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| What comprises the Peak Performance Training? |
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| | Rae Tattenbaum has had extensive experience with students, professionals, athletes, and people from all walks of life helping them retrain their minds' resources through a customized combination of the following tools:
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Neurofeedback Training
 Performing at your personal best requires fine-tuning your brain. Neurofeedback teaches you to manage the highly complex tasks of thinking logically while simultaneously drawing upon mental and emotional imagery.
The Interactive Metronome
IM is a powerful system for improving timing, concentration, focus, coordination, reading/math fluency, and mental processing speed. |
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The Inner Journey
Through the use of guided imagery and hypnosis, the Inner Journey teaches you to replace old, maladaptive thought patterns with new, positive ones.
Coaching, Mental Preparation, Rehearsal
This phase helps you integrate the program into your life. Over a period of time, you are taught to instantaneously create a state of being that is most suitable for peak performance. |
Open Focus
This technique, developed by Dr. Les Fehmi, trains you to
develop physiological control.
| This combination of modalities combine to create a synergistic effect that is greater and more wide-reaching than any one modality by itself. | | | |
| What is the purpose of the training? |
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| | To overcome the emotional and mental factors that are an obstacle to excellence in performance. Peak performance training is customized to assist you in improving your critical skills for performance, whether that be on the stage, in your job, in sports, academics...any part of your life that relies on critical thinking and access to a state of ease. | | | |
| What words are used to describe the experience of a peak performance? |
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Attention to the task at hand
Absence of self consciousness
An ability to control breathing and adrenaline
No fear of failure
Personal control
An intuitive experience
Effortless
Altered state of consciousness
Automatic response: No thinking | | | |
| What types of people will the training help? |
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| | We have seen excellent long-term benefits with students, business professionals, golfers, vocalists, dancers, gymnasts, and musicians. The training is also very helpful with learning challenged and special needs children, and for those with emotional challenges such as depression, social anxiety, and shyness.
Individuals who have completed this training program have found it invaluable in preparing for auditions, competitions, recitals, academic challenges, and interviews.
In short, the beneficial effects of Peak Performance training are available to anyone who has a brain! | | | |
| Does Peak Performance Training "wear off?" |
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| | Inner Act's Peak Performance Training is not a "treatment" whose benefits will decrease over time. It is a learning process, and will continue to benefit you long after you have completed the program because you are training your brain to work in a different way. Like riding a bicycle, once you have learned it you do not forget it. | | | |
| What is Neurofeedback? |
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| | Your established patterns of behavior, attention, awareness, and performance are created and maintained at deep neurophysiological levels. They are related to the effective functioning of your brain as reflected by the brainwaves. These behavior patterns can be modified using Neurofeedback.
Neurofeedback, or EEG Biofeedback, is the process of learning to reinforce optimal brainwave states through the use of advanced computer feedback technology. When you consistently produce desirable brainwave patterns (those associated with higher levels of attention, focus, or mental relaxation), these patterns are rewarded and reinforced.
This process is called feedback because it informs you of your success in making the desired brainwave changes at a given moment. As you exercise this ability to change activity in the brain, new and beneficial response patterns are created.
When these patterns are practiced during 20 to 40 half-hour sessions, you can learn to move at will between brain states that support success in different kinds of activities.
Click here for more information on Neurofeedback - this will open up a new browser to the EEG Spectrum International website.
For a list of applications for which Neurofeedback has been specifically found helpful, click here. This will also open a new browser window. | | | |
| What is the Interactive Metronome? |
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| | The Interactive Metronome (IM) is a patented biofeedback technology program that may unravel the mystery of rhythm and timing and their importance in human performance. Developed nearly a decade ago to improve overall performance for musicians and kids/adults with special needs, the IM has also shown strong results in academic performance.
The program uses an auditory guidance system with interactive exercises to accurately measure and improve a person’s timing, concentration, focus, coordination, reading/math fluency and mental processing speed. It is the only program shown to improve cognitive as well as the physical skills essential for learning and development.
Nearly a decade of research shows a correlation with IM and academic achievement in areas such as mathematics, language, reading and attention to task. More than 700 students nationally completed the IM program and were tested on the Woodcock-Johnson III standardized tests to measure its effectiveness. The results were as follows:
- Math Fluency: 1.66 grade level increase
- Reading Fluency: 2.21 grade level increase
- Processing Speed: 2.69 grade level increase
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| Please describe Mental Imagery? |
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| | You are creating a three-dimensional moving picture in your mind that mimics the real event. The mental model may be from your point of view or the audiences. This imagery is creating a template or blueprint of achievement. This imagery activates many of the same neural circuits associated with the activity. The imagery is strengthening connections between the motor cortex and your physiology.
During the EEG Biofeedback sessions we are frequently training over the same region utilized for imagery known as sensory motor strip. The experience of the clients who are doing this integrated program at Inner Act is that the imagery is much more powerful and helpful. You are taught to feel yourself in the activity and control the image. All senses are utilized as you construct, pre event, the event, and post event moving mental images.
The imagery is utilized to:
- Practice
- Increase learning
- Develop strategies
- Establish arousal level
- Establish new skills
- Encode breaths
- Develop internal motivation
- Design triggers for action
- Alternate activation and resting
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