Early on in grade school, I was identified with several developmental delays, some were calling them learning disabilities because I had significant problems with reading, writing and mathematical processing – I also had a problem with my speech and I was pulled out of class on a regular basis for therapy.
The only thing that kept me moving from grade to grade was the fact that there was evidence that I was acquiring knowledge… because once in a while, under the right conditions, I could demonstrate it.
I was very fortunate that my parents were psychologists because they were able to advocate for me and work with the teachers to create these ideal conditions whereby I could demonstrate that in fact I was learning.
The idea was that as long as I kept moving from grade to grade with these special exceptions and therapy that my brain would just correct itself…which sometimes happens.
Well for me … this did not happen as they hoped so my parents decided to bring me to a special lab where they were going put EEG sensors and subject me to hours of testing in effort to find out what was going on in my brain.
Now I will never forget that day…. Not because I was traumatized by all the poking and prodding but because of what I overheard the doctors saying to my parents after the testing was complete.
They told them that all the individual parts of my brain were either normal or above normal. They made a point to emphasize that the right side of my brain as especially active and vibrant.
The problem, as they saw it, was that there were significant breaks in the way the individual parts of my brain communicated with each other.
NOW, I did not know it at the time, but those words would end up defining my purpose in life and the research and product development I do today.
After that day, everything changed because to me and my parents, the solution was simple. It was all about communication. It was about getting my brain to function as a single unit instead of just a bunch of individual parts.
After this diagnosis, my parents worked with me day in and day out with various educational activities that they believed would help increase communication between the right and left side of my brain and to all the individual areas.
And bit by bit it started to work. Gradually, the communication gap that existed in my brain began to vanish until one day… I experienced what could be called a quantum leap in improvement. Overnight it seemed as if a switch was turned on and I began to excel at anything I put my mind too.
Now at the time, I did not understand how and why everything my parents did with me worked…and neither did my parents… all they had were theories because in the 70s neuroscience was just beginning to pick up speed.
What I did understand is this: It was the work that my parents did with my brain and my mind that forever saved me from a life of intellectual deficiency….. It was in the first year that my brain turned on… that a creative spark ignited a passion for understanding the brain that continues to drive me to this very day.
By the time I finished grade 7, I was already learning hypnosis and I later went on to be a clinical hypnotherapist… by the time I hit my 16th birthday, I had already devised a strategy to help a friend of mine deal with schizophrenic episodes and I was one of the youngest people to ever be certified as a licensed practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
And I never stopped… I never stopped learning and devouring every bit of information I could get my hands on in regards to the brain.
About 14 years ago, I discovered something called Brainwave Entrainment.
Brainwave entrainment caught my attention because through the use of light and or sound stimulation, people were able to get some amazing results ranging from stress relief all the way to helping children with learning disabilities improve their academic performance.
Some doctors were even claiming that they could increase the IQ in children with intellectual deficiencies by as much as 17 points just by having them listen to specific tones and having them look at flashes of light.
So, you can understand why I was just a little more than intrigued!
When I first started looking into this… I said to myself…this has got to be joke… because how on earth is it possible to raise a person’s IQ with what amounts to sounds and light frequencies…? It sounded like complete science fiction to me…. And If this is the first time you’ve heard of Brainwave Entrainment… you might think the same way, but let me assure you… it is no joke and it is very real.
I want to share with you some of the clinical peer reviewed research that got me so excited about this technology years ago.
- An average 33% increase in intellectual functioning among children with ADHD in 5 categories measured by the standardized WISC-3 intelligence assessment test. (6 weeks)
- Increase in GPA by .62 points as measured in the next semester – the control was a negative -.22 GPA as measured the next semester
- 81% improvement in focus and attention as measured by the WISC 3 Freedom from distractibility scale
- 34% reduction in fatigue
- .6 Grades reading level improvement in just 2 weeks – the control was .2 Grades
- Significant and immediate reduction in stress and anxiety after a 40-minute session
Even though I was faced with this really amazing research… I had to find out for myself. So, I went out and purchased the first of many EEG machines so I could measure my own brainwaves and test this technology out for myself.
After playing with this technology for some time, I observed increases in my own mental performance across the board. My stress levels went down and my ability to focus and attend to complex things went up in ways that I didn’t even think to expect.
Very soon afterwards, I started to produce my own Brainwave Entrainment because deep inside I felt that there was a massive amount of untapped potential in this technology and I wanted to find it.
Month after month and year after year I worked on improving this technology and bit by bit, I discovered new ways to not only make it more effective and get better results, but to get better results in less time.
Fast forward to a year… I was taking a course from one of the top brain experts in the world and as she was explaining the interlaces of how the ears and eyes and the brain works to encode and process both sound and light, I had the biggest AHA moment of my life and it is the exact reason I am on this stage talking to you today.
What I discovered was the massive amounts of unlocked potential that I had been looking for all this time.
So, before I share that with you today and show you a profound example of how powerful it is, I want to give you a little more background information on Brainwave Entrainment.
Brainwave Entrainment was born because of a natural and observable phenomenon called Frequency Following response.
A FFR is the tendency for the dominant electrical activity in the brain to sync up…to match then follow external frequencies that a similar to its own.
Usually sound and or light frequencies.
Here is an example of how this works…. If I were to put some EEG sensors on any of you and brought to a beach where you could listen to the consistent crashing of the waves on the shore after about an hour we would see large portions of your brainwave activity begin to sync up with the natural rhythm and frequency of the waves rolling in and out from the shore.
Once that portion of your brain is in sync with the rhythm of the waves, as the rate speed of those waves change, that portion of your brain will quickly and easily follow those changes.
If the waves were to speed up for some unknown reason, the portion of your brain that is in sync with the waves crashing would speed up, if those waves were to slow down, that portion of your electrical activity in your brain would slow down.
Now, the reasons that neuroscientists are starting to get excited about this stuff is because we now know that your brainwave activity is intimately tied to what you are thinking and what you are feeling at any given moment in time.
Every thought, every action every eye blink leaves an electrical footprint in the brain. Everything from the simplest to the most complex processes in your brain can leaves an electrical footprint.
So why is this so important?
Well the scientific community has been studding brainwave activity with ever increasing precision for 100 years (give or take)
And while we don’t know everything, we do have an immense amount of data. We know that brainwave activity is remarkably consistent from one person to another as it relates to what is going on in our lives at any moment in time.
For instance…. ADHD
Fear and anxiety….. all the when we are functioning at the top of our intellectual capacity it looks a certain way.
And it is this consistency from one person to the next that is very exciting because on the one hand we have this natural phenomena called a FFR that allows us to create sound and light frequencies that can shift and move the electrical activity in the brain and on the other hand we have an ever increasingly more precise roadmap that shows us how to use this technology to shift the electrical activity in the brain to create massive positive outcomes like the ones I showed you earlier.
A year ago, when I acquired a deeper understanding of how the eyes and ears work to process and encode light and sound, it became clear to me that the way Brainwave Entrainment Technology is created and used to create those amazing results was tragically underpowered.
The way that the sound and light frequencies were created, although clinically proven to work, do not play up to the full strength and processing power of either the ears or the eyes.
The way that they are typically created is by producing bland tones and simple flashes of light.
Now the reason I say this method is tragically underpowered is because when it come to the eyes…..All light frequencies that come in through the eyes are projected to roughly 40% of the cortex…that’s a huge part of the brain.
But not all light information is treated equally by that 40% of the brain. The visual system allocates a significant amount of processing power and gives priority to certain types of light information.
Simple flashes of light in of themselves does not carry with it a lot of meaning for the visual system. What does carry a lot of meaning for the visual system are simple and complex shapes interacting with one another. Color, depth perceptions and movement of shapes in relationship to you.
Now you don’t have to be a neuroscientist to know that this true. These are the exact mechanisms that allow us to move about in the world without bumping into to stuff all the time…… If this weren’t true driving would be illegal.
Simple tones and frequencies, while proven to work, also don’t have a lot of intrinsic meaning or importance to our brain.
Much like our visual system, our internal sound system gets far more excited and involved when sound is moving in multiple dimensions. When sound moves closer to you, then farther away then it moves to the left then the right then up and down while changing its speed of movement can rev up the brain in the most powerful ways because
One of the primary functions of our sound system is to determine the origin of a sound, its meaning, its speed and its direction and overall movement in relationship to you.
In order for your brain to accomplish this, it has to do a form of triangulation which requires a huge amount of internal math.
I don’t know if you have ever had the pleasure of doing that type of math by hand but for me, its not fun at all.
And the more complexity there is to sound, in regards to its special relationship to you, the harder your brain has to work to make sense of it and encode it.
One of the ways your brain gets the information to properly encode this type of complex sound is by repeatedly bouncing electrical signals back and for between the left and the right side of the brain.
Simple tones and frequencies to very little if nothing at all to engage this processing power of our audio system.
So, given all this information about our visual and sound systems… I decided to take the clinically proven flashes of light and move them into simple and complex shapes that move about on screen, that change colour and their spatial relationship to on another.
I then took the clinically proven sound frequencies and began to shift them in a 3D holographic way so when you have headphones on, it sounds like {….demonstrating with hands.}
Then I synced up the videos stimulation with the audios stimulation and created what I call Passive Brain Fitness technology.
To use Passive Brain Fitness, all you have to do is watch a 7 to 10-minute video with a pair of headphones for the sound to get results.
Now the reason I call it Passive Brain Fitness is because whenever you engage the visual system and sound system in the brain the way that Passive Brain Fitness does, what happens is very similar to what happens when you work out a physical muscle in your body.
When you workout a muscle in your body, you not only get increased blood flow and increased electrical activity in the muscle you are working out, you also get increased electrical activity and blood flow in all the supporting muscle groups and out through the body.
The same thing happens when you engage the brain with passive Brain Fitness Technology.
The other reason it is called Passive Brain Fitness is because aside from loading a video and putting headphones on, it is 100% Passive.
So why is all this important? Well Passive Brain Fitness can do what Brainwave Entrainment can do but without creating a FFR.
This is real big deal because creating a FFR can be very difficult to do and It can take over an hour just to get the brain to sync up to the frequencies.
With Passive Brian Fitness, we don’t need a FFR, we can shift the electricity and blood flow in the brain very quickly without it.
We can also create a better result with passive Brain Fitness because we are using the same types of clinically proven technology, but we are adding so much visual and auditory complexity that the brain must bounce electrical signals repeatedly back and forth and left to right through the corpus-coliseum and the optic pathway.
In a way that Brainwave Entrainment simply cannot do. So, what does all that mean for you and I?
Well at the stage that this technology is at right now, you improve your intellectual performance and capacity for just about anything you can think of inside of 10 minutes. Give or take.
And that increased intellectual capacity and performance can stay with you for many hours. Especially as you continue to use it consistently.
Because just like regular fitness, the more you do it, the stronger your muscles get and the stronger your muscles get, the more you will benefit from that strength in everything you do.
The same holds true for your brain.
But this is only scratching the surface. By using this technology strategically, combined with a little expert know-how, we can begin to successfully treat many of Life’s most nagging quality of life issues such as chronic, stress, anxiety, fear and overwhelm.
I’ve had some amazing successes in helping with mood disorders including severe depressions. I’ve had some remarkable success with everything raging from reducing symptoms of ADD and ADHD to correcting sleep cycles and pain relief.
And this is just where we are today What I would like to do now is show you a couple screen shots of a recent client.
What I am going to show you now is a series of slides of my Mother’s brainwave activity as she is experiencing anxiety…. Then I am going to show you what happens when she tries to use her brain on a focus and concentration task. – this will blow you away especially if you know anything about EEG readings because I have never seen anything like this. It showcases the true cost of fear and anxiety.
Following that, you’re going to see her brainwave activity while she is experiencing fear and anxiety, then you’re going to see what happens in her brain as a result of using a 10-minute passive brain fitness video and then you’ll see what happens when she tries to use her brain on a focus and attention task.
Conclusion
Listen, I want to be clear. This brand of light and sound stimulation, that I call Passive Brain Fitness is not a “one-shot” “Cure-All” and I can’t guarantee that it will produce amazing results for every person in every situation…not yet anyway!! J
I started to publicly test this technology with clients and customers in November 2013 and since then, I’ve upgraded the technology based on what I’ve learned 12 times since, making it better and better. I’ve upgraded it 9 times since I initially used my mother on the slides you’ve just seen.
AND… I have a lot more testing and research to do. BUT, I believe my team and I are close to creating a version of this technology that will work for just about every person for a variety of valued outcomes.
I believe that sooner, rather than later, we will be able to offer long term, permanent solutions for chronic depressions, anxiety, fear, stress and overwhelm.
I believe we will be able to make it so that children won’t have to struggle as I did in school because of communication gaps in the brain.
As we continue to understand more about how blood flow and electricity moves about in the brain and the consequences of this movement, we’re going to be able to do some amazing things!
I see a future where learning disabilities become virtually non-existent. When a problem or difficulty is identified, we’ll have specific brain exercises that will quickly grow the neural-resources required to correct the problem.
I see a future where Mental Illness is virtually non-existent because we will be able to turn on the production of any neural-chemical we choose or safely suppress the ones that may be causing problems.
I see a future where disease, illness and trauma are treated first by stimulating and exercising the brain first before other evasive procedures.
A friend of mine, Tristan was in a terrible accident where parts of his spine were crushed. The doctors said he would never walk again and he would spend the rest of his life in wheel chair. Well for Tristen, this was not an option. You see Tristan believes as I do that the brain is a quantum mechanical device that is capable of limitless possibilities. IN just a few short years Tristan was not only walking but he was back to teaching martial arts. Both a medical mystery and a medical miracle.
By stimulating the brain in very specific ways, tapping into the true power of our quantum mechanical brain, I see a future where miracles are the norm and pain, illness and disease are the exceptions.
The possibilities are wide open and far reaching… I hope you all stay tuned to what comes next because I think we’re going to be able to help millions of people and save countless lives.
About The Author:
Jeffrey Gignac was one of the youngest people in North America to be certified as a practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming at the age of 15. He studied psychology and at the University of Windsor for 4 years before becoming is a clinical hypnotherapist and licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and a World-Renowned expert in brainwave entrainment and brainwave stimulation. Jeff is a published author, writing his first book in 1999 with his most recent contribution “The Secret Skill” appearing in “Adventures in Manifesting” Success and Spirituality. People from all over the world and from every walk of life (including self-hep gurus like John Assaraf and corporate billionaires) have been tapping Jeffrey’s brilliance for decades due to his science-based approach for rewiring the brain. He’s been on multiple TV and Radio shows and featured at TEDx and now he has taken his frequency-based technology to the next level. Jeffrey now has the only frequency-based technology in the world that can deliver frequency-based technology directly over three unique physical pathways. No one has ever been able to do this until now. It’s a remarkable discovery that can change your life.
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