Biofeedback in York

What Is Biofeedback?

Biofeedback is a powerful tool for developing mind-body awareness and self-regulation - vital aspects of emotional intelligence.

How you think and feel is reflected in the way your body operates, and vice versa. For example the graphics (right) show a clear difference in the way that heart rate varies over a five-minute period, in two states: anxiety and tranquillity.

Biofeedback works by monitoring your body's constantly changing responses and feeding this information back via computer, so that you can:

• You can become aware of how your body responds to even fleeting mental states - you can see changes in the feedback as they happen
• This opens up the possibility of natural, spontaneous learning, unmediated by the thinking, judging mind.
• You can learn to change your mental state by embodying a particular physiological state.

What Can We Measure?

We need parameters which are convenient to measure, reflect mental and emotional states, and are relatively easy to influence. The pages in this section describe some of the parameters I use.

How Does Biofeedback Help?

Biofeedback is self-empowering - you're not the passive recipient of treatment. Because the benefits come from learning:

• biofeedback is a safe, non-invasive therapy
• the benefits of biofeedback training are lasting.

Renting Biofeedback Devices for Home Practice

I'm able to rent powerful multi-modal devices for home use, so that you can practice and hone your developing skills.