I watched your part of the video and I'm looking forward to your future projects.
In your presentation you mentioned breathing exercises. Are there specific breathing exercises that would be a good adjunct to the HEGduino training? Is there a proper routine or sequence, like breath training first then HEG?
I have been doing the training on random days for 3-10 minutes which is about how long I can go before I zone out. I'm not following any schedule or protocol. Is there an optimum timing between sessions? Is there an optimum length of session? Is doing this two or three times a day good? In other words, is more better?
And I meant to ask this awhile ago. Where on the forehead is that flashing diode supposed to go?
Thanks.
@nick Sorry didn't see this, yes you can place it pretty much anywhere, if you want to be somewhat precise about it you can use an EEG chart. Logic would hold that different sites should be trained but it's debatable just how specific we can get with this type of training, while it can still be a good monitor of different sites and give meaningful information. Hershel Toomim would train very specific areas on people's heads depending on the issue (e.g. anxiety, ptsd), I have his notes, but again it's debatable and I'd say only he and a handful of others explored this in any meaningful way with HEG. We can concentrate blood flow in other parts of our body so voluntary control might be pretty precise in our brains too, especially with how intricate and precise the vascular control architecture is in our brains with astrocytes and whatnot guiding blood flow to every single neuron in demand, but I'm not sure. I can say from my own experience I've felt strain at almost a pin point from where I had the sensor on my head for like an hour, and it took a day to go away, but that could have been for several reasons. In general our perfusion increases from the breathing exercise no matter if we have the sensor or not, while having the sensor on our heads helps us relate to that part of our bodies more, and the sensor helps you understand your own brain's physiology as it relates to stress and concentration better due to some of the reactions we can see in blood oxygen changes. Beyond that, we need more data :-)
Can the sensor really go anywhere on your forehead? If it's on one side or the other, wouldn't you be training the right or left frontal lobe more than the other?
Hey there, So I recommend deep breathing practices generally, the easiest is to breathe in and out as deeply as possible but without forcing it or holding it in, just like a normal breath but deep and satisfying, then just repeat that for as long as you want. There are a lot of mindfulness and yoga breathing practices, like three point breathing, which are all good to try. In general you want to treat this like exercise. So, you're trying to sustain concentration and increased score/ratio for as long as possible. Some people have been doing 20-40 minute sessions 3 times a week up to every day based on individual tolerance. The sensor can go anywhere on your forehead really, generally it might be a good idea to alternate but it's not imperative. You just want your signal to seem fairly stable and not erratic. The idea in general is you want to increase your score and keep it increasing for as long as possible