Biofeedback techniques teach us that everyone has the ability to modify neural and physiological mechanisms to control stress and anxiety enough to know the body language in order to apply the right antidote.
Traditional methods of Western medicine have taught us that to relieve symptoms and diseases we must turn to outsiders, so if we have a headache do not hesitate to take a pain reliever, whereas biofeedback or biofeedback argues that the cure given from within, “everyone has the ability to relieve himself if he learns to avoid statements that generate nerve diseases,” said Dr. Marta Fernandez Solari, a psychologist at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The specialist explains that our nervous system is divided roughly in a central section that commands the voluntary functions (speak and move), and a self-governing activities that do not require conscious commands (breathing, heartbeat and digestion). “The autonomous functions are responsible for many ailments, for them comes from stress, and for a long time were believed to be unchangeable, but it has proved possible to control functions such as heart rate.”
Mechanical stress
Stress is a part of our animal heritage that helps to deal with dangerous situations, for example, in the presence of a predator, it alerts the body and enables him to make a decision: when one realizes that there is no chance of success a confrontation, but if it detects that the enemy is too strong is used to the ability to run.
Deepens the specialist: “Why lower the temperature of their hands when we are tense? For all the blood flows to the large muscles that have strength to run or face the enemy. Similarly, if we make us angry or scared the Digestion is short, so it is said that we fell ill what we ate, because blood stops flowing to the digestive system and goes to the muscles.”
In addition, blood flow is discharged adrenaline and cortisol, in order to speed pulse and respiration, senses alert and prepare the muscles. “We are programmed for that situation and keep us alert, but only for a relatively short time, if stress is prolonged, the body starts to get sick. Your body should remain in a state of equilibrium of its functions, called homeostasis.”
On the evolution of our nervous system and because of our ability to think and evoke human beings experience stress without a present danger. “When we know that tomorrow we will have a difficult exercise, as a test, with only imagine unleashed stress: the stomach stretches, the muscles tense” refers Fernández Solari.
If we consider the stress caused by our urban context we understand that often surpassed the desirable state of harmony and calm. Thus, says psychologist, more than 90% of the diseases that are cause for medical consultation (not psychological), are directly or indirectly related to stress and bad stress management. “Until the middle of last century people got sick and died from infections, now the leading cause of death are evils of cardiovascular disease, degenerative diseases or cancer, directly or indirectly linked to stress.”
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