Neureka!: Clarity and understanding. Happiness and pleasure.
- Pleasurable and enjoyable. It just feels blissful!
- Related to dopamine release, which rewards new discoveries.
- Evoked by being aware of yourself and what just happened to you
- It helps clarify comprehension of what is happening and improves autistic issues.
- Training Neureka! brainwaves (40 cycle per second gamma) improves your mental ability
- Feels like really waking up—“Aha!”
- Creates a very complete view of your experience
- Sensitive to moments of discovery—“What did I just do right? I want to remember it.”
- Related to comprehension, understanding, appreciation of yourself and others, gratitude, compassion.
Focus: 'Single-pointedness' of concentration on a perception, thought, or image
- Doesn’t matter which type of object you are attending to
- Can be relaxed, very alert, or in-between
- Responds negatively to distraction
- Easier to sustain than alertness
- The duration of a focusing “run” is a measure of attention span, which can be enhanced
Alertness/Arousal: Results from mental effort or interest
- More intense stimulation, interest
- Summoning the resources to respond
- Associated with tightening muscles, chest breathing, anxiety
- Potentially stressful and fatiguing
- Related to stimulation of the Reticular Activating System
- “Fight or Flight”
- Probably related to noradrenalin
- Enhances emotions from excited happiness to anger and anxiety
- Lowering it enhances calmness and relaxation
- Hard to sustain—need to build the capacity by training and minimize utilization
- Underarousal is associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
In addition, the Mood Elevator neurofeedback is composed of two measurements which are combined in real time. It is possible but not established that it is a fundamental dimension of mental processing. We believe that unhappiness and depressed moods are created by fundamentally different brain systems, but some people have both at the same time.
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