About Brain State Technologies™

Founder, Lee Gerdes, developed this technology from a personal need to overcome depressive tendencies that surfaced during the creative process. At the height of his career as VP of Solutions (Research and Development) at Net Perceptions – whose initial primary client was Amazon, he was pushing out work at an incredible level.  Stock rose from $14 to $48 over a three-month period after he was featured on a half-hour ABC Nightline program in Dec of 1999.  As he became busier and busier, he noticed that he required more from his brain than it seemed readily able to provide.  For example, his creativity and output from his right brain was extraordinarily high, but he couldn't push his left brain, needed for tactical and long range forecasting, quite as far as he wished for it to go. Searching the world over, Lee realized that the world of biofeedback / neurofeedback was ripe for further development. His unique background in math, physics, theology, psychology, and 20 years in software development, prepared him for this great task.

In researching how to get more functionality out of his brain, he began to study the brain.  Being a mathematician, he began to devise a method of mapping frequencies and patterns of the brain and reached startling conclusions.  Obviously, there is a bit more to this, but the transformation of clients undergoing Brain State Conditioning™ (BSC) thus far (presently in excess of 5,000 clients) has been remarkable.  This first began when he first took his son, who was failing out of Iowa State with a 1.8 GPA and Brain Trained him over a six week period.  Peter then went back to college, moved immediately to the dean's list and graduated with a 3.85 GPA.  Lee then trained several of his son's friends who were also failing out of school and they all went through a very similar process of achieving the dean’s list, etc.  Lee realized he had developed something very valuable.

In 2004, Brain State Technologies (BST) entered into an arrangement with Yavapai county (Prescott, Arizona) adult probationers.  All were addicted to methamphetamine and a smorgasbord of other drugs; all were repeat offenders with an average of 7 convictions (convictions are far different than arrests), an average of 18 years of drug use, an average age of 33 years and none of them willing participants.  BST turned their lives completely around in 90 days. 

See the Yavapai County Adult Probation Trial : "http://www.resonantservices.com/BST/PrescottAdultProbatiionStudyandReport.pdf" 

Turned out all of the probationers were in the top 15 percentile of intelligence, but the racket and stress in their brains was so severe that they had no solution other than the many variations of self-induced self-medication.  As it turns out this is normal. If we have lots of static and noise in our life we self medicate to cope with all of the dissonance. One woman, who had never had a job better than a dishwasher in her entire life, became a kitchen manager in three months and restaurant manager in nine months.  Another of the probationers went from a long-term laborer to a construction superintendent building two houses over a period of nine months. When we have a more balanced brain we attract new possibilities into our lives, have different considerations about what is possible and have an ability to make better choices.

Lee’s original intent was to improve the brain rather than fix the brain, to create a brain that was able to access high mystical, intuitive and creative states not typically available to the average person.  In fact, he mapped the brains of several Buddhist monks which became part of the model that has become our work.  Far more has been accomplished!  These too have been my intentions, to assist others in choosing love over fear. My favorite areas include the increase in productivity, a deeper feeling of being connected as well as corresponding increases in intuition and creativity that give our lives more meaning and make our lives more whole.  Synchronicities become everyday events as we effortlessly move through our days in greater resonance with Innate Intelligence.  This has been my own personal experience.  And, Brain Training can bring you to the precipice of nonresistance. Think of your life not resisting what IS.

While most would believe that a brain in the state of meditation would be slowed down, almost asleep or in hibernation, the opposite is the case. The Buddhist Monk's brains were very active; all realms of the brain were cognizant of each other, all aspects of the brain were in a state of readiness, communication and flexibility, and capable of absorbing what was given to them.  Maybe it was only the sudden surprise slamming of a door, but the highly refined brain attuned by years of meditation was able to absorb the information of an emergency or daily life situation with grace and aplomb and issue directives accordingly.  In fact, the brain that works the best is the one that has the most flexible and capacity to communicate within itself and then the outside world.  (This is what Brain Training is all about.)

On the other hand, imagine a brain where sections are shut down, grayed out or otherwise, out of sync with other parts of the brain; where communication is impaired, non-existent or simply sluggish.  What happens when this brain reacts to a slammed door or emergency or problem bigger than it seems to be readily able to grapple?  It moves into a resistance or reactionary mode and simply snaps back from a defensive posture.  Far from the flexibility and far superior balanced brain big enough to reason or intuit or grasp the situation and take it in stride; instead we have a dysfunctional response..  Ah.. the balanced brain..  Something we have wished for all of our lives.

Why Brain State Conditioning™

Do you know of anything in life that is NOT at its best when it is balanced and harmonized? The brain and the body that it drives are no exception. If you have ever driven an automobile which had one or more tires greatly out of balance, you know the shimmy and shake that the out-of-balance condition can produce. It is no different in life when the brain has one or more of its areas out of balance. The brain is the mainframe, network or command center which communicates messages to the rest of the body. If your highway of information is not being sent where it is supposed to go traffic jams occur which can lead us to the various states of physical and mental imbalance.

Balance your brain and subsequently balance your body leads to optimal functioning. In other words, brain balance and harmony is the first step to wellbeing and optimization. The condition of balance and harmony for the brain is known as homeostasis. It is a “level playing field” for your brain to respond to thinking, feeling, and healing your body in an optimized state. Your brain acts as the hub of the wheel, your nervous system the spokes and your body the rim. When the hub is out of balance everything else suffers.

Brain State Conditioning™ is an individually tailored process of balancing and harmonizing the brain. Brain function is manifested in electromagnetic energy which can be captured by detecting it – or listening to it – without being invasive. Brain energy can be detected from the outer scalp at specific points on the head using Intellectrodes™. Ultimately, this process produces personalized exercises to balance and optimize your brain.

How is it accomplished?

Our cutting-edge training sessions help you achieve optimal results in real time. Clients of Brain State Technologies™ and Affiliated Offices are greeted in a warm, friendly environment then guided to a private, relaxing training room to begin individualized training sessions. During your first visit the trainer will conduct an introductory review where you can discuss your goals and the areas of life where you would like to see improvement. An assessment is performed on the initial visit to gather brain wave data from different parts of your brain. Our proprietary software processes the assessment and goal data to produce an individualized training plan just for you!

The training involves computer translation of brain waves into sounds that represent optimum patterns for your brain to function at a given location. These sounds vary by note and by volume based on how your brain is functioning. This allows your brain a means of observing itself. You relax in a zero gravity chair and are led through detailed visualizations to assist your brain to find a more balanced state. A Brain State Conditioning™ session usually lasts about two hours. Sessions are often done every day, or multiple times per day.

How is it different?

Brain State Conditioning™ (BSC) is something new.  While it shares technology with neurofeedback, it is far more.  In fact, there is almost no comparison in BSC's efficacy and capacity to unleash the potential in individuals and what neurofeedback currently offers. For those wishing to understand this a bit better, imagine a brain at one end of a super highway and information at the other end. Most neurofeedback providers have little understanding of the immense capabilities of the brain and instead, try to force-feed the brain, suggesting insights and repair from an outside source.  But unless they are interfacing with the brain in a really useful manner, i.e., allowing the brain to moderate the experience, the results are less than might be possible with a super-highway connection, and thus neurofeedback has not achieved a high level of effectiveness.

QEEG Neurotherapy (a form of neurofeedback), for example, takes the mean values of the average of 10,000 brains and attempts to train an individual brain via these values through the neurofeedback superhighway. But if the brain has no use or limited use for these attempts at intervention via these national averages, the results are hazy at best and thus neurofeedback has achieved limited results thus far.

Brain State Conditioning™ is oriented to solve problems having to do with the balance and harmony of the brain energy and is not based on comparison of the client with a normative data base. It is not based on a diagnosis or the symptoms which are presented. Brain State Conditioning™ is based on the degree of balance and harmony the brain contains and seeks to increase this balance and harmony.

Brain State Conditioning™ is based on many aspects of science in Biofeedback and in Neurofeedback which have been historically used to assist people to over-come pathologies. However, Brain State Conditioning™ should be differentiated from Neurofeedback and Biofeedback.

The basic differentiation of these modalities is based on the following:

1. Biofeedback - is a type of learning used to lessen negative reactions for the individual, based on increasing the awareness of the biological process in order to off-set or stop the pathology as it begins to happen biologically and is applicable during the occurrence of the pathology. For example; panic attacks have biological indicators before the attacks hit, if you can learn the biological indicators you can lessen the panic attack by either degree and/or duration. Biofeedback is oriented to solve diagnosed problems in the client.

2. Neurofeedback - is a type of learning used to lessen negative reactions for the individual, based on increasing the awareness of the neurological process in order to off-set or stop the pathology as it begins to happen neurologically. For example; training sensory-motor neurological frequencies to be more dominant for some athletic events. Neurofeedback is oriented to solve problems defined by a normative data base or model along with those problems and symptoms diagnosed by practitioner and client. Neurofeedback will usually be provided to clients in a medical model and will require 30 to multiple hundreds of sessions to achieve desired results.

3. Brain State Conditioning™ – is a type of brain optimization based on brain observance. It is based on a Quantum Physics understanding vs. a Newtonian Physics understanding of the individual, and this philosophical difference cannot be too heavily stressed as it makes everything intended different. Brain State Conditioning™ seeks to show the brain itself – be a mirror for the brain in its ever more optimized state. The client is not trained with learned behavior. In fact a client may sleep through a session and still realize results because the brain can view itself without direct client participation. While not optimal, it is always more efficacious to have the client participate, it is not mandatory.

For example, clients adversarial to the training, such as those with adolescent misbehavior or antisocial behavior issues, can still be assisted to balance and harmonize their brain and achieve a greater homeostasis.

Of the many stories, a young lady of 17, autistic and having never spoken a word in her life, said "bye" to the technician at the end of her first session.  Barrows Neurological Institute in Phoenix (third largest in the world), diagnosed another woman with a brain tumor, operated on her and was dismayed to see that her recovery was not as expected.  They were also stunned to see the results after 25 sessions with BST (she was BST's accountant).  She went from being unable to add or write sentences to scores well above average in psychological and neurological testing. 


What happens in my brain?

Brain activity creates electromagnetic energy - captured and observed as brain waves with EEG amplifiers and computers. That brain energy turns into sound energy at the moment the brain energy exits in an optimized brain pattern. This optimized pattern is a signal to encourage the brain, using computer graphics and other sound encouragements. Brain State Conditioning™ encourages some brain waves and discourages others so the brain will begin to function differently - it will create a balanced condition. This harmonizing of the brain waves, balances them into optimized patterns.

Brain activity is based on cells called neurons which interact and connect with each other forming groups or neural-networks. These neural-networks are activated based on stimuli. Clients have often recognized benefits in the first one to three sessions, and may require 5 to 30 sessions to make the benefits permanent with dominant neural-networks.

How do I change my pathways?

Brain State Conditioning™ activates neural-networks based on an optimum performing brain. When neurons in the brain connect, they do so with electric energy and this energy can be recorded by Intellectrodes™ on the skull. The waves of energy from the brain are fed into a computer that then analyzes them, based on a personalized protocol selected in the assessment process. This protocol is created for maximum optimization of the individual.

The brain changes when it experiences a state, or new pathway created by its own neural-networks. Two tuning forks of the same frequency in a close proximity will both produce a sound if only one of them is struck. Resonance is the property that causes that action. When the brain hears sounds it generates or inhibits certain frequencies, other parts of the brain respond - resonate - to that balanced frequency. Soon, the brain balances itself and thereby cuts new pathways. It requires that this resonance balance training - or Brain State Conditioning™, as we call it - happen a number of times before it will become permanent, but it does become permanent so training does not need to continue forever.

However, for the meditation experience, the limit is infinite, and the person meditating may do so as frequently and as deeply as they wish.

Intensive training

Brain State Conditioning™ can be accomplished in the most efficient manner when the training is done intensively. Brain State Technologies™ schedules individuals for 1 week intensives. The intensive includes brain training two to three times daily – including one brain assessment to begin the intensive. Typically clients sign on for 1 assessment and 10 extended sessions, all accomplished within a 5 to 7 day period.

Intensives have proven to be one of the best methods to train the brain for new neuro-pathways. For the first few sessions, a brain training session will allow newly created pathways to dominate for a period of time – 24 to 48 hours – and then the older more established pathway will usually return. However, in an intensive, the old pathway does not have an opportunity to regain a dominance and therefore the newly created pathway has an opportunity to extend itself more fully and more quickly than in a training based on a once a week effort.

Time required for Brain State Conditioning™ to be effective

The number of sessions required to achieve brain homeostasis varies from one client to the next and often happens in phases. 10 – 30 sessions are when people notice the most profound changes. Certain things are noticed first, later other changes are noticed. We do know that homeostasis is a foundation to well being.

What can Brain State Conditioning™ help you with?

There is huge belief most people have that something or someone can “fix them”. If I take a pill my depression will go away. If I have a surgery I will be fixed. We are all looking for a “magic bullet.” There really is nothing farther from the truth. Victoria Price, RN once said “People are collectively realizing that turning our bodies, minds and hearts to someone else with the request to “fix me”, is a process by which we give away our power. As we assume responsibility for creating our own health, wisdom and happiness, we step fully into the power that has been ours all along.”

BSC is designed to help create harmony and balance in the brain. It cannot “fix” any problem or diseases, however an amazing thing happens when we start to come into homeostasis. Symptoms and problems naturally fall away. Any condition or symptoms is just an indication of imbalance. To understand how we get imbalanced please click here. Any symptom or condition that has developed has done for many reasons. There is not just one thing that creates an imbalance. However, what we have found is that when a brain is more in balance profound changes happen.

Many people ask if BSC will help with such things ADD/ADHD, chronic fatigue, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, any myriad of diseases, sleeping disorders, addictions (drugs, alcohol, smoking), panic attachs, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, epilepsy, anxiety, anger, depression, eating disorders, learning disabilities, brain injuries, pain mitigation, memory and the list goes on and on. What I would say is that each of these conditions and symptoms are expressions of imbalance. And as we get the brain more balanced these conditions and symptoms tend to naturally fad away and not be so present for the individual. I know this is not the way traditional medicine would address these issues however for many of these problems conventional medicine is very limited because of the lack of understanding and a Newtonian physics approach (breaking things down into parts and pieces and just fix the part). An approach that is very helpful here is one based on Quantum physics which takes into consideration the whole and how one part will affect the whole of any one given system.

Here are some things that have been observed over time with people doing BSC. Many of the above symptoms or conditions tend to diminish and or disappear completely. In addition to this people have reported the following from just having a more balanced brain.

· Improved sleep
· Better equipped to deal with anger
· Happier (less depression)
· Increased ability to interact socially
· Greater inward and outer calm (reduced anxiety)
· Increased focus and concentration
· Deeper mediations
· Improved comprehension and completion of reading materials
· Increased relaxation and reduction of stress (better able to manage)
· An ability to make better choices in their lives.
· Normalization of blood pressure.
· Less physical pain
· Reduction and/or complete elimination of addictive behaviors
· Increased intuition
· Increased energy
· Increased creativity and intuition
· Athletes find the perform better (whether it is golf, football or an individual sport)
· Less resistance to exercising
· Less resistance to doing day to day tasks
· Loss of weight
· Better ability to organize and clean

As you can begin to see the possibilities are limitless. And all this from Balance and Harmony in the brain!