The benefits of intermediate and longer-term training include the achievement of peak performance global homeostasis, permanence of change, and more complex usage of neural feedback in daily life. This involves recognition of system activity and the ability to self-regulate responses to complex information in real time.
Various tasks require varying physiological strategies.
If consciousness is largely mapped to the individual's basic physiology, it would stand to reason that when our systems are chronically active, a certain style of consciousness results. To free up the intuitive, loving, sensitive aspects of ourselves, we need to reduce this chronic innervation. The process of psychoneurological sensitization is an integral part of biofeedback training, and has important implications that extend far beyond reduction of the presenting complaint. Such self-protective desensitization may result in the development of ridigity, unwillingness to take risks, and the minimization of creativity. Further, it diminishes our capacity to play, love, and relax.