Peak Performance

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Operating at a higher level, is a description of an optimized mental state which most of us rarely experience. Although these levels of consciousness are highly productive and enjoyable, they have remained fleeting and often just outside our abilities to control, until now.
Dr. James Hardt is the founder of the The Biocybernaut Institute and has methods for expanding states of awareness. He expoundes on how alpha waves and the art of forgiveness affects our ability to access higher states of consciousness.
Forgiveness is a major theme of the Biocybernaut Alpha and Theta Training programs. Only one thing correlated with effective forgiveness, and that was "meditative prayer."
Now seeing the word "meditative" corelates to 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. So only meditative prayer was found to be correlated with Effective Forgiveness so taking that the next step we can say 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.
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 us off balance when trying 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.