The brain has an innate intelligence, being designed to survive and perform in a maximized way, regardless of environmental circumstances. Those able to perform effortlessly at optimal levels have brains structurally and functionally able to do what it was designed to do—precisely, with efficiency, and "on demand." The brains in those with attention, learning, memory, and mood problems, on the other hand, are not able to do their jobs efficiently. Inappropriately slow brain waves overwhelm the faster frequencies required for peak attentional states, necessary frequency resources are locally or globally deficit and not available for specific tasks (reading or calculations, for example), or the brain is energetically "locked" into a particular brain wave pattern and not able to shift easily from task to task. Nature is not able to do its job, and performance suffers.

If a brain is physically damaged (from birth trauma, near drowning, or traumatic head injury, for example), it begins to repair itself. When the brain senses the repairs are as complete as its resources allow, it "locks itself" into place. This "locking in," called homeostasis, is nature's insurance policy—it is how nature insures the brain won't lose ground again to become worse. As valuable as the process is for maximized survivability, it also locks in performance. Long-term improvement is slowed or stopped, negatively impacting life and future learning and earning potential.

If the damaged and inefficient brain is given informational assistance on how it is performing, it will unlock its patterning and use the external resource (biofeedback) to further improve its performance.

The previous symptoms of the damage or dysfunction (the inattention, learning difficulties, memory problems, or disabling moods) falling away opens the possibility for superior attention capability, maximized attentional flexibility, and elite performance in the classroom, on the job, or on the athletic field.

Neurofeedback Training, an answer to neurological inefficiencies and peak performance training is dramatically different from anything found in any traditional medical, psychological, educational or athletic performance system. Its purpose is singular: to give meaningful information to the brain on how it is performing, with specific frequency resources it can use to improve its performance. Using the information, the brain, on it's own, restores (or creates) optimum function.

In the typical Neurofeedback Training session, the trainee (and, therefore, the trainee's brain) is given a complex task to perform—a video game requiring the psychophysiological manipulation of shapes. As a result, the visual centers in the back of the brain, the strategic functions of the frontal lobes, the memory and auditory processing function of the temporal lobes, the spatially oriented parietal lobes, the sensorimotor strip (where the brain senses incoming information and causes the body to do a specific task), and the supplementary motor area (the brain area used for intentional performance) are all engaged in processing and executing highly complex activity.

With all this is going on, an additional and even higher level of activity is presented to the brain: Sound derived from the brain's own brain wave patterning. The brain is told, as it works, how it is responding and executing the game's challenges. In the same way a mirror allows you to shave without cutting yourself, or to put on makeup without smearing the lipstick, the tones allow the brain to make fine and critical adjustments to its performance.  

Think of Neurofeedback Training as a biological information system—a virtual engineering Research and Development application for your brain.

Realizing Your Goals
Each of us has a nearly unlimited potential for understanding and achievement, yet we may be realizing only a fraction of that potential. This happens for a number of reasons. Genetic factors predispose us to certain vulnerabilities. Birth trauma, head injury, drug or chemical exposure, and the stress of life experience can compromise brain function. This limits development and may then result in the establishment of self-limiting attitudes. Over the years, these patterns are well learned, becoming hard-to-break habits that we are not even fully aware of. Neurofeedback helps you to learn and maintain new, more efficient attention and response patterns. Life becomes simpler and easier, less effortful and less stressful, when your brain is in balance and working smoothly.

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