NeuroFeedback
NeurOptimal®
Utilizing an original Dynamical Neurofeedback® algorithm to train your brain, help reorganise itself and enable it to function at its best.
What is NeurOptimal®?
NeurOptimal® was developed by Clinical Psychologists Drs. Val Deane and Susan Brown.
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The Neurofeedback process used at Peaceful Pilgrim Counselling is NeurOptimal®. This non-linear Dynamical Neurofeedback™ system is a safe, non invasive brain TRAINING system that provides a multitude of benefits for the brain and body.
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This innovative form of neurofeedback requires no diagnosis and is the only Dynamical neurofeedback system in the world. Used by athletes worldwide to boost mental focus and strength to enhance their performance.
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NeurOptimal® is an advanced neuro-technology that offers training to the brain, enabling it to function at its best. It’s mathematically designed to communicate directly with your central nervous system and has been called “the most effective bio-hack on this planet”. Hype aside however, NeurOptimal® does have a long and venerable history with well over THREE MILLION HOURS of safe and effective usage.
NeurOptimal® brain training works as a ‘detection and monitoring’ system of the changes in cortical patterns within the brain.
NeurOptimal® is effective because it is designed to work with EVERY brain.
Training is absolutely effortless, you get to relax, close your eyes and even zone out. And if you want to read a mag, tackle a wordle or sodoku that’s fine too!
Who uses NeurOptimal®?
We are often asked: “Who uses NeurOptimal®?”
Our answer with a smile: “Anyone with a Brain.”
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This is because training your brain with NeurOptimal® will get you functioning at your best, WHATEVER THAT BEST IS. We are used by peak performing athletes, artists, and business people who want to achieve and maintain their edge. We are also used by individuals who feel they are not functioning at their best, including many adults and children who want a drug-free approach to feeling and functioning optimally.
Many people who choose to do brain training report life changing results. A number of elite athletes have used neurofeedback to obtain improvement in their physical performance and mental stamina. Sufferers of sleeplessness report improved sleep. Veterans use it stating it helps relieve the extreme challenges they face returning home from a war zone. Mentally clouded individuals, due to injury or life circumstances, tell us how after using neurofeedback they’ve rediscovered clarity to an extent they and their loved ones once believed unattainable. Brain training through neurofeedback has helped improve the lives of children suffering from communication and social challenges, and general difficulties focusing in school. And many challenges stemming from stress commonly fall away when the brain is trained for optimal function.
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Ideal for those who suffer from:
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Stress
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Depression
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OCD
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ADHD, ADD
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Anxiety
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Phobias
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Sleep difficulties
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Severe pain
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Chronic pain
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Anger issues
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Restless legs
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Traumatic Brain Injury
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Autism
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Dyslexia
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Memory Loss
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PTSD
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Borderline PD
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Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue
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Addictions and other compulsive behaviour
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Lack of self-confidence
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Cancer survivors (for regaining energy and clearing brain fog after chemo)
How does NeurOptimal® work?
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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 mimics the communication of your Central Nervous System (CNS) by ‘mirroring’ the brain activity that can be undermining optimal brain function.
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Neurofeedback uses your brain's natural ability to learn new things to help it heal. Also called neurotherapy or neurobiofeedback, Neurofeedback, is a type of biofeedback that uses real-time displays of brain activity to teach the brain to work more efficiently by self-regulating its brain function.
By measuring and analyzing the brain’s activity, and providing feedback that helps the brain change inefficient patterns, neurofeedback training helps reduce the symptoms related to poor self-regulation. Issues such as concussion, depression, stress, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, ADHD, and inattention can all be significantly reduced through neurofeedback training.
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The brain has an inherent ability to self-correct when given the right information and NeurOptimal® is designed to provide the brain with the information it needs to make its own adjustments.
NeurOptimal® training gives information to your brain about what is happening across all of that activity, and your brain sorts out the rest for itself.
To summarize...
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When you train with NeurOptimal® your brain is given information about the ENTIRE frequency range of activity encoded within the electrical activity of your brain. Moreover, NeurOptimal®, with elegant simplicity, gives information 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” provided by NeurOptimal®, it can “defrag” and re-organize itself. Aided by our unique Dynamical Thresholding® and the progression through our ZenModes, NeurOptimal® offers unprecedented possibilities for safe, NATURAL change.
What happens in a session?
You will be invited to fill out a few quick forms that can be used to help you measure your progress.
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Diagnosis and evaluation of specific symptoms is completely unnecessary for NeurOptimal® to work effectively.
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You will sit in a comfortable chair and simply relax. Two tiny sensors are applied to your scalp and earclips to your ears. These sensors allow NeurOptimal® to read the delicate electrical activity of your brain.
You then listen to music and watch an ever-changing visual display, although you can close your eyes and tune out if you prefer. Children sometimes like to play a quiet game or read a book.
There are very brief pauses in the music indicating NeurOptimal® is at work, invisibly guiding you through a complex mathematical dance during which the challenge to your brain is varied.
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Despite the complexity “under the hood”, no effort is required from you during sessions, at all! Simply relax and enjoy the 33.5 minute session while your brain re-organizes itself.
How many sessions are required?
Because everyone’s central nervous system is different, it is not possible to predict exactly how your brain will respond to the information NeurOptimal® provides, you will know pretty quickly when it is helping you. But because we have over three million hours of experience with NeurOptimal® we can make some predictions.
If you are training to feel better quickly, you might decide after 10-12 sessions that you have made enough gains and stop. On the other hand, if you are looking for lasting changes, 20-30 sessions is a better ballpark figure. The good thing is you can stop at any time and always pick it up again later if you so choose. Just as in how long it takes to learn to read, it is a process and everyone learns differently.
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It is a process and everyone learns differently.
NeurOptimal® is a learning task, like learning to ride a bike or learning how to read: Once you know, you can’t “not know”, so the effects do remain with you.
Do the shifts last?
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NeurOptimal® is a learning task, like learning to ride a bike or learning how to read: Once you know, you can’t “not know”, so the effects do remain with you. But your brain is also living tissue, and it can get “knocked off” by challenges, by hormonal changes, pollutants in the environment and the stresses of our everyday lives. When this happens, a session or two can help you get back on point, working at your optimal efficiency.
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Even if you come back many years later, the brain recognizes the NeurOptimal® process and is reminded of the earlier shifts. It can find its way back relatively rapidly -– much more quickly than the first time you did the training. So, if you did a fairly complete initial training (say 20-30 sessions), and then have a major challenge like an illness, the loss of a job or a relationship, or even a head injury or anesthetic, your brain can quickly and efficiently use the information it receives from NeurOptimal® to reorganize itself and “find its way back”. As we like to say: “You’ve always got NeurOptimal® in your back pocket”!
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