Alan Bachers, Ph.D.

1. Neurofeedback Foundation 34 South Main Street Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 440-893-0750 abachers@gmail.com Alan Bachers, Ph.D.

4. Brain wave activity Controlled by the individual To promote Class Four Space NEUROFEEDBACK

5. NEUROFEEDBACK • A training system in which brain wave activity, obtained by sensors on the scalp, is presented to an individual as a video and audio display. • When brain activity moves toward patterns of improved self-regulation, the display (often a video game) advances, slowing or stopping as brain activity regresses.

6. Well described patterns of optimal brain function are cultivated over sessions, accompanied by automatic diminution or elimination of pathology as the brain orchestrates its own improvements. • Results are at least long-lasting, often permanent, and continue to advance after training.

7. Pathology or Disease • Computationally Reducible abnormal firing patterns of brainwaves diagnose known disease states – epilepsy, depression, ADHD, brain injury, etc. • “Attractor spaces” of disease originate through genetics, environmental, or experiential causes, occupy 16% of our Gross Domestic Product, and can be seen as Class 1,2,3 states.

8. Pathology (cont.) • Class 1,2,3 states – • 1. Die out (or host dies); • 2. Endlessly repeat; • 3. Form patterns within patterns. • These “stand still,” can be manipulated, numbers for which are standard Old Kind of Science.

9. Alcoholism/addiction Anxiety/panic Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder Attachment disorder Autism Brain injury Depression Epilepsy Parkinson’s disease Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Some Class 1,2,3 applications of neurofeedback

10. While the field struggles to establish its scientific credibility in the disease model, those [Class 1,2 3] applications will become trivial as far more compelling results emerge in all areas of maximizing human capacities.

13. Producing Class Four Space • Central nervous system (CNS) in a loop with itself in NF training gets to observe the initial condition of pathologic variation, which, if sufficiently large, interrupts feedback. • Shifting attention to restart feedback terminates capture by pathologic attractor, creates new iteration of brain activity, free of that particular attractor.

14. Each return to an initial, attractor free state, increases the likelihood and ease of repeating that fresh start the next time an attractor space threatens to topple me into my pathologic history of class 1,2,3 vortices. In each neurofeedback session, hundreds, or even thousands of these new iterations eventually make the creation of class four space, free of pathologic attractors, the default state of every day life. Class Four Space (Con’t.)

15. Class 4 EEG Space, Defined • Maintenance of mean-of-the-median within 16 frequency “spaces” >90% of the time. • Continual tightening of criteria at comfort level increases flexibility and resilience of CNS, • Flexibility and resilience of CNS increases, lessening wobble and capture by Class 1,2,3 pathologic attractor spaces.

16. “Hey, this is like I’m defragging my brain.”Client quote

17. Consequences of Cultivating Class Four EEG State • Pathology drops out; • Others comment on changes they observe; • Things that were difficult become easier; • Interest in what is good for me increases; • Interest in what is not good for me wanes; • Instances of peak performance become more common; • Return to present moment awareness optimizes flexibility and resilience.

18. Many people who show up to do neurofeedback can expect to see about a two standard deviation improvement on just about anything they care to measure.

19. Profound Consequences of Class Four EEG States • “Recontextification” of past trauma; • Transformations in intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual life; • Psychotherapy “through the rear view mirror;” • Major life achievements accomplished; • Breakthroughs into higher order of functioning, which become new default.

20. Class Four EEG Space Exhibits Computational Irreducibility • CNS takes off when and where we can’t look from perspectives of class 1,2,3 tools; • Changes manifest as unintended and unexpectedly far-ranging improvements; • Return from CFS brings dissolution or elimination of Class 1,2,3 pathologic attractor spaces.

21. Class Four EEG Space Exhibits Computational Equivalence • Across all subjects (universality), outcomes remain idiosyncratic, and, beyond Class 1,2,3 predictions, undecidable in any individual.

22. The universe of the possible is expanded in the computational universe by reduction of the certain or probable. • Entering Class Four Space moves the nervous system toward Kurzweils’ notion of the singularity.

23. The well prepared brain • Having had enough preparation such that peak performances are relatively common; • Having “had enough” [trauma, abuse, pain, maltreatment] and ready to change; • Merely curious, willing to explore.

24. Our lives are predominantly governed by natural, genetic, biological, experienced, and learned simple programs. While many of these “hold us together,” other simple programs constitute “pathological” c 1,2, 3 states that become attractors for the disease, penal, education, and Homeland Security industries who derive their existence from the identification and management of those states.

25. Neurofeedback’s promotion of Class 4 Space propels users to the ultimate leading edge of the universe’s progression. At, and as, this leading edge, Every Thing I Do makes the universe a little bit better off, or a little bit worse off. Such a response ability is what NF cleans us up and prepares us to show up for. This is the ultimate expression of our humanness.

26. Resources • www.wikipedia.org Search word: neurofeedback • www.isnr.org International Society of Neuronal Regulation • www.eegspectrum.com • www.brianothmerfoundation.org • www.zengar.com - presenter article

27. Alan Bachers, Ph.D. Neurofeedback Foundation 34 South Main Street Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022 440-893-0750 abachers@gmail.com