Train Your Brain

The task of overcoming anxiety and depression is basically a process of "training the brain" to respond to stimuli in a more healthy fashion. A number of different therapies can be used to train the brain so that it responds to stress more effectively (without exciting anxiety) while generating a more healthy neurochemical balance and a better mood.

Cognitive therapy can train individuals to uproot the habitual dysfunctional thought patterns that contribute to anxiety and depression. Nutriceutical support can create help create a biochemical environment in which the proper balance of neurotransmitters can be established. Clinical hypnotherapy can address the limbic brain more directly, affecting deep change. At the same time exercise can profoundly strengthen the body's response to stress.

However, there are methods to more directly train your brain.

Several technological treatments direct affect brainwaves, and thus our ability to train our brains to overcome anxiety and depression. The most powerful of these is neurofeedback.

Neurofeedback produces neurological shifts in brain functioning; it is increasingly being used for problems ranging from learning disabilities to anxiety disorders to depression.

In neurofeedback you learn to control your own brainwaves. Specifically, you learn to recognize depressed and anxious brainwave patterns and change them. Unfortunately, neurofeedback requires a highly trained practitioner and expensive equipment. It is usually only available to patients who have been referred by mental health professionals.

Fortunately, a number of more available popular technologies have been designed to impact brainwave states and teach you to recognize and shift to healthier brainwave patterns. These include traditional biofeedback- which teaches you how to control physiological process like heart rate- as well as light/sound mind machines, and other brainwave entrainment machines. They are painless and non-invasive, relaxing and fun.

Most of these can help to train the brain in ways that can relieve stress, anxiety and depression.

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