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good morning everyone thanks for coming to this workshop today and i'm really excited to be

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sharing with you some how many of you have been watching my gaia series mystery teachings okay

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and and did you get all the way through season two okay because today is very much about what

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i addressed in the second half of season two but we're going to really experience it so for those

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of you who are a little newer to me my passion really is in bridging science with metaphysics

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with spirituality but in a way that is really practical and applied where we can take these

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tools into our life to create transformation to make a difference to awaken more of our potential

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and really access those gifts that are within us so today is a little bit of an experience a little

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bit of taste of that as well as a lot of teachings to help pull together all the different aspects of

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our amazing brain neurological system our mind our consciousness and how it all ties together

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and what we're going to be talking about today is very much about something called the connectome

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does anyone know what the connectome means i didn't either until i read about it no

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the connectome is the connections the neural networks that connect between different brain regions right

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so you have for example we we've mostly heard about the hemispheres right we have a right brain or a left

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brain or a right hemisphere and left hemisphere and between those two hemispheres there's a connective

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circuit called the corpus callosum so that's one example but you also have different connection

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circuits between different areas of the brain deeper areas of the brain and so forth and what

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scientists have been finding is that when we have high connectivity when we have really good strong

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high connectivity between these different areas of the brain we are accessing more of our potential

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we're creating more success in our life we're able to perform at higher peak ability and um and but on

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the reverse when we have low connectivity between these different regions of the brain then we tend to

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get more into negative traits like drug abuse or anger issues or poor sleep patterns and so forth so

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the connectivity within our brain really matters and we are amazing beings like we have so much potential

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right we're only tapping into maybe three percent of our dna to actively use it for uh awakening our

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gifts i mean we have super immunity within us we have um ability to regenerate limbs within our dna we

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have so much ability within our dna and yet we're only tapping into a fraction of it and similarly with our

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brain capacity we may be using 100 of it but we're only consciously aware of just that tip of the

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iceberg and so this is about how do we get more aware how do we expand our conscious awareness and

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conscious use of the fullness of who we are and um and how can we do that now right in a way that is

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sustainable in a way that is natural you don't need anything really too much outside of you other than

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the proper there's a proper sensory inputs because our nervous system gets wired by our sensory inputs

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and um and then but then how can we do it in a way that we're really in control that we really have the

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ability to harmonically do this uh so so science calls it the connectome i like to call them bridges

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we're going to build different bridges within the brain uh and these are going to be tools that you're

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going to walk away with that you can do i actually have a handout for you at the end so it summarizes

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everything and um and then you know but you're still going to want to take notes because your

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handout is just one page versus uh how much more you're going to get through through this and of

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course you can always go and review it on gaia for those of you who are subscribed to gaia

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so uh let's start with um ultimately looking at now here we're at the conscious life expo right

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so we're looking at our spiritual potential and what what is going to be obvious i think to you by the

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end is that science is proving how the spiritual practices work now so these ancient spiritual practices

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have been around for thousands of years but now today we can understand why they work from a

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scientific place so i want to help weave together like all the different spiritual practices and how

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it is that they really work for us at a very physiological level so we're going to start with a

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couple of definitions uh there we go so we're going to start with a couple definitions now the first

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thing that i want to define for you are these terms called um we have awareness we have consciousness

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we have the mind we have the brain right so science today they often use these terms maybe

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interchangeably you know they talk about consciousness and awareness as being when you're awake

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and when you're in your phase of interacting with other people and the world and so forth um

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and then they say that you know in traditional science they're saying that that consciousness is

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a phenomenon of brain activity that our brain is what brings consciousness do you agree with that

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i don't either i believe that our consciousness is primary that con that you know in the hermetic

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tradition for example they say the all is mind the universe is mental that this universe and everything

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that comes into physical manifestation is ultimately started as an idea in some universal mind and then

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projected somehow into this physical density and so we have in the mystery school tradition that i work with

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we have a couple different definitions first we start with what we call awareness now awareness is

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like that universal field of the potential for consciousness it's it's like a pure state of being

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it's eternal it's your original self and there's an awareness but it's almost like when you're waking up

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in the morning your eyes are closed and you're just starting to come into that awareness

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awareness but all you know is just i am here or i am but there's your eyes are closed right so there's

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not necessarily this active observation of what's going on outside of you it's self-awareness right so

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awareness is that it's pure state and it's just pure beingness it's oneness there's nothing but you

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it's all one uh it's all one and then eyes open right eyes open is what we would define more as

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consciousness so eyes open means now i'm i see me and i see all right and in seeing all i can observe

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and we know from the quantum observer effect for example that things can come out of the quantum field

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into physical reality through observation so there's this universal consciousness and this universal

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awareness so awareness starts eyes closed just pure beingness eyes open universal consciousness comes in

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and in that consciousness now we can observe we can discern we can identify things we can um you know

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pursue and and make maybe different judgments about those things not not judgment from a bad place

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but just judgment discerning different things from from each other so this is a more active state

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the conscious state is a more active state and so consciousness is active whereas awareness is just

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beingness right pure beingness and then we have um this sea right so everything in the universe is the

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sea of consciousness so that consciousness and that awareness that underlies it is primary and then

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everything that comes into being comes out of that right so forces are set in motion through thought

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through uh the act of observation by that universal consciousness and then the other thing that we have

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is our brain right so here we are now let's like we're going from this really cosmic nebulous state into this

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very physical state so here we are on on this side of things in the physical where we have our nervous

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system we have our brain we have our senses we have you know all this way that our body interacts

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and um the brain you know again science material science today says okay well consciousness comes

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from epiphenomenon of the brain uh but i see the brain more as a receiver it receives transmissions

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kind of like your your radio you know you have have a transmitter and a receiver and there's all these

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radio waves in the air we don't see them we don't perceive them with our senses but they're there

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because we know that when we turn on the radio it somehow picks up those signals right so your brain

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is kind of like that it's it's receiving the channels the stations of consciousness that are

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uh floating around in the atmosphere and which channel you tune into depends on how you've set your

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dial right what frequencies you are operating at within your brain um so the brain is you know

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another way of looking at it is like a computer you know the brain is is like the circuit board

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it's the uh it's the infrastructure of the at a tangible level right all that circuitry and then

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you have with the computer analogy you have your physical hardware your nervous system is a part of that

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your body is a part of that right you have in a computer you have your mouse you have your screen you

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have your keyboard you have the the processing chip and so forth um but then you also have the user

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right and the user is that intelligent being that wants to perform certain functions with that

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that hardware or that computer what else do they need

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they need electricity and they need software yes so they need power and then they need the software

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right they need the interface that allows the user to perform those functions with that computer and

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our computers these days are getting you know all kinds of magical because they have all kinds of

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software programmed into them uh that allow us to do more unique functions with those computers

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so what serves as our software

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okay the brain is the hardware

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what is the programming thoughts are coming from

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the conscious mind

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okay okay okay okay now we're tapping in so we have um what i would call the our soul

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right so i'm going to call our consciousness that eternal

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you know never-ending being it's spirit right and then in ancient traditions almost all the ancient

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traditions talk about three bodies three vehicles we have the spirit which is eternal we have the physical

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body which is mortal and we have the soul which is the interface between spirit and physical it's like the software

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so your mind operates through that soul

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and um and it includes both some level of programming coming from the spirit and some level of programming coming from the physical

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so the things that we've learned we can you know sometimes we call it also our lower self and our higher self

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this is all contained within the soul

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so the things we've learned in this world are our subconscious our negative ego stuff our personality stuff our coping strategies

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filters all of those are part of what we call that lower self and that is that is

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embedded that is programmed into that software of the soul and then we have our

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um higher self which is more you know purpose and creative gifts and so forth that are you know here to fulfill purpose

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and that is embedded also from the spirit into

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the soul as well so we have these three beings we have

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um the spiritual or the consciousness we have the uh an awareness which is even before the consciousness

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that's that intelligence and then we have the physical body which is the hardware

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and that's the the brain the nervous system and so forth and then we have this interface between the two

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which is the mind or the soul that allows for the the programming and allows for learning

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so it's kind of like a smart operating system that learns as it goes

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and this is um how we perceive and process really depends on our soul

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so we have three levels of being and the consciousness is pure right that that spirit

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that eternal being is pure i mean it's infinite it's all-knowing and so forth

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but here we are in this physical experience and we're not tapping into nearly that full potential that we have within us

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or that all-knowing you know wise being so what's getting in the way

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right what's getting in the way so some of you mentioned okay we have our programming

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from our psychology right from our life our physical life

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and that's part of it right we have our filters we have our belief systems

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we have um the things that maybe are traumas from the past that have uh not been

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you know properly healed within us and then we have on the other side we have our actual physical wiring

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right sometimes our physical wiring gets in the way and that's what we want to address here

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is how do we rewire because fortunately we can rewire right it you know just 20 years ago

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maybe we had this mindset that we were a slave to our genes that you were this is what you're born

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with and you just have to accept it and we had this mindset that we were also hardwired by a certain age

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and once you're hardware there's no changing it but fortunately you know so so again we were kind of

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victims to our our upbringing right and fortunately though we are we are learning more and more today

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that we can change all of it right we can we can rewire ourselves all throughout our life

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and we are not slaves to our genes because we have this epigenome where we can shift the switches

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uh that are the layers above the genes right so there's all kinds of potential for us

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now the very first bridge so i talked about bridges and we're going to talk about seven bridges here

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and we're going to then experience a few of them uh so the first bridge is it is this it is the mind

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and the soul so that first bridge is going from the consciousness that eternal intelligence

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um that pure awareness and consciousness into this physical body and it is through the mind and the soul

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that that bridge is established right so this is one of those bridges and and um there are many

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spiritual tools and and philosophies and and so forth for helping us to address um psychology also

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supports that uh to help us address how our mind is working how our soul is working and where we get in

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the way um but when it comes to that that mind interfacing with us into the body it comes in uh through

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what i would call intention intention so when we have a certain intention then that sets things in

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motion and that that intention is usually going to come from that consciousness right from that higher

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consciousness and so intention is the first bridge that we want to connect with what is the intention

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and then in addition to intention comes with um knowledge right so knowledge meaning it's not just

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like i intend for it to be this way um because we all know okay the power of intention is very powerful

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but it's not the whole story right we have to have the proper knowledge of what is even possible

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uh what tools to be working with right so so seeking that knowledge those are the things that are going

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to really support that that connection within that first bridge of the the mind and so seeking proper

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knowledge training your mind to expand its possibilities because one of the big things that limits us

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is our belief systems of what's possible so so by seeking greater knowledge and i personally have found

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a lot of value in the um the deeper knowledge that we can gain from ancient traditions because they're

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tried they're true they've tested it they're they're fairly scientific many of them um and it's stood the test of

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time so a lot of those tools and especially where you see there's a universal teachings right universal

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principles and so um in those universal principles and teachings there's not there's knowledge there that

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can be really valuable to us to expand our mind and you're here at an expo seeking knowledge seeking

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these experiences and these tools so this is great um and then the second thing that we want to really

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work with is looking at our perceptions now our perceptions are going to be filtered by both belief

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systems as well as by um our sensory sensitivity so we have two things that affect our perceptions

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there's the programming in your mind and that programming you can reprogram right we can re

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um evaluate our belief systems and we can then uh choose consciously to repattern our belief systems

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how many of you have ever done that that's it's you know it can be challenging at first but we just

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keep reminding ourselves and we keep seeking and we keep breaking through and and we can start to you

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know really have these awakenings and these ahas but the second piece is around our our sensory

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stimulation so what i mean by that is that each of our senses our sight our smell our sense of taste

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touch hearing all of our senses have a certain range of what we are taking in what they're you know like

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you can think of your body as like a detector and detectors have a certain range of sensitivity

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so as that information comes in what are we how much of it are we taking in and then not only how much

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of it are we taking in how much of what we're taking in are we aware of right and this is where

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i said before we take in actually you know within the range of sensitivity of our of our senses we take

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in 100 of information but a lot of it just goes straight into the subconscious and the amount that

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we're aware of is just that tip of the iceberg some people say 10 so we're aware of 10 but of that

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10 like just with your eyes for example the amount that you see the what we call the visible light

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spectrum is one percent of the electromagnetic spectrum we're only seeing one percent and we're

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only consciously aware of maybe 10 of one percent so now we're talking 0.1 percent right and and we used

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to have this idea in our world that seeing is believing but if we're only seeing 0.1 percent of

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physical reality that's just physical reality that's not even talking about the spiritual side of it

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so we're seeing so little of our reality around us but we can broaden that range right so we can we can

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start to maybe let's start with perceiving can we get to perceiving a hundred percent of that

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one percent of physical reality instead of just ten percent right and then from there can we broaden

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the range from one percent and start looking and seeing things in the x-ray and uv spectrum and into

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the infrared spectrum can we broaden that and i believe that you know people who are clairvoyant

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are starting to see that they're starting to see maybe a more subtle range um that most people it's

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like it washes out uh for example i just um saw an article the other day that was really beautiful

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where it's a photographer who goes out at night at dark you know as dark as it can be she goes out

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at night and she takes a uv light out with her and she goes and she photographs plants under the uv

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light at night and it is incredible what happens because they take in that uv light and then there's

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this phospholuminescence that comes out and there's these amazing colors that these plants glow under the

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uv light and she photographs that and that is happening all the time right so when the sun is

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shining during the day there's uv light coming in and it and these plants are you know coming with

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these amazing colors and glows but it's so overwhelmed by the sunlight that we don't see it

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but it's there right and yet we could start to see it so this is you know where clairvoyance that

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seeing energy and you your body you're emitting light all the time we have something called

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biophotons that our dna and our cells emit and that by those biophotons are in the visible range

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but they're just their amplitude is so low the strength of that light coming out is is so subtle

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that it just gets washed out and we don't normally pay attention to the subtleties

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so one of the other really big things to do is to not assume anything right because assumption

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is the enemy of perception right assumption is the enemy of perception so really look really train

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yourself to look to notice the details to feel like and to really pay attention so this this is just

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one example of how our uh sensory uh range is limited and yet can be expanded and this is just

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with vision right we also have what we a range of what we feel a range of what we hear range of what

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we smell and taste and all of these senses can be exercised and those different senses they feed into

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your nervous system they feed it and they're like charging up your nervous system and then that nervous

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system communicates that to the brain and it charges up the brain so we're constantly taking in energy

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and stimulus and information from our environment as well as from our consciousness our soul you know

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it's coming in through the spiritual realms as well so we have all this energy coming in you know and

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one of the the things that i really like to encourage people to to become is to become more

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multi-dimensional right to become more multi-dimensional now if you can think of all the stimulus that we have

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coming in through the physical and all this higher guidance and insight and wisdom coming in from

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that higher consciousness and that spirit um and and we have you know multiple different senses that we

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can perceive through um in our energy body we also have spiritual senses right we have uh magnetic energy

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and we have etheric energy and we have the aura and we have the chakras we have all these different

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energy systems that are kind of like the nervous system to your soul so so these are senses as well

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they're just different types of senses and you know when if you've ever experienced where you've been

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maybe in rush hour traffic or you've been out at a at the mall or something and and there's someone who

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you just get this sense you don't see them you don't hear them or anything but you just get this sense

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and all of a sudden you look and you see that somebody was staring right at you has anyone had that

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experienced before yeah so that how did you pick up on that yeah extrasensory perception that i would

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call that through your energy field that your aura was feeling their energy and their intent coming

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through your energy field to you and you picked up on that so that is what we would call more your

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spiritual senses so we have all these different dimensions of the mind and there's many many levels

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right so i have and i have an image of the tree of life here on top of this mind to depict that

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because in the tradition that i study in kabbalah the tree of life shows us the dimensions of the mind

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and the soul and you know the bottom the very bottom of the tree of life i don't know if this has a

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pointer on it but um the very bottom of the tree of life is the physical it's like the very very very

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there's one out of ten spheres on the tree of life is representing the physical and all the rest of it

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so there's seven of them that represent the mind and the soul and then there's three of them that

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represent the spirit so there's seven dimensions to the mind and these include things like subconscious

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your rational mind your intuition your creativity it includes higher self and connection to that

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it includes you know higher discernment and love and sense of altruism like there's all these different

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dimensions of the mind and all the dimensions of the mind are ultimately about helping us orient our

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sense of self in relation to everything else right now our mind here's a nice quote for you our mind can

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this mental and emotional framework it can be our ally and it can really support us and it can be a

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vehicle for transcendence and expanded states but it can also be our greatest enemy um that you know

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gets in our way depending on how we've trained our mind so again we have all this huge spiritual

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potential but if we haven't done the work to train and mature and harness the power of our mind

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it's likely to not work for us so this is where um having a spiritual practice supports right learning to

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meditate supports um learning to harness your will and what you're choosing to focus on these

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disciplines really support you in training your mind it's kind of like i like to think of the mind

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like a puppy where you have you know when you have a puppy it's kind of it's cute and it's but it's a

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little unruly it's going to go tear things up it's going to go piss in whatever corner it wants

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and you know you leave it alone for a little bit and you come home you're like oh my god what did

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you do to my house uh but when you train it and you're persistent and consistent and you know

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positive reinforcement obviously is better than negative reinforcement and you continually work with

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it to become your friend now that puppy is going to be very loyal it's going to support you it's going

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to give you the warnings when you need the warnings it's going to be you know your best friend so your

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mind is like that and we need to train it now um in the western mystery tradition the the working with

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kabbalah working with alchemy working with hermetics is all about that process of training the mind and in

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the western tradition we actually we learn to master the mind and we go straight into it it's like we we look

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at it like a scientist would look at their experiment how does it work let's take it apart let's figure

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out each component of it and then let's figure out how it all works together and put it all back into

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its proper framework and so um in in these traditions we're going into the mind to learn to train it and

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master it whereas certain other traditions goes around the mind it's like let's just bypass all that

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thought and um and go around it so that you know it just doesn't get in our way and that's fine you

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can go around the mind if you're living in the ashram or if you're in the cave or up on the mountaintop

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and you're not dealing with people and the world right but if you're in life in the world then we we

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have to engage our our mind is going to be engaged all the time and so we need to learn to master it and

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train it properly so that it can work for us rather than against us and but it can become this

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amazing vehicle for transcendent states and that is what i have found in the western mystery school

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tradition is is through hermetics alchemy kabbalah working with sacred geometries and so forth we really

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learn how to master and train the mind properly so i mentioned before this idea of a radio right so we

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have these these stations of consciousness and thought being broadcast in this field of or this

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sea of consciousness and this this field of of collective consciousness that we live in um and

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then you also have it coming in from your spirit and the radio how we turn the dial on the radio is

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through intention so you're by your will by your intention you just choose what you're going to tune into

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and you can shift the dial and you can it could even be that easy you know you can imagine for example

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a um a thermometer right or you could imagine the radio dial and okay i'm going to shift now into this

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higher frequency okay i'm going to shift into this grounding frequency i'm going to shift into this

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middle frequency you know you can just imagine it like that do a visualization process and then we have

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to know what are the options to tune into right we have to know what stations are even available to us

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and all of this how this works in the brain is through what we call oscillatory energy

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so your brain has different neural uh firings that happen and and as different individual neurons start

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to fire and then those neurons start to fire together it creates sort of a bigger uh neuronal pattern

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and it becomes a wave and then that wave sweeps from the local area of neurons and it starts to sweep

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into other areas of the brain and we we in you know maybe more common language we call this brain waves

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right but these are neural oscillations or frequencies it's energy and um so intention and knowledge

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is the first step now when we grew up we grew up in a very stochastic way right we had chaos we had

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traumas we had incomplete um experiences and learnings and so our the way our society is today our upbringing

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our wiring from the beginning wasn't always the most harmonious or balanced and and and that wiring

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starts from the moment that we're in utero right the wiring of the brain starts from in utero so those

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energies that were we were exposed to even when we were in utero affects the wiring of the brain now

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fortunately it can continue um after birth and the wiring of the brain happens through different stages

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all the way up until about age 25 and at age 25 we start having um what's called the myelination

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and the white matter you know the gray matter so it comes in and it starts to hardwire more but we

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also have something called neuroplasticity which allows us to rewire but rewiring takes some effort

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because you need to put in energy and you need to be consistent um and of course there's the work that

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joe dispenza does for example which is talking about you know the the neuroplasticity and what fires

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together wires together i mean this is a pretty common phrase within the whole neuroscience field

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what fires together wires together so through our behaviors through certain sensory inputs

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we can fire off different neurons and pieces of our nervous system and and then if we continue to use

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those in a harmonious way we can actually rewire the brain so what we need to do is there's two things

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one we need to stop the old firing the old patterns that we don't want you need to that's where our

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mind comes in you know stop that's one of those intentions if you find yourself in a tailspin stop

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and then redirect and start using a tool or a practice or some kind of method it could be an

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affirmation but i think you know awakening the senses uh really supports because your senses feed

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straight into your brain so um so we want to figure out ways to rewire this nervous system uh and the

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brain patterns to support us right to become more harmonious and to be more interconnected so that we

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can access those peak states and we want to do it in a way that's sustainable meaning you have control

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over it right and you can use it any time of day it doesn't need to be through some kind of um you know

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mind-altering kind of drug experience or whatnot it's like you can just this is you the power is within you

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and all the ancient traditions say that the greatest power actually is within us

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so um so there's our first bridge and then uh action is what's needed to rewire right we need to

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really put the practices in place and um in that brain body system through the neuroplasticity we have

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this ability to adapt all throughout our life you're never too old to change and so all throughout our

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life we can use practices that will intentionally fire the brain in a healthy way

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um and so we're going to look at a couple of different options for um creating those neural

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uh rewirings and for establishing harmonized uh frequencies and brainwave patterns and then

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tuning it in to different frequencies so um the frequencies that your brain operates at go anywhere

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from zero up to about 100 hertz or beats per second and the slower the frequencies tend to be more

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meditative sleep oriented deeper states of of you know away from ego and self kind of um consciousness

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and into just these more expanded states the higher frequencies tend to be more about this is me

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and this is that and it's in this sort of outwardly focused state uh so how many of you are familiar

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with the different brainwave states most most of you have had some exposure to it okay um the thing about

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brainwaves is that you know you can have brainwaves set off and you can have these neural oscillations

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happening but if they are not given an an ongoing external source they'll dissipate right so so

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something might trigger it but if that external source or could be an internal source meaning you

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doing something but if it isn't um continuing to be exposed to that then the waves dissipate and that's

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that's just friction you know that's just what happens within our physical world is is the energies

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will kind of fade off um so what we want to do for sustained brainwave entrainment is to continue

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to introduce a harmonious source that gives it that rhythmic push it's like a swing you know if you're

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pushing a child on a swing and you just give them one big push they're going to swing back and forth and

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then they're going to come to standstill but if you just keep pushing in the right rhythm

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then it keeps on swinging and the fun continues uh so we want to work with this concept of entrainment

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so really briefly entrainment means that um different systems that have the ability to

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oscillate or or resonate vibrate at different frequencies if you um for example if you strike

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a tuning fork and you bring it to within a certain physical range physical proximity of another

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vibrating system that has the ability to vibrate at the same frequency they will start to vibrate

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together they will entrain and so this entrainment is a thing that we can use it's very well known in

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science and we can use it to stimulate the brain into those expanded states and this whole um there's a

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whole new technology or science field of technology it's called neurotechnology that's all about that

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you know how do we stimulate the brain through sound how do we stimulate the brain through um light

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frequency patterns how do we stimulate the brain through you know vibration patterns like physical

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vibrations um it smells right so all of these neurotechnologies that are trying to hack the brain

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in in in certain ways to achieve those expanded states those are what we call neurotechnology now there's

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also the power within you can use for example breath work meditation chance uh your own voice you know for

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like uh the chanting but in a rhythmic way um rituals uh qigong and tai chi right all of these things are

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things that you can generate within yourself they create what we would call what in the ancient

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tradition we call it internal alchemy inner alchemy where your body actually becomes this alchemical

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factory and it works with the endocrine system it works with the the energy field it works with the nervous

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system and it will stimulate the brain so all of these spiritual practices i i call them tools for life

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yes we have our sort of modern technological ways of of hacking our body but these ancient spiritual

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practices were very sustainable ways of accomplishing these um these neural systems now let's get into

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how the brain develops because this is where some of what i uh keyed in on is unique right so i had this

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vision at one point of how do we really reprogram the brain because in in our um conscious mind our

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intentional state it works from what we call the prefrontal cortex and the prefrontal cortex is the

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most human part of the brain sits right here behind your forehead it's about 35 of your brain um mass is in

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the prefrontal cortex but it's the most human part of the brain and that is where we have what we call

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our executive function right our executive our ability to choose to discern to be abstract to set

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intentions to be goal oriented and so forth and so from our choices today how can we then rewire the brain

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and i had this realization that as i was studying the brain that the brain develops in a certain way it

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develops um in the from the fetus um it develops from the bottom up so from the the deep brain stem

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up it grows like a tree and then from the back to the front so the brain develops bottom up back to front

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and as we grew up we were programmed with that development right so our foundations in the brain stem

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and then it grew up from there and forward from there and those correlate with different phases

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of our life different ages for example we have our our late 20s our early 20s is when our prefrontal

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cortex most developed and then you know you have your cortex in the teens and you have your limbic

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system in your pre-teens oh those are fun times and then in your in your childhood and in infancy you

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have the old brain and the brain stem so depending on what was happening during those times in your

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life that determined the wiring and the foundations of your brain so if we want to rewire the brain we

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need to work in the reverse order we need to work from where we have conscious control so from the

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prefrontal cortex front to the back and then from the top down so we're going to trace our way that

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through that sequence from the front to the back and then the top down and this will then um as we

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do this we're going to we're going to figure out which are the tools that we can use to support the

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different areas of the brain so prefrontal cortex um as i just mentioned is is you can see here uh it's

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the most uh executive part of the brain they call it the executive center and it's that frontmost part

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right and the whole like um you know just tapping on your forehead is going to stimulate your prefrontal

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cortex um it's it what is most distinguishes humans right our prefrontal cortex is um i think it's like

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twice the size of the lesser apes and five times the size of a of dogs of the canine species so we have

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much more executive control and here is where intention um deliberate orchestration of our

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activities of the day uh goal setting all of these types of things happen here and the prefrontal cortex

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actually is growing and developing from birth all the way up until 25 years old and and what it does

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what's unique about the prefrontal cortex is that it it hooks in to all the other areas of the brain

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so that it can control them so what makes us most human is our ability to have this executive

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function what makes us most animal is when we get into survival mode and our old brain hijacks

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our prefrontal cortex so when we you know we just go into reaction mode and we you know we don't have

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as much control self-control and even though we think we should be rational we can't you know like

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those that is when our deeper parts of our brain are hijacking our prefrontal cortex so we want to be

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able to maintain executive function so that means we need to reconnect from the prefrontal down and back

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and in the daoist tradition the whole brain area would be called what they say the upper dantian dantian is

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like energy centers really important energy centers that we want to develop so when it comes to working

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the prefrontal cortex first of all we need to remember we have right hemisphere and left hemisphere

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right hemisphere and left hemisphere are you know all about balancing right so most people are either

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right brain dominant or left brain dominant they tend to either be more creative like if the right

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brain they tend to be more creative more intuitive more non-linear more emotional maybe more but very

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much in the capacity for relationships and they learn through those dynamics and then you have your left

393
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:34,620
brain people who are more analytical logical language and numbers oriented and so forth um so

394
00:44:34,620 --> 00:44:42,060
the the idea the ideal i should say is not to be right brain or left brain dominant but to be

395
00:44:43,100 --> 00:44:51,260
whole brain to have equal access to both left and right and really the whole brain um so we want to

396
00:44:51,260 --> 00:44:57,100
learn how to balance right so i'm going to call this second bridge the balance bridge and this second bridge

397
00:44:57,660 --> 00:45:04,220
it actually is a physical bridge right between the hemispheres it is what we call the prefrontal chiasm and the

398
00:45:04,220 --> 00:45:12,620
corpus callosum and so that's the connectivity between the hemispheres and you know when they uh

399
00:45:12,620 --> 00:45:17,580
scientists have studied einstein's brain right quite a bit to try and figure out what was so special about

400
00:45:17,580 --> 00:45:25,420
him and his brain and one of the things that they found was that he had a a really thick um corpus

401
00:45:25,420 --> 00:45:33,100
colossum like the the connectivity between the two hemispheres was really thick um he also had a much

402
00:45:33,100 --> 00:45:39,660
larger prefrontal cortex than most people so so these were just you know one little example of how

403
00:45:40,300 --> 00:45:49,820
uh we want to really develop this now prefrontal cortex really has a good connection to the gamma range

404
00:45:49,820 --> 00:45:57,740
of um brain waves which is anywhere from about 30 up to 100 hertz and um so when you're listening to

405
00:45:57,740 --> 00:46:05,580
gamma uh frequency range binaural beats isochronic you know that kind of brainwave entrainment technology

406
00:46:05,580 --> 00:46:11,820
uh do you know how brain waves work like the binaural beat technology works who does not know just

407
00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:19,580
okay so the idea between binaural beats is that you put one frequency in one ear with headphones and

408
00:46:19,580 --> 00:46:25,340
another frequency in the other ear they're different right so your right brain says oh i'm hearing

409
00:46:25,340 --> 00:46:31,980
500 hertz and your left brain says no we're hearing 510 hertz and they're going back and forth and back

410
00:46:31,980 --> 00:46:36,380
and forth and back and forth and over the corpus callosum they're trying to find agreement but they

411
00:46:36,380 --> 00:46:42,860
can't find agreement so what happens inside the brain is an interference signal between the two so it's

412
00:46:42,860 --> 00:46:50,300
the difference of the two so it would come up with the 10 hertz beat that is not coming from the outside

413
00:46:50,300 --> 00:46:56,940
it's your brain is producing it so it's forcing the two hemispheres to talk to each other and then it's

414
00:46:56,940 --> 00:47:01,900
forcing them to find agreement with each other and as soon as they find that that difference between the

415
00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:08,940
two that 10 hertz beat or whatever it is that you're tuning it into that then sweeps across the brain and

416
00:47:08,940 --> 00:47:14,460
it harmonizes everything into that frequency pattern so this is how binaural beat brainwave entrainment

417
00:47:14,460 --> 00:47:21,500
works and they also have isochronic is where it sounds like it's sweeping back and forth and then it

418
00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:26,140
you know kind of creates uh an entrainment that way and then there's monochromic so there's different

419
00:47:26,140 --> 00:47:35,740
ways of doing using sound to create uh brainwave entrainment and um so in the gamma range anywhere from 30 to 100

420
00:47:35,740 --> 00:47:45,580
hertz but there's in particular there is this 40 hertz peak in the gamma frequency that 40 hertz peak

421
00:47:45,580 --> 00:47:53,420
is observed to synchronize the whole brain in a very holistic fashion and not only that it sweeps

422
00:47:53,420 --> 00:47:59,740
so it comes actually up from the the thalamus and the hypothalamus and hippocampus area so it comes from

423
00:47:59,740 --> 00:48:05,100
the deeper brain it sweeps up to the prefrontal cortex and then sweeps back down and it even goes down

424
00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:11,820
and it unifies into the heart as well so this gamma frequency of around 40 hertz tuning is a really

425
00:48:11,820 --> 00:48:19,420
important whole brain neural synchronization pattern that we want to work with and i believe it really

426
00:48:19,420 --> 00:48:29,500
will support us with um balancing and wiring up that that corpus callosum and that prefrontal now the rest

427
00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:38,540
of the cortex right so from you know we had the um so you can see like the the prefrontals kind of

428
00:48:39,260 --> 00:48:45,340
right before the ears and then uh forward but then you have the rest of the cortex which goes back

429
00:48:45,340 --> 00:48:51,100
from there so the cortex is going to be the upper ranges of the brain um you have again you have the

430
00:48:51,100 --> 00:48:57,100
right and left hemispheres so the rest of the cortex tends to operate at the beta frequency range anywhere

431
00:48:57,100 --> 00:49:06,620
from um i think it's 13 to 30 hertz and when it comes to stimulating these so we're going to do an

432
00:49:06,620 --> 00:49:13,180
exercise here when it comes to stimulating these your prefrontals really are very active when your eyes

433
00:49:13,180 --> 00:49:23,580
are open so visual cues visual cues and um and and then also when your eyes are closed and you're in

434
00:49:23,580 --> 00:49:30,380
REM sleep so when your eyes are really active but there's inner visual cues happening so when there's

435
00:49:30,380 --> 00:49:37,180
REM um and then also we can stimulate through tapping right and there's you could tap either

436
00:49:37,180 --> 00:49:42,460
right above the eyebrows or you could tap right in the hairline right above the eyes so kind of in line

437
00:49:42,460 --> 00:49:50,700
with your pupils you can do tapping here uh so we're going to do a bit of um an exercise here

438
00:49:50,700 --> 00:49:57,420
um and i am playing music that has gamma beta frequencies behind it just so you know it's called

439
00:49:57,420 --> 00:50:07,260
illuminations uh by j.s epperson and the monroe institute so um just take a moment and look at

440
00:50:07,260 --> 00:50:17,100
this with your eyes open uh look at the center of the fibonacci spiral just find whichever one is easier for

441
00:50:17,100 --> 00:50:25,100
you to look at and with your eyes open you're going to take your left index finger we're going to be

442
00:50:25,100 --> 00:50:31,420
doing a little bit of brain gym here take your left index finger to your right prefrontal like maybe

443
00:50:31,420 --> 00:50:37,740
right in the hairline there or above the eyebrow all right and you're just going to tap and you want

444
00:50:37,740 --> 00:50:51,740
to tap kind of fast and just breathe while you're looking at the image

445
00:50:58,460 --> 00:51:03,180
okay now let's try the other one so right hand left prefrontal

446
00:51:03,180 --> 00:51:09,980
try to get it right above your eye like right above the pupil

447
00:51:12,460 --> 00:51:14,540
either just at the eyebrow or in the hairline

448
00:51:19,580 --> 00:51:21,100
breathe and look at the image

449
00:51:21,100 --> 00:51:33,660
okay now you don't need to do this you can do this

450
00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:37,500
again looking at the image

451
00:51:39,260 --> 00:51:41,580
both together so you're kind of tapping them at the same time

452
00:51:46,700 --> 00:51:47,100
breathe

453
00:51:51,100 --> 00:51:59,180
okay and now tap just right on your third eye that's right there is the prefrontal chiasm

454
00:52:03,740 --> 00:52:12,380
and breathe

455
00:52:17,340 --> 00:52:18,140
all right what do you feel

456
00:52:21,100 --> 00:52:22,860
vibrant

457
00:52:23,740 --> 00:52:24,380
relaxed

458
00:52:27,340 --> 00:52:27,580
okay

459
00:52:29,660 --> 00:52:32,620
you saw the waves move okay so you saw the image moving okay

460
00:52:32,620 --> 00:52:33,580
i thought i saw it like

461
00:52:35,420 --> 00:52:38,860
all right your brain did a little a little loop-de-loop through you

462
00:52:40,860 --> 00:52:47,500
okay uh can you feel a little buzzing in your prefrontal cortex feels good right

463
00:52:47,500 --> 00:52:55,580
yeah simple yeah so this is just tapping breathing looking at an image you could use any image but you

464
00:52:55,580 --> 00:53:02,380
know make it imagery that that is colorful um mandalas you know are great for that um

465
00:53:03,260 --> 00:53:09,340
sacred geometry is great for that you want it to be a harmonic image though right so you're looking for

466
00:53:09,340 --> 00:53:15,260
balance um so usually those those images should be symmetric in some way this one's not exactly

467
00:53:15,260 --> 00:53:21,340
symmetric but it was cool um but you know some kind of sacred geometry or mandala very symmetric

468
00:53:21,340 --> 00:53:28,140
very harmonic and and yet a lot to look at very stimulating um and then the tapping and the breathing

469
00:53:28,140 --> 00:53:35,020
and and the reason we do left to right is because your right hemisphere controls the left side of your body

470
00:53:35,020 --> 00:53:41,660
so i wanted to just stimulate one hemisphere at a time at first right so same thing we're cross laterally wired

471
00:53:42,140 --> 00:53:43,740
and then when we're doing it together

472
00:53:44,460 --> 00:53:48,460
you know it's similar and then just the middle which is the bridge between them

473
00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:54,780
okay so this is just an example of how we're going to keep working uh so now we're going to come to

474
00:53:55,660 --> 00:53:58,540
the temporal lobes we're going to go through the rest of the cortex

475
00:53:58,540 --> 00:54:03,020
and and again the the cortex is all about balancing the two hemispheres

476
00:54:03,740 --> 00:54:11,660
now your your temporal lobes are sitting kind of right around the ears and um we're going to work

477
00:54:11,660 --> 00:54:17,260
with another bridge here called the rewire and refocus bridge so as we go away from the prefrontal

478
00:54:17,260 --> 00:54:21,980
cortex into the rest of the brain we're still balancing but we're rewiring and refocusing

479
00:54:21,980 --> 00:54:27,340
um so there's connective circuits between the prefrontal cortex and the temporals

480
00:54:27,340 --> 00:54:32,700
between the prefrontal cortex and the what we call the parietals and then back to the occipital lobes

481
00:54:32,700 --> 00:54:39,740
and um so here with the temporal lobes what do you think might be the sensory input that most stimulates

482
00:54:39,740 --> 00:54:48,620
them sound right because they're right by our ears so so the temporals are processing sound and um

483
00:54:48,620 --> 00:54:58,380
what's pretty amazing now that sound can be um words it can be non um sensical you know meaning

484
00:54:58,380 --> 00:55:05,820
just just grunts and moans and you know things like that um any kind of social interaction right

485
00:55:05,820 --> 00:55:12,060
because people are social and they communicate through sound so um a lot of our social interactions

486
00:55:12,060 --> 00:55:17,580
and relationships are going to be uh wired in through the pre uh the the temporal lobes

487
00:55:17,580 --> 00:55:25,420
so with your temporal lobes and the it'd be better to do a beta frequency here uh but we're going to

488
00:55:25,420 --> 00:55:33,980
now do a tapping again this is a little bit but we're also going to do a toning okay so the tapping

489
00:55:33,980 --> 00:55:41,580
point is right above the tops of the ear actually you could do um right on the temples let's do the

490
00:55:41,580 --> 00:55:46,380
temples here okay so the temple and it's right in the hairline again so first of all

491
00:55:46,380 --> 00:55:53,340
again we're going to do the similar thing so take your left and we're going to tap the right temple

492
00:55:53,340 --> 00:56:06,300
right in the hairline and we're going to tone ah okay

493
00:56:12,300 --> 00:56:15,420
okay when you're tapping it's kind of like from the corner of the eye

494
00:56:15,420 --> 00:56:27,420
right into the hairline let's do it again

495
00:56:31,420 --> 00:56:43,420
okay do the other one okay and now we're going to tone oh

496
00:56:43,420 --> 00:56:49,420
oh

497
00:56:50,780 --> 00:56:57,420
one more time

498
00:56:57,420 --> 00:57:03,420
oh

499
00:57:04,220 --> 00:57:06,380
now tap together and we're going to tone

500
00:57:06,380 --> 00:57:18,380
one more time

501
00:57:22,140 --> 00:57:22,780
one more time

502
00:57:22,780 --> 00:57:32,780
one more time

503
00:57:35,020 --> 00:57:38,780
okay now we're going to put it all together okay ah

504
00:57:38,780 --> 00:57:56,220
and i'm making you do a little bit of brain gym here

505
00:57:56,220 --> 00:58:02,300
and i'm making you do a little bit of brain gym here

506
00:58:02,300 --> 00:58:08,560
Now tap, tap the, so from your temples up to the top.

507
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:10,440
Okay.

508
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:12,160
Om.

509
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:13,840
Om.

510
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:14,360
Om.

511
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:23,660
One more time.

512
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:25,840
Om.

513
00:58:32,300 --> 00:58:37,360
Notice how you feel.

514
00:58:37,500 --> 00:58:38,280
Just take a scan.

515
00:58:45,020 --> 00:58:45,780
How's that?

516
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,360
Different from prefrontal, right?

517
00:58:50,460 --> 00:58:53,280
And you can feel it now all in here.

518
00:58:54,460 --> 00:58:54,860
Okay.

519
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:55,880
So another tool.

520
00:58:56,940 --> 00:58:58,840
You can work from one to the next.

521
00:58:59,180 --> 00:59:00,740
I'm going to start powering through some of this.

522
00:59:00,740 --> 00:59:04,960
So your ear is an amazing instrument.

523
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,480
Your ear is an amazing tool for bringing in energy.

524
00:59:09,100 --> 00:59:11,520
Your ear is fully developed in utero.

525
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:12,980
In utero.

526
00:59:13,300 --> 00:59:19,040
And so it's one of the first sensory organs to come on board for a developing baby.

527
00:59:19,980 --> 00:59:21,580
And so they can hear.

528
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:25,420
You know, they're taking in energy and information from the environment.

529
00:59:25,420 --> 00:59:32,360
And the first thing that the baby's brain entrains to is the mother's heartbeat.

530
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:33,960
All right.

531
00:59:34,060 --> 00:59:35,360
So, and that's through the ear.

532
00:59:35,580 --> 00:59:42,460
So the heartbeat is entraining the ear, which then feeds into the brain and entrains the brain.

533
00:59:42,460 --> 00:59:45,920
And so the fetus is developing first with this.

534
00:59:46,700 --> 00:59:50,920
The heartbeat tends to be at about a delta range of frequencies.

535
00:59:51,820 --> 00:59:56,020
And your ear is never shut.

536
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:57,100
It never shuts down, right?

537
00:59:57,140 --> 00:59:59,960
Your eyes will close when you go to sleep, but your ears never do.

538
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:05,840
And they're constantly taking in information and energy, unless you put in earplugs, which mutes that.

539
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,560
But they're constantly working and charging up.

540
01:00:09,020 --> 01:00:15,560
And your ear has three more times connection, three times more connections to the brain than your eyes do.

541
01:00:16,620 --> 01:00:21,400
So the ears have a lot more influence on your brain, actually, than what you see.

542
01:00:21,900 --> 01:00:27,780
And not only that, but from the ears, that auditory nerve feeds directly into every organ of your body.

543
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:33,180
So what you're hearing is feeding directly into every organ in your body.

544
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:35,800
So do you think it's important what we listen to?

545
01:00:36,500 --> 01:00:37,060
Uh-huh.

546
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:38,640
Yeah.

547
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,120
Yeah, yeah, well, not a lot of things.

548
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,640
So again, you want to bring in harmonious sounds.

549
01:00:45,740 --> 01:00:51,240
So as much as you can be, you know, surrounding yourself with harmonious sounds, the better, right?

550
01:00:51,540 --> 01:00:57,360
Like when you're out in traffic, put on some really, like, classical music or, you know,

551
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:06,460
something that's really settling rather than, you know, the heavy metal or hip-hop and, you know, I mean, they're fun.

552
01:01:06,780 --> 01:01:12,140
But put on stuff that's going to be, because when you're out in traffic, it's chaotic enough, right?

553
01:01:12,140 --> 01:01:14,620
So you want to do something that's going to help calm you down.

554
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:18,980
When you come home from your day, put on, again, some kind of music that's harmonious.

555
01:01:19,020 --> 01:01:26,060
It can be upbeat, but make it more world-like, you know, and just really rhythmic and harmonious.

556
01:01:26,060 --> 01:01:32,880
And when you put in music with lyrics, it's going to stimulate left hemisphere more so than right hemisphere.

557
01:01:33,260 --> 01:01:38,140
So when you have music without lyrics, then it's equally stimulating both hemispheres.

558
01:01:38,140 --> 01:01:43,500
Because your language centers that process words are in the left hemisphere.

559
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,920
So this is one thing.

560
01:01:48,580 --> 01:01:53,120
Oh, and then the power of the ear in auricular therapy, you know, where it's acupuncture for the ear.

561
01:01:53,220 --> 01:01:55,680
They say that, like, the ear looks like an inverted fetus.

562
01:01:55,800 --> 01:02:01,260
So they can treat the whole body just from different acupressure and puncture points on the ear.

563
01:02:01,900 --> 01:02:05,360
So your ear is like a little microcosm for your macrocosm of your body.

564
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,380
Hemispheric entrainment.

565
01:02:08,500 --> 01:02:11,900
So there's many ways that our brain can become entrained.

566
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:20,500
And there's something called biomusicology, which is to synchronize the rhythms of the body into an external sound.

567
01:02:20,660 --> 01:02:31,260
So, for example, a drum beat or a didgeridoo or, you know, those types of ancient shamanic gongs and chimes and all of those types of things.

568
01:02:31,260 --> 01:02:35,740
So sound healing has been very well known for a long time.

569
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:41,220
And then now we have, and I explained the binaural beat brainwave entrainment method to you just a few moments ago.

570
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:43,660
So we also have now the neurotechnologies.

571
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:49,920
Now, music without lyrics that's harmonious automatically harmonizes left and right hemisphere of the brain.

572
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:56,220
So any kind of harmonious music without lyrics is going to automatically put you into a more whole brain state.

573
01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:07,280
But then if you want to specifically entrain into certain frequency levels, then you need to introduce the right type of frequency patterns for the brain to entrain to.

574
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,740
So now we're going to shift to the parietal lobes.

575
01:03:10,860 --> 01:03:15,980
Now, the parietal lobes are sort of where the top of the head curves over to the back.

576
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:20,160
And the parietal lobes really, they're, again, part of the cortex.

577
01:03:20,980 --> 01:03:26,220
They have a lot to do with our sense of orientation and perception of space, right?

578
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:30,540
So the sense of space around us and our orientation within space.

579
01:03:30,540 --> 01:03:45,620
And when the parietal circuit actually goes into a harmonized activity or a minimal activity is when people tend to be in that meditation state and they lose a sense of space and time.

580
01:03:46,700 --> 01:03:53,500
So as we shift to the parietal lobes, we're now starting to shift from the outer to the inner, right?

581
01:03:53,580 --> 01:03:55,880
So we want to now, this is why I call it the refocus bridge.

582
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:57,380
We want to shift from outer to inner.

583
01:03:57,380 --> 01:04:01,320
So we're going to refocus towards ourselves.

584
01:04:03,180 --> 01:04:06,660
And a lot of that has to do with closing your eyes.

585
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:11,620
So we're going to start minimizing the outer stimulus, closing the eyes.

586
01:04:12,140 --> 01:04:18,800
And we can still do some tapping, but we're ultimately trying to take ourselves inside.

587
01:04:19,700 --> 01:04:23,700
So this is actually best.

588
01:04:23,940 --> 01:04:25,260
And then we'll have the occipital.

589
01:04:25,260 --> 01:04:31,940
Now, your occipital, at the back of the head, the occipital lobes actually process visual information.

590
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:39,380
So when you close your eyes, what happens is that the activity in the occipital starts to reduce.

591
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:44,300
The beta brain waves start to reduce and your brain becomes flooded by alpha waves.

592
01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:47,180
So the alpha waves go more from like 7 to 13 hertz.

593
01:04:47,180 --> 01:04:50,280
And so the alpha is where we get into a light meditative.

594
01:04:50,700 --> 01:04:52,220
You can do guided visualization.

595
01:04:53,220 --> 01:04:54,600
But your eyes are closed.

596
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:58,900
And you are going to feel more lightly relaxed.

597
01:04:59,260 --> 01:05:03,180
And it sort of opens up more intuitive centers and so forth.

598
01:05:03,180 --> 01:05:09,520
So we want to, the best way, really, to do this, we're not going to tap.

599
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:12,040
We're going to actually suppress the stimulation.

600
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:20,000
And that would be just to go into closing the eyes, focused breathing, and quieting down.

601
01:05:20,460 --> 01:05:24,600
And you could have some music on, but I would make it like a really low drone.

602
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:31,620
We don't have too much time for this right now, but ultimately, I would say 5 to 10 minutes of what we call passive meditation,

603
01:05:32,180 --> 01:05:36,760
where you're just emptying your mind, that really helps shift us to the back.

604
01:05:37,580 --> 01:05:39,480
And your eyes are closed, right?

605
01:05:40,260 --> 01:05:42,200
And quieting down.

606
01:05:42,500 --> 01:05:45,940
And so let's just take just a minute to do this.

607
01:05:46,300 --> 01:05:48,180
So just close your eyes for a moment.

608
01:05:48,180 --> 01:05:58,820
And take a few deep breaths in through the nose, out the mouth.

609
01:06:03,500 --> 01:06:05,920
And just focus inside.

610
01:06:18,180 --> 01:06:20,060
Focus into your breathing.

611
01:06:25,060 --> 01:06:27,820
Shifting your focus from outer to inner.

612
01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:33,500
Tune into more subtle realms.

613
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:46,480
Quieting the mind.

614
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:54,940
And just coming into a state of calm and gentle relaxation.

615
01:07:04,700 --> 01:07:07,320
And then taking a deep breath.

616
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:10,520
Just come back for a moment.

617
01:07:11,740 --> 01:07:12,500
Open your eyes.

618
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:16,120
How does that feel?

619
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:20,460
And that was just, like, not even two minutes, right?

620
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:27,600
So you can see, can you start to see how you could weave these together into, you know,

621
01:07:27,620 --> 01:07:31,600
it's sort of stimulating the upper parts of the brain, taking you back further and deeper,

622
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:34,660
and then go refocus to the inner, right?

623
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:39,020
Now we're going to start going from the cortex, the upper range of the brain,

624
01:07:39,180 --> 01:07:42,540
that we see into what we call the limbic system.

625
01:07:42,540 --> 01:07:46,340
And we're going to start going inward to the brain, and deeper into the brain.

626
01:07:46,340 --> 01:07:52,840
So this is, this is all, you can weave all of these little exercises that we're talking

627
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:56,380
about and doing, practicing here, you can weave them together into a practice that you can

628
01:07:56,380 --> 01:08:02,020
do for, you know, 10 minutes, 15 minutes every day, and it will really stimulate and help

629
01:08:02,020 --> 01:08:02,960
you rewire your brain.

630
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:06,820
So the fourth bridge is what I call the introspection bridge.

631
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:12,500
And the fourth bridge is bridging from the cortex, meaning the upper regions of the brain,

632
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:14,160
into the limbic system.

633
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:16,360
And the limbic system itself is a bridge.

634
01:08:16,480 --> 01:08:18,340
It's sort of the middle part of the brain.

635
01:08:18,340 --> 01:08:25,820
And the limbic system is, it's a gateway into our emotions, right?

636
01:08:26,020 --> 01:08:30,160
So limbic controls the emotional side of our, of our being.

637
01:08:30,420 --> 01:08:38,260
And it connects very strongly in with our endocrine system, which, as, as you may or may not know,

638
01:08:38,300 --> 01:08:40,960
the endocrine system relates directly to your chakras.

639
01:08:41,220 --> 01:08:44,880
So each of your chakras has an endocrine gland that it connects with.

640
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:50,380
And the more we stimulate those endocrine glands and the chakras, the more it creates this internal

641
01:08:50,380 --> 01:08:55,720
alchemy within our body, because the endocrine glands control our hormones, which then controls

642
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:57,620
all kinds of things, our mood and so forth.

643
01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:07,740
So, so with the limbic system, it's controlling emotions, it's also, and mood, and it's also

644
01:09:07,740 --> 01:09:10,480
controlling our autonomic nervous system, right?

645
01:09:10,480 --> 01:09:17,100
So sympathetic, parasympathetic, the nervous system, and, and the sort of parts of us that

646
01:09:17,100 --> 01:09:20,200
we're usually not conscious of that are regulating the body.

647
01:09:20,660 --> 01:09:28,380
And it gives us, when we have good connectivity within our limbic system, it gives us the ability

648
01:09:28,380 --> 01:09:29,480
to relax at will.

649
01:09:30,300 --> 01:09:35,660
When you don't have good connectivity within the limbic system, there might be tension,

650
01:09:35,660 --> 01:09:40,960
there might be anxiety, you know, it's, it's harder to relax at will when those, those situations

651
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:41,480
come up.

652
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:47,300
So this is really important part of our being to get a good connectivity to so that we can

653
01:09:47,300 --> 01:09:51,260
control how we feel no matter what's happening around us, right?

654
01:09:51,340 --> 01:09:57,640
And we can maintain a sense of emotional balance and centeredness, and we can de-stress at will.

655
01:09:57,740 --> 01:10:01,560
We can, you know, and using tools like meditation is really helpful for that.

656
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:06,480
So alpha waves dominate here within the limbic system.

657
01:10:06,980 --> 01:10:10,720
And when you're in this, when you're connecting more to limbic system, it's going to feel a

658
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:12,020
little bit like daydream-like.

659
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:20,040
And you can easily be off on an imaginative journey, guided imagery, and it's often that

660
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:23,380
transition between waking and sleeping as well.

661
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:29,020
So you get a lot of, you know, nice feelings, you get some imagery that comes in here.

662
01:10:29,020 --> 01:10:34,980
And I think that this, I call it the introspection bridge because, again, we're shifting, we've

663
01:10:34,980 --> 01:10:39,140
just shifted from the outer to the inner, we've refocused towards our inner.

664
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:44,460
And now here, introspection is about really getting in touch with how do I feel, right?

665
01:10:44,500 --> 01:10:45,400
How do I feel?

666
01:10:45,400 --> 01:11:01,440
And so when we are introspective, we can, you know, get more in touch with our own inner

667
01:11:01,440 --> 01:11:01,820
being.

668
01:11:01,820 --> 01:11:09,580
And so a lot of, like, Zen meditation, you know, just sort of that quiet meditation, guided

669
01:11:09,580 --> 01:11:15,460
imagery, Tai Chi, Qigong yoga, all of those are going to help you connect in to more of

670
01:11:15,460 --> 01:11:19,380
an alpha brainwave state and start tapping in more to how you feel.

671
01:11:20,700 --> 01:11:27,320
Do you want to know what sense, besides hearing, affects your limbic system the most?

672
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:28,600
Any ideas?

673
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:33,480
Smell, smell.

674
01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:37,520
I don't know if any of you could smell it, but we were trying to, you know, give you a

675
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:41,240
little bit of boost of essential oils while you're in your little meditation.

676
01:11:42,140 --> 01:11:46,460
And so your sense of smell directly connects to the limbic system.

677
01:11:46,620 --> 01:11:52,120
So using things like aromatherapy with high-grade, therapeutic-grade essential oils is really good

678
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:57,060
for stimulating your limbic system and emotions, right?

679
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,280
So emotions are stored here, emotional memories.

680
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:05,100
So when you want to release or heal and repattern old emotional traumas, use aromatherapy.

681
01:12:05,260 --> 01:12:12,400
And then also use the more calming, meditative type of music that really gets you into that

682
01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:13,620
alpha brainwave state.

683
01:12:13,620 --> 01:12:21,300
So here we, you can also use, you know, we use peppermint and eucalyptus just to kind

684
01:12:21,300 --> 01:12:25,160
of perk us up a little bit, but you could go with, you know, any essential oils that are

685
01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:30,980
calming, you know, chamomile is really good, lavender is really good, you know, but use

686
01:12:30,980 --> 01:12:34,560
essential oils often for supporting you with your limbic system.

687
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:40,100
And then the other thing that I like for the limbic system is the solfeggio-frequency-tuned

688
01:12:40,100 --> 01:12:40,680
music.

689
01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:48,620
And the solfeggio-frequencies are a little bit more, they stir the emotions in a certain

690
01:12:48,620 --> 01:12:49,180
way.

691
01:12:49,780 --> 01:12:55,780
So music that is tuned specifically to any of these, they're not a system of themselves.

692
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:59,700
Like you wouldn't do solfeggio music that works these as the notes on the scale.

693
01:12:59,700 --> 01:13:05,640
But the way the solfeggio-frequency musicians are working is they take one of these frequencies,

694
01:13:05,860 --> 01:13:13,140
like let's say the 528 hertz frequency, and they make that be the sort of the base tone

695
01:13:13,140 --> 01:13:15,120
that they then develop the scale from.

696
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:21,080
And so music that is tuned to the solfeggio-frequencies really stirs things.

697
01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:25,660
And each one kind of stirs a little bit of a different energy, you know, some of them are

698
01:13:25,660 --> 01:13:28,340
really good for transformation and emotional release.

699
01:13:28,340 --> 01:13:33,200
Some of the, like the 528 hertz is said to be the miracle frequency that really talks

700
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:33,840
to your DNA.

701
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:39,620
And the higher frequencies, you know, that as you go higher, they get more and more celestial,

702
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:40,300
more spiritual.

703
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:42,280
As you go lower, they get more grounding.

704
01:13:43,020 --> 01:13:45,940
So all the solfeggio-frequencies are really good to work with.

705
01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:53,180
And just purely by the fact that they're different from our normal tuning scale, that in and of

706
01:13:53,180 --> 01:13:54,900
itself is going to rewire your brain.

707
01:13:54,900 --> 01:13:59,700
Because you're, through the sound, through the music, you're training yourself to listen

708
01:13:59,700 --> 01:14:01,360
to frequencies you're not used to.

709
01:14:02,060 --> 01:14:04,000
And that challenges the brain.

710
01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:09,020
And so I really believe in the power of solfeggio-frequencies.

711
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:14,920
The 444 as well, even though that's not a solfeggio, but, you know, a lot of healing frequencies

712
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:15,900
are based on that.

713
01:14:15,900 --> 01:14:22,620
And Pythagorean tuning, which is more based on perfect fifths of a tuning scale.

714
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:30,220
So different tuning scales can really support you with challenging the brain to really shift.

715
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:34,180
I actually created an album called Creative Alchemy.

716
01:14:34,300 --> 01:14:38,560
It's a meditation album that works with all the solfeggio-frequencies.

717
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:40,740
There's seven different steps in the meditation.

718
01:14:40,740 --> 01:14:41,740
It's a guided imagery.

719
01:14:42,480 --> 01:14:44,440
The musician is J.S.

720
01:14:44,460 --> 01:14:47,380
Epperson, who I've collaborated with on a couple of projects.

721
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:52,640
And we have all the different solfeggio-frequencies in there.

722
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:57,340
And it relates to different steps in the creative process that I'm leading people through in

723
01:14:57,340 --> 01:14:57,980
this meditation.

724
01:14:58,700 --> 01:15:04,240
So it's all about helping you with manifestation, problem solving, creative insights, and so forth,

725
01:15:04,300 --> 01:15:09,400
and accessing a higher state of consciousness to then bring those insights down into a plan

726
01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:10,260
and into action.

727
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:13,740
So we're going to keep pushing forward here.

728
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:19,500
Next, we come into the deepest part of the brain, the old brain or the brainstem.

729
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:27,240
And here I call it the doing bridge because the brainstem is all about your actions.

730
01:15:28,100 --> 01:15:30,100
It's patterned ways of being.

731
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:33,140
This is really the foundation of the brain.

732
01:15:33,140 --> 01:15:40,640
And it has to do with the things we do every day, the things we say every day, just the

733
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:42,940
habitual way of living, right?

734
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:43,980
So it's our habits.

735
01:15:44,500 --> 01:15:49,440
And if we want to really get into greater mastery of our lives, we have to recognize,

736
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,080
number one, we are creatures of habit.

737
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:52,280
We're going to have habits.

738
01:15:52,700 --> 01:15:55,300
But we need to have habits that support us.

739
01:15:55,300 --> 01:16:01,660
So doing things like a spiritual practice, meditating every day, having some form of rituals,

740
01:16:02,260 --> 01:16:06,500
ritualized behavior programs the deep brain.

741
01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:12,140
So rituals are going to be more of a patterned way of doing things, but bring it with intention,

742
01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:12,980
right?

743
01:16:13,020 --> 01:16:18,120
It's an intentional way of doing things in that pattern so that it really supports us.

744
01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:24,960
Now, sitting at the very top of the brainstem is some core structures, the pineal gland,

745
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:31,300
the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus and thalamus glands, as well as the hippocampus.

746
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:39,820
And these structures are said to be the seat of consciousness within the body or within the

747
01:16:39,820 --> 01:16:40,140
brain.

748
01:16:40,380 --> 01:16:43,260
And I think the seat of consciousness is in every cell of your body.

749
01:16:43,260 --> 01:16:50,380
But these glands, the pineal, pituitary, and hypothalamus gland, are really sitting right

750
01:16:50,380 --> 01:16:53,140
in between the limbic system and the brainstem.

751
01:16:53,300 --> 01:16:55,000
So they are the bridge between.

752
01:16:55,540 --> 01:16:59,820
And when you're deeper in the brainstem, usually you're more unconscious or asleep.

753
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:05,820
But as we get into the limbic is where you start to wake up, right?

754
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:07,100
So it's a transition place.

755
01:17:07,180 --> 01:17:08,220
So these are gateways.

756
01:17:08,220 --> 01:17:13,760
And we actually have a panel at 1230, the Lisa Gar panel on science and consciousness

757
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:19,220
that I and Greg Braden and a bunch of other scientists and people, we're going to be talking

758
01:17:19,220 --> 01:17:20,160
about the pineal gland.

759
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,900
So it's very much about this intuitive center.

760
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:30,760
But all of these are like that central core of our intuition that we can tap into here.

761
01:17:31,380 --> 01:17:35,420
And this system, the brainstem is somatic, right?

762
01:17:35,420 --> 01:17:38,720
So it's your somatosensory system.

763
01:17:38,860 --> 01:17:44,760
So it controls like sweaty palms, the hair standing up on the back of the arm or the neck,

764
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:49,260
your heart rate, your breathing rate, where you're breathing.

765
01:17:49,440 --> 01:17:52,000
Like all of those things are somatic.

766
01:17:52,620 --> 01:17:54,740
And this is controlled by the brainstem.

767
01:17:55,180 --> 01:18:00,700
So somatic therapies are really good for helping rewire your brainstem, as is breathwork,

768
01:18:01,380 --> 01:18:03,420
as is the tapping, right?

769
01:18:03,420 --> 01:18:05,120
So the physical sensations.

770
01:18:06,220 --> 01:18:12,340
And when we get into a theta brainwave frequency, which is from three to about seven or eight

771
01:18:12,340 --> 01:18:16,520
hertz, that is when you're really getting into the old brain.

772
01:18:17,060 --> 01:18:19,720
So theta is actually the goal of meditation.

773
01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:23,880
Guided visualizations don't typically get us into theta.

774
01:18:24,060 --> 01:18:25,040
They keep us in alpha.

775
01:18:25,040 --> 01:18:32,120
But when you get into a deeper state and you maintain conscious awareness, that's the goal

776
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:37,260
of meditation, is to get into theta and hold it for as long as you can.

777
01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:41,760
Sometimes we're only hitting theta when we're just transitioning to sleep.

778
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:43,820
And we're just there for, you know, a few minutes.

779
01:18:43,820 --> 01:18:49,220
But if you can get into that state and then hold it and prolong it, now you're going to

780
01:18:49,220 --> 01:18:54,400
be able to get like a really, it's a deep healing state, very deep healing state.

781
01:18:54,480 --> 01:18:57,980
Your body goes into what we call the trophotropic healing state.

782
01:18:58,380 --> 01:19:01,320
So you want to really work with that.

783
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:05,640
You know, the meditation practice is about getting into theta.

784
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:12,040
I did create another meditation album called Quantum Insight that is a deep theta meditation

785
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:12,560
state.

786
01:19:13,060 --> 01:19:18,640
It's just breath and visualizing fire and water coming together in an alchemical kind

787
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:19,300
of process.

788
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:24,820
It works the chakras, but it is very much about accessing this kind of deeper state.

789
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,720
So it's more somatic in its nature.

790
01:19:28,480 --> 01:19:34,540
And then getting you into that quantum zone, because when you can get into theta, now you're

791
01:19:34,540 --> 01:19:36,540
really achieving a coherent state.

792
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:41,740
And now you can really start to tap into that universal mind and that expanded state of

793
01:19:41,740 --> 01:19:42,240
consciousness.

794
01:19:43,100 --> 01:19:50,880
So this doing bridge is actions, but it's also deep meditation, right?

795
01:19:51,020 --> 01:19:55,840
And when you can train yourself to get into that deep meditation and stay conscious, now

796
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:59,600
you can really start to access expanded states of awareness, right?

797
01:19:59,700 --> 01:20:01,620
And that universal mind.

798
01:20:01,620 --> 01:20:08,700
Um, so again, the, uh, here's a breathing technique I encourage that will support you.

799
01:20:08,820 --> 01:20:12,280
We're not going to practice it right now because we're running out of time, but I'm going to,

800
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:14,860
um, suggest, and it supports you getting into theta.

801
01:20:15,140 --> 01:20:18,000
So you're going to breathe in through your nose to a count of five.

802
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:24,080
You're going to hold your breath and you're going to pull it down, um, into the hara.

803
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:26,360
And you're going to hold the breath for a count of 10.

804
01:20:27,100 --> 01:20:32,580
And then as you breathe out, you're going to do a slow, deep out breath with your mouth

805
01:20:32,580 --> 01:20:34,740
open to a count of 10.

806
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:40,800
So in through the nose for five, hold it for a count of 10.

807
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:46,420
And then as you breathe out through the mouth, long and slow breath to a count of 10 out.

808
01:20:46,420 --> 01:20:52,660
And you just do that for a while, um, and you will find yourself dropping into theta pretty

809
01:20:52,660 --> 01:20:53,640
quickly, right?

810
01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:58,980
And it's in that holding, uh, uh, the space between things where you're really going to

811
01:20:58,980 --> 01:21:02,960
start accessing, um, a more quantum state.

812
01:21:03,860 --> 01:21:07,680
And then it takes us from the brain and we start dropping into the heart.

813
01:21:07,680 --> 01:21:16,040
So the heart is also a brain center and there are a lot of neurons and glial cells and so

814
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:18,000
forth in the heart, just like there are in the brain.

815
01:21:18,340 --> 01:21:21,940
And in fact, your heart, uh, your heart started beating before your brain did.

816
01:21:22,460 --> 01:21:28,240
So your heart is more primary than the brain, but our science today is so focused on the brain.

817
01:21:28,660 --> 01:21:32,180
Um, and the only people that I know that are really trying to bring out the wisdom of the

818
01:21:32,180 --> 01:21:35,580
heart is the heart math Institute and the people who are reporting their results.

819
01:21:35,580 --> 01:21:40,300
Um, so we want to really sink into the heart.

820
01:21:41,380 --> 01:21:44,980
And of course the heart's energies are about gratitude, love, compassion.

821
01:21:46,260 --> 01:21:50,640
Um, we're getting really deep into Delta.

822
01:21:51,040 --> 01:21:56,700
So that's like most people when they're in Delta, they're in a coma or they're deeply asleep.

823
01:21:59,660 --> 01:22:04,300
But I know that you can train yourself to actually maintain conscious awareness when you're in Delta.

824
01:22:04,300 --> 01:22:09,740
Delta. And, but in that Delta state, you would lose all sense of self.

825
01:22:10,100 --> 01:22:13,160
You would be merging with the universal.

826
01:22:13,780 --> 01:22:19,700
Um, you would be in a great state of gratitude and compassion and total heart brain coherence.

827
01:22:19,700 --> 01:22:27,400
Um, and with the heart, it puts out a really big electromagnetic field bigger than the brain.

828
01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:34,640
It comes out of, I, you know, it, they can measure it out to about three feet out from the body, but I think it goes out much further than that.

829
01:22:35,540 --> 01:22:43,000
And, um, the heart, I mentioned before how the brain was in, in Taoist Qigong is the upper Dantian.

830
01:22:43,260 --> 01:22:44,920
The heart is the middle Dantian.

831
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:50,180
Um, and, um, and then the Hara or the gut is the lower Dantian.

832
01:22:50,480 --> 01:22:52,660
So these are major energy centers.

833
01:22:52,660 --> 01:23:01,340
And what's fascinating is that science today is realizing they're all connected in very strongly to the central nervous system.

834
01:23:01,480 --> 01:23:02,800
So the heart is a brain.

835
01:23:02,940 --> 01:23:03,980
The gut is a brain.

836
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:05,220
The brain is a brain.

837
01:23:05,220 --> 01:23:09,360
And so these are all centers of consciousness within our body.

838
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:22,500
Um, so when we can really get into that Delta state and into that deep, um, connection to the heart and, and gratitude, uh, gratitude brings us into a coherent state.

839
01:23:22,660 --> 01:23:24,620
It unifies the mind and heart.

840
01:23:24,940 --> 01:23:26,880
And when we then send out compassion.

841
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:33,000
So the Dalai Lama's meditators, um, they did some studies on them and they, they went into a deep Theta state.

842
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:37,080
And then, um, and then maybe even, even deeper.

843
01:23:37,420 --> 01:23:44,020
And then at some point they switched from feeling gratitude and compassion within themselves to sending that compassion out to the world.

844
01:23:44,260 --> 01:23:53,160
And when they started sending that compassion out to the world, they registered a gamma frequency that came up and then swept forward and swept back, back and down.

845
01:23:53,340 --> 01:23:57,600
And so it created this very unified mind heart state of being.

846
01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:09,800
So gratitude is your key for tapping into the heart field and just centering your focus into the heart, breathing into the heart, and really slowing down the brain waves into a deeper state.

847
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:18,320
And then finally, the seventh bridge brings us into the very center point of that energy field flow.

848
01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:26,220
And the center of, I know we'd like to see the center is the heart, but the center is actually your hara.

849
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:30,860
Uh, the, the actual center of gravity of your body is right here.

850
01:24:31,140 --> 01:24:39,600
And in Tai Chi, Qigong, all of that, everything moves around this point here, the hara, which is about an inch, inch and a half below the navel.

851
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:46,320
So the very center of that toroidal flow is accessed here in the hara.

852
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:53,580
So once you've come from the brain down to the heart, you want to then focus your breath into the hara.

853
01:24:53,940 --> 01:25:02,180
And just, you just bring your, as if your eyes are down here, you know, you just bring your whole attention down into the hara and breathe.

854
01:25:02,180 --> 01:25:14,540
And then at some point, you know, just like you're focusing in on that space between things, the gap, the zero point, and you're surrendering into it.

855
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:17,640
That's your final step, the final bridge.

856
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:28,980
And, um, and as we do that, we are then able to access that full expansion out into the universe.

857
01:25:28,980 --> 01:25:34,900
Like, you will feel yourself, the microcosm, the macrocosm within the microcosm.

858
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:38,900
Like, you will feel that the universe is within you, and you are one with the universe.

859
01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:41,840
So you really lose that sense of self here.

860
01:25:42,500 --> 01:25:49,880
Um, and, and so this final key is about stillness, just coming into that place of stillness.

861
01:25:49,960 --> 01:25:54,100
So that's why I say focus on the breath between as you shift your focus into the hara.

862
01:25:54,100 --> 01:25:58,140
Um, because, and, and in ancient traditions, they call that the void.

863
01:25:58,140 --> 01:26:03,880
And that when you breathe into the hara, it helps you most strongly connect to the void.

864
01:26:04,380 --> 01:26:06,460
Um, so that void is just emptiness.

865
01:26:06,460 --> 01:26:08,060
It's nothingness, right?

866
01:26:08,060 --> 01:26:14,420
And so the ultimate expansion beyond the self is, is this final key of stillness.

867
01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:16,740
But within your body, you can wire it.

868
01:26:16,740 --> 01:26:22,360
And then no matter what's happening through your day, if you're ever, you know, if you have a practice of this,

869
01:26:22,700 --> 01:26:25,660
where you're bringing yourself from the front to the back and down and down,

870
01:26:25,660 --> 01:26:29,560
um, then no matter what's happening throughout your day,

871
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:33,640
you can easily just do a few breaths and a few taps into these areas,

872
01:26:33,640 --> 01:26:36,920
and it'll automatically start to shift you back into that state.

873
01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:43,640
So, but we need to do daily practice to get it wired so that it's so readily available for us to do it like that.

874
01:26:43,640 --> 01:26:45,980
And it doesn't need to take very long.

875
01:26:46,980 --> 01:26:56,380
Um, so, you can think of, again, here, you know, the macrocosm within your own field, within your own microcosm.

876
01:26:57,060 --> 01:27:03,660
And, uh, the chakra system, again, focusing on, on, from brain to the heart to the hara,

877
01:27:03,660 --> 01:27:10,580
so going from the upper to the middle to the lower, dan tien, and focusing on the space between.

878
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:16,160
This is just a little bit of, you know, connection in today's modern science between the brain and the gut.

879
01:27:16,740 --> 01:27:23,660
The other two meditation albums that I have are, um, oh, the other thing I wanted to tell you is that,

880
01:27:23,660 --> 01:27:31,880
uh, the upper dan tien and the middle and the lower all relate to the tree of life as well on the middle pillar.

881
01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:38,940
The top of the tree is, like, the upper dan tien, the middle, uh, of the tree of life is the, the middle dan tien,

882
01:27:39,100 --> 01:27:44,420
and then, uh, the hara is, um, you sew it on the tree of life, and then that's more actually at the feet.

883
01:27:44,940 --> 01:27:48,100
Um, uh, it's the root of the feet, but it's usually more the feet.

884
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:52,060
So, so it's interesting to see how these traditions are all aligning, right?

885
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:56,360
We have the ancient Taoist tradition with the dan tiens.

886
01:27:56,480 --> 01:27:58,600
We have the Kabbalistic tradition in the middle pillar.

887
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:01,820
We have modern science, you know, and they're all pointing,

888
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:05,240
to these same points in our body.

889
01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:09,500
Um, and so, so here's just a little summary.

890
01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:13,040
We have some handouts here that we are going to pass around

891
01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:17,180
that just give you the, the summary of each of the seven bridges,

892
01:28:17,180 --> 01:28:20,600
and, um, hopefully a few of the exercises are in there,

893
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:24,600
and hopefully you also took some good notes on those exercises.

894
01:28:24,600 --> 01:28:30,460
So, I want to just thank you all for joining me this morning,

895
01:28:30,460 --> 01:28:34,080
and hopefully we'll see you again at the panel at 1230,

896
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:36,680
and I hope that you enjoy the rest of your conference.

897
01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:37,900
So, thank you very much.

898
01:28:37,900 --> 01:28:39,900
Thank you.