There are energy patterns that are very costly\u2013lots of fast activity\u2013and others that are very \u201ccheap\u201d\u2013lots of slow activity.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0I\u2019ve seen this happen a number of times with patterns like hot temporal lobes.\u00a0In one session the client may experience a dramatic improvement that lasts for some time.\u00a0Anxiety levels drop, internal chatter drops.\u00a0In most of the cases I\u2019ve 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).\u00a0 \u00a0As the least sustainable pattern is released, over a period of time they tend to rise to the level of awareness.\u00a0It\u2019s a \u201cdifferent kind\u201d of feeling of anxiety, but the anxiety strategy is still there and returns to become problematic again.\u00a0Very possibly, though, the hot temporals don\u2019t re-appear without some external stimulus.<\/p>\n
With low-energy dominant patterns, I\u2019ve never seen any client suddenly \u201cwake up\u201d and sustain it.\u00a0 The energy economy simply isn\u2019t there yet to sustain it.<\/p>\n
Anyone can improve physical performance by doing aerobic exercise to improve heart and lung function.\u00a0You don\u2019t need a diagnosis to do it. You don\u2019t need a physician\u2019s order to do it. You really don\u2019t even need a coach.\u00a0You know there is a target range for your heart rate that is safe and effective, and you have ways of tracking that.\u00a0If you are smart you start slow and build slowly to avoid injuries and allow your body to increase its stamina.\u00a0You don\u2019t have to think. \u00a0You don\u2019t have to try. \u00a0All you have to do is exercise\u2013as simple as walking.\u00a0Two 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.<\/p>\n
It you want to improve your brain performance in general, strengthening the metabolic capacity of the PFC is a key.\u00a0You don\u2019t need a diagnosis to do it. You don\u2019t need a physician\u2019s order to do it. \u00a0You really don\u2019t even need a coach. You simply track infrared temperature (or a measure involving it) to keep it rising or stable until you can\u2019t any more.\u00a0 If you are smart you start slow and build slowly to avoid injuries and allow your PFC to increase its stamina.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to think. You don\u2019t have to try. All you have to do is exercise\u2013as simple as paying attention.
\nTwo 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.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0It\u2019s that simple.\u00a0It\u2019s aerobic exercise.\u00a0I 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.\u00a0They come home and graph all that stuff and perhaps even convince themselves that without all their vigilance and tracking nothing would happen.\u00a0But a friend walking beside them with no equipment, no tracking, no worries\u2013just walking the same time at the same speed and watching the scenery will get at least as good results\u2013maybe better, because the cardiopulmonary system (which aerobic exercise pushes instead of prefrontal perfusion as HEG does) can be the body\u2019s focus instead of that chattering mind.<\/p>\n
Does aerobic exercise fix all ills? \u00a0Of course not. It won\u2019t cure cancer, though it can give your body its best chance to deal effectively with most diseases. \u00a0 And a person with a brain activation pattern that is seriously \u201cout of whack\u201d (if you\u2019ll permit me a technical term here) may not be \u201cfixed\u201d by HEG. \u00a0 However, a depressed person may get great relief by activating an underactive left prefrontal area. \u00a0 An anxious person may feel much calmer as he gets the right prefrontal area activated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Energy Patterns\/Exercise Analogy There are energy patterns that are very costly\u2013lots of fast activity\u2013and others that are very \u201ccheap\u201d\u2013lots 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.\u00a0I\u2019ve seen this happen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"topic":[781],"class_list":["post-39694","answer","type-answer","status-publish","hentry","answer_topic-understanding-frequencies"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n