WHAT IS PISTA?
Reconnect with Yourself and Rediscover Your Strengths – PISTA
Experience relief from anxiety, depression, long-term illness, and pain with PISTA. This approach offers professional guidance and counseling when you need it most—whether you're dealing with grief, surviving cancer, making important decisions, or controlling your emotions. PISTA keeps you motivated to learn and function daily, empowering you to control your actions and respond well to events and your surroundings.
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Take Control of Your Mind and Body
PISTA’s approach teaches individuals rationality and good control of emotions. Its method helps identify life direction, encouraging you to move forward and embrace different scenarios that unfold daily. As a PISTA user, you develop the ability to form constructive responses to various situations. You can recognize the onset of harmful thought patterns and take control of circumstances, making decision-making an easy and sure process.
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This integration of rationality and emotions makes PISTA beneficial in managing depression, hypochondriasis, irritability, lack of concentration, panic attacks, physical pain, stress, and uncontrollable worrying, among other issues.
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The Science Behind PISTA
For decades, neuroscientists have recognized the importance of brain stimuli and the power of sound. There are two perceptions of sound: one is psychological, where sound evokes memories and emotions, and the other is neurological, triggering psychoacoustic effects. Sound triggers neurological and biological effects at the cellular level, feeding electrical impulses that charge the neocortex and creating a strong brain full of neurological pathways (Leeds, 2010). In this context, Processing Inner Strength Toward Actualization (PISTA) therapy offers a promising approach.
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PISTA provides healing using a variety of stimuli to facilitate memory processing, which can alleviate stress, relieve pain, pacify fears, and modify maladaptive behaviors. Moreover, this technique can uncover inner strength, allowing people to empower themselves and cope with psychosocial stress. Interestingly, the abbreviation PISTA means “clue” in Spanish, which aligns with how this approach provides hints to inspire self-understanding.
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Neuroscience and PISTA
PISTA is based on the neuroscience of processing sound and its potential therapeutic benefits. First discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove in 1839 and further elaborated upon by Gerald Oster in the 1970s, a third beat (or binaural beat) is created when tones of stimuli are different in each ear. The theory explains that playing two slightly different tones syncs the brain waves in both hemispheres, a process named brainwave entrainment (Carter & Russell, 1993). PISTA leverages this auditory function to heal and improve well-being.
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Since PISTA's first use in 1983, the Nova Palm Foundation, an NGO based in Hong Kong, has created different sound files of music and rhythm as stimuli, as well as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), to promote well-being. For therapeutic purposes, these sound files are composed of two tones which the brain combines and alters into a single tone during auditory processing. The frequency of this single tone varies according to the psychological state individuals aim to achieve.
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Get Confidence and Prompt Care
Critical issues are addressed promptly because the support of PISTA coaches is also accessible from home between face-to-face sessions. With PISTA, you are confident and cared for whenever you need care the most.
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