Anxiety is part of human life that can impact how you feel and function on a day to day bases. Anxiety can be driven by high stress in all parts of life – work, family, social and performance for example. Your physiology can be the driving force behind anxiety and often times it is thought that controlling anxiety is out of our control. However, it’s possible to manage anxiety, and improve well-being through heart rate variability biofeedback.
What is biofeedback?
Biofeedback is a non-invasive and non-medication approach to improving mental health and general well-being. Biofeedback also provides a way to learn how to manage anxiety in real-time as well as improving general stress resiliency. In biofeedback sessions in New York, a board certified therapist uses medical grade biofeedback equipment that captures your physiology in real-time helping you learn how to manage your stress and anxiety. Biofeedback sessions provide insight into the autonomic nervous system through:
• Respiration
• Heart Rate
Using this information, biofeedback can provide training to improve these physiological responses to stress and anxiety.
How can biofeedback help deal with anxiety?
Biofeedback can provide ways to take care of symptoms linked to anxiety. For instance, it’s hard to note the change in your breathing when anxious. Biofeedback can detect the changes, and by doing breathing exercises to strengthen your autonomic nervous system responses, you can feel more resilient and gain the ability to manage anxiety in real time without medication.
In addition, it might also help you learn to manage your response to stressful stimuli especially when living in a hectic city such as New York. It will help you have greater control over overwhelming and anxiety-triggering situations.
Anyone can get anxiety, whether from known causes or not. However, it is good to find ways to make the situation manageable. You can use biofeedback training to help control and manage your physiology providing significant alleviation of anxiety driven symptoms.
