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Optimal Functioning Training: A Different Vision of Biofeedback, Self Regulation and Applied Psychophysiology

Optimal Functioning Training: A Different Vision of Biofeedback, Self Regulation and Applied Psychophysiology
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This article starts off:
Can you imagine, given the same cost, that any client who would choose a doctor or health plan with the sole goal of getting rid of the immediate symptoms over a doctor or plan whose goal was to empower and help the client to raise up and maintain his or her optimal level of functioning at physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

Or that a patient would choose a doctor who only wanted to make the patient feel not bad, or be un-sick, rather than feeling great and optimally healthy.

I can. We are taught since birth by a trillion+ dollar illness system to be dependent upon omnipotent, almost deified providers of magical cures. The idea of taking responsibility, time and expending effort to stay healthy is entirely absent from the conceptions of hundreds of millions of people in our world.

It is time to embrace, or should I say resurrect, a new, yet old idea-- that health care (not pathology and illness management) can be empowering and life enriching, ennobling and capable, perhaps even obliged to be optimizing for all life functions and activities.

Just one other little snippet to whet your appetite:
I've been finding a lot of benefit from training people to increase of SMR levels. The effect of it is to enhance the meditative aspect of being here now, to be fully present with whatever is happening in the moment, without judging and evaluating. The feeling is one of immersion in the experience. The importance of this is all of the pleasure experiences of life are the timeless moments in life are based on this experience. It opens up a gateaway to reconnecting - to the mind of the child - to the oneness of the moment. You don't have a barrier between yourself and it. Like the flow experience.

Enjoy!
RHJ++

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