October 20, 2017

Sometimes, cognitive issues are difficult to treat, no matter what you do. But now there’s a new technique that showing real promise when it comes to healing difficult imbalances in the brain.

Imagine a time when you felt depressed. The world seems darker, things that once made you happy now fall flat, and the quality of your sleep has fallen off.

And that’s just the beginning of a long list of symptoms. You just feel terrible.

Now imagine that depression just won’t go away. Medications, counseling, even lifestyle changes… Nothing seems to help.

Unfortunately, this is more common than you’d think.

But we now have another powerful tool to deal with these issues.

Neurofeedback training has been proven to be very useful in helping people with these sorts of issues even when nothing else seems to work. It’s helped cognitive issues raining from depression to autism to severe brain injuries. (Watch our videos on neurofeedback here, and here.)

What is Neurofeedback training?

Even as recently as a few decades ago, medical science was pretty convinced that after a certain age your brain cells stopped replacing themselves. The brain you have as a teenager, then, is the brain you’ll have for the rest of your life.

We know now that this isn’t true. Instead, the brain is amazing in its ability to repair itself, to create new inner networks, and divide out responsibilities across the rest of the brain if one portion is damaged. This adaptability is called neuroplasticity, and it’s the basis for neurofeedback training.

Your brain produces electrical waves. But sometimes, those waves can get “stuck” in a pattern. When the pattern gets stuck in a “negative” loop, it can cause depression, along with a broad range of other issues. Just as we can fall into negative habits—eating poorly, absorbing too much stress, or not resolving the roots of our toxic relationships—so too can your brainwaves get “stuck” in self-perpetuating cycles of negativity.

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Neurofeedback training is designed to break those cycles and restore your brainwaves to their normal, healthy levels.

How does it work?

I could get very technical with this explanation, but instead, I’ll tell you a story.

Janet is depressed. She’s been depressed for a long time. She’s tried everything available to break the cycle, but nothing has worked.

So, Janet comes to us, and we begin neurofeedback training. She comes in twice a week, and we hook her up to a machine that first of all measures her brain waves.

Once she’s relaxed—she can watch TV, or close her eyes, or do whatever makes her most comfortable—the machine begins measuring those waves. Again, not to get too far down a rabbit trail, but there are four main types of waves, based on their frequency range: alpha, beta, theta, and delta. When someone is depressed, for example, there tends to be a high level of beta waves coming from the left hemisphere of the brain.

So, the machine provides a reward system. As Janet’s brain lowers those beta waves—this happens on a mostly subconscious level—the machine might (again, this is just one example) make the tv picture clearer. If those waves come back up, the picture on the screen might begin to darken or blur.

By going through this process—we usually do two sessions weekly—the brain starts to develop new, more positive habits. It begins, slowly, to train itself to balance those waves toward healthy levels.

For a lot of our clients in the neurofeedback program, the initial problem has to do with repression. They’ve experienced some trauma, and instead of dealing healthily, the brain has buried it down deep.

Often, it’s down so deep that Janet, and others, don’t even know it’s there. But the effects of that repression are very real, and in many cases, utterly debilitating.

I love that we’ve had to opportunity to begin incorporating this tool into our programs here at the Wellness Training Institute. For one, it’s amazingly useful. But even beyond that, it fits perfectly into what we’re all about.

Our Healthful Evolutions program is all about retraining your body, mind, and soul—step by baby step—to choose life instead of death. To build those healthy habits to the point at which the old, bad habits no longer have a hold. Just like a detox that uses food elimination to reset the body, neurofeedback training does that by focusing first on what causing your brain to be out of balance.

It’s all about living a happy life. And to be happy, you first need to get healthy. I can’t tell you how excited I am to have another, amazing tool to accomplish that for people who can’t seem to find that balance in any other way!

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September 11, 2017

A cutting-edge, scientifically-proven technique that relieves depression, ADHD, migraines and a ton of other cognitive issues is just our latest offering to help you live a better life. Here’s how it works…

As part of our eternal quest to help people live better, happier lives, we recently added Neurofeedback training to our offerings.

What, exactly, is neurofeedback training?

Glad you asked. But before I explain what it does and how it works, let’s first take a look at how your brain works.

Brain Waves

Our brains make four types of electrical impulses: Alpha, Beta, Theta, and Delta.

Here’s what that means…

Alpha waves occur at 8 – 13 Hz. When your brain is producing the right amount at the right frequency, you feel relaxed and calm. Your mind is active, but still at rest (like sitting and watching Netflix.) When you have too little, you feel exhausted. Too much, and you feel hyper-vigilant, anxious.

Beta waves resonate at 14 – 30 Hz. The right amount makes you feel awake, alert and promotes logic and critical reasoning. Think of what your brain is doing when you are reading a book. The waves involved in that process are beta waves. When they’re out of balance, you can feel anxious, stressed, restless, and tense.

Theta waves (4 – 8 Hz) happen in that hazy area between being awake and asleep. When these are resonating at the right level, you’ll experience deep meditation. You’ll feel creative and intuitive. Too much and you’ll feel foggy. Too little and you’ll feel robotic.

Delta waves (0.5 – 4 Hz) happen during very deep sleep.
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How it Works

As we live our lives, our brains can fall into destructive, unhealthy patterns, which in turn causes these four brain waves to become imbalanced. This imbalance can lead to everything from insomnia to severe depression.

Neurofeedback training is a scientifically-proven, non-invasive technique designed to teach the brain to get these waves back into balance.

Because it’s such a gentle process, and because we’re essentially dealing with habits your brain has built up over time, it takes several months to complete the process. But as you continue to do the training, your brain eventually learns how to regulate itself.

The actual training sessions look like this. You sit in a chair in a relaxed position. Wires with sensors are attached to your head, and the machine can detect the level and frequency of your brain waves. When your brain produces the right amount of a particular wavelength, the machine rewards it in real time. When they fall out of balance again, the machine produces a (very, very mild) negative effect. For clients who want to watch TV during the training, for example, wave imbalances cause the picture to blur slightly or darken. When they come back into balance, the picture becomes clearer.

So, as you continue to do this weekly for a matter of months—or even over a year—the brain, prompted by the machine, can teach itself to regain balance over the waves it produces.

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It sounds little like science fiction, I know, but here’s the thing.

It works. Really, really well, in fact.

We’ve seen genuine progress in people who’ve struggled with depression for years. It’s also a useful tool for treating anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, migraines, memory loss, and even brains that have suffered serious trauma.

If you’re interested in finding out more about this new, cutting-edge tool—and see if it might be a good solution for you— contact us here.

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