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EDITORIAL

This month's publication of

Metanoia, features George P. Shultz on the cover. We

are fortunate to have gained access to "Idea's and Action” by

Shultz through James Tusty who was project leader for Free to

Choose Press in publishing the book. In the past, Mr. Tusty has

been a contributor to Metanoia, and as well was the producer of

the highly acclaimed, award winning, documentary " The Singing

Revolution".

In addition Mr. Tusty was the connector to Professor

Donald J. Boudreaux, who has kindly given us access to the many

letters on economics he has submitted and published in numerous

prominent U.S magazines.

Also, Dr. Paul Swingle continues his series on exorcising

the mind through the benefits of biofeedback. This time his efforts

are aimed at the professional and the business man.

Last but not least, our publisher, Dr. Allison Patton

graduated with an MBA and was the recipient of the Governor

General’s Gold Medal award.

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THE OPTIMIZATION OF BRAIN

FUNCTIONING

Paul G. Swingle, Ph.D., FCPA, R. Psych.

There are many things we can do to enhance physical and mental

performance. And all are important. These include proper exercise, good

diet, nutritional supplements, disciplined work ethic, positive mental

attitude, rehearsal, and good sleep hygiene. The present article focuses on

an additional procedure that optimizes brain functioning – neurotherapy.

Simply stated, neurotherapy changes brain functioning by modifying

brainwave activity. Research over the last four decades or so has

identified brainwave activity that is not only associated with conditions

such as depression, attention deficiencies, addiction, sleep disturbances,

emotional volatility, and the like, but also those brainwave states that are

associated with peak or optimal performance.

However, identifying brainwave patterns associated with specific

symptoms and conditions was not the key breakthrough. The pivotal

discovery was that of brain plasticity! As early as the 1940s researchers

at McGill and Brown Universities demonstrated that brainwaves could be

conditioned, That is, just like Pavlov did with conditioning a salivary

response in dogs, these researchers were able to accomplish with

brainwaves. Later, in the 1960’s researchers at Columbia and University

of California showed that animals could learn to control autonomic (heart

rate) and brainwave activity. Subsequently many additional researchers

have shown that the brain can change. This has had huge implications

and toppled our incorrect notions of how the brain functions. For

example, when I went to school, medical and graduate schools taught

that the brain had limited capacity for recovery. This is simply wrong!

Sufferers of brain injuries were lead to believe that recovery after

eighteen months would be limited at best. We now know that substantial

recovery is possible long after the brain injury.

Further, the discovery of the extent of the brain’s capacity for functional

change has lead to the development of very efficient non-drug methods

for treating depression, attention problems in children, age related

cognitive declines, anxiety conditions, and, in fact, all conditions that are

associated with brain activity.

It’s All in Your Head!

Stella limped into my office. She seemed to be in pain and clearly

emotionally distressed and distraught. After she got settled and dried a

few tears she blurted out “everyone thinks I am making this up – my

doctor said it’s in my head!” I smiled and said “Of course it is, where

else would it be? You are in pain and you are suffering emotionally. That

all takes place in your head and that is where we are going to treat it.” A

brainwave assessment, the standard initial mapping of brainwave activity

that takes about six minutes, revealed that Stella had a common pattern

found with clients with fibromyalgia. She had brainwave patterns

associated with exposure to emotional trauma, poor stress tolerance and

depression.

Optimal Performance Training

What does Stella have to do with optimal performance training? All

conditions are associated with the brain not functioning in an efficient or

optimal manner. Basically then, all neurotherapy treatment of any

disorder is focused on making brain functioning more efficient. The

treatment of conditions as varied as depression, cancer, and age related

cognitive declines are all premised on correcting brainwave anomalies

followed by optimizing those brain functions that mitigate the condition

under treatment. Hence, if you want to cut a few strokes off your golf

score, or mitigate age related dementias or help fight cancer the same

methodology applies. Correct what is wrong and then optimize those

brainwave features associated with most advantageous brain

performance.

This reminds us that those “one-size-fits-all” franchises offering brain

brightening or brain gym treatments are of limited value because they

miss the specific areas of the brain that are problematic and

compromising brain efficiency. Rather like having a client ride a

stationary bicycle to treat a neck pain.

Optimal performance training has emerged as an extremely useful and

cost effective procedure for facilitating efficient functioning. It has

application for athletes, CEOs, performers, artists, elite military forces,

crises management, severely stressful occupations, in addition to

facilitating recovery and survival. There are many examples of effective

use of neurotherapy for optimal performance that have become known to

the general public including Canadian Olympic gold medalists, the 2006

World Cup soccer champion team, Olympic medal archers, Broadway

performers, Fortune 500 top management, and military elite Special

Forces. Even the Vancouver Canucks are getting setup for optimal

performance training.

How does it Work?

Brainwave optimal performance training is not a standalone procedure.

For golfers, the training includes training on swing, mental attitude and

focus. For baseball, batting includes reaction time training, learning to

incrementally commit, as well as mental attitude and focus. For CEO’s,

learning methods for monitoring and self-regulation of performance is

vital. For those struggling with cancer, working with their oncologists,

nutritionists and learning self-regulation is essential. Cognitively

declining elders must include activities that vitalize mental and physical

functioning and avoid mind numbing activities.

First step is to have a basic brainwave assessment. These procedures are

very efficient and require only six minutes of recording time. This

procedure is so efficient that in clinical settings it allows the therapist to

tell the client why they have sought treatment! In the optimal

performance situation, this procedure allows the therapist to identify

areas of brain activity that may compromise efficient brain functioning.

For example, many athletes and performers suffer from poor stress

tolerance, a condition that is associated with a deficiency in brain

functioning at the back of the brain. In such cases correcting that

condition markedly improves performance that is further improved with

optimization brainwave training.

Once the brain inefficiencies identified in the brainwave assessment are

corrected, the optimization training commences. This can include a

variety of different brainwave functions at different brain locations. A

fundamental procedure is to speed up the frequency of the Alpha

brainwaves. Alpha brainwaves are between eight and twelve cycles per

second. Alpha “slowing” refers to a condition where the strongest Alpha

brainwaves are in the low frequency range. This condition is found in age

related cognitive decline, drug induced cognitive “fogginess,” and

developmental delays. Alpha frequency has been shown to correlate

positively with IQ and immune functioning so that by increasing the

speed of the Alpha peak frequency, IQ and immune functioning improve.

Fine tuning of the brain involves having the client be mindful of

brainwave status as reflected in such subjective states as mind “chatter”

and perseveration of thought patterns. In the former, clients (CEO’s in

particular) will decide on how much background cognitive activity they

like. In the latter they decide where they want to sit on the flexible-

indomitable dimension

.

How is it Done?

There are three general classes of treatment in neurotherapy and in

optimal performance training. The first, brainwave biofeedback or

neurofeedback is the form most people are familiar with. It involves

attaching some electrodes to the client’s ears and head and measuring

specific brainwave activity. When the brain is doing what we want it to

do, such as increase the strength (amplitude) of particular brainwave,

then the client will hear a tone or see something move on the computer

monitor. For children (and of course for adults if they wish) we set it up

so that the child is playing a video game with her or his brain. When the

brain is responding as we want, Pac Man gobbles up dots, or space ships

fly through complicated mazes. This procedure allows the child to self-

regulate brain activity. It is particularly effective for treating attention

deficit disorders in children.

The second class of treatment procedures are the braindrivers. Based on

the procedure first reported in the 1940s, mentioned above, specific

stimuli such as flashing lights or special sounds are presented to the

client based on moment to moment brainwave measurement. For the

child with an attention problem, for example, we might measure the

strength of slow frequency brainwaves and when the strength exceeds a

particular threshold we turn on the sound which, in turn, suppresses the

slow frequency amplitude. This procedure is particularly effective for

helping children become more efficient readers. It is also an effective

treatment for those who cannot comply with the neurofeedback

treatments such as severely demented elderly, clients in coma, and

severely autistic children.

The third class of treatments are those that clients self-administer in their

home. These treatments include cranial stimulators, specific harmonics

that we have pretested and know how they affect brain activity,

relaxation exercises, etc. A principal purpose of these self-administered

procedures is to maintain gains made in treatment and to stabilize the

changes.

Do the Improvements Last?

Some are relatively permanent others have to be maintained with booster

sessions. For example, a client who has a deficiency in an area of the

brain associated with stress tolerance will likely find that the

improvement in brain functioning is stable. An elderly person who is

experiencing declines in cognitive functioning, on the other hand, will

usually have to have three or four maintenance sessions per year after the

initial brainwave slowing has been corrected to mitigate this age related

decline.

Children who have learning challenges are the most gratifying to

neurotherapists because once their learning problems improve the

developmental process kicks in and does the maintenance work for us.

They get interested in learning and the brain just continues to improve.

CEOs, athletes, and performers, on the other hand, need to have ongoing

neurotherapy to sustain peak functioning. The best analogy is body

building and fitness. If you want to keep fit, you might have a period of

intensive fitness training followed by a maintenance schedule of perhaps

three visits to the gym per week. If you want to be a professional fighter

you had better work out several hours per day during your entire career.

If you want to compete in body building contests, hours of muscle

training per day is needed to maintain the muscle mass.

John, CEO of a medium size Vancouver company, arrived for his

monthly optimal performance session a few days early. He said he

pushed up his appointment because he had an important meeting later

that day and wanted to be “sharp as a tack.” I did a rapid mini assessment

that takes less than three minutes. There was a mild disparity in the

frontal cortex. I said to John, “have you been more irritable than your

usual disagreeable self and are you having some mild lags in information

retrieval recently?” After some kibitzing, John acknowledged the

conditions I identified. I used braindriving to balance the frontal regions

and then did a treatment designed to help quiet the brain. The later helps

with efficient functioning in stressful situations and also improves many

clients’ ability to be mindful of the more comprehensive implications of

proposed courses of action.

Summary

Although we tend to think of optimal performance training as being

limited to athletes, performers and CEOs it is clear that the concept of

optimal brain functioning is relevant to other circumstances as well. Any

condition that is associated with brain inefficiency can be treated with

neurotherapy. Optimal performance training can be thought of as the last

phases of such

treatment in which the brain becomes more efficient. The child with

attention problems, for example, may be successfully treated by

decreasing excessive slow frequency amplitude. The child’s learning can

be further enhanced with optimal performance training to speed up the

Alpha brainwaves thus improving IQ.

We have been expanding the concept of optimal performance to include

the use of such procedures to optimize group wellbeing. Consider a

couple whose marriage is in jeopardy because of brainwave conditions

that are discordant. For some time now, we have assisted marriage and

family counsellors by correcting brainwave features of family members

that are

related to interpersonal strife. This is simply an extension of the oft stated

truism that all problems are family problems. A depressed parent, for

example, seriously affects the children’s wellbeing. An emotionally

volatile spouse also clearly compromises family harmony. Similarly, a

couple where one spouse is passive and the second is excessively

indomitable can experience marriage threatening explosive discord that

can often be significantly improved by balancing the neurological

predispositions. Further, in this context, two person neurotherapy

sessions have been found to enhance couple harmony as well as

efficiency. This intriguing procedure involves the training of two brains

in concert to establish brainwave simultaneity.

So, whether it is improving your golf game, hitting the high notes when

singing Aida, improving your executive acumen, delaying the “Old

Rocking Chair” getting you, winning gold for freestyle, enhancing strike

force efficiency, helping to stay healthy, or sweetening marital harmony,

precision optimal performance training may well be the treatment of

choice.

Dr Swingle lecturing

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Editor, Boston Globe

Dear Editor:

John Hill asserts that "The free market has many virtues, but by its nature

it must remain callous to human suffering caused by illness" (Letters,

Oct. 18).

Really? Take a walk down an aisle in a typical modern supermarket.

You'll find analgesics, antihistamines, antiseptics, antifungal medicines,

bandages, and nutritional supplements - all supplied by private, profit-

seeking companies. Keep walking and you come to the store's pharmacy,

where you can buy yet other medicines - such as those that address

serious illnesses like depression, hypertension, and high cholesterol -

created and produced by private, profit-seeking firms.

It's no wonder that my GMU colleague Peter Leeson found that, in

countries that became more capitalist since 1980, average life-expectancy

at birth has risen from less than 63 years to 67.5 years (by 2005). In

countries that became less capitalist since 1980, life-expectancy at birth

fell from 59 to 57 years.*

Thank goodness for "callous" capitalism.

Sincerely,

Donald J. Boudreaux

Professor of Economics

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 22030

Professor Marc Lamont Hill

Department of English

Columbia University

New York, NY

Dear Prof Hill:

I enjoyed your debate last week, on John Stossel's show, with the Cato

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Institute's Sallie James.* I cannot, though, accept the concept of

exploitation that you offered there.

You argue that Nike and other multinational corporations "exploit"

workers in developing countries by not paying them more - by not paying

their workers higher wages that, you are certain, these companies can

"afford" to pay. So despite the fact that these corporations expand the

employment options available to developing-country workers, these

corporations are nevertheless guilty of exploitation because they do not

expand these options even further.

It seems to follow from your concept of exploitation that if, say, Nike

pulls out of all developing countries - and thus shrinks the employment

options available to poor workers there - it would no longer be guilty of

exploiting those workers. Surely that can't be correct. I have a dear

friend who, because she loves African art, routinely buys woven baskets,

wall hangings, and sculptures made by artists in sub-Saharan Africa. My

friend is a reasonably well-to-do American who certainly could afford to

pay more for the artwork than she actually pays. Does my friend exploit

artists in sub-Saharan Africa by paying only the asking prices of the

pieces of art? Would she make these artists better off if she stopped

buying their outputs? According to the logic of your argument, you must

answer 'yes' to each of these questions.

Sincerely,

Donald J. Boudreaux

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ON GEORGE PRATT SHULTZ By Hank Leis

George Pratt Shultz, born in New York City, on December 13, 1920.

earned his BA in Economics at Princeton University, his Ph.D. at MIT, where he

later taught. He worked in the administration of President Eisenhower, President

Nixon and perhaps his most important role as Secretary Of State for President

Reagan. He was also president and director of Bechtel Group Inc. Mr. Shultz has

written numerous books and has received many honorary degrees and awards, the

most notable being the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honour. For

those interested in leadership Henry A. Kissinger says of Shultz,

"Since leaving full time government service, he has no peer in relating the concep-

tual to the political...The principles of negotiation put forward by George Shultz in

this work demonstrate these qualities. He emphases that negotiation is about persua-

sion, not technique; that it reflects ultimately moral components like reliability,

steadfastness and credibility; and that it must relate power to morality."

In his book “Ideas and Action” (The 10 Commandments of Negotiation)

George Shultz discusses the negotiations he as Secretary of State, during the admini-

stration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan conducted with Mikhail Gorbachev and his

counterparts in the Soviet Union. Mr. Shultz who served under a number of U.S.

Presidents was a formidable negotiator, not because of being brash or aggressive, but

because his arguments made sense to his opponents.

Because Mr. Shultz operated at a strategic level and was so effective in

achieving what many others had attempted but failed (weapons reduction by Soviet

Union and the U.S.) I regard him as one of penultimate negotiators of our times. For

those looking for an ideal, George P. Shultz serves as an example of a person who

can get things done and remain humble while pursuing his objectives.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF NEGOTIATION By George Shultz

1. BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR CONSTITUENCY

2. UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS OF THE OTHER SIDE

3. PERSONAL FACTORS

4. AN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

5. AN ONGOING PROCESS

6. CREDIBILITY

7. TIMING

8. STRENGTH AND DIPLOMACY GO TOGETHER

9. TRUST IS THE COIN OF THE REALM

10. REALISTIC GOALS

George Shultz, with President Reagan

George Shultz, with President Nixon

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It is with great pleasure that we announce Dr. Allison Patton as the

recipient of the Governor General’s Gold Medal on October 27,

2010. Her thesis was on marketing strategies for a naturopathic

medical spa and resort development on the mineral waters of Little

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The medal was first awarded in 1873 by the Earl of Dufferin and

is one of the most prestigious awards that a student in a Canadian

educational institution can receive.

For more than 125 years the Governor General’s Academic Med-

als have recognized outstanding scholastic achievements of stu-

dents in Canada. Among the members of this exclusive club of

recipients are included such notables as Pierre Trudeau, Tommy

Douglas, Kim Campbell, Adrienne Clarkson and Robert Stanfield.

This achievement follows her being the recipient of the John Le-

Plante Leadership Award. Indeed she has demonstrated her ex-

traordinary skills in leadership as one of the founders and doctors

of Mountainview Wellness Centre, a director of Salt Resorts Inc.,

a director and publisher of Metanoia Concepts Inc., and first and

foremost a mother and wife, while all the time studying for her

MBA in Executive Management at Royal Roads University.

Mountainview Wellness Centre takes pride in congratulating Alli-

son Lee Patton, ND, MBA for this exemplary achievement and

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