Light Therapy Products, Machines and Equipment Reviews for Depression and Anxiety

We start off this section with a review of Mind Alive, a non drug light therapy device for conditions such as ADD, GAD, Depression and PMS. 

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These devices are being used worldwide to assist people from all walks of life to promote better health and increase relaxation. In addition, they have proven effective as a non-drug approach to treating chronic pain, fibromyalgia, insomnia, PMS and Attention Deficit Disorder as well as increasing creativity, improving sports and peak-performance. AVE technology has gained popularity because it has been proven to be a quick, yet safe and effective alternative to many pharmeceutical approaches.

Using flashes of lights and pulses of tones, we can gently and safely guide the brain into various brain wave patterns to boost your mood, help with sleep, sharpen your mind and increase your level of relaxation.

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What is  Happening When You Use A DAVID?

With each flash of light and each tone pulse, the brain produces an electrical response. The colors and patterns are the creations of the “spark” - what neurologists call the “cortical evoked response”, the electric response of the top most cortical layer of the brain. The brain is a mass of neuron cells, each taking part in the storing, retrieving and transmitting of electro-chemical impulses - information, colors, images, sounds, smells and tastes. Given the lives most of us lead, we are exposed to enormous amounts of daily stimulation. With stimulation from the DAVID, different areas of the brain are stimulated, and by this, stored material is awakened and released.

Another reason the DAVID creates relaxation is through the entrainment process where the brain resonates along with the stimulus. When the brain is stimulated with pulsed neuro-electrical activity via the nerves originating from the eyes and ears, the overall activity of the brain will respond to and align with these pulses. By selecting the desired rate, the brain, via the frequency following response (entrainment), can be persuaded into the selected brainwave state. It is also because of the “frequency following response” or entrainment that the DAVID produces benefits similarly found with meditation.

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What is Audio-Visual Entainment (AVE)?

AVE means audio-visual entrainment. Lightsflashing in the eyes and/or tones pulsing in the ears at different frequencies from 1 to 25 Hz have an influence on brainwave activity. The brain responds to or resonates (mirrors) to the stimuli, being able to speed up or slow down with the stimuli.

What Are Brainwaves?

Our brains produce “sweeping” electrical charges. These charges create a rhythm know as brainwave patterns. These patterns are observable through electroencephalograph (EEG) instruments. EEGs record and measure large amounts of neurons firing in unison. Brainwave patterns are commonly grouped into four different categories: beta, alpha, theta and delta. Each of these brainwave patterns are associated with various states of mind.

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BetaWaves

Beta waves are quick, low amplitude waves of 14 to 40 times per second (Hz). Beta brainwave patterns are generated naturally when in an awake, alert state of consciousness. Beta waves are produced when you perform any task that requires you to concentrate.

AlphaWaves

Alpha waves oscillate between 8 and 13 Hz. Alpha waves occur during sensorial rest (eg. when the eyes are closed), intellectual relaxation, deep relaxation, meditation or quietening of the mind. Alpha waves are the desired results of meditators. Traditional methods of meditation may require 10 years of practice to produce good alpha waves.

Alpha brainwave rhythms produce:

(1) peaceful feelings

(2) warm hands and feet

(3) a sense of well-being

(4) improved sleep

(5) improved academic performance

(6) increased productivity in the workplace

(7) reduced anxiety

(8) improved immune functioning

It is believed that many creative geniuses, such as Einstein, were in a semi-permanent alpha state. Most of these insightful people had poor grades in school and were thought to be slow learners. Perhaps they were too busy creating to pay attention in class.

Alpha/Theta  Border

These sessions are the Schumann Resonance and the State Five Meditation. At the Alpha/Theta border (7 to 8 Hz), exceptional insights and personal transforming experiences happen. Anger, resentment or buried, troubling memories from childhood dissolve more quickly.

ThetaWaves

Theta waves are between 4 and 8 Hz. This is commonly referred to as the dream or “twilight” state. Theta is associated with hypnogogic states, REM and dreaming. Memory development is enhanced in this state. In the theta brainwave state, memory is improved (particularly long term memory), and access to unconscious material, reveries, free association, sudden insight and creative ideas are increased. It’s a mysterious, elusive state of mind. For a long time researchers couldn’t study this brain state because subjects had difficulty maintaining this state for any period of time without falling asleep (which generates large amounts of theta).

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DeltaWaves

This rhythm is observed when in a sleeping state. As we fall asleep the dominant natural brainwave becomes delta. Delta waves are the slowest of brainwaves spanning from 1 to 4 Hz in frequency. There is growing evidence that individuals may maintain a slightly conscious state while in delta.

All brainwave states serve important mental functions. However, research has shown that the natural, healthy alpha rhythm is very close to 10 Hz. In today’s lifestyle, the return to a peaceful, mind/body way of being has become difficult to achieve and maintain for any period of time. This difficulty causes disease, maladies and disorders in the body and mind. This is why it is so important for us to relearn or retrain our brains to get back to higher levels of alpha. Slow alpha, alpha/theta border and theta also represent slow brainwave mental disorders. Closed-head injury, fibromyalgia, cognitive impairments all contain excess levels of these slow brainwaves.

Who is Dave Siever?

Dave Siever graduated from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in 1978 in Telecommunications. In 1980, Dave accepted a position at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Dentistry, as a design technologist. Dave conducted research with Dr. Norman Thomas, an internationally recognized specialist in the area of TMJ Dysfunction and myofacial pain. During his employment with the University, Dave developed equipment for the TMJ research laboratory and Educational Psychology Department. These devices included TENS stimulators, biofeedback devices, gnatho-dynamometers, signal processing and EMG spectral analysis equipment.

From late 1985 to 1987, Dave provided TMJ consulting services to five dentists in the Edmonton area. Over the years, Dave has helped treat approximately 1500 patients with TMJ and MPD. Dave's realization that many TMJ problems were psychologically related prompted him to pursue his interest in biofeedback. This brought about the inception of the original D.A.V.I.D. 1 in the spring of 1984, which was used in the Faculty of Arts to help acting students overcome stage fright.

Since this time, through his company, Mind Alive Inc., Dave has continued to develop several Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE), Cranio-Electro Stimulation (CES) and biofeedback devices with each new development responding to the changes in technology and the demands of the marketplace. Dave continues to design new products relating to personal growth and development.

Dave travels throughout North America lecturing to dentists, medical groups, biofeedback and neurofeedback professionals, teachers and the general public at various conferences about the use of this technology as an alternative method to improved health, accelerated learning and peace of mind.

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