Being kind to our brain is one of the most important things we can do.
Yes brain training is a thing and it is amazing.
It's not just brain training, it's life training, but it starts with the brain.
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FAQ from www.neuroptimal.com
You say one of the reasons NeurOptimal is so safe is that it doesn’t influence any outcome. What does this mean?
Other neurofeedback systems have goals or outcomes they seek, usually determined in collaboration with the practitioner who is operating the equipment. To meet these goals the software will present you with tasks that you try to accomplish and when you get them right you get “points” in some way. Under the hood, the software is telling your brain to produce more of some frequencies and less of others — these are called augments and suppresses. The idea is that your brain can be pushed into learning to be more like a “normal” (or average) brain. NeurOptimal does not work in this way at all. NeurOptimal does not view your brain as sick or well — in fact, that is irrelevant to NeurOptimal which is a training not a treatment. There are no pre-determined goals (such as getting well), and hence no augments or suppresses. In fact, there is no instruction given to your brain at all. It can do whatever it wants! The idea is to hold up that mirror (NeurOptimal) and let your brain take it from there.
You say the brain is doing the work, not NeurOptimal. Could a brain be too disturbed or damaged to benefit from NeurOptimal?
At this point we have had a lot of experience with all kinds of brains, as you can imagine. We have over 3 million hours of research to create this program. We have yet to see a brain that cannot learn from NeurOptimal. It does seem that every brain has within it an innate capacity to learn and hence potentially to benefit from training with NeurOptimal. Luckily it wouldn’t take you long to find out. We say within six sessions you should know if it is helping, and often it can be quicker than that.
You say many different types of people can work with NeurOptimal for many different reasons and purposes. How can one program do that, especially when there are no settings to change? How can “one size fit all”?
An excellent question! It sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it! The answer is actually quite simple. Let’s go back to the analogy of the mirror. No matter who looks into it, the mirror can always be exactly the same mirror. But every image is going to be different, and even the image of one person is going to be subtly changing, never the same one minute (or second) to the next. NeurOptimal is like that mirror, giving information micro-second by micro-second. Not only will two people never have the same session, no person will ever have the same session twice! It’s impossible because as the brain shifts in response to the information it is getting, the image being reflected back also changes. It’s a unique dance between the person and their own brain, or, described another way, of the brain dynamically dancing with itself. So no, NeurOptimal can never be described as a “one size fits all”.
Do the results last?
Once you know how to read, you can’t not know. So yes, it lasts. But if you don’t read for a very long time, you might get a little rusty. Then once you jump back in, you quickly catch up and you’re off!
NeurOptimal is very like that. Once you have done say 20 sessions, we like to say “you have it in your back pocket”. But if you get thrown off by something happening in your life, a session or two or three can get you right back. You can also stop training any time you want, and pick back up again later. It’s really up to you.
Who runs KINDbrain?
Kelley Raleigh, CEO and Founder of KINDbrain
What does it feel like to die when you weren’t the one dying?
I feel like I have been at least 8 different people in this current lifetime. I feel like I have grown and pushed my boundaries over the years, but nothing quite like this last year.
My husband unexpectedly died in May, 2021. It shifted my world sideways for a bit and simultaneously, I emerged the next morning as the seedling form of my fullest expression.
I know that doesn’t make sense. I know that sounds weird and ungrounded and a bit out of touch. But that is what it felt like. While dealing with my soon to be 5 year old and the loss of his epic dad, I saw clearly that this was a way out for me. A way out of standing in my own way, allowing situations that were not authentic or healthy and ultimately, a way out of an old life that was not for my anymore.
Bear in mind, I was also devastated and sad and was gently supporting myself and my child, but I was also embracing freedom like I hadn’t known in 16 years.
What did this mean for me? What did this mean for my business? What did this mean spiritually? I needed to double down on everything I knew, every tool I collected in my 16 year journey as a spiritual practioner of Soul Transcendence and pick it apart and grasp on to it with both hands. That also meant that I was going to double down on my business and why I was doing what I was doing.
I had been supporting my clients in their hardest and most vulnerable times…so now was the real work. I was in my hardest and most vulnerable time, so let’s see what I can dig deep into and what pours out.
I am going to do my best to articulate my process, but ultimately, I am still on this journey of self mastery and what it all means. One thing it does mean is that life got messy and I finally embraced the mess. I finally literally and figuratively have embraced the mess of my life that I could no longer avoid. I like clean and simple and organized. I operate best from that space. But I needed to now be ok with the mess and examine it and see what I really wanted, how it was going to define me and get clear on how I show up in the world.
This probably would have been a lot easier if I was not a mother, but that added a bonus of a very clear WHY for those times when I wanted to say Fuck It. Having my WHY with me every day kept me focused and motivated and softened me even more than the moment I gave birth to him.
I got to sit with myself a lot over this last year. I got to look at patterns and things I allowed and things I created and get clear on whether I wanted to do any of that again. Some of them I didn’t.
So when I look back at May 5, 2021, I realize I also died that day. I let the old Kelley go with Erik as he embarked on his final journey home to God. I released her into the abyss and happily began handpicking the parts that I wanted to showcase and live in. This was the new me. This was the old me refined. I could be gentle and fierce, traditional and modern, loving and grieving. I could live in the multidimensional space that I knew in theory existed but now live in as a reality. I get to create my world. I get to choose what I want and respond from an authentic place that does not require anyone’s permission but my own.
A month after my life shifted so drastically, I said that I never thought this would be my life, a widow and single mom running a business and household by myself. Now, years later, I cannot imagine it any other way.
I did all of this by taking radical responsibility for my mental and physical health. I was using my Body & Brain Spa even more diligently on myself. I was shifting my patterns and calming my nervous system as often as I could each week because I wanted to show up different and be fully in my life.
I help people expand their capacity to navigate their lives more gracefully. I am living proof that healing is a choice and I can learn how to do hard things with grace.
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