Modern life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations, and demands. For many people, stress is so common place that it has become a way of life. Stress isn’t always bad. In small doses, it can help you perform under pressure and motivate you to do your best. But when you’re constantly running in emergency mode, your mind and body pay the price.
Beyond a certain point, stress stops being helpful and starts causing major damage to your health, your mood, your productivity, your relationships, and your quality of life. It is estimated that stress is the cause of 90 to 95 percent of disease.
The body doesn’t distinguish between physical and psychological threats. When you’re stressed over a busy schedule, an argument with a friend, a traffic jam, or a mountain of bills, your body reacts just as strongly as if you were facing a life-or-death situation. If you have a lot of responsibilities and worries, your emergency stress response may be “on” most of the time.
Long-term exposure to stress can lead to serious health problems. Chronic stress disrupts nearly every system in your body. It can raise blood pressure, suppress the immune system, increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, contribute to infertility, and speed up the aging process. Long-term stress can even rewire the brain, leaving you more vulnerable to anxiety and depression.
While unchecked stress is undeniably damaging, there are many things you can do to reduce its impact and cope with symptoms.
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Biofeedback measures various physiological parameters of the body. The INDIGO biofeedback system helps manage and retrain stress patterns, educates clients on crucial information about stress and empowers them to make lifestyle changes to support overall health and well being.
What is biofeedback and how might it help me?
Biofeedback is a relaxing, soothing and beneficial experience. Medical research shows that the benefits of biofeedback may include the following:
Ability to relax more quickly- Improved sleep
- Reduction of stress, tenseness and nervousness
- Improved general health and sense of wellbeing
- Reduction of anger, fear, apprehension and gloominess
- Heightened muscle mobility, coordination, flexibility and sport performance
- Enhanced mental clarity, memory and improved attention
- Decreased pain/headaches
The Indigo biofeedback system helps manage and retrain stress patterns, educates clients on crucial information about stress, and empowers them to make lifestyle changes to support overall health and wellbeing.
How the system works
During an INDIGO Biofeedback session, the client wears wrist and ankle bracelets as well as a head harness.
The sensors / electrodes comfortably read electrical impulses from the body and send the information to the computer which acts as a monitoring device. The biofeedback practitioner is able to educate the client as to what specific areas of the body / mind are most in need of stress reduction and re-education based on the information translated from the biofeedback device to the computer screen.
These data findings allow the client to better understand their reactions to stress and learn how to better control their physiological responses.
During an INDIGO Biofeedback session, the biofeedback practitioner is also able to educate the client as to what specific areas of the body / mind are most in need of stress reduction and re-education based on the information translated from the biofeedback device to the computer screen. While the biofeedback process is completely non-invasive and gentle, this powerful stress management support system allows relaxation and increased ability for the body to heal.
The body is designed to heal itself! The process of biofeedback is not to heal – but to help the body remember the balanced and stress free state. When it is entrained to the healthier patterns of a relaxed state, this process of self-regeneration often happens naturally.
How many sessions are needed?
Biofeedback is an entrainment process. Entrainment is a well studied phenomenon within physics, by which two separate systems, operating at varying frequencies, will settle into a common frequency when situated within one’s field of influence. It may take the body multiple sessions to entrain or “relearn” healthier patterns. Some people respond very quickly, especially those whose lifestyle choices are already aligned with good health.
Others may need more education, training and support around improving nutrition, exercise and / or sleep patterns, or avoiding addictive substances etc. Generally speaking, the longer a client has held certain stress patterns which are causing them pain or illness, the more sessions they may need to begin re-balancing or re-training those patterns and reactions.
Generally, we recommend clients make a commitment to their health by investing in multiple sessions in order to truly see and feel the results.
Pricing
- Initial Consultation – 2.5 hrs … $200
- Follow- Up Consultations – 1 hr … $85
- Follow- Up Consultations – 1.5 hrs … $125
More Information
Please visit our Biofeedback website for more information about Stress Management and Reduction or contact our Clinic.
