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Thanks to advances in neuroplasticity, we nw know that the brain can rewire its own network and thereby optimize its capabilites. Capitalzing on these advances, brain training invites the brain to become more in tune with itself.
Brain training isn't based on diagnosis and neither is it concerned
By altering levels of brain energy through a feedback loop that allows the brain's own activity to be input into a computer and then fed back to it via auditory input, this advanced technology allows the brain to see itself-to recognize where it's out of balance and not functioning well.
Once our amazing brain discovers how it has established neural patterns that may have been necessary for our survival in the past but that limit us in the present, it readjusts itself. When the brain is balanced between its hemispheres and lobes, and its energy patterns from low to high are harmonized in each region of the brain, no part of our life remains unaffected.
As emotions stabilize and mental acuity picks up, health and physical well-being advance also. Clients report reduced post-traumatic stress disorder, relief of stress and anxiety, the ability to rid themselves of addictions, lessening of impulsivity, curbing of tendencies toward anger and violence, diminshing of depression, and enhancement of the overall quality of their lives. Brain training is an expecially ideal fit with more natural approaches to wellness and recovery programs.
By optimizing our brain, we optimize our entire life. Life no longer feels as if we are stepping on the gas while someone else is stepping on the brake. We can at last be the limitless individuals we were born to be. Limitless You is a book about hope, choices, and boundless human potential.
Lee Gerdes' backgrond as a systems analyst, pastoral conselor, management consultant, and vice president of Solutions for NetPerceptions prepared him to become founder and CEO of Brain State Technologies.
Lee has done advanced studies in math and physics and holds a Masters degree in Divinity with advanced studies in psychology.
The eclectic mix of Lee's education and his personal need to experience more happiness and less sress while being highly functional led him to resarch how the brain could be optimized for health and happiness.
Brain State Technologies is located in Scottsdale, Arzona, with affiliate offices throughout the world.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Freword by Sung-Lee, MD
Introduction
A chance to take charge of your life
How brain training was discovred
From simple to sophisticated
A technological boom
1 Is it really 'All in your head?'
What a brain training assessment can reveal
How the brain responds to a threat
Why the teen years are so challenging
2 What really drives dysfunctional behavior?
How a 'nice' person turns rogue
'They know not what they do'
3 Searching for ourselves in all the wornng places
The role of role models
Awakening to ourselves through our reflecton in oters
Gettng ourselves in focus
Mirror, mirror on the wall
4 The brain becomes its own mirror
Watching and listening to ourselves
The brain learns to observe itself
Can brain training harm you?
5 In search of a contented brain
An advancing technology
The uniqueness of each human brain
A contented brain
Helping the brain balance itself
Empty headed and spaced out
6 The miracle of a new vision of yourself
A case of severe impairment
A change of perception
A new freedom
7 A matter of balance and harmony
When life throws us a curve
A balanced brain makes for a love of life
When all cylinders are firing equally
8 'Why did I do that?'
Recapturing our natural state
A level playing field
9 Is your brain running in overdrive?
The brain under siege
Take charge of your time
Achieve success without being stressed out
Running ahead of our evolution
10 How a brain imbalance often originates in childhood
The role of our genes and our upbringing
The reason children play violent video games
11 Your mind and your brain are different
What is intuition?
How your brain works
When the neural network is impared
Intuition is based on what we value
12 Living consciously
The end of fear, competition, strife
Part of everything, and everything part of us
An informational universe
The enlghtened night of the soul
Consciousness is power
13 An antidote to depression
A blow to the had
The drawback to antidepressants
Medicated madness
The power of a belief
The limitations of a pill
14 Can you trust yourself?
A personal Y2K
A turn around
Replanting trust
The centrality of trust
When life falls apart
15 Beyond post-traumatic stress
The birth of brain training
How post-traumatic stress becomes a disorder
The straw that breaks the camel's back
Post-trautmiatic stress disorder needn't be a life sentence
16 Are your ready to embace your real identity?
Beyond a victim mentality
An identity based on trauma
Rehearsing our story
17 Brain training puts you in charge of your life
Take charge of your alcohol consumption
A remarkable experiment with drug addiction
18 Here's to your health!
The healing power of a balanced brain
Slowing the aging process
A surprising discovery
Brain training helps you take charge of physical pain
19 Traumatic brain injury
The devastating effect of serious brain imbalance
The power to rise above our limitations
Training a brain in a coma
20 You are changing yourself
Obvious to everyone but us!
When change is slow
Roadblocks to change
Helping the healing and self-realization process
21 A journey into consciousness
Harnessing the transformative power of meditation
Understanding effortlessness
22 Healthy intimacy
How we fail to connect
Training for intimacy
The differences between the sexes are real
23 When sex becomes a crime
Making sense of pedophilia
Date rape
The different strengths of male and female brains
24 Your past is not your present
Creatng new pathways
A cleansing process
Rediscovering our innocence
The power of allowing the past to die
Becoming the puppeteer
25 The extensive reach of brain training
How a person becomes incarcerated
Creating community
Resistance dies hard
26 A glimpse of the future
You can take charge of your life
In the zone
Our human potential unfolds
Appendices I & II
Endnotes
Bibliography
Brain training isn't based on diagnosis and neither is it concerned
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with symptoms a client may be suffering. Its focus is on the degree of balance and harmony the brain experiences, plus the flexibility it demonstrates when it moves from being at rest to being acitvated. This is quite different from modalities that compare a person's brain with a normative database and then try to teach the individual to bring their brain functioning up to par with the average brain.By altering levels of brain energy through a feedback loop that allows the brain's own activity to be input into a computer and then fed back to it via auditory input, this advanced technology allows the brain to see itself-to recognize where it's out of balance and not functioning well.
Once our amazing brain discovers how it has established neural patterns that may have been necessary for our survival in the past but that limit us in the present, it readjusts itself. When the brain is balanced between its hemispheres and lobes, and its energy patterns from low to high are harmonized in each region of the brain, no part of our life remains unaffected.
As emotions stabilize and mental acuity picks up, health and physical well-being advance also. Clients report reduced post-traumatic stress disorder, relief of stress and anxiety, the ability to rid themselves of addictions, lessening of impulsivity, curbing of tendencies toward anger and violence, diminshing of depression, and enhancement of the overall quality of their lives. Brain training is an expecially ideal fit with more natural approaches to wellness and recovery programs.
By optimizing our brain, we optimize our entire life. Life no longer feels as if we are stepping on the gas while someone else is stepping on the brake. We can at last be the limitless individuals we were born to be. Limitless You is a book about hope, choices, and boundless human potential.
Lee Gerdes' backgrond as a systems analyst, pastoral conselor, management consultant, and vice president of Solutions for NetPerceptions prepared him to become founder and CEO of Brain State Technologies.
Lee has done advanced studies in math and physics and holds a Masters degree in Divinity with advanced studies in psychology.
The eclectic mix of Lee's education and his personal need to experience more happiness and less sress while being highly functional led him to resarch how the brain could be optimized for health and happiness.
Brain State Technologies is located in Scottsdale, Arzona, with affiliate offices throughout the world.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Freword by Sung-Lee, MD
Introduction
A chance to take charge of your life
How brain training was discovred
From simple to sophisticated
A technological boom
1 Is it really 'All in your head?'
What a brain training assessment can reveal
How the brain responds to a threat
Why the teen years are so challenging
2 What really drives dysfunctional behavior?
How a 'nice' person turns rogue
'They know not what they do'
3 Searching for ourselves in all the wornng places
The role of role models
Awakening to ourselves through our reflecton in oters
Gettng ourselves in focus
Mirror, mirror on the wall
4 The brain becomes its own mirror
Watching and listening to ourselves
The brain learns to observe itself
Can brain training harm you?
5 In search of a contented brain
An advancing technology
The uniqueness of each human brain
A contented brain
Helping the brain balance itself
Empty headed and spaced out
6 The miracle of a new vision of yourself
A case of severe impairment
A change of perception
A new freedom
7 A matter of balance and harmony
When life throws us a curve
A balanced brain makes for a love of life
When all cylinders are firing equally
8 'Why did I do that?'
Recapturing our natural state
A level playing field
9 Is your brain running in overdrive?
The brain under siege
Take charge of your time
Achieve success without being stressed out
Running ahead of our evolution
10 How a brain imbalance often originates in childhood
The role of our genes and our upbringing
The reason children play violent video games
11 Your mind and your brain are different
What is intuition?
How your brain works
When the neural network is impared
Intuition is based on what we value
12 Living consciously
The end of fear, competition, strife
Part of everything, and everything part of us
An informational universe
The enlghtened night of the soul
Consciousness is power
13 An antidote to depression
A blow to the had
The drawback to antidepressants
Medicated madness
The power of a belief
The limitations of a pill
14 Can you trust yourself?
A personal Y2K
A turn around
Replanting trust
The centrality of trust
When life falls apart
15 Beyond post-traumatic stress
The birth of brain training
How post-traumatic stress becomes a disorder
The straw that breaks the camel's back
Post-trautmiatic stress disorder needn't be a life sentence
16 Are your ready to embace your real identity?
Beyond a victim mentality
An identity based on trauma
Rehearsing our story
17 Brain training puts you in charge of your life
Take charge of your alcohol consumption
A remarkable experiment with drug addiction
18 Here's to your health!
The healing power of a balanced brain
Slowing the aging process
A surprising discovery
Brain training helps you take charge of physical pain
19 Traumatic brain injury
The devastating effect of serious brain imbalance
The power to rise above our limitations
Training a brain in a coma
20 You are changing yourself
Obvious to everyone but us!
When change is slow
Roadblocks to change
Helping the healing and self-realization process
21 A journey into consciousness
Harnessing the transformative power of meditation
Understanding effortlessness
22 Healthy intimacy
How we fail to connect
Training for intimacy
The differences between the sexes are real
23 When sex becomes a crime
Making sense of pedophilia
Date rape
The different strengths of male and female brains
24 Your past is not your present
Creatng new pathways
A cleansing process
Rediscovering our innocence
The power of allowing the past to die
Becoming the puppeteer
25 The extensive reach of brain training
How a person becomes incarcerated
Creating community
Resistance dies hard
26 A glimpse of the future
You can take charge of your life
In the zone
Our human potential unfolds
Appendices I & II
Endnotes
Bibliography
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9781897238585
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Namaste Publishing Vancouver, Canada