Frequency of Training

There are reasons why I would not personally train every day. One reason is that the effects of a training session may be seen anywhere from immediately during/after the session to 12-24 hours later. So even in the beginning, training every day tends to make if difficult to recognize connections between one training’s effects and another’s. With a day break between sessions, the client can attend to what happened during/after the session and that day, then what happened during sleep and the next day. Training every day would be like going to a wine tasting where you have to taste the wines one right after the other.

Since we are training for changes in the client, the way I decide when training is “done” is by stretching out the inter-session period as we go through the cycles. Doing the first cycle, if I can train 5 sessions in 5 days, I would do it, including 3 HEG sessions. During the 2nd cycle, I would train every other day–completing the cycle in two weeks instead of one–and begin identifying and measuring the changes starting to happen. In the third cycle, I often leave 2 days between sessions. If the client is showing stability in the change he is experiencing, so it lasts between sessions, we may stop at 15 sessions. Often we will do another 5–sometimes stretching them out over 3-4 weeks–sometimes just shifting to alpha theta training.