Psychology, Neuroleadership, and Neurofeedback Training

A note before anything else: none of what follows has been evaluated by the FDA. The program is meant for general wellness and spiritual development, not for diagnosing or treating any illness. Any video material tied to it illustrates the ideas behind the training rather than the real settings where it takes place.

Preparation starts with a brain map and a period of groundwork for EEG training, including learning how to read the data the sensors produce. The core of the program is a seven-day intensive held on site. During those days participants work through a brain map, z-score feedback, and synchronization across the two hemispheres. Gamma and beta training sits alongside building alpha amplitude, theta work, and regulation of delta. Heart rate variability training rounds out the physical side.

People come to this hoping for a few related shifts. More steadiness, calm, and quiet alertness. Less of the anger, worry, and low mood that pull against all of that. The aim is to get the left and right hemispheres talking to each other more cleanly, to raise alpha, theta, beta, delta, and gamma output, and to speed up how quickly the brain handles information.

Other goals are harder to measure but just as central: slipping into flow more easily, feeling more love, compassion, and peace register in the brain, and holding several points of view at once without strain. Sessions run across all four seasons, so training can be matched to summer, fall, winter, or spring.

The Zen side is taught in its traditional form by a lineage holder, Martin Mosko, also known as Hakubai Daishin Sensei. He has lived as a Soto Buddhist monk for thirty-nine years and carries authorization from the Soto School of Japan to wear the gold-colored robe.

Mosko also works in contemplative design and teaches it with his wife through talks and workshops. The two have written together: 'Scenery as Spirit: Creating a Contemplative Garden,' and 'The Sound of Cherry Blossoms: Zen Lessons from the Garden on Design,' the latter due out March 20, 2018. He studied art and Sanskrit at Yale, focusing on the Vedas, and from 1972 to 1987 trained in Tibetan Kagyu Buddhism under Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. His line runs through both Tenzan Keibun Roshi and Houn Kobun Roshi.

For the body's part in self-regulation there is the HeartMath emWave 2, a heart rate variability trainer. HRV is one of the ways the central nervous system regulates itself, reflecting how well the heart speeds up and slows down within its best working frequencies.

There is also a free meditation MP3, titled RELAX, meant to coax the brainwaves toward a relaxed state. It really is free. The audio draws on an effect first noticed in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, a physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, and director of the Prussian Meteorological Institute. Dove was the first to describe what a particular kind of sound does inside human perception. That observation was later turned into a working audio technique between the 1950s and the 1970s, and several people have claimed credit for the technology itself, though the original discovery was his. The MP3 applies that same stimulus toward mindfulness and relaxation, offered here as a gift.

Anyone curious about the research can search for 'mindfulness' together with the 'psychological effects of brainwave entrainment' and read what has been published on PubMed.gov. These statements have not been reviewed or approved by the FDA. The views of authors who post on this site are not endorsed by its owner, nothing here is meant to diagnose or treat disease, and all state and federal laws should be followed.