LENS Neurofeedback is a micro electromagnetic field that shows the brain how to reset itself for optimal performance. In their first session, most clients feel relaxed and calm, with heightened mental clarity and steady emotional resilience. LENS Neurofeedback is not a specific treatment for any one condition but a general regulation of the neuropathways as part of the central nervous system. New balance in the brain often results in better sleep, focus, and calm moods that reduce or eliminate symptoms of anxiety and worry.

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, “Long-term stress can help cause a variety of health problems, including mental health disorders like depression and anxiety.” Neurofeedback therapy has been shown to reduce stress and worry. These are leading causes of anxiety and hyper-nervous behavior.

Most of our difficulties develop from thoughts that once protected us but may no longer apply to the present. We jump back with fear when we see a curved stick because, long ago, someone was harmed by a snake. This reactivity has an evolutionary value. Since the survival of our species has been bred to favor defensive reactivity, there is no fault or personal failure to worry.  It’s just a habitual behavior that can be reset with treatment.

Choosing Calm

1. Anxiety management means learning to calm ourselves and choose our parasympathetic nervous system over our sympathetic reaction, which is a lifelong task. Now, neuroscience can help significantly.
2. Most of our clients report that after LENS treatments, they can better choose calm moods. In particular, they feel less entangled in compulsive, habitual worries about past failures and future fears. They become present. Their thinking is clear and unclouded, and they have room for happiness.

One Cause, Many Symptoms, One Easy Treatment

Although the tendency to incline towards worry is universal, the particular symptoms produced by stress vary greatly. Mood disorders treated include simple anxiety, medication withdrawal, social anxiety, phobias, PTSD, OCD, panic attacks, and most types of depression.

“As self-regulation occurs [from LENS treatments], many symptoms that have their basis in central nervous system dysfunction begin to improve. It can manifest as mood improvement in people with anxiety, depression, and explosiveness. It can manifest in improved sleep in people with sleeping disorders, restless leg syndrome, or night teeth grinding.

This unique neurofeedback technique may also benefit people who are already healthy and are interested in peak functioning and inner resilience to stress.”

—D. Corydon Hammond, PhD