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My goal is to improve your life by strengthening your state of mind. I'll describe this as "enlightenment." Let me define what this means.

"The neurofeedback has brought me closer to my center. I move about and even think more deliberately. I've become aware of myself thinking or acting unpreductively and am able to stop 'monkey mind' chatter, reactive emotion, and clumsy, strained movements. Big things like relating to others, and small things like doing the dishes, are becoming more zen."

— Liz Dieleman, Muscian,
    after 8 sessions of neurofeedback

Enlightenment Is Not…

  
Most of your problems are thoughts. They are based on your experience and situation, and they both enable and block your progress. Insights may sweep some of these thoughts aside, but others are threads that tie you and your world together. These are issues that must be understood, rearranged, or replaced. The process is an effort. My goal is to provide you with new tools.
The root of your strength and the base of your work lie inside you. From this springs your relationship with family, friends, and society. From these may come approval, recognition, and support -- or not -- depending on what your work is. I can help you look inside yourself and deal with what you find. How this will affect your outward path, and what that outward path's schedule might be, are beyond this short program. Nevertheless, it is certain that if you change youself, then your outward life will also change.
Freedom from fear, from being dependent or deficient, freedom to do what you need to do. You need space in order to let new things come together, to develop and to change. Some of these fears are your own creations, some built into your psyche, some carved into your environment. I have no program to give you freedom, but freedom starts with your own attitude, intention, and resolve. The security you need lies in who you must become in order to make your life meaningful. First make your life meaningful. I can help with that.

Enlightenment Is

 
  • the practical,
  • the transpersonal,
  • the spiritual.
  • Who gets to define enlightenment anyway?
Coping with everyday issues and obstacles while maintaining your appreciation of what is important. Expressing an attitude that supports your goals, strengthens your resolve, and lifts your spirits as well the spirits of those around you.
"The reality that you live is nothing more than an audio-visual demonstration of where your attention is."—Zoev Jho, in "E.T. 101"
Coming to understand that your life is not about you, and that working for your own benefit is not your main purpose. Coming to understand this is a growing understanding, and one whose boundaries are the edge of all that you’re connected to. Your world overlaps with the worlds of others. Combining them makes larger worlds, layer upon layer.
How you see the world is determined by what you are able to see. There are other ways of seeing. Expand your awareness to see more and to judge less. Look within yourself to explore subtle things that may have greater meaning. See a world in which you project meaning onto things, and things come alive with meaning.
Enlightenment is a personal and a social experience, but it is neither defined by the “you” you assume yourself to be, nor by “them” you're acquainted with. It is a collaboration between parts of yourself with whom you are not familiar, and may never be. It is a dance with characters behind the glazed eyes of those around you. It is not a state of mind, it is a state of action. Use your heart, not your head.
  • honesty,
  • fearlessness,
  • humility.
  • Are you able?
Honesty only exists in context, and there is some truth in any lie. Honesty reveals conflict, and growth occurs in its resolution. Don’t hide deep truths behind shallow ones. Don't compromise your honesty, even though your revealations won’t be appreciated. Reveal problematic truths. Discomfort is your compass: seek it, follow it, resolve it.
In the process of growing you are guaranteed to face the strange, the ugly, and the frightening -- emanations from, and reflections of yourself, your family, and your society -- and only you can deal with it. Your demons are tortured messengers, understand them and give them audience. Accept their pain as yours and, relieved of their burden, they will leave you . Forget fear or it will follow you everywhere.
The answers you seek may be anywhere: in a child’s love, a memory of your grandfather, your anger, or a voice on the telephone. The things that you think you know, are the things you’ve already tried, and the answer is not there. Humility is not weakness, it is approaching all things knowing that they hold secrets. Humility is the soil of your strength.
Leave behind your adult self. Release whomever you thought you were, your habitual self, and allow other personalities to manifest, even if some of them might be better off dead. A dynamic reaquaintance with a greater world requires all the freedom you can afford. Don’t be constrained by what you claimed to be, what others think is appropriate, what’s good or bad. This may buckle the scaffolding of your life. Let that create the opportunity you've been waiting for.
  • balance,
  • aptitude,
  • traumas,
  • guidance,
  • and other worlds.
All mindfulness requires balance, and improved balance strengthens all forms of mindfulness. Music requires balance in time, art requires balance in color and form, language requires balance in concepts. By coordinating and extending your own various forms of balance you will develop new aptitudes and skills. With greater balance comes greater sensitivity, and with that can come new insight.
Aptitude in things is the "stuff" of action, the legs on which you dance with the world. The aptitudes you are given at birth are not fixed. The idea that certain people will always be more able than others is false. Whatever abilities you have can be extended. You can overcome whatever ineptitudes you think you have. Developing your abilities is necessary for your enlightenment. Your only limit is your lifespan.
We're all traumatized to some degree. Any limitation too painful to recognize is your trauma. And if you can't recognize it, then you don't know you have it, can't explore it, understand it, or resolve it. Exploring your trauma is a process of unfolding that will traverse all you are, and demand all you've got. It's tempting to think your trauma requires someone to heal you, but only you can do the healing. Guidance can only help direct you.
A sense of what's right is essential for any progress, without this to guide you you cannot go forward, because there is no "forward." Guidance comes in many forms, and the objective of all of them is to enable you to be your own guide. All tools, techniques, people, gurus, saints, doctors, spirit animals, and angels are there to help you develop your own spiritual compass, and to develop your ability to guide others in finding theirs.
Voices from within yourself can guide you. They can be familiar or alien, they can shed light on our world, or reveal others. Determining where these voices come from is unimportant. Where you go and what you see is not important. What's important is what you bring back, what you become.
  • your path,
  • a meaningful life,
  • an open heart,
  • grace with gravity.
A person's value rests on their desire to contribute to their world. Your path is to define "person," "value," "desire," "contribute," and "world," then to proceed forward. From this springs meaning, purpose, value, and self worth. To be "enlightened" is to know what you should be doing and to have the courage to go about doing it.
A meaningful life is a life judged to have been well lived. Life is the time you have to build your case for a judgement you must make of yourself for yourself. Focus on this task. Enlightenment is to judge your own path as efficacious in developing your spiritual worth, made before your life is over.
The best gifts are given, the greatest power comes from giving the greatest gifts, and the greatest gift is to contribute to opening someone's soul. An open heart has the sensitivity to know what people need and the strength to provide some part of it. The result of this kind of giving is bliss.
Most people have pain in their bodies or in their heart, maybe a lot of it. Our body, mind, community, society, and ecology are intertwined systems more complicated than we appreciate. Don't judge your failures harshly; things are not simple for a reason. With patience and diligence you can do just about anything.
  • life
  • family
  • society
  • species
  • world.
Your value starts with you and what you make of your life.
Who you are comes through your family. Think of those people who populate your mind as your ancestors and your prodgeny. Your enlightenment serves their benefit.
The problems and purpose of your life in the world exists in the context of your community, culture, and society. We can live independenlty, but we have no independent meaning.
Our tasks in life, family, and society are largely a task common to all humans. We think we're special but we're not. We can be different but being different is only of practical importance, and it's generally not important in the long run.
Enlightenment is a comprehensive concept that requires we do good work on all levels. In the end, our obligation is to the world, and our reward is to particpate in its positive function. All the world evolves; it is an election in which we vote with our lives.

Built Upon
Find a quieter state of alertness that improves your focus and extends the amount of time you can apply yourself to speaking, listening, or acting without tiring.
With a greater sensitivity to small differences and small changes comes an improvement in navigating changes of mind, of emotional state, and physical balance. Improve your ability to watch yourself change and gain control over these states. Improve your phyical balance for work and recreation. Improve your coordination and timing for mindful, athletic, and musical activities.
Reduce the noise of your own mental irritation. Quiet distracting thoughts and uncertain chatter. Learn to hear, see, and perceive with greater sensitivity. Understand more and convey your own thoughts more clearly.
New connections between old memories and new perceptions, greater energy, and relief from doubts leads to new frequencies. New sensations join with insights coming through cracks in the shell of the world to forge new ideas.
Finding words, finding thoughts, assembling ideas, recognizing the implications of words, actions, and social cues, as well as discriminating between different emotions are all skills that underlie one’s skill with language. Neurofeedback can foster improvement in all of these areas.
Develop greater texture in your recall of places, faces, names, numbers, spaces, sounds, situations, and emotions. With improved focus and relief from a distracted state of mind comes a focus on details that facilitates memory and recall.
Learn to regulate your emotions with broader calm and less assaulting extremes. Find emotions that work in your life to support your needs and goals.
With improved memory, attention to detail, control of your focus, and ability to be methodical will come greater skill using and manipulating numbers.
Recognize the importance in issues. Find relief from the pressure of too many things jostling for your attention. Join that relief with a better sense of sequence and an affinity for order to achieve better organization in your thoughts and actions.
Lower mental and muscular tensions, release fears, and relieve hesitations. Learn better habits of breath and heartbeat so that all tasks, in action or at rest, become smoother, more alert, less frenetic. Learn to regulate your level of arousal so that you're less excited by mundane events, and more excited and alert when you want to be.
By better coordinating your energies with your schedule, releasing obsessions, and relaxing the physical stress that accompanies your anxieties -- as well as by releasing or resolving those anxieties -- you will gain flexibility to release the obsessions of your conscious mind, operate more smoothly in your dreams and have deeper, more complete rest.
Unlearn habits learned through years of focusing on what others want you to see so that you can develop a broader, more aware perception. Improve how you acquire sights and how you process what you see in order to better use your eyes and expand your situational awareness.

Neurofeedback

Brain signals, read from wires connecting your scalp to a computer, display your attitudes, aptitudes, personality, and dysfunctions. You can learn to change your brain signals without confronting the thought patterns on which they're built, or the dysfunctions that they generate.

Your brain can adapt and improve to the extent that it's aware of its own performance. If life is a voyage through a poorly understood, self-made reality, then meurofeedback reveals this landscape, teaches you to navigate, and provides the wings to fly.
 

"I feel more clear, light, aware... aware of my emotions, my mind, what disturbs my mind, and what relaxes my nervous system. Your exercise works the mind and consciousness in a very unique and powerful way… it helped me to learn about myself and the nature of my mind and the tendencies of my emotions — which is key to spiritual growth and transformation."

— Reema Data, Founder of The Usha Yoga Foundation,
    after her first, 1-hour session of neurofeedback

Biofeedback

The Interactive Metronome™ (InteractiveMetronome.com) is a sensory motor integration tool that improves attention, motor planning, and sequencing. These, in turn, strengthen motor skills, planning, organizing, emotional stability, and language.

An 8 session program involves different hand and foot exercises performed while auditory guide tones direct you to synchronize your movements to match metronome beats.
  "Sensory motor integration is a meditation and concentration exercise enhancing all forms of intention-based motor skill activity. It has sharpened my focus and brought me much more in tune with whatever activity I am involved in, from performing music to carpentry.

— PB, Musican / Carpenter

Dreamwork

Changes from neurofeedback first appear in your dreams, which become rich, vibrant, and strange. I will help you find a comfortable place in this new landscape.
 

"Our grasp of the dream world is about as advanced as a baboon's grasp of algebra."

— from "A Little Course in Dreams," by Robert Bosnak.

Session #1:

Intake
Time: 2 hours
Cost: $200

Explanation of the history and technology of neurofeedback.
Authorization to treat, disclosure of conditions and personality profiles.
EEG brain wave recording, assessment, and review.
 

Session #2 - #10:

Training the skills
Time: 1 hour/session, 1x or 2x/week
Cost: $50/session

Combining the skills you'd like to develop, issues that hold you back, your brain's assessment, and a set of neurofeedback protocols that tie these together, we build a program suited to your goals. This program combines cognative quiet, mental resynchronization, and new abilities to control our mind and body. Our ability to synthesize from these a develop a new awareness is based on the fundamental idea of neurofeedback that with help your brain can more quickly improve itself.
   

What you provide 

 11 hours of your time spread over ten 1-hour visits to my office, at a cost of $650.
   

What we provide

 Neurofeedback, heart rate variability, audio-visual entrainment training, and tools for dream work. Interactive Metronome training, with our partners at www.spectralspheres.com.
   

What you take away 

The power you gain is yours and will stay yours. The changes in your character, mind, and senses are stable and you will experience more adjustments, insights, and improvements over time.
   

Would you like to be trained using neurofeedback?

   email Lincoln at lsattengerresearchdotcom, or
  phone us at (845) 657 - 6411
 

"After my first full-session of neurofeedback, I left with the sensation that I could consciously 'come down' into the feeling I was having while hooked up to the sensors. It was similar to other visceral experiences I've had in my life, once you experience it, you can almost bring yourself back to that place just by recalling it."

— K. G, writer

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