SHORT VIDEO’S ON FASCINATING TOPICS RELATED TO OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE TRAINING:
**All of these approaches are offered for improving Performance at Boulder Optimal Performance Training. I hold certifications in them all and have offered them to the public for many years, beginning in 1985.
•NeurOPTIMAL™ Neurofeedback Website link At Zengar Institute:
Zengar Institute website- learn more in-depth about how your brain can orient itself with the right training toward the “relaxation response”, toward achieving optimal performance, and achieving a present moment focus more of the time- which we now know to be the key to highly successful and productive work and activities.
LINK to Zengar Institute
•Dr. Sue Brown of Zengar Institute, developers of NeurOPTIMAL™ neurofeedback training, talks about the advancements in the filed that have led to our ability to now train brainwaves and thus improve performance, focus, and in the present moment awareness.
•Working with a client, this Trainer uses NeurOPTIMAL™ Neurofeedback brainwave training to assist her client to perform at his best. A very interesting and informative presentation on scientific brain training- under 5 minutes.
•JR Rowling: Her ‘Failure’ commencement speech at Harvard; the IMPORTANCE of failure in the growth process. Take a moment to hear her experience of success through failure!
•Dr. Herbert Benson, M.D. of Harvard University, who through his research on mediatation coined the term “Relaxation Response”- his landmark scientific research on meditation and mindfulness practices. Now we know beyond a shadow of a doubt how to reduce the negative effects of accumulated stress that cause all our negative states including depression and anxiety, and improve our performance, satisfaction and acceptance in daily life.
•Rolf Institute of Structural Integration link:
Rolfing Structural Integration is a method of body therapy that improves posture and reduces tension. People seek Rolfing as a way to ease pain and chronic stress, and improve performance in their professional and daily activities. It is utilized by Olympic and professional athletes, those in the performing arts, business executives, public speakers, and anyone who wants their body to function at its best.
The Rolf® Method of Structural Integration
My colleague, Libby Eason from Atlanta, will demonstrate how Rolfing Structural Integration works and her client will talk about his experience after this short session- about an 8 minute video.
•Cranio-Sacral Therapy:
Craniosacral therapy is an alternative therapy used by osteopaths, massage therapists, naturopaths, chiropractors, physical therapists, and occupational therapists.
From 1975 to 1983, osteopathic physician Dr. John E. Upledger and neurophysiologist and histologist Ernest W. Retzlaff worked at Michigan State University as clinical researchers and professors. They set up a team of anatomists, physiologists, biophysicists, and bioengineers to investigate the pulse he had observed and study further the originator Dr. Sutherland’s theory of cranial bone movement. Upledger and Retzlaff went on to publish their results, which they interpreted as support for both the concept of cranial bone movement and the concept of a cranial rhythm.
Upledger developed his own treatment style, and when he started to teach his work to a group of students who were not osteopaths he generated the term ‘CranioSacral therapy’, based on the corresponding movement between cranium and sacrum. Craniosacral therapists often (although not exclusively) work more directly with the emotional and psychological aspects of the patient than osteopaths working in the cranial field.
Here is a Cranio-Sacral therapist speaking a bit about this approach to improving body and mind function, relaxation, and health.
•Trauma Resolution Psychotherapy:
Resolving traumatic experience that keep us form being present to our life.
•EMDR Institute link: EMDR
EMDR is a body centered psychotherapy for reducing the effect of trauma; it is also very effective in enhancing performance capabilities in your life. With the assistance of visualization, emotional recall, and goal oriented focusing, you learn to face challenges where previously you could not. This approach to changing how we respond to stressful situation is used by the Veterans Administration, has been used extensively at Oklahoma City and during 9/11 in New York City and has been well researched.
Here is a good video showing a client doing EMDR trauma psychotherapy and a therapist sharing some insights about what it is and how it helps resolve repetitive traumatic reactions that keep us from living our life in the present moment.
