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“Keep your hands open, all the sand of the desert pass into your hands.
Close your hands, do not get that a few grains of sand.”
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“Keep your hands open, all the sand of the desert pass into your hands.
Close your hands, do not get that a few grains of sand.”
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BIOFEEDBACK is using our own mind to control our physical body.
It is being able to monitor physiological signs of the body and “think” them into different states.
For Example; the ability to slow a racing heart rate or relax excessive muscle tone (tension).
Understanding how to use Biofeedback will have huge implications to overall health – whether it’s to reduce pain or increase physical performance.
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Biofeedback, sometimes called biofeedback training, is used to help manage many physical and mental health issues, including:
Biofeedback appeals to people for a variety of reasons:
During a biofeedback session, there are electrical sensors attached to different parts of your body. These sensors monitor your body’s physiological state, such as brain waves, skin temperature, muscle tension, heart rate and breathing. This information is fed back to you via cues, such as a sound, vibration or flashing light.
Biofeedback teaches you to change or control your body’s physiological reactions by changing your thoughts, emotions and or behavior.
For instance, biofeedback can pinpoint tense muscles that are causing headaches. You then learn how to invoke positive physical changes in your body, such as relaxing those specific muscles – in order to reduce pain.
The cool thing is that even without sensors, many of the bodies physiological states can be monitored by your own awareness!
If we take a second to just stop and feel our bodies we can usually discern if we have tense muscles, a fast heart rate, feel cold or hot, are breathing improperly or are sweating.
The Brain is where everything discussed above originates. Neural / Brain wave activity is just as receptive to biofeedback as muscle tone, respiration and all the rest form the list above.
Techniques such as mindfulness and meditation can alter our default brain wave patterns and allow us to become more restful and alert. This allows you to tap into our parasympathetic branch of our nervous system, reducing stress (cortisol) and increasing enjoyment (testosterone, flow).
Hope you enjoyed this intro to Biofeedback!
Let me know if you want to learn more about this subject – and as always – Stay Strong Folks <
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NOTE – this one is a bit long….
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Let’s clarify each of the 8 points of the phenomenology of Flow, with help from our visual!
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ONE – “Appropriate Skill Level”
TWO – “Concentration”
THREE – “Purpose”
FOUR – “(Bio)feedback”
This is when it gets a bit harder to track…
FIVE – “Lose Yourself”
SIX – “Mastery”
SEVEN – “Losing yourself, Improves yourself”
EIGHT – “Time Fly’s When Having Fun”
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If ‘A’ is bored and wishes to be in flow again, all ‘A’ has to do is to increase the challenge:
Set a new, more difficult goal that match your / ‘A’s skill level – and ‘A’ is back in flow.
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If A is anxious, flow can be achieved again by practicing hard to increase your / ‘A’s skills.
Technically you can reduce the challenge to return to flow – but such backward action would not contribute to becoming a more extraordinary person!
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The Flow experience describes a task at hand as seemingly effortless, whose justifications is itself.
Flow itself is not bound by any morals – it is just a state of being, a mental state – but the activity you chose may very well be looked down upon (so choose wisely!).
“Water can be both good and bad, useful and dangerous. To the danger, however, a remedy has been found: learning to swim.”
– Democritus
The goal, then should be to enjoy daily life as much as possible, without diminishing the enjoyment of others (as much as possible).
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Activities that produce flow often occur in situations in which the ‘safety nets’ of society and culture have been removed. – like courting disaster and surviving.
Flow activities fully take over consciousness, distorting our sense of time and completely distracting us from daily life – no irrelevant thoughts.
To speed up your path on becoming an extraordinary person and becoming good at a chosen activity is to actually chose an activity that will provide you with lots of opportunities to practice your skill.
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Flow is an Autotelic Experiences:
Autotelic translated literally from Greek means ‘Self – Goal’.
It refers to a self-contained activity that is done for its own sake.
When focusing on consequences of actions instead of focusing on them for their own sake, it is called an Exotelic Activity
Autotelic experiences reinforce our sense of self and our sense of control.
Exotelic experiences dissolve our sense of self in the service of external goals.
The most common Autotelic activities are games….(learn how to get the most out of games, next week – stay tuned – )
Stay informed, stay strong and stay tuned!
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Martin Colangelo : “The Better Movement Specialist”
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“The body comes and goes, original nature always remains the same.”
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