Integral Mind
Counseling is a unique methodology that combines traditional
counseling, guided meditation techniques, with advanced brainwave
technology and neurofeedback to increase one’s access to the
resources and potentials of his/her mind.
Integral Mind
Counseling is helpful in reducing symptoms of anxiety,
depression and stress. The process of mastering our brainwaves can
help us be more emotionally balanced, enter creative states at will
and be more effective at problem solving and self healing.
Integral
Mind Counseling explores and trains a particular interrelationship
of brain waves called the Awakened Mind State. In this condition
"the mind is clearer, sharper, quicker, and more flexible than
ordinary states. Thinking feels fluid rather than rigid. Emotions
become more available and understandable, easier to work with and
transform. Information flows more easily between the conscious,
subconscious, and unconscious levels. Intuition, insight, and empathy
increase and become more integrated into normal consciousness."1
In your initial counseling
session you receive a brainwave profile of your own meditative state
along with practices you can continue for yourself to help develop
an integrated mind.
We
use a Spectral Analysis EEG monitor (electroencephalogram), the
Mind Mirror III to explore the beta, alpha, theta and delta brainwave
categories and their relationship to your states of consciousness.
Subtle and individualized combinations of these brainwave patterns
can be identified and developed for enhanced states of self mastery,
problem solving and creativity.
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"...after
training in meditation for eight weeks, subjects showed a
pronounced change in brain wave patterns… of aroused, conscious
thought to the theta waves that dominate the brain during
deep relaxation."
TIME
MAGAZINE,
August 4, 2003
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BRAINWAVE CATEGORIES |
FREQUENCY |
MENTAL STATE |
BETA |
38-14 cycles/sec |
active awareness, the discursive analytical mind, externally
focused thinking |
ALPHA |
9-14 cycles/sec |
Sensory imagery, visualization, relaxed detached awareness,
tranquil consciousness |
THETA |
8-4 cycles/sec |
Personal unconscious, sub/super conscious, lucid dreaming,
REM sleep, inner focused |
DELTA
|
0.5-3 cycles/sec |
Collective unconscious, universal mind, deep dreamless (Non
REM) sleep |
1 THE
HIGH PERFORMANCE MIND: Mastering Brainwaves for Insight, Healing,
and Creativity by Anna Wise Tarcher/Putnam, 1996 |