EEG Considerations
Dr. Vittoz posited that the brain gives off different kinds of energy depending on the kind of work it is performing.  He presented the idea that humans can intentionally modify the amount and kind of energy the brain expends. 
Today, EEG examinations measure the kinds of cognitive activity of which he spoke.  Centers of activity in the brain can be mapped, measured and documented.  Extensive studies have confirmed that subjects were able to modify the amount and kind of energy expended in various situations.

MRI Results
Dr. Vittoz’s work indicated to him that all thought processes need not be processed the way they were in the “tired, depressed clients of the modern world” in which he worked in 1900.  Not all brain experience need be processed through the sieves of judgment, personal history and trauma, or cognitive thought.  In fact, he posited than humans were not designed to function this way.
MRI examination measures the location of  “hot spots” active in any given brain activity.  Behavioral modification studies show that we can indeed modify how our minds respond to the world around us and to the stimuli of our senses and our bodies’ physical states.

Neuroplasticity
The term “neuroplasticity” refers to the brain’s recently discovered ability to change its structure and function by expanding or strengthening circuits (neuron pathways) that are used and by shrinking or weakening those that are rarely engaged.  It is possible for people to remap neuron circuits in their own brain by changing thinking patterns, that is, at will and with practice.
Vittoz knew nothing of the process of “neuroplasticity,” the brain’s capacity to revamp its own neurological pathways, but upon this reality, the Vittoz method is built.  He posited that constant emissive thought was wasteful, tiring and over time, destructive, and that a proper balance between normal receptive thought and emissive thought produced harmony, creativity, productivity and pleasure.  As Vittoz exercises are practiced over a short period (say, three months) the brain remaps circuitous nervous system routes into more direct ones. 

Such more direct neurological remapping:

1. affords immediate pleasure of living in the present,
2. gives the experience of being alive, the actor of ones own life,            
   
3. conserves energy for other endeavors by giving rest to the parts of the brain used for judgment and emotional purposes, and              
   
4. produces considerable energy for creative thought.