Dealing with the response
Using a special machine and sensors to record muscle contractions and skin temperature, you can learn to control normally involuntary processes such as heart rate and blood pressure that increase under stress. The machine “feeds back” the efforts and eventually you can recognise and control facets of the stress response by yourself. As a profession, Biofeedback is relatively low risk but you do need to protect yourself and your business. In today’s world, people are increasingly ready to take legal proceedings for compensation and the incidence of claims against therapists is on the increase. The unexpected can and sometimes does happen and the price of our liability insurance cover is a tiny fraction of the likely cost of a claim.