We’re all familiar with bodily processes like our heart rate or how hot or cold we feel. But many times it doesn’t seem like there’s much we can do to change it – except try to calm down or put on a sweater. But what if you could? 
Biofeedback is a kind of therapy that helps you become more aware of these physical processes and how they can be affected by your behavior. In doing so, you can learn to use techniques that can give you a measure of control over these bodily processes.
BioZen, the new mobile app from the National Center for Telehealth & Technology (T2) takes what usually involves complicated, messy equipment and puts it wirelessly on your smartphone.
Using special sensors in combination with the BioZen app, you can track your body temperature, heart rate – even your brainwaves! By changing your behavior, you can see how to influence all these processes and possibly even control some of them. While this may seem farfetched, biofeedback has a number of practical applications.
Learning to warm your hands, for example, means that you are increasing blood flow throughout your body and has been shown to help relieve migraines.
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