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Forgiveness and Alpha Waves

Forgiveness is a major theme of the Biocybernaut Alpha and Theta Training programs. Here is a little background on Forgiveness and Alpha Waves.

George Gallup, in one of his Gallup Polls surveyed Americans on the topic of Forgiveness. He found that Forgiveness is something virtually all Americans aspire to --94% surveyed in a nationwide Gallup poll said it was important to forgive. But it is not something we frequently are able to do. 85% said they could not do forgiveness on their own and needed some outside help,- God's help or something outside themselves. Even prayer did not correlate with Effective Forgiveness, which is astonishing given the many Christians in the survey. Of all the things Gallup asked about in the poll, only one thing correlated with effective forgiveness, and that was "meditative prayer."

Now when I see the word "meditative" I see increased Alpha Brain Waves. When meditation is done correctly, it produces more Alpha Waves in the brain. So "meditative prayer" would have more Alpha Waves than any other kind of prayer. Meditative walking would have more Alpha Waves. Meditative eating would have more Alpha Waves, and so on. And only meditative prayer was found, by the Gallup Poll, to be correlated with Effective Forgiveness.

So in a sense, George Gallup has discovered intriguing evidence that Alpha Waves are related to effective forgiveness. This helps explain the lack of effective forgiveness in today’s world, because people are so lacking in alpha brain waves.

The tests, challenges and travails of daily life diminish your alpha waves below the natural levels you would enjoy without what Shakespeare called "The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."(Hamlet 3/1). Most people are "alpha wave challenged" in that they have far less alpha brain wave activity than would be ideal for them. And they have much less alpha brain wave activity than they are capable of having. Therefore people would also be "forgiveness challenged" because alpha waves are needed for effective forgiveness.

When I am teaching people to increase their Alpha brain waves I tell them they have to open their hearts, and they must learn to forgive. The lack of enough alpha waves in most people’s brains could explain another one of the important findings in the Gallup Poll: only 48% of the people said they usually tried to forgive others. It makes sense that without enough Alpha waves they would be wasting their time because forgiveness wouldn’t work anyway. It takes increased Alpha Waves for Effective Forgiveness and most people are way below their natural potential for Alpha Waves.

Forgiveness was not always a central theme of the Biocybernaut Alpha brain wave trainings. The development of this powerful Forgiveness theme did not come from a Faith Based approach to designing the Alpha Trainings, although it might well have had its roots in the Christian background of Biocybernaut's Founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Hardt, who was raised in the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod [i.e. fundamentalist]. And Dr. Hardt’s paternal grandfather, Henry Hardt was a Lutheran minister who married his parents and baptized him.

Nevertheless the extremely powerful Forgiveness theme of the Biocybernaut trainings came from an empirical and scientific approach to healing the hearts, minds and spirits of the people who have come for this advanced form of neurofeedback training at Biocybernaut.

Sandy McGaghe, a retired Presbyterian minister said that he learned more about forgiveness in the 7 days of his Alpha One training than in all the 35 years of his ministry.

How is this possible? And how does the Biocybernaut’s Alpha One training teach people the skill of effective forgiveness?

There are many components of Biocybernaut’s powerful forgiveness training, and one of the keys to learning effective forgiveness is Biocybernaut’s computerized Mood Scale Programs. As an Alpha trainee you fill out these computerized mood scales twice a day while seated in the Neurofeedback chamber. You are wearing all your electrodes that are attached to many different regions of your scalp, over important brain regions and you fill out the computerized Mood Scales both before and after your Alpha feedback training. Your brain is connected to amplifiers that boost the tiny microvolt-range brain wave signals and then these amplified signals are processed by several computers. It takes three computers to run each one of the Biocybernaut brain wave training chambers.

When you are taking these Mood Scales the computer presents adjectives [feeling words] to you one at a time and you rate yourself as to how Friendly, Sleepy, Unhappy, Anxious, Depressed, Calm, Kindly, Joyful, etc. you think yourself to be. Meanwhile the computer both records your answers and calculates your scores on 21 different moods. But the computer is also making evaluations of how accurate your answers are. Of course you are trying to be as honest as possible, but your ego will be trying to keep some things hidden,- things like anger, hostility, resentment, jealousy, etc. These negative feelings will be linked to traumatic events in your life and your ego will not want you to be aware of these, because you might actually forgive these traumatic events and thus get FREE of the grief they cause in your subconscious.

Ego would rather have a storehouse of unforgiven events in your unconscious that it can bring up into your awareness, at times of its choosing, to keep you off balance when you try to be happy, free, clear and more spiritual and more one with God in your life. So ego uses the 5 Hindrances (from Zen philosophy) plus Forgetfulness to prevent you from forgiving. Any forgiveness or transcendence that you achieve will reduce your ego’s control of you. Father Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, the famous French Jesuit philosopher said, "The True Self grows in inverse proportion to the growth of egoism."

So the unfortunate fact is that your efforts at forgiveness are continually undermined by your own ego as part of its program of keeping you under its control. Your ego does not want you to forgive because that will diminish ego’s control of you. Ego relishes the control it has when you are "blind with rage" or "numb with fear". However, if you are filling yourself with compassion and merging with the Divine Awareness, ego is being shrunk and it will go ballistic and act out to distract you from greater awareness of the Source of the universe.

The computerized Mood Scales can reach back all the way to your childhood and can detect, and then bring back into your awareness, all those traumas, negative behaviors, negative emotions, withholds, grudges, etc. that are adversely influencing your behaviors and your moods, and are undermining your success. One of the roles of the Biocybernaut Trainers is to review your Mood Scales with you so you can re-educate yourself about these past events and the negative emotions attached to these events.

As you take the Mood Scale test, the computer rates the likely accuracy of each one of your answers. It calculates sigmas (standard deviations) associated with each one of your responses to the words on the Mood Scales. If the computer calculates a one sigma for a response you gave, that suggests there is a 68% chance that answer is wrong. If the computer calculates a 2 sigma for your response, that suggests there is a 95% chance your answer to that item is wrong. If the computer calculates a 3 sigma for your response that suggests there is a 99.7% chance that answer is wrong. Nothing is absolute here, but these are some strong suggestions that you have a BIG ISSUE with that word and it would be in your best interest to think of what it might be. If that feeling and the incident that caused it continues to hide out in your subconscious, you will have less alpha and you will be vulnerable to ego’s use of that incident to undermine your happiness and your success.

The Mood Scale program turns up forgiveness candidates like a plow turns up rocks in a field. These forgiveness candidates will help focus your forgiveness efforts during your work in the Alpha feedback chambers. Of course it takes a daily depth interview with a skilled Biocybernaut Trainer to help you discover what these forgiveness candidates might be.

[to be continued]