Biofeedback

uses electronic devices to monitor and to assist learning to control involuntary body processes, including blood pressure and pulse rate, as a way of modifying emotional states such as anxiety or depression. Galvanic biofeedback measures the skin's electrical conductivity while brainwave biofeedback monitors the different wavelengths of brain activity.

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BIOFEEDBACK: A method of monitoring minute metabolic changes in one's own body with the aid of sensitive machines.

The technique is used especially for stress-related conditions such as asthma, migraines, insomnia, and high blood pressure. Clients learn to make subtle adjustments to move toward a more balanced internal state by consciously visualizing, relaxing, or imagining while observing light, sound, or metered feedback.

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BIOFEEDBACK

Biofeedback utilizes a system of sensitive instruments that relay information about the physical condition of the body. Used as a primary therapy, or in conjunction with other methods, biofeedback provides deep relaxation and stress management skills to prevent stress-related disorders and illness. These skills, including deep breathing and guided imagery, offer self-regulation and control over mental, emotional, and physical processes. The principles of biofeedback can be traced back to the 18th century.

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Biofeedback: Using a biofeedback machine, practitioners teach patients how to control and change such autonomic body functions as blood pressure, heart rate, circulation, digestion, and perspiration. Through monitoring “feedback” using auditory or visual cues, users extend their understanding of physiological functioning far past the normal five senses.

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Biofeedback: Using a biofeedback machine, practitioners teach patients how to control and change such autonomic body functions as blood pressure, heart rate, circulations, digestion and perspiration. Through monitoring "feedback" using auditory or visual cues, users extend their understanding of physiological functioning far past the normal five senses.

(See also: Biofeedback, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

BIOFEEDBACK

Is the means by which one can monitor how one functions on a physical and emotional level, by using a simple, non-invasive electronic means of monitoring these functions. This method provides useful information, and signals the change that we initiate with intent, to alter any inappropriate circumstance or condition, like lowering blood pressure.

Biofeedback instruments record continuous information about subtle changes in physiological stress responses (such as muscle tension, temperature, respiration, skin resistance or heart rate). Using this information, various guided relaxation techniques are employed to control the appropriate symptoms, which can include anything from anxiety to muscle spasms.

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Biofeedback:

the process of furnishing an individual with information, usually in an auditory or visual mode, on the state of one or more physiological variables such as heart rate, blood pressure, or skin temperature; it often enables the individual to gain some voluntary control over the physiological variable being sampled. Biofeedback is used especially for stress-related conditions such as asthma, migraine headaches, insomnia, and high blood pressure.

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Biofeedback

A scientific technique to tune into and consciously control bodily functions through the use of EEG (electroencephalographic) feedback instruments to monitor brain waves and skin resistance with the goal of modification of brain waves. and feeds that information back to the user.

Participants can learn to control heart rates or generate brain wave activity (alpha, beta, and delta) at will to induce altered states of consciousness. Enhances the capacity for relaxation and/or inducing meditative states and physiological control similar to that in yoga and Zen.

(See also: Biofeedback, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Biofeedback , Psychophysiologic feedback , Biofeedback, Biofeedbacks:

Process by which a person uses biofeedback information to gain voluntary control over processes or functions which are primarily under autonomic control. It is used in experimental or treatment settings with human subjects. (From APA Thesaurus of Psychological Terms, 8th ed)

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The movement has received criticism in two forms. The first is from researchers in psychology, medicine, and science who often dismiss the movement as being grounded in pseudoscience, overusing psychobabble, and whose efficacy can be explained entirely by placebo. This criticism was expressed by Richard Feynman's response to his visit at Esalen. However, a technique may still be useful despite a pseudoscientific or religious background. The crucial point is whether critics are correct in asserting that the techniques of the human pote ...

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Human Potential Movement, Human Potential Movement - Roots, Human Potential Movement - Relationship to other fields, Human Potential Movement - Esalen, Human Potential Movement - Criticism, Human Potential Movement - Notable figures

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electroacupuncture biofeedback: Ostensibly diagnostic method developed by Reinhold Voll, M.D., of Germany, in the 1940s. Its theory posits the meridian system of acupuncture. In biological dentistry (holistic dentistry), electroacupuncture biofeedback involves application of an electrical current to a tooth. abnormal readings indicate an infection or disturbance near the tooth and, possibly, in the organ that shares a meridian with the tooth.

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Biofeedback Without Machines: Modality for relatively stressless living and for tapping inner resources to discover one's identity and potential, according to George E. Soroka in Biofeedback Without Machines: A Strategy For Living (1994). Soroka's method joins biofeedback and a form of counseling that includes Transactional Analysis. In his book, Soroka states that everyone is plugged into the universe at large, that this connection is a transcendent source of awesome power, and that biofeedback enables one to begin an exploration of the cosmic energy force. He also suggests that God is immanent in humans.

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level-off

To reach a state of consciousness during a biofeedback session

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Urinary incontinence - Exercises. Kegel exercises to strengthen or retrain pelvic floor muscles and sphincter muscles can reduce or cure stress leakage. Women of all ages can learn and practice these exercises, which are taught by a health care professional. Most Kegel exercises do not require equipment. However, one technique involves the use of weighted cones. For this exercise, the patient stands and holds a cone-shaped object within her vagina. As the patient becomes accustomed to the weight, cones of increasing weight are substi ...

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readout

The biofeedback chart or paper that records the marks from a pen that is moved by the electrical energy emanating from the subject

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upper frequency

In biofeedback work the UF denotes the highest threshold reached on the scale of brain rhythms when connected to the electroencephalograph

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The movement is sometimes considered to be under the broader umbrella of the New Age movement. It is distinguished ideologically from other New Age trends by an emphasis on the individual development of secular human capabilities as opposed to the more spiritual views within the movement. However, participants rarely make this distinction and it is common to find that most who embrace the ideas of the human potential movement also tend to embrace the other more spiritual ideas within the New Age movement. It is in many ways the progenito ...

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Human Potential Movement, Human Potential Movement - Roots, Human Potential Movement - Relationship to other fields, Human Potential Movement - Esalen, Human Potential Movement - Criticism, Human Potential Movement - Notable figures

Read more here: » Human Potential Movement: Encyclopedia II - Human Potential Movement - Relationship to other fields

holistic optometry (holistic eye care): A form of optometry that encompasses acupuncture, biofeedback, bodywork, psychotherapy, and syntonics (a form of colored light therapy).

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holistic psychiatry: Form of psychiatry that may include biofeedback, bodywork, energy healing (see vibrational medicine), and homeopathy.

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AUTOGENIC TRAINING (AT) - various methods of meditation, visualization or biofeedback training used to modify behavior and consciousness. (NAD)

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Feedback:

The giving of information to subjects about their performance on a test.

See also Biofeedback .

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