We Could All Use Some Extra Time and Extra Money.
A Note from Dr. Mitchell Sadar on
How To Reach Your Goals in Fewer Sessions
EEG biofeedback is aimed at optimizing brain functioning. Both the initial learning of new brainwave behavior done via EEG biofeedback and the maintenance of the improved self-regulation in real life situations can be facilitated by three major factors that support good brain regulation. By considering these three factors and reinforcing the positve changes your/your child's brain achieves during training, you can achieve your goals in fewer sessions, saving you previous time and money.
The three important factors to consider are:
- Adequate sleep
- A healthy, basic diet
- Sufficient physical activity/exercise
A basic healthy lifestyle in these three areas includes:
- Seven to nine hours of restful sleep at least eighty percent of the time
- Diet consisting of enough protein, complex carbohydrates, and healthy fats to support healthy brain and body cells
- Enough physical activity to promote good sleep, good appetite, and a relative sense of physical well being (generally at least 30 minutes of moderate activity at least 5 days per week)
Maintaining a basic, healthy relationship with sleep, diet, and exercise will not only save you time and money by decreasing the number of training session it takes to reach your goals, but you will also likely experience an increase in physical health and a decrease in stress levels!
If it is thought that improvement in one of more of these areas would benefit your EEG biofeedback training, we will talk with you about our thoughts and what might be done to enhance your functioning. However, there is always room for improvement that you can obtain through making small changes to your/your child's lifestyle.
Tips to help children develop a lifestyle of healthy sleeping, eating, and exercise habits:
- We encourage the family to set forth standards and routines for bedtime, chores, and for homework being done before pleasurable activities.
- We ask that video games and television be limited to less than 2 hours per day, particularly during the week.
- We encourage the family to try and eat meals together.
- We also ask that children be taught and expected to behave in polite, socially cooperative ways.
- A psychologist will meet with parents early in the training process to discuss these factors and see if any adjustments in any of the above areas should be considered.
Finally, EEG biofeedback is a training process, and as such, cooperation and motivation to participate fully increase the probability of success. For some children, the novelty of training wears off before the training is completed. We are then put in a position to find ways to maintain good participation. We have many ways of trying to do this, but the more we can enlist the help of parents to facility the motivation and cooperation of their child, the better the process will be for all concerned.
Our goal is to facility good, basic functioning in those areas. If an individual is functioning at a basic, healthy level in these areas, especially diet and exercise, and wants help to further increase his/her functioning, we will be happy to help the person find a qualified nutritionist or physical trainer with whom to work.
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