Start with an assessment
The Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile is the entry point. Keep your medical care with your physician; nothing here replaces it.
Autoimmune conditions and chronic stress
A system locked in sympathetic overdrive does not get to repair. The work here is restoring the ability to toggle back to rest, so the body gets the hours it needs to do its own maintenance.
The two that set the resting state
Both of these decide how hard the body idles, and neither is under conscious control.
Basal ganglia
The body’s idle speed and its baseline anxiety threshold, the setting that decides how hard the system idles when nothing is happening.
Deep limbic system
Energy level modulation and the circadian sleep-wake cycle, which is where recovery actually happens.
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What people describe
The common thread is a system that never gets to stand down, and a body that therefore never gets its repair window.
- Resting without the body noticing
- Flares that follow stress more reliably than anything else
- Sleep that lasts all night and restores nothing
- Energy that arrives and leaves on no schedule
How we work with it
Then the work itself
For this presentation that usually means Dynamical Neurofeedback®, regulation work that lets the nervous system self-correct. The measure we watch is not the diagnosis. It is how quickly the system settles, and how much of the night is actually restoring anything.
Questions people ask
What people ask about the boundary between this work and their medical care.
Are you treating the autoimmune condition?
No. We work on nervous system regulation, which is one factor among several, and we will not claim more than that. Your medical care stays with your physician.
What would improvement look like?
The system settling more readily, sleep restoring more of what it should, and the recovery window after a hard day getting shorter.
Which service applies?
Usually Dynamical Neurofeedback®, often inside NeuroCognitive Processing so regulation and active cognitive work happen in the same session.
Take something home with you
Between sessions is where most of the work happens. These are the downloads and the journal we hand to clients, sold through our storefront.
Adult Autogenics Audio
Twelve minutes of autogenics to run before a 33 minute session, which rounds the whole thing out to 45.
$9.95 USD
Music for Wellness
Ambient soundscapes recorded with violinist Cathy Morris, for quieting a busy mind into a calm focus.
$19.95 USD
Package of 3 Neurofeedback Videos, 45 minute
The same three settings cut to 45 minutes, for a session that runs long or follows an autogenics track.
$49.95 USD
Prices in USD, as published in the storefront. Checkout, delivery and support for anything on this shelf run through store.cognitive-connections.com.
Work on the settling, not the diagnosis
We are not treating the autoimmune condition. We are working on whether the system can stand down long enough to repair.