Category Archives: Mental Wellness
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This Special Holiday Season
Posted on November 25, 2020 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, New York NeurofeedbackOne of my holiday traditions is to post guidelines called How to Survive the Holidays. The link is to my 2019 post, when we were celebrating traditional holidays. It has context and tips on how to be with family for the holidays. This year we’re having a very different experience of holidays and those tips […]
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How to Have a Healthy Brain
Posted on September 30, 2020 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, New York Neurofeedback, Sleep, Stress management, The BrainHow to have a healthy brain is a topic near and dear to the hearts of neurofeedback trainers. I recently came across a Cleveland Clinic article called 6 Pillars of Brain Health. It’s a useful article and I recommend reading it. It’s helpful information. You’re probably already doing at least some of what they describe. […]
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback – Do the Results Last?
Posted on August 28, 2020 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, What to expectIt’s a question many new clients ask, understandably. NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback – Do the Results Last? The Client Comments page on the New York Neurofeedback website has the story of my own anxiety dreams. I tell what happened to those dreams when I was introduced to NeurOptimal® neurofeedback in the early 2000s. The short answer is, […]
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback and COVID-19
Posted on May 28, 2020 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, SleepUpdate: As of June 25, 2020, New York Neurofeedback has reopened. As of May 28, 2020, like many of you, my husband and I are hunkered down at home. In our case, that’s in our New York City apartment. We’re washing our hands, wearing masks and keeping six feet apart when we go out, all […]
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How to Survive the Holidays
Posted on November 19, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Stress managementIt’s time for our annual holiday post. Its usually one of the most viewed posts of the year. Why? I’ll get to that in a minute. It may not seem directly related to NeurOptimal® Dynamical Neurofeedback® – other than that training your brain makes most things in life easier. Benefits from having trained typically mean more ability to […]
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback in an Elementary School
Posted on October 9, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, What to expectMy colleagues at NeurAlive Technologies, Inc., in Victoria, BC, Canada, made this terrific video about their use of NeurOptimal® in an elementary school. Parents, teachers and the children themselves describe the difference the training made. To learn more, please visit our website, or you’re welcome to comment here on the blog or email me. Catherine […]
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback for Performance Anxiety
Posted on June 11, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, Stress managementIn 2016, Science Daily published an article titled, Why your brain makes you slip up when anxious. What makes auditions, performances, giving speeches, just generally being on the spot, so anxiety-provoking? According to previous research, people literally exert more force when they know they’re being watched. The pianist presses harder on the keys when there […]
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Neurofeedback for Stress
Posted on May 8, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, Stress management, What to expectNeurofeedback is one of the best stress-busters I know. Here are the kinds of things my clients say: I have time to respond now rather than react. It takes more to get to me. In the past I would have been up worrying about what happened. I just went to sleep. I had the same […]
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What is Neurofeedback?
Posted on February 12, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, Sleep, Stress management, The BrainYour brain is the most complex system on Earth. It possesses an amazing ability to organize itself. Neurofeedback works with the electrical activity of that system. What is neurofeedback? Via pauses in a sound stream that are precisely timed to register state shifts in the brain, NeurOptimal®® Dynamical Neurofeedback® gives your brain information on what it’s doing which your […]
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback for Sleep Management
Posted on January 15, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, SleepIt’s so important to get good sleep. There was a time when we believed that the brain just shut off during sleep, but that’s very far from the truth. Learning is integrated, hormones are produced, toxins are cleared out, and much more, all functions that happen during sleep. Sleep is a primary need During a […]
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