Client Questions
|5/9/10: potential client emailed this question:
“I have chronic depression also known as dysthymia, it was brought on by stressors in life and it feels as if my brain has adopted this mind state as it’s ‘normal’ state.
I am on a course of neurofeedback that doesn’t appear to be working (8 sessions). I had a QEEG (brainwave analysis) done and it came back as excessive beta in the cp4 and p4 regions of my head, which is normally present in anxiety which I can strongly relate to, the practitioner is obviously training these regions.
I am considering training with the Zengar NeurOPTIMAL system as it appears fundamentally different in that it works on a more subconscious level and appears more natural.
I just have some questions that I struggle to grasp:
My brain/cns seems to have adopted this mind state as my normal state of mind. How is it possible for the brain to work with the system to self-correct my problems? I understand the system detects ‘turbulance’ in the cns, however how does the brain know how to positively correct itself when given the ‘turbulance’ feedback?
Also, how could the NeurOPTIMAL help me, considering my problem areas are at different areas of the brain then where the electrodes are placed”?
My Response-
Hi,
Other neurofeedback approaches train individual sites in the brain and thus have to diagnosis (which is expensive as you found out) and then push, pull, or prod your brain in certain directions and in certain frequencies that your practitioner determines as appropriate for your condition. But of course, then side effects are more possible.
NeurOPTIMAL is an entirely unique approach with biofeedback technology that was developed over the past 50 plus years. We are essentially working with your brain in a non-linear way (it lives on the edge of chaos and order), and so we work all brainwave frequencies comprehensively.
Our brain/CNS is one unitary system, not a bunch of different and disconnected regions in the brain and this we know now based on solid research of the past 15 years. One brain, one CNS being trained comprehensively, moment to moment. We are able to listen to all brainwaves from 2 locations on your head known as the C 3 and C4 points or Limbic Crossover.
Our system targets dysfunctional brainwave patterns called perturbation (the root being ‘perturb’) and this turbulance that your brain is producing, which makes you feel anxious, causes the music that you are listening to be interrupted. It is the interruption that informs your brain/CNS, in its own language, about what it just did. And since your brain is designed to function at a ever higher rate of resiliency and effectiveness for survival, it re-organizes itself.
This is what we have discovered in the last 15 years and is the most important discovery since we learned that the Earth is not at the Center of our Universe (which was only 400 years ago, by the way).
Perturbation is responsible for depression, anxiety, focus issues, ADD/ADHD patterns, poor performance, learning issues, are involved in trauma and PTSD, head injury issues to name only a few. There are many patterns of overload in the human nervous system and the way we work, your brain can reorganize itself because that it how it is designed; self-correcting, self-regulating, self-organizing.
The brain/CNS is an instinctual system for adaptability and you would not be alive if it were not highly sophisticated and completely adaptable moment to moment, answering the question ’where am I’ or ‘what is different about this moment’.
So whatever your symptom is, your system can re-organize itself to be more resilient and efficient. After 1.2 million hours of usage worldwide, NeurOPTIMAL trainers have shown that this is the most effective, fault tollerant approach available today. We train all conditions the same way, or in other words, we are diagnostically agnostic ; – )
I hope this helps you better understand what all the others systems are doing and what we do.
Sincerely,
David
