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Dr. Amy Albright's journey from atheist neuroscience student to pioneer in the field of consciousness transformation began with an unexpected spiritual awakening at age 18. This profound experience launched her on a path to explore the intersection of brain science and spiritual alignment—a quest that would eventually lead to groundbreaking work helping people access their highest potential through advanced neurofeedback technology.
At Holon, the organization she co-founded with Dr. Drew Pierson, Dr. Albright has created what she calls a "laboratory temple"—a space where cutting-edge neuroscience meets sacred healing practices. Using medical-grade EEG technology, they measure thousands of brain data points simultaneously, identifying not just problems but inherent gifts and untapped abilities. "If we can measure it and name it," she explains, "we know how to help you change it."
The results are remarkable. Participants often experience up to 40% change in brain function within just five days, with benefits continuing to develop for months as new neural connections grow. Through a process that looks like playing a video game with your mind, the brain—not the conscious mind—receives immediate feedback on how well it's performing the desired functions. This direct brain training helps people reduce anxiety, improve focus, access altered states of consciousness, and even enhance natural abilities like clairvoyance or healing.
What makes Dr. Albright's approach revolutionary is her philosophical framework. She challenges the conventional psychotherapeutic model suggesting we can only achieve marginal improvements through years of work. Instead, she maintains that "we're on the precipice of a miracle at any given moment" and that "radical transformation is available without more suffering." This perspective stems from understanding ourselves as connected to something greater—capable of healing and transformation when we align with our true nature.
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So welcome everybody to another episode of Balm to the Soul, and I'm your host, natasha Joy Price, and I'm a solicitor, I'm an energy therapist, I'm an author and, of course, I'm a podcaster. And today we've got a new guest on and her name is Dr Amy Albright. So welcome to the podcast and thank you for supporting us.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's a pleasure. I'm fascinated about what we're going to talk about now, but let me just introduce you. So Dr Amy Albright is a pioneer in the intersection of neuroscience, energy and spiritual alignment. She's spent over two decades helping individuals and organizations clear energy, energetic blockages, rewire limiting patterns and reconnect with their true essence. She's the CEO and co-founder of Holum. Dr Amy has collaborated with Dr Drew Pearson to create groundbreaking programs that use advanced neurofeedback and energy-based practices to support holistic transformation. Sounds amazing, thank you. So can I just answer your question before we really get into this? How did you sort of link the spiritual to looking at brain patterns?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's an interesting kind of origin story. So when I was 18 years old, I was an undergraduate studying at the university and I was an atheist. I never had much religious upbringing. I actually realized that the people at the church that I had been brought to briefly, when I was maybe in seventh or eighth grade, felt that everybody was going to burn in hell if they hadn't been baptized to the Christian faith. I'm like, yeah, meaning babies in Africa that haven't had a chance. And so, anyways, I had decided religion wasn't for me early on and walked out of that whole paradigm, and then I basically shut out everything because I didn't know about spirituality. I didn't know that that even existed. Although I'd had this feeling of it in my body, I didn't see how it fit in the world around me at that time. In the world around me at that time, and when I was 18, I basically had a massive spiritual awakening, which is a really unexpected thing, for an atheist to have?
Speaker 1:I wasn't seeking.
Speaker 2:It came to me and it rocked my world.
Speaker 2:And so, because I was studying neurosciences, it's hard to explain, you know, those transcendental moments, but it's, let's just say, it's like in the context of knowing that that there's so much that's known about the brain and about science, there's no way that science will ever be able to explain this sort of transcendental moment where everything has come into oneness and I'm feeling like I'm levitating and I'm sinking and I'm hearing voices and you know, everything is all happening at once and again it's something that sounds sort of there's not good words for it, right, because it's so deeply powerful and transcendent of any of that.
Speaker 2:But it's like there must be a God. And so I took back, I shifted my studies through that lens then, like how can we study neurosciences and how can we? You know, I was studying. My academic course at that time was to become a researching professor to study the brain. So how do I study the brain? How do I understand how we perceive reality? But this time now, through a very deeply spiritual and inquisitive frame of knowing that we have no idea what we're doing.
Speaker 2:Even no matter how much science we create, we still can't possibly understand. Because how do you understand the concept of infinity? How do you understand the, the, the, the levels of reality that exist inside of one cell, much less, or one drop of water, much less? The ocean, right? So it's not possible. So it creates a very humble quest, which I think is the real heart of science and that we've lost. That Science has become very heady, very judgy, very. We know better than you, and don't you want to follow the data? And you know I talk about it that people are basically praying to the false god of science. And I say that as a person who loves science, because I think we've turned it into that. It must be true. If somebody found it to be true in some study and it's like well, how they design that study and how they crunch their data. They crunch their data Because I can tell you, when I was practicing to be a researching professor and a researcher, that you can crunch data in different ways and get different outcome.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And how you design the study means that you're impacting how you had, the influence of the study and the very questions that's being asked inside of it. So a lot, of, a lot of my well, really everything in my professional career really started at that moment, at 18, when I had that spiritual awakening experience, and it's just continued to layer in from there. You know what is real and being able to have be real, what is of the unseen world, what is unexplored, what is untapped world, what is unexplored, what is untapped whether that's what exists in the depths of the ocean or the farthest out galaxy or in aspects of the brain. Back at this time, the professors that I was studying under could feel quite dedicated to knowing that they know what's going on with the brain and it's like, yeah, but back then they didn't even believe in neuroplasticity. And it's like, yeah, but back then they didn't even believe in neuroplasticity.
Speaker 2:No, right, and this is in the 90s, even though neuroplasticity had been shown to be real since the 1960s, consistently in clinical results, not as a theory, but getting changes in people's brains via neurofeedback therapy, because that's when the beginnings of neurofeedback therapy began, but the academics were arguing that it's an impossibility and neuroplasticity ends, you know, as the brain reaches maturity at age 22 or something like that. And now you know we have even more decades of understanding of that, but remembering that for a moment in time humans were so fallible as to believe that things don't change, that the brain doesn't grow and develop. So the ridiculousness of all of it is kind of the understanding, a lot of the basis of understanding, of knowing that we don't know and still having deep footing Everything that we do is actually driven in. Our organization is very, very, very driven by science. But it's not myopic inside of that if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely Fascinating. When I was doing my master's in parapsychology, it was very much. We had to take spiritual experiences and make them fit into a scientific box, if you like, and of course they didn't fit. And if they didn't fit and if they didn't fit, then they didn't exist. But we all knew they existed and it was just so frustrating. So I understand that. Um, so why do you think it's so important, the work that you do for, for humans, basically, and why do you think it's more urgent now than ever before that we get this understanding?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I think that basically we're all, we're kind of fallen victim to things like materialism and separatism, like it's only real if you can touch it or explain it by. What we understand right now is what I'm hearing you say from your degree. Right, and that's materialism. Like if we don't know how to name it, then it must, or if we haven't been able to measure it, then it doesn't exist, and that's, it's a ridiculousness. And then, baked into the system also is separatism. And you know, like I am different than you and this tree has nothing to do with me, and what's going on with our water or another nation of people around the world has nothing to do with me, or, worse yet, we should hate them because they're taking from us, or we should, you know, create divisionism inside of that, not only be separate, um, and not be inside of unity and understanding that we are all interconnected, but to actually turn upon another part of ourself as that greater organism in hatred yeah, because if we are connected.
Speaker 1:That's exactly what we're doing, isn't it?
Speaker 2:yeah, and so we're coming to a tipping point. I would say environmentally, socially, politically, economically we're watching, we're watching, you know. Do we want to have an extinction event? Are we really willing to be so separate and so in our heads and in our righteousness and willing to argue about stuff that actually doesn't really matter even if it does matter, like we end up losing our values for the things that we're screaming at each other for, we're living outside of what truth is.
Speaker 2:In that effort to fight for what we think is right, yeah, to fight for what we think is right, yeah.
Speaker 2:And all of that, the materialism, the separatism, the anger, the overt and covert violence that exists, it has to come to a close.
Speaker 2:You know it is coming to a close, and so it's time to be able to you know, like, even within this construct that we were discussing just a moment before, honor science.
Speaker 2:I don't mean for us to lose our footing and just believe in whatever you know, like, even within this construct that we were discussing just a moment before, honor science. I don't mean for us to lose our footing and just believe in whatever you know, but also honor the unseen world, yeah, right, how do we hold what is sacred and stay true to our values and come into healing inside of the individual, but also inside of the hologram of all of us, right, the trees and forests and the people in the water and everything that is here. How do we come into that healing? It's not going to be via those old methods, but yet we have to stay rooted. We have to stay rooted inside of the sacred. We have to stay rooted inside of the sacred. We have to also utilize science. It's a road that doesn't exist inside of the screaming and the black and the white of it. It's a road that exists inside of taking in kind of the total picture and being able to live from a place.
Speaker 1:That's real wisdom, wisdom because you know a lot of what's out there is knowledge, and knowledge can be wrong.
Speaker 2:yeah, and wisdom makes space. Wisdom makes space for everybody. It makes space for, and it's not even just about humans, it's wisdom makes space for earth. We cannot live without our mother. We will die. You know, there's not a good.
Speaker 2:I love that, that comment. There's no planet planet to be like, there's no planet that we can exist on without this planet. And so how do we, how do we come together inside of what really needs to be seen and and how do we shape a new reality? And and I and I don't think it's going to be through the argument of the topics, nor is it going to be from looking away from them, but rather being able to hold steady inside of what is true and that is how we cultivate and create wisdom. And it's a moment-by-moment practice and we're each responsible for it.
Speaker 2:We each have a huge role to play in it, and it'll help to reshape our lives. It reshapes our lives in a huge way, but it'll help to reshape how everything is going in that greater course for all of humanity and for the whole planet as we do that. So to me it's about consciousness, it's about wisdom, it's about awareness, it's about compassion, it's about really being able to be free to speak. It's really about being able to be free to find solutions together, and so there's a huge evolution that's needed, and it has to be experiential, not just academic or philosophical. It has to be what we're living.
Speaker 1:And at Holon, you help people to accelerate their gifts, don't you? You help them to accelerate their evolution, if you like. So talk to us about that. How do you help them do that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, there's many different ways. One of the things that we're most known for is our work directly into the neurology different ways. One of the things that we're most known for is our work directly into the neurology. So, again, for everything that I've said, just a real deep love and respect for science. So we have the most advanced capacities to measure and then also change how people's neurology is functioning so that they can quiet down overactive areas of the brain and bring up communication across the brain, so that their brain waves can be more beautiful and move in the ways, the rhythms, and then, from the places that they're intended to, really bringing the symphony of the brain into its proper tuning, because a lot of people, the discordance that they're experiencing, whether that's fear and anxiety or insomnia or those kind of things, it's like the brain's not even playing the same song, much less their instruments tuned, much less. You know all these elements of the brain. So bringing, bringing that in is is, it's tremendous. And then what's possible inside of that attunement? You know, if you don't have a violin that's screeching down in the front anymore, you can suddenly make clear decisions. You can see things that you didn't see before as opportunities. So a lot of what we're doing in Holon is working directly into the brain and our signature offering is something that we do on site and from a Thursday to a Monday we guide people through a huge amount of actual changing. Their brain is learning how to be in that symphony in a way that is extremely detailed and extremely precise to how their brain wants to be Like. Not everybody has the same number of flutes versus cellos, versus whatever. It is right. We're not supposed to thank God, we're not supposed to think, you know, thank God, we're not all the same, but how and how does this particular symphony want to be uh, tuned and who you know, and how does that express? So, keeping that individualized uh care and and honoring the individualized nature of of each being that comes through, and we and we do that.
Speaker 2:So we, I call it our laboratory temple. So I'm standing in one area of that right now and, um, you know, we have, we have these incredible, we have like space, spaceship looking gadgets that people climb in and it takes people up to altitude and back down every three to five seconds. So it's like, uh, you know, thousands of feet tall, like that, you know, like an air you can end up like at the top of the highest mountain on the on the planet and then back down to sea level and doing that every few seconds and I mean it looks all space agey and whatever and we have all of that going. But as much as it is a laboratory, it's also a temple space and I mean that in a non denominational, like sacred spiritual you know, we have, we.
Speaker 2:We bring people into the depths of that truth of who they are and that depth of understanding themselves as a part of the sacred and whatever their particulars, of their faith, are really empowering them to not only feel self-confident or self-worth or something like that, but to be able to embody the experience of belonging, not to just conceptualize oneness but to experience oneness via the technology which this technology the neurofeedback therapy, the ways that we do it can actually help people to achieve altered states of consciousness, similar maybe to psychedelics or those big breakthrough pinnacle moments that people have at awakenings.
Speaker 2:But we do it in such a way where they're very safe and guided. It's very held, it's very specific to their particular neurology and they realize that there's this gateway to God that's there, it's the gateway to the divine that is there for them at all times, via their own neurology. So they're having visions and you know, massive, massive realizations and huge things just falling away that have plagued them for decades, you know, maybe even lifetimes, and and that that's just dropping away with the thanks of science. Right, it's an incredible.
Speaker 1:It's an incredible fusion yeah, it really is a fusion isn't it because they're wired up and you're watching what their brain is doing, but you're working with their energy as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right it sounds that's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and my, my colleague is the true neuroscientist. Yeah, it is amazing. Sorry, my my colleague is colleague, is the true, that's right. Yes, yeah, and he can see on someone's EEG. Let's say they've got their eyes closed and they're in a very deep and relaxed state. And let's say we're working on the amplitude and the synchrony, not just the coherence but the synchrony of their alpha and theta waves. This is just one example of what we might do.
Speaker 2:He can see by the way that their brain waves are working. He's like, ah, they're going into a deep visioning state. They're having some sort of a dream-like reality. They know they're awake, but they're in a dream-like reality and they're having images as though they're in a deep dream state, you know, while they're awake. Or this one here is when you know their meditative qualities are so profound that they're having this feeling of bliss in their body. It can all be read. I can read it a bit, but he's the real brain whiz at that level. As much as I studied him and you know, I went through medical school the brain is just so highly specific and his capacity to understand that is, it's all. I don't know that there's another neuroscientist. There may be, but we don't know necessarily another neuroscientist that understands how to understand transcendent states and the development of consciousness and how that actually looks in the brain. There are many that study it, but they don't know how to create it.
Speaker 1:And they don't know, perhaps seeing it, seeing the brainwave state, what that implies. That's right, that's fascinating. I've been trained in fetal healing, so where you change your brainwave state, and actually I did it. I was a volunteer for somebody doing their master's in meditation, and so I was all wired up and I thought, well, I'll just test it.
Speaker 1:There was a screen so you could see your brainwaves, and I thought I'll just test it. I'll go into theatre, I'll go into what I think is me going into theta, because of course I have no reference, I would, I just think so. And he actually said to me oh, you're talking to me and you're going into theta. So that was such a massive um affirmation from me but so interesting, so you can see all of that, what's happening, whether they're in sync, that that just sounds amazing and presumably the person who's experiencing can they also see that on the screen. They can see what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:They do. Yeah, They'll come in reporting what they report. So if you were to come in, you'd say I do this, I do this theta healing, and we would say, okay, that's great, but it doesn't mean that, just like you said, it's a really wise what you said. It doesn't matter if you listen to binaural beats or you do a theta meditation or you've learned theta healing. It doesn't mean that you actually have any more amplitude or any more coherence or synchrony within theta. It just means that that's the name of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah what the brain is actually doing is its own thing. Yeah, and so we would be able to see, yeah, we would be able to see in your brain. You know that ability. And it's not just theta anywhere at any time. It's organized theta in certain areas at a certain frequency. That relates to healership Because, you know, hopefully we all have theta. That's a part of how we bridge down into sleep. It's part of our creativity. It's a predominant wave of our early childhood, you know. So it's there, yeah.
Speaker 1:So with that we can. Well, we believe that consciously we go into theta when we want to go into theta. So presumably that's a possibility for all brainwave states. We can change that will if we have that confirmation that what we're doing is actually working. But yes, we have that sort of request of the brain to go into this different brainwave state.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people that have done some of these advanced trainings, they know how to move their brain into gamma. They know how to move their brain into alpha. You know, alpha is the meditation wave. It's predominant in other moments too, going in and out of sleep, but it's really strong in meditators. So what we see is the. If we're talking about waves, imagine that we're at the shore, the seashore right, and there at the beach we've got waves that come in at a certain timing. How tall are those waves? So the alpha waves become taller. They still kind of are in the same timing, but they become taller.
Speaker 2:If we've done a lot of meditation, hopefully right. So we can see inside of monks or people who have been meditating very, very diligently hours a day for decades, a certain height of that wave of alpha. Well, we can get that same height of that wave of alpha in a much shorter time utilizing the neurofeedback therapy. So what we find is that sometimes people will say I've been meditating every day 30 minutes or an hour or whatever it is. I go to Vipassana retreats, I do all this meditation for decades, and then they come here and they're like oh, this is a totally different thing. All this business of watching the mind. That's a very preliminary.
Speaker 2:Once alpha waves become, uh, high enough in their, in their, in their yeah, high enough is the way to describe it then what happens is that there isn't a mind to observe, right, the mind goes silent. And so how, but how to get there? It's like do you want to carve that path through years and years of sitting and being really annoyed that you can't stop thinking? And I mean it's still. I don't mean to take anything away from the actual practice of sitting. I think that's irreplaceable, but just as far as like, if there's the theta the theta healing and then alpha is associated with meditation. But it doesn't mean if you're meditating, if you're sitting with your eyes closed, doesn't mean you have alpha come up no no, no, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, and you know people that can go to these big, big events and feel like that they've been told they've gone into gamma and they're screaming and I don't know if you've heard of these things, but people are convulsing on the floor and it's like that's not gamma. When we have people spike absolute gamma here they are holding still, they are, they're in a state of full bliss, but it's not this big showy thing, you know. So there's just so much that's out there, that's not accurate in its understanding yeah, and and how you?
Speaker 1:what is happening when that is happening in your brain? If you, it's very hard to tell, isn't it? Without doing what you're doing?
Speaker 2:yeah, I would say, yeah, exactly people. I had somebody the other day asking you know when I I hit this state, you know what brain wave is that? And it's like this is where I do say to it's like I'm speculating. I can speculate with you if you want, I can guess, but until we have a look, it's it is just speculation, and so that's where I want to stay, really remaining grounded inside of the science Until we can measure it. I can't say what somebody is experiencing.
Speaker 1:No, are you also actually looking at anything physicality of the brain, or are you looking at the brainwave states?
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's so many different ways to study the brain. You can look at blood flow, you can, you know. You can look at, like, the mass and the volume of the structures. What we're looking at is electrical, so we're measuring down to about 40 milliseconds and thousands of data points simultaneously. So it's not just the cortex, it's not just the waves we're looking at. How are the amygdala? By the way, there are two amygdala. These are my myth busters I like to do People think of the amygdala as a singular, because that's how we pronounce it.
Speaker 2:But you know, how are those amygdala doing? Are they in communication? Are they getting too much static? And all of that from the cerebellum because they're not actually driving the show. They're a part of the puzzle if somebody's really triggered a lot, but it's usually coming from deeper how is the hippocampus helping or not helping to form long-term memories? How is their attention and their focus?
Speaker 2:It's so many data points that come in an EEG and this is a medical-grade EEG that you'd see at the research institutions and all of that and the ability to read those and not just looking for pathology that's another frame. We know this. Most of what's out there is really like, oh, what's wrong with you, and then what pill do we have for it? Right, and that's not a helpful frame at its biggest and deepest construct. So most of the neurosciences is also geared for pathology. You know, this person's got ADHD, this person's got schizophrenia, whatever. All of it is Depression, anxiety, and so what we can see when we look into the brain my, my colleague especially is what are those inherent gifts? Is this person a theta healer? You know? Do they have a clairvoyant aptitude, right? Are they clear audience? All of that can be seen in the brain so that's.
Speaker 2:It's a part of what people will say, oh, but it's a mystical experience and you know, when my colleague looks at a brain, he can see. I mean, maybe not. There could always be like a transient moment in time where there's an awakening and they have clairaudience and clairvoyance and everything all at once. But if somebody is claiming to be all of those things on a regular basis, we will absolutely see it in their brain, in that EEG, and we can amplify those traits, you know, and we can help others. We have people that come to us and they'll say it's like it's usually something like this I'd like to be less reactive and more feeling at state of peace, especially with everything that's going on in the world. I'd like to sleep a little better. You know, I wake up. Two, three, you know whatever it is like. They've got their stuff, and then we'll have people. A lot of times they'll say stuff like this I'd like to. I'd like to be a medical intuitive. I'd like to be a clairvoyant. I'd like for my clairvoyance to be more sharp and acute.
Speaker 1:I like to know how to get into altered states without the bridge of using psychedelics or having to go to a breathwork class and and you know, like, like, how do I get there on my own and you can help them with all of that. Wow, so if you, if somebody came to you and you could see that a bit like your analogy, the orchestra, everything was discordant, and they're sitting there being monitored, what do you to help them become, you know, synchronized?
Speaker 2:Yeah, totally yeah. How do you get that symphony? How do you get the parts to know that they're playing the same song or what's going on? So neurofeedback therapy is going to be one of the main ways, although there are also energy medicines. But since we've been mostly talking about the brain part, I'll start there.
Speaker 2:Within the neuro narrow feedback therapy, what we're doing is we're sensing what's happening with the brain. We're not putting a new signal directly to the brain. The information from the brain is being put into the computer, like I said, at 40 milliseconds. Then it's being fed back to the brain, not to the mind. So what the person is doing?
Speaker 2:Essentially, if they have their eyes open, it looks like they're playing a video game, but they're not touching anything. They're not doing anything physically, they're just staring at the screen, and what's running the video game is their brain, and their brain is being given reward. It's being given the sights and the sounds, or like moving the things on the screen the way that they're they've been instructed to do when they do what it is they're supposed to do. So let's say they're wanting to reduce anxiety and create more focus when their brain is using the electrical patterns that are more in alignment with bringing down anxiety and upping focus, then they receive those cues on the screen of the video game, so to speak. Right, there's another setting where we also want to train the. Of course, we want to train the eyes closed, reality, and that's a lot of the wave training, and so they maybe just hear something.
Speaker 2:In that case, excuse me, just getting over a a thing um so the so the neurofeedback therapy is essentially telling the brain not the mind, but the brain directly exactly how well it's performing at whatever it's being asked to do, and the mind is not able to conceive of how it's driving the video game or how it's making those sounds come out right. Um and it, and it's extremely precise. There are less precise, more over-the-counter neurofeedback therapy that's out there. There's a lot of, actually a decent number of home use devices, but the neurofeedback that we're using is so tailored and precise and so able to measure so many different structures simultaneously, not just the cortex, the outer wrapper of the brain.
Speaker 1:Does the person have to be physically with you in the room to do this?
Speaker 2:We can send equipment out with folks so that they can train. My colleague will train people in real time once they've gone home, but he likes to work with people once they've come through our program. But it can be done. There's an over-the-counter of all the devices. I would actually say they're either typically not helpful or could be dangerous. He actually invented one that has nothing to do with Holon. This is something, a separate project of his that's called the Sensei, and this is one that you know. If people read the instructions on the website and make sure they don't have a medical contraindication like, for instance, it's not okay for an epileptic or certain kinds of conditions to utilize this they need to go see a clinician you know that really knows how to help them.
Speaker 2:they need to go see a clinician that really knows how to help them, but for most people the Sensei headset is an amazing at-home device that they can use safely. It has really brilliant guardrails so that they can't hurt themselves and they'll actually help themselves. And it does the neurofeedback therapy. It does heart rate variability training, so it really helps with stress and and heart health, which then of course, might help with longevity in some cases. Um, and then it also does photobiomodulation, so the sending in of light through the into the brain, and that can help with brain brightening and, you know, premature aging of the brain kind of symptoms. So so that's a device that I do think is a great option for at home.
Speaker 2:Just to speak to the at home use, you know our program is available to less than 30 people, the one that I'm describing. We have other programs, but this, this most pinnacle expression of our, of our technology and having people on site, is less than 30 people a year, and my heart as a clinician and as a person, as a being, is like I want everybody to be able to be helped. One sensei device can be split amongst a household or a team at work and it's like $250 per person per year, which is about the cost of a single session in most clinical settings. So the device itself is not crazy expensive. I mean, no matter what it is, there is some cost, but it makes it a little bit more approachable. So I just want to mention that.
Speaker 2:But another way that we bring to go back to your prior question that we bring the brain into the symphony, that the symphony is tuned, is also just getting people really clear on what is it that they most value and getting them on their mission and on the central feeling of their path. A lot of the times the diseases or the pains of the body or the mind or the energy, the energetics of someone are felt because of that misalignment. It's like they're a car driving along the side the median and they're seeing these sparks come and they're wondering why they're in pain so getting people ready, out of sync really with your body, physically, your mind yeah, absolutely, and there's a neurological impact of that.
Speaker 2:If somebody's in the wrong sort of work or they're attempting to be something or somebody that they're not, we'll see their real signature in their brain and we can feel it in their essence in the room, and then we also see the symptoms of them pretending to be something that they're not Neurologically, energetically, emotionally, it's all there. So, getting people on that path, and then also just there's a lot of methodologies that I'm able to employ. I think I come from such a different you can hear it like it's a different point of view on. It's like taking what maybe people normally think about and just kind of turning it all on its head, and I think that one of the main guiding philosophies is that we're on the precipice of a miracle at any given moment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, on the press of we're on the precipice of a miracle at any given moment, yeah, you know, and that radical transformation is available without more suffering. Let's not think of the model again of the sick and the broken if we think that we have to go and there's benefit in the psychotherapeutic model, but there is a fallacy in it that says you'll always be kind of messed up and we hope you to have marginally less symptoms or issues or be slightly less messed up if you do a lot of years of work. Yeah, I'm like who made that rule up? I mean, really that sounds terrible. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so being able to guide people through processes with, with these fundamental principles in place so just to stay with that for another moment.
Speaker 2:If we are a timeless soul on an endless journey and we are connected to the all, that is what would make us think then that miracles aren't possible.
Speaker 2:What would make us think then that we're thinking inside of a limited construct that actually shows us how we believe, that we're separate and fundamentally messed up and not capable, and that's symptoms.
Speaker 2:But as soon as we learn how to work with our energy body via tools and practices, and how to have a different strategy and approach to life, we actually don't just believe it in a thought construct. We experience in our body the difference of, or the truth of, I should say that we are connected and if there's infinite resource, we have the infinite capacity to heal this thing, to no longer have that feeling, to be able to move on right, and we can find it via that belief structure, versus if we believe that we're always going to be messed up and that there's not really that much hope. Yeah, it's depressing and first but second, we're just not even going to see. You know, I I liken it to like when a child is running around looking for easter eggs and there's one that's been placed in the middle of the grass, right, it's just in the middle of the field, right there, and they run right by it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like there's a whole sphere of heaven right there that just can be run by and around for an entire lifetime or lifetimes, and yet freedom is right there, but it takes a shift in perspective and awareness.
Speaker 1:That's right. I mean, I've I've had experiences of people having just shifting their belief around something in their life and symptoms just disappearing. That's right and that would be a miracle. Well, it is miracle. But it is the capacity of what we can do and how our body can respond instantaneously, physically, so fascinating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I really saw that in my first year of practice and I think that it just helps us also to remember that the body is not misbehaving. If we're having physical or emotional or energetic symptoms, it's because something wants to be adjusted.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a reflection of our energy, isn't it Our energy field. So once people have experienced what you are offering, they have a different perspective on life, presumably. Yeah, they have. They're able to release their blockages. They have, um, well, they raise their frequency, don't they as well?
Speaker 2:that was something else yeah, literally their brain frequencies. Yeah, right, like not just the inner, the, the theoretical construct, but the energy of the brain via the electrical system is different.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And for many it's 40% different in five days.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:We're not messing around, yeah.
Speaker 1:So does that make this sounds probably like a really silly question, but if you've had all that light in your brain and you, you, you're all in symphony are you actually more intelligent? Are things? If you grasp concepts quicker, you know you have greater clarity on things yeah, there are definitely.
Speaker 2:We haven't done iq tests before and after for as a part of our laboratory temple, but but definitely in the clinical studies there's, there are ways to change, like you know, cognition for sure, including kind of the more um classic models of intelligence, but definitely also spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence for sure?
Speaker 1:and do you have people that sort of had have had a stroke or a brain injury? Do they come to you know? Have you had clients that come to you that have had that physical problem?
Speaker 2:we've had people with recovered from brain injuries, but not the necessarily super severe ones. To be clear, though, neurofeedback therapy is excellent for both, acupuncture is also. I'm a doctor of chinese medicine. Acupuncture is astoundingly good. The quicker it can get to the person that's had a stroke, can get to an acupuncturist, the better, but there can be astonishing results with that and neurofeedback therapy as well. But with our program because it's essentially like running about a few marathons neurologically we can't have somebody that's like in rehab, like they need to go to physiotherapy and then they're running, running, running. You know, like that, like it's just they don't feel like they're running, but that's essentially what their brain is doing.
Speaker 2:It's such a huge workout yeah yeah, but but there there is that and I want to encourage people to, you know, do research on any local clinicians also. Light therapy is amazing for both of those the one that like in the headset that I was talking about. I can't say that people should do that because now we're really getting into medical conditions, but for people to do research on light therapy, which is non-invasive and just beautiful for what it can do to really reinvigorate damaged tissues all over the body, including in the brain.
Speaker 1:It's just anti-aging, isn't it? It's huge yeah being.
Speaker 2:It's huge. Yeah, yeah, it's huge. Which is which is helping damage tissues and things? Oh, isn't it? But yeah, yeah, the stress and the, and the level of toxins and the, the, the fundamental missing of sleep that we're getting, um, and all of these things are creating inflammation in the brain, that are damaging tissues. You know, um, it's not just because we're living longer that we're seeing these degenerative diseases. It's because of everything about how we're living.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, yeah, it's, that's huge, and so we can restore it through healthy, clean food. You know, water, all the, all those very I call them the non sexy basics. Right In the world of biohacking, everybody's like, well, you know, I'm going to get my HRV here and I'm going to do this and that and I'm going to use all this technology and again, I'm, I'm, I'm engaged in all of the technology, but I could say, like it's the non sexy stuff that matters the most. Right, are you happy? Are you sleeping? Well, yeah, what's the quality of the food, you know? Is it organic or not? Does it have a lot of vegetables in it? Those are the things that really move the needle yeah, fabulous.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's been fascinating to talk to you. I've I would, if I was nearby, I'd definitely come have a session because it just sounds amazing and I think it would be. I think it's really just the concept of knowing what your brain is doing would change your perspective. That's right. Just that concept of, oh, this is happening or this is happening. It just changes your perspective of what you can achieve. I think probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that one of the things that's a really such a good point when we do we we take the measure of the brain and then we sit with people and we talk with them, not like you know, here's this and that, like the anatomy alone right, and tell them all this stuff is that it's bad news if one of the things that we like to say is that if we can measure it and name it in, at least in our laboratory, we know how to help you change it.
Speaker 1:So there's no bad news.
Speaker 2:But what can happen? Like, for instance, there was a guy that came through and he thought that he was struggling with an addiction with pharmaceuticals for attention deficit, but it turns out he has really, really intense attention deficit. But it turns out he has really, really intense attention deficit and you know so. Yes, he was also having some addictive qualities with it. He was over utilizing it and not staying within prescribed healthy limits, but he was just thinking of himself entirely as an addict, right, and it's like no, but wait a minute, you're, you're self-medicating and there's something very real here.
Speaker 2:And what's incredible is that we took before and after data and we changed his, his brain and the intention deficit kind of category, changed by two standard deviations and was almost to clear. It hasn't finished having a chance to grow in yet. Now, when we measure him again at the six-month mark because it takes we get the massive change while people are with us, but what happens is the brain takes about a millimeter a month to grow in with new connections and new neurons, so we don't see the full benefit for six months. This isn't like oh, I feel so much better, like I've gone to the spa and had a vacation and had a vacation. You know it's, it's. You actually feel better and better as time goes on, as the brain has a chance to create that new wiring.
Speaker 2:So if I would imagine that if we measure him at the six month point assuming that he takes really good care of himself in between and you know, kind of all the other variables are held that he might not have that symptom anymore, which would then be a release not only of the thought construct about him, the way that he felt that he was an addict, which you know there was a little of that, true, when he was abusing it. But then to be able to be free of something that is supposed to have this big name that you know what does that do for someone?
Speaker 2:And how he knows what his real arc is, because his real arc isn't overcoming addiction so much as it is overcoming judgment on himself and learning how to change how his brain works.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, so that he can have that focus yeah, and having that fresh perspective on so huge it is, it is. It's fascinating work. I think it's really really interesting. I was looking at your website and it was fascinating to read, and I will put all your details underneath the episode so that people can contact you. So thank you so much for coming on. It's been really fascinating. I could talk to you for hours.
Speaker 2:Thanks, natasha. No, it's been fun sharing, and I do encourage people to go to the website. We have a lot of information there. There's going to be more and more coming on YouTube. Also, though, there's a free download. I really want to help. I want to help everybody as much as I can, and so there's a free download of, like a meditation practice. Essentially, that's really incredible for working with the energetics and the energy body, and it helps people in a massive way. It's foundational. So I just want to gift that out into the world, and thanks for having me here, for giving me an outlet to be able to share with your audience and all the lovely people that you touch. Yeah, we're all in this together, and there's hope and there's so much that's moving forward, and we all have a way to engage and make a difference in our own lives and in the total.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and that's exactly why I do this, because so many people I meet who are just passionate about their little bit of it. But when you put it all together, it's quite extraordinary what we can do and what we can even shift and what we can change if we want to.
Speaker 2:That's right, and it's breath by breath, moment by moment, and that's the that recording that I was talking about um that meditation. It brings people there, it gives them tools for the breath-by-breath, moment-by-moment shift. So thanks again.
Speaker 1:Step by step. That's right. It's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much for joining and I will put all your details up under the episode, and I hope everybody's enjoyed chatting to us, listening to us chat, I mean. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2:You're welcome, thank you.
