What is Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback is an advanced neuro-technology that offers training to the brain, enabling it to function at its best. Mindfire Inc uses the NeurOptimal® neurofeedback system. It’s mathematically designed to communicate directly with your central nervous system and has been called “the most effective bio-hack on this planet.”

It doesn’t matter where you are starting from — EVERY brain can enjoy meeting its own state of optimal. And training is absolutely effortless. You can relax, close your eyes and even zone out if you want.

NeurOptimal® neurofeedback system is an advanced neuro-technology that offers training to the brain, enabling it to function at its best. It does not require diagnosis, but rather it dances micro-second by micro-second with your brain offering it the information it needs to RE-ORGANIZE ITSELF. And when your brain does that, a whole lot of complaints drop away. You feel calmer, clearer, happier and able to function better in your life.

How Does Neurofeedback Work?

Neurofeedback brain training works as a ‘detection and monitoring’ system of the changes in cortical patterns within the brain. It mimics the communication of your central nervous system (CNS) by ‘mirroring’ the brain activity that can be undermining optimal brain function. You can think of Neurofeedback training as holding up a mirror to your brain. Imagine you had not seen yourself in a mirror in a long time. Once you see your reflection you naturally start adjusting yourself, maybe standing a little taller, straightening up your hair and so on. The mirror provides the information you need to correct and adjust yourself. And so it is with the brain.

The brain has an inherent ability to self-correct when given the right information and the Neurofeedback system is designed to provide the brain with the information it needs to make its own adjustments. Inconsistency, or abrupt changes in electrical activity in the brain, undermines optimal functioning of the brain. The Neurofeedback software detects these abrupt changes and informs the brain of these sudden shifts through interruptions in the sound you are listening to. These almost imperceptible pauses invite your central nervous system to pull away from this less-than-ideal path it was on. This happens over and over until the natural self-correction becomes your new normal and your brain functions more efficiently, effectively and comfortably. When this happens, you sleep better, are less stressed, can focus more easily and feel the joy of an easier life, despite the challenges you may face from the outside.

Benefits of Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback allows your brain — and you — to become more flexible, more resilient, and a better brain means a better life.

Your brain is the centre of your central nervous system. It is a sophisticated command and control centre that is responsible for controlling ALL the other systems in your body.

It doesn’t matter whether you are talking about physical, emotional or mental — your brain is responsible for it all. It receives and processes information from your body and the environment and enables you to process and store information and formulate appropriate responses, most of it without your conscious awareness. This is all made possible by a vast and wonderful neural network called the central nervous system. It is estimated that the human brain has 15-33 billion neurons and each neuron may have as many as 100,000 synaptic connections.

This is vastly more complex than the entire world wide web and yet it all exists inside within your head! Neurons communicate within this enormous network using electrical signals. These signals can originate within the individual neurons, but they also emerge dynamically from groups of neurons. These larger groups oscillate, or pulse, at specific frequencies like a strobe light. These groups then engage in almost magical dances across groups of groups. It is this larger dance that is reflected in the electrical changes measured on the scalp. It’s all a bit difficult to understand, so let’s look at an analogy.

The frequency range of the voltage fluctuations are measured in cycles per second (hertz or Hz). 1 Hz (or 1 time per second) reflects very big slow activity in the realm of the brain, whereas 40 Hz, for example, is considered relatively small and fast.

If we start at the bottom, the biggest slow waves of 1 Hz and 2 Hz are called Delta, and these are dominant in a person who is sleeping. Then comes “Theta”. Theta has been hotly debated in the field, which would down-train Theta in some circumstances and up-train Theta in other circumstances. Two types of Theta have been identified, depending upon the frequencies you are referring to. “Bad” Theta pulses predominantly at 3Hz and 5Hz, which we have observed carries emotional and cognitive reactivity. Old traumas can be carried here. But “good” Theta, or 7 Hz, brings with it tremendous healing and sometimes wonderful realizations.

To summarize, when you train your brain, it is given information about the ENTIRE frequency range of activity encoded within the electrical activity of your brain. Moreover, information is given to your brain about what is happening across all of that activity, and your brain sorts out the rest for itself. Miraculously (of course), the brain knows exactly what needs to happen and will seamlessly organize itself. We have found this to be true NO MATTER THE SEVERITY OF THE SYMPTOMS.

Truly EVERY brain has its innate intelligence. Once the brain can “see” itself” in the “mirror,” it can “defrag” and re-organize itself safely and NATURALLY.