Wake Up, Brain!: Using ANF Mind Devices to feel better
Helle Hartung
Empowering therapists, psychologists & other mental health professionals to get faster results through a Mind-Body Mindset
Did you know that while reading this your brain is sending off chemical and electrical signals to help you to understand the words and their meaning? Your brain is made up of networks of small cells called neurons that communicate electrochemically to enable you to think, feel, and interact with the world around you. Because electrical charges are responsible for brain activity, electrical stimulation can in turn be used to change the brain’s functioning.
I have been implementing ANF Mind Devices in my clinical practice to help my clients elevate their mood and reduce stress and other mental disorders.?In this article, we discuss how ANF Mind Devices can be used to help people feel better.
ANF Mind Devices can be a safe and effective way to balance the hormones inside the body to help the brain function normally without the use of medicines or chemicals. Why would we want to balance hormones? Well, people with mental health illnesses can resolve potentially mental health issues through balancing hormones, which are responsible for anger, depression, etc.
People with healthy brain functioning can also benefit from ANF Mind Devices by improving their emotion regulation, attention, learning, problem solving, and memory abilities. You may be wondering how the ANF Mind Devices can help the brain stimulate hormones without using any drugs or chemicals.
ANF Mind Devices are neuro-frequency devices that are applied directly to the skin and activated by your own body heat. The devices transmit a unique range of frequencies through the neurons in the body?that travel through your skull to affect the electrical signals responsible for brain activity.?
Brain Cells Use Electricity and Chemicals to Communicate
Neurons are cells located in the brain. Neurons use both electrical charges and chemicals called ions to communicate with each other. We say that neurons have an electrochemical charge, and this charge changes, depending on whether the neuron is at rest or is sending a signal. Inside and between neurons there is fluid that contains ions, which are atoms or molecules that have a positive or negative charge. When a neuron is at rest, there are more negative ions inside and more positive ions outside of it giving the neuronal membrane a negative charge. When brain activity occurs, positive ions rush in through channels in the neuronal membrane?and, when the charge gets high enough, the neuron sends a signal to communicate with nearby neurons. Think of this like a match that needs to be struck with just enough force; once it sparks, the whole match catches fire. Electrical stimulation on the scalp can target the electrochemical activity of the brain and alter the charges in neurons without the need for surgery. Because there is never only one neuron firing at a time, but rather ``populations’’ of neurons that fire, altering the charge of the fluid surrounding neuronal populations can have significant effects on brain activity.
How Does ANF Mind Devices Affect Neurons?
The devices transmit a unique range of frequencies through the neurons in the body that travel through your skull to affect the electrical signals responsible for brain activity.?Exposure to electromagnetic fields can cause structural and functional changes in the nervous system. Neurotransmitters are specific chemicals that act as messengers during synaptic transmission within the nervous system.
ANF Mind Devices can affects the metabolism and transport of neurotransmitters. It is well understood that neural circuit is the structural basis of brain function, and the brain works by the interplay of various brain regions and many neurotransmitters. Consequently, the modulatory effect of ANF Mind Devices on neurotransmitter levels in various brain regions may play a critical role in the brain functioning. ANF Mind Devices can induce the imbalance of amino acid neurotransmitters in various parts of the brain.
What Can ANF Mind Devices Be Used For?
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Regulating Emotions
A little sadness and stress is common in life, and most people experience these emotions in healthy amounts. However, prolonged periods of depression, anxiety, and stress can sometimes be indicators of mood-regulation disorders, which take a toll on mental (and physical) health. I used ANF Mind Devices to help my clients reduce the symptoms of one very common mood-regulation disorder, known as major depressive disorder (MDD). This disorder is associated with persistent feelings of sadness, low energy levels, changes in appetite, and loss of interest in activities. These symptoms are long lasting and thought to be caused by an imbalance of activity in the brain.
Improving cognitive function
Cognition is the act of understanding the world around us through thought. This understanding requires a combination of attention, learning and problem solving, and memory. Different cognitive processes rely on different parts of the brain, and ANF Mind Devices can be applied to different areas to encourage and enhance various aspects of cognition. Let us talk about a few specific cognitive functions that ANF Mind Devices has been shown to influence.
Attention
Along with playing a role in mood regulation, the DLPFC is important for attention and impulses. The DLPFC is less active in people with a condition called attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD makes it difficult to concentrate on one item or task at a time, ignore distractions and control impulsive behavior. However, a study of 37 patients with ADHD showed that stimulating the DLPFC using ANF Mind Devices enhanced their ability to focus attention. Participants performed a set of tasks in which they had to respond to only some of the arrows or letters presented on a screen, while ignoring others. After applying ANF Mind Devices, participants were less likely to respond to images they were supposed to ignore, which showed that they could control their behaviors more effectively.
Learning
Learning and problem solving are important cognitive processes that can be enhanced through brain stimulation. The area of the brain that must be stimulated to enhance these processes depends on what and how a person is learning. For example, we know that when we mentally manipulate numbers, the right parietal lobe of the brain is active. Knowing this, In my research, I applied ANF Mind Devices to the right parietal lobe of healthy adults while those adults were learning the relationships between random symbols and their assigned numerical values. After the participants completed the learning phase, they were tested on their newly acquired numerical knowledge. The results of this study showed that participants who received excitatory stimulation demonstrated a better understanding of the fake number system and acquired this understanding faster than the inhibitory and fake stimulation groups. Based on this study, we know that excitatory ANF Mind Devices can enhance our numerical learning abilities when applied to the right parietal lobe while the learning is taking place.
Memory
When you meet a new friend, you first learn his or her name. Over the next few interactions with that person, you often have to keep reminding yourself of that person’s name until you have it memorized. This type of memory for factual knowledge is called declarative memory.?When we are sleeping, our brains solidify the new declarative memories we learned during the day into our long-term memory.?ANF Mind Devices improve the sleep naturally and applying ANF Mind Devices to the sleeping brain can enhance declarative memory in healthy adults.?
Why Is This Research Important?
The research discussed in this article shows that ANF Mind Devices can be useful for improving a variety of brain functions, including regulating emotions and enhancing cognitive functions, such as attention, learning, problem solving, and memory. But this important research also reminds us how much more there is to learn. ANF Mind Devices has the potential to positively impact the way we think and feel, but ANF Mind Devices can currently only access the outer layers of the brain. Because of that, there are still several brain functions that have not been explored with this technology. Technology may advance in the future, penetrating deeper brain structures that lie below the cortex. The use of ANF Mind Devices will likely continue to grow, so keep an eye out for exciting new findings in ANF Mind Devices & ANF Mind Therapy?!