In order to exercise this control, you must first learn how to breathe in a way that tells your brain how to access your calm state. When you’re in control of your breathing, you’re in control of your thinking and emotions. Being mentally fit requires you to think clearly and respond to situations rationally. This technique could give your life the mental edge you need for things to finally “click.”
Want to improve your mental performance? Exercise, exercise, exercise! Most people are aware that they should exercise to improve physical fitness, but what few people realize is that exercising improves your mental fitness as well! Let’s learn why exercise is critical for peak mental performance. How Exercise Impacts Your Mental Performance While you’re exercising, your brain has to learn …
We all know that happiness is a state of mind. However, not many people know that happiness can be controlled consciously via the working of your brain. Let’s delve more into the details of how happiness stems from brain activity and what practical steps you can take to be happier more often.
Three elite performers using neurofeedback, Well, don’t freak out yet. No, this article doesn’t assume you know what is neurofeedback. So hang around for a while and read some fantastic stuff about the brain and its ability to be trained for optimal performance. What is Neurofeedback? In its essence, neurofeedback is a non-invasive, drug-free reward-based training program for your brain. …
Have you ever thought about the value of feedback? You may not like hearing it, but, whether it’s good or bad, genuine feedback is beneficial. It gives you useful information that you may not otherwise be able to ascertain. It’s also a change agent. Feedback gives you the opportunity to do better. Without feedback, it’s hard to know what’s working and what’s not. Even if you’re the most self-aware person, you may have no idea what kinds of adjustments you need to make for the best-finished product if you aren’t getting feedback.
Picture this: You put your cellphone on your charger at night. The next morning your alarm goes off. You reach over to grab your phone only to realize that you didn’t plug it in all the way and now your phone is at half a charge. You’ve got a full day of work ahead of you. You’re not sure if …
Have you ever wondered what divides elite athletes or competitors from the ordinary ones? Some of the greatest events in sports have happened when the underdog competitor rises to the top against all odds. Of course, maybe they were ruled out because another athlete had better stats. But, they kept trying and their hard work and resiliency paid off in …
Peak Mental Performance The practice of meditation provides a verifiable scientific model of mental training tools and techniques that transforms connections in our brain systems that can be used to boost peak mental performance. The practice of meditation has been proven in changing the neuroplasticity of our brain systems. Specifically, the changes have been seen in reaction and recovery from …
Brain activity dictates everything that you feel and eventually do or choose to do. While normal brain function is a common phenomenon, few people have chronic emotions or brain imbalances impacting their lives. But what if there was a way to “unlearn” certain bad habits like chronic anxiety or “learn” to improve mental performance. In order to understand what neurofeedback …
Why is understanding brainwaves important? A healthy brain has an optimal speed. To demonstrate, think about your brain speed like shifting gears on a bike. A healthy brain should be able to access these brain speeds/states effortlessly. In fact, qEEG Brain Mapping gives you a visual representation of how your brainwaves are shifting gears. For example, if your brain …
Have you ever just turned everything off? Or just sat and listened to the birds chirping on the outside of your window? Have you ever just unplugged for a moment to hear your own thoughts and not the information downloaded from the television, or Instagram or a text message that you just received? Have you ever noticed or experienced the …
Productivity is the efficient usage of resources like time and energy to meet objectives and targets. Higher productivity translates to accomplishing set goals faster, and thus improving efficiency. Employees’ mental performance directly impacts their productivity, and thus their contributions to an organization. Therefore, to heighten productivity, mental performance enhancement is a necessity.
Yoga for mental fitness is a powerful brain-training experience that combines the practice of yoga asanas (postures), breathing techniques, and hand mudras to develop a heightened awareness of the present moment combined with mental fitness techniques to train the mind to focus on desired experiences and outcomes, create balance between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, reduce the …
Neurofeedback for better sleep. Neurofeedback (NFB) or Neurotherapy is a type of biofeedback using real-time displays of brain activity. The main objective of neurofeedback sessions is to self-regulate certain brain functions to deal with issues or improve overall brain performance. The typical neurofeedback session consists of placing sensors on the scalp for measuring electrical activity in the brain. Screens that …
