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History of Brain State Conditioning™ |
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Neuro Strength began offering Brain State Conditioning™ in October 2007, but the history of this technology goes back to the late 1990s. As of January 2009, nearly 18,000 brain assessments have been processed. Brain State Conditioning™ is licensed through Brain State Technologies™ of Scottsdale, Arizona. There are now more than 130 affiliate offices in the US and locations around the globe including Canada, Mexico, South Africa, England, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, France and Japan. Each affiliate office is independently owned and operated. Affiliates are licensed and trained exclusively in Brain State Technologies™ software and methodology to bring their clients the highest quality service. |
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The Start of Brain State Conditioning™ |
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Brain State Conditioning™ was developed by Lee Gerdes as he personally desired to reduce depressive tendencies that surfaced during his creative process as well as to overcome problems related to post traumatic stress disorder. Most artists ~ painters, musicians, composers, CEOs, athletes ~ have some depressive tendencies brought on by the need to be creative. Lee learned that as beta waves decrease in one part of the brain, other wave patterns may increase in response in another part of the brain, which allow for the germination of creative ideas. He further discovered that if beta waves returned and the creative idea is acted upon, then the sense of being unmotivated or slightly melancholy would not occur. To further this understanding, Lee worked with two Tibetan Buddhist Monks. It was Lee’s belief that these monks, masters of meditation for more than 40 years each, experienced contentment, and he wanted to know what that looked like in the brain. In studying their brains, Lee was better able to understand the creative process as well as the ability to be alert-but-relaxed, as experienced by these monks during meditation. He used this understanding to lay the groundwork for Brain State Conditioning™, which would help clients reach high performance, high awareness, and high connected mind. "Contentment", "balance and harmony" and "homeostasis" are all basically the same brain state. Thus, for each individual, algorithms that determine optimal brain wave patterns can be uniquely applied to attain this balanced and harmonized state. This is how each client is uniquely served by Brain State Conditioning™. |
Brain State Conditioning™ is based on many aspects of science in Biofeedback and in Neurofeedback which have been historically used to assist people to overcome pathologies. However, Brain State Conditioning™ should be differentiated from Neurofeedback and Biofeedback.
The basic differentiation of these modalities is based on the following:
1. Biofeedback - is a type of learning used to lessen negative reactions for the individual, based on increasing the awareness of the biological process in order to off-set or stop the pathology as it begins to happen biologically and is applicable during the occurrence of the pathology. For example; panic attacks have biological indicators before the attacks hit, if you can learn the biological indicators you can lessen the panic attack by either degree and/or duration. Biofeedback is oriented to solve diagnosed problems in the client.
2. Neurofeedback - is a type of learning used to lessen negative reactions for the individual, based on increasing the awareness of the neurological process in order to off-set or stop the pathology as it begins to happen neurologically. For example; training sensory-motor neurological frequencies to be more dominant for some athletic events. Neurofeedback is oriented to solve problems defined by a normative data base or model along with those problems and symptoms diagnosed by practitioner and client. Neurofeedback will usually be provided to clients in a medical model and will require 30 to multiple hundreds of sessions to achieve desired results.
3. Brain State Conditioning™ – is a type of brain optimization based on brain observance. It is based on a Quantum Physics understanding vs. a Newtonian Physics understanding of the individual, and this philosophical difference cannot be too heavily stressed as it makes everything intended different. Brain State Conditioning™ seeks to show the brain itself – be a mirror for the brain in its ever more optimized state. The client is not trained with learned behavior. In fact a client may sleep through a session and still realize results because the brain can view itself without direct client participation. While not optimal, it is always more efficacious to have the client participate, it is not mandatory.
For example, clients adversarial to the training, such as those with adolescent misbehavior or antisocial behavior issues, can still be assisted to balance and harmonize their brain and achieve a greater homeostasis.
Brain State Conditioning™ is oriented to solve problems having to do with the balance and harmony of the brain energy and is not based on comparison of the client with a normative data base. It is not based on a diagnosis or the symptoms which are presented. Brain State Conditioning™ is based on the degree of balance and harmony the brain contains and seeks to increase this balance and harmony. |
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Brain Fact
New research shows that the brain's plasticity, its ability to change and learn, extends throughout one's life. Tips to learn better: - Break the learning into small pieces. Four one-hour study sessions are better than one four-hour session.
- Before the sun sets, reinforce what you learned by discussing it, writing about it, doing an assignment related to it.
- Get a good night's sleep to solidify the memory of what you learned and prepare your brain for more intake the next day.
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