It's all in your head

Stress is an organism's response to an actual or perceived life-threatening situation. Through electrical and chemical reactions in brain and body, it generates the ability to respond to threats quickly and effectively, thereby increasing the chance for survival, e.g. a gazelle notices an approaching lion and flees. All wild animals are able to release stress once the threat has disappeared, but research has shown that for some reason domesticated or caged animals hold on to their stress beyond the actual threat. This includes and is particularly true for human beings.

Stress that isn't released becomes psychological trauma, a permanent habit of being stressed. While the original stress was useful and potentially life-saving, trauma is useless, unhealthy and actually requires energy to be maintained, energy that then is no longer available for more useful purposes, energy that's wasted. The brain often fences off trauma and builds alternative neural pathways around it, so we forget the causes and are simply forced to live with the consequences, unaware. Physical trauma, such as from a fall, hitting your head, a sports injury, an accident, etc., essentially works in the same way.

All human beings accumulate traumas large and small from their time in the womb, through childhood, youth and adulthood, some more, some less, depending on their individual circumstances. Mother smoked during pregnancy? Trauma. Mother was too busy to hold and comfort you when you cried as a baby? Trauma. Dad slapped your behind because you peed your pants? Trauma. The teacher seemed annoyed by your innocent question? Trauma. You were sent to bed without dinner because you talked back? Trauma. Somebody tried to touch you inappropriately? Trauma. You were ridiculed because you wore glasses? Trauma. Your boyfriend was injured in an accident? Trauma. You aren't as pretty as Barbie? Trauma. Got passed over for a promotion? Trauma. Your spouse suffered and died from cancer? Trauma. And on and on and on. Every stressful situation that isn't resolved on the spot becomes trauma, whether it's truly life-threatening or is just caused by some careless indifference.

As traumas accumulate, they start to feed and support each other and it becomes ever more difficult to release them. This accumulated trauma and the energy required to maintain and work around it is what makes us unhappy, depressed, exhausted, angry, frustrated, dysfunctional and ill. It's what causes us to contract and unable to live our full potential.

Besides resigning to suffering, the solutions so far have been lengthy, tedious, expensive and painful therapeutic processes with no guarantee of success, or pharmaceutical and recreational drugs that subdue the symptoms while taken, but can have debilitating side effects and are often addictive.

Neurofeedback is today's cutting-edge solution, based on the latest brain research and computer technology. It's simple, gentle, safe, non-invasive, pleasurable, affordable and very effective. Note, however, that even though neurofeedback has already some decades of history behind it and despite overwhelming evidence of its effectiveness, it is still considered by many to be experimental and to the FDA it is a mere relaxation technique (which is true enough, it's very relaxing).

See how it works.