An interesting book I've read recently is Open Focus attention training by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins. Such as "find by activating the alpha state of health and creativity," the subtitle suggests, this book is a relaxation technique that was developed by Les Fehmi in decades of research at the Princeton Biofeedback Center and refined continuously.

Biofeedback denotes general methods, which attempt to change the current physical or mental condition of the people. This one tries to bring about a change in concentration or by imagination, where you can directly control the amount of change with a suitable device. An example would be that one tries to reduce the frequency of the heartbeat and we add to this your own heartbeat clearly audible (that would be the feedback), which both control serves as well for the ongoing refinement of the technique leads to this end to the desired result leads - here for an audible reduction in heart rate.

Les Fehmi originally explored alpha waves, which are low-frequency waves of brain activity in the EEG. Alpha waves are normally generated in the deeply relaxed state, when the brain is not focused on a single activity. Moreover, both halves of the brain still work together, it comes to so-called phase-synchronous alpha waves, and for precisely this is what the method of Fehmi. He in fact been made sometime after that he was in the lab as part of his research for some time in this state, he often felt for days afterwards completely different, namely more relaxed, more balanced, but also attentive and generally happier.

So he developed methods to produce this state of alpha waves zuverlässing what proved difficult at first, because the more one tries to get into this state, the worse it works. Finally, he found that certain notions of "space" - in the body or around it - most reliably to the desired result. Imagine, therefore, before things like the space between the eyeballs or the space between the fingers, and the mere concentration effect on visualization in this relaxed state, the increase in alpha waves.

What I find interesting about this is that he comes to the same findings as those found in Asian methods such as qigong or meditation, just that he used just a "Western" approach. His method does the same self-regulation of the body and the same "flow" feeling like Buddhist meditation techniques.

The book includes a CD with, with which one can apply this technology themselves, without any training required by a teacher. You will be prompted for the CD, is this or that just imagine what, when combined with the careful choice of words and intonation to the desired result.

Fehmi attention after this training has a highly positive impact not only on stressed muscles, but also to mental disorders such as ADD or ADHD in children, so that they can achieve in school again substantially better.

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