A pdf detailing how you can achieve peak performance in your academic life, increasing your IQ and stabilizing your EQ. All via simple home based software and hardware and through the science of Neurofeedback. Contact Dr. Theva Nithy for further details, ntheva@gmail.com

1. Peak Performance Training:
success in the academic zone

2. Sequence of topics today
1. Peak Performance Training
2. Peak Performance Zone
3. Neurofeedback
4. The brain deconstructed
5. Brainwaves
6. Conclusion

3. peak performance training

4. Traditional Performance Psychology Tools:
Relaxation, Goal Setting, Visualization & Imagery, Self-Talk.
You know the drill.
Lecture. Listen. La-La Land.
Questions we could be asking:
• Can we “design” new training protocols for the brain?
• Can we “bypass” old, aroused brain circuits; and
“install” new circuits?
• Can we “entrain” elements of a peak performance
state, and live in the zone?
• Can we “hardwire” new performance routines that
redefines peak performance training?

5. What does “Peak Performance Training”
mean in the context of the brain & mind?
• Training the Attention Network to sustain focused attention
• Training Focus and Alertness to meet heavy demand
• Training to keep Focus up while keeping Arousal/Stress down
• Finding the best Focus/Arousal/Attention balance for specific tasks
• Identifying individual brain “likes” that are optimal for specific tasks
• Performing these “likes” consciously despite environmental
stressors, noise and distractions.
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PPT via Mental Toughness – Commitment, Confidence, Composure, Consistency & Concentration

6. Brain & Mind Self Awareness Check List
(T = True, F = False, S = Sometimes)
1. I am usually eager to perform.
2. I am free of anger, anxiety and stress when I face new challenges at work.
3. My pre-performance stress is a problem.
4. My moods are too affected by my competitiveness and need to excel.
5. I get enough sleep.
6. My studies and life are in balance.
7. My ability to concentrate and recall over extended periods is generally good.
8. I am happy improving my academic performance one day at a time.
(Each “True” answer scores 1 point. Scores of 6 or lower indicates you are probably not able to enter your PP zone)
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7. peak performance zone

8. Achieving academic success…
• Great academic results occur when a student’s
performance is high enough, within the student’s
performance range.
• Being at the top of your range, in the zone should be
the goal in training for peak performance.
• Academic success is a side effect of peak performance
within your range.
• Increasing the “top of your range zone” happens over
time as you continue peak performance training

9. The Peak Performance Zone
• The “Zone” involves a mental state, which includes motivation, attention, focus, centeredness,
energized relaxation, and awareness. These are trained and balanced through
neurofeedback
• Additional necessary factors include physical and mental health, appropriate rest, nutrition,
relaxation, and freedom from distress
• Neurofeedback helps you to recognise when you are in the “Zone”
• Once the “Zone” is experienced you won’t forget it. Knowledge of it assists in
organising yourself towards getting back into it
• Think of the “Zone” as a balanced mid-point of extremes. On one extreme is very low
activation such as during sleepy-relaxation with low motivation, which leads to minimal
performance. On the other extreme is extreme arousal, such as during excessive drive
and stress, which impairs performance. Finding your balance point leads to the “Zone”
• The “Zone” is an activated, prepared, fully focused state of relaxed, energised,
motivated consciousness, in which all other interfering issues disappear.

10. neurofeedback

11. Background: Neurofeedback and what it does
• Two Components:
• methodology of operant conditioning which changes one’s
emotional and mind states and improves performance, and the
ability to get “into the zone”
• equipment that monitors and measures the electrical activity of
the brain and trains the brain to be readily available to life’s
requirements

12. Why Neurofeedback Works
(Operant Conditioning)
• Brain can change with assistance directed by
rewards: light, movement, and sound
• Brain assists in finding best/better approach using
the newly built brain pathways
• Brain will remain in new state as it “feels better”
• Brain is continually used, maintaining “new skill”

13. “Hey, this is like I am
disk-cleaning &
defragmenting
my brain”

14. THENNeurofeedback up to 5 years ago
NOW

15. the brain deconstructed

16. Why the
technology
works…the
brain is
accurately
mapped!

17. THE potential
CEO of the BRAIN…
The Frontal Lobe
• makes choices & decisions
• focuses & maintains attention
on-task
• controls emotions & impulses
• maintains purpose
Are you connected to you brain?
Are you THE CEO of it?

18. Real Time
Brainwave
Acquisition
Real Time
Brainwave
Acquisition
Signal
Cleaning and
Processing
(Artifacts)
Signal
Cleaning and
Processing
(Artifacts)
Specific target
extraction
(Software/
Hardware)
Specific target
extraction
(Software/
Hardware)
Brainwave
Decoding
based on
Training
Protocol
Frequencies
Brainwave
Decoding
based on
Training
Protocol
Frequencies
Real Time
Feedback
(≤45 ms) (+ve
& -ve
(Entraining &
Reinforcement
of Hebb
Synapse)
Real Time
Feedback
(≤45 ms) (+ve
& -ve
(Entraining &
Reinforcement
of Hebb
Synapse)
The
Neurofeedback
process

19. brainwaves

20. BEFORE, Brain Output - Unstable
Alpha – Stressed and Unfocused
Beta – Erratic Attention and Stressed
High Beta – Excited, Irritable & Stressed
High Beta – Patient and powerful support
for High Order Thinking
Alpha – Relaxed and Focused Creativity
Beta – Calm, Active problem solving
AFTER, Brain Output – Stable
Before & After
Peak Performance
Training

21. Activities that correspond to various brainwave states
(should you choose not to train with neurofeedback):
• Delta: get some deep, uninterrupted sleep
• Theta: sustain the period before falling asleep
• Alpha: deep breathing (Yoga), connect to your body (Yoga again)
• SMR: play an individual sport such as squash, badminton
• Low Beta: read a non-fiction book (Economist) attentively (speed-
read eye-movements), juggle
• High Beta: hike in the dark…note your response to sudden
unknown sounds! Make yourself panic, obsess, get furious
• Gamma: do puzzles, play mazes, memory games

22. conclusion

23. What are the implications for Academic
Brain Peak Performance Training?
• Less study time with better grades
• Enhanced memory for names, numbers and places
• Quicker thought speeds and memory recall
• Improved writing ability and greater creativity
• Better communication of thoughts and ideas
• Greater skill at chess, problem solving and brain puzzles
• Improved social skills and humour
OPTIMISE POTENTIALS, PEAK PERFORMANCE!

24. Organisations & Individuals using Neurofeedback
for Peak Performance Training…
• 78% of Fortune 500 companies
• NASA astronaut training center
• Football clubs AC Milan, Real Madrid, Chelsea
• London’s Royal College of Music
• United States Olympic Training Center
• All Formula 1 teams
• Singapore Olympic Sports Council
• US Special Forces and Navy Seals training
• Wingate Institute of Sports & Physical Education, Israel
• Australian Special Forces
• West Point Military Academy (Academic & Military)

25. Expected outcomes:
• better academic performance
• longer & efficient attention,
concentration & problem solving abilities
• faster understanding, memory & recall
Our expertise & offerings:
• real time, on-task diagnostics
• fit-to-task, peak performance training
• eeg/brain performance based evaluation