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How to Train Your Brain for Optimal Performance with Aziz Kaddan, Forbes Top 30 under 30 and CEO of Myndlift
Episode 75
Aziz CEO and co-founder of Myndlift talks to Angela about developing a neuro training platform that has been recognised globally and brings neurofeedback to the masses.
Myndlift means that neurofeedback is now available to everyone at home with training influenced by real-time brain activity enabling specific training to increase performance.
Aziz explains not only the development of Myndlift but also the potential applications and positive ways personalised needs can be met through targeting of very specific areas in this fascinating episode.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- It’s a performance hack that means you can work at home with a practitioner, making it accessible without compromising clinical quality.
- Neurofeedback is a type of training that has existed for over forty years. It’s a form of conditioning that measures the brain in real-time.
- You are dealing with the brain so you need professional supervision and oversight.
- It’s like meditation on steroids.
- With this technology, you are able to visualise and hear what’s going on.
- When neurofeedback is successful then it improves performance.
- When supervised by a professional it can be very personalised targeting very specific areas and very specific needs.
- We are currently exploring how to combine cognitive behavioural therapy with neurofeedback.
- For specific conditions it is beneficial to combine the two therapies each has its strengths, behavioural therapy helps you understand your emotions and thinking better providing a structure for how you think and behave in real life whilst neurofeedback trains you physiologically.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Clinic professionals want to be able to view and control what their clients are receiving so that they can make continued progress’
‘You can work with a practitioner at home to train your brain to be faster and better’
‘Myndlift brings neuro feedback to the masses’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
High Performance Health podcast series\
ABOUT THE GUEST
Aziz Kaddan is a mental health advocate who has been exploring the human brain for many years. He is a CEO and co-founder of Myndlift - a neurofeedback training platform
Aziz himself has experienced the negative side effects associated with the ADHD medication prescribed to children, which inspired him to co-found Myndlift. Myndlift technology uses EEG sensors to measure brain activity and provides specific training to increase the brain’s ability to r
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