Mental Health through Biofeedback
The connection between the mind and the body is one of the most puzzling questions of all time. It’s one that’s plagued philosophers for centuries, and one that’s also inspired all the great poets of the world. If the great emotions, like love, pain, fear, and pleasure, have their origins in both the body and the mind, then it might be possible to control one’s inner world in unimaginable ways. It’s certainly been playing a big part in how cultures perceive mental illness throughout time. Today, there has been some wonderful work on the connections between mental health and brain chemistry .
With mental illness, the link has always been there, of course, but recent work in the arena of biofeedback seems to suggest that brain waves can be moderated, to a degree. For the severely mentally ill, of course, there’s nothing better than the care of a doctor, but for other daily challenges, there might be hope in the realm of biofeedback. One can, for example, learn how to slow heart rate, and increase breathing duration, as well as a host of other physical functions, that do play a very big role in one’s internal experience of the world. There seems to be hope, then, for those who suffer from minor anxiety disorders, as well as depression, that can come from within.
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