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Understand brain training. It's not entirely free, but understanding is not an option.

The Hardware

Free add-on software from Myndlift is available for the MUSE brain training headset. This free add-on makes the MUSE headset more useful, but the offer is not widely known and may not last for long.

To use the Myndlift software you still need the MUSE headband hardware, but you can get the hardware used, for half price, on ebay under the names MUSE 2 or MUSE S. “S” is for sleep.

The reason you can get near perfect hardware for half price is because most people who buy the headsets new don’t know how to use them, or don’t know what to expect. They’re easy to use. In this post I’ll tell you what to expect.

The MUSE S is more comfortable than the MUSE 2. It’s easier to use and is more reliable. Aside from your being able to wear it while you asleep, the MUSE 2 and the MUSE S function in the same way.

I encourage everyone to learn about brain training. It’s an untaught and poorly understood yet critical means of getting your life in order. If you’re not ready to invest in the technology, at least you can understand what you’re missing!

Your Brains

Our nervous systems do not operate at their best because of the habits we’ve learned and our over-reactive tendencies. These learned distortions affect our physical, cognitive, and emotional skills. Brain training is readjusting your nervous system to operate effectively in all circumstances. Neurological training affects your whole body.

I’ve been doing, researching, encouraging, and offering brain training for 20 years. This kind of training involves a subtle combination psychology, neurology, and technology. Few people know about it largely because few practitioners understand it or are prepared to understand it.

To gain full access to your brain’s habits and behaviors requires an investment in knowledge and technology that most people don’t have. It’s not taught in any psychotherapy or general medical program. I am lucky to have a background in physics, psychology, therapy, neurology, hardware, and computer software. And while brain training involves all of these things, it is possible to explain it in simple terms.

Think of your mind as an engine that can be tuned in the way that we once tuned our carburetors. We wanted those engines to idle as slowly as possible, and we want our brains to do something similar.

To be more accurate, our minds are a collection of engines all of which operate at their best when they are idling as slowly as possible. In this case, “slow” means calm and “as possible” means relaxed. We want to calm our neurology to be as relaxed as possible. Being relaxed does not mean dull witted—the state that alcohol or marijuana creates—it means alert, aware, and uncommitted.

There are many things in your life that will excite your neurology. Being in an excited state becomes habitual. It is our perpetual state of hyper-vigilance that causes us to overlook what other people are trying to say, and miss opportunities that require our engagement.

There are few things that will calm you down, and most occur during “vacations” from normal events. Becoming relaxed during the normal events of life is the real goal, not taking repeated vacations. Teaching you to relax without taking a vacation is the object of brain training.

Meditation and Mindfulness

Meditation is the closest you’ll come to brain training under normal circumstances. It is an innocuous and rudimentary first step, and it is something you can do without taking a vacation. Meditation makes you less reactive and more receptive. Meditation lowers your anxiety, but makes little change in your neurology. It does not change your memory. The same disturbances still trigger you.

If you practice meditation for 10 or 20 years and integrate the practice into your life and work, it will percolate into the environment you create for yourself and affect the people you associate with. At that point, meditation changes your life. It takes a long time, and the Eastern schools of meditation never claimed otherwise.

Mindfulness is a rebranding of meditation in the context of self-improvement, counseling, medical healing, and psychotherapy. It is a version of meditation taken from Eastern religions that’s more culturally appropriate. Unfortunately, it has no tradition and doesn’t go far. For most people, if they practice mindfulness at all, it slows them down while drinking the morning coffee to speed themselves up.

The Myndlift Software

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