Also, I've been using NeurOptimal for the last few months, and experienced awesome results. So far I've done about 30 sessions, and evidently I have quite a way to go because I still hear glitches in the audio track while using it, which supposedly correspond to impending aberrations in brain function... they're pretty black box about their mechanisms.
Nonetheless, the experience has been profound - what I've experienced thus far, and what continues to be on the increase are the following factors; memory, relaxation ability, connectivity between thoughts (gestalt factor), mind-body connection, length and intensity of focus, depth of meditation (this is
huge, I've been meditation for two years and I'd average the depth increase at an extra 200%, so 3x deeper), ability to empathise, unstressability (I was pretty awesome at that anyway haha), better creativity (playing guitar and singing in particular) which seems to come from a greater ability to access the flow state, richer and more detailed sensorium, more endurance (?), faster reactions, greater motivation, proneness to frission, and just the general awesomeness of life has been ramped up. There's probably more I'm missing out, but you get the picture.
I haven't tried any other forms of EEG neurofeedback yet, so I cannot compare them in their effectiveness, and I wouldn't endorse one over the other, but if you have a practitioner who uses neurofeedback in your area definitely check it out for at least a dozen sessions. Also, be on the look out for second-hand versions, given the original supplier is so damn expensive. I'm so blown away by it that I've started hooking a friend up to it - I feel it's almost my duty to help him revolutionise his existence. You can't keep all this amazing shit to yourself, not when you see that you could help better someones path through this life to such a degree. Hence my review here - hopefully some words will inspire some of you to look deeper into this... there are plenty of testimonials online.
From what little I know of the mechanism and my interpretation of said mechanism, this is like
super-charged meditation. To illustrate this we can borrow an ancient metaphor from buddhism; the mind is like a body of water, and the bright moon, representing reality, is reflected on this water. Thoughts are disturbances that perturb this body and obscure the reflection of reality. The turbulence of the discursive mind ripples in waves across the surface and makes it hard to see the true reflection. When the energy of aberrant thought is relinquished, the body of water naturally comes to rest in stillness - then the reflection is seen in its fullness. Meditation is the practice of letting go of these disturbances we attach to, by the act of simple observing them with our whole being. This is all well and good, but it takes a long long time to reconfigure these patterns by simply being still, and turbulence bubbles up from the unrestful depths of the psyche regardless. Using NeurOptimal is akin to producing counter waves which inversely mirror these disturbances and so induce a kind of phase cancellation, stilling the water(mind) through direct and opposite action. Each disturbance is countered before its ripple can propagate into widespread chaos, and over time the tendency of the water to fluctuate in emotional and distractive response diminishes.
By the way, I am very intrigued about your experiences with PEMF Papa, do keep us updated! That looks seriously awesome. May have to treat myself for christmas
Edited by OpaqueMind, 23 November 2013 - 07:43 PM.
