Futurehealth - Futurehealth Newsletter of March 26, 2010

By Rob Kall
AAPB's Annual meeting Opens in San Diego

report on the first day of the 2010 AAPB meeting.

By Colleen Roberts
The Human Side of Neurofeedback
This article gives an easy to understand description of neurofeedback and how it benefited my niece Suzy Johnson, who suffered from ADHD.

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Insurance Should Pay For Healing, Not Treating
Numerous studies have shown that 80% of primary care visits to health care practitioners involve the ordinary suffering of daily life and not diseases that need treatment, yet we throw pills and potions at these woes as if that is their solution.

By Rob Kall
Hershel Toomim on Brain Blood Flow, HEG Hemoencephalography Neurofeedback

Hershel, at 93, shares background on HEG and close to 50 years of experience working with biofeedback.

By Rob Kall
Caroline Myss; internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition

Our nation was founded by political mystics. This is the most historically profound time to be alive

By Rob Kall
James Cutting; Shot by shot, films have evolved to resemble the natural rhythms of the brain.

I found an article about James Cutting's work in the NY Times' list of most popular articles. Professor Cutting studies scene length patterns in movies. The subtitle of the article was "Shot by shot, films have evolved to resemble the natural rhythms of the brain."

By Rob Kall
Steven Barnes; Fear, The Hero's Journey Course, Dying, Enlightenment

Steve Barnes is an extraordinary renaissance man-- successful novelist, screenwriter, 4th degree blackbelt, coach to celebrities... He shares a lot here-- wisdom, techniques, ways of seeing, inspiration. He's a man worth listening to

By Gary Groesbeck
Integral Awakened Mind Coaching™

Expanding Anna Wise's Awakened Mind protocol into Ken Wilber's Integral Theory(AQUAL)

By Anna Wise
Sequential Awakened Mind

We owe the original discovery of the awakened mind brain wave pattern to the brilliant British psychobiologist and biophysicist C. Maxwell Cade 30 years ago in the early 1970s. Cade measured the brain wave patterns of many healers, spiritual teachers and advanced meditators as well as 300 of his own students. He found a pattern that he identified as a step beyond meditation that exhibits the "lucid awareness" of meditation..

By Dr. Clare Albright
Neurofeedback, Dyslexia, and Learning Disabilities
Is neurofeedback training helpful for dyslexia and learning disabilities?

Bioethical Devils and Neuroscientific Details; Video
In the late 1990s, treatments like Prozac and research on the human genome project appeared to usher in a new human reality with associated bioethical dilemmas. Are bioethicists as likely to be co-opted into the marketing of the new neuroscience and its treatments as they were into the marketing of the SSRIs?

Music and lyrics: How the brain splits songs

Are music and lyrics processed by different parts of the brain?

Researchers turn to neurofeedback to clear the fog of chemo brain | cleveland.com

Jean Alvarez is doing a study, at the Cleveland Clinic, on the effectiveness of neurofeedback with "chemo-brain." "I did very well with treatment," said Alvarez, a 10-year breast cancer survivor. "But I never felt like I got my brain back."

Brain music: Turn on, tune in, feel better
To make brain music, a doctor records the electrical activity in a person's brain with EEG equipment. An EEG, in essence, represents the brain's main musical score, and its rhythm and tempo deviate from this depending on a person's waking state, mood and other factors. A complex computer algorithm then translates the recorded EEG patterns into a music CD with two tracks: one for relaxation and one for stimulation

By Rob Kall
Peter Russell global brain- letting go- waking up consciousness meditation

Perhaps best known for the video, Global Brain, principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through. He has written several books in this area -- The TM Technique, The Upanishads, The Brain Book, The Global Brain Awakens, The Creative Manager, The Consciousness Revolution, Waking Up in Time, and From Science to God.

Textbook of Neurofeedback, EEG Biofeedback, qEEG and Brain Self Regulation
e-book by Rob Kall and Joe Kamiya with 26 chapters

A Top Best-seller: Foundations of Neurofeedback DVD Course

Start learning EEG biofeedback at home. See the different approaches from 15 different leading trainers, then decide whose approach you like the best. Train your staff at no extra cost.

By Kathie Albertson
Chinese Herbal Medicine Effective for IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
Digestive problems--IBS, Chrohn's, constipation, diarrhea, bloating treated successfully with TCM(Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine)

By Dr. Clare Albright
Using Neurofeedback for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
Did you know that behind disorders such as Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia can be an undiagnosed brain injury? Can neurofeedback therapy make a difference with this hidden problem?

By Rob Kall
Valdeane Brown on Non Linear Dynamical Healing

Val says...

By Rob Kall
Sue Wilson; Sports Psychology, Olympians, Neurofeedback and Biofeedback

Using biofeedback and neurofeedback to help athletes enhance their athletic performance.

Depression's Upside

Is there an evolutionary purpose to feeling really sad?

By Kathie Albertson
How does Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine Treat the Swine Flu: 3 Reasons to consider how it can!
Swine flu is a strong virus. Traditional Chinese Medicine( which includes acupuncture and Chinese herbs fights virus!! Read how it helps!

By Rob Kall
The Politics of Responsibility, Self Regulation & Optimal Functioning
Moving from an illness care model to a health and self responsibility model of health care.

By Rob Kall
Your Biofeedback Practitioner's Hero's Journey

Joseph Campbell described a mythic pattern that any hero, any person going through a process of growth and increased personal awareness experiences. This model works very well for biofeedback practitioners, describing the stages, steps, experiences, problems, opportunities, challenges and rewards you can expect to encounter on your path to becoming a master of the world of biofeedback.

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Health Care and Alternative Health in France
I recently had the opportunity to speak at a conference in Paris, France. The conference was about what we call CAM, or Complementary and Alternative Medicine, in the United States, and particularly about the basis for some CAM practices in advanced physics. I had a chance to get an idea about the French health care system as well as check out new research on homeopathy

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Tapping Creation Stories For Healing and Energy

Creation stories are ubiquitous in life. Our families tell us stories of our birth. Cultures also tell stories about their own creation, and people tell stories about how they got sick and how they got well. The story about how an illness arose is particularly powerful and has multiple versions. People's own stories about how they got sick may or may not parallel the official medical story...