The biofeedback specialist say:
Biofeedback helps you see how mental shifts can affect your physical state. Machines attached to patients show, in real time, when optimum levels of relaxation are reached. Over serveral sessions, patients learn to relax and slow their breathing to get into the more tranquil states that foster sleep.
Treatment: Slowing your breath by breathing deeply can help you relax. You can aslo induce a sleepier state by warming your hands; this dilates blood vessels and lowers your body's core temperature, which promotes sleep. Test the principle for yourself by taping a small alcohol thermometer to one of your fingers and encouraging the temperature to rise. This can demonstrate your power to put yourself in a more relaxed state and, by extension, overcome insomnia.
-Fred Shaffer, Ph.D.,B.C.B.,professor of psychology at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo.
Biofeedback helps you see how mental shifts can affect your physical state. Machines attached to patients show, in real time, when optimum levels of relaxation are reached. Over serveral sessions, patients learn to relax and slow their breathing to get into the more tranquil states that foster sleep.
Treatment: Slowing your breath by breathing deeply can help you relax. You can aslo induce a sleepier state by warming your hands; this dilates blood vessels and lowers your body's core temperature, which promotes sleep. Test the principle for yourself by taping a small alcohol thermometer to one of your fingers and encouraging the temperature to rise. This can demonstrate your power to put yourself in a more relaxed state and, by extension, overcome insomnia.
-Fred Shaffer, Ph.D.,B.C.B.,professor of psychology at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo.
