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You cannot hit a target that you cannot see. But imagine holding a very sensitive thermometer on your hand with a large sensitive display. The temperature jiggles up and down a bit even when you aren't doing anything. Very sensitive.

Within a few minutes, you will discover that when you relax, your hand will warm up. And you can bring down the temperature also by somehow restricting the blood flow. With more training time, you will gain a skill for keeps. You will be able to regulate your hand temperature any time you want warmer hands. You also have the power to lower your blood pressure. You more self-sufficient in self-regulation!

The Brain can Learn to Wave Better.

All 100 billion of your nerve cells, or neurons, are firing at least once a second. Most are firing faster. Some are pulsing at 10, 20, 40, even 80 times a second. Everybody has a different proportion of nerve cells firing at different rates.

Nerve signals travel up into the nerve cell body and out again. There is a dim electrical echo after each neurochemical reaction starts a blip. A cup sensor placed on the head can read these electrical echoes like a tiny satellite dish. An EEG can processes these faint signals.

Yes, it is like taking a stethoscope to the kitchen and placing it on the oven door. You can tell that something is cooking. But you can't tell what it is.

Using an EEG, brainwave biofeedback shows you how fast your brain cells are firing. Once sensor can read about 100,000 nerve cells nearest to the skull. The sensors can pick up the tiny electrical byproduct of your neurochemistry in action.

Look > learn > control

As with any biofeedback, when you can watch your pattern of frequencies, you can learn to control how much of which frequencies you are producing. Most everyone can learn adjust the habitual pattern of their own neurons. In some systems you inhibit 'dreamy' brain waves with 'alert' brain waves. In another, you replace jerky burst patterns with smooth undulating fluctuations. This occurs because you can see what you are doing and changing as you go.

Hand temperature biofeedback looks just like learning. It has a predictable learning curve and even a forgetting curve. The skill is isolated. Neurofeedback progress can go fast, slow or sideways. There tend to be side-benefits, like better sleep and intimacy. The mental focus is enduring and even the side benefits stay with you.

Now brain biofeedback uses computers with computer games or other displays to provide positive feedback to train the brain. Most everyone says that after learning to control their brain waves, they are able to concentrate better. They can focus more attention at will. What other learning tool can boost an IQ score by 10 or 20 points?

Lots of different people use this ability to concentrate such as those who want to be a better athlete, singer, executive, student, or scholar. All kinds of people use it for whatever they do. Better concentration makes for better memory too.

It's just natural learning. Nobody has had much of a problem with this method since people started doing it 30-40 years ago. It never made anybody sick or stupid or anything. Only about 80% to 90% of the people get the results they wanted, but that's pretty good.

Most of the scientific research has been to help people with problems. But you don't need a problem to benefit from brain wave training. It's good for everybody! And after a million EEG sessions starting decades ago, we are sure it is one of the safest things you will do all week.

There are so many kinds of problems. Nothing has gotten more kids off Ritalin for good than brainwave training or neurofeedback. These are some problems scientists have proven go away and do not come back with brainwave feedback training.

Attention Deficit Disorder(ADD/ADHD)
Learning Disabilities (LD)
Migraine Headaches
Anxiety
Panic Attacks
Anger Management
Compulsiveness
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Tourette's Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Chronic Pain
Stroke Prevention
Brain Injury
Seizure Disorders
Bedwetting
Post Heart Attack
Depression

Even criminality

An incredible 85% of the 2776 felony prisoners that received neurofeedback were not re-arrested within 3 years. Between 1970 and 1995 the research at the Ontario Corrections Institute is clear that 3-year recidivism was an unparalleled 15%.

Those helping alcoholics and substance abusers see that many addicts simply drop their bad habits. That is a very different result than with other methods.

How can anything be so good for so many different things?

We're not sure exactly. The brain is more complex that our mind can comprehend. Perhaps when showing the brain how to adjust itself, it naturally finds a better way to work. Like being stuck and not knowing how to move. When the ability to change brain waves is learned, the brain has more choices and naturally chooses efficiency and health. The goals of neurofeedback are greater stability and flexibility.

I think of this as assistance in completing the development nature intended. All the results can be explained as opening paths to inform neural feedback loops and reinforcing the normal mechanisms to enable self-regulation.

The brain can be mapped showing electrical signature, blood flow or magnetism or in other ways to image brain activity. Before pictures of disorders are grotesque. After neurofeedback sessions, those maps show better balance, fewer dull or glaring areas, and a more wholesome, robust pattern of functioning. All from learning how to wave your brain waves. You do it yourself.

How come I never heard of this?

Good question. I don't know a good answer. Maybe money? Or stodgy reputations? It is freely available. Anybody who is an expert will not be an expert anymore after they accept this.

Proof Is Easy - Use the Internet to Prove it to Yourself
Use Google or any internet search engine and enter some of the words below:

Neurofeedback - "eeg biofeedback" "brain biofeedback"
Or QEEG (quantitative electroencephalograph, a brain map)
And any term you are interested in such as:
IQ, performance, research, business, efficacy.
Or any term you like. www.google.com

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