Biofeedback is proven effective, and it has shown essentially no negative side effects particularly for stress relief.

Biofeedback is used in a variety of stress related problems or situations. These situations involve job- or study-related physical or psychological problems etc.

What distinguishes biofeedback from other techniques is that it allows you to increase awareness of your own physiological responses such as breathing, and muscle tension etc which is used for stress relief.

Through biofeedback you can recondition the thought processes associated with increased nervous activity in order to relax and reduce stress.

The relaxation techniques involved in Biofeedback:

• Diaphragmatic breathing

• Mental imagery

• Autogenic training

• Progressive muscular relaxation

• Meditation etc.

When these relaxation techniques are performed, the nervous system gains a stronger feel for how to relax. Biofeedback emphasizes and involves in a strong mind-body-spirit connection for stress relief.

Basically, biofeedback can help you shift the focus of control from an external source, a stressor, to an internal source, your thoughts to root out your stress.

In Biofeedback, sometimes a psycho physiological stress profile is used to evaluate whether biofeedback would be helpful for you or not.  A stress profile is a diagnostic technique to look at how your body responds to stress. What emerges on this procedure is a picture of just how your body responds to stress.

The response on the stress profile is unique and different to each individual. From this procedure you can learn more about how your body responds to stress, and your doctor will learn more about what type of biofeedback might be helpful for you.