The Alpha-Stim® SCS helps empower the patient to control anxiety, depression, and/or insomnia and may be used as part of the therapy. The Alpha-Stim can help induce a relaxed state and enables the patient to focus attention on the suggestions made during the hypnotherapy session. The Alpha-Stim® SCS leaves the mind alert. The Alpha-Stim cannot replace hypnotherapy, the person undergoing CES treatment will often report a pleasant, relaxed feeling of well-being, which is a similar to the experience of being under hypnosis without the Apla-Stim, so the two work together beautifully.
If you are so overwrought, or so depressed that you have been unable to engage properly with any other treatment (such as hypnotherapy or counselling of some kind), correct use of the Alpha-Stim is likely to enable you to feel much more ready to do.
Karena has completed an advanced course in the clinical practice of Alpha-Stim, Micro current Electrical Therapy and Cranial Electrical Stimulation.
What does the Alpha-Stim feel like?
You may feel a slight tingling sensation under the electrodes, but it is not necessary to feel this in order to achieve results. Most people feel nothing at all except positive results.
How Alpha-Stim® Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) Works
By James Giordano, Ph.D.
Based on previous and ongoing studies, it appears that the Alpha-Stim microcurrent waveform activates particular groups of nerve cells that are located at the brainstem. These groups of nerve cells produce the chemicals serotonin and acetylcholine which can affect the chemical activity of nerve cells that are both nearby and at more distant sites in the nervous system. In fact, these cells are situated to control the activity of nerve pathways that run up into the brain and that course down into the spinal cord. By changing the electrical and chemical activity of certain nerve cells in the brainstem, Alpha-Stim treatment devices appear to amplify activity in some neurological systems, and diminish activity in others. This neurological ‘fine tuning’ is called modulation, and occurs either as a result of, or together with the production of a certain type of electrical activity pattern in the brain known as an alpha state which can be measured on electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. Such alpha rhythms are accompanied by feelings of calmness, relaxation, and increased mental focus. The neurological mechanisms that are occurring during the alpha state appear to decrease stress-effects, reduce agitation, stabilize mood, and regulate both sensations and perceptions of particular types of pain.
If you are so overwrought, or so depressed that you have been unable to engage properly with any other treatment (such as hypnotherapy or counselling of some kind), correct use of the Alpha-Stim is likely to enable you to feel much more ready to do.
Karena has completed an advanced course in the clinical practice of Alpha-Stim, Micro current Electrical Therapy and Cranial Electrical Stimulation.
What does the Alpha-Stim feel like?
You may feel a slight tingling sensation under the electrodes, but it is not necessary to feel this in order to achieve results. Most people feel nothing at all except positive results.
How Alpha-Stim® Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) Works
By James Giordano, Ph.D.
Based on previous and ongoing studies, it appears that the Alpha-Stim microcurrent waveform activates particular groups of nerve cells that are located at the brainstem. These groups of nerve cells produce the chemicals serotonin and acetylcholine which can affect the chemical activity of nerve cells that are both nearby and at more distant sites in the nervous system. In fact, these cells are situated to control the activity of nerve pathways that run up into the brain and that course down into the spinal cord. By changing the electrical and chemical activity of certain nerve cells in the brainstem, Alpha-Stim treatment devices appear to amplify activity in some neurological systems, and diminish activity in others. This neurological ‘fine tuning’ is called modulation, and occurs either as a result of, or together with the production of a certain type of electrical activity pattern in the brain known as an alpha state which can be measured on electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. Such alpha rhythms are accompanied by feelings of calmness, relaxation, and increased mental focus. The neurological mechanisms that are occurring during the alpha state appear to decrease stress-effects, reduce agitation, stabilize mood, and regulate both sensations and perceptions of particular types of pain.