Calming

It is typical to see activation go up across the board when you focus on training up and go down across the board when you focus on training down. Since, for a great majority of clients, the EEG is overly active and noisy, reductions in activation generally precede clinical improvement. Usually if you can train down slow activity wherever it is excessive, even as it comes down and fast activity also comes down, the ratio improves.

This protocol was developed by John Long (Largo), an early participant in BrainTrainer, and myself.  John had a great benefit at that time, in that he was a completely novice in the area of brain training, and he was completely unaware of (and undaunted by) all the things he “shouldn’t” do.  He contacted me back-channel and asked if he could run some of his (creative) ideas past me, and I said I’d love that.  He did, and I did, and the only one that (after the idea was ping-ponged back and forth a few times) ended up on my permanent list was the Van Largo Straddle.

The Van Largo straddle works like this:

Put one electrode at Cz (call this #1)

Put one electrode at T4 (call this #4)

Put two more electrodes equidistant between these two (call this #2–closer to Cz–and 3–closer to T4)

You should now have 4 electrodes arrayed even distances apart from the center of the central strip to the top/front of the right ear.

Plug 1 and 3 into channel 1; plug 2 and 4 into channel 2.

Train up SMR (best if you have figured out what SMR is for the client before you try this).

Usually works like a charm.