HeartMath
Monday, May 23, 2005
The Zone Demystified
Noted stress and performance researcher Doc Childre talks about “the zone,” and how it’s proven to be “a state of heart/brain synchronization that’s within all people.” He also talks about how you can find it.
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Thursday, May 05, 2005
Turn on your heart light—Learn to control the ‘brain in your chest’
The term “heart light” came from the 1982 movie, “ET-The Extra-Terrestrial.” Steven Spielberg’s immense box office success, E.T. was the story of an alien from outer space who was stranded on earth after his spaceship had to make a fast getaway from pursuing scientists. E.T. develops a friendship with a young earth boy, Elliott. Unlike other movie versions of space aliens who attack and destroy our planet, E.T. was a beloved friend whose heart would light up when he felt warmth, love and compassion. When E.T. was captured and subject to the probing and monitoring of modern science, his heart light went out, only to be rekindled by the love of his dear friend Elliott.
Friday, April 29, 2005
HeartMath and Delnor Hospital Honored by American College of Healthcare Executives
Each year, the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) bestows its Management Innovations Poster Session Award to recognize excellence and innovation in the healthcare field. HeartMath and its client hospital, Delnor-Community, were honored as the 2005 recipient of this prestigious award.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
The Power of the Heart
Americans are spending billions of dollars each year on aromatherapy products, yoga classes and relaxation tapes—not to mention antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication. It’s clear that we are a stressed-out nation, looking for relief. Readers might find some in a new book, “Transforming Stress: The HeartMath Solution for Relieving Worry, Fatigue and Tension” (New Harbinger). The book aims to help people not just cope with daily stress but escape from nerve-racking feelings altogether by learning to reset the rhythms of their heart.
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Thursday, February 24, 2005
Feeling Stressed This Morning? New System Could Help
Stress is a part of everyday life. But many doctors say too much stress can adversely affect your health. A national survey says up to half of us feel we need help dealing with stress. A new system claims it can provide that help. It’s called Heartmath.
Friday, December 17, 2004
Heart Rate Variability and Emotional Shifting: Powerful Tools for Reducing Cardiovascular Risk
Heart Rate Variability, the beat-to-beat change in heart rate, is an accurate indicator of autonomic nervous system activity that can provide important insights into a patient’s risk of cardiovascular disease. More importantly, it can play a central role in teaching patients how to reduce their own risk by showing them how their emotional states affect their heart health. In essence, HRV provides a picture of the interplay between the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches. As such, it reflects the ways in which emotional states affect core physiology including, but not limited to, cardiac function.
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Saturday, December 04, 2004
Helping take stress out of school
Amy Shellman is not a Deepak Chopra groupie or an Oprah-dite. But as a health teacher at Watsonville High School, she’s a fan of deep breathing, positive visualization and bio-rhythm tracking — all cliched relaxation techniques she has seen in action through the Institute of HeartMath. “The kids totally love it,” Shellman says of the institute’s computer-based program. “It teaches you to maintain focus.”
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Institute of Heartmath education programs
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Friday, December 03, 2004
A snowball’s chance - As in life, emotions in golf have a tendency to snowball. They can spiral in a
The success of your golf game might not be in the piles of balls you can hit, but rather how well you can learn to manage and direct your emotions. Emotion—feel—is an important component of human functioning, and emotions affect all aspects of life, including sports and particularly golf. In fact, emotional beliefs drive the mental game. Thoughts are structures that contain emotion, which affect where thinking or visualizing can take you. You can learn to guide your own emotions on the course—and in life.
Friday, November 26, 2004
Managing Emotions
Stress can kill a golf swing. But there is little doubt that your golf game can be significantly improved and your stress dramatically reduced by learning to develop a positive attitude that promotes confidence during play as well as practice.
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Thursday, November 04, 2004
A new way to deal with stress
Americans are stressed out. The American Institute of Stress estimates stress has a $300 billion price tag when you take into account accidents, loss of productivity, and medical, legal and insurance costs.
Aside from just the dollar value, stress has a major impact on health. It has been associated with fatigue, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, depression and sleep disorders.
Stress alone does not cause all of these health problems, but the problems arise from the way most of us respond to stress. At the time of a reaction to stress, the brain sends a negative signal to the heart, which then becomes “out of coherence,” and the rest of the body, including the nervous system, reacts by getting out of sync. This is when damage occurs.
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Friday, October 22, 2004
Clemson teams up with HeartMath to help S.C. education
Clemson University’s Youth Learning Institute and the Institute of HeartMath, signed an agreement giving Clemson the exclusive rights to market in South Carolina such HeartMath programs as TestEdge™, an interactive learning program that helps students improve learning and performance, including scores on high-stakes tests, as well as a program to help teachers and administrators deal with stress. TestEdge™, which is based on HeartMath’s scientifically-validated, heart-brain research, teaches proven tools and strategies for helping students overcome test and performance anxiety, while at the same time enhancing their focus, clarity and problem solving ability. IHM was recently awarded a $1 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education to demonstrate the benefits of the TestEdge program.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Appreciation and Compassion
An article on the scientific keys to lowering your golf scores and how to shift attitudes fast.
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Rules to stay cool in the office jungle
Apart from overwhelming workloads and tickings-off from the boss, few
things raise stress levels faster than stress management courses. Tired
managers probably feel they have heard it all before. But a new
programme of science-based stress management techniques may offer a
way forward.
Article (PDF file - Adobe Acrobat required.)
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Are we resigned to stress?
HeartMath stress experts say we can significantly reduce our stress by understanding how our emotions work.
Saturday, September 04, 2004
Unique Technology Teaches Traders How to Reduce Stress to Achieve Trading Success
I’m constantly looking for tools to help traders be successful while reducing stress and improving their quality of life. Recently, I discovered a powerful tool called the Freeze-Framer, which gives traders an effective technology for quickly controlling emotions, reducing stress and fatigue and creating the zone state for optimal trading performance and learning.