Regarding bio-feedback, the answer is a big yes.

I realized once I became an adult that I have been doing it, or at least a form of meditative relaxation, since about 3rd grade. I remember one day I discovered that if I held something shiny in front of me on my desk and rocked it back and forth so that it flashed, and then let my vision go out of focus so that I saw two flashing points, and did that for a couple of minutes, that it was a great break from schoolwork and that I felt very refreshed afterwards.

And I also discovered that if I slowed my breathing down and concentrated, I could drop my pulse rate into the low 50s when getting my BP and HR checked during medical exams.

But the bigger topic is our animal nature juxtaposed against the intellectual requirements of voluntary cooperation, no ;-)?

The way I see it, there are no such thing as "rights." ( I know -- let the flaming begin...) In the jungle, a solitary man has no "rights." He has life and the ability to use his strength to preserve and enhance it as much as possible. These are not "rights." These just are. But, try to argue for his "right" to life against a tiger or snake? Not productive.

But when he runs across another human, and they both (perhaps in an unspoken way) agree to not kill each other, suddenly the "right to life" blossoms. If the other tries to kill him, he feels "wronged", because the other guy broke the agreement.

Rights emerge from reciprocal agreements with others. And the process of "right creation" is the process of restraining our animal natures.

And from this emerges society.

We absolutely must restrain our animal natures. They are the fire in our boiler rooms, the radioactive material in our reactors. But they burn the place down or kill everyone if we let them run wild.