Category Archives: Biofeedback

Biofeedback technology and devices allow you to gain awareness of your body and mind. It is well known that we can learn to control many complex processes in our bodies, including such crucial parameters as the heart rate and brainwaves patterns. Our heart is intrinsically connected with our brain and by controlling the heart rate a person can steady his or her mind and remain calm in stressful situations or arouse to alert state, if needed. We often underestimate the role of heart rate in controlling our emotional state: resent studies show that singers in a choir involuntarily synchronize their heart rates during the performance. Moreover, it was found that people in love synchronize their heart rates when they are together. These results show that our heart serves as a “bridge” between our physiological and emotional bodies. If you visit Brainwave Entrainment section of our site, you’ll learn that brainwaves are highly correlated with emotional state. The use of biofeedback, allows us to alter our heart rate and brainwaves to achieve desired state state of mind…

Biofeedback: The New Way to Treat Anxiety

Biofeedback: The New Way to Treat Anxiety

While it was a very uncommon therapy 25 years ago, biofeedback is rapidly emerging into the mainstream, being taken up by more and more professionals and being granted coverage by Medicare and many health insurers for a range of conditions. While applied psychophysiology is still in its “testing”phase, and not… Continue reading →

Review of ThoughtStream Biofeedback Device

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ThoughtStream™ – Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) biofeedback system with interactive multimedia software for Windows Biofeedback has long been accepted as one of the most effective tools available for the control of stress. Until now you had to pay upwards of a thousand dollars for a “clinical” model, or purchase one… Continue reading →