Practices that teach people to influence their own body or thinking, including biofeedback, neurofeedback, mindfulness-based stress reduction, guided imagery, autogenic training, floating in an isolation tank, the Alexander technique, ideokinesis, neuro-linguistic programming, thought field therapy and Neuromonics sound therapy. An entry belongs here when its own source describes such a self-regulation or relaxation approach. Each member is a complementary and manual therapy entry that the atlas covers as a subject in its own right, placed here on what its cited article says it is and how it is used, never on its name alone.
Mind-Body and Psychological Self-Regulation Practices
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Biofeedback (Wikipedia)
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Biofeedback is the technique of gaining greater awareness of many physiological functions of one's own body by using electronic or other instruments, and with a goal of being able to control the body's systems at will.
Neurofeedback - Wikipedia
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Neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback that uses electrical potentials in the brain to reinforce desired brain states through operant conditioning.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction - Wikipedia
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Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an educational program designed for learning mindfulness and discovering skillful ways to manage stress.
Autogenic training (Wikipedia)
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Autogenic training is a relaxation technique first published by the German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz in 1932.
Isolation tank (Wikipedia)
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An isolation tank, sensory deprivation tank, float tank, float pod, float cabin, flotation tank, or sensory attenuation tank is a water filled, pitch-black, light-proof, soundproof environment heated to the same temperature as the skin.
Alexander technique (Wikipedia)
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The Alexander technique, named after its developer Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), is an alternative therapy based on the idea that poor posture causes a range of health problems.
Ideokinesis (Wikipedia)
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Ideokinesis is an approach to improving posture, alignment, and fluency of movement through structured guided imagery that uses metaphors, such as visualizing an object moving in a specific direction along various muscle groups throughout the body, while lying completely still.
Neuro-linguistic programming (Wikipedia)
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Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder's book The Structure of Magic I (1975).
Thought Field Therapy (Wikipedia)
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Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is a fringe psychological treatment developed by American psychologist Roger Callahan.
Neuromonics (Wikipedia)
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Neuromonics is a non-invasive sound therapy used to manage tinnitus.
Guided imagery (Wikipedia)
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Guided imagery (also known as guided affective imagery, or katathym-imaginative psychotherapy) is a mind-body intervention by which a trained practitioner or teacher helps a participant or patient to evoke and generate mental images that simulate or recreate the sensory perception of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, movements, and images associated with touch, such as texture, temperature, and pressure, as well as imaginative or mental content that the participant or patient experiences as defying conventional sensory categories, and that may precipitate strong emotions or feelings in the absence of the stimuli to which correlating sensory receptors are receptive.
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