By Sanjeev Patel
What is biofeedback? What is the relationship between biofeedback and Yoga? Many Yoga certification courses don’t discuss the importance of the relationship between biofeedback and meditation. Biofeedback is a special kind of information that is concerned with such life processes as the beating of the heart, the pressure and circulation of the blood, and the energy waves of the brain.
Biofeedback instruments translate an inner functioning into a visual or aural signal like a flashing light, a moving needle, a sustained tone, bleeps, amplified breathing or heartbeats. The subject modifies the signal by taking notes of what sensation accompanies the change in signal and in so doing he is able to regulate normally involuntary physiological mechanisms.
Yogis and Yoginis can achieve this tuning without the aid of electrical instruments but biofeedback provides assistance in developing that sensitivity of awareness to everyone. Biofeedback is beneficial in areas of medical treatments that deals with migraine and tension headache, high blood pressure, heat trouble, insomnia, muscular tics and anxiety and biofeedback training opens up many possibilities in auto-healing.
Meditation and biofeedback are both wonderful tools for training the mind to distinguish between false alarms and signs of real danger. There is scientific evidence that meditation can reduce blood pressure, reduce stress levels, and relieve pain.
Through biofeedback we can also learn to reproduce brain waves patterns found in meditation and researchers theorize that people can be trained to mimic in a relatively short time the complete physiological pattern that characterizes meditation.
Although there is skepticism about this reproduction being identical to the experience of Yoga and Zen meditation, the researchers feel that many people who live in this new technological age will be encouraged to start meditating through the appeal of biofeedback.
© Copyright 2010 – Sanjeev Patel / Aura Publications
Sanjeev Patel is a certified Yoga teacher and an exclusive author for Aura Wellness Center.
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