Meditation 'works just as well as anti-depressants'

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57. A few years ago my neuropsychologist had me working on a new one. Also some of the

Mindfulness techniques. The most efficient was combined with using a computer to track blood pressure, pulse, etc. with sine waves on a computer from the contacts placed on my skin. Seeing them I was able to adjust my output.

It was a way of severing my habitual emotional response from the pain from injury. Prior to that I used what I guess was a sort of visualization to shift blood flow, measured by skin temperature from my head to my extremities ot relieve the migraines.

I suppose these might be called meditation, but none of it was never referred to as that, simply by the physical effects in medical terms. no candles or soft music or whatever people are imagined to do. I don't go for that, it aggravates me.

I was also taught to relax muscles with some acupressure at the end of muscles where they were accessible to ease the pain where they weren't - like the muscle between thumb and index finger to uncramp what is on the head and neck. It hurts for a bit but it makes it let go.

A lot like pinching the top of the calf muscle where it attaches behind the knee, when one gets a leg cramp to make the spasm quit. My husband of years ago was taught that in football and showed me how to relieve them that way.