Dr Marina vd Ryst

29/01/2026

A small step for Neurofeedback becomes a giant step for Mental Health: We congratulate the Georgia State Legislature on passing the bill recognizing neurotherapy and establishing Neurotherapy Awareness Months in January and August. Our American counterparts, David Cantor and his team have done an amazing contribution, by helping to educate and promote this bill, and we are all grateful! We are hopeful that South Africa will follow suit and that each practitioner will celebrate this upcoming August!

28/01/2026

Horses, PTSD and Therapy: It has now become widely accepted through scientific research that the heart has a electromagnetic field, which is stronger than the electromagnetic field of the brain. Coherent heart rhythms synchronized with mind/brain communication creates states of joy and peace, regardless of stressors around you. It can also be "felt" by others which is called social coherence. Now read on to understand why horses have such a powerful impact on us and why they are often used in therapeutic settings. It is all about coherent heart rhythm, and radiating healthy electromagnetic fields - in fact their EMF is so much stronger than ours that it can actually directly influence our own heart rhythm!

So if these EMF can be shared amongst all and that this "coherent" heart rhythm (heart rate pattern) becomes the norm from which you live your life - and which explains why we may "feel better" when we are around them. . . .studies have found that a coherent heart pattern or HRV is a robust measure of well-being and consistent with emotional states of calm and joy--that is, we exhibit such patterns when we feel positive emotions.

A coherent heart pattern is indicative of a system that can recover and adjust to stressful situations very efficiently.
https://www.ptsdassociation.com/heart-centred

22/01/2026

Neuroplasticity reminds us that the brain is a living work-in-progress. It has the enduring capacity for renewal. Even after trauma or injury, the brain can reorganize, adapt, and find new pathways. Healing is not a return to what was, it is an emergence into what is possible. Neuronal changes are a quiet testimony to human resilience, finding meaning and growth.
Resilience grows from physiological coherence and synchronization between your heart, breath, and brain. Practicing regulated patterns of coherence teaches flexibility to your nervous system, rather than reactivity. With flexibility comes choice and with choice, change will follow. Balancing sympathetic activation and parasympathetic recovery creates conditions where the brain can reorganize itself, called adaptive neuroplasticity.

21/01/2026

Best explanation ever!
Neurofeeback, Biofeedback, Heart-Brain communication & self-regulation in action.

21/01/2026

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15/01/2026

Finding Skills to free yourself and shift into change
Free-to-Shift is a self-exploration process based on neuroscientific research and - assessment bringing insights about Heart-Brain communication, and your body’s response to stress. Learn practical tools to balance this automatic feedback-loop when stress becomes overwhelming and you become stuck in fixed behaviour patterns.
This is not therapy and does not involve medication. You (i) develop tools to shift which is (ii) based on analysis of your brain waves (QEEG), your Autonomic nervous system (fight-or flight responses), and a functional cognitive analysis.
Stress is not caused by the stressor itself, but by our physiological responses to the stressor, which over time becomes our automatic pattern. Stress reactivity patterns can keep us stuck in survival mode, narrow our thinking, drain energy and restrict insightful choices.
Know this, these are automatic scripted responses …. Not personal failure. They do not change by “just thinking differently.”
If you are an independent thinker — a no-nonsense, self-help–oriented person seeking understanding of how your physiology and body system informs your experience of life and restrict your choices, it is time to seek out science-based tools to restore inner balance, self-regulation, generating a mindset to shift you into change.
Step 1: Awareness. Learn how your nervous system responds to stress and create the ability to pause, reset, and choose a different response. Develop space between your reaction and the stressor and shift out of your automatic reaction pattern to a more regulated, coherent state.
Step 2: Reflect on your unique stress pattern without judgement. Observe brainwave function and understand its influences on behaviour; befriend your Autonomic Nervous system (aka fight-flight-freeze response to stress), understand that biochemical changes support flexible mind-shifting, while your cognitive- and executive thinking style participate in sustaining feedback loops which support your current behaviour.
Step 3: Activate a shift to a more synchronized state. Learn coherent Heart-Brain communication techniques which shifts you from a frustrated, stuck and stressed state to inner calm. This state brings choices — and with choice, real change becomes possible.
Free-to-Shift is a 5-hour guided self-help package focussing on neuroscientific insights, which informs the tools you will learn to synchronize Heart-Brain communication resulting in coherent living and choices. With understanding comes the freedom to shift. Book your appointment now. Read more…..Discount applies when presenting this advertisement
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11/01/2026

Loneliness and isolation influence health, but only isolation reliably caused cognitive deterioration.
Read more here: https://neurosciencenews.com/social-isolation-cognitive-decline-30058/