The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a self care technique that consists of tapping acupuncture meridians to rebalance the energy field. The meridians generally begin at the finger tips and toes and end in major organs. Acupuncture uses needles to stimulate the meridians to release chemicals into the organs to balance the energy of the body and have a healing effect. EFT uses tapping instead of needles. Anyone can learn EFT. Tutorials‚ books and newsletters are readily available on the internet
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When I think of biofeedback I think about meditation and yoga‚ this is a technique that you can use to learn to control your body and your mind. It can help you to stay focused and relaxed in a stressful or non-stressful situation. This type of feedback can help you make subtle changes in your life such as reducing pain. It also gives you the power to use your imagination to control your body‚ and can often help with your physical performances and any health issues that you may have. There are many
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If you read the latest edition of the Thrive‚ you noticed there is a new biofeedback provider ready to help individuals with their stress management. Professionally trained biofeedback provider with over 30 years of teaching experience‚ I am Karen Robertson. Believing in confidentiality for my clients and not a healthcare provider‚ I follow HIPAA confidentiality. I believe biofeedback is a good technique to help people learn to manage their stress instead of their stress managing them. Stress
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academic pressure and schoolwork. Luckily‚ I was able to participate in a biofeedback stress lab. The biofeedback stress lab is a portable‚ user-friendly device that uses an emWave program to help students learn to take control of their stress and anxiety. Throughout my participation in the lab‚ I was to see if the experience was‚ in fact‚ able to improve my heart rate coherence and decrease my stress levels. The biofeedback stress lab activities consisted of a Balloon Game‚ Garden
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There are four main states of altered consciousness that differ from our normal state‚ sleep and dreams‚ hypnosis‚ biofeedback‚ and meditation. These states‚ while having identified them and having a general grasp of them‚ are still studied and observed to find out the definitive reason for why each and every one of them occur and what we can do with these states‚ whether it be medicinal or spiritual. The first state of altered consciousness that I will talk about is sleep and dreams‚ a state
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like biofeedback modalities to help train the person to up and down-regulate their physiological activity.” (Glomstad‚ 2003) Doctors often recommend resting in a dark‚ quiet room during a migraine attack; however‚ lying down for up to three days can have an adverse effect on a person’s life‚ causing severe depression‚ isolation from family and friends‚ and stress and anxiety due to worry about the next migraine attack. Self-regulation therapy increases
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The Body’s Response to Stress Stress: when the body is unable to cope with demands Stressor: any stimulus which produces the physiological stress response in by definition a stressors An event that triggers the stress response because it throws the body out of balance and forces it to respond e.g. life changes (bereavement‚ divorce)‚ daily hassles (traffic‚ lost keys)‚ workplace stressors (e.g. role strain‚ lack of control) and environmental stressors (noise‚ temperature‚ overcrowding) Chronic
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Sam‚ a 48 year‚ old Middle Eastern-American man is seeking intermittent therapy for depression and hypochondriacally chest pain. He is professionally competent as a research technician working in a computer company. His taking of psychotropic drugs has not produced the desired result in the past. Despite being on continuous antidepressant medication‚ he states the feeling of dizziness most of the time‚ a dork cloud hanging over him and the conviction of death by heart attack. His father had previously
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consciousness is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Some drugs make you feel very relaxed‚ violent‚ or unaware of your actions. Others stimulate your body. Meditation‚ biofeedback and hypnosis are also ways to be in altered states of consciousness. In hypnosis‚ they respond to suggestions without realizing it. In biofeedback‚ they become aware of their inner body. Meditation is used to relax the bodies and gain
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describe four psychological treatments for physical disorders. The four psychological treatments for physical disorders are relaxation training‚ biofeedback‚ meditation‚ and hypnosis. Relaxation training is how one is taught to relax their muscles at any given point and time. One can experience a reduction in feelings of anxiety (Comer‚ 2011). Biofeedback is where one is connected to machinery that gives them continuous readings about their involuntary body activities (Comer‚ 2011). Meditation
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