Testimony by D.L.

I have suffered with depression, anxiety and bouts of insomnia for over a decade.  I have sought the help of numerous medical professional throughout the years which began my education with pharmaceuticals.  I have suffered with depression, anxiety and bouts of insomniaAll proving ineffective and at times rendering me feeling completely drug induced.  I found myself “functioning” but not truly “living”.

Distressed and frustrated with the entire process, I decided to stop all medications and see how I would do.  Obviously, it didn’t take long for the depression to set in along with the sleepless nights.  So I began taking a low dose of Welbutrin for the depression and Klonopin to sleep.  Once again I was back on medication and still not feeling the way I thought I should be.  I was still experience severe bouts of sadness, this time they were truly interfering with my ability to be a wife and mother.

Luckily, I became aware of NeuroTechnologies.  At this point I was willing to listen to any alternative that would help me regain control of my life again that didn’t involve further medications.  The mechanics behind NeuroTechnologies intrigued me!  To actually be able to see what was going on inside my brain and be able to chart and graph my progress was an option far more appealing to me than “just take another pill and let’s see how this one works”.  There was actual science behind this method of recovery, progress that I could see as well as feel.  And feel it I did.  I signed up for 20 sessions and by my 8^th I was experiencing a dramatic change in my mood and sleep.

You know when a protocol is a success when your family comments on how much they see a change in you.  My children commented that since I began my treatments, “Mom is our old mom again; she really likes to spend time with us.  We are actually laughing and having a good time with her again!”  For me that meant the world and has proven to me that NeuroTechnologies is the answer to a prayer that I have been searching for over ten years!

My experience with the science of NeuroTechnologies and its learned staff has been nothing less than a miracle for me!  I highly recommend trying this method of treatment. Your path to a happy, sleep filled life is only sessions away!

Trained by Brian and Pete
NeuroTechnologies of the Treasure Coast

K.B
Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner

“From Eeyore to Tigger

 I didn’t know what to expect when I started the sessions at The Evolutionary Brain.  When I walked in the door I was coming with many issues: depression, chronic pain, stress, a lack of confidence, motivation and direction.  I felt like I had given up on life. I was in constant pain for 2 years following a bad car accident where I was left with a compressed spine and numbness in my elbow and hand. I had to sleep with many pillows to prop myself up so I wouldn’t experience severe pressure in my head and increased numbness in my arm and hand. I suffered from bouts of insomnia. I was dealing with an addiction to sugar. I have Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome which brings a host of symptoms: water retention, weight gain, irregular menstruation (lack of to excess), depression and hormonal imbalances, to name a few.

After my very first session there was a noticeable calmness, I felt good.  After the first day my spine realigned itself and I was standing up straighter. I had a 20% decrease of numbness in my hand and my elbow has full range of motion as does my neck. Something I had not experienced since before the car accident. I slept with only one pillow. I slept soundly to wake up refreshed ready to start the day with clarity and a positive out look on life.

 The following days brought new vitality to my well being. Here is a list of the noticeable improvements.

• I have a stronger sense of smell and taste.
• My vision has improved. My eyes don’t get as blurred from long days.
• I have lost my urge to eat sugar.
• My heart and lungs feel stronger.
• I have full range of motion in my neck and elbow.
• My posture has improved. After my 3rd day I had to readjust my rear view mirror because I was sitting taller. 
• I wake up feeling very refreshed as if I had just walked a few miles.
• My joints feel lubricated. No more aching knees or elbows.
• I have better balance.
• My depression is gone.
• I am more productive. I am motivated to take action.
• I am prioritizing my time and accomplishing my goals.
• I am falling asleep faster and waking up refreshed, ready to start the day.
• I can concentrate with less distractions.
• I can focus and listen better during conversations, my mind isn’t wandering.
• 50% decreased numbness in my hand.
• My family and friends noticed an immediate shift in my posture, attitude and stress level. They say I am calm and that I am the person that they knew me to be a few years ago before more resent traumas in my life.
• I feel the way I did in my early 20’s. (I am now 40) 

I can’t wait to see what will happen in the next month.

 Far and away one of the best investments of my all around health. I have been recommending this to all of my friends. It changed my life beyond words. Read the rest of this entry »

An article appearing in vol. 3 issue 2. of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience

By Vijendra Singh and Lee Gerdes

Depression or major depressive disorder (MDD) is a very serious medical illness affecting an estimated 25 million Americans and millions more worldwide. It significantly changes an individual’s ability to function on a daily basis. Symptoms include persistently sad or irritable mood, pronounced changes in sleep, appetite, and energy, difficulty thinking, concentrating, and remembering, physical slowing or agitation, lack of interest in, or pleasure from, activities that were once enjoyed, feelings of guilt, worthlessness, hopelessness, and emptiness, recurrent thoughts of death or suicide and persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain. The cause of depression is not very well understood, but the disorder has a neurobiological basis (Mayberg, 2007). We hypothesized that depressed individuals have an imbalance in the brain (Gerdes, 2008) and conducted a pilot study of brain training using brain state conditioning (BSC). We found that depressive tendencies can be suppressed by BSC. Read the rest of this entry »

By Vijendra K. SINGH, Lee GERDES

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Abstract
Brain State Conditioning™ (BSC) is an innovative technology that optimizes brainwaves in real-time to achieve balance and harmony of the human brain. Since the brain function is imbalanced in individuals with psychiatric disorders and neurological diseases, we explored the possibility of using this technology to help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. We conducted a pilot study of 8 adult subjects who had symptoms of PTSD, depression and anxiety problems. The severity of symptoms was evaluated by Objective survey and Beck’s inventory for depression and anxiety. After the initial assessment of brain maps, individuals were administered with highly personalized training sessions, for example 4-5 sessions over 4-5 days. After the administration of BSC, we found a consistent decline in Beck’s inventory scores, which implied alleviation of depressive and anxiety tendencies. All subjects in the study responded to BSC technology and showed noticeable improvement in the quality of their lives. Thus we suggest that BSC is a viable approach to brainwave optimization to help people overcome health problems due to PTSD and depression. Read the rest of this entry »

C.W.
West Vancouver BC

For years I had suffered with depression which I tried to hide by acting overly happy, but there was a deep despair I could not shake. I tried therapy, medication, changed my diet, exercised a lot, prayed daily, listened to meditation/inspirational tapes and the list goes on and on. After the first day of sessions with Brainwave Optimization, I stopped taking my medication. At the end of my intensive, I felt a huge weight had lifted from my spirit and I was no longer depressed. I am “Free” and I will always be grateful.

trained by
Roland Marion
Brain Synergy Training, Inc.

“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

P.P., 43
Musician / Songwriter / Business Man

“When I came to BST I came feeling really trapped within what felt like a web of western medicine. I don’t think I realized how depressed I actually was. I was so tired and over treating my symptoms with more and more ‘cover ups’ via medications. That’s just how I felt. I had seen the video of Lee and the one of Jeff Meiring.

When I started my sessions, they asked for a list of 3 goals. I had 16. Insomnia, hypertension, ADD, depression, other stresses and challenges, on and on. Some things mild and some things more serious to me than others. I guess we sometimes start accepting this being the norm in our lives? But I had had enough. Just enough pain or stress or discomfort or addiction to zap my ease and passion for really living my life on purpose. However, when I arrived in Scottsdale, my intentions were strong and my excitement about the potential of this process was really really big. So I focused on the goals that I felt would impact the others in hopes that the results would sorta trickle down.

During my intensive I felt fine. I was relaxed. I didn’t sleep that well during the week, but none the less I started to feel pretty good. I thought maybe it was because I had actually taken a break from my work as opposed to it being because of the Brain State Conditioning. I said to your staff, “I’m not sure if anything is really changing or not.” They said confidently (like they knew something that I DIDN’T know) just to wait, give it some time and see what happens in a week or two. So I relaxed and enjoyed the week.

Well, the third day after leaving Scottsdale I slept the entire night through, for the first time in almost 15 years. (with no Ambien, wine or other downers). Since then I have slept every night like a baby. I’m off ALL medications. My blood pressure is almost perfect. For the most part, my stress is just gone. And I handle stress so differently now. I feel like I’ve been given some invisible Tool with which to manage my life! My meditations are deep and rich and getting better every day. My songwriting and my music has shifted in such a fresh new way. My craving for wine to bring me down every night so I can rest, is zilch. Gone. (I look forward to enjoying a wonderful cabernet for the experience, not for the effect!) Intentions that I didn’t even have (or know I had) like watching television or oddly, using the microwave for cooking…. Ive just casually noticed that those things have just been fading from my life. It’s all so undeniable for me. I can not begin to say how miraculously it all seems. People keep asking me if I’m in love? Today, I am taking ZERO medications. I fall asleep when I lay my head on the pillow. I feel free to choose what I want to choose. What a peace for me. I still have things to work on, but I see them all differently now.

I’m so passionate about what Brain State Conditioning can do, I’ve created my own web site just to get the word out. I’ve even taken out advertising in local papers in Santa Fe, just to let people know that this alternative, Brain State Conditioning, exists. How could I not tell people about this option and potential solution for so many of their problems?

I am grateful beyond words for Lee, Brainstate Conditioning, and for the people who are with integrity and purpose sharing and offering this process to those of us who have been looking for a better way to help re-connect, open and expand our minds, hearts and lives (and brains). It has changed mine, that’s for sure.”

trained by BST Staff
Brain State Technologies
Scottsdale, AZ

C.F., electrician

I have suffered with addiction for 15 years. I started with alcohol and from there did everything I could get my hands on. Five years ago, I got addicted to heroin; I lost my wife, my job, my house. I didn’t think anything could every really help me. I got on methodone and from there moved to suboxone. But still I was suffering so much from guilt, regret, anxiety, depression. I just thought it would be something I would always live with. When I first got brain trained, I couldn’t believe it. There was hope coming alive in me. Hope that I had not felt since I was a kid. I still have a long journey ahead of me but I am not afraid anymore. Andy and Katy at Brain Bliss were so patient and kind. They made me feel special even though I thought I was not worth anything, they made me feel worthy and now I think I may have a good life after all.

trained by
Katy Robertson / Andy Odendahl
Brain Bliss

Eric E., 42
Warehouse Manager

Before I started Brain State Conditioning training I was not sleeping well, I was depressed and just did not feel good about life in general. I have been battling drug addiction and depression for the past 20 years and was just plain tired of it all.

I was sleeping better after my first session and after six sessions I felt the depression lift and it has not returned. I have gone through 13 sessions and plan on coming back every year or so.

It has been 11 months since I started with Brain State Conditioning and I still do not have any urges to use drugs and life is better than ever. I give a strong recommendation to anyone facing recovery to try this training.

Nancy Eaton
Brain Works!
Paradise, CA

W.T.N.

“When I arrived at BrainWorks, I was a complete mess. My life was overrun by addiction, depression and severe anxiety. I could not focus on anything without my mind constantly racing. After 10 sessions, I am no longer struggling with sleep. I can sit and meditate without losing focus, I no longer suffer from addictions and my depression is gone. I have energy throughout the day and I am currently eating less and losing weight. BrainState Conditioning really helped me and I will continue to have sessions.”

trained by
BrainWorks
Sedona