Creativity/Innovation

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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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.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Happy Emotions Boost Creativity

Seeing the world “through rose-colored glasses” may not just be a metaphor anymore. Increasing evidence suggests that our mood literally affects the way we visually process information. According to a new study published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a happy mood may “free our mind” and increase our creative thinking abilities. However, being in a good mood may also make us more distracted. “Having a positive mood affects your attention—it can broaden your visual field, literally,” said Dr. Adam Anderson, assistant professor of psychology at University of Toronto and senior author of the study.

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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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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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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Professor blames exams for student stress

The next time your child says he or she has too much homework they may be right, according to Dr. Steven Sandler, child psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Albany Medical Center. Sandler said that the myth of students facing more stress, which can cause anxiety or depression, is actually true.

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Monday, March 13, 2006

Why Change Is an Affair of the Heart

In the drama of change, emotions, not logic, impel people to cast off the old and embrace the new

Everyone wants to know why so many IT projects fail to produce the business transformation they’re expected to. The reason we found after years of studying large-scale change may surprise you. Our research, based on interviews with hundreds of executives in Fortune 1000–type companies around the world, revealed that it is not the complexity of the technology, a lack of buy-in from top management, high cost or the failure to create shareholder value that derails new projects. Instead, the single biggest challenge in any transformation project is simply getting people to change their behavior.

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Friday, January 28, 2005

Revenge of the Right Brain

Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Stress stifles creativity, study shows

Try not to get stressed out before an exam - at least an exam that requires creative thinking. A recent study by David Beversdorf, an assistant professor in Ohio State’s department of neurology, and Jessa Alexander, a research assistant in the department, revealed a correlation between medical students’ stress levels and their performance on various types of tests.

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Thursday, November 07, 2002

How to Think With Your Gut

How the geniuses behind the Osbournes, the Mini, Federal Express, and Starbucks followed their instincts and reached success.

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Friday, November 01, 2002

The Intuitive Manager and Innovation

By: Leland R. Kaiser, PhD

Intuition gives birth to innovation. Innovation results in social and organizational change. Highly intuitive managers promote change by sensing “what could be.” By contrast, managers with little intuition resist change by reinforcing “what is.” In an absolute sense, “what is” is no more real than “what could be.” Either reality is equally available at all times to all healthcare organizations.

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Monday, September 23, 2002

What’s the big idea?

Where do creative people get their inspiration? Ted Hughes likened it to fishing, while JG Ballard thinks it has more to do with whisky. Here, psychologist Guy Claxton reveals why we’re all more creative than we think.
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