Download The Mind in Peak Performance

The Mind in Peak
Performance
Whitworth
January 22, 2009
Myron R. Thurber
PhD PT LMHC NCC BCIAc,e
Psychophysiological Performance
• Speed of Processing (frequency)
– Anxiety
• Precision or Accuracy in Processing
(sequencing and memory)
– Anger and Depression
• Facility in Processing (amplitude)
– Social Integration and Fatigue
High Performance Doesn’t Mean I
Have Adapted Well
IQ can identify unique strengths but
can not tell us…. EQ
Subjective Testing and Normative
Locations
Change in Frequency + Flexibility
Change in Amplitude
Anatomy of Heart
Brain of the Heart
The Brain of the Heart
Emotions of the Heart are Essential
to Learning and Development
Our Heart Affects our Ability to
Think and Perceive
Recommendations
• Understand the internal barriers to peak
performance
• Optimize frequency and amplitude to
facilitate memory and sequencing
• Teach emotional self regulation to
– Decrease anxiety, depression, anger, and
facilitate relationships and social integration
Resources
• Neurotherapynw.com
• Heartmath.org
• Transforming Stress by Childre and
Rozman
• Healing Power of Neurofeedback by
Stephen Larsen
• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi