The cover of this Spring 2011 issue of Biofeedback shows a view of the Olympic cauldron of the Vancouver Winter Olympics as a fitting symbol for the human aspiration to reach higher levels of athletic achievement (our thanks to "Tourism Vancouver" for the use of this photo).
Since the opening days of the biofeedback movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the biofeedback paradigm has excited visions of expanding human potential (Moss, 1999; Moss & Wilson, in press). Early biofeedback research showed human beings gaining enhanced awareness and control over visceral physiology (Miller, 1969), musculature (Basmajian, 1967), and states of consciousness (Kamiya, 1969). Barbara Brown, the first president of the Biofeedback Research Society, proclaimed that biofeedback could give to the human being a new mind and a new body (Brown, 1974). Later, she imaged this new mind as...