Mind Alive DAVID SMART for peak academic performance

The DAVID SMART offers a unique fusion of light and sound to induce audio-visual entrainment (AVE), also known as brainwave entrainment. Its pre-programmed sessions have been rigorously tested and are based on the most current research findings to ensure you the most effective results.

The sessions on the SMART are specifically geared towards optimising academic performance. It does this by reducing stress, boosting mood and improving concentration and memory.

The SMART sessions also include Mind Alive's proprietary randomisation process, which helps encourage dissociation and brain frequency tracking to the stimulus.

The SMART features five distinct categories of sessions: Energise, Meditate, Brain Brightener, Sleep and Mood Booster, with two selections for each category.

Tru-Vu Omniscreen^TM Eyesets - patented technology for the best results

To ensure safe, gentle and effective audio-visual entrainment, the DAVID SMART comes with Mind Alives unique Tru-Vu Omniscreen^TM Eyesets.

These have been carefully designed to provide you with the most effective and safe light and sound experience. The Eyesets use eight blue-tinted white LED light sources mounted over a silver reflector behind a translucent screen. This ensures that the light disperses evenly across the visual field.

Furthermore, the Tru-Vu Omniscreen^TM Eyesets special patented process of allows the SMART to stimulate a different frequency in each half of the brain. This is done by the left and right visual fields of each eye being individually stimulated rather than the entire eye - the lights flash into the left visual fields of both eyes, then alternately flashes into the right visual fields of both eyes - so stimulate either visual cortex with a frequency different from the other visual cortex.

This is useful, for example, where a person functions strongly from the left brain but the left brain is relatively slowed down. In such an instance, a light frequency of 8 Hz can be used to stimulate the right visual field (and therefore the left brain) to slow down left brain function, whilst a frequency of 18 Hz can be used for the left visual field to increase right brain function.The facility of differentially stimulating the left and right halves of the brain is essential for mood boosting and mental performance and is made possible by the unique design of the Tru-Vu Omniscreen^TM Eyeset.

Choose your preferred Eyeset - available in standard White or Multi-Colour

All Mind Alive kits are supplied with the standard White Tru-Vu Omniscreen Eyeset.

If you prefer, you may select to upgrade to the Multi-Colour Eyeset instead. Simply make your selection using the drop-down menu (above)

The Multi-Colour eyeset enables you to further enhance your AVE experience. Incorporating six extra colours - In addition to the standard white, you can now experience blue, cyan, green, yellow, red and magenta. You can also select separate colours for each visual field and random color selection. Deep blue and green are highly recommended when running sleep sessions.

• Blue - Calming and relaxing

• Cyan - Shown to reduce risk of seizure

• Green - Effective for pain reduction and meditation

• Yellow - Improve cognition and focus

• Red - Increase physical arousal and energy

• Magenta - Best for contemplative meditation and enhancing creativity

Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

For the first time ever, a meditative breathing pacer has been incorporated into an audio-visual entrainment device, enabling users to pace their breathing cycles to achieve a "meditative" breathing rate. Scientifically, this technique has been analysed and shown to settle down a stressed autonomic nervous system (that's the part of the nervous system responsible for activating the "fight or flight" response).

Simply inhale for two of the guiding heartbeats played through the headphones and exhale for two. Most sessions begin at an easy to follow seven breathing cycles/minute (28 heartbeats/min) and slow down to six breaths/minute (24 heartbeats/min). This allows you to breathe a little faster at the onset of a session until you have had time to relax.

So what is HRV? Well, the heart rate speeds up with every breath in and slows down with every breath out. This swing in heart rate is the HRV. A typical heart beat swing is in the order of about 15 beats per minute (bpm), but when people get stressed, the HRV drops markedly, sometimes to as low as five bpm.

The HRV breathing technique used clinically is based on a 10 second breathing cycle (that's six breaths per minute, by inhaling slowly for five seconds and exhaling slowly for five seconds in an easy, relaxed breath).

You can achieve HRV paced breathing whilst using the DAVID SMART, by listening to the heartbeat sound generated by the DAVID SMART

For more information, you can read the full product manual here