We define Biofeedback as a technology that provides real time information about the body’s physiology, so that this information can come to awareness for potential clinical utility. Biofeedback is both a medical breakthrough and an under-utilized medical technology.
With this technology, we have the potential to change the pathways of the brain and autonomic nervous system, in order to treat mental and physical disease, improve our quality of life, and increase our ability to live up to our potential.
We are now providing two different biofeedback modalities at the Hawaii Whole Person Healing Collective that work synergistically:
Neurofeedback
The human brain is sometimes described as the most complex piece of equipment in the universe, and yet modern medicine has very few technologies that allow us to work directly with the brain. Medications that work with the brain understand the brain as a system of chemicals, whereas the brain is obviously more than that. Also, instead of working directly with brain function, modern psychological techniques try to access the brain through the level of “mind”, such as in psychological “talk therapy”, cognitive behavioral therapy, or similar modalities. While sometimes effective and insightful, psychologists and their patients often attest that mind-based psychotherapy approaches offer incomplete or limited results in breaking through physical and mental disorders. We consider Neurofeedback a breakthrough because it allows the patient and practitioner to work directly with the brain, and in this model we understand the brain more accurately for what it is, namely, as a part of our body that operates in the realm of frequency and resonance. This is truly a unique modality that fits an unmet need in our current healthcare system.
Neurofeedback works through the placement of electrodes on the scalp that allow us to record the patient’s brain wave activity. We then encourage the brain to make more of certain frequencies and less of others by rewarding the brain through a visual and auditory cue (i.e. a picture and a sound). Neurofeedback does not add any electricity or energy to the brain; instead, it is a technique of biofeedback, wherein the practitioner and the patient are simply made aware of what the brain is doing, and then make suggestions for brain frequency in certain parts of the brain that help the brain’s essential function.
Many neurofeedback clients come to us after having tried different methods over the years, finding little to no relief from worry, depressed mood, difficulty concentrating, low motivation, chronic pain, and many other symptoms that interfere with truly experiencing the joys of life. Or people come who are interested in optimizing their performance within any realm, by training the brain to enter into a “flow” state of consciousness. With neurofeedback, they realize there is a direct brain intervention to improve their quality of life.
Heart MathTM Heart Coherence and Neuro-Feedback.
Heart Math
The Heart Math technique is a licensed and trademarked modality developed since 1991 by the 501c3 non-profit the Heart Math Institute. This modality is a biofeedback technique aimed at improving the quality of heart coherence.
Coherence is a state in which the heart can measurably enter into optimum function, through the optimum synchronicity between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. These two branches of the autonomic nervous system profoundly affect every function of the body subconsciously, and link the conscious mind to the unconscious mind. By using heart biofeedback to interface with the functioning of the autonomic nervous system, the entire synchronicity of the nervous system is optimized, leading to an optimization of the entire brain, the conscious mind, and the entire physiology.
The Global Coherence Initiative was started based on the measurable effect of heart coherence on, not only the practitioners themselves, but on the world around them! Although it defies the paradigm of materialistic science, the evidence is overwhelming that heart coherence can affect the word around is. We believe that the state of heart coherence induces a state of consciousness that can produce transcendental experiences of feeling connected to the greater whole outside of ourselves, and that can also affect the world outside of ourselves for the better.
More information about the Global Coherence Initiative can be found on this website:
Our life’s work and professional calling involves bringing access to innovative clinical solutions. Our biofeedback program fits into this category. We are aware of no other professional office offering the concurrent use of neurofeedback and Heart Math coherence in the State of Hawaii.
If you are suffering from a mood disorder, or from chronic pain, or any physical disorder that could have a mind-body component, or if you are simply interested in human optimization through understanding the “flow” state of consciousness and heart coherence, or if you would like to do your part to uplift the consciousness of the planet through the practice of Heart Coherence, then please contact us! Our biofeedback programs could be useful for you.