Neurofeedback Reduces Stress and Enhances Performance Under Difficult Conditions

Stress is a natural stimulus that affects how we perceive and perform. It can be emotional, physical, or psychological. With several factors such as unemployment, finances, poor health, and more, stress is sure to soar.

How Does Stress Target Your Brain?

If you are chronically stressed, your central nervous system is likely to be affected. This can influence the hormonal balance,which is necessary for proper functioning. Stress disrupts this balance by impairing mental processes and emotional control over things.
Let’s consider an example, if you are stressed over an assignment hitting a deadline,then you are less likely to work on it efficiently and work up to your maximum potential.
How so?

Stress not only strains your brain but also impairs your thinking ability causing you to perform less inefficiently.

However, if you successfully disrupt these negative brain stimulations, you can use this approach as a great asset to improving your performance. 

Neurofeedback – A Revolutionary Invention

This technique is used as a direct method to train your brain to lower the stress that builds up due to numerous reasons and help return it to its normal balance.

But how exactly does this procedure work? Here is how.

In most cases, clients receiving neurofeedback therapy are made to watch a movie while the doctor attaches electrodes to the patient’s head. These electrodes are to monitor the electrical brain waves.

If the brain activity is positive, the movie will continue till the very end. However, if the brain activity declines, the movie will pause. Now, your brain will try to figure out ways to watch the entire movie without any interruptions along the way.

To achieve this, neurofeedback trains patients to increase certain brain waves while blocking others. This technique is capable of identifying the counterproductive brain activity patterns that can give rise to any mood changes, stress triggers, or behavioral issues and consciously replacing them with positive brain activity.

Benefits Of Neurofeedback

• Unlike medicinal treatments, neurofeedback does not require you to depend on something to lower your anxious thoughts and help you perform well under difficult situations. In contrast, neurofeedback will train your brain to adopt such a technique that will allow you to overcome those negative emotions naturally the way it should under normal circumstances.
• Neurofeedback manages to build a positive association to a specific stressor which can lower your reactions of panic when you are faced with it in your daily activity.
• This procedure helps identify underlying stress without necessarily exposing the patient to their fears in the process because many existing treatments would require you to face your terrors to overcome them.
• It will help calm your brain so you can use the coping strategies you already possess to work better under stressful situations.
• It will enhance your attention and focus, so you are well aware of the situation on hand and deal with it.

The Takeaway

If you are someone who is easily stressed and this habit harms your daily activities, then neurofeedback is something worth paying heed to.

At Alquimedez Mental Health Counselling, talk to our health professionals qualified in this field, go through the entire procedure, notice the results and make use of the healthy habits learned through this procedure in your daily life.