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EEG — Neurofeedback

WITHOUT REALIZING IT, you may be stuck in a feedback loop. It may have been brought on by a specific emotional trauma, or cultural conditioning, but if you are experiencing anxiety, frustration, forgetfulness, depression, or lack of sleep, it may be that your brain is habitually operating on the wrong frequency.

People who re-train their central nervous system through neurofeedback (also known as "biofeedback for the brain") find that they are better able to focus, have more energy,are less reactive,and sleep more soundly. The process is non- invasive and, in the case of our neurotherapist Skip LaFleur, involves a program similar to a computer game where people learn to control the video display by achieving the mental state that produces increases in the desired brain wave.

Skip LaFleur helps a client to "retrain" her brain

Some call it "aerobics for the brain." Electrodes, gently attached to the head, connect to a device that measures electrical impulses in the brain, amplifies them, and then records them.To concentrate on a task,specific parts of the brain must produce more high-frequency beta waves. To relax, the brain must produce more low-frequency theta waves.

"This process allows people to re-train their central nervous system for optimal performance," says LaFleur. "Once you can get the brain frequencies more functional, people experience better sleep,and dramatic improvement in memory. Kids' grades increase a lot, and behavioural problems stop. Self-esteem improves, and this starts a chain reaction of improvement in all aspects of a person's life."

Simple Remedies has been providing Victoria with practitioner-quality supplements, naturally derived and organic, for over five years. They also have on-site nutritionists and body work in addition to herbalists and acupuncturists. And now, after years of intense training, LaFleur is offering this well-documented, drug-free answer to much of what plagues mental health in our modern-day society.

"This process is enabling in that it releases people from the imprisonment of emotional disabilities. It allows them to function as themselves, and to respond rather than react," he explains. "If the internal workings of the mind are smooth, if there isn't the anxiety, resentment, or fear, then the person is in a much better state of overall health."

Treatment sessions are 30 minutes. The person sits in a comfortable chair watching a screen, and might fly a spacecraft through a 3-D labyrinth, or drive a race car through a cross-country course. There is music, movement, and it's all affected by minute electrical impulses from the brain. Amazingly, this kind of "play" leads to documentable improvements in some of the most vexing mental maladies. "It works, and the research and testimonials prove this," LaFleur says matter- of-factly. "And unlike pharmaceuticals, this is 100 percent positive. "For more information please refer to: EEG-info.com or search "Neurofeedback" on YouTube.