Can I Treat My Anxiety Naturally - Calgary

We have become a society that relies a great deal on prescription medications. For instance, we use antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications to change our mood. Although we rely on them heavily, some of these medications don’t really work. Even when they do seem to help, they often lose their effectiveness over the course of treatment.

Most of these medications are made to increase the chemicals known as neurotransmitters. Even when they work, it’s an artificial way to changing the brain, generating activity that’s not present in a normal brain. Though it may relieve the symptoms, most of my clients still do not feel like themselves and they still feel a strong sense of anxiety. The cause of these symptoms , which is often an imbalance in the brain, is untouched by the medication. In fact, the medications may trigger an even greater imbalance.

People tend to think of anxiety as a single syndrome, but it isn’t. To say that someone has “anxiety” is more about how the person feels as measurement of happiness then it is a diagnosis. When the brain patterns of  individuals struggling with anxiety are examined, it becomes clear that there isn’t just one pattern associated with anxiety. In fact, at least sixteen dominant patterns have been detected.

No medication can possibly deal with all these behaviors, nor are they designed to do this.  

Neurofeedback is a natural way of supporting people who struggle with anxiety. And it is much more precise, and becoming increasingly so.  We look at a person’s emotional state from the vantage of seeing where the imbalances are in the brain and determining which balances or imbalances may be connected to the state of happiness. We see the reasons for the happiness or unhappiness in the brain activity and then target the specific areas that need attention.

Neurofeedback is an effect and natural way of assisting the brain to see itself and bring itself into balance. Once the brain finds balance many symptoms of anxiety fade away.