Mood Enhancement
with Shakti
The
Shakti software has a session design, named "the
feelgood session" which
has generated reports of strong mood enhancements. This session
is most effective using the 8
Coil Version.
Most people
who find themselves feeling bad regularly (and here we are NOT
talking about psychiatric
disorders) have temporal lobes that
are more active than the frontal lobes. The "Feelgood
Session" activates the
temporal lobes in a slow and gradual way, and then suddenly
moves the signals to the frontal lobes. The activity that builds
up slowly in the temporal lobe (the sides of the head) is suddenly
'shunted' to the front, were it raises the level of activity
there in quite a dramatic way.
It uses two
signals; shaped like signals unique to the amygdala and the
hippocampus. These are generated one after the other ('in sequence')
with a four-second 'latency' between them. This latency mimics
the brain's own spaces between these signals.
The right
amygdala and the left hippocampus, in their connection to the
temporal lobes, are each crucial for maintaining bad moods and
emotions, and the habit of 'negative thinking'. One way of understanding
the 'feelgood' session is that it tells these structures to
point their output to the frontal lobes of the brain. This mimics
the temporary change in mood we can have when we get good news,
or when a problem that has been bothering us is resolved, or
when we approach a friend. (1, 2, 3). The design for this session
takes advantage of the relationship between the frontal lobes
and self-esteem (1, 2, 3).
