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Biofeedback is a process where electrodes are attached to your chest to monitor your heart rate, to your head to monitor your brainwaves or to your wallet to monitor your decreasing bank account with each treatment.

The electrodes are attached to a machine that has a light or buzzer that will increase or decrease in intensity according to how well your mind can control your heart rate or brain activity.

As you think about slowing your heart rate, the light will blink slower. This is the feedback you use to let you know if you are successfully slowing you heart rate. This works best if you don’t stare at the nurse’s chest or the doctors buttocks.

With practice you will learn to quickly slow your heart rate or brain activity, calming you when stressed or to relax before going to bed so you can get a good nights sleep.

The ultimate goal is to attain the Zen-like, zoned out calm of a long term married man who stares straight ahead as his wife drones on about what colour to paint the bathroom, Mariel’s nasal drip, the cat’s hairball that’s wedged between her toes, or blah, blah, blah.

Since biofeedback equipment can be expensive it is best to see a practitioner who is experienced in this field.

If you do decide to purchase your own biofeedback equipment, first make sure there is room under your bed next to the Ab-O-Matic and the Pectoral-Popper.