This powerful approach to personal transformation trains the brain to regulate its patterns of electrical activity (or 'brain waves') and thus enables the brain and central nervous system to return to natural healthy rhythms from various states of imbalance and dysfunction.

 

As the brain becomes “unstuck” from the dysfunctional patterns and imbalances which correspond to the difficulties and dysfunction a person is experiencing in their life, the brain and central nervous system are also trained to regulate and synchronize themselves in order to attain optimal functioning.

 

When the brain learns to operate with this new efficiency, flexibility, and resilience, individuals experience many improvements in their lives. Apart from other more symptom-specific results, Neurofeedback training generally effects a: renormalization of sleeping patterns and greatly improved sleep; increased mental clarity, focus, and concentration abilities; a reduction in impulsivity and erratic mood fluctuations; decreased mental chatter and rumination; improved memory; reduced anxiety; and, an increased overall experience of well-being.

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As the center of operations for the body, the brain is a truly remarkable organ. Having approximately 100 trillion synapses, and capable of performing well over a million calculations per second, the brain has the capacity to continuously learn, adapt and enhance its performance when provided with feedback about what to modify or adjust. 

 

It is now well proven that the brain is able to structurally reorganize itself - even to the point of producing new neural circuitry in response to specific training - this is referred to as “brain plasticity”.

 

In Neurofeedback training, the moment to moment events of a client’s brain activity are measured with an electroencephalograph or EEG. The signal processing apparatus (EEG) relays this information to a highly sophisticated computer program which analyzes the data and relays very specific information about the brain’s electrical activity back to the client in the form of audio and visual feedback. Hence the term: Neurofeedback. This highly sophisticated feedback process allows the brain access to information and guidance about it’s own functioning in real time.

 

The brain orients itself to this very precise, real-time, feedback about its performance and utilizes this information and guidance to decrease its unstable, inefficient, and otherwise dysfunctional patterns. The brain simultaneously uses this information to increase its functional efficiency, flexibility, resilience – enhancing it's innate processes of self regulation and healthy complexity. Because the brain is in a continual process of self-organization, this new learning is processed in a variety of ways throughout the training period and beyond. What this means is that after one’s training is completed the brain tends towards a continuing improvement of its performance for some time.

 

The EEG equipment is connected to the individual with sensors that are placed on the scalp and ears with the use of a conductive gel. The sensors are safe and painless - they do not prick the skin. It is important to understand that the sensors are “passive instruments”. What this means it that they only record and transmit the electrical activity of the brain - they DO NOT introduce any electric current to the client. After the connection to the scalp and ears are made, the client's brainwave activity can be observed on a computer monitor and trained accordingly.

 

The elegance of Neurofeedback training lies in the fact that it does not require the client to consciously work at changing their brain function. In contrast to many other therapies, Neurofeedback engages the client's brain and extended central nervous system directly and thus can bypass cognitive schemas and other habitual patterns that can thwart or stall other therapeutic approaches. One way to understand this is to view Neurofeedback as working from “the inside out” as opposed to other forms of therapy which work from “the outside in”. This makes Neurofeedack training so easy that virtually anyone can do it - including very young children.

 

The brain's response to the information it receives in Neurofeedback is so fast and complex that the conscious mind tends to ‘catch up’ later upon realizing that it is “unstuck” and operating with greater ease and a new freedom. During the training itself, most clients report experiencing some combination of relaxation, a general state of well being, a relaxed awareness, and increased focus.

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