About Neurofeedback

Training with NeurOptimal® is a learning task. Nothing is added to your system. It’s safe and non-invasive brain training for all ages.

What Happens in a Session?

NeurOptimal® is designed to give the brain information about what it has just done millisecond by millisecond. The theory is that the brain then uses this data to organize and re-wire itself.

Put another way, a brain map is ‘created’ by the device and ‘shown’ to the brain to be examined in real time so that the brain can improve its functioning based on the current information.

During a session, which lasts 33 minutes, the client listens to music as the source of feedback. The music plays continuously when the brain is running “on course” (whatever that course is for that particular brain) but as soon as the neurofeedback system detects that the brain has “veered off” its path or has become less stable, feedback is provided to the brain via a micro-pause in the sound.

The pause acts as an interrupter of the habitual pattern and allows the automatic-functioning brain to look at how it’s veering off course.

By offering this information the neurofeedback software gives the opportunity to the brain to reset mental and emotional patterns in response to the information.

It’s like you were using last week’s weather report to decide what coat to wear and now someone just handed you today’s weather report!

Through the series of brain training sessions the brain is learning that the best decisions are made by using the most up-to-date information (today’s weather report), not by doing what’s habitual (the old news).

You see positive shifts because your brain is actively learning, even if you are not doing the learning consciously. Once your brain learns to use the present moment as its source of information, we can experience greater focus, mental acuity, calm, centeredness and emotional reset.  For example, the stress response (worry, moments of irritability or anger, fearfulness) is meant as the strategy for resolving an immediate threat to your body’s safety.

When that brain trains with neurofeedback and sees when it’s doing a stress response when there is no danger present, it will start to shift out of that reactive pattern. You’ll know your brain is learning because you start to calm down, cheer up, have more restful sleep and feel more awake, react less strongly, and have greater mental acuity.

Neurofeedback helps us reset  the emotional response patterns we have developed habitually.

A good analogue is like when you are daydreaming and in a daydream you (your brain) are not aware of what is happening, not until someone calls your name (the music stopping in neurofeedback) and you simultaneously realize that you were lost in a daydream, and recognize the quality of that daydream, as well as take in information about the here-and-now. With that wake-up call, you then have a choice. And you can choose the healthy response.

NeurOptimal® software targets 20 different sets of brain wave frequencies across the right and left brain.

NeurOptimal is…

DIAGNOSTICALLY AGNOSTIC:

Instead of targeting specific symptoms, NeurOptimal® focuses on optimizing overall brain function.

NON-INVASIVE:

When you are having a NeurOptimal® session no electricity, vibration or external signal is going into the brain. In addition, brain training with NeurOptimal® does not target specific areas of the brain nor does it push the brain in any direction by giving it goals to achieve, decided by an external agent. NeurOptimal® is purely a feedback system.

100% NATURAL:

Each brain is unique and knows the best way to “correct” itself for peak performance and efficiency. NeurOptimal® simply provides the central nervous system with information about its own activity. Given the right information the brain can naturally optimize itself.