Neurofeedback dates back many years. However, it wasn't until recently that the advances in technology (namely processor speed and memory capabilities), made it feasible for any individual to attempt to use neurofeedback. It takes a human being merely 1/10,000 of a second to sense a stimulus and understand what it is. This complexity and speed of the human brain needs to be closely paralleled by the feedback the individual is receiving to make it very effective. In the last 3 years, advances in the PC industry have made reliable and feasible neurofeedback possible. This seemingly old idea (the idea of neurofeedback, first surfacing in the late 60's to early 70's) has now inspired Brain State Technologies to redesign and reengineer various training excercises to provide neurofeedback in a way that a large percentage of the population can benefit from it.
This technology was created out of a personal need to overcome depressive tendencies which surfaced during the creative process. For example, every master painter, musician, composer, CEO or athlete has some depressive tendencies that have been brought on by the need to be creative - as beta waves decrease in one part of the brain, alpha and sensory motor response increases in proportion in another part of the brain, which allow for the germination of creative ideas. Then, Beta waves return and the creative idea is acted upon without the sense of being unmotivated or slightly melancholy. Lee Gerdes, owner of Brain State Technologies™, has now been able to train his brain to accomplish creative tasks without the need to face the downside of creativity.
Lee has advanced this understanding of Brain State Conditioning™ with the additional research of the highly functional minds of two Tibetan Buddist Monks. These monks are masters at meditative techniques, having practiced deep meditation for over 40 years each. The understanding of the mastery of creative process, and the mastery of the alert-but-relaxed process of the meditation master, has led to the basis for training brain wave patterns to produce the high performance, high awareness, and high connected mind of clients through the Brain State Conditioning™ process. (No Buddhist Monks were harmed during the making of this software!).
