Monterey Center of Alameda: BIO & Neuro Feedback

Biofeedback and Neurofeedback are cutting-edge technologies which allow you to objectively connect with your body, mind and brain, giving you an unprecedented level of control over those functions.

Carl Jung was the first to investigate Psycho-Biofeedback as a treatment
modality in 1906.

Some of the classic uses of Biofeedback training include:

Stress-reduction

Memory Improvement

Chronic pain management

Reduction and Relief from PTSD

Assistance toward the reduction and control
of ADD & ADHD symptoms

Psycho-Biofeedback (bio=living body, feedback=communication, psycho=the mind, thus the whole meaning is the relationship of the mind with the body) is a pillar approach to Monterey Center stress-reduction exploration. It is the observation of the electronic resistances in the body's cells as they respond to various mental triggers, which actually reveal the energy levels behind significant thoughts. Working upon this cellular level helps the seeker to uncover the nearly imperceptible, long-buried beliefs and assertions that have covertly influenced the one's own decisions and choices of personal survival, which are most likely submerged in the unconscious mind until the moment they are gently coaxed into "view" by the expert guidance of the biofeedback meter operator. These actions are performed on a fully conscious level, and so actually help people to get out of mental fogs and hypnotic states, while assisting individuals from breaking free from habitual thoughts and compulsions at the same time.

The exercises, on such a basic level, are not dissimilar to looking at a computer's basic operating program. The operator helps the client inspect and pluck out all the irrational, unintended or random data (that is not unlike adware, spyware and viruses that have set up their own circuitry) , which congest and ultimately obliterate normal, simple and clear mind functions. As our lives go on, our minds can get gradually and increasingly degraded by "unhandled" traumas, confusions, medications, drugs and false information. We have lessened/weakened our mental and physical abilities and capacities, to that degree of influence, just like conflicting software interferes with a computer's normal functions and overloads its memory capacity.

The "band-aid" fixes to life like medication, drugs, hypnosis and just plain denial are never resorted to, for these are exactly why we seek to explore all alternative options in our purpose as an educational nonprofit organization.

The results of psycho-biofeedback are a happier, healthier individual who can face the future with increased confidence and ability.

Neurofeedback comes into play when we have analyzed that the physical "hard drive" of the mind (the brain itself) has developed one or more atrophied areas, often brought on by previous injury or drug damage, which are brought back to normal operating speed through simple, but effective, brain "exercises." The atrophied areas of the brain are discovered by measuring and plotting actual brain wave activity of the client against normal, expected brain wave function. A second analysis of brain function is taken at a point after a period of brain exercises have been performed and an improvement of performance has been observed.