Zengar NeuroOPTIMAL™ Neurofeedback Training
powered by NeurCARE™
Neurofeedback, also called EEG biofeedback, involves direct brain training that leads to better self-regulation. Self-regulation training enhances the function of the central nervous system (what is generally called the brain), which controls all behavior and thereby improves mental performance, emotional stability, and physical well being.
A non-invasive approach, neurofeedback involves applying sensors to the scalp so that the full spectrum of brainwave activity can be observed from moment to moment. The client simply relaxes and allows the feedback process to happen on the instinctual level. Better neuronal regulation leads to more relaxed behavior, including the reduction or elimination of upset and anxiety.
Neurofeedback has a proven track record of helping children succeed at school, and adults succeed at their chosen endeavours by sharpening their focus, calming aroused states and upset, improving memory, normalizing sleep patterns which have been implicated in most dysfunction, and improving organizational skills.
What exactly does this sort of training do to improve my performance in life?
NeurOPTIMAL is quite simple actually. Because your brain’s (Central Nervous System: brain and spinal chord) function is to ask constantly, “what is different about this moment”, as it has all to do with adapting to life’s constant changes, we can train it to recognize that it is producing its own perturbation or negative states of mind. And the reason this approach has such good results is that your Central Nervous System controls your digestive system, cardio-vascular system, immune system, and endocrine system (glands and hormones that are the basis of all emotions, thoughts and physical sensations).
When the brain recognizes that it is producing an event that causes you to suffer, for instance (when you are lacking focus, feeling depressed, or simply lacking motivation) that event is actually being produced in your brain in the present- of course based on habits that began long ago during moments of trauma or overwhelming stress.
Because NeurOPTIMAL monitors your brainwave activity moment to moment (some 256 samples per second), and being that your brainwaves produce all your feelings, emotions, and thoughts, NeurOPTIMAL equipment knows a few seconds before you are even aware that these perturbations events are about to occur. NeuroOPTIMAL gives your brain that feedback about what it just did in its language, and your brain responds immediately to this cue by stopping the perturbation event is is about to produce and comes back to the present moment. (See client reports)
How long does this training take to show results?
Many people see immediate results in the first session: a sense of calm, deep relaxation, a sense of well being, lightness of being. Things seem possible suddenly. Generally, we find that 1 to 2 times weekly over an extended period brings lasting results. You decide how how many sessions you need based on how you feel!
While everyone’s metabolism and nervous system is unique, the plasticity of the brain and its ability to learn is universal.
A broad base of experience among the NeurOPTIMAL Trainers shows that most people experience something discernable within a few sessions; but again many folks say after the first session that they are aware of obvious beneficial changes. After a few sessions (no more than 6), most people have quantifiable results in sleep patterns, memory, grace under pressure, and performance enhancement.
Because you are a unique individual and bring all your own needs and current circumstances to NeuroCARE training, clients can count on my assitance in making the best of the training in a short a period if time as we can determine. This may include some lifestyle adjustments we will determine together.
Is this some new technology? How do I know it will work?
EEG neurofeeback or EEG brain biofeedback training has been being used since the 1960’s. Biofeedback, the general science of which Neurofeedback is a refinement, has been around since the turn of the century. There are about a dozen well recognized forms of nerurofeedback. NeurOPTIMAL is a refinement yet again on all these protocols. With NeurOPTIMAL training, nothing is being ‘done’ to your brain; no ‘theory’ or point-of-view is devised to address your concerns. Instead, the brain’s known natural adaptability, the ability to learn and change itself based on direct feedback about how it is behaving, are harnessed in your service by merely giving the brain feedback on it’s own behavior, moment to moment.
The nature of the brain is ‘adaptability’, or the ability to respond to constant change…
This means the training is explicitely non-invasive. The brain’s great intelligence is harnessed by simply reflecting back to it how it is ‘behaving’. The brain’s capacity for improve its effectiveness is engaged by the feedback. Tens of thousands of people have received many forms of neurofeedback for the last 4 decades, often to great benefit.
I chose this protocol after many years of research and observation because it does not meddle with the clients well-being or nervous system (of which the brain is a central aspect). Instead, it magnificently capitalizes on the nature of the brain itself without interfering with the brain’s natural process in any way at all. Again, the nature of the brain’s ability to change and learn is what this feedback system targets.
I have never been good at exercises and homework.
There are no exercises in a session, nothing for you to do. Simple let go and allow your brain to do the work. Homework will be rare, simple, and mostly at the level of self-observation and self-care. No pressure to perform here; you probably have enough of that already.
I am so overwhelmed, I can’t take on another thing.
You won’t have to. You come in- lie in a zero gravity chair and let go. We play music and it could even be of your choice, you can even close your eyes and rest or watch a sophisticated light show on a monitor. Your brain knows how to do the changing. In this sense it’s completely restful, relaxing. The only action that is required is your willingness to give it a try. The brain learns while you get refreshed!
Gentle and non-invasive training…
This approach is a gentle, non-invasive training process to optimize or re-normalize functioning of your brain and CNS.
NeurOPTIMAL helps you to seamlessly and effortlessly improve performance in business, school, athletics, performing arts, health, and sleep as well as to alter patterns of unwanted, inefficient, and stuck behaviors. It helps your brain to become more resilient, efficient, and flexible. And today flexibility is the key to living well or not!
A recent client was amazed when she responded differently and positively to a client issue at work that she would normally become upset with. And her son, only after one session, went to sleep when put to bed when the norm would be for him to get up over and over again and want to sleep with her. She came in smiling from ear to ear for his second session. This Family’s optimal performance is improving!
The following are what clients have reported during training:
Speaks the brains language…
NeurOPTIMAL speaks the language of the brain, to the brain. The brain uses visual and auditory information offered by NeurOPTIMAL to re-organize itself and release old patterns of “stuckness” and neural inflexibility. The result is effortless transformation with few unwanted effects. While clients use NeurOPTIMAL for many reasons, they typically describe their concerns and fears dropping away, feeling more clear and present in their daily lives, experiencing a greater ability for focus and an increased sense of lightness and joy. It does not tell the brain what to do or NOT do, so it never pushes your brain in any particular direction as do other neurofeedback systems.
It works comprehensively across all available brainwave frequencies — not just a limited subset — adapting itself to your individual response to neurofeedback while the training is happening. No other system is so flexible and responsive.
Totally non-invasive, Zengar NeurOPTIMAL simply gives the brain information about what it has just done. The brain uses this information to re-organize itself and when it does, a whole lot of issues drop away. NeurOPTIMAL helps you be the best you can be, naturally.
See a real person talk about the results of his NeurOPTIMAL training…
See this YouTube video on Peak Performance Training by a NeurOPTIMAL Neurofeedback Trainer colleague. It gives you a better sense of how NeurOPTIMAL training can improve your performance and focus.
Also, click this link to see a New Video from ABC news (less than 5 minutes) about athletic optimal performance and NeurOPTIMAL neurofeedback training.
By the way, I am the only Advanced Certified Zengar NeurOPTIMAL Trainer in the region.
(See the Resources Page for the Zengar NeurOPTIMAL Official website for further information).
(Worldwide NeuroCARE directory of trainers:www.adnf.org/neurofeedback_directory.htm).
(c)2008, David Delaney.
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