A Symphony in the Brain

“When I heard there was a new kind of biofeedback that amplifies your brain waves and allows you to make your brain stronger, I thought, wasn’t biofeedback something that came and went in the 1960s and 1970s?  I had never tried it, but I associated it vaguely with the 70s, the Beatles, transcendental meditation.  Biofeedback had a New Age whiff about it.  Add the words”brain waves” and it sounded even wackier.  Yet I was hearing interesting things about it, and I’ve always believed the human mind was the last great frontier.

I was battling chronic fatigue syndrome and had exhausted the traditional medical route, so I sold an editor on a magazine story  about the new biofeedback and and traveled to Santa Fe to test this new “neurofeedback” and a variety of other technologies designed to enhance the performance of the brain at a weekend symposium put on by Michael Hutchinson, author of the book called Megabrain.

I hooked up to a neurofeedback instrument for my first session.  After training for a half hour, my mind was tired, my thoughts muddled.   But an hour or so after I had finished, I experienced what is known as the clean windshield effect.  The world looked sharp and crystalline, and I had a quiet, energetic feeling that lasted a couple of hours.  It was the first time I had felt that way in years.  And it convinced me to look a little deeper.  The new biofeedback was something very different, I was told, a technique that could treat attention deficit disorder and closed-head injuries and depression and a long list of other problems.  I looked into the research and found that the technique had been spawned  by solid laboratory research on epilepsy in the 1970s and 1980s.

Still, the claims made for neurofeedback seemed too good to be true.  If it was such a good thing, why hadn’t I heard of it?  Why hasn’t it swept its way into the health care system?  I’ve been blessed with a healthy case of cynicism, however, and as a reporter I know that the systems that surround us –science, , health care, government, even journalism–function far less effectively than is generally believed.  Things fall through the cracks, get overlooked and ignored.  It was no great leap to believe  that something like neurofeedback could have  been missed.  And so I persisted, knowing from experience that these oversights are where some of the best stories dwell.”

So begins Jim Robbins’ personal research into neurofeedback and his discoveries have enlightened many looking for natural cures for their brain dysregulation issues.

Neurofeedback is our specialty and we are trained to help those suffering with ADD, ADHD, TBI, Depression, and Anxiety.

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Source:  http://www.brainsync.com/blog/a-symphony-in-the-brain/