Performing (continued) - The Sams Center

Your brain's Coherence is compared to a Reference Database of brain waves from normal people. Excessively strong Coherence is a sign your brain's ability to process some types of information is restricted -- certain specialized areas have become energetically "fused together." Deficient Coherence means communication between brain areas is insufficient for good performance.
Coherence problems are common in those with learning disabilities and traumatic brain injury. Mental problems, fuzzy thinking and confusion, for example, and physical symptoms, such as dizziness and headaches, are common.

Alpha activity excessive and unyielding prohibits efficient engagement in performance tasks, and restricts our ability to shift moods; we are apt to feel "zoned out" and depressed.

Problems with focus and attentional flexibility are reflected in the brain wave patterning: Excessive slow waves with deficient fast wave activity cause our attention to internalize, making purposeful, logical decisions difficult and daydreaming likely. If, on the other hand, excessive, non-responsive fast waves and insufficient slow activity dominate, we are locked into the physical world and out of the benefits and rewards of our internal world's free flowing insight.
For some, the brain wave patterning of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is quite slow and "lazy," being similar to the drowsing brain patterning of normally attending people. Some with attention problems show an increase of Alpha waves, the activity the brain uses to idle certain parts of itself. In either case, the inappropriate brain waves prohibit or restrict the ability to focus and pay attention in the classroom and work place.

Inappropriate timing of the brain waves creates performance difficulties. Signals arriving too fast or too slow can be responsible for learning difficulties, and can account, at least in part, for the symptoms following traumatic brain injury and stroke.

Remembering something as simple as where you left your car keys requires a lot of brain power. Our moment-to-moment experiences are processed in different parts of the brain, and then sent to the hippocampus, a structure located deep within our brain's interior. After residing there for a few minutes to several hours, the brain parcels out the memory's elements to many different areas of the cortex, our brains' thin nerve cell-packed outer layer. To recall the information, our brain must momentarily connect the cortical storage areas in a very precise way.
To give an example of the complexity of memory storage, a field of sunflowers blowing in the breeze on a bright sunny day may be located in as many as 32 different brain areas. The variety of colors with their subtle shades, the vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and circular lines of the flower blossoms, and the textured components of the flowers' centers are all stored in different places. Yet stored in others are the movement of the blossoms, the vertical and curved lines of the stalks and leaves, the vastness of the sky and the white puffiness of the clouds.
To "reconstruct" a memory, our brain must link all the related storage areas in just the right order. Research suggests our brain uses 40Hz, a 36 - 41 cycles per second Beta activity, to make these connections.
Those with inadequate 40Hz brain activity are not able to learn at the same pace as their peers; for some, 40Hz deficiency is the biological origin of their learning disability.
For high performance memory, and to assure the rapid, accurate processing of information coming in from our world, 40Hz enhancement is done on all trainees at The Sams Center for Optimal Performance.

     It is popularly known that the left hemisphere of the human brain is more analytic, sequential and language oriented than the right, with the right side's nature being more non-linear, creative and intuitive.
     Less well known and appreciated is our brain rapidly connects and disconnects its many specialized areas to communicate with itself. When healthy brain areas communicate with damaged areas, it receives bad data with which to do its job. Performance then suffers, sometimes badly.
     A Brain Wave Analysis discovers problem areas; Neurofeedback builds enhanced performance by helping to restore energetic performance to the areas of damage. When high quality information is transferred from brain region to brain region, task-appropriate frequencies are enriched, inappropriate brain wave patterning is decreased, and side-to-side balance of energy is created and maintained.

Your brain does much of its work by communicating with itself -- by rapidly connecting, disconnecting, and then reconnecting its many specialized areas. Coherence is the EEG efficiency measure of this self-communication.

The brain's electrical signals ripple across the surface as waves of energy. Phase is the electrical measurement of how fast these signals are moving.
If electrical signals are traveling excessively fast, brain wave signals arrive too early for the brain to use the information; if "lazy" and moving slowly, the information arrives too late.

Too much or too little of a particular brain wave frequency, performance is restricted. If your brain's slow Delta wave activity overpowers its fast waves, for example, you are locked out of being able to efficiently focus and pay attention. Insufficient Alpha waves to idle your brain, you are prone to being tense and anxious.

      While ADD is a serious, life-limiting problem with compromised ability to pay and maintain attention, it is often a matter of degree -- we all have shifting limits in our ability to focus and pay attention on a hour-to-hour, day-to-day basis. We may, for example, feel a mild but unrelenting fatigue with "brain fog," or we may feel irritated, tense and anxious, with scattered and racing thoughts. These shifting limitations may be due to our brain having inadequate resources to easily "shift gears."
     If our ability to change tasks is inefficient, our brain "steals" our physical and mental energy to do its job; we are exhausted at the end of the day. Our key to high efficiency, with adequate physical and mental reserves, is a brain with the resources it needs to do its job, and the ability to effortlessly shift gears to do a new task.
     Optimum performance for a competitive edge in academic or athletic activities demands high focus and attention. For this to happen, your brain must "up shift" to a flow state --- a state of focused concentration so keen there is absolute absorption in the activity.
     Whether it be the severe attention problem commonly called Attention Deficit Disorder, the fuzzy thinking of fatigue, or a competitive situation demanding crystal clear focus and absorption into the process, the Quantitative EEG identifies responsible and inappropriate brain wave patternings; Remedial Neurofeedback Training™ helps your brain remediate the inefficiencies, and to produce more appropriate brain wave patternings to meet attentional demands.

Did you ever stop to think that every thing you see in your world, no matter how simple or complex, came out of someone's head? What's more, the creative person didn't stop with the thought: He or she had the motivation and ability to make the idea real, to create it physically.
Imagining and creating a vision for the future is dependent on physical, mental, spiritual and emotional balance. Einstein, for example, was not a rigid, single minded scientist: The Theory of Relativity came to him in a meditation. He was also a competent artist, an accomplished musician, and a sailor.
It is the balanced, efficient brain, the brain with readily accessible resources to do its job that is more able -- and more apt -- to be inspired, creative and productive.
The troubled state of our world, our society laced with violence and negativism, and our seemingly unsolvable environmental problems, make it vital for us all to have an active, fertile imagination, and the desire and ability to manifest our Dreams. Our very future depends upon it.

Remedial Neurofeedback Training™ has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to bring those with our most distressing neurological problems a life with new possibilities and opportunities. And, just as important, Remedial Neurofeedback Training™ can take our bright and shining stars to even higher levels.
Solution to some of our most pressing problems is possible with Remedial Neurofeedback Training™.