Episode 226 — Rewire The Brain With Sound AND Light
Guest: Patrick Porter • Date: October 17, 2024
Episode Overview
Dr. Patrick K. Porter, founder of BrainTap®, is our guest, and we explore how neuroplasticity can help you and your child rewire the brain for growth. Dr. Porter shares insights on brainwave entrainment, improving clarity, sleep, and energy using BrainTap’s innovative technology.
About Patrick Porter
Dr. Patrick K. Porter, PhD, is an award-winning author/speaker and the founder of BrainTap®, the leader in technology-enhanced meditation. Dr. Porter pioneered the use of brainwave entrainment to improve clarity, sleep & energy and remains at the forefront of scientific research. He founded BrainTap with the goal of making this technology accessible to everyone. BrainTap offers over 1000 original audio sessions in 12 languages and serves a worldwide user base with its mobile app and headset. Dr. Porter has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, Entrepreneur, INC, and on ABC, NBC, and CBS as an expert in brain health & wellness, and in 2020, Dr. Porter received the IAFNR lifetime achievement award.
You’ll Discover
The Role and Purpose of The States Of The Brain (6:38)
The Brain State To Focus On For More Speech (7:42)
Why The Whole Family Needs Help (14:38)
How It’s A Toxic Overload In The Brain (16:34)
How To Bring Light Energy To The Brain (22:17)
Ways To Accelerate Learning (24:36)
The #1 Thing to Do For Longevity (31:18)
Case Studies and Real-World Applications (34:33)
Ways To Reduce EMF Exposure (41:00)
Why It’s Never Too Late To Help The Brain (45:15)
Referenced in This Episode
Children’s Opportunity for Brilliance Autism Series by Joqueta Handy
Autism Parenting Secrets Episode 212,You Can’t Heal If You Don’t Feel Safewith Dr. Neil Nathan
Full Transcript
Patrick Porter | 00:00
The brain is always developing. The brain is like the liver. They now realize the liver will regenerate itself.
So does the brain. But the problem is if there's so much trauma and toxins in the brain, then you can't, you have to get the inflammation down. You have to, if there's been some kind of assault on the brain, we need to clear that out. And light energy is one of the best ways to do that.
So, you know, when you bring, you have to bring energy to the salute, to the problem. Well, energy is like when somebody says in business, money will solve a lot of problems. Energy will solve a lot of problems. And what's nice is We don't have to heal the brain. The brain is designed to heal. The body is designed to heal. It's not like we're fighting against our genome. We're working with our genes, with our body, you know, but the problem is that most people are in a state of hypersensitivity and sympathetic, which is the fight or flight, and they're not able to disengage.
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Len Arcuri | 01:34
Hello and welcome to Autism Parenting Secrets. It's Len. Today we're diving into neuroplasticity. Can rewire the brain for growth and reorganization. And joining me is Dr. Patrick K. Porter. Founder of Braintap. A leader in technology-enhanced meditation. He pioneered brainwave entrainment to improve clarity, sleep, and energy, and remains a trailblazer in brain health research. Braintap offers over a thousand audio sessions in 12 languages and serves users worldwide through its app and headset. Dr. Porter has been featured in major media outlets like the Wall Street Journal and ABC and was awarded the Interdisciplinary Association of Functional Neurosciences and Rehabilitation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.
So if you want to help yourself and your child operate at all frequencies, And if you want to learn about a faster path to a better brain, then you'll want to listen to this entire episode. The secret this week is... Rewire the brain with sound and light. Welcome, Dr. Porter.
Patrick Porter | 02:48
Thanks for having me, Lynn. It's great to be here.
Len Arcuri | 02:50
Wonderful. Well, yeah, I've been excited for listeners to be able to hear your voice. And I mean, you're not someone new on the scene with kind of a cool invention. You've been at this for decades. And so I would love for you to share your backstory a little bit with our listeners. And to fast forward, this is all about. A device that can really benefit both you, the parent, as well as your child. And Dr. Porter is going to share exactly why, because understanding the root cause of what's going on and what you might be able to do to get to the root cause is how we accelerate healing for everybody.
So I'll hand it off to you, Dr. Porter.
Patrick Porter | 03:28
Yeah. Well, for me, actually, I've been doing this for myself. I was one of those kids that was in the special classes, special needs. I was, you know, six kids waiting for the special teacher to teach us how to read and do math. And I was told I was never going to be that smart, never going to do that much. But my dad taught me to, Actually, the Catholic Church came over and helped him to become alcohol-free using something called isochronic tones. We didn't know that's what it was. It was called the Silva Sound. It was a meditation they taught through the Catholic Church. My dad went and did that and he never drank again.
And then he thought, well, if this is good enough for me, I'm going to teach my kids that. And it transformed us really.
I mean, with diet and meditation, you know. You could think of it like They called it going to level with Silva.
So you go to level and you'd visualize what you wanted to accomplish and, Within three to four years, I became an honor roll student instead of someone who had trouble with learning. And then luckily for me, when I say grow up, I had my midlife crisis at 24. And actually, I met the people with Light and Sound Research. And I call them God winks because God put me in a position to be in a place where a company needed my help. Because my first degree was in electronics.
So I went to school for electronics and I went to school for psychology. And this group, Light and Sound Research, they had another machine called the SILS, Sensory Input Learning System. It was a big machine, $10,000. And the founder of that company actually passed away and they didn't know what they were going to do. And he didn't leave any of the plans, but I met them just at the right time. And with my background in electronics, I was able to help them reverse engineer the technology and keep it going for Dr. Robinson, who passed away, and then accelerate the technology.
I mean, I've been doing it since 1986. I mean, in 89, when we got the best new gadget of the year at the Consumer Electronics Show, nobody knew what to think of us.
I mean, here we were, we didn't know we could do all these things when you're saying, like, we have over 2,000 sessions now on the BrainTap app. We didn't realize the 47 different things that, but it that when you use brainwave entrainment to train the brain to go into these different states, incredible things happen. In fact, when we talk about autism here in a little bit, that was actually almost a mistake. We didn't really, we didn't set out to work with autistic kids. We actually, I'm the Dean of Brain-Based Wellness at Quantum University out of Hawaii. And one of my students who was actually a practicing speech pathologist. She was going to school for her ND, natural medicine degree, and she got a brain tap and she decided to start using it with her clients.
And then Magic happened. And that's kind of where we're at right now.
Len Arcuri | 06:14
All right. Well, fantastic.
Yeah, you mentioned about the states of the brain. So to just give a good level set for people who are listening, I know many of the listeners are probably very well educated in this area. But when you think about the brain and most people think autism is a brain issue, maybe a brain injury, perhaps one that is permanent, which I fervently don't believe at all. And I know you don't. But when you think about the brain, there are these different states of the brain.
So would you mind giving just like a little 101 on the different states of the brain and why that matters?
Patrick Porter | 06:45
Sure. If you can think of the brainwave states, just like Wi-Fi networks, you know, if you're in your neighborhood, you open up your phone, you want to get on your network, you might see your neighbor's networks on there too.
So think of these other networks as being able to occupy. So I'll put it in the context of once I explained them out Put it in the context of autism so you understand. But first of all, we have the main brainwave that most people talk about all the time is called beta. Beta is our reactionary mind. Now, when a child is in high beta, they will stim, right? They're trying to get rid of all that energy. They don't know how to get it out of their system. Then Just below that, there's a brainwave called alpha. Alpha is called neutral for the brain. It's where your imagination takes over, your creativity. It's where you start to turn on the parasympathetic or the healing system. It's unfortunately, when we measure people with the autistic profile, they have almost zero alpha activity. And this is important because alpha controls speaking.
So when we did our study with Jokrita Handy, when we got their brainwaves up to 23% alpha, 90% of those children started speaking. Now that took about six weeks, three times a day doing it. And with our program called Cobb, then Joe Quidahandy helped me create that. But all of our children's sessions are designed to train that brainwave.
So we have 43 sessions that can train the brain to have more alpha activity. And What we find if you're out there doing neurofeedback, let's say, is you can do the neurofeedback. That's fine. But you need to get the brain to actually run the pattern, the alpha pattern. And that's where brain tap comes in. When we use light, sound and vibration, we can talk about that a little bit.
And then when we drop down, the next brain wave is called theta. Now, theta is when the When you think of the autistic profile of the brain, when somebody is disassociated, like Dr. Robert Melillo wrote a book called Disassociated Kids. And what he's talking about is those kids are hanging out in Theta. They are disassociated from the world. This is a very small bandwidth of brainwave activity that's bordering on dream time.
You know, so you're not quite there. You know, when somebody says, Becky's in a mood today or Rob's in a mood today. The reality is that they're not in a mood. They don't have any alpha to dial back up and to get into beta. We should have about 45% beta, 30% alpha. That would be the perfect profile for being awake.
And then maybe 10% theta. What we find in the profile of an autistic brain is that they have high theta and high beta and high delta. Very little or no alpha. And so when you think about delta is the brainwave of sleep in recovery.
So no real programming happens there. When you think about sleep programming, you hear about that with the military and that. That sleep programming only happens during alpha and theta brainwave states. These states are called hypernesia or super memory states.
So when you have high alpha and high theta, you remember things better. So think in terms of these states These brains that have almost no alpha, they don't have the capacity to recall information. Because it happens with that brainwave. Now, the higher brainwave called gamma... Which is One that we don't see that much in a profile. With the kids either, but it will, we want to have that, think of gamma as the bass drum of the brain. It keeps everything in harmony.
Like that's more for dementia and Alzheimer's. And just like you said, we have seen people's brains change from as young as four years old up to over a hundred years old. At any age, the brain can improve. And it's all about energy. And there's only three reasons people have problems with their brain, thoughts, traumas, or toxins.
So it could be some trauma that happened to them. It could be from even a vaccine assault, because how the immune system responds, there's something called the psychoimmunology.
So when you think about your psychology really affecting your immune system, and these are babies that don't know what's happening, and they're being hit with all these different poisons, and some people can handle it. But if there's a cascade, of course, they can't say it's that specifically, right? It's almost like the Reynolds tobacco saying for years that tobacco was good for you. And tobacco itself, I mean, there's a lot of studies out there that show that it is. But the problem is all the things they put in the tobacco.
Like the sugars and the pesticides and all those things, there's over 60,000 chemicals. Well, same thing's true with the, these pharmaceutical products. There's a lot of other stuff in there. That's not the actual vaccine that's causing the problem.
So, When you think about that assault, now, I don't think, I think our bodies could handle it if they spaced those out because we've seen it before. But when you hit somebody with 17 to 27 or more vaccines before they leave the hospital and, or maybe at four years old, you know, I've had so many parents who tell me they were fine until they had this vaccine or that vaccine, or they were fine until this thing happened to them. They had a traumatic brain injury or something like that. There's something going on. And the thing is that we need to get them sleeping again. The kids sleeping again, because that's the only time the brain detoxes.
So when you think about toxins, we need to get clear out those toxins, get them sleeping deeply. We need to get their brain regulating and more alpha activity.
And then, and that has to do with movement too, getting them to do some kind of movement. I like dance, Tai Chi or yoga, or we have what we call a balance board. That we have the kids get on, you know, some way to get their brain rewiring back to their body because there's those connections somehow have been, we call that neuro pruning. We were talking earlier about neuroplasticity, but what happens with neuro pruning is if we prune the wrong neuro activity, then we lose neuroplasticity. Let's say, resources instead of gaining resources.
Len Arcuri | 12:41
Yeah, no, there's a lot that you covered there. And even going back to the beginning with you mentioned something like neurofeedback, I think there's a lot of parents who are evaluating different things they could do for their child. And the way I look at it, because we did neurofeedback with my son, who's now 17, but neurofeedback didn't really, with a great practitioner and didn't really benefit him that much. And so I feel like something like neurofeedback, unless certain things are in place first, it's hard for something like that to really benefit. And that's where I think brain tap is a very simple, easy way that you can build a stronger foundation. And again, I know that's what your programs are kind of designed to do. Pretty quickly. It's not immediate yet. And it sounds like the entrainment and what you would need to do, it's about consistency, right? Doing it every day or a couple times a day over a period of weeks is how you can really accelerate the degree of change that happens. And I know so many of our parents are struggling with speech, and I know their ears probably perked when you were talking about how the key to speech is really that alpha state, correct?
Patrick Porter | 13:53
Right. I mean, when you think about neurofeedback, there's never been a study. And if somebody's listening to this can find me that study, I've offered a thousand dollars for the study. The, What it is, if you find me a study that shows... One year after the study that neurofeedback actually had a permanent or a long-term effect on them. We have studies with brain tap that show like with TBIs that one year later, we were 30 to 70% neurologically better one year later. That means a one-year washout.
So we've done studies with against magnetic resonant therapy, which I think is good, but it it's a trauma to the brain. They need to have something they can do at home because you can't there. And really they need to have something the whole family can use because the family, We were talking off the air that, you know, we've done studies with families where we showed them that the family actually has... PTSD.
I mean, when you have a child, a special needs child of any sort or a family member, you know, could be a traumatic brain injury. It could be anything that you're dealing with. Whoever the caregivers are, they have a lot of stress and that stress builds up and that stress is palatable.
You know, we've all had experiences where we walked into mom and dad fighting and we could actually feel the tension in the air. You know, those, these kids are very sensitive.
I mean, They do understand what's going on. They just can't articulate it, you know? And so to think that they're not understanding is not true.
I mean, we've seen when once they started speaking in, they started telling us things we were doing before that we didn't think they were understanding, but they were, you know? So, I mean... The problem is, it's like, you probably heard the expression, hey, the internet's down, right? You're at the office and somebody says, the internet's not down. It's our connection to the internet that's down.
So when you think about these kids, their brain is... Their intelligence or their consciousness, if you will, if you want to think about it, it's not down. It's just their connection to it because we need this balance of brainwaves. And I think now that we're showing that the body through something called epigenetics Every 40 seconds, every DNA appear in our body changes based on everything.
So, but especially based on our, what we call visual auditory kinesthetic cues audit, they could be gustatory and olfactory cues to our senses are what cues our brain to process. Program us really at a genetic level. Every 40 seconds, every DNA pair changes. It's called epigenetics. When they said that they mapped the human genome, that wasn't true. They only mapped 1%.
And then in 2018, they found out that the other 99% is not junk DNA. It's actually changing so rapidly.
So if we can get the right food into these children, get the right thoughts, start dealing with their trauma in a way that can clear out the toxins. Because whatever's going on, the brain is having some kind of toxic overload, whether it's... Whatever's going on, there's a toxic overload because they're not sleeping well.
You know, when we measure an autistic child, they're just not getting that deep REM sleep. They need about an hour of deep level four sleep and two hours of REM sleep in order for the brain to really regulate.
And then it will start clearing it out. It'll take six to eight weeks for the brain to really start to regulate.
And then the thing is that it's, There's something I like to tell people and it's unfortunate, but there is no there. You're never finished.
I mean, there's always going to be stress in your life. There's always going to be something going on.
So that's why I think BrainTap is a really good solution because it's so affordable and the whole family can use it that you know, when you go to neurofeedback.com, $4,000 to $6,000 for 40 sessions, which is the protocol that most people use and I teach at the college, is, you know, And then what happens is most cases, and everybody listening probably has had this, at 40 sessions, you saw some good, you saw some movement. But then they said, okay, it's going to be another $4,000 to $6,000 to get the next 40. And the problem is they can't afford to do that every day. This is something, you know, when I work with medical doctors, And we did a, class with them. And the one medical doctor really scored really poorly on his brain. He was older and we showed him that he improved his brain function in one day by 22%. And he said, does this mean I'll have to do this the rest of my life? And I said, have you ever given somebody a prescription drug and told them they had to take it the rest of their life? And he said, yeah. And I said, well, this type of meditation is your medication. You've got to do it every day. I said, if not, we've got to get energy into the brain. And so let's explain to the listeners what we mean by energy so they understand how neuroplasticity works. When the brain tap uses light, sound, and vibration, what we're talking about, light is the key for brain tap. Everything is converted into light energy.
So sound is converted into light energy and our brain is into electrical impulses and our brain and then perceives it. But all that energy coming in through and through us is being converted into ATP.
So if we don't get ATP into the brain, You've probably heard the expression, or you've used it maybe, the children are too tired to sleep. Well, most people, their brain is too tired to sleep, too tired to meditate. Only one third of the world is sleeping right now. It's because of all the stress we're going through, all the high stress.
I mean, when you think about just... With the autistic population, really, when you think about 43% of all kids, boys have a chance of getting autism.
I mean, that's an incredible number that's just frightening because in what's causing it? Well, it's our lifestyle. And, you know, there wasn't that way when I was growing up.
You know, there was an occasional person who, you know, would have these kind of problems. So what happens is when you use the light through the eyes and the ears, and I want to just mention that so everybody understands why we're doing that. The lights in the eyes actually are from 0.5 to 100, which means if we were in a spaceship coming to Earth and we were to measure the frequencies of the Earth, they would resonate between 0.5 and 100. This is a math problem.
Like when we go by the water, it's 10 hertz frequency. That's why we like being by the water. It actually, our body then resonates to the alpha brainwave. When we're around that, which means that we're going to release the acetylcholine. Now there's 64 neurotransmitters, so we're not going to go through all of them, but these are the feel good, happy neurotransmitters and stress reducing hormones that the body releases.
And then let's say we go to the mountains, we're going to we're going to release, it's going to be at 7.8 Hertz frequency. That happens to be theta. Theta actually produces GABA. GABA is a precursor to something called DMT, which means now we're going to have really that euphoric feeling of being in one with the environment and one with your family and all those things, getting into theta. And it's just a natural thing that we should go through every night when we sleep because these build up our neurotransmitters. Now, the thing is that you have to be in the right brainwave state to instruct the gut to make these neurotransmitters. And you need to have the energy to for the brain to do it.
So let's say we measure your brain, Lynn, and we find out that your brain is at 45% efficiency because we can measure that now. We have something called the neurocheck and we can measure the kids in the adults brains.
And then what we want to do is we need to deliver energy to the brain so you can do the work, the neurological work. Now, when that energy goes into the brain, we can measure it with something called the Wavi, which is an EEG brain mapping tool that we have. And the voltage across the hemispheres is, Should be 10.1 or higher. When we're younger and let's say we're not compromised in any way, it's probably going to be about 18.1.
So imagine the voltage of a kid, you know, and then we had somebody in the office a few weeks ago that was a three. But as long as the brain is matched across the hemispheres, there won't be any problem. But with dementia, Alzheimer's, Autism. ADD, ADHD, we see the same profile in the brain. The left hemisphere is moving slower than the right. Which means the voltage is lower. Now think of these two hemispheres, they need to communicate. And if they're not at the right, if they're not at the same frequency, It's like they're trying to communicate, but they can't.
So what we're going to do is we're going to bring light energy into the brain. To bring energy to the source and bring ATP production Because when the hemoglobin absorbs that light energy, it circulates through the body and finds the cells that are about to die. They call this apoptosis. Once the cells absorb that energy.
Not all of it, but most of it goes through the ears because that's what's governing the temperature of the brain. So you think about what the brain is going to get, all the energy that it wants first before the rest of the body because it's the main controller. But the problem is if you've got a lot of toxins in there, and the toxic load from whatever's going on, or there's a traumatic brain injury, or there's something going on there, then we need to get energy to that place so that there can be, and then create something called vasodilation, means capillaries are being built, blood flow, circulation. Everywhere there's blood flow, there's something called a lymphatic vessel that is being formed. Now, One of the amazing things that happened in 2015 In March, American Scientific came out with an article that said the garbage man of the system, and they called it the glial lymphatic system. And we didn't even know we had this system before 2015. If you can imagine that, we've been cutting up cadavers since, you know, Prehistoric times, right? But they didn't know that we had this glial lymphatic system.
Len Arcuri | 23:52
We knew there was a lymphatic system in the body, but what you're referring to is within the brain.
Patrick Porter | 23:58
Right. All physiology books stop the lymphatic system here at the neck. Now it goes into the brain, but they know it only activates during level four sleep.
So the key here is doing our 10 minute sessions in the morning. That gear up the brain, what we call SMR. This is a high alpha training that we find that really works well for any brain compromised brain. That seems to be the brainwave that gets... Squashed first and then, Doing an afternoon reboot is really good. We call it, in schools that use it, we have schools all over the world using it now, they call it brain prep to get the brain ready for learning. But you can use it after learning because learning is a stressful event, especially for these kids that have to work a little bit harder with their brain to get things done.
So after they do something, do a brain tap session, and their learned experience will be recorded at a much deeper level, which is It's always about how can we get a recall to that information? And you have to have recovery for that to happen. You can't just be stressed out all the time.
And then at night, even if what we find the parents do is they'll just put the Delta programs on in the room, not even putting the headset on their children, just put the Delta in the room because we need to get that brain to just shut down. And we're using frequencies as well.
So Fiji frequencies and right frequencies to get the brain to modulate in a way that it will follow. When you think about brainwave entrainment, there's a really cool video that the people watching this can go look on. If you put in metronomes, synchronization in YouTube, you'll see there's one that I really like. It's 300 metronomes and they start them all at different times. But within three minutes, all those metronomes are synchronized. This is brainwave synchronization. This is an example.
So if I was to have a tuning fork, Let's say it. 547 and I had another tuning fork that's 547 and they were close enough proximity to hear each other. If I click the one and made it the ring, it would automatically start to resonate and vibrate the other one because they matched frequencies.
So what we're trying to do is match the frequencies, get the cells to match the frequencies with light, sound, and vibration. So we do it. We match the light with the sound and the sound with the light.
You know, they're synchronized together. We use what we call 10 cycle music because there's a lot out there most parents hopefully know about like the Mozart effect You know, one of the things you can do while your child is trying to learn anything new, put on Mozart music, the classical kind of broke music in the brain literally becomes smarter. There's a lot of science that shows that.
So we use that same principle. It's called 10 cycle music, just alpha music to get you there.
So we have the alpha music going. We have the theta sessions. We have delta sessions. We have. SMR sessions and we have gamma sessions even for dementia. We use the gamma because that means the brain has been dysregulated and we need to get the bass drum back online. That's the delta, the brainwave.
Len Arcuri | 27:02
I know that's great. You mentioned about the Mozart effect.
Yeah, we actually did that with our son while my wife was pregnant. And early on, we played all that. And he has perfect pitch now. And I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that we were playing that music.
So yeah, it's super powerful. And for anyone who's listening, trying to track with what you're saying, I mean, I have the brain tap headset behind me.
So just visualize this is like a pair of headphones with a visor, you know, that basically enables the light to be something that your eyes are receiving. Your eyes are shut.
And then your ears with the headphones, there's lights in the ear, the headphones. So basically that's how you're receiving light both on the eyes and in the ears. And that's why, you know, the secret for this week about How it's so important to have sound and light. I think that's what makes the brain tap unique in the sense that that's the missing piece that if you just did meditation or put on soothing music, you're going to be missing that piece.
Patrick Porter | 28:11
Yeah, what we find when we did our research is we've measured about 30,000 brains in the last 10 years is that most people, when they meditate, 30% of their brain will shut down because it thinks it's time for sleep. And then because they're not going to sleep, their default mode network or the monkey mind turns on and they can't do it. They're actually stressing out their brain instead of helping it.
And then we show them when you're using brain tap, because we're, creating a carrier wave that the brain follows into those deeper states. It puts that default network on hold so that you don't have to worry about that monkey mind and you're more in that state of deep relaxation. And the brain knows how to do that because these are the cues that our ancestors, all of our ancestors had these cues.
That's why we're alive today. They were able to view their environment through visual, auditory, kinesthetic cues and stay safe and alive. And so we're using the cues that the brain uses.
So it's not like we're doing something synthetic. This is the way the brain works. We just harness the power of synchronization, what they call frequency following response is actual science.
Len Arcuri | 29:14
Got it. Got it. And yeah, so for people who are listening, again, you've touched on a number of benefits of, doing this particular way of helping yourself, helping your child.
So accelerated learning and learning anything you mentioned about that with school. Calm and having a more calm demeanor, right? Which I know even with my son who's 17 now, his brain's constantly moving. And so there's a calming benefit of using sound and light.
And then you talked about the detox benefits, which I know a lot of our listeners are wrestling with ways of helping their child from a detox perspective. So I don't think many people think about brain detox in something as simple as just listening and exposing the body to.
Patrick Porter | 29:59
Light. Exactly.
I mean, you have to exercise the brain. If not, the brain is going to regulate to what it thinks its normal is.
So we have to disrupt that whatever the program is if you will because the brain likes patterns so if like if you have a pattern of stress and anxiety and because of a thought trauma or a toxin, we need to disconnect that and get the brain regulating differently. And it's all part of visualization because there's a saying in my book, Awaken the Genius, where I talk about you get what you rehearse in life, Not what you intend. And most people don't realize that the brain, we're always future pacing.
I mean, it's not like our brain, 100 billion neurobit processors are always trying to think of the future. And I think Deepak Chopra said it best back in the 90s where he said 97% of what we're going to do tomorrow we know about today.
So whatever you're pretending not to know. So when you think about as a parent or as a child, you're planning tomorrow, today, but if you didn't take the time to actually relax and visualize it, You know, could you imagine watching your favorite movies without any rehearsal?
You know, so part of the big thing with brain tap is start rehearsing how you want to interact with life because it's much nicer to interact with life than be assaulted by life. You know, there's the, when you think of longevity and what makes us the healthiest, the number one thing they said to add 10 years to your life, All you have to do is become a positive thinker. Negative thinkers die 10 years earlier.
So if you have a propensity to always think something's negative, We got to reframe that. I mean, you got to be cautious. You don't want to be just gullible, but you know, there are possibilities out there.
You know what I always tell people, I don't want you to believe what I'm doing. That's why you can, you're going to give out a link that they can have a 14 day free trial. We want to suspend their disbelief, use it for 14 days. If you don't like it, cancel it. But if you don't try it, how do you know? And even the sound alone, even without the lights, like our study we did in, We had a coal miner study and we showed that The same results we got in three weeks with the lights, they got in six weeks with just the sound.
So the problem is they had to listen to it three times a day instead of once a day with the headset. You know, so there's a much bigger impact when you have the light, but you can still get the results.
So everyone listening, Lynn's going to share with you a link where you can get that free 14-day trial. If you don't like it, just cancel it before the 15th day and you won't be charged, but Try it, get your family to try it. If you're having sleeping issues, that's the number one thing. That's when you incubate your superpowers. That's when you're really going to rest, relax, digest, and recover. And so the deeper we can get you sleeping, the quicker you can accelerate your healing and get your brain back the way you want.
Len Arcuri | 32:48
It. Yeah, no, we couldn't talk enough about the importance of sleep. And again, this podcast is really mainly designed for the parent, right?
So a parent, if you're having sleep issues, That is not something just to persevere through. So whatever you can do to improve the quality of your sleep is such a gift, not only for yourself, but for your child, because nothing else is going to work. And the same thing for your child. If they're having sleep issues, whatever you can do, and there's so much you can do to stack the deck for success with sleep. And we've talked about it on this podcast. But again, I think that's one of the many benefits from using BrainTap And again, it's not you use it and then all of a sudden everything changes in a day or two. And I know As parents, we're trained to look for the quick fix. And the irony, I think, is it's kind of like the coaching that I do with parents, which is all about how they're navigating. And even though working on yourself is kind of hard, it's the fastest path to get what you want, this personalized coaching. But it's a path less traveled. And I think it's the same with brain tap, where it's not an immediate thing. And like, even within that 14 day period, you're not going to see a totally different child or see speech emerge, but you will see an impact. And if you're wanting to stack the deck for more of what you want for your child, it is the fastest way to go. Because if you do modalities, like let's just say meditation or listening to music, as you said, you can get benefits But how do you speed the process? How do you accelerate? And that's where I look at BrainTap as an accelerator.
Patrick Porter | 34:30
Yeah, we did a study in Brazil with over 100 students and we showed music. We did five minutes before they listen to music, five minutes of music, then looked at five minutes after the music. And what we found was while the music was playing, the brain did regulate to the alpha brainwave. But when it stopped. But when we did, we encoded that same music with our encoding, our brainwave entrainment. It didn't stop. It stayed actually, we're still doing some deeper research on it, but we're seeing that for most people, it took about 72 hours to return back to their stressed out brainwave.
So that means if you can interrupt it, that's why we like to, if you have it at home. The solution is so simple. You do it once a day, you're going to interrupt that pattern. You're going to upregulate the nervous system. And the key is when it's time to be stressed, you can get stressed. When it's time to be relaxed, you can be relaxed and you don't go off, you know, and get stuck in the stimming or stuck in the disassociation where you can dial it in. The whole thing is we need to, we were used to traveling through our environment and maybe having a stressful event three to five times a week. Now we're having those every day.
You know, they say some people look at their phones 300 times a day. And if you have a propensity to be negative thinker, That's not a good thing.
I mean, if you're positive and you're just looking for something good, I don't think it's going to hurt you. But when you're negative, most people don't realize there's this big thing about blood sugar right now and what's going on. When you have a stressful event, you dump 25 grams of sugar that your liver is housing to get you away from that saber tooth tiger. Now it doesn't know that, text message or that call or that news report isn't A tiger. The body responds the same way under stress.
So that means that as it's dumping it in, that sugar is going to dysregulate the brain too. So not only your diet, but you have to think about your mental diet. What are you thinking about all day long? How are you bringing more joy, more happiness, more gratitude?
I mean, the kids, one of the things when you said immediate results, when Joquita Handy, who's Dr. Handy out of Orange County, her and her husband, he's a chiropractor and she's a speech pathologist. They did the study with us. But before they did that, My shipping department said, you got to call this Joe Quita handy. She's buying a lot of brain taps and she says she's using them for autism. And I'm like, what? I didn't even know that was, you know, we weren't thinking about that.
So I called her up and she said, yeah, she said, I decided to start using them on my, on the patients and the parents see their kid just. Totally zone out in 10 minutes and get up and they're relaxed and calm for a few hours. They said, I'm not leaving until I get one. Now that doesn't happen right away.
So depending upon the severity of their or how sensitive they are to light, sound, and vibration. Some people have to just start with just the sound alone, with just music, because we have over 600 sessions with no words.
And then introduce, now these are stories they're being told, like they're metaphors or stories that are therapeutic in nature, like finding the kind of kindness, teaching them how to, because a lot of times they don't know the difference between who they are and who somebody else is. That's one of the problems if you don't have alpha. You don't have spatial awareness.
So when you hit somebody or you hurt somebody, you're not trying to hurt them. You're just trying to get that tactile expression.
So we need to train the brain again to reconnect. So there's different ones like that. And there's one like Being the piece you want to find in the world so teaching them that they can find their own center their own focus You know that when they start to feel out of control, that's normal But they can do some breathing exercises bring themselves back. Every session is training them to use their brain and They are smarter than we think. I just know that for a fact because I mean, I've seen them once they start speaking and they get better and they're like, I understood what you were saying. I just couldn't get my body to do it, you know?
So let's get their body tuned up so that their mind and body can synchronize.
Len Arcuri | 38:30
Yeah, I can't tell you how many episodes we've done on that concept because it's something that still surprises parents. But it's absolutely true how, again, these kids are presenting in ways that don't demonstrate What they're taking in and how smart they are. And time again, parents are shocked to hopefully ultimately realize that. And again, I think something like brain tap can definitely help with it.
You know, one reason why, you know, you came up a couple months ago was in an episode I did with Dr. Neil Nathans. And he had mentioned brain taps specifically in that episode. And Dr. Nathan's latest book, The Sensitive Patient's Healing Guide, has that one big concept, which is that you can't heal if you don't feel safe.
So especially for these kids, that sense of lack of safety, anything you can do to help them feel safer and better connected. And that's where this is a super easy way that you can help them with literally no downside in the comfort of your own home. And again, especially if you can help with things like sleep and detox, et cetera, it's a win-win-win in many ways. And again, as you and I were talking about even before we started recording, So much of what a parent wants to do for a child in terms of an intervention. It is so much more powerful if it's something that you're doing with your child.
So whether it's a healthier diet or something like brain tap, if your child sees you using this, they'll be much more likely to use it. And it's just pleasing to use. It may look a little bit crazy. But it's really easy to use. And I just wanted to comment that there are there's a lot of devices out there, especially recently that are more about like impulses and electrical stimulation and the like, and this is not one of them. This is really just simply sound and light And there may be a place for those other types of modalities, but this is not one of them. This is just using sound and light and these programs that are super easy. And just in case anyone's nervous about an electronic device on top of their child's head, which I would be, you know, and we've had so many episodes on EMFs and minimizing EMFs. What's coming off this headset is very minimal. And definitely in terms of a cost benefit, a brain tap session is well worth it compared to whatever you might be receiving from an EMF perspective.
Patrick Porter | 40:59
Yeah. And I'm on the board of Dan DeBond Radiation Nation, and they use this in his book. He talks about brain tap being the number one thing to work on EMF because when your brain's balanced, you don't hold the charge.
You know, grounding is so important to do that. And so the, anything that comes off the headset is actually coming from the phone. .
Bluetooth is not going to bother you. I mean, but some people are super sensitive.
So you, we have the hardwired solution. I use the hardwired here in the morning just because I can, you know, it does it that way, but Bluetooth, you know, is still.
I mean, for some people, it's too much. You know, I think they say that it's about 27% of people are ultra sensitive to any of these EMF that are going on out there.
Len Arcuri | 41:56
Yep. Yeah. And what Dr. Porter is referring to is the headset. It just works Bluetooth if that's what you'd like. But there's an audio cord, like an old fashioned cord that plugs right into your phone, into the lightning or the USB-C now. And we use those cords.
So we'd rather have it be directly connected and not use Bluetooth. But I hear what you're saying where Yeah, you may be like overwhelmingly concerned with Bluetooth on your phone, but if your wireless router is going, that's probably a much bigger stressor than anything that's going on with Bluetooth with your phone.
So, yeah. So thank you for commenting on that.
Yeah. So from that standpoint, you know, I know you've had. Many case studies and lots of research that you're doing, but within the autism community, I know you've had one little, maybe not an official trial, but I know you worked with the Thinking Moms Revolution in terms of using the device. Tell me about how that went.
Patrick Porter | 42:54
Yeah, what we wanted to show, we believed and it proved out that the mothers had PTSD when we had them do the study. We didn't tell them that's what it was for, but we had them do the questionnaire and we measured their brains.
And then what we showed them was if you can just take 10 minutes. It will make a significant difference.
So the goal was for them to do one 10-minute session sometime during the day. And what they found out was They got some magic done during that day. And, about the third week of 100% of the children that were watching their mother do it were asking to do the machine, which we found that sometimes the headset can be kind of a they think of it like a penalty or something or like it's a, it's not a good thing, it's a bad thing that they have to wear it. When they see the parents wearing it, we found that was really good. But the key thing was that As the caregiver, your stress actually plays into the stress of your child more than you think, because there's something called bio-photetic exchange. You're exchanging your energy. It's not a metaphysical concept anymore. It's a science concept.
I mean, if you go to the National Institute of Health's website, they'll tell you that there is a biosphere. That all illness starts in the sphere. In the energy field. RNIH says that, which is kind of crazy because it seems like they're trying to take us out. But it's actually on their website.
Len Arcuri | 44:14
- Yeah, no, fantastic. And again, that's a key theme of this podcast, right? Parent, your energy matters so much more than you may think. And so anything you can do to get better regulated and again, get to a better place where you can work calmly, discern what's gonna help your child the most, And I know on this podcast, we share lots of possibilities for you, which in and of itself might be overwhelming.
So just... Better understand this option. It's a very simple, easy way. And again, it's something that can definitely benefit you. Definitely something that could potentially benefit your child. And as Dr. Porter said, I mean, you can significantly improve the brain and how it operates at any age. A lot of our parents, Dr. Porter, have this concept of a window that you hear about that unless you help your child make sizable progress by the time they turn five, you've kind of missed the boat. And we continue to try to tell them that's not true. And my guess is you would agree that is not true.
Patrick Porter | 45:14
That's not true at all. I mean, the brain is always developing. The brain is like the liver. They now realize the liver will regenerate itself.
So does the brain. But the problem is if there's so much trauma and toxins in the brain, then... You can't, you have to get the inflammation down. You have to, if there's been some kind of assault on the brain, we need to clear that out. And light energy is one of the best ways to do that.
So, you know, when you bring, you have to bring energy to the solution, to the problem. What energy is like when somebody says in business, money will solve a lot of problems. Energy will solve a lot of problems. And what's nice is, We don't have to heal the brain. The brain is designed to heal. The body is designed to heal. It's not like we're fighting against our... Genome. We're working with our genes, with our body, you know, but the problem is that most people are in a state of hypersensitivity and sympathetic, which is the fight or flight, and they're not able to disengage. And a lot of times, even with what we find, I got to travel Sweden with Dr. Melillo, which was an incredible time, you know, and he was teaching people about how to turn off the primitive reflexes. And I think that a lot of parents that that's, That, and we even have sessions on brain tap for that.
So once the chiropractor or the neurologist will do these reflex work, there's brain tap sessions to integrate that because it's all about neuroplasticity. I guess I need to explain that because I don't think we've done that before. Think of neuroplasticity as energy in the brain. When I was talking about the 18.1 or the 10.1 across the frontal lobe, when you have matched energy, the brain can synchronize and work together. The higher the voltage... The better the brain works.
So what we find is that When we have these dysregulated brains, like let's say somebody has a 10.1 and a 9.3 brain, which is something we see commonly, that mismatch is just, it's like having a two-way radio, but they're not in the same frequency. So you can be talking and so you get this disruption and this stress that happens. And the longer it goes, the worse it gets.
So you can synchronize it through exercise, doing things like cross crawls, like I was saying, martial arts, yoga, dance, get them up moving like the metronome, like a lot of people use the metronome, things like these are all things that integrate like playing the piano, you know, if you're, you know, you can do that. So these are all things, anything you can do to get the whole brain involved. It's going to, and then you've got to do some kind of recovery.
You know, that's where the brain tap comes in. So do the work.
Like get them up doing exercise. And then have them lay down and do the brain tap because that will teach their heart rate variability too, to be stressed and then be relaxed, be stressed, to be relaxed. It doesn't matter if it's exercise stress or psychological stress. We're teaching the body that it's okay to be stressed, but it's okay to relax, you know, and when it gets stuck in any of these gears, you know, I tell people it's like having a five speed transmission in San Francisco and you're stuck in, you know, second gear and you can't, You know, you're not able to do everything you want to do when you're going up and down those hills. You got to be able to shift through all those gears. That's the same with the brain. We need to be able to move along that dial and be in the right brainwave state for the right activity.
Len Arcuri | 48:26
Right. Yep. No, it makes perfect sense. And it's interesting. You mentioned Dr. Malolo. We just, my son and I were up there last week working with Dr. Malolo. We've been up there for three one week periods with his whole approach, which I think is super powerful with respect to losing the primitive reflexes, getting better balance in the brain. And it's interesting because my son isn't, as you described at the outset, where his issue is actually the opposite, where his left brain is super on fire and dominant in his right brain, it needs to catch up.
So again, I think every child's extremely unique. And I think the BrainTap programs can kind of meet your child where they are And again, the brain will use what it needs.
Patrick Porter | 49:11
One of Dr. Melillo's students, he's a doctor that we work with called Dr. Kelly Miller, and he's actually helped us with EEG to come up with sessions that speed up either the right or the left hemisphere.
So we have sessions for both of those, but you need to know what the brain's at right now. So that's where the brain mapping comes in with the centers that are using EEG. That's the, when I use neurofeedback, that's really the only reason I would use it is to figure out where the brain's at so we can fix it and then measure it again and show them how it's working because the, group is the orchestra leader for your nervous system.
So if you're holding your breath, you're turning on the sympathetic system. If you're too relaxed and maybe burned out, you could have parasympathetic overload, which means that you're just too tired to do anything.
So there's a balance between all things, right? And then your neurohormonal system, are you using coffee, tea and sugar to regulate.
You know, we need to get Be healthy in that way, you know, using the body is the best energy you can get is through breathing and through good clean water, you know, and then the rest comes next, you know, but a lot of people miss out on the simple things.
Len Arcuri | 50:38
Yep. No, it is the simple things and breath work is important again, which is why kind of a lot of these powerful modalities are all worked into the brain tap approach.
So I think this definitely helped, I think shed more light on what this option may look like. And yeah, there'll be a link in the show notes for you to try it out. And again, I was always a huge fan of things that could help my child, you know, that had great upside and no downside. And this definitely fits the bill. And again, anything that can help both you, the parent and the child is a big win-win.
So Dr. Porter, I really appreciate you taking the time to shed light on this and I appreciate everything that you and your company are doing.
Well.
Patrick Porter | 51:20
Thanks for having me, Linda. We're out to better a billion brains. And if you're listening, it's your brain now.
So take advantage of that link and try out at least the app. You know, if you're not willing to go to the next step, try that first. See how the sound works, because we get about a 30 to 40 percent. Deeper improvement, if you will, in brain activity when you use the lights, but you can at least get a little experience with it.
Len Arcuri | 51:42
Yep. And easy to download on the app store, whatever device you might be using.
So that's great. Well, again, I really appreciate it, Dr. Porter. Thanks so much. Thank you. Your child wants you to transform now. And the fastest way to do that is with personalized support. To learn more, go to allinparentcoaching.com/intensive.
