One minute stress relief:

Learning a couple of key acupressure points on your body can go a long way in relieving stress and tension. And learning how to breath properly. Yay, acupressure - and no needles.

Once we are convinced of the healing power of a doctor or a treatment, something very remarkable happens: a sham treatment induces real biological improvement. This is the placebo effect. Healers have relied on the placebo effect for thousands of years, but until recently, it was usually referred to as the "mysterious" placebo effect. Scientists, however, are beginning to understand the complex interaction of the brain and the endocrine system that gives rise to the placebo effect.

People seek out a doctor when they experience discomfort or when they believe that something about their body is not right. That is, they suffer pain and fear. The response of the brain to pain and fear, however, is not to mobilize the body's healing mechanisms but to prepare it to meet some external threat. It's an evolutionary adaptation that assigns the highest priority to preventing additional injury. Stress hormones released into the bloodstream increase respiration, blood pressure, and heart rate. These changes may actually impede recovery. The brain is preparing the body for action; recovery must wait.

The first objective of a good physician, therefore, is to relieve stress. That usually involves assuring patients that there is an effective treatment for their condition and that the prospects for recovery are excellent—if they will just follow the doctor's instructions. Since we recover from most of the things that afflict us, the brain learns to associate recovery with visits to the doctor. Most of us start to feel better before we even leave the doctor's office.

The effectiveness of the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), a treatment for anxiety and fear, was assessed. One hundred nineteen university students were assigned and tested in an independent four-group design. The groups differed in the treatment each received: applied treatment of EFT (Group EFT); a placebo treatment (Group P); a modeling treatment (Group M); and a control (Group C). Participants' self-reported baseline and post-treatment ratings of fear were measured. Group EFT showed a significant decrease in self-report measures at post-treatment. However, Group P and Group M showed a similar significant decrease. Group C did not show a significant decrease in post-treatment fear ratings. These results do not support the idea that the purported benefits of EFT are uniquely dependent on the "tapping of meridians." Rather, these results suggest that the reported effectiveness of EFT is attributable to characteristics it shares with more traditional therapies.

Blank, though the Vodka was tempting.

I had to laugh all the time.
Dry Brit tapping under his arm, wearing that jacket.
" this stress, tap, tap..."

The acupuncture points were correct, though.

Comic relief for me, heheh.

Thanks, Raz ( yesterdays av, was that Hemp seed?)

*acupressure

I don't know if this would be a good idea standing in line at the grocery store.

Yes, his acupuncture points, especially the eye is absolutely correct, as a eye doctor told me about the muscle and how massaging it relieves stress. However, the way she said it, she said it in a medically trained way and not a holistic way.

Hemp's troubled cousin.

Great eye on the avatar friend! I was curious to see if anyone would guess it.

:)

-Razrin

Please credit the authors instead of plagiarizing content you didn't author.

Please credit authors before plagiarizing please. Thank you.


An Alternative Treatment for Fear

Authors:
Wendy L. Waite - Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge
Mark D. Holder - Department of Psychology, Okanagan University College



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