I have always wanted to learn how to meditate, but have a lot of trouble quieting my mind enough. Would neurofeedback help?
Yes, it is an excellent tool for teaching you how to meditate. You can accomplish in a relatively short time what it would take years to do by simply practicing meditation. Usually you would learn how to produce alpha waves in the back part of your head. This is a state of quiet relaxation, which is very pleasant. If indicated, you could later be trained to produce both alpha and theta, depending on your brainwave “signature”. This is a state of daydreaming, not unlike the hypnogogic state just before you fall asleep. This alpha-theta training can bring up memories from your past, and one can sometimes require therapeutic help to process them, although in this state one usually has the ability to be a “witness” to possible traumatic memories without being re-traumatized by them.
