when was the last time you practiced
forgiveness when was the last time you
forgave someone whether it was a taxi
driver who took you for a wrong ride or
it was someone who broke your heart way
in the past i came across something
recently that just blew me away um i was
not expecting it and it had to do with
some research that scientists were doing
on how to access altered states so you
see most people in the world today we
function in what is called the beta
level brain frequency or it's the waking
state right but today we know that our
brains are far more complex than that
and there are different states of
consciousness that you can access alpha
theta gamma delta and then within these
states of consciousness there are
different aspects to it from alpha
amplitude to theta um whole brain
coherence but when you access these
states they seem to give you access to
unique ability one of the most
fascinating things that i found about
altered states happened when i i went to
this lab and um there are actually
multiple labs which are doing this but
what they do is they try to reverse
engineer the brainwave states of monks
so they they they take these monks they
strap them to this equipment and it
measures the hmong's brainwave state and
then they take ordinary folks you get
strapped to the equipment and they
attempt to reverse engineer the
brainwave states of monks and they were
trying to get you as you're doing this
equipment to play around with all of
these different mindfulness techniques
prayer um creative visualization to see
what got you at those states what you're
seeing here some video of me getting my
brain strapped up before i go into one
of these chambers and i know forgiveness
can be challenging i know forgiveness
can be really difficult but what i found
when i was in those chambers with my
brain hooked up going through five days
of forgiveness is that it fundamentally
shifted me
and don't forget as you practice
forgiveness rituals that one of the
biggest things in life that you often
need to forgive is yourself for wrong
decisions you make made in the past many
of us still beat ourselves up for past
mistakes so you start by forgiving
others but by forgiving yourself and
forgiveness seems to release you for
example scientists know that if you can
access the alpha wave frequency at a
conscious waking level you tend to be
more relaxed you tend to be more chill
and in fact when you're meditating
that's exactly what you're doing so
we've created this society this culture
where we train people that they are
monophasic that they have only one phase
beta
but that's not real you can access
altered states and use these altered
states to do some really incredible
things in the world in fact stephen
cutler wrote a book called stealing fire
which is about the islet state economy
and in that book he says that the
altered state economy is now over a
trillion dollars and it ranges from
marines using technologies to get into
states where they can focus better to
ceos using these technologies to be able
to magnify their impact in ordinary
people using these technologies to be
able to get chill meditate and get in
the zone right and one of the scientists
he had a fascinating story what he said
is that there was this one lady in one
of his chambers once
and
she was showing a remarkable rise a
remarkable elevation in her state more
and more towards that monk-like
reality and he asked her what are you
doing and she goes well i've been trying
to forgive that bastard and she was
referring to her ex-husband she was
basically forgiving her ex-husband in
her meditation and it was causing her
her levels of what they call alpha
amplitude right to spike to go higher
and higher and higher so they started
trying this with different people
including me when you forgive you're
accessing new levels of consciousness
you're able to cause your alpha levels
to go up which means deeper and more
profound meditation levels but it's
fascinating why is forgiveness doing
this i read about studies in israel that
showed that when you forgive
people when you forgive people who
wronged you you know even way back in
the past you actually improved your
endurance other studies show and this
was done at the university of utrecht
that forgiveness can cause you to
improve your vertical jump like that's
crazy right especially if you're a
basketball player go ahead and forgive
your opponents but what's going on there
is that forgiveness seems to unlock
something superhuman about ourselves
science is showing that the results are
crazy forgiveness seems to improve bad
back it seems to improve your heart
health it makes you sleep better it gets
people to emerge out of the depression
sooner the science is absolutely
stunning now
in my quest to understand altered states
to understand how to optimize human
consciousness so people can do more can
live better can maximize their
productivity of work forgiveness is a
key part of what i've been studying so i
go to these labs often i develop my
protocols for forgiveness for and for
other related states such as compassion
if you find these ideas interesting i
want to invite you to check out a master
class i'm doing it's about an hour and
10 minutes but i'm to explain to you how
to tap into these states what these
states look like you're going to be
given a map so that you can see how you
can go from state one to two to three to
four and when you have this map you
accelerate your evolution into these
states if you find these ideas
fascinating go ahead and check out the
masterclass have a journal have a pen
and i can't wait to take you in an
exploration of what's going on inside
your head i'll see you there
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