Coping With Stress – Biofeedback: Self-Mastery Beyond Pills
By admin on February 10, 2010, 2:48 pm
Stress is ubiquitous and on the rise. How we learn to manage it can have profound effects on our health and well being. This series explains how our bodies experience stress and demonstrates effective strategies to help you thrive in a fast-paced world. On this edition, Richard Harvey discusses strategies to reduce stress beyond medication. Series: "UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public" [3/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 13720]
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I believe that this technology exists, but I do not know it exactly works or what companies provide it. Also, as far as I know you do not want the person to fall asleep while relaxing, because that means she is hypoactivated.
I suggest that you google and check out VIRTUALLY BETTER; they provide virtual reality as part of the treatment for PTSD and it is my understanding they have obtained good results.
By the way, thank you for your sacrifices for this country.
excellent worker!
School is so stressful for me, every summer I always wonder if I forgot to turn some homework in, pull my hair out about wondering about it, until finally realizing it’s summer, but I can’t imagine what I’d be like if I had been in a war.
Very inclusive
Good presenter
Smoking weed does work. People that are brainwashed will always talk out their ass. Keep an open mind, don’t knock till you try it.
Irresponsible twat
Cool! I’m gonna get a biofeedback next week in Veracruz!… it’s amazing.. but I’ve got a question …
mi mom did and she wanted an update today but she couldn’t go today so she called the Biofeedback Center in Veracruz and they asked her to relax at home … so she did and slept around 50 minutes … then they called her to tell her that her feedback was successfully done.. so.. how is that possible??. . is it really possible to get a feedback through a satellite system?..
Smoking pot is one of the worst ways to manage stress and anxiety. You might as well drink a pot of coffee a day because, in the end, that’s pretty much the result you’re going to get…
Finally veterans w/ stress disorders,PTSD, etc have somthing to turn to besides the toxic drugs the V.A. has been giving us for decades.
wow the longest video on youtube right here!
the easy way is almost always the wrong way in the long run it backfires trust me
it will teach you to teach yourself everything.
smoke weed.
The best way to cope with Dysponesis.
The small white device is called the GSR2 and is available from Thought Technology Ltd. They have sold over 500,000 units to both clinicians, educators and consumers.
It allows you to better see what’s going on automatically in your own body. The better you can see what’s going on, the better you can learn to control it.
This helped me greatly with migraines – biofeedback, that is, when combined with meditation and yoga.
so, biofeedback allows individuals to control their metabolism rate? (i.e. heartbeat rate, digestion rate, blood pressure, blood speed, etc)
so… biofeedback allows individuals to control their metabolism rate (heartbeat rate, digestion rate, blood pressure, etc.)?
12:00-13:00 Definitions relevant to biofeedback
13:15-16:00 Biofeedback Myths
16:00-22:00 Self-Observation/Imagery Exercise – Psychophysiology!
24:00 Two basic principles: reduce noise, amplify signal??
25:30 Client example and Audience Participation: Gathering a baseline: a) blood volume pulse with three deep breaths, b) eyes closed and a loud clap, c) eyes closed during discussion of stress.
0-2:45 Knowledge of Stress Reduction in the Audience and what participants want to gain from the session.
2:50-4:30 Learning Goals
4:30-5:35 Primary Care Presentation and Stress/Anxiety
6:00 Freq/duration/dosage of pills as a method to chart progress
7:00-10:00 Biofeedback demonstration using
GSR – galvonic skin response as variable of interest (a measure of general arousal)