The Next Level of Biofeeback

The ThoughtStream from MindPlace measures the tiny changes in your skin resistance values associated with shifts in your mood, mental state and level of arousal.

The Proteus from MindPlace uses specially patterned sequences of sound pulses and multicolored light pulses to alter your brain wave activity.

When used together, these two devices give you the power of biofeedback rarely found even in clinical models costing thousands. Any aspect of a Proteus light & sound session can be used by the ThoughtStream as feedback. Fourteen professionally programmed light & sound biofeedback sessions are included. Custom light & sound biofeedback sessions can be designed using the Proteus Editor software. The software makes it easy to design new sessions or to create your own variations of preset sessions. The possibilities are endless.

Perfect for visualization, relaxation, meditation, energizing, exploring altered states of consciousness, energizing, and more - this type of biofeedback is especially beneficial for helping learn how to relax while consciously producing a focused state. Be one of the first to experiment with this exciting new technology.

This package includes everything normally included with each unit (Mental Games, Audiostrobe, Proteus Editing Software, etc). Please refer to the Proteus and Thoughtstream pages for any detailed information not found here.

The Proteus: How does it work?

The Proteus works by using the scientific process of entrainment. Entrainment occurs when brainwaves follow, or 'entrain to', frequencies are seen and heard. Entrainment happens when special frequencies are arranged into the patterns naturally during different mind states. Each Proteus session is a sequence of these patterns designed to have a specific effect or purpose.

The sessions contain frequencies that mimic what's found in brainwaves during activities like meditation, dreaming, and deeply focused concentration - you experience and feel them as your brainwaves synchronize to the lights and sound. Your brain begins producing more theta and alpha waves, and less beta waves - what we have during 'busy and scattered thinking' throughout the day.

The ThoughtStream: How does it work?

Biofeedback allows you to see, feel or hear mind/body processes that we normally aren't consciously aware of or able to voluntarily control. The ThoughtStream uses a galvonic skin response (GSR) sensor worn on the palm of your hand to record information about your physiological processes. Tiny changes in your skin resistance values are processed from the sensor multiple times per second. These measurements of your mood, emotional responses and mental state are then fed back to you through sound, console display, or computer software.

You immediately gain a new level of self-understanding when responses are seen or heard immediately as they occur.

A typical session example:

Stay still and relax while wearing the sensor - use the headphones if you'd also like sound feedback. Keep the ThoughtStream console display within sight. After a few minutes pass, you might begin to notice the display lights making occasional movements into red, followed by a slowly moving shift back above orange. The time that these color shifts occur make it easy for you to become aware of patterns of thought and feeling that may be causing you stress. The same method is used to train yourself into more positive responses.

These unconscious patterns can no longer control how we feel after we become aware of them. Much of the stress that we feel every day is only the pressure we feel when these negative emotional patterns are outside of our awareness.

The pressure is reduced after it is known, then released because we can now respond to it consciously.

Now imagine using the Proteus and Thoughtstream Together

Changing Preset Biofeedback Sessions:

It's easy to modify any of the preset biofeedback sessions below using the Proteus Editor software. You may prefer a lowering of the pitch while dimming the red lights and increasing their speed during excitement - or whatever - just change the parameters for a session within the editor. The Proteus has plenty of room for storing extra sessions.

It is also easy to add biofeedback capability to any of the stand-alone Proteus sessions. If you benefit from or really enjoy one of the standard pre-programmed sessions - modify it to react to your measurements in whatever way you'd like.

  The 'Menu' of Light & Sound BioFeedback Sessions

  The 'Menu' of stand-alone Proteus Sessions

  The Proteus Session Editor

Nearly every aspect of the light/sound experience may be changed on a per-segment basis: pulse rates (0-50 hz), the two color channels, which of four audio wave tables, whether the sound is modulated or binaural, etc. You can: import, edit and save your own versions of the 50 programs delivered with Proteus; select, cut and paste groups of them to build large sessions quickly; organize and download them via the Session Manager; turn the LiteFrames and audio on and off, etc. And you have memory for more than 2,000 segments!

The Waveform Editor offers unprecedented flexibility in sound creation. Proteus is the only light/sound system on the market today to offer such power. Each of the four waveforms stored in Proteus consists of up to four harmonics, and each harmonic can be its own waveform. Mix sine, square, sawtooth and triangle waveforms, and our unique waveform crossfading technology generates smooth, analog synth-like "sweeps" between waveforms at segment boundaries. No more "beep and bleep" audio experiences!

Download Proteus Editor here to see what you can do with it if you decide to purchase a Proteus.

Light and Sound Biofeedback Package with Ruby/Sapphire Light Frames Some people prefer the soothing deep blue for it visionary qualities and for relaxation.