Alternative Medicine and Energy Healing - NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a very unique and effective use of alternative medicine and energy healing methods. This technique is becoming more and more popular as it is better understood. NLP uses images and attitudes towards disharmony and illness to affect change and encourage the healing process.
NLP uses presuppositions as part of the treatment to help one see that one can effect change in self. Alternative treatments and methods work, however hope, faith and prayers of the person using them does in fact help the healing process.
NLP uses the power of thought and language. It works! If you give up on yourself or speak negatively of yourself, than it is very likely that your body will give up as well. There are so many medical and alternative health methods in the world today that there is no need to give up. There is a need to be responsible, be accountable, investigate, do research and find a method that will be productive and effective for you.
Neurocognitive testing helps clinicians evaluate and quantitatively measure the health of the higher functions of the brain and central nervous system “vital signs”. The three most commonly cited domains of cognition are attention, memory and executive function. Objective neurocognitive evaluations are an important adjunct in the evaluation of a patient’s neurological, psychiatric, and psychological health.
Computerized testing offers accurate recording of reaction times, electronic capture and processing of data (minimizing human error) and standardization of test administration (minimizing sources of response bias).
The test battery measures the speed and accuracy of nine basic mental functions, which are indicators of the health and integrity of the brain's higher functions. The battery generates some 15 primary scores, which are used to calculate 5 domain scores that include memory, psychomotor speed, reaction time, cognitive flexibility, and complex attention, all producing a summary score or "neurocognition index."
Quantitative Electroencephalographic Assessment of Brain Function (qEEG)
Quantitative Electroencephalographic Assessment of Brain Function (qEEG) is a scientifically established method for evaluating brain function based on brain electrical activity mapping. In this form of functional brain imaging, your brain's electrical activity, as measured in 19 sites on your head, is analyzed using complex mathematical and statistical tools in comparison to norms or averages. These norms are based on the electrical activity of thousands of individuals with no known neurological, developmental, or psychiatric disorder. This method of assessing brain function provides information about patterns of brain activation and communication that can then be related to difficulties in daily life functioning such as problems with attention, anxiety, mood, learning, or behavior. The results of these analyses can then be presented in graphical form, resulting in topographical displays of brain electrical activity - sometimes called “brain maps".
Research using qEEG has provided substantial evidence of a significant relationship between EEG abnormalities and a variety of disorders of behavior, emotion, thinking, learning, and development. Simply put, this body of research demonstrates that the EEG signal is a good indicator of patterns of cortical activation that play a role in many forms of psychological disorder, including ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning disabilities, and autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Much of this research has been amply cross-validated using other neuroimaging techniques.
Each qEEG is compared to a normative database (Neuroguide) that compares the EEGs of normal brain functioning with your brain waves. Using this analysis tool the neurotherapist has at their disposal a sound, objective measure to help determine what is the possible source of symptoms. This is especially true with those sensitive to psychiatric illnesses, often characterized by disturbances of brain organization rather than brain structures.