I am now able to offer Neurofeedback to a few clients who I will assess and consider for training.
Here is an explanation of Neurofeedback from the training institute I attended:
Neurofeedback has been called yoga for the brain.
Neurofeedback is a learning technique that helps your brain change unhelpful EEG (brainwave) patterns so it can function more effectively. The human brain is always changing itself based on its experiences, but not every experience changes the brain. An experience must be frequent, sustained, and intensely repeated to alter brain structure and function. In other words, whatever we do over and over again, our brains get better and faster at doing and devote more brain cells to carrying out. This is how we learn any skill; but it’s also why we should be more intentional about what we use our brains to do.
We can accidentally end up practicing anxiety, depression, or self-doubt or we can more intentionally practice gratitude, calm, and joy. Neurofeedback allows us to harness neuroplasticity (the brain’s ability to change itself) in the direction we’d prefer it to go. By cultivating the kinds of internal and external experiences we’d most like to have, we can become sculptors of our own brains.
Neurofeedback is like playing the childhood game of hotter and colder with your brain cells. Sensors attached to your scalp measure the electrical activity on the surface of your brain, then the computer reflects your brain activity back to you through audio and visual information. The computer provides an audible cue whenever your brain cells’ firing patterns move closer to a calm, focused state. When your brain experiences a more efficient, more effective way of operating, it is inherently motivated to adopt this new way of working (with enough repetition). Everybody’s brain wants to get the best possible results for the least amount of energy expended.
Read more information and watch a very good video explanation at the link below.
https://www.ian-asheville.com/services/neurofeedback-types-and-faq
Institute for Applied Neuroscience
90 Acton Circle
Candler, NC 28715