NIRVANA-Mindfulness
NIRVANA-Mindfulness
Mindfullness and Brain Training
A central goal of mindfulness-based programs is to help participants train the brain to convince the fast-acting and mis-appraising amygdala that keeping tinnitus in our awareness is a waste of our energy and resources. Like the sound of a white noise machine or fan, tinnitus also can safely recede into the recesses of our mind.
Convincing the amygdala of this fact is the job of the higher developed areas of the brain. As mentioned earlier, the pre-frontal cortex conducts our executive functioning tasks, including judgment, reasoning, emotional regulation, bringing awareness to certain things, and fear modulation, to name a few. This conscious part of the brain can be enlisted to exert more control over bringing awareness to certain processes, such as fear modulation and response flexibility (ie, think before you act). The goal here is to “chill out” the amygdala, so that we can recruit and utilize a more accurate appraisal of the tinnitus sensation.
NIRVANA Mindfulness: The Personal Trainer of the Pre-Frontal Cortex
A Mindfulness-based approach, and the 8-week MBTSR course specifically, builds these new mental muscles. Because many people have lived with bothersome tinnitus for years or decades, there are a lot of familiar patterns that they feel are impossible to overcome. However, with diligent practice, MBTSR teaches step-by-step skills needed to help the thinking brain more accurately determine real threats, and to calm “knee-jerk” reactions to bothersome tinnitus. The activated reptilian brain and limbic system are like anxious children; you don’t want them in the driver’s seat, but you also don’t want to stuff them in the trunk. MBTSR can help place the mPFC in the driver’s seat, while acknowledging the importance of the brainstem and limbic system.
A mindfulness approach to tinnitus helps extinguish the automatic fear reaction and replaces it with a letting go of attention and perception of tinnitus. The MBTSR program focuses on helping people uncover their own internal resources toward a reinterpretation of tinnitus. With practice, people with tinnitus are capable of “More Firing, More Wiring”: strengthening connections in the pre-frontal cortex for a greater, more measured, balance in daily life. This is an important step towards unraveling the Gordian Knot of tinnitus.
NIRVANA -Comfortable and Convenient
Nirvana-Mindfulness therapy is designed and delivered using a customized android based phone device with custom standardized high frequency earphones The therapeutic tone ,masker and music are tailored made to your exact tinnitus profile .The therapeutic tones are calibrated and are quite yet audible, so you can continue your therapy with your every day activity.