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  FOUNDER, DIRECTOR | BREUKELEN THERAPEUTIC

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | NEW YORK UNIVERSITY  

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Beyond Therapy to Flow |
Flow states are "a feeling of great absorption, engagement, fulfillment, and skill—and during which temporal concerns (time, food, ego-self, etc.) are typically ignored." | Increased time spent in flow states results in increased happiness, feelings of meaning and purpose, and productivity, in other words a more rich and satisfying daily life. | Synaesthetic Surround is not only a therapy for stress reduction, anxiety and depression, but a method to increase creativity, flow, problem solving and productivity. | Synaesthetic Surround Flow uses techniques that have been created specifically for those who are interested in:
- Growth in self and experience
- Increased creativity and inspiration
- Mindfulness practice and exploration
- A sense of meaning and resonance
Its techniques integrate multi-sensory environment and audio-visual stimulation with therapeutic techniques such as guided imagery, experiential reframing, focus and mindfulness methods. | These techniques stimulate imagination and loosen habitual thought, emotion and experiential patterns in order to explore possibilities for ways of being that typically remain undiscovered. |

Modules |
Flow is available in individual sessions as well as in modules developed to address specific aspects of experience, creativity and problem solving. | This program of directive sessions around specific goals produces a strong structural focus on basic aspects of experience that affect many other areas of our lives. | Abilities gained in these areas become tools for further development and exploration. | The modules can be taken as single modules or as a series of modules that progress through some of the key elements in creating expanded possibilities. |

The Modules:

1| Expanding Identity
loosening assumptions and fixed patterns of perception for new possibilities and perspectives
2| Developing Calm
reducing anxiety and distractibility to increase inspired, productive flow states
3| Focal Shifting
working with perceptual and visceral changes in focus to create flexibility in perspetive
4| Meaning Narratives
going beyond everyday, functional narratives to find meaning in immediate experience and grand narratives
5| Frustration & Inspiration
working with specific sources of your inspiration and the habitual patterns that block them

Learning & Integration |
The time between or after sessions is a particularly effective time for integration and solidfication of what one learns in sessions. | Unfortunately many treatments involve isolated one hour experiences with little thought or emotion devoted to them outside of that hour. | Like other forms of learning, developing new perspective and abilities requires attention and reinforcement. | Synaesthetic Surround directly addresses this aspect of learning by integrating between-session tools as part of the treatment. | These tools, such as recordings of session soundscapes embeded with brainwave frequencies, are sensorial/visceral and therefore more directly and fully access memory and learning. | Beyond memory, the sensorial/visceral nature of these tools and their brainwave properties elicit strong responses in their own right, thus extending treatment to times outside of sessions. |

Mindfulness Practice |
Synaesthetic Surround's techniques have been shown to reduce stress and foster states of mential flexibility and flow for significant periods after each session. | Between-session mindfulness and reinforcement techniques, including home use of session soundscapes, provide ongoing access to further stress reduction and integrate the therapy into daily life as a particularly effective mindfulness practice. | Because the ability to enter a relaxed meditative state increases over multiple Synaesthetic Surround sessions, the reduction of stress and the fostering of more positive experiences can be achieved increasingly with or without the therapy. | By giving fast and effective access to meditative states Synaesthetic Surround can increase the effectiveness of meditation and mindfulness techniques that often would take more time to develop. |

LIGHT | SOUND | BRAINWAVE

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SENSORY | EMOTION | SOMATIC