Welcome to Quantum Waves of Wellness. I’m your host, Dr. Paula Apro—Doctor of Natural Medicine, holistic health mentor, and your guide to unlocking the healing power within. In my last episode, I introduced the NeuroVIZR—an amazing device designed to help clear mental clutter and revitalize your brain. But how exactly does it work?
Well, today, I’m pulling back the curtain to show you why this powerful tool is unlike anything you've tried before. I'll explain the difference between simply training your brain to follow patterns and truly engaging it to become more flexible, adaptive, and youthful. If you’ve ever felt stuck in old habits or worried about mental decline as you age, this episode might just change your perspective—and your brain.
Everybody is familiar with retraining our brains using hypnosis. This form of re-training is called "brain entrainment", and the idea is that the brain will methodically follow along if it is repeatedly exposed to a stimulus. If you listen to say a brainwave frequency audio file, it won't be long before your brain falls into that same brainwave state. It just can't help itself.
It's like when your favorite song comes on the radio and you just can't help but to start tapping your foot. This tapping is done almost automatically. You don't have to put much thought or effort into it. And, your foot can tap while you simultaneously do other tasks. It's like it's on autopilot.
So brain entrainment sort of forces your brain to blindly follow a repeated stimulus. In hypnosis, your subconscious is exposed to some kind of messages, coaxing you into believing whatever the desired outcome or behavior is. In many cases, you don't even have a choice because your brain is just following a command from outside of you. This trains your brain to do, or in many cases, not to do a particular thing.
This is great for many different reasons because it's very hard for people to stop smoking, over-eating, or gambling, etc. Brain entrainment helps you to cut the familiar neural pathway that leads you to these undesired behaviors.
It's also great to listen to positive affirmations and hypnosis that can train your brain into believing all kinds of positive things. In this case, brain entrainment helps to establish new neural pathways to create "muscle memory" in order to make some things become easier for you.
But that is not what the NeuroVIZR is all about. It is not trying to make your brain believe or do one specific thing. It's so much more. It's using something called 'brain engagement' to train your brain to move, shift, pivot, and change when it needs to.
True brain health is all about being flexible and having the ability to move in many different directions when needed. A healthy and flexible brain can cut the neural pathways that it no longer desires, and it can create new neural pathways when it needs to.
Imagine the difference between being able to effortlessly tap your foot to music (which is equivalent to brain entrainment) and being able to get up and effortlessly ballroom dance to your favorite song. The dancing requires so much more, right?
Your brain needs to go in many different directions at once. It needs to lay down new neural pathways so you can remember the steps and sequences. But it also needs to prune the old pathways...you know, the ones that tell you that you have no rhythm and you can't dance.
Do you ever marvel at why some people can go to a dance class and effortlessly pick up the steps, remember the patterns, and dance after just one lesson, while others struggle to learn the very basic steps? Yes, you can say that some people have rhythm and some don't, but you can also say that some have better-functioning brains than others.
Using the NeuroVIZR is like a gym for your brain. It helps your brain flex and change. It keeps it supple and pliable. We really should not be striving to deepen our habitual pathways and create more autopilot habitual actions.
In fact, as we age, it's important to do the exact opposite. The more new experiences we have, the better chance we have at breaking OUT of our "set ways." And no matter how old you are, trust me, you could use to break out of your stubborn ways of thinking, acting, and doing.
Are you somebody who can effortlessly 'go with the flow', or do you like everything in your life to follow your known and familiar pathways? For most people, it's the latter because the more you do something, the easier it becomes, and we all like easy.
Which is the best part of the NeuroVIZR. It couldn't get any easier to use it. Not only is it easy to use, but it's also enjoyable to use. Just hearing the word "gym" makes many people cringe. Who wants to go to a gym where you have to pay money every month to go somewhere to torture yourself?
Working out isn't always enjoyable. Honestly, for most, it's never enjoyable. It's like flossing your teeth. You don't like doing it, but you know you have to do it.
Well, using the NeuroVIZR is nothing like going to the gym or flossing your teeth. For starters, you don't have to pay that recurring monthly membership fee. I don't know about you, but I am personally up to my eyeballs with all those subscriptions. I know they sound like no big deal, after all, what's another $30 a month...but when you add them all up, you're astonished at just how much money automatically gets sucks out of your account every month.
After your one-time investment in the NeuroVIZR, your brain gym is anywhere you take your portable little device, and you can use as many sessions as you want for no extra charge. And, unlike flossing your teeth, you will look forward to and enjoy each and every session. I simply love my NeuroVIZR sessions, and I love how they make me feel for the rest of the day.
As I age, I personally want to do everything I can to keep my brain pliable and flexible. I want to easily be able to see new perspectives and pivot away from my habitual thinking and behaviors.
As a yoga instructor, way back in the day, I remember always saying,
"You're only as old as your spine is flexible."
In other words, if you can keep your spine flexible, you can remain youthful. But as soon as your spine stiffens up, you're in trouble. That's when you're going to start feeling, moving, and acting old.
Over 20 years later, I still practice yoga every day, and even in my mid- to (quickly-creeping-up late) 50s, I am still physically very flexible. I still feel great with no aches and pains whatsoever.
Now, as a practitioner of energy medicine and a natural health guru, I am saying,
"You are only as old as your brain is flexible."
By keeping your brain's ability to pivot and change, and not allowing it to only follow your deep habitual neural networks, you can remain mentally sharper and better emotionally balanced throughout your life.
And I gotta say, NeuroVIZR sessions are a whole lot easier and more enjoyable than daily down dogs and up dogs. Not that I'm ever going to give up yoga because I truly believe that both our brains and our spines are the critical elements to tapping into the fountain of youth.
And speaking of the Fountain of Youth, I'm going to include a recent photo of my husband and I in the show notes. Please note that our combined age is 126 years!
We are not just going to roll over and accept the fact that we have to decline as we age.
Are you????
Thanks for listening to this episode of Quantum Waves of Wellness. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope I inspired you to put some extra focus on your own mental health. Wouldn't it be nice to move from foot tapping to dancing?
I hope you will join me on the dance floor of life. And if you would like to continue to join me for more episodes of this podcast, please consider hitting one of those subscribe buttons.
Thanks so much and I'll be back again next week. And in the meantime, if you would like more information about the NeuroVIZR, please visit www.neurovizr.me
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