That  weird health practice, one of many weird health practices, of the 60s has survived five decades and even evolved. Biofeedback, for you folks who are under 50, involved your meditating — for lack of a better term — while you were hooked up to a machine that measured the benefit of your meditations, even though it looked like a battery charger.
A round meter showed if your body functions were improving Proponents touted it as a means to show the body-mind connection. Once you learned how to lower the needle on the meter, you could do it without the machine.
Today, experts report that biofeedback has evolved into a mainstream therapy for stress reduction, lowering blood pressure, relaxation, tension headaches, anxiety, migraines, even adult attention deficite disorder and anything that can be helped if you get control of your emotions.
Now, there’s an Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America, and the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research.
Nowadays, that little 60s-era arm band that fed info from your stress and anxiety into a machine with a meter, has grown to EEG machines, brain scans and other mechanisms to help you learn to control the feelings linked to illness. And if if doesn’t help, it doesn’t hurt.
Talk to your doctor or mental health friend for a referral. If it has lasted this long, maybe it’s doing something right.