Energy Patterns/Exercise Analogy

There are energy patterns that are very costly–lots of fast activity–and others that are very “cheap”–lots of slow activity.

It seems possible in some cases for a very costly pattern to reset itself in a single session, often an extended session to a much more sustainable level of activation. I’ve seen this happen a number of times with patterns like hot temporal lobes. In one session the client may experience a dramatic improvement that lasts for some time. Anxiety levels drop, internal chatter drops. In most of the cases I’ve seen like this though, there are other more stable patterns related to (for example) the anxiety (e.g. left/right or front/back reversals, high fast-wave coherence in the front).   As the least sustainable pattern is released, over a period of time they tend to rise to the level of awareness. It’s a “different kind” of feeling of anxiety, but the anxiety strategy is still there and returns to become problematic again. Very possibly, though, the hot temporals don’t re-appear without some external stimulus.

With low-energy dominant patterns, I’ve never seen any client suddenly “wake up” and sustain it.  The energy economy simply isn’t there yet to sustain it.

Exercise and Energy Patterns

Anyone can improve physical performance by doing aerobic exercise to improve heart and lung function. You don’t need a diagnosis to do it. You don’t need a physician’s order to do it. You really don’t even need a coach. You know there is a target range for your heart rate that is safe and effective, and you have ways of tracking that. If you are smart you start slow and build slowly to avoid injuries and allow your body to increase its stamina. You don’t have to think.  You don’t have to try.  All you have to do is exercise–as simple as walking. Two people may walk together every day; one tracks his pulse rate, number of calories burned, distance walked, average speed, etc. and keeps it in a computer file; the other just walks; they both get the same results.

It you want to improve your brain performance in general, strengthening the metabolic capacity of the PFC is a key. You don’t need a diagnosis to do it. You don’t need a physician’s order to do it.  You really don’t even need a coach. You simply track infrared temperature (or a measure involving it) to keep it rising or stable until you can’t any more.  If you are smart you start slow and build slowly to avoid injuries and allow your PFC to increase its stamina.  You don’t have to think. You don’t have to try. All you have to do is exercise–as simple as paying attention.
Two people may train together every day; one tracks his starting and ending temperature, minutes trained, etc. and keeps it in a computer file; the other just trains; they both get the same results.

When your brain actually changes its ability to deliver greater levels of oxygenated blood to the tissues where prefrontal neurons are working, then your control center begins to work effectively and lots of stuff in your real-world change. It’s that simple. It’s aerobic exercise. I know some people never go out to walk aerobically without a pedometer and pulse meter and special watch to count calories burned and average heart rate and time walked and distance. They come home and graph all that stuff and perhaps even convince themselves that without all their vigilance and tracking nothing would happen. But a friend walking beside them with no equipment, no tracking, no worries–just walking the same time at the same speed and watching the scenery will get at least as good results–maybe better, because the cardiopulmonary system (which aerobic exercise pushes instead of prefrontal perfusion as HEG does) can be the body’s focus instead of that chattering mind.

Does aerobic exercise fix all ills?  Of course not. It won’t cure cancer, though it can give your body its best chance to deal effectively with most diseases.   And a person with a brain activation pattern that is seriously “out of whack” (if you’ll permit me a technical term here) may not be “fixed” by HEG.   However, a depressed person may get great relief by activating an underactive left prefrontal area.   An anxious person may feel much calmer as he gets the right prefrontal area activated.