Appreciation
Monday, April 07, 2008
New Study Finds Anticipating A Laugh Reduces Stress
In 2006 researchers investigating the interaction between the brain, behavior, and the immune system found that simply anticipating a mirthful laughter experience boosted health-protecting hormones. Now, two years later, the same researchers have found that the anticipation of a positive humorous laughter experience also reduces potentially detrimental stress hormones.
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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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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Playing with heart - Pebble Beach’s top teacher wants to chokeproof your game
The secret to controlling emotion has been golf’s most maddening mystery. The great mass of players is repeatedly undone by the coordination-killing and mind-blanking forces brought on by fear, anger or frustration. The chosen few—invariably the champions—find a way through. But when asked to explain how, most of these champions have responded with a shrug or the hoariest cliché in the jargon of the athlete: “Heart.” Now it turns out that the heart might have been the secret to emotional control all along.
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The Science of Lasting Happiness
Through controlled experiments, Sonja Lyubomirsky explores ways to beat the genetic set point for happiness. Staying in high spirits, she finds, is hard work.
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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, November 23, 2006
Gratitude
Every day should be Thanksgiving Day, and not because of the delicious food. According to researchers, developing an attitude of gratitude is good for the mind and body. And while you can have too much turkey, you can never have too many feelings of appreciation—the more the better.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
emWave Personal Stress Reliever: A Sleek, Compact Portable Device for Reducing Stress Anytim
emWave™ is an entertaining mobile handheld device the size of a cell phone. At only 2.2 ounces, it’s the smallest, lightest personal stress reliever on the market today. emWave users learn how to easily reduce stress—such as anger, frustration, worry, and anxiety—in real-time. HeartMath has earned a global reputation for their 15 years of innovative research on the relationship between stress and emotions. emWave represents a breakthrough in personal stress reduction technology.
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Sunday, June 18, 2006
emWave Personal Stress Reliever
The emWave™ Personal Stress Reliever™ provides advanced mobile technology that will help you reduce the negative effects of stress, allowing you to experience greater health, more energy, and improved emotional and mental clarity.
Developed from the Institute of HeartMath’s 15 years of research on the relationship between the heart, brain, stress and emotions. emWave is both innovative and practical. It enhances your life through it scientifically validated technology, helping you reduce stress and gain a new sense of inner control any time...any where.
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Sunday, May 28, 2006
A cure for Stress?
It started as a hi-tech relaxation technique for burnt-out executives. Now everyone from schoolchildren to sports stars are discovering the seemingly miraculous benefits of HeartMath.
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Monday, May 15, 2006
The Physiology of Peak Performance
What some researchers are calling a “binge-purge” approach to stress management is not only ineffective it’s out and out unhealthy. And, while you wait for the ‘cure’ – the week vacation, a long weekend at the spa, or even the massage your family gave you for your birthday—your performance suffers. To understand why, and what IS the right approach to sustain peak performance during stressful times, you need a few quick lessons in human physiology.
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Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Gratitude: It’s good for you, and there’s no downside
Writing thank-you notes is not nearly as much fun as fooling with the new Nintendo DS you unwrapped a few days ago. Recent research, however, may lighten the load of thanking generous relatives and other bearers of glad tidings. Being grateful is good for you.
Monday, December 15, 2003
Gratitude Visits
mericans are not very good at saying thank you. We have rituals for getting engaged, for bidding farewell to departing colleagues, even for graduating from kindergarten. But when it comes to expressing thanks, we tend toward uninspired, joyless missives demanded by protocol. Let us give thanks, then, for Martin E.P. Seligman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a former president of the American Psychological Association. Seligman has created what he calls the gratitude visit, which works like this:
Friday, November 28, 2003
Gratitude is good medicine
The Roman philosopher Cicero called gratitude the “parent” of all virtues. Buddha described thankfulness as a “noble” characteristic. The Apostle Paul told Christians to “give thanks in all circumstances.” And guess what? A little appreciation may be good for your health.
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Scholar suggests we look deeper to find satisfaction
Those of us living in the West must be more grateful for what we have if we are to climb out of the spiritual and psychological malaise that has taken hold of the world’s richest societies, says University of Toronto theology professor Mary Jo Leddy.