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 The American Institute
of Stress named
the Peak Achievement Trainer as a recipient of the Institute’s 2007 Award
for Distinction and Innovation. In granting the award, it recognized that
the Peak Achievement Trainer has the unique ability to decrease stress while
enhancing focus.
The American Institute Of Stress is the
pre-eminent authority in the area of stress, disease and health. It has
served as a watchdog in the area of recognizing products that are effective
for stress reduction for over thirty years. The Institute was founded in
1978 by Dr. Hans Selye, the researcher generally credited with defining
stress and performing the first studies.
 High stress levels
have a negative impact on people’s health, and contribute to less than peak
performance at work, in sports, or at school.
Paul Rosch, MD, the President, The
American Institute of Stress Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry,
New York Medical College states, "Peak Achievement Trainer appears to have
the potential to improve productivity by reducing stress..."
Most everyone is familiar with stress. We
experience it in varying forms and degrees every day. Stress is your body's
response to anything that you feel that is overwhelming. This can be viewed
as a result of life's demands, either pleasant or unpleasant, and your
inability to meet those demands.
Stress symptoms include anxiety,
nervousness, distraction, excessive worry, and internal pressure.
 Everyone
reacts to stress differently. Each of us has a different level of pressure
and anxiety that we can handle without a bad
outcome. In small doses, stress can actually be beneficial to us.
In this case, stress can help give us increased
energy and alertness, even helping to keep us focused on the problem at
hand. This type of stress is good. Some people call this type of
stress as being “pumped up”.
It is only when the stress becomes too
great, affecting us physically or mentally, that it becomes a problem. Unfortunately,
as the level of pressure gets too great, stress eventually exceeds our
ability to cope with it in a positive way. Often, people describe
themselves as being stressed out, burned out, or at their wits end.
However, too
much or too little stress will limit your effectiveness at whatever you are
trying to accomplish. At this point, it is important to find
positive and productive ways to deal with the stress, and to resolve the
situation that is causing the stress. Ideally,
you are able to find your optimal level of stress - the balance-point at
which you are the most motivated and effective.
 The
Peak Achievement Trainer is designed to help you do just that. It can
actually train your degree of Focus and Alertness independently, so that you
can retain or improve your ability to focus while your excessive Alertness
and the associated stress gradually decreases over a few sessions.
The training software allows you or your trainer to adjust the goals
(thresholds) for Focus, Alertness, and Neureka! independently, by dragging
the green bars up or down. Too little Alertness is associated
with drowsiness, too much with excessive stress, particularly if it
is prolonged.
You can see when you are within the right range. It also lets you know by using sounds, playing DVDs,
animations, CDs or audio files when you are in the correct range of optimal
stress (Alertness) and Focus. It can even change the size and
brightness of a DVD or an animation to help you sense when you are in the
right range. Over a few training sessions, you begin to sense what
this optimal Zone of mental functioning feels like for you and start to
create it in your life without constant feedback. At that point, you
can use the Peak Achievement Trainer as a monitor of your progress.
The Trainer
can
help you to do a better job at work, to become a better athlete, and to
make better grades.
The
Peak Achievement Trainer is used by executives at top corporations,
professional and collegiate sports teams, Olympic Training Centers, the
U.S. Army, sport psychologists, golf pros, performance trainers, spas,
day traders, therapists, and the general public.
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