Category Archives: NeurOptimal®
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The Healthy Brain Platter
Posted on December 17, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York NeurofeedbackOne of the ways you can get the most out of your neurofeedback training is by giving your brain the kinds of activity and food it needs. Dan Goleman and Dan Siegel’s Healthy Brain Platter is discussed in a Harvard Business Review post by David Rock, Maintain Your Mental Well-Being. Keeping your brain healthy means giving it […]
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How Much Sleep do you Need?
Posted on November 12, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, SleepIt’s well worth reading this recent New York Times article titled “How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With?” I’m going to bottom line it for you here anyway, in case you don’t read it, because I think what it’s saying is so important. This information comes from a four-year research project run by David Dinges, […]
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Neurofeedback — Think Training not Treatment
Posted on October 15, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York NeurofeedbackThink training — not treatment Why? For me, the word treatment implies a medical model: Something is wrong with you and someone in the health care field is going to give you a diagnosis and recommend treatment. With NeurOptimal® neurofeedback training, you are in charge. NeurOptimal® gives your CNS, the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), information […]
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Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight
Posted on August 13, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, The BrainThis is a video of neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor talking about the massive stroke she had at age 37. She watched herself lose functions with all her professional knowledge of what was happening to her. If you think this will be upsetting or depressing to watch, I predict you will have exactly the opposite experience. […]
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Benoît Mandelbrot
Posted on July 16, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in Fractals, NeurOptimal®, New York NeurofeedbackThe images used on this blog and on the New York Neurofeedback website are fractals. Benoît Mandelbrot, who died in 2010, changed how we can view ourselves and our world by introducing us to fractal geometry. It mirrored the complex real world in ways that the pristine and simpler shapes of classical geometry that we […]
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Neurofeedback and Your Unique Brain
Posted on April 5, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, The Brain, What to expectYou are a unique human being, even though you are part of a species that you are very much alike. Why is this important to neurofeedback? More about that in a minute. First, did you know that… The typical adult body has about 50 trillion cells. That’s 50,000,000,000,000 cells. Your genes and mine are 99.99% identical. […]
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Neurofeedback – Think Training not Treatment
Posted on March 11, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, What to expectNeurofeedback – training not treatment. Why? For me, the word treatment implies a medical model: Something is wrong with you and someone in the health care field is going to give you a diagnosis and recommend treatment. With neurofeedback training, you are in charge. NeurOptimal® neurofeedback gives your CNS, the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), information […]
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Neurofeedback, Peak Performance and Olympic Gold
Posted on January 15, 2011 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performanceNeurofeedback got an amazing amount of positive mentions in the press related to Olympic success. Just one example: Neurofeedback was used as in the training programs of the entire Canadian moguls and aerials teams. Peak performance, of course, applies to anything we aspire to in life. Increasing your ability to stay in the moment (which […]
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Finding a Neurofeedback Trainer
Posted on October 5, 2010 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York NeurofeedbackIf you’re having trouble finding a neurofeedback trainer near you, it’s not too surprising, especially if you don’t live in an urban area. There are probably less than 10,000 of us in the world. That number is growing as neurofeedback becomes better known. More people are drawn to becoming trainers, sometimes out of their own […]
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Meditation and Neurofeedback
Posted on July 2, 2010 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Stress managementMeditation reduces the experience of pain, a University of Manchester study confirms, as reported in the journal Pain. Because meditation builds the ability to stay in the present moment, meditators anticipate pain less and are less bothered by it. This makes sense to me, and perhaps on a physical level as well. If we’re not worrying […]
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