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BioPsy Webzine Vol 4, Number 1, March, 1999
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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editors brief note
front of webzine matters

1)Procomp Biograph best sale ever
2) Quotations on Evolution
3) New Addititions to the Futurehealth Website:

-New 1999 Neurofeedback Foundations Video and Audio tape course:
-NXLINK QEEG Database Software
-Emotional Self Regulation and Facial Expression Muscle Measurement and Training chapter reprint

-Meeting Abstracts Archives for:
The Annual Winter Conference on Brain Function, Modification & Training
The Annual Optimal Functioning Meeting
The World's First Clinical Surface EMG Meeting
This page gives you access to hundreds of abstracts on biofeedback and applied
psychophysiology.
-The Winter Brain 2000 Meeting Info & call for papers (Palm Springs, CA, Feb 2000)

-Optimal Living^TM 2000, 3rd Annual Meeting, February 2000, Palm Springs,
-Exhibit Hall Video
-Biofeedback Flea market great deals on used and demo equipment

-1999 Winter Brain Meeting Plenary Session Abstracts and Workshop Descriptions
-1999 Winter Brain meeting Workshop and plenary session tape ordering info
-1999, 98, 97Combined Winter Brain Meetings workshop & lecture Video & audio tapes by Subject listing
4) Article: Physical activity exerts many heart-healthy benefits Physical activity does more than tone up the heart and reduce the risk of heart attacks. Moderate physical activity -- aerobic as well as pumping iron -- fortifies various segments of the cardiovascular system.
5) Some useful and interesting links:

front of webzine:

Editor’s brief note:
This is a shorter edition of BioPsy, but it includes some exciting new free info links you can access our website. It also includes our new address. One nice thing about this address is it lets me see clients. My partner, Rhonda Greenberg, Psy.D., and I have opened the Center for Optimal Living (http://www.futurehealth.org/cfol.htm) I provide biofeedback, neurofeedback spersonal training supervision, professional staff training and consultation services. She provides psychotherapy and mind/body health psyuchology consultative service. We both offer personal coaching.

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Published and Edited by Rob Kall, FUTUREHEALTH Inc, biofeedback, neurofeedback
and Stress Management tool supplier founder and organizer of the 7th annual Winter
Conference on Brain/Mind Function/EEG, Modification & Training: Neurofeedback,
qEEG, ADD, Sound/Light, Consciousness, Peak Performance Advanced Meeting
Colloquium (formerly Known as the Key West EEG Meeting)

Please note our new address and contact info.
Rob Kall, M.Ed.
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2)Quotations on Evolution

COOPERATION, TEAMWORK,

Evolution itself is a process which favors cooperating rather than disoperating groups, and "fitness" is a function of the group as a whole rather than of separate individuals.
Ashley Montague, The Direction of Human Development


EVOLUTION, GROWTH, CHANGE, SELF DETERMINATION, CONTROL, GOALS
...the direction of human development, of human evolution, is within our power as human beings-- for good or evil.
M.F. Ashley Montagu, The Direction of Human Development, ch12. 1955

DIRECTION, EVOLUTION, GOALS, PRINCIPLES, STANDARDS, GUIDELINES
...the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
M.F. Ashley Montagu, The Direction of Human Development, ch12. 1955


UNITED NATIONS
We are witnessing a very unique moment of evolution; the birth of collective organs for the human species.
Robert Muller, Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness

POSITIVE EXPERIENCE, PLEASURE, GROWTH, EVOLUTION
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, unending experience, that is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander these experiences and take them as a stimulant in the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of as a gathering together towards exalted moments. ...and all the deep, simple urgencies in which life renews itself have become similarly obscured.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To a Young Poet

REBIRTH, EVOLUTION, PERCEPTION,
"Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades'
For ever and for ever when I move."
Tennyson

GROWTH, LEARNING, EXPERIENCE, FLAWS, ERRORS, CHANGE, EVOLUTION
"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually to make a new man of himself."
Wang Yang Ming (15th century) quoted by Helena Kuo

May I find you in that state of tranquil activity, from which, after all, world-views and experiences are most surely and clearly evolved.
Goethe

Every great work of art is an evolution-- the man sees it first as a mere germ-- it grows, enlarges, evolves.
Elbert Hubbard

...first-class literature does not shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do its poems. They grow of circumstances, and are evolutionary. The actual living light is always curiously from elsewhere-- follows unaccountable sources, and is lunar and relative at the best.
Whitman, Walt, A backward Glance O'er Traveled Roads


EVOLUTION
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.
Darwin


EVOLUTION, HEREDITY
Man, with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Darwin


EVOLUTION
The expression often used by Mr. Hertbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is ore accurate, and is soemtimes equally convenient.
Darwin


EVOLUTION
This survival of the fittest which I have sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology. Indirect Equilibration


Evolution is a change from an incoherent homgeneity to a coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and degradation of matter.
Herbert Spencer, First Principles

...there are no shotcuts in evolution.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis

EVOLUTION
One touch of Darwin makes the whole world kin.
G B Shaw

Up to 30,000 years ago man could boast a proud evolutionary record, but since then no physical improvement has occurred in the human species.
Earnest A. Hooton, NY World elegram & Sun obituary, 5/4/54


EVOLUTION
We are descended not only from monkeys, but also from Monks.
Elbert Hubbard,

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
Miles Davis (1926-1991) U.S. jazz musician, composer

In some cases, you have a feeling as if some little imp or devil is standing behind you and dictating to you... In other words, you have a problem, some little mechanism in you, or call it what you want, keeps on pondering and calculating, and, suddenly, you get the net result. It just comes, suddenly, but, at the same time, you feel as though there's an evolution behind it. It grows and it grows. It's both, evolution and a revolution.
--Author Isaac Bashevis Singer

Creative evolution is at last becoming conscious.
--e. e. cummings

"Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
Martin Luther King, December 11, 1964


If a minister believes and teaches evolution, he is a skunk, a hypocrite and a liar.
Reverend Billy Sunday, 1912

METAMORPHOSIS, CHANGE, EVOLUTION, PROGRESS, TEACHING, EDUCATION, LEARNING
Just as the present age is the end of the neolithic period, and by the same token a return to the integral conditions of man the hunter and the food gatherer, so our educational establishment is in the process of doing a major flip. The switch is from instruction to discovery.
Marshall McCLuhan, letter to John Cage, 8/30/65

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
E. B. White

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as Lincoln.
William Graham Sumner, Conversations (1840-1910)

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
Herbert Spencer, First Principles


Evolution is not a force but a process, not a cause but a law.
John Morley, On Compromise, 1874

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
George Santayana

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.
Tennyson


For my part I would as soon be descended from (a) baboon... as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies... treats his wives like slaves... and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.
Charles Darwin, Descent of Man

...man with all his noble qualities, still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Darwin

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
Charles Sanders Pierce

The question is this: is man an ape or angel? I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new-fangled theories.
Benjamin Disraeli


Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
Shana ALexander, Evolution of a Rebel Priest,
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3) New Futurehealth Website Additions and updates:

New 1999 Neurofeedback Foundations Video and Audio tape course:8 lectures, with:
Joel Lubar, Nancy White Siegfried Othmer Valdeane Brown Paul Swingle Rob Kall, Lynda & Michael Thompson http://www.futurehealth./eegfdtns.htm

-NXLINK QEEG Database Software: http://www.futurehealth.org/nxlink_qeeg_database.htm

-Emotional Self Regulation and Facial Expression Muscle Measurement and Training
by and copyright 1989 Rob Kall, originally puublished as a chapter in Jeffrey Cram's book Clinical Surface EMG Volume 2. http://www.futurehealth.org/SmileAnatomy.htm

Abstracts Archives for:
The Annual Winter Conference on Brain Function, Modification & Training
(Neurofeedback . QEEG, EEG Biofeedback and other Brain changing interventions)
The Annual Optimal Functioning Meeting
The World's First Clinical Surface EMG Meeting
This page gives you access to hundreds of abstracts on biofeedback and applied psychophysiology.: Abstracts Archives for the Annual Winter Conference on Brain Function

The Winter Brain 2000 Meeting Info & call for papers http://www.futurehealth.org/2000brain.htm
The meeting will again be held in Palm Springs California, in February Hotel rates will stay the same $99 per room night. Register early and save

Optimal Living^TM 2000, 3rd Annual Meeting, February 2000, Palm Springs,
Call for presentations, workshops, papers, technique reports:first call deadline Aug. 1, 1999
http://www.futurehealth.org/2000optimal.htm

Exhibit Hall Video: If you couldn’t make it to a meeting this year, we taped demos of Biocomp/thinking cap, Procomp, Brainmaster, Waverider, Neurocybernetics by the people who demo them best. Get the tape for $49 http://www.futurrehealth.org/exhibit_hall_video.htm
(other Futurehealth vendors-- we’ll add your footage if you send it to us.) Buy a system from us and we’ll knock half the price of the video off your system price

Biofeedback Flea market great deals on used and demo equipment
http://www.futurehealth.org/fleamkt.htm

1999 Winter Brain Meeting Plenary Session Abstracts and Workshop Descriptions
http://www.futurehealth.org/1999_winter_brain_workshop_descr.htm

1999 Winter Brain meeting Workshop and plenary session tape ordering info
http://www.futurehealth.org/99wbrain.htm

1999, 98, 97Combined Winter Brain Meetings workshop & lecture Video & audio tapes by Subject listing httpwww.futurehealth.org/98eegtap.htm
Models from the Masters
Tapes on Specific Instrumentation or Protocols
EEG Biofeedback/ Neurofeedback In Schools
Optimal Functioning & Peak Performance
QEEG & ERPs
ADD/ADHD & Attention
Pain
Alcoholism/Addiction/ Criminals Penniston Protocol
Sound & Light, Mind Machines
Specific Applications & Techniques


4) Physical activity exerts many heart-healthy benefits Physical activity does more than tone up the heart and reduce the risk of heart attacks. Moderate physical activity -- aerobic as well as pumping iron -- fortifies various segments of the cardiovascular system.

DALLAS, Feb. 23 -- Physical activity does more than tone up the heart and reduce the risk of heart attacks. Moderate physical activity -- aerobic as well as pumping iron -- fortifies various segments of the cardiovascular system. In an article appearing in today's Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association, Roy J. Shephard, M.D., of the University of Toronto and Gary J. Balady, of Boston University Medical Center, say regular, moderate intensive activity reduces the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke. The effects, however, are broader than many think. An analysis of almost 100 studies has shown:

* Regular physical activity lowers blood pressure and prevents the development of high blood pressure. In someone with mild high blood pressure, physical activity leads to a drop in blood pressure that is sustained for eight to 12 hours. Blood pressure is lower on days when a person is physically active compared to when the individual is not.

* Someone who is very inactive has six times the risk of heart disease as someone who is active.

* An individual who exercises can expect to have a 24 percent drop in blood levels of cholesterol and a 10 percent drop in low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the "bad" cholesterol, a risk factor for heart disease and stroke. The high-density lipoprotein (HDL) "good" cholesterol will go up 6 percent. The amount of physical activity needed to reduce cholesterol is not very much, the studies show.

* Physical activity also benefits the blood-clotting system, reducing the body's ability to produce dangerous blood clots that can obstruct blood vessels to the heart, thereby causing a heart attack or stroke. After three months of physical activity by middle-aged, overweight men with mildly elevated blood pressure, one study reported that platelet aggregation was reduced by 52 percent, compared to 17 percent with a control group. Platelets play a role in blood clot formation. A reduction in platelet aggregation leads to a reduced risk of blood clots that can trigger heart attacks and strokes.

* Another benefit is found in the endothelial cells that line blood vessels feeding the heart and brain. Physical activity improves their ability to produce nitric oxide, a substance that causes the blood vessels to relax and contract more efficiently. Physical activity also reduces heart rate variability -- dangerous swings in heart rate -- in patients who suffered from heart attacks.

* Physical training affects both healthy people as well as those with heart disease. After starting an exercise program, moderate physical activity three to five times a week will improve cardiovascular function in eight to 10 weeks as well as improve risk factors for cardiovascular disease and stroke. Experts say that to maintain these health benefits, people need to stick with the program.

* The more strenuous the physical activity, the more beneficial it is -- up to a point. There is a law of diminishing returns with increased exercise. The authors say that it's best to consult with a physician before beginning any exercise program to achieve the maximum benefit.

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5) Some useful and interesting links:
The mind, artificial intelligence and emotions Interview with Marvin Minsky conducted by by Renato M.E. Sabbatini, Associate Editor, Brain & Mind Magazine
http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n07/opiniao/minsky/minsky_i.htm

TREATMENT OF CHRONIC HEADACHE NON-PHARMACOLOGIC APPROACH
http://www.usdoctor.com/sym3.htm

Biofeedback: A Tool For Living With Lupus
http://www.public.asu.edu/~cyndee74/biofeed.htm

Biofeedback by Elmer Green: an article by one of the pioneer visionaries of the field.
http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/green/biofeed.htm