Broadly speaking, your body has two different types of actions it’s capable of performing: voluntary, and involuntary functions.
As you read this page, and your eyes scan across the page, they’re performing a voluntary function.
Your mind’s will can tell your eyes to move, or not move, as the case may be.
As I write what you’re reading, my hands are moving across the keyboard in a voluntary action as well – I’m telling them what to do.
When you stand up to walk over to the fridge and grab an apple to snack on, your body is performing hundreds of tiny, voluntary actions.
But there are also plenty of involuntary actions happening too.
Your heart beats, your stomach extracts nutrients from the apple that just fell into your stomach, your blood maintains its pressure, and more – all these actions are happening automatically.
You don’t tell your gastrointestinal system to digest that apple – you just chew it up and let your body do the rest.
Biofeedback therapy can help you gain more control over your body’s involuntary functions.
This may help you with a number of different health concerns.
