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Relaxation Techniques
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Relaxation Techniques
Autogenic training is a relaxation strategy that comprises of exercises tailored to provide body warmth as well as heaviness in the torso and limbs. Relaxation pictures are also used to widen the physical relaxation to the mind. It leads the trophotropic response and it has been utilized to counter Raynaud’s disease, insomnia, migraine headaches, diabetes, hypertension hemorrhoids and lower back pain. There are preconditions for conducting autogenics which entail such factors as giving up ego boundaries, high motivation, and maintenance of required body position among others. According to Greenberg (2012), there are six initial stages of autogenic training which entail concentrating on weight in the limbs, warmth in the limbs, heaviness, and warmth in the region on the heart, sensations of warmth in the abdomen, regular breathing as well as sensations of coolness in the forehead. Notably, progressive relaxation as a strategy can be utilized to prompt nerve-muscle relaxation. It entails contraction of the muscle group and then relaxation of the same.
Relaxation strategies entail the regulation of bodily procedures that are often instinctive which include blood pressure, and muscle tension. Biofeedback concerns itself with the use of instruments to acquire data regarding the happenings within the body. Individuals who get this information can be able to learn how to regulate body procedures. Biofeedback involves three levels, gaging the psychological parameter, changing the measurement to a comprehensible standard and giving the information to the individual desiring to control his or her body procedures.

Biofeedback has been utilized to enable individuals to control their heart rates, blood vessels dilation, and skin’s electrical conductance. Electromyographic biofeedback has been utilized to treat ulcers, asthma, muscle spasms, migraines, hypertension and cerebral palsy among other conditions (Greenberg, 2012). Thermal feedback, on the other hand, has been utilized to counter the Raynaud’s disease, migraine, and hypertension. When biofeedback is used for relaxation functions, other relaxation techniques supplement it.
References
Greenberg, J. (2012). Comprehensive Stress Management: 13th Edition. New York City: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.