How Neurofeedback Offers Healing for our Minds and Communities, with Zach Guzman

What does a person need most in order to heal from addiction and trauma? Do they need to act differently? Think better thoughts? Use a fancy technology to monitor brain waves? All these things are good and useful, but they falter in the absence of love. Love, in a clinical sense, is a secure attachment, marked by full attention, unconditional welcome, curiosity, courage and patience. In the presence of this kind of energy, a person finds belonging and safety. In that environment, they become able to do things like think about their thoughts, and begin to think different thoughts, and eventually do different behaviors.  Zach Guzman is a counselor and neurofeedback specialist in Colorado Spring, CO, and the founder of Mind Reneural, a healing clinic in his town with specialties in neurofeedback. In our conversation, Zach provides a succinct introduction to neurofeedback, how it works, and how it can help us heal. Neurofeedback works in an adjacent realm to attachment and co-regulation. When a person feels truly safe, truly welcomed, and truly connected, there is nearly limitless potential to the insight and healing that can be accomplished. In order for this process to take place, though, we need a trusted other. That trusted other may include the neurofeedback setup, but even without the technology, the experience of fully encountering another human being is always remarkable. From there, we dive into concepts ranging from recovery and sobriety, the vital importance of community and attachment, practices of spirituality, and how we have respectively come to understand what it means to be loved by Christ.  We discuss how our thoughts become our realities. But when our thoughts are driven by fear, and black and white thinking, our thinking is limited, thus our reality is skewed. When our thoughts are driven by love, by courage, and supported by trustworthy connections, we are much more likely to have a true sense of the world.  This podcast relies on the partnership of listeners - especially with dollars! Please visit www.patreon.com/outercircle to learn how to partner with the vision of this show! Rhys Pasimio can be found through www.patreon.com/outercircle and on instagram at @newpattrencounseling and is always happy to dialogue with listeners bringing honest questions! For more information about Zach Guzman, you can find him by googling “Mind Reneural Colorado” or by going to https://www.mindreneural.com/. He is also on Facebook and Instagram at @mindreneural.  #neurofeedback #neurology #mind #brain #healing #hope #recovery #sobriety #addiction #compulsion #compulsivebehavior #trauma #focus #counseling #therapy #spirituality #mentalhealth #spiritualdisciplines #community #relationship #attachment #christianity #orthodox #orthodoxchristianity #easternorthodoxy #quietlife #simplicity