How many sessions will I need?
Because these sessions are classified as brain training and everyone’s central nervous system is different, it is not possible to predict exactly how quickly your brain will respond to the NeurOptimal® system.
The amount of sessions you’ll need will depend partly upon your goals. If you are training to feel better quickly, you might decide after 6-10 sessions that you have made enough gains and pause for the time being. On the other hand, if you are looking for numerous lasting changes, 20-30 sessions is a better goal. The good thing is you can stop at any time and always pick it up again later if you so choose.
Any training you have done in the past will always serve you well should you do more sessions in the future — no session is ever wasted. The good thing is you will know pretty quickly when it is helping you, and your technician will have progress tracking tools to help you document your training. Just as in learning to read, it is a process, and everyone learns and responds differently.
Eventually, this new centered way of being becomes their “new normal”. Occasionally life hits us with an unexpected event - a bad day at work, chemicals, a knock on the head. It is simply a bump in the road and generally, you will not dip as deeply into emotional discomfort and will more than likely bounce back from challenging situations much more quickly and easily.
Because these sessions are classified as brain training and everyone’s central nervous system is different, it is not possible to predict exactly how quickly your brain will respond to the NeurOptimal® system.
The amount of sessions you’ll need will depend partly upon your goals. If you are training to feel better quickly, you might decide after 6-10 sessions that you have made enough gains and pause for the time being. On the other hand, if you are looking for numerous lasting changes, 20-30 sessions is a better goal. The good thing is you can stop at any time and always pick it up again later if you so choose.
Any training you have done in the past will always serve you well should you do more sessions in the future — no session is ever wasted. The good thing is you will know pretty quickly when it is helping you, and your technician will have progress tracking tools to help you document your training. Just as in learning to read, it is a process, and everyone learns and responds differently.
Eventually, this new centered way of being becomes their “new normal”. Occasionally life hits us with an unexpected event - a bad day at work, chemicals, a knock on the head. It is simply a bump in the road and generally, you will not dip as deeply into emotional discomfort and will more than likely bounce back from challenging situations much more quickly and easily.
You say one of the reasons NeurOptimal® is so safe is that it doesn’t influence any outcome. What does this mean?
Other neurofeedback systems have goals or outcomes they seek, usually determined in collaboration with the practitioner who is operating the equipment. To meet these goals the software will present you with tasks that you try to accomplish and when you get them right you get “points” in some way. Under the hood, the software is telling your brain to produce more of some frequencies and less of others — these are called augments and suppresses. The idea is that your brain can be pushed into learning to be more like a “normal” (or average) brain
NeurOptimal® does not work in this way at all. NeurOptimal® does not view your brain as sick or well — in fact, that is irrelevant to NeurOptimal® which is a training not a treatment. There are no pre-determined goals (such as getting well), and hence no augments or suppresses. In fact, there is no instruction given to your brain at all. It can do whatever it wants! The idea is to hold up that mirror (NeurOptimal®) and let your brain take it from there.
Other neurofeedback systems have goals or outcomes they seek, usually determined in collaboration with the practitioner who is operating the equipment. To meet these goals the software will present you with tasks that you try to accomplish and when you get them right you get “points” in some way. Under the hood, the software is telling your brain to produce more of some frequencies and less of others — these are called augments and suppresses. The idea is that your brain can be pushed into learning to be more like a “normal” (or average) brain
NeurOptimal® does not work in this way at all. NeurOptimal® does not view your brain as sick or well — in fact, that is irrelevant to NeurOptimal® which is a training not a treatment. There are no pre-determined goals (such as getting well), and hence no augments or suppresses. In fact, there is no instruction given to your brain at all. It can do whatever it wants! The idea is to hold up that mirror (NeurOptimal®) and let your brain take it from there.
You say the brain is doing the work, not NeurOptimal®.
Could a brain be too disturbed or damaged to benefit from NeurOptimal®?
At this point we have had a lot of experience with all kinds of brains, as you can imagine. We have yet to see a brain that cannot learn from NeurOptimal®. It does seem that every brain has within it an innate capacity to learn and hence potentially to benefit from training with NeurOptimal®. Luckily it wouldn’t take you long to find out. We say within six sessions you should know if it is helping, and often it can be quicker than that.
Could a brain be too disturbed or damaged to benefit from NeurOptimal®?
At this point we have had a lot of experience with all kinds of brains, as you can imagine. We have yet to see a brain that cannot learn from NeurOptimal®. It does seem that every brain has within it an innate capacity to learn and hence potentially to benefit from training with NeurOptimal®. Luckily it wouldn’t take you long to find out. We say within six sessions you should know if it is helping, and often it can be quicker than that.
Many different types of people can work with NeurOptimal® for many different reasons and purposes. How can one program do that, especially when there are no settings to change? How can “one size fit all”?
An excellent question! It sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it! The answer is actually quite simple. Let’s go back to the analogy of the mirror. No matter who looks into it, the mirror can always be exactly the same mirror. But every image is going to be different, and even the image of one person is going to be subtly changing, never the same one minute (or second) to the next. NeurOptimal® is like that mirror, giving information micro-second by micro-second.
Not only will two people never have the same session, no person will ever have the same session twice! It’s impossible because as the brain shifts in response to the information it is getting, the image being reflected back also changes. It’s a unique dance between the person and their own brain, or, described another way, of the brain dynamically dancing with itself. So no, NeurOptimal® can never be described as a “one size fits all”.
An excellent question! It sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it! The answer is actually quite simple. Let’s go back to the analogy of the mirror. No matter who looks into it, the mirror can always be exactly the same mirror. But every image is going to be different, and even the image of one person is going to be subtly changing, never the same one minute (or second) to the next. NeurOptimal® is like that mirror, giving information micro-second by micro-second.
Not only will two people never have the same session, no person will ever have the same session twice! It’s impossible because as the brain shifts in response to the information it is getting, the image being reflected back also changes. It’s a unique dance between the person and their own brain, or, described another way, of the brain dynamically dancing with itself. So no, NeurOptimal® can never be described as a “one size fits all”.
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