Category Archives: Stress management
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback – What can Happen
Posted on April 18, 2022 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Stress managementHere’s the latest video from NeurOptimal®. A client and two trainers in a little over two minutes do a beautiful job describing what can happen with NeurOptimal® neurofeedback brain training. The client describes the benefits she experienced. The trainers talk about what happened, how it works, and what’s possible. The video will give you an […]
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How Many Sessions of NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback?
Posted on September 22, 2021 by Catherine Boyer in Mental Wellness, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, Sleep, Stress managementHow Many Sessions of NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback?
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NeurOptimal® and Performance Jitters
Posted on February 25, 2021 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, Stress managementMy friend and colleague, David Delaney of Boulder Neurofeedback, has written a thoughtful and interesting post on performance anxiety for the NeurOptimall® website blog: Performance Jitters and NeurOptimal® With decades of experience as a singer and an actor, David knows whereof he speaks. Other than that comment, I’ll let his post speak for itself. If […]
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NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback and COVID-19 Stress
Posted on October 22, 2020 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Sleep, Stress managementIn May of 2020, in the midst of full lockdown in New York City, I wrote a blog post titled NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback and COVID-19. I shared some of the many benefits and ways that training our brains helped us in the midst of the pandemic. I’ll paste those in here. Our temper and irritability fuses […]
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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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Temporary Closing
Posted on March 16, 2020 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Stress managementSadly, New York Neurofeedback is temporarily closing, for the first time in 16 years. Of course, you know why: COVID-19, and the current status of New York City as the epicenter in the US. Hopefully, we’ll be open again soon. We’re thankful for all the NeurOptimal® training we have under our own belts, and for […]
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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 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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Neurofeedback – What to Expect
Posted on March 12, 2019 by Catherine Boyer in NeurOptimal®, New York Neurofeedback, Peak performance, Sleep, Stress management, What to expectWhen you come for a NeurOptimal® neurofeedback session you’ll be sitting in a comfortable chair watching a graphic (or you can close your eyes) and listening to music. There will be very brief pauses in the music – this is the system giving your brain the opportunity to see what it is doing moment to moment. What do […]
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