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What is Mind Activation?
When you raise your hand to wave hello to a friend or lift your knee to take another step on the Stairmaster, you control these actions. Other body functions — like heart rate, skin temperature, and blood pressure — are controlled involuntarily by your nervous system. You don’t think about making your heart beat faster. It just happens in response to your environment, like when you’re nervous, excited, or exercising.
One technique can help you gain more control over these normally involuntary functions. It’s called biofeedback, and the therapy is used to help prevent or treat conditions, including migraine headaches, chronic pain, incontinence, and high blood pressure.
The idea behind biofeedback is that, by harnessing the power of your mind and becoming aware of what’s going on inside your body, you can gain more control over your health.
During a session I assist you with the reprogramming of your limiting beliefs stored in your subconscious – and teach you the corresponding feelings you hesitate to feel using a combination of the following biofeedback techniques.
- Biofeedback machine
- Kinesiology
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Myofascial Release
Biofeedback machine
What does a biofeedback machine do?
During a biofeedback session, a therapist attaches electrical sensors to different parts of your body. These sensors might be used to monitor your brain waves, skin temperature, muscle tension, heart rate and breathing.
Equipment Used for Biofeedback
- Electromyographs (EMG): provides data on muscle tension.
- Feedback thermometers: offers data on skin temperature.
- Electrodermographs (EDG): measures the electrical properties of the skin, which are often linked to the activity of the sweat glands.
Is biofeedback evidence based?
- Research shows that biofeedback, alone and in combination with other behavioural therapies, is effective for treating a variety of medical and psychological disorders, ranging from headache to hypertension to temporo-mandibular to attentional disorders to list a few.
How Does Biofeedback Therapy Work?
Researchers aren’t exactly sure how or why biofeedback works. They do know that biofeedback promotes relaxation, which can help relieve a number of conditions that are related to stress.
During a biofeedback session, electrodes/sensors are attached to your skin. These electrodes/sensors send signals to a monitor, which displays a sound, flash of light, or image that represents your heart and breathing rate, blood pressure, skin temperature, sweating, or muscle activity.
When you’re under stress, these functions change. Your heart rate speeds up, your muscles tighten, your blood pressure rises, you start to sweat, and your breathing quickens. You can see these stress responses as they happen on the monitor, and then get immediate feedback as you try to stop them. Biofeedback sessions are typically done in a therapist’s office, but there are computer programs that connect the biofeedback sensor to your own computer.
A biofeedback therapist helps you practice relaxation exercises, which you fine-tune to control different body functions. For example, you might use a relaxation technique to turn down the brainwaves that activate when you have a headache.
Kinesiology
Kinesiology relates to ‘the study of movement‘. It is a scientific muscle monitor (biofeedback) to look at what may be causing ‘imbalances’ in the body and attempts to relieve these imbalances. Kinesiology draws upon concepts from several sciences, including biomechanics, anatomy, physiology, and neuroscience.
The kinesiology approach examines ‘unresolved stress reactions’ in a person and provides techniques intended to help boost the body’s natural healing process.
Kinesiology is quite complex and extremely broad in nature that there is no snug fit type of definition. The important premise here is that our bodies have their own ability to heal. This is the basis of homeostasis – the notion that the body is self-regulated to maintain stability. Just like when we overheat, we sweat to cool down.
Because of today’s fast paced lifestyle and exposure to chemicals, processed food and other allergens, our body often is ‘stressed’ and unable to maintain a balanced state. The tools of Kinesiology enable us to communicate with the subconscious to identify where there are “imbalances” and points of stress or trauma. The same tools are able to determine the body’s desired correctional techniques, allowing the clients’ healing potential to be maximized and balance to be achieved.
Every Kinesiology session is unique. No two Kinesiologists use the same methods and no blueprint exists as to how a session will unfold. The COMMON thread of every session however, is that your subconscious will guide the process. It will surface your body’s stress and communicate how it needs to heal. The therapist simply guides the method.
Craniosacral Therapy (CST)
Craniosacral therapy (CST) is a gentle hands-on treatment that may provide relief from a variety of symptoms including headaches, neck pain and side effects of cancer treatment among many others.
CST uses a light touch to examine membranes and movement of fluids in and around the central nervous system. Relieving tension in the central nervous system promotes a feeling of well-being by eliminating pain and boosting health and immunity.
The focus of CST is a gentle placement of hands to assist release of the body’s connective tissue, or “fascia.” Fascia (Latin word for “band”) is a covering found throughout the body including organs, glands, nerves, muscles, blood vessels, brain and spinal cord. This covering forms a body-wide connective network. CST is based on the idea that the body is interrelated at all levels.
CST is thought to improve efficiency of biological processes through boosting inherent self-regulation, self-correction and self-healing. The therapy can be used successfully with children and adults.
Myofascial Therapy
Myofascial Therapy (also known as myofascial release therapy or myofascial trigger point therapy) is a type of safe, low load stretch that releases tightness and pain throughout the body caused by myofascial pain syndrome, which describes chronic muscle pain that is worse in certain areas known as trigger points.
What is Fascia?
Fascia is a three-dimensional web that permeates the whole body. The best way to envision the expanse of the fascial system is to think of it as a layer of connective tissue (similar to a tendon or ligament) that starts with the top layer directly below the skin and extends to two deeper layers.
When the fascia is in its normal healthy state it is a relaxed and supple web – like the weave in a loose-knit sweater. When it is restricted, it is more rigid and less flexible, and can create pulls, tensions, and pressure. The fascia is a continuous system, running from the bottom of the feet through the top of the head and has three layers:
- Superficial fascia, which lies directly below the skin. It stores fat and water, allows nerves to run through it, and allows muscle to move the skin.
- Deep fascia, which surrounds and infuses with muscle, bone, nerves, and blood vessels to the cellular level.
- Deepest fascia, which sits within the dura of cranial sacral system.
