Balance, Flexibility, Harmony

Balance – refers to an equality of distribution or equilibrium between oppositional forces.

Flexibility – the ability to move fluidly and effortlessly.

Harmony – describes a congruity of parts with each other as well as with the whole.

Now that we have covered the basic principles of the brain, we will go over how the brain gets out of balance, loses flexibility, and falls out of harmony.

The brain forms itself to process information based on our personal history – call it our ‘point of view’.

Any event that we feel threatens our identity, security, or physical well-being can put our brainwave function out of Balance. Events that threaten us (physically or emotionally) can set up an inappropriate survival strategy in the brain, skewing our perception. This we call trauma. Using functional brain scans, trauma and brain function research is forging ahead in labs all over the world.

If you look at negative behaviour and trace it back to its route, you’ll find trauma. There are many degrees of traumatic events – mild, major, one event only or from repeated events, activating us or numbing us down. Once a trauma (imbalance) begins to set in, we develop a disposition towards over-reacting to similar events, which strengthens the pattern further.

Over time, this ever growing skewed perception manifests as inappropriate reactions. When confronted with threat (real or perceived), these trauma imprints are activated and the brain turns off all non-essential systems and responds to protect itself on an animal level. We are taken over – our conscious mind is not essential, it’s a luxury. In lasting trauma, the brain is stuck in a certain brainwave position, long having forgotten how to return to its natural state. Brainwave activity stuck in this way shows a lack of Flexibility.

Skewed balance and lack of flexibility throw our minds out of Harmony. We can be stuck thinking when we try to sleep, dreamy when trying to concentrate, or are saddled with an uncomfortable emotional state. We identify these stuck states with an EEG brain map.

Our brain wave distribution and balance indicate our state of arousal, or the ‘tuning’ of the nervous system. Under-arousal leads to some types of depression, attention deficit, chronic pain and insomnia. Over-arousal is linked with anxiety disorders, sleep problems, nightmares, hyper-vigilance, impulsive behavior, anger/aggression, agitated depression, chronic nerve pain and spasticity. A combination of under-arousal and over-arousal is seen in cases of anxiety, depression and ADHD.

Instabilities in brain rhythms correlate with tics, obsessive-compulsive disorder, aggressive behaviour, rage, bruxism, panic attacks, bipolar disorder, migraines, narcolepsy, epilepsy, sleep apnoea, vertigo, tinnitus, anorexia/bulimia, PMT, diabetes, hypoglycaemia and explosive behaviour.

Brainwaves in proper function run like an orchestra. Nothing too loud, nothing too quiet, with a harmonic beat. Helping restore this natural balance, flexibility, and harmony is what we do. Hence our name; Symphonic Mind.