Suppression
Biofeedback
Category: Actions
Type
Voluntary
Introduction and description
description later
Method
The following provides links to the science section describing various instruments that can be used to provide biofeedback. An indication on what they measure and how they can be used is provide here, but the science section provides a fuller description:
EEG – the Electroencephalograph
An electroencephalograph (EEG) measures the electrical activation of the brain from scalp sites located over the human cortex. The EEG shows the amplitude of electrical activity at each cortical site, the amplitude and relative power of various wave forms at each site, and the degree to which each cortical site fires in conjunction with other cortical sites (coherence and symmetry).
Clearly, the EEG has a role in the diagnosis of illness, but it also has an invaluable role as an aid to help train the mind of those meditating or using relaxation or contemplation methods, into states conducive to spiritual experience. Theta brain waves are known to be the most conducive to OBEs and some of the more advanced states such as ecstasy and moksha.
David Scott Rogo - Leaving the Body: A Complete Guide to Astral Projection
The possible discovery of a link between theta waves and the OBE holds out a very special promise to people who wish to induce the experience. It is possible to learn how to generate theta waves through bio-feedback, and nurturing such a capability may lead to the development of OBE skills. Dr. Elmer Green has been studying biofeedback techniques for several years in Topeka, Kansas, at the Menninger Foundation, an institute devoted solely to psychological research. He has had singular success in teaching people to control their brain waves, including theta waves. In fact, Green has publicly stated that people who develop control over theta waves start having psychic experiences as a result.
A pneumograph or respiratory strain gauge
A pneumograph is used to detect and correct so called ‘dysfunctional breathing’. Thus it can be used to help with lung diseases , anxiety and stress and to help with determining whether the controlled breathing techniques are being correctly employed
Capnometer
A capnometer provides biofeedback to supplement respiratory strain gauge biofeedback with patients diagnosed with anxiety disorders, asthma, chronic pulmonary obstructive disorder (COPD), essential hypertension, panic attacks, and stress and to help with determining whether the controlled breathing techniques are being correctly employed.
Electromyograph or EMG
The EMG is a machine for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles. This machine is used for any disease involving the muscular system or the skeletal system. The same machine can be used in controlled breathing exercises during training.
Pulse oximetry
Pulse oximetry is a non-invasive method of monitoring the oxygenation of a patient's haemoglobin. They are used in emergency medicine and are also very useful for patients with respiratory or cardiac problems, especially COPD, or for diagnosis of some sleep disorders such as apnea and hypopnea. They can also be used to help with determining whether the controlled breathing techniques are being correctly employed.
Spirometry
Spirometry is a painless study of air volume and flow rate in the lungs. It is frequently used to evaluate lung function in people with diseases such as asthma or cystic fibrosis. It can also be used to help with determining whether the controlled breathing techniques are being correctly employed.
Thermistors
A thermistor is a type of resistor whose resistance is dependent on temperature. The word is a portmanteau of thermal and resistor. Thermistors are used in the context of biofeedback to measure the temperature of a person, principally because thermistors can achieve a greater precision within a limited temperature range, typically −90 °C to 130 °. In experiments on the ability of a person to use Tummo, for example, (Tibetan: gtum-mo; Sanskrit: caṇḍālī) thermistors are used. Tummo is a form of Yoga, particularly one of the methods of the Kagyu Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This practice of meditation may be best known for its alleged ability to produce body heat – the Heat of the Mystic.
Related observations
Healing observations
- A feasibility study to investigate the acceptability and potential effectiveness of a telecare service for older people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 016503
- Biofeedback Yoga of the West - Drs Elmer and Alyce Green 027384
- Dr Elmer Green – A description of how Biofeedback works in healing involving the autonomic nervous system 027287
- Dr Elmer Green – The Copper Wall Experiment 027385
- Effect of the Alexander Technique on Muscle Activation, Movement Kinematics, and Performance Quality in Collegiate Violinists and Violists: A Pilot Feasibility Study 027453
- Effectiveness of Rehabilitation Interventions to Improve Gait Speed in Children With Cerebral Palsy: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 023244
- Effects of paced respiration on anxiety reduction in a clinical population 016508
- Experimental, controversial, and futuristic treatments for chronic tinnitus 021283
- Feasibility of Using TetraxTM Biofeedback Video-games for Balance Training in Patients with Chronic Hemiplegic Stroke 020756
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Experiments - The benefits of using EEG, biofeedback and visualisation 027335
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Experiments – Dr Pat Norris and her dissertation on the use of guided imagery and biofeedback for change in self-image in prisoners 027381
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Anxiety, Tension and Fear using biofeedback 027322
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing arrhythmia and other heart problems using biofeedback 027308
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing arrhythmia and other heart problems using biofeedback – case study 027309
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Asthma using biofeedback 027317
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Asthma using biofeedback – The work of Aman U Khan 027318
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Bladder cancer using Biofeedback and hypnosis 027325
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Cerebral palsy using biofeedback – The work of Moshe Feldenkrais 027324
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Epilepsy using biofeedback 027323
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing functional diarrhoea using biofeedback 027314
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing functional diarrhoea using biofeedback – case study 027315
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Hypertension and stress using biofeedback, in a nurse 027312
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Hypertension, Endothelial dysfunction and Atherosclerosis using biofeedback 027310
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Hypertension, stress and Benzodiazepine dependence using biofeedback – a case study 027311
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Migraine – And recognising the underlying cause 027383
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Migraine, Hypertension and Headaches 027292
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Pain - Sensation is still present but the agony does not appear 027339
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing paraplegia, cerebral palsy, spinal-cord injuries, and other CNS and neuromuscular disorders using biofeedback 027320
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Psychosomatic disease 027290
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Raynaud's disease with Autogenic training, Biofeedback and Visualisation 027294
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing severe fecal incontinence using biofeedback 027316
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Spastic colon using biofeedback 027313
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing stroke, cerebral palsy, spinal-cord injuries, and other CNS and neuromuscular disorders using biofeedback 027319
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Tension Headaches using biofeedback 027321
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing the Migraine of Lillian Petroni 027291
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Thyroid disease using Biofeedback 027326
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing using Autogenic Training and Biofeedback 027288
- Hogan, Ben – Healing via mind over matter 027293
- Music therapy – Case history of Kevin who had Friedreich's Ataxia 027400
- Pursed lips breathing training using ear oximetry 016502
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of avoidance of infection, the relationship between infection and belief 027355
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of control of bleeding 027353
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of control of pain 027352
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of pain and bleeding control at the veterans Administration hospital in Topeka 027354
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – Healing via visualisation and mind control 027359
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – Walking with an ankle that was broken and mending the broken bones 027358
- Schwarz, Jack - Mind over Matter 026396
- Swami Rama - 01 Using biofeedback as an aid to the meditation of traveling through the body 027405
- The effect of biofeedback-assisted relaxation training on blood pressure and selected biochemical parameters in patients with essential hypertension 027615
- Vaughan, Dr Alan – My psychic state while hooked up to a brainwave analyzer 025065
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Dr Elmer Green – The root of psychosomatic disease lies in unconscious and involuntary domains 027386
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Experiments - The benefits of using EEG, biofeedback and visualisation 027335
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Experiments - With Mr Karabanda’s son, the numerical genius who turned out to be a savant 027380
- Vaughan, Dr Alan – My psychic state while hooked up to a brainwave analyzer 025065
Out of time
- The OBE case histories of Dr John Palmer at John F Kennedy University - 03 The EEG and theta waves 023118
- Vaughan, Dr Alan – My psychic state while hooked up to a brainwave analyzer 025065
In time
- Brain-to-Brain Interaction at a Distance Based on EEG Analysis 027426
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Experiment - A vision using biofeedback and visualisation 027333
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Experiments - Perception recall 027336
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Experiments - Telepathy 027337
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Experiments - Using EEG, biofeedback and visualisation 027334
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of avoidance of infection, the relationship between infection and belief 027355
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of control of bleeding 027353
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of control of pain 027352
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of pain and bleeding control at the veterans Administration hospital in Topeka 027354
- Swami Rama - 03 The Swami stops his own heart 027407
- The young girl with super senses 011408
Prophecy
Environmental Influence
- David Nemeth – Bends the key to his mother’s poisons cupboard when it is in her pocket 026922
- Dr Julian D. Isaacs - Some Aspects Of Performance At A Psychokinetic Task 026920
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Experiment with Temperature control - with a woman convinced it would not work 027289
- Hasted, Professor John – 18 Spoon bending - The detection of metal-bending action by children using a strain gauge 026887
- Hasted, Professor John – 23 Spoon bending - Twisting a single metal strip about its own axis without touch 026909
- Hasted, Professor John – 24 Spoon bending - Producing accurately formed parabolas as much as 30 cm long without touch 026910
- Hasted, Professor John – 25 Spoon bending - Softening and hardening 026911
- Manning, Matthew - Bending keys and - das Ur Gahirn 011178
- North, Stephen - Distribution of directions of strain signal vectors in a no touch metal-bending session using square and circular specimens of thin metal sheet 026958
- North, Stephen - Localised paranormal action in metal bending and anomalous signals from strain gauges 026950
- North, Stephen - Modifications of the physical properties of crystals, the formation of dislocation loops 026948
- North, Stephen - No changes in the temperature of the metal during Stephen’s metal bending sessions 026943
- North, Stephen - No touch bending of a metal strip rocking to and fro on a moving wooden arm attached to a musical metronome 026951
- North, Stephen - Spoons do not usually bend uniformly along their length; they bend at one particular place where the centre of action is concentrated 026949
- North, Stephen - The most usual configuration of a surface of action is that of a vertical plane passing through the body of the subject 026953
- North, Stephen – A spring exposed to Stephen North becomes permanently deformed 026945
- North, Stephen – Are some part or parts of the body involved, and are they always the same parts in no touch bending? 026954
- North, Stephen – By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes 026956
- North, Stephen – No touch metal bending - a slow start with gradually increasing frequency of occurrence of signals 026946
- North, Stephen – No touch metal bending - softening can appear and vanish very quickly 026947
- Schwartz, Jack - Biofeedback yoga of the East [film] 027361
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of avoidance of infection, the relationship between infection and belief 027355
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of control of bleeding 027353
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of control of pain 027352
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – A demonstration of pain and bleeding control at the veterans Administration hospital in Topeka 027354
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – Healing via visualisation and mind control 027359
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – Jack held the burning end of a cigarette against the inside of his left forearm three times, and gave no indication of pain 027356
- Schwarz, Jack - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – Walking with an ankle that was broken and mending the broken bones 027358
- Schwarz, Jack - Mind over Matter 026396
- Swami Rama - 02 The Swami increased the temperature difference between the left and right sides of his hand and slowed his heart 027406
- Swami Rama - 03 The Swami stops his own heart 027407
- Swami Rama - 04 The Swami causes a fourteen-inch aluminum knitting needle to rotate on a pivot in the laboratory 027408
- Williams, Nicholas – Action on strain gauges not stuck onto pieces of metal during no-touch sessions 026926
- Williams, Nicholas – Experiments bending latch keys placed around a house using no touch 026923
- Williams, Nicholas – No-touch bending of a suspended latch-key from over fifteen feet away 026928
- Williams, Nicholas – No-touch bending of a suspended latch-key, the range of variation of strength of signal with distance seems to be more or less random 026929
- Williams, Nicholas – No-touch movement of a suspended latch-key and strain gauge visually and by means of a video-camera 026927
- Williams, Nicholas – Using strain gauges to measure strong effects 026925
- Yogiraja Vaidyaraja, the burying yogi, and his ability to maintain autonomic equilibrium while enclosed in an airtight box all day 027344