When the lights are on you and the pressure is in your face, there is no time to think, only time to react. Are you going to perform with grace or crack under the pressure? The way an athlete handles these situations is often how their career is defined and can mean the difference between early retirement and a long, prosperous career.

Quick Facts:

• ​Clinically proven to lower anxiety and the effects of stress
• Improves ability to get in the zone and perform with grace under pressure
• Decreases self-doubt and fear
• Session typically lasts 45 minutes
• All the benefits of meditation, only much faster
• Inhibits fight or flight reactions

What Does This Training Do?

With Alpha-Theta training, we are extinguishing conditioned responses to stress and anxiety and replacing them with a reaction of calm, focus. Conditioned responses are learned responses that have been engrained in our behavior over time. The classic example of this is Pavlov's Dog. Pavlov trained a dog to feel hungry any time he heard a bell ring by feeding the dog as soon as the bell rang. The dog began to associate the bell ringing with being fed. The same thing happens with humans. Once we start to associate feelings of anxiety with specific stimuli, we will feel anxiety even when we rationally don't think we should. The BrainKanix training system breaks that loop. Through the use of positive and negative feedback, and visualization techniques, athletes begin to associate a calm, focused feeling with the situations that used to trigger anxiety or stress. This is incredibly valuable in sports and will allow each athlete to access their full physical prowess because their head will be clear. 

What Brainwaves Are Trained?

Alpha Brainwaves

Underactive	Optimal	Overactive
Exhausted Day dreaming	Relaxed Focused	Hyper-vigilant Anxious
Athlete may feel fatigued throughout the day. This could lead to an athlete not getting the full benefits of practice, and to lackluster performances on and off the field.	​Athlete has a peaceful, calm, and relaxed mindset. This athlete has an easier time performing in any situation.	Athlete may feel more anxious. This leads to buckling under pressure.

Theta Brainwaves

Underactive	Optimal	Overactive
Anxious Stress	More intuitive Better sleep quality	Too much day dreaming Drowsy
Athlete will typically feel more robotic in movements.	Athlete will better react with their training in the moment.	Athlete is more spacey; a daydream like feeling.  This can lead to dwelling on past failures in a game..