Most of us in today’s society can’t go through the day without some level of stress. Most of us experience moderate to significant stress levels due to school, work, family, and other pressures. While stress can be beneficial in moderation, excessive quantities can lead to anxiety, depression, and various health problems.
While we cannot eliminate stress, we can train our minds and bodies to deal with it more constructively. This is where Biofeedback therapy services can help. Biofeedback treatment provides us with tools to understand how our bodies respond to stress in real-time, allowing us to learn techniques to reduce those effects.
How Can Stress Affect You?
Stress can often have both emotional and physical implications. Stress causes our bodies to release the hormones adrenaline and cortisol, which can cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, as well as changes in our immune, digestive, and reproductive systems. Prolonged exposure to these hormones can cause excessive wear and tear on the body and mind, causing several physical and psychological issues.
What Is Biofeedback Therapy?
Biofeedback is a non-invasive technique that can assist you and your physician in better understand how stress, unpleasant emotions, and situational circumstances affect your body. These physiological changes are picked up by sensors and presented on a computer monitor that you and your physician can see.
It provides quick data about your bodily sensitivity to stress (such as your heart rate or muscular tension). Recognising and managing these emotions can help you improve your health and stress resilience.
How Does It Work?
Biofeedback therapy uses electronic monitoring devices to help individuals learn how to control specific bodily processes, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle tension. During a biofeedback session, electrodes are attached to the individual’s skin and connected to a monitoring device, which provides feedback through visual or auditory signals.
By receiving this feedback, individuals can learn to recognise and control their bodily processes, which can help with conditions such as anxiety, chronic pain, and high blood pressure. The goal of the treatment is to help individuals learn self-regulation techniques that they can use to improve their physical and mental health.
What Conditions Can Be Treated?
Biofeedback training can successfully address various disorders, particularly those produced by stress and resolved by conscious relaxation techniques. The mind is widely regarded as the world’s most powerful computer, and actively investing in the mind/body link through
Biofeedback can increase its capabilities. Almost any individual body may be trained to perform better, regardless of its current level of function. Some common conditions that can be treated with Biofeedback include the following –
- High blood pressure
- Chronic pain
- Performance Enhancement
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Asthma
- Heart disease
- Depression
- PTSD
- Delayed and/or disturbed sleep
What Are The Benefits?
Improved Health
Biofeedback therapy has been demonstrated to alleviate many physical problems, including headaches, high blood pressure, urine incontinence, faecal incontinence, asthma, motion sickness, and many others
Better Sense Of Well Being
Biofeedback therapy benefits many mental health and emotional issues, such as fear and anxiety, stress management, sadness, and loneliness. Biofeedback is an excellent tool for people who want to improve their peace and well-being. It can be incorporated into their daily routine or as part of their mindfulness meditation practice.
No Side Effects
One of the essential benefits of Biofeedback over traditional therapy is that it is entirely safe, non-invasive, and has no adverse effects. Sensors are placed on the body during biofeedback sessions but are painless and harmless.
Some biofeedback devices, like the Reflect Orb, do not require any sensors to be placed on the body. Rest your hands comfortably on the orb, and it detects physiological responses through the skin. Biofeedback is an excellent supplement to many people’s health and wellness routines.
Can Be Done At Home
Biofeedback training can be done with a professional therapist, but the best part about Biofeedback is that it can also be done on your own. All you need is a biofeedback device at home. You can incorporate biofeedback sessions into your regular wellness routine and get the benefits quickly.
Biofeedback is an integrated approach to healing the mind, body, emotions, and spirit. At Serenity, unique treatment programs for individuals offer a safe place for healing and building a positive foundation for life in recovery.
