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Biofeedback is another technology that evolves to help detect stress and facilitate in stress reduction. Biofeedback is a powerful stress treatment based on scientific observation that humans have natural abilities to control some of their body functions. People are trained on how to control their blood pressure and heart rate (blood pressure and heart rate will increase when we are stressed).

Examples of biofeedback therapy being used to help during stress reduction are:

* the ability to change hand temperatures by several degrees * altering and modulating your brain waves * reducing the frequency of asthmatic attacks * alleviating allergic reactions * managing pain * preventing migraine * reducing irritable bowel syndrome, tension headaches, and strokes

The biofeedback process actually makes use of a special tool that has sensors, which are used to get a reading on skin temperature, muscle contraction, and brain waves. The training begins by using a trial-and-error method, where eventually the person under treatment should be able to learn to control his/her responses to stress.

There are actually several types of biofeedback machines used to provide information regarding areas in your body affected by stress:

* Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) measures skin’s electrical conductivity as relative to its sweat gland activity. A lie detector is a type of GSR machine. When you lie, your palm produces sweat caused by anxiety, stress and nervousness.

* Electromyogram (EMG) is used to measure the tension in the muscles. Two sensors in the form of electrodes are taped onto the skin over the intended muscles for measure (for example, facial muscles). If there is any tension detected in the muscles, the device would beep, buzz, or flash a colored light. EMGs are also used to treat muscle pain, body aches, ulcers and asthma.

* Electroencephalogram (EEG) monitors the activity of the brain waves. It is also used to regulate the activity of the brain waves and relieve anxiety, stress, and insomnia.

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When we daydream, thoughts and ideas often bounce around like colored balls in a children’s play area. Here then is the genesis of ideas and creativity. A long-term study of 20,000 trademark and patent description has shown that the one flash of inspiration, which finally led to the patent, was the result of an average of about 20 different groups of associations. All of these had a common origin – the formation of similarities or related ideas. By the careful analysis of objects or processes that have worked, new approaches to solutions are opened up. It is not a process of blind imitation but of recognising analogies and the principles which make them work.

When it comes to finding the inspiration for a problem, humans generally look to the natural world. Nature has provided numerous models for many of our modern accomplishments. The roof of Munich’s Olympic stadium, built for the 1972 Summer Olympic Games, was designed and built using the model of a spider’s web. Modern city planners learn from the intricate veins of the leaf and Engineers and Architects learn from the structure of mushrooms. When it comes from finding solutions for slowing down descent, the designer for the parachute look to how plants propagate with light seeds with wings that allow the wind carry for miles and miles.

Finding analogies have always been a good strategy for finding solutions to problems. Anyone can find and draw such comparisons. In brainstorming sessions, unconventional thoughts often yield ideas not conceived before. Often an unrelated idea is thrown into the fray and similarities are then looked for. Try this exercise, find the similarity between a ladies’ handbag and an oil drum. Never mind about what the handbag is made of, whether is it leather or PVC or what color it is, or even it’s size. Not even what the oil drum looks like. As a start, find the general term for both items. Here the general term of “container” is the correct one.

When it comes to solving problems the unconventional way, fantasy knows no boundaries. Once, while he was half asleep, the famous German chemist August Kekule von Stradonitz (1829 to 1896) watched monkeys playing a game of ring-a-ring-o’roses. He also dreamt of a snake biting it’s own tail. In these analogies, he was able to recognise the ring structure of the benzene molecule, which had been sought by chemists for many years. And the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev (1834 to 1907) conceived the periodic table of the elements in 1869 while watching a game of patience.

Our memory certainly is a storehouse for many of our ideas and inspiration. You can use your imagination to create new solutions or even to help you remember chunks of information. Your imagination can also be used to enhance your memory and accelerate your learning when you link it with proper memory training or brain training techniques. And if we yield to our subconscious mind through dreams and fantasies, we may yet come up with more ideas to problem solving that has eluded us for so long. Why not practice today and find the similarity between 2 seemingly unrelated items, a pencil and a hairdryer, a piece of paper and washing machine, playdoh and a chair. Who knows, you may yet come up with a million dollar inspiration.

Are you as emotionally controlled as you would like to be? Many people find that they struggle with anger management. The key thing about anger is that it is all in your mind – it is about how you think and what memories, beliefs and thought habits you have formed since you were young. Consider this, that which stems from your thoughts, conscious and subconscious can be easily changed using the power of your mind. This might not be relevant to you but independent research shows that you can re-program your mind using self-hypnosis.

Most people find this interesting that you will be able to access thought patterns, attitudes and beliefs that you may not even be consciously aware off and replace them with new ones. You can also use self-hypnosis to lead you to do active internal searches to enable you to access untapped emotional coping resources that you can use to help you achieve your potential. Stop for a moment, and realise how you will benefit from the additional coping skills. If not for yourself, then, surely you want to learn to control anger for your family. I wonder if you are aware of just how easy it is to control your anger with hypnosis.

A well designed self-hypnosis program will guide you through a conscious and subconscious process of letting go of hostility, anger and bitterness that you have gathered from childhood on. It will prompt you to critically evaluate all the reasons which you think have contributed to your anger, and then to replace unconscious programming that is no longer of benefit to you. So if you’re serious about getting control over your anger, then self-hypnosis is an effective tool for you.

A self-hypnosis program will guide you to identify and disable the triggers that cause you to become angry. It’s quite amazing how easily you can disable the triggers and get control over your anger.

It will also equip you with a powerful guided visualization that you can do whenever you feel your anger mounting, which will help you to dissipate the anger and remain emotionally controlled.

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