Whether it is sports, business, school, or just living life, NeuroFitness can be the catalyst for reaching greater success in less time and overcoming barriers that have halted you in the past.
"Much has been made of Olympic Beach Volleyball champion Kerri Walsh-Jennings incorporating neurofeedback into her training routine for the this year’s Olympics. But elite athlete’s use of neurofeedback in the Olympics and other high-profile sporting events is nothing new. The “home team” used neurofeedback extensively in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Alexandre Bilodeau, the Canadian men’s mogul champion credited his gold medal to neurofeedback. He used it effectively to relax between runs. But neurofeedback’s use as a tool for peak athletic performance isn’t just limited to the Olympics.
The NHL’s Vancouver Canucks, after a 20 year post-season drought, skated their way to a 2011 Stanley Cup championship. What did they do differently? Neurofeedback training. Similarly, the Italian National Soccer team kicked up their performance by using neurofeedback and took home the World Cup in 2006. In fact, brain training seems to be the worst kept secret in professional and Olympic sports.
Star athletes from the NBA, NFL, LPGA – even pro rugby players – have turned to neurofeedback for that mental advantage that can catapult them above and beyond the competition.
And this makes sense, given what we already know about neurofeedback:
For many, Neurofeedback improves the depth and quality of sleep. Can you imagine individuals for whom sleep is more important than elite athletes? Trainers have found that deep, restorative sleep often direct correlates to performance.
Neurofeedback may increase neural plasticity, which helps the central nervous system better cope with stress. Few events in life involve stakes higher than professional or Olympic sports. Even the most gifted athletes succumb to Olympic-sized pressures and choke under the gaze of billions of spectators. Case in point: skater Michelle Kwan. She was supposedly a lock for a gold medal in the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, but fell apart under the spotlight and allowed a complete unknown (Sarah Hughes) to literally walk away with gold.
Neurofeedback aids focus. And focus is essential for athletes. But with all the distractions of a major event, it is an Olympic struggle to stay in the moment and not allow one’s concentration to flitter away. As goes focus, so goes one’s performance. A mere millisecond of mental drift can undermine years of training and careful preparation.
Neurofeedback can help undermine one-way, negative thinking. Athletes are subject to slumps in sports, not because of what’s lacking in their bodies, but because of what has gotten into their brains. If their performance persistently declines, it is easy for athletes to get in a mindset of, “I’ll never be good again” or “I’ll never break this bad streak”. Streaks and slumps are the enemies of peak athletic performance, but they are inevitable. You can’t be “on” every single day. Neurofeedback can help one dispense with a bad day or performance without internalizing or obsessing over it.
Neurofeedback can help with anti-aging and brain fitness. Apart from mental slips, the greatest enemy of the athlete is time. Because with time comes age. Physical condition is only one aspect of competition. The brain has to be sharp; resilient, flexible. Ready for lightning-quick changes coming at them from opponents. Athletes have found ways of preserving their bodies longer so they may participate in many more Olympics. But just like their body, the older athlete’s brain is aging. Neurofeedback can help reserve that cognitive edge over time. So there you have it. The key to optimal Olympic performance is, first and foremost, understanding the indivisible nature or mind and body. More and more, elite athletes seem to be embracing this concept."
Our Performance Packages
When an athlete is in peak performance, the brain, body, and mind are all working in synergy with each other. An elite athlete understands the mental game as well as the physical. Making through the last few hundred feet of a race is often less about strengthened endurance but more about who had the best mental fitness. Any past defeat or stress can creep up and defeat even the best athlete in a clutch moment. NeuroFitness can help sort out those barriers and align the bring and body to the highest level of synergy possible.
This is why An Open Mind has created 2 performance based packages.
The first, the Performance Package, combines the brain balancing power of NeurOptimal with the deep muscle integration of massage to combine the NeuroFitness experience and deepen the Brain Body Integration.
The Elite Performance Package takes this concept to a whole new level.
Not only do you receive the benefit of NeurOptimal and massage, but you will have Mindset Coaching Sessions to clear away the mental barriers that can impede the realization of your fullest potential. This three prong approach to performance mastery can dramatically alter the outcome of your next event.
How much more could you achieve when your brain and body are balanced? So Much More!
Give us a call. We are ready to help find the top performer inside of you.
