learning how to regulate and slow your brain waves down is something that we've been very very interested in when you teach people how to do that it could become a skill and when the brain starts to relax and it moves into less of that chatter that takes place in your brain and more of kind of an imaginary State the brain sees in pictures and images it's more creative we're moving into that Alpha state so now the door between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind opens up as we get beyond our analytical mind and our analytical mind is actually what separates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind so as you slow your brain waves down you get into Alpha you're entering the operating system and that's where you can we write a new program that's where you can rehearse a new script that's where you can begin to plan your behaviors in an intentional way if you if you can't change your brain waves then it's like your computer running amok with all of those programs and you yelling at it telling it to stop you're not in the operating system some people can get to the point where they're so relaxed that the body's in a light sleep and yet they're conscious and awake and now they're in this Theta brainwave pattern and in Theta that's a hypnotic State we're very suggestible to our thoughts we're very suggestible to information in that state and that state then is where we see the most change take place and so the person can literally change from the inside out when they learn how to get into the operating system people do the best with what they think is available that's my belief and if you're unaware that you can control your emotional states you'll rely on something outside of you to do that whether it's a computer game whether it's a Netflix show or whether it's a drug whatever whatever it is that you need to make that feeling Go away You're dependent on your outer world and I think that's a hypnosis that's a conditioning you teach people that you can actually regulate and change your emotional states you give them the tools to literally step into in the future so that process of course is extremely uncomfortable and it's the question is how long are you going to stay in that emotional state and 50 of the story that most people tell about that past experience isn't even the truth because they're making things up and they're doing that so that they can justify why they haven't changed since some past event most people reach a point in their life where they reach crisis or disease or diagnosis or loss or betrayal where they finally go gosh it's time to change I think change is an ongoing process and the more we change the more we should see evidence in our life that makes it exciting anger and frustration and control and hatred and envy and jealousy and insecurity and unworthiness and guilt and shame and suffering and depression those are all derived those are emotions that are derived from the hormones of stress and psychology calls those normal states of Consciousness those are Altered States Of Consciousness because in stress the physiology is that we're not that of homeostasis for an act out of balance because they'll be perceiving some threat some danger some emergency and so the stronger the emotion you feel to whatever stressor there is in your life the more you pay attention to it and so in time then you have to keep your attention on all the important elements in your life so you sit down to do a meditation and when you're living in stress and you're living in survival there's only three things that are important in that moment your attention is on your body because you got to preserve it your attention is on something in your environment and what's in your environment people objects things places and you're very preoccupied with time and when you're in stress and you're in survival the brain goes on to a default mode in its naturally trying to predict the next moment based on what it's learned in the past and so as you'd always try to forecast the future based on your memory of the past he can't be in the present moment right so and yet our our model of change what we discovered is the only way a person can change is when they get beyond their body they get beyond all the elements of their environment and they get beyond that predictable Fusion of familiar past and they sink into the present moment which is the unknown so if you can't do that because of the hormones of stress most people will sit down and they'll say okay I'm going to close my eyes I'm going to start this process where I'm going to rehearse how I'm going to be today and they start thinking about their cell phone and start thinking about all their emails and they start thinking I can't meditate there's something wrong with me it's my mother's fault you know and they actually believe that thought to be the truth and then they get up and they actually reaffirm it and say I can't meditate now I can tell you that if you are willing to see that thought as just the thought in your brain and you're curious what's on the other side of that thought yeah you're gonna feel uncomfortable but if you had some tools and skills to apply and you were able to take your attention off your cell phone and settle your body back down into the present moment that would be a victory and then your body would say come on you've got to feel a little frustration now you got to be impatient you got to be judgmental come on that's not what you always think that's how you always feel and you like an animal you settle the body back down into the present moment and you tell it it's no longer the mind that you're the mind that's a victory then the body says uh hey dude you're super busy you've got a lot of things to do you got a lot of people to see you got a lot of places to go you got a lot of things to do and you've been doing the same thing every day your body's going to want to get up and do something you don't want to quit because your brain's telling you that you can't do this if you had the awareness to settle the body back down into the present moment you would be executing a will that's greater than the program because most people lose their free will to those programs and it's that tedium in the beginning that is an uncompromising will where you keep training the animal stay to take all of its attention off the environment to get beyond all the Cravings the feelings the habits of the body the drives of the body and catch yourself defaulting to that predictable future bringing your body back into the present moment siphoning energy back your attention into the past based on those familiar emotions in the past we've discovered that if you're willing to do that for just a few days you could actually liberate an enormous amount of energy from your body you go from particle to wave from matter to energy and you're literally transmuting those limited emotions into elevated emotions and something really beautiful happens if you're willing to fire The Crucible and sit through that long enough all of these emotions move that energy moves right up into the heart and the person starts falling in love with life they start feeling this a state of gratitude this gratefulness to be alive this inevitable word of relaxed and awake and something really magical happens when we've discovered uh this little simple thing when that energy makes it to the heart there's only one place it wants to go and it goes straight to the brain so the person starts relaxing into their heart when they feel this feeling and the more they relax into the heart the more their brain all of a sudden starts becoming aroused can they start going into these elevated gamma brainwave patterns now gamma is not unconscious gamma is actually super conscious it's actually super aware you're outside the program now so when that occurs and the Brain goes into gamma brainwave patterns what we discovered is not it's not a little gamma it's not a lot of gamma it's not a whole lot of camera it's a supernatural amount of gamma and we start seeing these brain waves where we see Theta start carrying Alpha and Alpha starts resonating with beta and beta starts creating High beta and high beta starts creating gamma and you see these standing waves of brain coherence happening and the person feels so amazing that they don't want the moment to end and so we see when they put their attention on their heart like like filling a gas tank we see on the gauge of the on the scan this very low frequency start rising in the heart the the energy that's the heart uses to to function actually goes up because they're placing their attention there and where they Place their attention is where they Place their energy then you see the parasympathetic nervous system come up with it that's the nervous system of relaxation and then we see it kind of drop and we see the sympathetic nervous system starting to go up and now sympathetic regulation is an arousal right but the arousal is in fear the arousal is in hatred or aggression the arousal is in pain that's the arousal created from survival there's only one other arousal and that's ecstasy that's Bliss and the person all of a sudden feels connected to something greater now here's the beauty we could see people do this in 15 minutes the most important takeaway around all of this is that feeling that they're feeling is not coming from anywhere outside of them no person's doing that no wardrobe change is doing that no sports car don't football game nothing is doing it to them it's actually coming from within that is the moment they stop looking for it outside of them and the love affair begins and so when we start feeling these elevated emotions these more selfless emotions it's not like you have to try to forgive it actually is the side effect of you changing your emotional state you no longer want uh because you feel so whole how could you want anything so we we started interviewing people when they had these moments and and they had such a incredible amount of love that they felt or we measure their oxytocin levels they're a lot of chemicals very elevated the amount of gamma in terms of coherence was 200 300 400 standard deviations outside of normal in coherent gamma now three standard deviations outside of normal in gamma is about two percent of the population 200 300 400 a lot of energy in the brain so the brain all of a sudden is receiving an enormous amount of energy so we've discovered relaxed in the heart and awaken the brain and that process of transformation is your willingness to sit pass that thought pass that emotion keep training the animal and sooner or later you can recondition it to a new mind