BIOFEEDBACK AND MINDBODY MEDICINE

Mind body medicine is an adventure. It’s about exploring who we are and who we want to become, and confronting the obstacles that prevent us from reaching those goals. We address this by bringing awareness to how we experience and orient to mental/emotional stress, and how that leads to behavioral and physical changes in our bodies, or vice versa. Chronic stress leads to chronic tension and dis-ease. We counter this by:

1. Cultivating awareness – observe how we react to stress
2. Building resiliency – finding our inner strength, meaning, and purpose in life
3. Therapeutic breathing exercises – to help regulate our nervous system and stress response

Biofeedback is a tool that we use to measure how our body is responding, physiologically, to stress. Chronic stress leads to a huge diversity of stress-related conditions, which includes insomnia, headaches, hypertension, IBS, anxiety, and many more. Biofeedback allows us to create individualized treatment plans for the whole person, as a way to maximize health and well-being.

Biofeedback allows us to capture how our stress response changes before and after therapeutic breathing exercises. Intentional breathing, in the form of meditation, mindfulness, autogenic, or guided imagery training, has a profound effect on our stress response. Research has shown that a daily home practice of 20 minutes, twice a day, can rewire the nervous system to switch from a stressed state to a calm state. This, in return, treats and manages any stress-related condition you may be experiencing.