Imagery, the flow of thoughts that one can see, hear, or otherwise experience in the imagination, can be valuable for healing. Research in biofeedback, hypnosis, and meditative states has shown that people have a powerful range of self-regulatory capacities.
Likewise, studies in the United States and England suggest that many health problems presented to primary care clinics are emotional, social, or familial in origin, though these problems are manifested in pain or illness.
Healthnotes - Science has confirmed that emotional fluctuations and emotional status directly influence health. Mind/body medicine focuses on the connection between one's opinion of one's health and the physical realities. Biofeedback training uses simple electronic devices to measure and report information about a person’s biological system. Biofeedback training can improve health by teaching a person to consciously regulate bodily functions that are normally unconscious, such as heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure. Biofeedback training is particularly useful in treating health conditions where psychological factors are present. This form of healthcare is used for pain relief, stress reduction, insomnia, headache treatment, and muscle injuries.
Energy medicine, or bioenergetic medicine, refers to therapies that use an energy field—electrical, magnetic, sonic, acoustic, microwave, or infrared—to screen for or treat health conditions through the detection and correction of imbalances in the body’s energy fields. Most energy medicine devices are based on the acupuncture meridian system, where life energy, or chi, flows through the body along energy channels called meridians.
