What is Neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback training is akin to having an elite, personal trainer for your brain. This revolutionary approach provides critical insights to your brain about its own performance, catalyzing a transformation towards holistic peak functionality and an awakening of latent abilities, intuition and wisdom.
Sensors measure your brain’s electrical activity, illuminating a comprehensive map of the performance and functions across brain regions, cellular voltage, brain waves and signal connectivity between brain structures. The sensors then send this data to a computer that processes the data using proprietary algorithms which then provides feedback on how to optimize neural function through individualized auditory and visual reward cues.
What’s involved
We begin with a brain map, which is a comprehensive and highly sensitive EEG of the electrical activity of the brain. This shows us the inner workings of your brain and gives us a baseline for how you're living your day-to-day life, as well as how we can, specifically, help you improve your experience of reality, performance, sleep, mood, focus, decision-making, and even intuitive and spiritual gifts.
We also look at how and where specific patterns are showing up in the brain. This tells us how efficiently you use the full spectrum of your neurological and cognitive capacities. It also tells us where you might be under or over-leveraging your energy. This helps us create a custom program for your brain’s most optimal efficiency.
If you are over-leveraging then you are wasting outputs. When this happens, it’s the equivalent to driving 100 mph on the freeway with your foot on the brake.
Inside a neurofeedback session, data on brain performance is fed back in real time to the client via auditory and visual reward cues. The brain perceives this information at a rate faster than the mind can process, and then reroutes how it’s processing electrically to maximize its performance. The brain rapidly learns the new state of being and during the course of the intensive it adopts that new state as its new normal.
We often get immediate improvements in electrical function of the brain of up to 40% compared to their initial EEG baseline. Over time, it develops new neural connections as well as entirely new neurons to make the optimized state even stronger, resulting in lasting change.
Our Approach
We use a combination of advanced neurofeedback technologies to map and train thousands of variables in brain function.
This precision resolution allows our team to create a customized protocol specifically designed to enhance your unique gifts and abilities, while releasing patterns of reactivity that no longer serve your highest expression.
We go beyond vagal nerve tone or parts work to eliminate persistent unhealthy patterns at the root level of the central nervous system. This brings a deep, biological sense of safety at the level of the brain itself.
From rebalancing the brain’s nodal connectivity to developing higher slow cortical voltage potentials to training you to naturally produce the specific brain frequencies.
Training the brain with our methodologies can result in...
Emotional healing
Compassion for self
and others
Mental resilience
Visionary insight
Creative flow states
Profound states of deep meditation
Our methods create profound shifts that will change your life.
Brain Basics
The electrical activity of your brain oscillates at various frequencies. Different frequencies of activity are associated with different types of experiences and subjective feelings. You can think of them somewhat like a radio––different frequencies tune you into a different type of music.
There are 5 bands of brain frequencies current neurosciences acknowledge: alpha, beta, theta, delta, and gamma.
Dr. Drew realized early on that these brainwave frequencies describe broad bands of brain activity. The commonly accepted conception of brain frequencies is like a gigantic paintbrush with little nuance or detail.
Unlocking the Secrets of Precision Frequencies
The reality is that each type of frequency can be subdivided into more specific functions and subjective phenomena.
Furthermore, each frequency is not globally present across the whole brain. Certain frequencies can be present in specific brain regions and not others. These interlocking patterns of specific frequencies and brain regions paint a far more complex and comprehensive picture of the brain’s electrical activity.
After mapping the brains of thousands of top-performers across multiple domains––from musicians and artists to CEOs and military special forces to spiritually gifted healers and intuitives––Dr. Drew has developed a rare insight into the associations of high resolution frequencies to brain regions.
This deep understanding forms the foundation of Holon's approach to neurofeedback.
Our training goes far beyond basic alpha states of relaxation into the frontiers of your brain’s capacities.
Our Training
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Our advanced proprietary neurofeedback algorithms train you in:
Unshakeable Presence
This state is foundational for all the other states. It is felt as a deep, unshakeable sense of presence within the eternal now, connected to one's own body in a state of calm creativity.Breakthrough Insight Training
This state was originally identified in advanced meditators and became associated with visionary enlightenment experiences. We’ve cracked the code and use advanced AI-driven algorithms to help you train this state of crystalline mental clarity and enhanced holistic insight into your biggest challenges.Deep Meditation and Profound States of Consciousness
Deep-state meditation training that takes you naturally into visionary spaces of enhanced creativity. It’s common to experience “timelessness,” deep peace, a pervasive sense of oneness or love, a visual dream-like journey, or “downloads” of information and insight.cription text goes here -
Your brain doesn’t just have different frequencies. It has different levels of electrical power inside your neural structures. While it’s only 2% of your body weight, the brain consumes 20% of your energy. It requires a huge amount of biological energy. This energy is provided entirely by mitochondria, your cellular energy factories.
Our neurofeedback training trains you to control your brain’s voltage as if you had a dimmer, giving us the ability to increase your cellular voltage potential and boost mitochondrial function.
What happens when brain voltage is too low?
Lower neural voltage means lower brain energy and function. This is associated with anxiety, attention issues and brain fog. By developing your natural ability to increase your brain’s voltage, you gain more power for more advanced mental states. We improve the brain’s overall voltage to give you more power to:
Think faster and more clearly
Feel connected to your body
Feel more relaxed and optimistic
Become less reactive and negative
Maintain relaxed, focused concentration for longer periods of time
Experience profound intuitive insights
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Your limbic system governs your emotional response to the world. The amygdala is a powerful part of the limbic system. It is the fear center of the brain and it triggers fight or flight responses that can short circuit everything from compassion, joy, and executive function, limiting everything that we associate with a conscious, fulfilling and successful life.
Because of this, managing this fear response is essential.
However, because the amygdala lies deep inside the brain, it is difficult to access through conventional neurofeedback.
What most people don’t realize is that the amygdala’s activity is largely controlled by a powerful but poorly understood brain structure: the cerebellum.
This is a large, dense ball of neurons at the back of your brain. In fact, the cerebellum houses over 80% of all neurons in the brain.
Until recently, the cerebellum was only believed to be involved in complex movement. In reality, it does much more.
One of our state-of-the-art neurofeedback protocols repatterns trauma responses sourced in the cerebellum to the root of where and how trauma is stored in the brain.
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Thus far, we have painted a picture of the brain in its most basic form and function. But the symphony of the brain isn’t just about having nicely formed waves in the right areas, having enough power to fuel it, or having enough limbic system regulation.
These networks communicate and function through an intricate system of modulatory interconnectivity and interdependencies. They control the brain like the main hubs in a transportation system.
In order for the symphony to be masterful, we must have all of these networks playing well together to produce what we consider to be high-functioning, high-conscious perceptions and behaviors rooted in wisdom.
Our technology is able to tune these networks, correcting imbalances in each network and helping to create resilient features and function.
Every brain has inefficiencies and makes errors in processing.
Some of these issues you may be able to perceive, such as sleep disturbances or agitation. Others may go unnoticed, such as lapses in judgment or memory. Since how well these networks function (or underfunction) has the ability to create massive effects on an individual’s inner and outer life, we consider training them to be essential.
We are the only facility in the world that has the technology to measure, interpret and train these networks based on rich and individualized data sets across multiple levels and functions in your brain for peak performance, consciousness, wisdom, intuition, and leadership skills.
Because of this, we are a category of one.
A high-performing executive comes to us because he wants to continue making peak performance strides to help him fast-track the great impact he is called to create. He has a big vision with a host of responsibilities and is constantly in overdrive.
A Case Study
Because of this he can be disconnected from others, has a hard time connecting to his intuition for clarity of decisions, and notices he’s had a harder time staying focused, strategic and creative recently. He also has a hard time falling and staying asleep, and doesn’t spend enough time in bed because he wants to work late after the kids and wife go to bed.
When we perform an EEG (electrical brain map) it illuminates scores of opportunities for us to strengthen his neurological capacities. Below are the diagnostic standouts and how we would treat them.
Key Diagnostic Standouts
Highly Targeted
Neurofeedback Training
Overstimulation occurring in their salient network (making everything seem important) which is why he is having a hard time being strategic and can’t shift out of overdrive.
Calming the salient network so that it can sort out what is important and improve the capacity for strategic thinking.
Reduced overall mitochondrial function throughout the brain; the result of sleep issues.
Upregulate mitochondrial function and improve sleep architecture.
Give information to the left prefrontal cortex that shows that it is overactive so it can slow down (and he can get rest and throttle back).
Overactive left prefrontal cortex, the root of the overthinking and obsessive thoughts.
Alpha waves are suppressed due to early childhood trauma that he hadn’t thought of and forgot to report in the initial interview.
Train on alpha waves to improve the wave function and release trauma.
Increase the electrical activity in the mirror neurons to improve his desire to connect and his capacity to connect with his wife, kids, coworkers, and friends.
Low functioning mirror neuron network which we know can lead to disconnection and social disengagement.
Our strategic approach is to utilize the most precise and efficient neurofeedback training in the world, with software that measures how the brain is performing in real time and provides feedback to the brain via auditory and visual cues to show it how to be more optimized.
During treatment, when the executive’s brain tries to revert back into patterns of overfiring in the left prefrontal and salient network (1 and 2 above), the training restricts delivery of the auditory and visual reward cues training the brain away from the well worn grooves of old patterns of overactivity. If his brain is being lax in activity of mirror neurons, overall mitochondrial function, or in producing alpha waves (number 3, 4, and 5) then the auditory and/or visual cues are restricted.
In the beginning, our high-performing executive is worried that he won’t be able to learn and wants to try to “figure out” how to perform effectively. Because neurofeedback works at speeds faster than the conscious mind can process, it's not long before he realizes he doesn’t need to understand the cues on a cognitive level. Once he learns to relax into the training, his performance improves.
No longer over-thinks nor is consumed by obsessive thoughts
Feels more calm, clear and regulated
Able to connect to his intuition for quick and centered decision making
Has greater access to profound creative flow states and strategic problem solving
Ability to pause before speaking and taking action or reacting in a triggered way; responds with intention
Provides clearer direction for his team and has redesigned some problem areas in the business
Connections with new people happen often and with more ease
Increased ability to track others in conversations, leading to breakthrough conversations with his team
Spends time with his family on the weekends without feeling anxious
Has improved sleep and gets to bed earlier overall, resulting in more connection with his wife
Post-Intensive Outcomes
*** This case study is an example of what we often see, along with results that we would expect as someone steps through our program. This is not a reference to a particular individual.
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