#24: Alpha Brainwave Training and how it can Help Change Your Life - With Special Guest Dr. James V. Hardt
In this eye-opening episode of The Light your Life Podcast, Tina Marie sits down with President and founder of the Biocybernaut Institute Dr. James V. Hardt. They discuss things like what is Alpha brainwave training, what are the benefits, and who can this type of training benefits? Don't miss it!
Dr. James V. Hardt is the President and Founder of the Biocybernaut Institute located in both Sedona, Arizona and Bavaria, Germany. Dr. Hardt and his time offer 7 day programs where individuals learn how to increase their Alpha Brain Waves. An increase in Alpha is as Dr. Hardt says, “It’s like a silver bullet for things like anxiety and depression".
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Tina Marie St. Cyr 00:00
Hello, I'm Tina Marie St. Cyr and welcome to light your life the podcast. I believe our dreams have energy calling and purpose and that when we move in their direction, our lives become even more joyful, fulfilled and effortless. This podcast gives you insights to the strategies our guests use to overcome obstacles and manifest their dreams, in business, career, relationships and in life. Listen to find new levels of energy, perspective and courage. Your journey to light your life begins now. Hello, and welcome to light your life. I'm your host, Tina Marie St. Cyr and by the forces of nature, we're going to have a great interview, you're in store for some amazing wisdom. I’m going to be taking copious notes and paying attention to our topic today. I am so grateful to have on Dr. James, V. Hardt, who is the president and founder of the Biocybernaut Institute, located in both Sedona, Arizona and in Bavaria, Germany, Dr. Hardt and his time, they offer seven-day programmes where individuals learn how to increase their Alpha brainwaves. Dr. Hardt says that when you increase your alpha, it's like a silver bullet for things like anxiety and depression among other things. We're going to learn more today. So, here you are listening to how Alpha brainwave training can help you in your life overall. Thank you, Dr. Hardt for being our guest today.
Dr. James V. Hardt 01:32
Well, thank you so much, Tina. It's really nice to be here and hopefully you could use the word wisdom. Hopefully there will be some wisdom and I can also give people in the course of our conversation, a prescription that they can apply at home to measurably increase their wisdom and we also do the addition to 24 levels of alpha training. We also have 24 levels of theta brainwave training, and 18 levels of the Delta brainwave training now the Delta trainings are by invitation only because they confer Cyndi's or powers and we need to make sure people have done enough ethical cleansing with the forgiveness process. because we don't want to create Darth Vader's.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 02:22
Of course, not at all. Awesome. So, I learned of your work Dr. Hardt through Tony Robbins and Unleash the Power Within and he spoke of utilizing your training to create more effectiveness in his own life. I literally went over to your website, which I want everybody who's listening to here, it's biocybernaut.com. I became hooked. So, you are definitely outweigh I've been listening to alpha waves and you know, different types of put the Princess Leia headphones on and try to do everything I can to increase my brain effectiveness and clear out things that are stuck. So ,what is alpha brainwave training?
Dr. James V. Hardt 03:12
Well, in the spectrum of brainwaves, the color spectrum, visible goes from red to orange to yellow, green to teal, to blue, the Indigo, the violet. Similarly, brainwaves go from Delta, which is red, that's the slowest frequency, then to theta, then to Schumann and to alpha, and to beta then to gamma and so, there's a spectrum. So, we pick out the portion of the brainwave spectrum, which we call alpha. They were the first brainwaves to be discovered back in 1908 and they're not the fastest and they're not the slowest, but they're the biggest. So, we're the first to be discovered with the early primitive electronic technology that was available in 1908. The Discoverer was Dr. Hans Berger, and Bavarian born Austrian trained psychiatrists and so, bright Alpha brainwave training consists of people coming to one of our centers, either, as you said in Sedona, Arizona, or Bavaria, Germany, and it's a seven-day programme. It's intensive. They're in learning to basically different strategies. One is distributed practice, where you do a little bit over a long time, okay, intermittently, and massed practice where you just have like an intensive well, for example, intermittent doesn't work for taking off in an aeroplane. If you taxi 100 feet and stop and then taxi 100 feet and stop you never experienced the transformation of becoming airborne and so the work that we do at Biocybernaut is an intensive using massed practice.
So, people come for seven consecutive days that are long, we have the single the premium single, where people go in the chamber once each day. We also have the premium double, where people go in twice each day with a little lunch in between and so, there's a conference table of work organizing, discussing results, classroom. While the technique is put on your electrodes, little gold, just electrodes that are tasked with water soluble gels to the scalp and then you go into your chamber, which is a soundproof and it's not quiet in there, though, because the sounds are musical sounds that are directly produced by your brain. So, your brain is producing flutes and oboes and clarinets, and saxophones, and Oregon notes, and the bigger your brainwaves get at one site, the bigger that the louder, that note gets one every two minutes. In Alpha every three minutes and theta training, the music from your mind stops, and you open your eyes and the monitor in front of you puts up pretty colored scores that tell you how much energy you put out in the different parts of your brain and the colours tell you very simply whether you've increased or decreased. White means you went down and bluebies, you went up green if a cortical scores are green, and that means you just set a new high there.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 06:38
Whoa. So why would anyone put training? What benefits does it have in their life? Why would we say yes to this?
Dr. James V. Hardt 06:49
Well, there are so many benefits of the Alpha training that in the olden days when I first started doing this, as I was in universities, the University of California San Francisco University, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, I found that there were increases in intelligence IQ. About points creativity goes up 50% Emotional intelligence goes up about 16 point and that is described as the master skill of success, EQ or emotional intelligence, accounting for nearly 60% of your success in life. Yeah, might be great if you're smart, but can't get along with people, you can't hold a job or if you start a company, you can't recruit investors. If you're mean and nasty or can't relate to people or you can't have employees, they won't stick around if you're not nice. IQ boost, EQ boost, creativity Boosts, Energy friendliness, vigor, all these things go up on your alpha goes up, and bad things go down anxiety, depression, paranoia, schizophrenia, psychosis, EMIA. All of these bad things go down, when you're off, it goes out and people would say, well, how is it that one training can produce all these different results? They say, well, actually, we only produce one result, we help you improve the functioning of your central nervous system. So, you can think of anything that you or any human does, that doesn't require good functioning of their central nervous system might be interested in know what that is. Because your central nervous system proper functioning, enables you to do everything that you want to do and have to do in life. So, why would people want to commit suicide? Because life is better after alpha.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 08:47
Yeah, I love that. People don't learn about their central nervous system in in the biology classes so much are in school. We understand we have a brain and we have a spinal cord and if something happens to that, it's bad juju. But we don't understand the full functionality of our nervous system.
Dr. James V. Hardt 09:06
Well, I'm not sure there's any human on the planet that does because it is beyond complicated. There are different structures. In fact, people probably know a little bit about their heart, that they have pacemaker cells that make their heart go faster when they are exerting or climbing, you know, running, you know, doing exercise, and the pacemaker cells to your heart caused to slow down when you're at rest, or sleeping. So, in the same way, our alpha brainwaves have pacemaker cells. They're located in a structure deep within the brain called the thalamus. If you were to intersect this line with this line, the thalamus is very, very deep within the brain and it's so complex, that it's often called the brain within the brain and there's two halves, one in the left brain, one in the right brain. They look like a round it tipped football, the technical name would be an oblate spheroid. So, that's the Thalamus and there's 10s of 1000s of pacemaker cells in the left and in the right elements and they project to your head nd that's where to the surface, that's where we can pick it up.
So, there's a lot of complexity in the brain and what we've done is to you don't have to know any of that, because we hide the complexity. I've spent decades developing the technology and the software to make this easy, fun and easy. So, at the beginning levels, it is relaxing. People who are stressed or anxious when that when they make the tones louder and the scores go up, they feel relaxed. At the higher levels of alpha, it is a euphoric, high energy state, and superconscious states in yoga, and Zen like Samadhi superconscious state in yoga is characterized by super high alpha all of the head. Similarly, in Zen, the superconscious state of Satori or bliss, is characterized by super high alpha over that now there are some differences. There's differences in Zen philosophy and yoga philosophy, which are entirely predictable, by the different ways that the Alpha responds during Samadhi and Satori. way it responds to outside stimulation. In Samadhi, you could bang symbols, a pair of symbols in people's ears, and it doesn't block the Alpha and whereas in Zen, you take a little tingle Bell and go, tingle a mouthful will block and then it comes back. You go again, tinkle, tinkle, it blocks and comes back with an ordinary person doing this, after the sixth or 10th time the brain goes up. It's that little bell again, it's not dangerous. It's not interesting. So, the author doesn't block. But in the Zen superconscious state of Satori, the 1,000th time you think a blue belt, the alpha will block, there's a British poet William Blake, who said, when the doors of perception are cleansed, everything appears to man as it is mainly infinite. So, it every tinkle of the bell, even the 1,000th time is fresh and new. So, if you look at the differences in Zen and yoga philosophy, we're in Japan, you know, the bullet trains run on time, and these gigantic clean rooms where they grow these immaculate silicon crystals to dominate the semiconductor industry. Whereas in India, the philosophy is that none of this external world matters. It's all called illusion or Maya, and the only real reality is within. So, you would predict how Indian culture would evolve compared to how Japanese culture would evolve by referencing the details of the superconscious state in yoga, which is called Samadhi and the superconscious state Zen, which is called Satori, brainwaves rule.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 13:10
Brainwave rule. I love this. I love this. So, you've mentioned some words that are common in our culture, such as anxiety, depression, and even people can take those to the higher states of PTSD. How does your brainwave technologies and therapies help people with those appearances of disturbances in their in their life?
Dr. James V. Hardt 13:37
Well, that question could be answered on many levels. At a procedural level, if you had your look your electrodes on, let's say, let's say somebody was anxious, and they had their electrodes on and they're in the chamber, and they are anxious. So, they've got worrying thoughts running through their brain. So, the town the sounds are fairly quiet and the scores are low every two minutes when the scores come up but then there may be a moment where something happens, maybe the person has somebody comes to mind that, like their mother near somebody that they love. And for just a moment, those anxious thoughts are not there. So, what the person hears is the tone suddenly get louder. Now, of course, then they'll think about that have a thought, oh, my God, what happened? Of course, then the tones drop. So, what, what you learn to do is you learn by wanting the tones to become louder. You learn how to quiet those anxious worrying thoughts. I can't tell you how to do it any more, I can tell you if you were on a basketball court and I gave you a basketball I say, okay, now here's a free throw line. Shoot the basket. Well, maybe the first time you miss, you went to the left side So, somebody shows you the basketball back and you shoot again, now it's to the right and so, with that feedback, you correct. So, the next time you throw it, it goes in the basket. So, what's needed is feedback. Because there have been 10s of 1000s of books written on how to meditate and you could read all of them and still not know, because for example, most of them will say, in one form or another, stop thinking, in order to raise your alpha, stop thinking, well, when the typical person tries to do that, they think about stopping thinking. So, I'm in the wrong direction.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 15:46
So, the appearances of these interruptions in our consciousness and our thinking, and what we pay attention to, what I'm hearing is that whenever you retrain the brain to be okay, with certain patterns that would have otherwise cause anxiety, is it the nervous system itself is healing, because it's learning new techniques.
Dr. James V. Hardt 16:12
Exactly. and the brain is lined up the brain is it loves to learn and so, you just have to give it feedback. Now, our brains have an immense there are organisms back, for example, I can put my hand behind my head, and bring together even quickly my thumb and each finger and I don't miss, I don't have to look. Because my brain gets feedback from my body knows where the thumb and fingers are. But curiously, from a philosophical perspective, why does our organ a feedback have no feedback about itself and instead of puzzling over that, what I've done is I've built a technology to give your brain feedback about itself and this has really quite magical properties because when the when your consciousness is given information about the neural activity that is giving rise to your consciousness, it's always a transforming moment, and takes you out of science into metaphysics, spirituality, whatever name we give to the beyond conscious becoming an object of consciousness. Maslow's needs hierarchy shows that, obviously, the first thing people have to attend to the survival, then there's food water than their sex and relationships, then everything else that people do from recreation, hobbies, friendship, but at the top of the value hierarchy is transformation. Marshall Thurber said transformation is at the top of the value hierarchy, and people will pay anything for authentic transformation, because it's ultimately when everything else is handled, why we're here what we want. So, this technology, yes, it raises IQ. Yes, it makes people more creative, it reduces anxiety but the big thing is, it provides transformation.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 18:12
Lasting transformation is what I'm hearing.
Dr. James V. Hardt 18:14
In fact, let me give you one example. So, when I first started my university career, I wanted to document a changes in mood and personality, because there were easy, you know, personality tests, I was in the psych department. And so, I have easy access to move scales and personality test. And I used an extreme group design, where I had half of the people were chosen to be at the extreme high anxiety. And the other half were chosen to be at the extremes of low anxiety. So, what I found was, first of all, low anxiety, people have an easier job of learning Alpha. But when the high anxiety people did increase their Alpha above their initial risk, high schools’ baseline, they all of a sudden became low anxiety and again, giving these boundaries of personality tests, particularly at UCSF, and I would give the MMPI stands for Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. It's kind of the granddaddy of personality tests. It was standardized on 10,000 Americans in 1945 so good that clinical scales anxiety, depression, paranoia, schizophrenia, psychosis, mania, mania, social introversion, psychopath BVSc and masculinity femininity and has three life skills. So, it can detect faking bad or faking good or just general malingering. Some of the scales are corrected based on the lie scale, so it's very accurate I could give one of these printed profiles to a clinical psychologist of that Langley Porter neuro psychiatric institute at UCSF, and I remember that would basically read the person's beats, look at the profile and tell me things that I had only learned by working intensively, six, seven hours a day with that person over seven consecutive days. So, I knew the test was good, but I didn't know how long these results faster, I would give it before and after the training and will be phenomenal. People who are in the 98 and 99th, percentile anxiety, paranoia, schizophrenia, depression, after seven days of spinning, they'd be in the middle of a normal zone. I wrote, and one eventually a large federal grant, it had to be some wasn't until the third time it was submitted, that it was actually funded because the reviewers had suggestions for improvement and so on. So, it was entitled anxiety and ageing, intervention with EG Alpha feedback. I had funding to do two personality test measures a week apart before the training and then after the training. So, we could compare the changes, correct, if necessary, for any regression to the mean, you can do that if you have to pre measured, and then I put in a six month follow up and that 12 month follow up to see you know, how long the results lasted.
So, one of the target populations was women over 60. Anxiety is higher in women than men at every age. In both men and women, anxiety goes up today and, in the women, it goes up faster. So, women over 60 would be a group, high risk for anxiety. So, I wanted to see if it would work there and we were delighted. Yes, the women were up into their 80s and they had total life transforming experiences. One woman who was a widow, 74, man lover, who was 47 and he pronounced her satisfying, both spiritually and sexually. I had an 80-year-old woman, and she was 81. When she finished her training, she insisted on going for a ride with me on my motorcycle, she wrote sidesaddle. So, some of them went to college, many of them had never graduated high school, they got GE days, they went to a college, they got advanced degrees. Some of them started businesses in their 70s and 80s. It was like they had drunk from the fountain of youth. It's absolutely amazing. But the question is, was it going to last? So, at six months, we start bringing them back for retesting, and to our other responders, and they were better at six months, and they were in the day right after the training, how could this be okay? Then another six months go by, we bring it back to 12 months, and they're better than they were at the end of six months. So, of course, it's an intellectual puzzle for me as a scientist, how could this be? Well, here's what I came up with. When you fundamentally change how you perceive reality, you start a process of change that is basically ongoing. Let me give you a simple example. Let's say you were born colorblind. And you only saw the world in black and white and shades of grey, well, then maybe you have American surgery, or you go to Lourdes and put the sacred water in your eyes, and now she colored. Well, every flower, and every sunset for months is going to be a showstopper. Oh, wow, look at that, so pretty. Oh, you got to see this. That's really its own. But it's also going to change the way you live, used to be when you went food shopping. Because you didn't see color, you'd buy a box of this and the Canada that. Now you're drilling by the colours of the fresh fruit’s vegetable, and you buy an either fresher, healthier diet. So, your internal biochemistry starts to change, or in the morning, you go to the closet and get dressed and then put instead of putting on geeky clashing colours that cause people, they're like, Oh, I'm not going to talk to that person, you know, our color coordinated, and your circle of friends expands and growth. So, in these two examples, and you guys, I'm sure come up with dozens more, your entire life will be changed by this one shift in your perception.
So, that is sufficient, I think, to explain why these benefits continue to grow and to give me an idea how extraordinary this was. I had been an assistant research psychologists at Langley Porter neuropsychiatric Institute, which is part of UCSF. When I won this large federal grant, I was promoted to an Assistant Professor of Medical psychology within the Augusta psychiatry department. Well, shortly after that, the department chairman issued a decree that there must be an annual faculty retreat, where every member of the psychiatry faculty would have to attend the retreat and get up on stage and talk with 10 minutes about the research. So, when it's my turn, I get up and I'm showing slides of the MMPI profile. With all these clinical scales, pre and post, then the dates are like seven or eight days apart. As I said, people going from the 98, or 99th percentile of psychopathology, of anxiety, paranoid schizophrenia, depression, down into the middle of the normal and halfway through, you're very good, you think people would be happy, but I'm only halfway through my talk and two senior bearded members of the department have jumped out of the seats, shaking their fist, waving their fingers, and they're angry.
I was literally shouted off the stage. Now we work with an emotional hierarchy at the bottom is apathy. Then we have sadness and depression than anger than fear and enjoy. Well, they were expressing anger. So, what we know was actually going on they were, they were afraid that this young whippersnapper, this newest member of the psychiatry department, was going to disrupt their guts profession. So, the way it came out was anger, but that's an interesting metrics on how powerful and profound these changes are. When I was still back in California, working at the university, I had a psychiatrist come to me and say, Dr. Hardt, I want to do your training. I go, what's the story? He said, well, you without you knowing it, you've trained some of my patients, and you've done more for them in seven days, and I've been able to do in 20 years on, I want to know what you're doing. So, when you change your brainwaves, you change fundamentally who you are at an identity level.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 26:49
I was going to ask, is this does this affect your identity, not only your self-identity, but the identity that other people perceive of you?
Dr. James V. Hardt 26:58
Absolutely and Frederick punching in his book, parallel universes of self-identity and reality are synonymous. So, when you change your brainwaves, you change your identity, and that changes your reality. Now, all the way back in the 1800s, Gupta, Johann Wolfgang Gurkha made this famous quote, amendment, and a recite just a little bit of it. Once you commit, then Providence moves to raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. So, then I asked people, well, what do you understand the word Providence to mean, then they go, it's kind of an archaic word in colonial New England, a lot of people think of it as God or source or universe for the it all. So, once you come up, then Providence moves to raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and even material assistance, which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. So, once you commit, you take on the identity of someone who has made that decision. When you change your identity, you change your reality.
Now, let's go to the to the beginning part of that which change your brainwaves to change your identity. What I was finding was that people at the extremes of psychopathology, when they raise their alpha, they are no longer paranoid, they're no longer atheists are no longer depressed, all of those things come down and they show up differently in their lives and in the lives of the people around them, friends, family, and coworkers but at the same time that I was finding this out, a few other researchers were studying multiple personalities. Now, you probably have heard about this book that come to mind, like three faces of Eve, or civil. So, you could have, say, a female body, and it's occupied sometimes by a personality that calls itself Alice, another personality, Jane, and maybe there's a male personality built. So, we have Alice Jane and now if Alice is running the show, she cannot eat oranges. She can't drink orange juice, she can't pee oranges who break up in red. But if Jane or bill are running the show, it can take a bath of orange juice and with no problem. So, fundamental things like allergies are controlled by the personality which it turns out what these researchers did.
So, they have multiple, and they put brainwaves, electrodes on them, and then they just sit back and wait minutes, hours, many hours. When Alice would spontaneously shift into Jane or Bill, in those moments, it would be massive and profound, spontaneous changes in the brainwaves. So, I was finding when people voluntarily learned how to change their brainwaves, they would change their personality with personality. spontaneously face, it only changed when there were profound changes in the brain like so. It's well established scientifically, that your identity is dependent on your brainwaves and we have a technology where you can change your brainwaves, which then allows you to change my identity, which then you live in the new reality. All the way back to Gertie understood that in the cyber process, one of the Alpha, one of the heavy lifting processes is forgiveness and one of the details of the forgiveness is after you bring the person into your courtroom, where you have set up these, you know, three unimpeachable high beings, maybe angels or whatever, then you charge them, you go into the pain, if you want your offer to drop me you connected to the pain. Then as soon as you get enough whites on the screen, meaning you're off the drop, then you decide to forgive. Now, in that moment, you may not even fully want to forgive you and I may not be ready, you may not know how. But when you decide to forgive, in that moment, you basically take on the identity of a person less forgiving, and that begins the process of transformation, then you walk then you look for a gift or a lesson that came from it and then you walk into person shoes, and then go to compassion and it is profoundly transforming and it involves some of the same magic that Richard spoke about and his commitment.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 31:25
I love goddess quote, I've actually got that in my home in a plaque. I love the word Providence, by the way. So, I'm going to play devil's advocate. I'd like to play devil's advocate of the listener who may be saying, okay, if you're changing the personality of a person through the Biocybernaut process, and we're going into the different brain waves and doing such, is there has there ever been a case where the person's personality that emerges? Is not of their liking? Or it's something more deficient than what it went in as or is it always an increase of their personality and their aptitudes in the positive sense?
Dr. James V. Hardt 32:06
Well, that's a wonderful question and it allows for several important explanations to be given one is, we cannot change a person's brain life. We can give them like a mirror cannot make you smile, right? A mirror is a feedback device, you can stand in front of a mirror all day and keep a you know, a stony face is a mirror is by looking in the mirror, it's not going to cause you to smile or frown. But let's say you're an actress, and you have to have a role in a certain, you know, little play. A mirror is a perfect feedback device to use to perfect your smile, or to reflect you’re from. So, going all the way back to when I was still in university, we didn't have all the wires hidden. So, these college student came into the training. And he looked at all the wires and all the technology and he was all impressed and he sat down in his chair, wired in the chamber, he goes, okay, do it to me. I can't do anything to you. I've stood up the mirror, you have to try things. It's totally trial and error and then you do something and you see what happens and if it don't, if that's not what you want it then you try something else. Now regarding good results or bad results. When I was talking to the Site Visit Committee that came out on the third submission of my federal grant, they wanted me to make an alteration in the procedure. They said, because to them bring the feedback was still pretty new. As a psychologist, they wanted to have a sham feedback condition where they wanted me to record the sounds from one person and play them for another person. So, the feedback would not be real, just to see if there was anything about the sitting in the chamber or whatever that was going to make your alpha go up. I said, well, I just laughed, that would never work. Because all a person would have to do is open their eyes, even in the dark, and the Alpha shuts down. So, if they opened their eyes and the sound kept going, they would immediately know that it was a sham. It was real. And I said in addition, ethically, I don't like the idea of giving false feedback. So, they said well, the approval of this grant is contingent upon you coming up with some condition and so I thought, okay, oh, I could do beta feedback. Now, beta is the brainwave frequency above alpha. Now, typically, beta waves are 20% of the amplitude of alpha or 10%. They're small. And they're associated with anxiety and worry is as well as focused thinking. So, I said, I'll do beta feedback. But I'd have to do it in a kind of a sophisticated way. Because if, like halfway through the training, if we switch from alpha to beta, suddenly their scores will be smaller.
So, we'll run them for three days of baselines and calculate what their average alpha beta ratio is and embed that ratio in their ID number that the technicians will enter. So, if it happens to be a beta feedback day, then the scores would be scaled up by a factor of 5 or 6, 7, or 8 or whatever, to make them be about the same. So, the scores and the tones would be about the same. So, it was double blind. I was the only one who knew this, the technicians didn't know that it was anything other than alpha. I couldn't interact with people, but I could listen to a closed door. AI remember listening to some of the interviews, like on the day, where they went from the alpha to the beta. And this one woman said, oh, I lost my wager that I thought I knew what I was doing. But it didn't work and we're giving mood skills, pre and post. Before and after the training and on the days that people did beta enhancement. Their anxiety went up and their friendliness went down. On the days that their Alpha went up, when they were doing alphas the back, that anxiety would go down, and their friendliness would go up. So, yes, you could train on negative brainwaves. But why would you do that people, people don't want that feeling.
Now, if you were a prison guard in a concentration camp, and you wanted to force people at gunpoint to train bad brainwaves? Well, I guess you could do that. But there's no way that there's no way that people would voluntarily embrace training or beta, because it doesn't feel good. It makes them nervous, it makes them upset. It makes them anxious. So, when alpha goes up, the bad things go down. One of the very first papers I published in one of the top two science journals in the world, and the top two general science journals are nature which is published in Britain, and science, which is published in America. I published a paper showing that both types of anxiety go down, one, alpha goes up and these are state anxiety, trait anxiety, state anxiety is transitory. So, if you almost get you step off the curb, and you almost get hit by a bus and you jump back on the curb and your heart's pounding, you're breathing, that anxiety will fade pretty quickly that statement. But if you get up every day, and you feel anxious, because you have a personality characteristic of being an untidy, neurotic, that's trait anxiety. Well, both types of anxiety go down when alpha goes up.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 38:05
Amazing. That's amazing brainwaves rule. So, part of me wants to ask you about gamma delta theta and then there's another part of me that wants to ask, are there any interruptions in our culture that are affecting our brainwaves that we may not be conscious of such as radio frequencies, EMFs, things like that. Is there anything that you've scientifically been able to prove or see, that interrupts brainwaves and affect our evolution?
Dr. James V. Hardt 38:39
Well, we don't even have to get into 5g in order to come up with a lot of things, everything from coffee, unless it's caffeine free coffee, because caffeine induces alpha, so does nicotine and nicotine works faster because it goes through the lungs and somebody takes a puff off of a nicotine cigarette, almost instantly the Alpha drops. Whereas if you have a full stomach at the end of the meal and you have a cup of coffee, it's going to take 15 minutes for it. So, go through your stomach and diffuse out into your bloodstream. But an alcohol, alcohol is interesting. As little as one beer This is from my university research. One beer 24 hours ago will lower your alpha baseline the next day. Alcohol is a poison. It's a central nervous system depressant. But then some people say well, what about happy hour? I go well, actually it's happy 50 minutes. It's not happy hour and what happens is you have a lot of stress people at work and after work they go to a bar or someplace and they start to drink alcohol, which produces initial effect is muscular relaxation while muscle relaxation in a tense person will raise Alpha temporarily for about 50 minutes and then the central nervous system depressing effects of alpha kick in. And so, then it gets worse and worse and worse depending on how much they drink. Of course, there may be hangover the next day and even if there's not hangover, most people don't have a hangover, one beer the night before, but I can measure that they would have smaller alpha waves the next day if they had one year than they do for so the maximum allowable health alcohol is zero in mind.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 40:29
I love that. I love that we're talking about this because you know, whenever we have a higher consciousness of the activities that we're doing, and we know the consequences in the effects of those decisions that are higher level for our lives overall, then that gives us more responsibility on how we want to be.
Dr. James V. Hardt 40:54
Yep, exactly, that's beautiful and these are things now there's other things that people many people consume, that are empire, alpha, garlic, and onions. Hopefully, we send out a research paper to everyone who registered for the training, urging them to withdraw from onions and garlic and caffeine and alcohol and nicotine. As much as two weeks before they come for training. I'll share a little story with you. In Canada, we had a magnificent philanthropist who, from withdraw money paid for a people from his company to come. He with one partner grew a company from zero to $2 billion in just two years. A very brilliant businessman. He sent people from his company for alpha training, he said the ROI or the return on investment in an alpha training was 100. So, if he sent somebody for the class training, which is 15,000, he got back an employee that he valued at a million and a half more values of the company. The ROI is 100. He also sent with his own money over 200 Canadian Aboriginal. One of the first of these was a very famous Indian chief named Chief Victor buffalo. He was chief for Cree Indian tribes at the big reserve, which is what they call reservation at Habima, which is in Alberta near Edmonton. After he had done his alpha for it came to me and he said, hey, Doc, I have a confession, what's that? He said, Well, following your instruction, I eliminated tobacco, which for many of the First Nations people it's a big deal because he used tobacco ceremony and he eliminated tobacco, alcohol and nicotine, caffeine and onions and garlic. But he said after my alpha one, I went back to eating onions or garlic. Then when I came back from alpha two, I eliminated all those things again, he said after I did my alpha two, I did not go back to onions or garlic because I consciousness had risen to the point where I could feel what it was costing me. Now in India, the Brahmin class which are the priest’s class, are forbidden to eat garlic. I understand Queen Elizabeth does not allow garlic in Buckingham Palace. There's an Arab proverb that says after the devil had done his dirty work in the garden of Eden, when he walked out where his first foot fell, that's where garlic grew, and where his second foot fell. That's where onions grew. So, it's through many cultures that onions and garlic have a negative effect on meditation or to growth and the principal reason is just savages your alpha.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 43:49
So, these are defined in Hindu religions, at least as Rajazek foods.
Dr. James V. Hardt 43:56
Absolutely.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 43:59
Which also include spicy foods such as soy, I'm from Texas, so, we love salsa, and we love jalapenos but the Rajazek foods subdue your ability to reach Samadhi and to reach these higher states of consciousness. Is that what we're also referring to?
Dr. James V. Hardt 44:18
Absolutely, the three gunas, sattva, rajas and tamas. Tomas is the principle of inertia immix. Rajas is the principle of ego activity and willfulness. Sattva was the principle of peacefulness and enlightenment. Now, a monk sitting in samadhi or Satori would be high and software. A drunk Leung unconscious in gutter would be high and Thomas. They're both mobile, but the brainwaves are very different. Remember, we actually trademarked the brainwaves rule, depending on what brainwaves you're running your life. It's your life experiences are different. so much. Well, let me say a word about chilies. Please contain a chemical called capsicum. That's what makes them hot. But capsicum is also a carcinogen. So, people who want to do things that they know are bad for them will often practice denial and so my friend and compadre, Miguel Espinosa said to me, he said, here in Mexico, people have discovered the link between chilies and stomach cancer, but because they like chilli so, much they've inverted it. So, adults actually tell their children, we can't love stomach cancer. So, eat more chilies, it’ll burn up the cancer.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 45:54
Oh, my goodness. I know I've had you on for a while. I could probably speak with you all day long, Dr. Hardt, maybe we'll have you back on the show for going into the Delta, Gamma and theta waves, because those are those higher levels. I remember you saying that you have to basically be clean, mentally and spiritually to get because we don't want to create more harm in the world at all and when we get to those higher waves of creation, you can create good and you can create bad.
Dr. James V. Hardt 46:25
I understand you have time to for me to tell you about a study. I did that demonstrates transmission of good.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 46:31
Please.
Dr. James V. Hardt 46:33
Okay. So, the requirements for doing a theta are simple, you just have to do alpha one. Now we get to see your brain and if some people have a lot of data, and they can easily go right on. Sometimes people don't have that much data going after training also increases your data. But it differs how much it increases from person to person. So, we may recommend you need to do alpha two or three before you've just paid. But technically, if you insist, after alpha one, you're eligible to do data. This philanthropist in Canada, had his ear to the ground in the reservations and he was getting reports that led him to believe that the people who had done the Biocybernaut Alpha training at my center Event Centre in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, that they were somehow acting as apostles of light, spreading light to people who had never done the training and he asked me to design a study to confirm this intuition, this impression. So, I sat down like an academic psychologist, I designed this very detailed, three-year study. I presented it to him, he said, that's a great study. But I want to answer this by June.
So, I go, oh, my God. So, what I did was I came up with a survey that was done online through Survey Monkey and there were hundreds of questions, including, what do you eat? What are you wearing? How are your relationships with your grandchildren or with your wife? Or, you know, just very, very, very hundreds of questions. So, we gave this to all the Aboriginal people who had done the training, but we asked them to give us their contact information for their family members and many of them had very extended families, close relatives, and their friendship networks and for those that had jobs, we asked for the emails of their coworkers. So, then we sent these out, and they had the people, family members, friends and coworkers rate the people compared to how they were before they're off training. Well, the People's ratings of themselves were huge improvements. But the people around them also rated them even many cases more improved, like less pushing and shoving less shouting and they were saying that things like we didn't give them guidance for this. But the trainees, the graduates were saying, Well, we're getting about the same amount of meats and grains. We're eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, and we're eating less sweets and fast food. So, this is all naturally occurring as a result of their consciousness growing up, we didn't give them any guidance. But when we have these results of the family members of friends and the coworkers analyzed by scientists and included psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, ecologists, ethnologist and a mathematical statistics runs statistician. What they concluded was that the benefits of the training were somehow propagating out to everyone they interacted with it. So, I came up we all know the word contagious. Well, I coined a new word for these results, we call them protesters and the benefits of higher consciousness get on people that are around you. The benefits of the Biocybernaut Alpha training are pro stages and so, that's an actual scientific study published in a British Journal.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 50:22
I love it. I want to become pro contagious. I love this. In fact, Dr. Hardt, you are a delight. You are such a delight, I really love that your scientists because that is what our world also needs to believe in. Its own evolution and thank you for quoting Gerda, one of my favorite philosophers. Thank you!
Dr. James V. Hardt 50:48
Never look at that quote the same way, you'll always understand it more deeply.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 50:52
I totally will. I am definitely going over to the www.biocybernaut.com, signing up.
Dr. James V. Hardt 51:00
There's something really important. Everyone who has listened to the podcast can go, you gave the website, www.biocybernaut.com/ bonus, you will come to a landing page, where you can sign up and get a free digital copy of my book, The Art of smart thinking,
Tina Marie St. Cyr 51:28
Oh, wow, thank you.
Dr. James V. Hardt 51:32
www.biocybernaut.com, you get a free copy of my book.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 51:39
We're going to put that in the show notes too. So, people don't miss out on that in any way. We're following you on Facebook, you're on Twitter, and on LinkedIn at the site Biocybernaut Institute. However, we can help you continue your studies because you're helping humanity evolve.
Dr. James V. Hardt 51:56
The purpose of Biocybernaut is to reduce suffering and expand awareness as broadly as possible, and to usher in an enduring golden age for all humanity. That's our mission statement.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 52:12
I'm in.
Dr. James V. Hardt 52:16
You are Biocybernaut.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 52:17
Thank you so much and we defined the odds, we defied the odds of technical interruption. Thank you so much, Dr. James. Have a beautiful weekend and thank you for your service.
Dr. James V. Hardt 52:29
Many blessings. Thank you for being.
Tina Marie St. Cyr 52:31
Thank you. That was so energizing! I have takeaways that will help my life and I'm sure you do too. To get show notes bonuses, gifts for you from our guests, and more and over to light your life podcast.com and be sure to bookmark this podcast is one of your favorites. I am Tina Marie St. Cyr, founder of Bonfire coaching and creator of the Bonfire method. Thank you so much for being connected. Now my homework for you, summon the courage to light your life a little more, and go make progress on your dreams today.
