Is flashing light/photic stimulation with sonic stim. to change
brain waves a legit therapy???  anxiety man saouglubsjb at Fri
Apr 13 01:32:47 EST 2001   I hope I described this therapy
correctly and I hope someone can answer my question.....  I
opted to see a practitioner of holistic medicine for my anxiety
problems.... He is a family friend and someone my father trusts
so I decided to try it out.  What he does is:  a) puts glasses
on me that flash at certain intervals (believe this is called
"photic stimulation")  b) I wear headphones and listen to sounds
that are supposed to affect my  c) he acts as a hypnotherapist
while this is going on  Is this treatment effective???  Is it
safe????  I have a rather intense case of anxiety in which I
manifest physical symptoms, if you wanted to know.  The idea of
this was to make me able to control my brainwaves or something
like that, so as to be able to be calm and anxiety free.  I was
concerned that #1 - this is "quackery" and doesn't work or #2 -
i could damage myse