High Performance Health
Optimise Your Brain’s Peak Potential With Braintap- Dr Patrick Porter
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Quick takeaways
- Understanding and accessing different brainwave states can optimize brain function and overall well-being.
- Quality deep sleep is essential for optimal brain function and overall cognitive health.
- Maintaining a positive mindset and focusing on gratitude can attract positive experiences and outcomes.
- Letting go of doubt and fear, and embracing new possibilities is key to creating positive change and transformation in our lives.
Deep dives
The Power of Brainwave States
The podcast episode explores different brainwave states, such as beta, alpha, theta, delta, and gamma. Each brainwave state serves a different purpose and plays a role in our mental and physical health. Beta is associated with our reactionary mind and can lead to overproduction of dopamine. Alpha is a state of relaxation and creativity, while theta is linked to deep creativity and problem-solving. Delta is essential for deep sleep and subconscious healing, while gamma is associated with higher-level creativity and problem-solving. Understanding and accessing these brainwave states can help optimize brain function and overall well-being.
The Importance of Deep Sleep and Neurotransmitters
Deep sleep (delta) plays a vital role in building up neurotransmitters in our brain. If we don't get enough deep sleep, we may lack the necessary neurotransmitters, leading to decreased mental clarity and performance. Deep sleep also triggers the brain's glial lymphomic system, which helps remove toxins and maintain a healthy brain. Ensuring quality deep sleep is essential for optimal brain function and overall cognitive health.
The Influence of Thoughts on Reality
The podcast delves into the idea that our thoughts have a significant impact on our reality. Thoughts and intentions can shape our experiences and attract specific outcomes. By maintaining a positive mindset and being aware of our thoughts, we can create a more positive and fulfilling life. The importance of gratitude and focusing on what we are thankful for is emphasized as a way to attract more positive experiences and outcomes.
Overcoming Doubt and Embracing Change
To create positive change, it is necessary to let go of doubt and embrace new possibilities. Clearing out past negative experiences and focusing on the lessons learned can help shift our mindset towards growth and transformation. Instead of clinging to negative patterns and beliefs, it is essential to choose to change and commit fully to new beliefs and behaviors. Overcoming doubt and fear is key to creating a thriving mindset and attracting positive transformations in our lives.
Harnessing Gratitude for Positive Change
Gratitude is a powerful tool for improving our lives. When we focus on the good, our brain creates positive emotions and drives positive behavior. By training our brains to reframe negative memories and make them a resource instead of a liability, we can learn from negative experiences and move forward. It is important to remember positive experiences, honor them, and put things into perspective. By adopting a grateful mindset, we can create a new life and find joy.
Letting Go of the Past to Create a New Future
The past can hold us back if we dwell on loss and negative experiences. Stuck in the past, we cannot create a new life for ourselves. To move forward, we need to remember the positive memories and put things in perspective. Recognizing that the past does not define us and embracing the concept of a fresh start can help us break free from resentment and create a new and fulfilling life.
Shifting Identity and Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
Our identity and beliefs shape our behavior and can limit our potential. It is crucial to break free from negative self-identifications, such as defining ourselves by past traumas or labels. By adopting a new mindset and realizing that we are infinite beings capable of growth and change, we can overcome limiting beliefs and tap into our full potential. Through small, incremental changes, we can create lasting transformations and live a more fulfilling life.
Award-winning author, educator, researcher, entrepreneur, speaker and founder of Brain Tap, Dr Patrick Porter talks with Angela about the potential of the brain and explains how we can both limit and free up the potential of our brains
This is a fascinating insight into the many ways we can move our brains into a place where we can see the opportunities and act on them to bring what we want into our lives
Every day is about creating something new in the present and Dr Patrick also discusses in detail how to use Braintap effectively to bring the changes you want to create brainwave flexibility
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- All of our different brainwaves are important in the right context
- At night we cycle through all the different brainwaves and this builds our neurotransmitters
- When we are in a higher state of gamma we emit 200 times more light energy and the light energy is instructing your mitochondria to change your gene expression
- The more neuroplasticity we can bring into the brain the more our genes can express at their healthiest point
- Optimism is the key for the brain to function at its highest level
- In biohacking everyone needs to look at their own results and work out what works for them and implement it consistently
- We only use a limited amount of the total information available to us
- As we open up to the world opportunities open up that previously have been hidden because of our self-sabotaging behaviours
- We have to fix ourselves and realise that we live in a space of infinite abundance
- When we can start to change the paradigm of what we are doing we are moving into the thriving parasympathetic states
- When we monitor our brains and behaviours we are more able to predict our future, rather than our future predict our life
- We can change how we consciously participate in creating what we want
- You don’t have to have a breakdown to have a breakthrough you can choose to make a change
- People who survive and thrive have choices and you can learn to be a choice generator
BEST MOMENTS
‘People who are in joy and happiness produce 200 times more light energy, we are projecting our protons outwards all the time’
‘The brain's only job is to prove you right every day’
‘The more you can go through the different brainwave states the more variety of neurotransmitters you will have’
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ABOUT THE GUEST
Dr Patrick K Porter
In late 2020, Patrick K. Porter, PhD was the honoured recipient of the Lifetime Achievement
Award by the Interdisciplinary Association of Functional Neurosciences and Rehabilitation
(IAFNR), and for good reason. Over a career spanning more than three decades, Dr. Porter has been on the cutting edge of brainwave entrainment technology.
He was co-developer of the first personal light & sound brain training machine, voted “Best New Gadget of the Year” at the 1989 Consumer Electronics Show and later developed one of the largest and most popular self-help franchises. He’s since become a highly sought-after expert within the neuroscience and personal improvement industries.
Dr. Porter is widely recognized as an award-winning author, educator, consultant, researcher, entrepreneur, and speaker.
His newest brain-training platform, BrainTap, is distinctively designed to activate the brain’s
neuroplasticity. The BrainTap headset uses light & sound technology in combination with Dr. Porter’s proprietary guided visualization audio-sessions to help people achieve brain fitness, overcome stress, lose weight, stop smoking, manage pain, accelerate learning, enjoy superb sleep and make any number of lifestyle improvements.
Additionally, he offers health providers a turnkey system for helping clients achieve better
neurological performance and brain fitness. Dr. Porter is also the dean of mind-based studies at the International Quantum University of Integrative Medicine (IQUIM).
Dr. Porter’s successes have been featured in NPR, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek,
People, Entrepreneur, and INC, as well as ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and the Discovery Channel.
His SleepRX program was voted the best sleep app of the year by Health Magazine.
He is the author of the award-winning bestseller, Awaken the Genius, Mind Technology for the 21st Century, which was awarded “Best How-To Book of 1994” by the North American Book Dealers Exchange. Awaken the Genius is translated into four languages and more than 150,000 copies have sold globally. He also authored Discover the Language of the Mind and Thrive In Overdrive, How to Navigate Your Overloaded Lifestyle, among others.
Dr. Porter’s entertaining speeches and seminars deliver the real life, nuts ‘n bolts concepts he used to turn his business ventures into multi-million dollar enterprises.
For ten years, Dr. Porter hosted his own show on WNIS radio in Norfolk, Virginia. Previously, he was the host of a Phoenix television show. As an independent consultant, he wrote Hidden Solutions and Awaken the Genius programs for the State of Arizona. He also created Mind- Over-Cancer, a guided visualization program used in medical facilities to assist patients receiving cancer treatment to better manage stress and side effects.
Dr. Porter has produced an arsenal of over 1200 audio-recorded motivational programs and
narrated visualization sessions and has sold more than 3 million books and recordings
worldwide, all uniquely designed to empower humanity.
He earned his doctorate degree from Louisiana Baptist University in 1992 in Psychology of
Christian Counseling and later became a licensed trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
ABOUT THE HOST
Angela Foster
Angela is a Nutritionist, Health, and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.
After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:
To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful, and limitless life.
Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices, and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.
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