Heart Rate Variability
Monday, March 16, 2009
Discover The Ultimate Power Of Your Heart
In the last few years, more people than ever–from different backgrounds and walks of life–are talking about the heart. More company mission statements make a point to mention the importance of the heart in leadership and customer care. More speakers, articles and books, both spiritual and non-spiritual, are referring to the heart. Whether people mention speaking from the heart, listening to the heart, connecting with the heart, or following the heart, it is a clear sign that there is increased energetic awareness of the importance of the heart in all of life’s decisions.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The Prime Minister of China tries out HeartMath technology
The Prime Minister of China tried out the HeartMath technology. Digital Bamboo has a license to embed HeartMath’s heart rhythm feedback technology in entertainment and sports training games. One of their games is called Happy Heart. Click this link to see Prime Minister Wen Jiao Bao playing the Happy Heart game.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
The science and research behind the HeartMath system - free download
Dr. Rollin McCraty, Director of Research, Institute of HeartMath, presents the science and research behind the HeartMath system and the emWave. IHM is a recognized, global leader in emotional physiology, stress management and the physiology of heart-brain research. The HeartMath Research Center is engaged in basic psychophysiology, neurocardiology and biophysics research, and in clinical, workplace and organizational intervention and treatment outcome studies in collaboration with numerous university and health care system partners. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to view Dr. McCraty’s one hour, twenty minute presentation.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Get feedback on your state
Now it’s scientifically proven that the heart can affect the mind. There are subtle changes in our bodies that affect and reflect our mental state constantly. Biofeedback is one way to become aware of and monitor these changes. Through this feedback, participants can then interpret visible or aural cues for their current and shifting psychological and physiological state. Biofeedback has given me a whole new way of looking at my heart and its emotional well-being.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
Treating Depression With Heart Rate Variability Feedback
Described as a novel, alternative approach to the treatment of major depression, heart rate variability is the subject of a special issue published in the latest issue of Biofeedback. Autonomic nervous system dysfunction is thought to play a significant role in depression. Prior research shows that individuals suffering from depression often show decreased vagal tone, increased heart rate, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and sympathetic arousal.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
New Study Raises Concerns about Current Test-Taking Requirements
There’s no doubt that today students are under intense pressure to perform academically, but at what cost? The Institute of HeartMath and Claremont Graduate University released a new study that depicts the high levels of anxiety students are shouldering due to the pressure to excel intellectually. Nearly two-thirds of the high school students who participated in the study reported being affected by test anxiety. The study underscores the detrimental impact of test anxiety on academic performance. Based on their findings, researchers say that students’ high levels of anxiety may jeopardize NCLB assessment validity and could be compromising testing results.
Anxiety • Autonomic Nervous System • Brain • Children • Cognition • Education • Heart Rate Variability • HeartMath • Memory • Productivity/Performance • Psychology • Stress • Teenagers • (0) Comments • Permalink
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Is Biofeedback in Games the Next Next-Gen?
Imagine if your heart beat or other physiological signs from your body had a direct impact on the gameplay in your favorite games. Brett Skogen, President of Beijing-based Digital Entertainment, would like to make biofeedback in gaming a reality.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
American Institute of Stress Honors HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
HeartMath® is honored to have their handheld emWave Personal Stress Reliever® technology be the first recipient of the American Institute of Stress Award for Distinction and Innovation. This award is granted to products and services that have been formally evaluated and validated by the American Institute of Stress.
Emotions • Happiness • Heart Rate Variability • HeartMath • Productivity/Performance • Psychology • Stress • Technology • (0) Comments • Permalink
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Biofeedback Reinvented - New Discoveries Show that the Heart Pulses Messages that Reveal Feelings
HeartMath essentially reinvented biofeedback in 1999 when they introduced the first affordable consumer stress-reduction product using their patented heart rhythm feedback. Their focus on heart rhythm feedback provided a refreshing departure from conventional biofeedback practices, and has since been adopted by more than ten thousand health professionals worldwide as an effective and invaluable tool for patients suffering from stress-related issues. Internationally respected for their research-based stress solutions, HeartMath peer-reviewed studies have demonstrated the critical link between emotions, heart function, and cognitive performance.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Listen to your heart: Researchers discover a physiological indicator of vulnerability to temptation
The funny thing about being vulnerable to saying, eating, or doing the wrong thing is that humans are typically unaware that they are in a moment of weakness, unlike the strain and fatigue we feel in our muscles after a workout. Fortunately, new research suggests that there may be a biological indicator to tell us when we are working hard at resisting temptation and consequently when we are vulnerable to doing things contrary to our intentions. A measure of cardiac regulation called “heart rate variability” (HRV) appears to be linked to self regulation.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
How stress can strain the heart
The centres of the brain responsible for learning, memory and emotion may play a key role in putting the heart under strain in times of stress. UK scientists have shown that signals from these areas can destabilise the cardiac muscle of someone who already has heart disease. This, the research suggests, can trigger potentially fatal abnormalities in the heart’s rhythms.
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Horse Heart Coherence May Be Key To Non-invasive Stress Detection
A horse’s heart rhythms reflect their emotional state and can respond to the emotional state of a nearby human, according to a pilot study conducted by Alliant International University Professor Ellen Gehrke and the Institute of HeartMath. When in contact, a horse’s heart rate may mirror a human’s emotions, signifying a close unspoken form of communication between man and beast.
Autonomic Nervous System • Heart Rate Variability • HeartMath • Mood • Nature • Psychology • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
An Appreciative Heart is Good Medicine
Psychologists once maintained that emotions were purely mental expressions generated by the brain alone. We now know that this is not true — emotions have as much to do with the heart and body as they do with the brain. Of the bodily organs, the heart plays a particularly important role in our emotional experience. The experience of an emotion results from the brain, heart, and body acting in concert. The Institute of HeartMath, a research center dedicated to the study of the heart and the physiology of emotions, has conducted numerous studies identifying the relationship between emotions and the heart. A number of their studies have provided new insight into understanding how the activity of the heart is indeed linked to our emotions and our health, vitality and well-being.
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Meet the Most Powerful Stress Manager: Your Heart
“Follow your heart.” “Put your heart into it.” “She plays with a lot of heart.” “Learn it by heart.” “In your heart you know.” Our language is filled with metaphors about the heart. In fact, virtually every culture of the world considers the heart to be central to human experience, health, intelligence and wisdom.
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