through Central Park. You see so and so she started to realise that and that started to unlock that memory because she also felt guilty that she had done it. And then she couldn't she felt like she was to blame for it. And there's no one to blame. It's just a bad thing. So put it behind you. And what we started doing was we started to Whitney sound about it because she could still hear Hear them breathing and talking to each other. And it was a it was a few people. And I said, Well slow that down until it stops. Put all of that the pictures, the sounds, the experiences two to 300 feet behind you, what would that feel like? And she goes, Well, there's this. There's like an emptiness now, I said, well leave that behind you. Check your body feel how you feel. Okay? Now think of what are your favourite memories. Remember that in bright colour, it could be anything, it doesn't even have to do with anything we just talked about. When you have that positive memory, what's going to happen is the your brain just like you've ever seen where they tear down a building, but they don't build right away, nature starts to grow, you know, they start trees start to grow weed start to grow. nature abhors a vacuum. So what we need to do is put a positive memory in its place, and what will happen? So what could have done differently? Well, if I ran during the day, I'd still be in shape, I'd be smiling, how would your life change, I got her thinking about a bright future, the past has to change, it has to transform, we did more than this. But by the next day, when she came to the Training, she's it looks like Easter Sunday, she's all bright, brilliant colours and smiling. And she says it felt like I lost 30 pounds while she did because the weight of that experience as memories was right here in front of her. In NLP we call this these are state dependent memories. So when you have this memory, it creates a state. That state is one where I don't want to look up. So this physiological state is one of depression. So she was depressed. So once we took that out of the way, we put a better picture there. Now she could roll her shoulders back or chin up, read, write and move forward with her life and put that behind her and make better decisions about when she when she started exercising, actually, by the end of the week, that we were there, because she had stopped exercising because she had blamed everything she was doing. So she and basically the way we set it to her is that you were punishing yourself, there's no reason to punish yourself. Forgiveness is also key to this. And then so you you forgive and then you have to create a gratitude kind of sequence. And I I recommend people do the gratitude. Every morning before they get up when they're laying in bed, it's part of our wake up programme to, but to start to think about what you're grateful for, because then the brain will bring you more things you're grateful for, you know, if you're if you're focused on those things, you know, if you're grateful for your children, if you're grateful for your clientele, if you're grateful for the money you have in your bank account, all of those things, you just acknowledged the good. And then what happens is to experience the good, the brain has to create a chemical corresponding reaction in the body. This chemical corresponding reaction shows up as emotion, and emotion drives behaviour. So if we can create the right, first thoughts precede action, so when they think about or they say thoughts or ancestors to action, so as you think about your thoughts, if you can stop it at the core. And what will happen is once you train your brain to take those negative memories and do that, pretty soon I call it tai chi for the mind, the brain will actually learn that strategy. And you'll do it daily. Anything that happens here today, that's negative, because we're all going to have that to happen. But how can we learn from that experience? It make it a resource, instead of making it a liability when you

because I love that? Because I think it's so powerful. My question would be when you have an experience that has the pain point is not the experience itself, like something negative, like where is negative, it was common to examples. But it's not like you've been raped, that is a negative experience in and of its own. But actually what you're mourning is the loss of something that was in itself a happy experience, which bit you're going to black and white. So as a few examples, someone may have lost someone they love. Someone may have faced bankruptcy and lost their family home and they loved it and the experience was there. How are they going to have happy memories? Because because they get stuck, right? So they can't move on. If they've gone through a messy divorce with somebody that they absolutely love. They've lost their family home, they've lost all these things. But then they don't want to black and white everything before because there were so many happy memories and otherwise they live in resentment with the actual experiences. But then if they stay in that past, right, they can't create a new life because they're stuck. Why did they do that?

Yeah, we want to remember the positive memories for sure. We just want to take away the pain and the hurt. And it's basically we're nobody's trained for loss. We have a whole grieving process and brain tap for this because nobody's trained to do it. And the whole process is how do we were designed, unfortunately, or we're trained, that everything's gonna last forever. Mom and Dad are always going to be alive Democrat bars. We're never told, Hey, these people are leaving us when it happens, you know, we don't know what happens. So the main thing though, is to remember the most positive experiences and honour that experience and and put things in perspective and There's, it's one of those things, you just have to go through it. I mean, there's no magical cure, there's no, there's no magic affirmation. But it's like when that pain comes up what you can do, you can do this emotionally, too. So when the pain comes up, what's that pain doing? And if as you go back in time, you only want to clear out those memories that are attached to that pain point. Because you learn to have that pain. In whoever trained you usually it's mom or dad, you know who trained you or brother or sister or preacher or teacher, you know, they're all They're all training us. But when you get to sow some people do it emotionally. Some people do it with vision, some people do it through hearing, it's all but it's, it's connected in a way that that pattern is there in the pain is that this is member all unhappiness stems from unfavourable comparisons, I had this beautiful house now I know, I have this beautiful wife, now I don't or this beautiful husband, I don't you know, all these things. So what we have to do is we have to find another, we have to stop comparison, we have to stop the comparison and create a new mind. Which means today's new and different is if this is one of the things I would talk to my clients about over the years is imagine for a moment, Angela, that you were just born, that you decided to play this game called life we gave you children, we gave you a place to work, we gave you a career, we actually put biohacking information into your brain. And we gave you a bank account. We actually told you about a future. But we said you know what, we're gonna set you down right now. 2022. And you get to start today? How would that change the way you look at your situation? That's the way I want people to

look at their mathematical, that's radical. Isn't that interesting? Because that's a fresh start. But with all the knowledge and experience that you have, from everything that you've Yeah, that's interesting.

So you can't in the world of quantum physics, you cannot prove to me that any moment happened before this moment. There is only this moment, in an infinite now that stretches through eternity. So you can drag along the past. In fact, in my book, I call it the dragons of the past, because people will drag them on in Dragon mine in Dragon mine. So I use the metaphor as a dragon, because it can become very heavy, you know, in, you know, or can be, you know, you l zap your energy in your life, because you only have 100% energy every day. If you're giving 50% of it to your past, you're not creating the most joy the most love the most brilliant experience you can have right now. You know, those are all those are all expressions of energy,

that you're actually conditioning the opposite, right? Because in that example, if someone went through a divorce, lost their house or lost their partner, and they're so fixated on that there'll be like, I'm never getting married again. I'm never, you know, because they're too afraid. Right? So but if they start again, it's quite interesting from ground zero with all the knowledge, then actually, it feels like an infinite world.

So you know, I just keep reminding them. And one of the ways that I get them to remember that is, I asked them a question very simple and said, Have you ever been in a dream that when you're in it, it felt like you weren't going to escape out of it? Then you finally woke up and said, I'm glad that's a dream. Yeah, most people have had that experience that, you know, the average dream lasts seven seconds. Wow. That's correct. So this could be a dream. And we could be waking up here going well, all that past could have just been seven seconds of information downloaded into our conscious awareness. And now we get to move forward. And we, you know, we're here now, during a zoom call, we're having this conversation for this podcast. So the problem is that people get fixated in their past identity, they get this identity consciousness and they start saying, like, they stand up at meetings and say, I'm an alcoholic, or they say I'm a, I'm an addict, or I'm this or that. The reality is that you are none of those things. The number one law of psychology states, you can't be a behaviour. So why are these people running around saying it, but what happens is we put ourselves into a double bind, when we say things like I'm overweight, or I'm a smoker, or I'm an alcoholic, or whatever, because then the brain has to prove you right? The brain's only job is to prove you right every day. So it's going to it's going to create that structural tension that proves you, right? So that's why I always say, Hey, don't don't cut yourself short. You're you're an infinite being having an infinite experience. You can limit it as much as you want. Because you have the you basically just like a computer game, you can play at the lowest level if you want, or you can play at the highest level. Of course, you play at the highest level, there's a lot more risk and there's but there's also a lot more joy and you know, so you have to be you have to find out where along that continuum for me, when you asked earlier, why do I think successful over others is those micro changes. If we change too radically. What happens is we don't believe it in then we lose it all. So it's

sort of like with a lottery winner who then loses all the welfare because they were never prepared for that, that wealth. So they spend it.

Yeah. And how many people they say most people don't even live six months after retirement, they retire and expire, because they have no plan. And I just heard this about a race horse yesterday was so funny, the guy says, he had a horse, and you're talking about some different and he says, that'd be a great place for these athletes to go. Because these horses if they don't turn them out in a place where they can actually be written and, and work with people and things like that. They'll die within two years. And I didn't realise that, you know, look at how many people are they they work their whole life? And then they don't plan for their future? Here?

Yeah, it's weird, isn't it where people are, I was in a coaching programme with Bob Proctor. And he passed away very sadly, in February. And it was really interesting, because when I began the programme, I remember him saying, I wanted to take my business into every country in the world, every single country in the world. And he'd been doing that for decades, effectively. And then he gets a call, actually, while we're on it from one of his staff saying, Well, we're in every single country in the world. And he's done it at but then at the same time, he's saying, I'm gonna be doing this on my 100th birthday. And he wasn't, and it was, I remember getting devastated when I found out he passed away, because it just seems so sudden. Yeah, yeah, it's interesting.

Yeah, we need to look at, I mean, I always tell people, we need to kind of take the shotgun approach to, to life. And I kind of consider myself a digital shaman in some ways, in that the shaman says, Live every day as if it's your last, but plan your life as if you're going to live forever. And I think if people would do that, that's the kind of the shaman motto, that we would have much better life, because people are giving up their today's for some future tomorrow. And there has to be a balance there, you know, in doing that, and that the biohackers, of course, are saying I'm going to exchange, health and freedom in That's the hardest thing for people to change about. And I'm just talking about, like, when we have our franchise company, my brother Michael, who's our nutritional director, he hasn't advocated bars, since he was like 16. You know, he's one of these. He's really serious about his nutrition. And that's why he was our education director. Somebody asked him, he said, Michael, it must be hard for you not to eat candy bars. And he looked at it, and he said, you know, what be hard for me is to get up every morning and carry 40 pounds on my back. She was about 40 pounds overweight, you know. So it's all different perspectives, it's a, we have to look at what's going on. And again, if we have an outcome, people will do a lot like people will work 1214 18 hours on their own business, they won't work six hours for somebody else, you know, so we have to figure out where what is what's going to make you light up in the morning, what's gonna get you excited, what gets you up. So you're so excited during the coffee, and you can work for 90 minutes or two hours, you know, that's most people don't have that opportunity, which is it's a blessing, you know, they need to find that. I always tell people, if you drink coffee before 10 In the morning, you probably have a neurological issue. Because you're 10 o'clock, you just drinking it because you want to have the flavour or whatever, you know, but if you're drinking it to, to function, then your biological system is the most taxing system, you're going to burn out the adrenals, you're going to burn out the body, but the electrical system, that's where the breathwork comes in, that you're talking about doing those kinds of things, getting that breath work to work and activating our nervous system, which is infinite energy. I mean, you'll have more energy you'll eat last year, smile more, you'll sleep deep. All of those things happen because you're you're back in balance. And you know, there's more to it than that like grounding and other other things we can do. But it's all about keeping that perspective. What's the outcome you want today? What is when we start today, it's like being pre like a pre cog, like in some of the sci fi movies, we want to start to predict our future, and then prove ourselves right, then the brain will do that for us. If people are living from their past, it's very hard to recreate something that's past, it's easier to create something new that's in the present,

very much. So when we I love that. So when we talk about the brain tap if we go back to the brainwaves because I really want to, like, get the information from you. So people can you know, because when I was at the Health optimization Summit, they were literally flying off. So I was speaking at the summit. And I think you you sold out completely. So I know that some of the people that I connected with there will definitely be listening and want to use it. If we go back to the brainwave states that you talked about. And you were saying I understand that when we're in our waking state 45% I think should be in beta, and then around 30% in alpha. So that's about 75% of the day. I want to talk about the other 25% When we're waking but at the same time look at how long are we going to be optimally spending in each state and then I'll come on to how we can use the device so like what are the cycles? Is it 45 MINUTES Is It 90? What can we hold in base for the individual,

so what will happen is, those brainwaves will start to go backwards, like more, more theta more Delta. If the brains working right as we, as the day goes by, that's why we get tired. So the brain at two o'clock every afternoon, our temperature drops two degrees. That's because biologically, we have a cycle. And at night, it increases two degrees. That's why people wake up at two in the morning. So when these cycles happen, it's telling our bodies, hey, it's time to reboot. So if you can do an afternoon session or after work doing that's going to really help the body to get back into its balanced state. So, at that point, our body is tired. Now some people will that's when they'll go look for their chocolate or their sugar, you know, their coffee or tea, and stimulants, why Tea Time happens, you know, because people realise that the this is a time everybody has this lol and they want to get more work done. Well, the best thing to do is do this, like our brain tap power nap at that time, or do some kind of breathwork at that time would be a good thing too. And then at night, what happens is unfortunately, that brainwave as it flows, if somebody is dysregulated, I didn't say it earlier, but when we've measured these 30,000 brains, over 70% of them, their main brainwave is delta while they're awake, their main Brainwave.

So, people with Alzheimer's, these are everybody,

everybody, except for it biohacking conferences, I will say, we see some of the best scans ever. When we're at like Dave Asprey or Tim's events, you know, things like that, because everybody's there is working on themselves, you know, I believe there's three phases to wellness. First is nutrition, you have to have good nutrition, you cannot think it, you know, unless you're an alchemist and you have some greater powers that I know about, you got to eat well, number two is you got to move in breed. And number three, you got to do something for brain fitness, if you do all three of those. And then number four would be the fourth way this spirituality because if you don't have that, now, as you keep going each one's more important than the other. But as a base, we need to eat well. And so what happens though, is through the day, as we burn out at night, when that brain is dysregulated, because of stress, and chronic low level stress will cause the brain to dis regulate, which means the right left hemisphere will communicate across the corpus callosum correctly, if they're not the same voltage, like I was talking to earlier on the executive function, you can't remember things because everything's being delivered at the speed of thought. And if it doesn't show up, the brain goes, the information is not there, it will stop wiring to that memory, it'll just unwire it. Now the memory is there. But it's not, it's like having a computer hard drive, that the file allocation table has been damaged. You know, they can't get to the memory, they know they have it, but they can't remember it. So at night, what we do is we're gonna bounce the brain again, but drop them off into delta. And each each during the day, these three different times during the day as you retrain the brain, the reason we call it brain fitness is because most people are in high delta, when they get home at night from work, they just pass out. And that high delta means two things. It could be just inflammation, we all know that inflammation is driving a lot of the negative behaviour in the body. And then But number two, it could be a traumatic brain injury. Those are the two things we know once we see high delta in a brain, because it's the brain saying, hey, I want to go to sleep, I want to reboot. I want to get back to balance the

week but they're in high delta. But this is just an evening is it

all day. That's why it feels like they're pulling a parachute all day. And then they get home they sit on their couch to watch a little TV and next thing you know they're passed

out. This is why when when some people when you're speaking to them, they're they're struggling to articulate and they can't remember things and they can't kind of find the words very quickly that you want to communicate. When that what about the people that when they when they come home from work, this has really come a really, really stressful day. And they walk through the door and they want some kind of light or B sugar or alcohol that effectively puts them into that almost comatose state. Are they in a Delta State prior to that? Or are they just very highly stressed?

Yeah, what they're looking for is energy. Right? They come home, they need energy. And the false promise of white sugar, you know, gives you that immediate boost then puts them into a diabetic coma, you know, so the key is, is to, that's when they need to do a brain tap session or a breathwork session, some Wim Hof or do the for a breath or do some breath of fire or something, they need to get their their bodies not regulating. So the more dysregulated is, the further these two voltages go, the more we know that they're going to have cognitive decline, they're not going to be thinking right? And that's where they get that what we call hedonistic behaviours like eating potato chips watching TV,

and then they feel good, though, right? Because they're almost looking to be sort of numbed out by that heavy carb experience or by the wine because although it's triggering dopamine, the effect afterwards is to put you in a kind of almost comatose state.

Exactly. Yeah. So what's happening there? eras with their, their emotional state is matching their behaviour. That's why if they change their emotional state, they'll change their behaviour, you know, in so that in most people don't realise this, they are, you're not a, you're mostly bacteria. So that's why gut health is so important in changing those, the gut health because a lot of people don't realise the gut, the bacteria is driving those behaviours too. So that's why we got to have that good gut brain access, you know, where we work on the gut and getting it, you know, the toxins out. And so they can think clearly and realise, once they go, you know, six weeks sugar free, Bill, it's just like alcohol. But you're saying though, though, if they do have it once in a while, hopefully it doesn't trigger a cascade of behaviours, because some people are allergic to sugar. And that's what happens with alcoholic is they get it triggers a cascade of white blood cells to be formed. And then those created an allergic reaction in the body, and it drives the behaviour. So there's, so if we just stop it mentally first, you know, make a different decision, we don't have to worry about the physiology. Now, when they the old saying with the spirits, and spirits willing, but the body is weak, that's not really true. You know, your, your mind controls the body. But if you don't take control of it, then of course, the body drives behaviour, a lot of people out there letting their body drive all their behaviours,

because the styles have been conditioned to that neuro chemistry that you've been allowing all that time. Yeah, so now they're asking,

they're used to pulling into McDonald's or whatever, you know, their car actually has a groove and in the road to get there, because they their habits are formed, you know, the old saying, we form our habits, and they form us, you know, so you have to change, you have to find out. That's why I said micro change is anybody listening pick out the one thing you think, would be a change that would have the biggest event or maximum results in your life and make that one change, master that over the next 21 to 28 days, don't be in a rush. You know, this is a lifetime. It's a it's a lifetime journey. It's not a I love rod Harrison, who used to work at the Robins as well, but he wrote a book, and he talks about there is no they're like, people are thinking they're going to graduate like Sunday, you're gonna graduate and you're going to never have to do any of this stuff. Again, we're always going to have to eat healthy, we're always going to have to get our keep our body moving and breathing, we're always going to have to do some kind of breath work, we're always going to have to do some kind of mental thinking. These are things that we need to work into our lifestyle. And that's why I think like the biohacking lifestyle when we think about that, and, you know, it's becoming more and more popular, because people are saying, Hey, I don't want somebody else telling me about my health. I want to monitor my own health on a daily basis. I mean, when you could put a glucose monitor on your arm, you know, the meal you just ate, how it affected you. I mean, when my grandpa was alive, and he had type two diabetics, and he had to do the prick and poke himself every day. I mean, that'd be like magic to him. You know, we can do that every day now.

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70% Of all people hit their snooze button once. That's actually not good for the brain. But what we're recommending instead of hitting the snooze like you put on your put on the app and do a 10 minute session, do that digital coffee to wake up your brain, it's gonna it's gonna imitate four hours of sleep. So you're gonna get the equivalency of four hour sleep in the morning and it's gonna wake your brain

up. To fall asleep after this, there's no no problem with this feed and looking

in, there's actually a series on the bundle called wake up, it's on the front. But then in the in the power user access, there's a series called AM, which is the am series, which is the Wake Up series, or there's this. There's also if you want to just do your breath work and do it with the brain tap. We actually have breathwork sessions by Pavel on there. Those are really good. He's Pavel. Yeah, he's up on the top there. He's he was trained by Wim Hof. And he did a bunch of sessions that we encoded for brain tap so you can do the breathing exercises while you're doing. Those are really powerful in the morning to energise your body. And then in the afternoon, you can't really go wrong in the afternoon because almost 90% of our sessions are data training, because adults are missing data. So you can listen to any of the you can listen to like better like me, stress free me. We have Life Mastery. We have specific sessions to if you're dealing with something if you're dealing with cognitive decline, we have brain fitness series. I mean, we can you can listen to people like you heard Ben Greenfield sessions around there. We're always looking for experts even like yourself if you had a series, that was visualisation, we put it on there. Like we'd have a Dave Dave Asprey, we have this series, we have Jim quicks coming out, is basically we can do anything in education. We can promote that through Quantum University where I teach where we bring out Joe Dispenza, all the time to speak. We took the coursework, and I made it into brain tap session. So the notes are all done, whereas brain tap sessions, so people will take the course. And then they get to rehearse it in their mind how they might see it or hear it on a test so they can get through their coursework faster. Whereas quantum University, that's not a Ye, you they what we do is we teach people energy medicine, and they can set for their natural medicine boards, they can get a PhD in natural medicine, and then they can take for the boards here in America. I don't know around the world, it's even more recent perspective. But that's a it's a good one. If you want to do anything with quantum energy, and they have a lot of the Jo's talks on there and Miko Swami and Bruce Lipton. Those kinds of people are, we bring them in as guest presenters. I'm the I'm the Dean of the brain based part of the programme.

How interesting. And then in the evening, what session would you do? In the evening,

if you're doing it right before sleep, I'd recommend the Delta series. And the power user while the fund yes, if you just do a search for delta, you'll see all the different sessions. But we also have the if you're having problems sleeping, we have the better sleep series. And we have them both in a man in a woman's voice. So I'm there and then I've had a woman do it. And

so it's three times a day because he said to me, he was doing a 21 day experience. Yes. Is that effectively what he's doing?

Yes, that's on there. It's the second bundle when you log in, it's called Jumpstart. So when people don't know exactly what they want to work on, I put together that countdown. Yeah, all this. We've done. We've published 12 studies over the last two years on brain tap. And those were the sessions we use. So people ask what sessions you're doing. So I just figured out put a jumpstart programme in there so they can see, that's a good way to start the 21 days because it gives you a variety of what's in the brain tap app, but there's 1800 sessions. So you're I mean, I'm probably the only person who's listened to all mixed them all so

interesting. And so but what you're saying is if I wanted if I'm feeling very energised, and I want to just go straight to work in the morning, then I would do my brain tap afterwards. But if you're feeling tired, and you would wake up do brain tap and prime the brain ready for the activity?

Yes. Okay, what will happen after 21 days typically, most people I would say at least 70% of them would that they just did it one time a day would be good, but you can still do it three times a day if you want but you can pick the time of the day you want to do it as long as you do it every 72 hours you're gonna keep those gains just like working out at the gym. You got to do something, you know, every 72 hours

Yeah, I would say 72 hours of the gym it's interesting. And so explain to them what's happening because when you turn it on they're blue and red lights that are coming in through the ears and then blue lights coming over the eyes but with them shut it's it's really interesting like how that's working what's

happening there. So first of all, let's talk about the year lights because people always go Why do you have lights in the years? Well, we have meridians which are like energy highways throughout the body and Chinese medicine would do it with acupuncture, you know putting things but in the ear we have something called iridology Dr. nosier would put a frequency of sound through that part of the body, what we're doing is those lights look to be solid, but they're actually flashing every two minutes, they're changing to a different note a frequency, and it's communicating with the body to turn off the sympathetic overload and turn on parasympathetics. But it's doing their seven different ones. So that's, it's because we got to keep giving a variety of things. Now, that doesn't change from session to session, that part of the programme, it's just, we want you to experience those no J frequencies. Now the eye light, what's happening, it's called retinal flashing. So you It's, of course better with your eyes closed for the experience, because we're not really using the way that we see the world we're using cranial nerve to, and that's activating the brain. So when you're, when you see any flash in the right eye, it's activating the left brain and keeps it open. Most people don't know this, but your eyes are 30% of your hearing. So if you if you've ever been to a lecture, and you couldn't hear the lecture, but then you changed your line of sight, so you could see them like at church or at a meeting. Now you could see them now you could hear them. That's because our reticular activator, that's that those 25,000 pieces of information. It's telling the brain what's most important, kind of like a spotlight says that person is important. Let me know what she's saying. If we were at a dinner together, and somebody three tables over said the word brain or said biohacking, we would hear biohacking maybe while we're sitting having our conversation, because that was meaningful to our reticular activator, but we wouldn't hear the rest of the conversation. So what we want to do is bring an awareness to it. So that light is doing the same thing is binaural would do so but binaural is due for sound, which is a sound, we if we want 10 hertz, which is alpha, we'd put a 300 hertz frequency in one ear and a three to 10 and the other, our brain would hear a phantom sound of 10 hertz, while we're doing the same thing with light. So what's happening in the right ear is actually happening in the left eye and vice versa, because we're going to retry to exercise the brain to keep those neurons firing, keeping them awake, what we found when when people meditate, and I've only had three people that didn't do this, and I'm talking about gurus and everything, when we when we put them on an open EEG, which means we're measuring their brainwave over time. But as they start to meditate, they fall asleep. They they get out of the brainwave states necessarily they get into meditation is not about deep Delta, it's about going to gamma, or going in, by the way you could listen to gamma during the afternoon, too, if you want to have some of those heightened states of awareness. But the you want to, you want to be practising brainwave flexibility. That's why the three different times three different types of sessions is the there's not a one session and listen to multiple sessions. You'll notice in the 21 day journey, it's different every day is a different journey. Because you're creating neuroplasticity, we need to have something novel, intriguing to the brain. And it has to be different. You know, if it's the same thing, the brain will go, oh, you know, it's kind of like living next to a paper mill. You know, the people that live there, don't smell it anymore. Because the nervous system says, you know, that's just the paper mill. We don't have to be aware of that. But when you when you're new coming there, it's a danger, you're going to smell what's going on, because that's one of the ways our brain tells us there's danger. And they go, Oh, that's just the paper mill, no problem. But you're going How can you live? It smells like a dirty diaper. But they don't even smell it. Because if it's something that's the same consistently, the brain will just say, oh, that's just wallpaper, I don't need to pay attention to it.

Which is why people can't smell the smell in their own home or their own perfume anymore. Yeah. Because they're conditioned to it. And what about them? So like one of the things that I really like to train is, you know, when I'm when I'm kind of trying to share information with other people, right is I read widely. I study lots of courses all the time is then use my brain to basically bring in from different areas to create protocols for people and share things that I think will help them and bring those threads together. That really relies on the strength of that corpus callosum. Right. And that right and left brain thinking. If you're going into a session where you're thinking, right, I'm going to you're going to go read and I'm going to study something, could you then pick up the brain picked up and go right, I'm going to prime the brain ready for that activity, so that I learned better.

Yeah, that would be an SMR training or maybe even a gamma training. To do that. We have we have one gentleman who would I did his rescan, he bought the equipment like a year ago, and then I was at an event that he came back to and we rescanned him. And he had an inordinate amount of gamma and I said wow, that's a lot of gamma. What have you been listening to CES? When I do my emails, I just put the brain tap on the gamma sessions and I just have it in the background going because it's just music and but he's training his brain in gamma while he's doing it and he's getting all this gamma training. While he's doing it. I thought that's pretty interesting because I've never thought of that but gamma or SMR you could listen to while you're walking or doing different things because it's more of a an activity.

Okay, and what about when you're trying to like train the brain to not be distracted to be to have that sort of single pointed focus.

That is, the most of that will be most of them in the theta series. You know, most of our sessions are designed for that, you know, the when you if you don't have enough data, you don't sleep deep. So when you're saying that what was happening was because data produces GABA, which is that, and then delta is the one that produces serotonin. So you know, all these different neurotransmitters 54 neurotransmitters, so that happens while you're going through these different brainwave states, the brain is instructing the gut to make them based on your neurological state. So the more you can go through these different brainwave states, the more variety of neurotransmitters you'll have.

So you can actually improve things like depression. Oh, yeah,

we have one study we did for peak performers. We did it with Googlers. And a girl named Julia arc has a programme called Peak performers. And it's actually in our programme you can it's in the power user called Peak performers. We we actually had them do a depression study, while they were doing because we're wanting to find out why is this great exodus out of these big tech companies right now. And what we found out was that they're all depressed, these were peak performers, we are able to improve their depression score by 70%, their sleep score by 47%, their overall productivity by 19%, above what hers programme normally would do, which was, I mean, these companies pay her because she's really good at getting them. So now everybody who does a programme does it with brain tap, as part of her coaching programme, because they she wants them to maximise the results. And we did. When you listen to it, you'll, you'll hear it's, it's her course, you can still get something out of it, even if you don't take her course, because she's she's giving tips about productivity. So we have a lot of people those sessions, and it's all about what's the there's some strategies, of course that you can do, which you probably know, the, like she does, like, how do you spell out your day? You know, how do you plan out your day? How do you get the maximum results, how to get the big boulders out, you know, all the things that people know. But it's, I always tell people, you get what you rehearse in life, not what you intend. A lot of people intend on doing all these things, but they never rehearse them. If you hardwire it into your physiology. You can't help but do it. Because the body won't feel complete your your physiology won't feel there'll be something missing unless you follow through with those steps. Because you've rehearsed it. You know, it's kind of like, if you've ever if you go a certain way every day to work, and then you have to go somewhere on a Sunday or Saturday, we're not going to work, but you still turn that way to go, Oh, darn it, I'm supposed to turn the other way. I'm not going to work. Because you're so your body is so conditioned to go that way. That's what we want to do with positive behaviours.

Yeah, that's just like with the gym where I train in the morning. And if I have something on a day where I can't, the entire day, my brain is reminding me Do you want to go to the gym now? I do, actually. But it's really annoying, because I have loads of work to do. So could you stop reminding me, but it persists? Yeah, it's really interesting, isn't it? Because you've conditioned it that it does that every day. Wow, interesting. Thank you so much for sharing all of that. It's really, really super helpful. I'm excited with it. I'm going to do some brain training. I guess the last question would be, how can I track this? How that was the best way for me to track my results other than what I extensively feel is happening?

Well, I think your aura ring is a good one. We actually just did a deal with one of the companies. I don't know exactly how Yeah, but we can pull data from someone's aura ring, bio, strap, Apple watch all of that. And we're going to be putting together a dashboard for people that want to track their results, depending upon what biomarkers they use. You know, most people will first do it through their sleep, like you did, you know, found out the, you're sleeping deep and but also if you're travelling and you you should test it when you're doing jetlag because we have great results with that getting the body back into its time, so that you don't experience jetlag, and things like that.

Oh, you have those on there as well. Amazing. I'm doing some work actually with Have you come across having health, new company, by Dr. Jay Wiles with helping create a higher heart heart rate variability. So I imagine this is actually going to feed into those

results as well. That's great. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Awesome. Thank you so much, Patrick, were completely you'd be so generous with your time I'm conscious we've gone over. Really, really appreciate it. Where can people find you connect with you find more about brain tap,

up go to add Dr. Patrick Porter, that's my handle on most social media. I also have a website by that same name, they can find out about break up there if they want to try brain tap. Unless you if you signed up for our affiliate programme.

I think I have a discount code actually, that I'm going to share. I need to check with your team. I think they've given us one so I will share that actually.

Yeah. So share that out with that they're gonna get a copy of my book, thrive in overdrive, and they're gonna get you no time on the app to try it out. So they can go there and try that out. They can, they can follow me. Usually I'm there at the events unfortunately. I got to know award a Lifetime Achievement Award from a group here in America at the same time that the UK event was going on. So I couldn't go to that one. And it was mine wasn't half as fun as the biohacking event was I'm sure the

the great ternary received the award. Yeah, yeah. Amazing. We will link to all of that in the show notes. Thank you so much. And you have another book that I wrote down as well awaken the genius.

Yeah, I've written nine books. So if they look me up at Amazon, they'll see him like if they're, if they're a practitioner, and they want to use it in their practice, I wrote a book called your flourishing practice, and how you can add, we did a study with 40 of our offices and follow them to find out their successes and failures. And we wrote about it in a book so people can learn how to incorporate a brain fitness protocol into their practices.

Amazing. Thank you so much. We will link to all of that in the show notes are really delighted. And yeah, just thanks again for coming on.

All right, well, thanks for having me. It's great. Now to help we want to better a billion brains. So we need to Yeah, amazing.

I love what you're doing and I love sharing it. Thank you.

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