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Sharing our Greatest Hits from 2021! This year was a special year for our company as we celebrated our 40th Anniversary in September! We put together a video celebration. We also updated our headphones to folding ones with our logo on the earphones. We would like to share our most popular posts on our Facebook and Twitter pages in 2021. So please enjoy whether this is the first time seeing the post or a review! Most...

A family was driving to the lake to visit some relatives. They decided to take a pleasant drive along the lakeshore road instead of the highway because of its beauty and stress-free 30 km (20 mph) speed limit. The trees were all along the roadside. Little Johnny (LJ) was his usual self that day. He took forever getting his bag with his swimsuit, towel, and personal effects packed. He got into a fight with his...

Effects of CES Frequencies Some claim the effectiveness of the Cranio-Electro Stimulation (CES) comes from the frequency. To date, there has never been a comparative study of the various frequencies. One CES manufacturer uses long-pulse trains at 15 kHz, whereas all other CES devices use 100 Hz and under. In the 1990s, Meg Patterson experimented on frequencies up to 500 Hz for the treatment of drug addictions, but the advantage of specific frequencies for specific...

Congratulations! You’ve decided to purchase a Mind Alive device! Now for the fun of choosing the one that will best serve your needs. It may seem overwhelming given there are four different devices. For a quick description on the differences, watch this video. But not to worry, selecting can be quite simple. First let’s break down the different stimulation technologies: Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE) – flashing lights and pulsing tones to guide you into different brainwave states Cranio-Electro Stimulation...

Stimulation of the vagus nerve is becoming an area that many people are interested in for their mental wellbeing. While searching on the web, we came across this study which concludes: “Stimulation of the tragus activates the cerebral afferents of the vagal pathway and combined with our review of the literature suggest that taVNS is a promising form of VNS (vagal nerve stimulation).www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29361441Why does stimulating the vagus nerve help improve mental health? The vagus nerve...