In this edition of the Stress Cops PodCast Radio Show we bring you a special article about stress, and how and why so many doctors now recommend brainwave training for stress reduction and stress management.
There are five scientific facts you need to know about stress and your brain.
FACT 1: When you are in the grips of stress, there is a lot of intense stress related electrical activity going on in your brain.
FACT 2: This stress related brain activity can be measured using EEG (electro-encephalography) technology. EEG has been around since the 1930's.
FACT 3: Depending on what you are doing about your stress, this electrical activity goes through changes. If you manage to relax, your brainwaves are suddenly very different than when you are deep in the grips of intense stress, or trying to solve a complex mental problem.
FACT 4: There is now definite scientific proof that stress actually kills brain cells. And the cumulative effect of chronic stress is reduced mind power, less mental clarity, impaired judgment, and serious memory losses!
FACT 5: If you can learn to change your stress brainwave patterns, you will be able to create experience instant stress relief, more memory power, and even a higher IQ.
The Scientific Evidence
Problem 1. Loss of Brain Tissue from Stress
University of California at San Francisco researchers report that stress causes a serious loss of brain tissue (from brain cell death). And Washington University School of Medicine researchers report that even mild flare-ups of psychological stress damage memory and brain functions.
A major National Institute of Health study shows that even mild stress releases a brain enzyme linked to bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder. This explains why stress leads to disturbed thinking, impaired judgment, impulsivity, and the distractibility so common when you are stressed.
Solution:
Over 40 years of research and clinical studies into stress have proven that brainwave training can immediately reduce your stress, repair the damage, and train your brain to avoid future stress related damage. It is the ultimate stress management tool.
Problem 2: Physical Brain Shrinkage
Many researchers have found that certain stress related thinking patterns damage thinking and memory, and even result in physical brain shrinkage.
Dr Lupien of McGill University in Montreal studied brains scans of 92 people over 15 years. The brains of those experiencing the stress of low self-esteem had shrunk to 20% smaller than those who felt optimistic and good about themselves. The high stress individuals with low self-esteem also performed far worse in memory and learning tests.
Solution:
Research has proven your brain is capable of full recovery from stress. It is actually plastic, and with the correct stimulation can continue to correct the ravages of stress and expand, even into advanced age.
Researchers Siegfried and Othmer report that a regime of brainwave training can yield a 23% increase in IQ, plus substantial increases in self-esteem, motivation and stress free energy.
How Brainwave Training Works
There are two answers to immediate stress reduction: Pharmaceutical drugs, and correctly-engineered brainwave training.
Drugs build dependency, and do not solve the problem. Brainwave training, on the other hand, rapidly melts your stress and actually trains your brain to avoid future stress related brain damage.
What is Brainwave Training
In the simplest possible terms, brainwave training causes your brain to copy the brainwaves of happy, high-achieving, creative, successful individuals.
The immediate benefits include: Instant stress reduction, increased IQ and mental clarity, better mental focus and creativity, and even a reduction of headaches and insomnia.
The long-term benefit is that your brain is actually being trained to create these stress free mental states and habits all on its own. In addition to the extreme stress free relaxation brainwave training provides, you will build brainwave patterns proven to decrease the frequency and severity of stress -- and even overcome it altogether.
How Brainwave Training Works
Your brain is an electro-chemical organ. When a neuron (brain cell) is stimulated, it released a tiny electrical charge. Since billions of your neurons are constantly firing electrically, an electrical wave is creates – a brainwave.
Brainwave stress reduction training stimulates your brain using a well-understood process called brainwave entrainment. You experience a simple form of stress reduction brainwave entrainment when you watch a flickering fire, or listen to certain music.
What happens is that your neurons (brain cells) begin to fire in-time to the music or flickering flames – just like tapping your foot to music. The after about 6 seconds, your brain starts to reproduce the rhythm internally all by itself. This natural response is called brainwave entrainment.
The First Online Stress Management eZone
The Quantum Brain Gym is the first complete stress reduction brainwave training ezone.
The gym is a unique +500-page ezone as close as your computer. The gym has been packed with stress reduction and stress management tools by leading brain/mind researcher and neuropsychologist, Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler.
The author, Stress Cop Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler, is a pioneer brain/mind researcher, doctor of psychology, author, life adventurer, and international executive advisor. You will find more of her stress management and stress reduction articles at Quantum-Self.com -- the Self Discovery Community, and in the QuantumBrainGym -- the web's first online brainwave training center.
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