Biofeedback
***Disclaimer: This blog is not meant to be used as legal or medical advice. It is written as my person perspective on how medical professionals could blend western medicine with other modalities*** Today, I'd like to talk about biofeedback. This is an approach to healing that connects the patient with a monitoring system. As unconscious processes are relayed to the patient in real time, the patient makes conscious adjustments to make the unconscious process come into a healthier range. What does this look like? A simple example would be heart rate. A biofeedback practitioner connects a heart monitor to a patient who suffers from anxiety. The machine reflects back to the patient any changes in heart rate that occur as it is happening. The biofeedback practitioner might guide the patient to do things that will cause relaxation such as meditation or deep breathing exercises. The patient knows what actions work based on real time fe...