Never gone through Brainwave Optimization with RTB™? This short  2.5 min video will explain the process and what to expect.

S.R.
Retired Non-Commissioned Officer with 20 Years in the Army

“Upon arriving I was impressed with both the facility and the staff of BST. We were introduced to our trainers and began sessions almost immediately.

One of the first things I noticed was how willing my brain was to being trained. I have had practice in the area of self empowerment and stress reduction techniques before but this was the first time I could see the results by looking at the different brain wave patterns I was producing while setting my intention through visualization and breathing techniques. For the first time I was able to see my brain and my brain was able to see itself. This combination of visual and auditory cues helped me raise and lower different brain wave patterns in different regions of my brain.

For the first few days the only thing I noticed was that I was exhausted from the training. Almost as if I had run or lifted weights. I slept very deeply and felt more at peace with myself as the trainings progressed. I have always had a good sense of balance in my life but this training has taken me to a new level of feeling and understanding the connection between my brain and how my body reacts together. I am looking forward to going home and seeing results in the areas I selected to improve.

One thing is very clear to me. How we perceive ourselves and what we allow to be stored in our brains and bodies effects how we live our lives and what kind of experience we will have.

For me this experience has created a desire in me to master my experiences and not become a victim to them. I am looking forward to helping bring this technology to the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans affairs and the Nation at large as a way to regain control and recover from adverse life experiences. If you are a combat veteran who wants to regain mastery of your mind and body I encourage you to contact the nearest BST representative in your area. This training is non-invasive and is more like a performance enhancing application to optimize you’re your brain and body.

You will like it.”

trained by BST Staff
Brain State Technologies
Scottsdale, AZ

S.J.
Mother

My name is S. and I have a 7 year old that Judy Davis worked with on the Brain State program.  My son was Autistic and I was not clear about his problem until he went to Kindergarten (2007).  I had Judy use the Ultimate Brain State with him based on some information received by a friend who had used the program.  My son didn’t speak to people nor play with children because he didn’t understand what they said.

When he was evaluated by the school he was talking to himself, walking around the school yard saying things over and over to himself, he couldn’t be still and listen to the teacher, nor could he take instructions – only if he was shown pictures or had an individual sit with him and tell him exactly what he was suppose to do.  His entire life changed after Brain State.  He is now in the 1st grade and he is reading quite well, math is exceptional, he now play with the other children and understand what  they are saying to him and dialogue with complete sentences. He is much calmer, funny and can finish all his homework along.  He is an exceptional child and the teacher says he’s helping the children in his class in some subjects.  My son changed school’s after Kindergarten and the new school read the special IEP’s that was sent with him to the new school and said this must be a mistake because he is nothing like the report forwarded.  Great news after 3 months in the new school (his progress report card parent meeting) he no longer needed the services provide as recommended, he only needed help in 2 areas sentence structure and writing.  The school’s assistant Principal and his 4 teachers agreed he is ready to be in his regular classroom for 90% of the time and tutoring in writing and sentence structure formation would be areas he would need help with. This program changed my son’s life and I think a lot of people can benefit from this program long term.  I hope this will help you and whomever you are thinking about for Brain State.

Trained by Judy Davis
Balanced Brain Body Center
St. Louis, Missouri

R.E.R., 62
Founder of Project Return

“I have experienced two weeks of Brain State Trainings since July of 2006 plus a one-day session to improve my sleep quality. Without a doubt, they are among the most significantly healing and balancing experiences of my life. Though I do not believe this training can replace the traditional struggles for healing the wounds of our pasts, Brain State offers the capacity for some “giant stepping” along that journey.

By the second day of the first week, I knew the outcome would be positive. I simply began to feel better, more alive, after each session. By the end of those five days, there was an enhanced clarity about my life, a sense of well-being and peacefulness. I noticed that I could see colors more vividly and, though I didn’t take an eye exam, felt certain that even my visual acuity had improved.

Then, there was the single day of two sessions for sleep deprivation that, for me, were particularly important. There was literally an immediate and considerable improvement which, to this day, has not diminished, and I have not concerned myself about sleeplessness since.

Though I am far from understanding this technology, it seems that my second week of training was more focused on balancing the processes of my brain. The protocols took me deeper into those progressions which theretofore had led me into anxiety and hypertension. As the week evolved, it seemed as though I could accomplish in an hour-and-a-half session what would normally require a week-long retreat. The clarity I had found during the first week seemed to blend into an eloquence of design and confidence about the journey I have chosen to take through my “elder years.”

trained by Christine Westfeldt
Brain Balance Technologies
Fairview, NC

J.A.
Construction Company Owner

“I suffered a stroke in April 2007. I could not walk without assistance. I always leaned to the left; I could not maintain my balance. I had pressure behind my left eye socket and could barely see out of my left eye. I also had a great deal of trouble sleeping. I thought that the life that I had built for myself and my family was over. My business was suffering which caused me to become depressed. My friend Art, who would come and see me every other day in the hospital told me about this new technology that he was going to Scottsdale for training, could possibly help me. He had asked the therapist while I was in rehab one day how long would it take someone to recover fully from a stroke like I had suffered. The therapist told him anywhere from 8 to 12 months minimum depending on the individual.

Art came back from Scottsdale training the first week in June. I was his first client on June 8, 2007 before he had opened up to the public. He would come and pick me up everyday and take me in for Brain State Conditioning. Read the rest of this entry »

C.B., 55
Business Person

“For over 25 years I have been trying to find freedom from debilitating Migraine headaches. I had tried everything, including strong drugs, dietary changes, exercise hypnotherapy, acupuncture, herbals, positive thinking, homeopathics and energy work. Many of things I tried seem to help at least partially, but I was never able to get the big breakthrough. The migraines would always come back.

After 30 sessions of Brain State Training with Brain Balance Technologies, I felt a big shift in the way that my mind and nervous system processed stress. I felt much more calm and at peace. It has been over 3 months since my training was completed. I have had a 95% reduction in the number of migraines that I have had. The freedom of living without the fear of the Migraines is absolutely priceless to me. I love Brain State training and recommend it as highly as I can.”

trained by Sam Holt
Brain Balance Technologies
Asheville, NC

On January 15, 2009 an 8 yr. old male presented for Assessment that had been diagnosed by two Speech Pathologists with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (aka Developmental Dypraxia) and Auditory Processing Disorder. He was also diagnosed by a Medical Doctor with ADD. He was given 7 years of speech therapy which helped him advance sufficiently to communicate. His first two years of public school he received services from a Speech Therapist, an Occupational Therapist, a Physical Therapist, a Special Education Teacher and an Aid that was by his side the duration of school hours. (He could not work independently.) He also participated in FastforWord reading program both years.

This client was diagnosed with Microencephaly in utero. The doctors were concerned additionally because the occipital opening around his brain stem appeared to be too large. When he was born he looked normal but as time passed he showed developmental delays. He was tested at age 18 months and began speech therapy at age 2. From his earliest age he was shy and withdrawn. He did not smile and it was believed he did not have the muscular ability to smile. He was a stiff baby and did not like to be cuddled. At age 4 his vocabulary was 20 words. Read the rest of this entry »

“Before I had the opportunity to brain train it seemed as though things were happening to me and now its like they happen around me….I don’t feel like I am the target board in life anymore and  I feel safe and confident in the way that I can choose to react to what happens around me. I no longer feel like the world and people control how I end up feeling, my perception is actually enough to let me decide how I should feel.

I have lived with an eating disorder that I allowed to plague me since I was 12 years old. I am now 26 and over the years I have been into at least 6 different treatment centers for help. I was labeled with just about everything…. anorexia, bulimia, bi-polar, borderline personalities, depression, obsessive compulsive, alcoholic, you name it. I always felt as though I never knew who I was and why I existed so every time I got a new label I took it on and lived it, becoming more and more lost in life.

Anything that happened in my life was too much for me to deal with and would be reason for me to fall further and further down a path of self-destruction.

Just before I started brain training I was drinking excessive amounts of alcohol (1 or 2 bottles of vodka a day on a good day). I had no idea of what normal eating was and neglected my body in everyway possible, emotionally, morally and physically. It was like I had lost my conscience and even though I was very very unhappy and hopeless I lacked the drive to turn things around. I lied to myself and to everyone around me, from a person who always has big goals and values in my life I felt like I lost it all, even my family had lost trust and hope in me. I think if I had carried on along the path that I felt so trapped in for even 2 weeks more I would never be here now.

Brain Training helped to change my whole life; instead of my own funeral I have my wedding to look forward to this November. I have a job that I can actually take responsibility for and new exciting goals.

The process I went through while brain training was amazing, not easy but worth every bit of time. I was very emotional during the training process but even after the first session I felt my internal boundaries and values coming back. I actually felt like I knew who this soul was inside my body, the soul I lost somewhere along the line. In the two weeks of brain training things changed so rapidly its kind of hard to even describe what went on…I feel like putting it into words might not do the process justice. The changes in me since then however are vast; I have not touched alcohol in almost 4 months and have no desire to at all. I recently got engaged and have a wonderful relationship with a man who loves me as much as I love him, I used to feel I had to do everything right and be perfect for someone to love me, now somebody else is happy with me just as I am too. Me refining myself has allowed other people to get close again.

I had lost the very loving relationship I always had with my parents and even this is now coming back, something I thought I could never fix.

I am taking responsibility in my life, financially, health wise, work wise, socially and have found the passion for life that I once lost. My life is worth sticking around for, something that before brain training I never thought I would believe.”

trained by
Rory
Capetown, South Africa

J.M., 31
Chef

I came to BrainWave suffering from anxiety, O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), problems sleeping, stress as well as some other issues. Through the early stages of the Intensive, I started to notice a change, especially the way I slept. I was sleeping through the night and waking up rested. As the program went on, I noticed that I was much calmer, less agitated and happier. I now can actually sit, relax and watch a whole movie without having five different jobs on the go at the same time as the movie! This is a big change for me. I worry about things a lot less and my stress level has come way down. My colleagues at work don’t know I went through brain training, but they can sure notice I’m much mellower now!
Thank you BrainWave for everything.

trained by
Daniel Richard and Duncan Harte
BrainWave Optimum Brain Training
Kelowna, BC, Canada

In the world of neurofeedback, biofeedback, and general bio-signal acquisition, there is not only a large standard deviation in the way different models of amplification devices read bio-signals, but also a large standard deviation in the way (most) amplification devices, of the same model, read bio-signals.  This is due to numerous factors, however a few of the largest are general manufacturing processes and the quality of the hardware components on the circuit board which are used to produce the device.

So how does this affect the field of bio-signal acquisition you may ask?  Well let’s say that one amplifier reads a specific frequency at a specific amplitude, for example let’s use 20 Hz and 10 uV as the actual frequency and amplitude.  We’ll say that device A reads this as 20 Hz and 9 uV and that device B reads this as 20 Hz and 11 uV.  In this example, device B is reading the same amplitude, of the same frequency, 22.2% higher than device A.  Wow, that’s a big difference!

If a mean-based bio-signal model is used (as is commonly done in both neurofeedback and biofeedback, say something like a QEEG), the same person, with the same frequency, at the same amplitude (effectively the same data-set, you get the picture) could look and seem very, very, different, depending on the device that captured that data.  This means that an individual who is assessed using a mean-based bio-signal model is highly dependent on both the quality and standard deviation of the hardware which they are trained and/or assessed with.

How do you know if your hardware is working properly?

Until recently a reasonably priced signal generation device was not available to the bio-signal acquisition market.  Sure you can find signal generators which produce frequencies upward of 1000 Hz for under $1000, but how many do you know of that can produce five frequencies between 1 Hz, and 40 Hz, with the ability to produce each frequency at five configurable levels of amplitude?  Enter the Intellatune™, the new calibration testing device from Braintellect™ (scheduled for release in mid to late October). The Intellatune lets you see exactly how your device stacks up to a static frequency, at a static amplitude, all of which is both set and configured by you, the user.  The Intellatune™ is a quick and easy way to test your device calibration.

The Power of Relational Data Modeling!

If on the other hand, you’re using a relational data model of bio-signal acquisition and feedback, such as Brain State Technologies Leading System for Brainwave Optimization with RTB, the model removes the variable of amplitude altogether, so you really don’t have to worry!  As a quick example, let’s say that device A reads data from two points:  points 1 and 2.  Device A reads point 1 as 20 Hz at 9 uV and point 2 as 20 Hz at 18 uV.  Device B reads the same two points, (at the same time), and point 1 is read as 20 Hz at 11 uV and point 2 is 20 Hz at 22 uV.  Again, for the sake of example, let’s say that the actual value of point 1 is 20 Hz at 10 uV and the actual value of point 2 is 20 Hz at 20 uV.

In this example, the data read by device B is 22.2% higher than that read by device A.  However, if you consider the relationship of the data to itself (ie get the ratio of the data at the different points) you would get the following:

Device A:

Device B:

By using the relational data, regardless of the device, the ratio (or relationship) of the data to itself is the same with each device.  Brain State Technologies’ Leading System for Brainwave Optimization with RTB is the only model we are aware of that uses a relational data model in this way.  As you can see, in this greatly simplified example, by using the relationship of the data to itself we remove many of the variables that all neurofeedback and biofeedback providers need to take into consideration and account for while training.  This does not mean that neurofeedback and biofeedback are not effective forms of client training, as anything that helps people is just that, helpful.  This does mean that the way that Brain State Technologies’ model works is highly efficient and highly effective in helping clients reach their training goals.

Oh, and when you can calibrate your equipment that really helps too, regardless of which model you choose to use!

Do you want to be sure you’re seeing a Licensed Brain State Technologies Affiliate Partner?  Look for the “Powered by Brain State Technologies®” logo wherever Brainwave Optimization with RTB is provided.

Peter Gerdes

Chief Geek, Brain State Technologies