Hello spring! The sun is shining more here in North Idaho where I reside and I am feeling grateful for that. I am also loving the field of neurofeedback. This takes me back to years ago when I was fascinated with neurotransmitter testing. As much as I love all that brain waves can tell us, I am not big on using technology for therapy. I plan to do more craniosacral as the therapy and use the neurofeedback brain mapping to track progress. There is just nothing that replaces human touch. This reminds me of grounding, some call earthing. There’s nothing like it!
The Japanese conducted studies on what they called “forest bathing”. This activity of being in the forest showed remarkable improvements in hemodynamic (blood testing) and electrophysiological indexes, cardiovascular function, immunity, antioxidant, inflammatory and metabolic indexes as well as neuroendocrine function. This means being out in nature (away from electronic devices), significantly enhances health. When I am explaining the metabolic testing that I offer, I often emphasize the reason why it is helpful to monitor this is because when the nervous system and endocrine systems are functioning well, everything else falls into place.
As you would expect, the below listed benefits were also found as a result of forest bathing:
- Alleviation of anxiety and depression
- Enhancement of emotional state and attitude
- Physical and psychological recovery and adaptive behaviors
Pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31787069/
As many of you know, my drive for learning in my field never seizes, but it could be perceived as overkill. If I have an addiction, health is it… that doesn’t sound like a bad thing… However, I have the potential to help so many more if I were better at letting you know about some of what’s in my head. For instance, how many of you knew that I offer grounding mats to help shield you from your devices? For those of you that come see me in office, you may not know this but you sit on one |