<p></p><p></p><div><section><div><div><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Les%20Fehmi.jpg" alt="Les Fehmi" width="145" height="216" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_left">Les Fehmi is the author (with Jim Robbins) of "The Open Focus Brain" and "Dissolving Pain," both published by Trumpeter/Shambhala. In this book, he advances his program for learning to relieve stress by attaining what he calls open focus—a more diffuse, flexible form of attention that, paradoxically, allows one to focus better and in a more relaxed way. According to Fehmi, most of us habitually operate in a narrow-focus stress mode that results in anxiety and a host of physical problems, including digestive upsets, rashes and migraines. Fehmi draws on his experience with neurofeedback to explain how we can shift our brain waves to attain open focus. These mental techniques help one to experience their body and even their heart in a new way and change how you perceive the space around them. Fehmi grounds his plan in research and patient anecdotes showing the techniques can reduce pain and improve relationships and athletic performance. Fehmi acknowledges the results of open focus are similar to those from meditation, but even readers skeptical of Eastern spirituality may find Fehmi's science-based program useful.&nbsp;<img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Open%20Focus%20Book.jpg" alt="Open Focus Book" width="204" height="319" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_right"></div><div><br></div><div>A pioneer in the field of neurofeedback, he is director of the Princeton Biofeedback Centre in Princeton, New Jersey.&nbsp;An affiliate member of the Department of Medicine at Princeton University Medical Center, over the past four decades Dr. Fehmi has been active as a psychologist in private practice, a speaker, and an author in peer-reviewed journals.&nbsp;A certified “speed-and-explosion specialist,” Dr. Fehmi has worked with the Dallas Cowboys, the New Jersey Nets, and the Olympic Development Committee.&nbsp;He has also served as a consultant for Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, the Johnson &amp; Johnson corporation, and the Veterans Administration.&nbsp;</div></div></section></div><p></p><h3><a name="_Toc36400424"></a></h3>

<p>Les began working with
alpha synchrony in 1978 as part of his research at Princeton University where
he taught. Les has developed some very sophisticated techniques in attentional
training called Open Focus. He uses this technique in conjunction with
neurofeedback. His workshops in these techniques are experiential in nature and
enlightening with regard to how much our perception and consciousness are
regulated by our attention. He has also developed special equipment for
training alpha synchrony.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="https://www.shambhala.com/openfocusbrain/">To listen to the Open Focus method, click here</a></p><br><p></p>