Education
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Delnor Hospital Offers HeartMath Workshop in Geneva, IL on May 15, 2008
Denor Hospital in Geneva, IL is offering a six-hour HeartMath workshop on Thursday, May 15 from 9:00 - 6:00. This is a great opportunity to attend a live HeartMath event taught be trainers with years of experience using HeartMath personally and in a healthcare setting.
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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.
Autonomic Nervous System • Brain • Education • Heart Rate Variability • HeartMath • Technology • (0) Comments • Permalink
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Study: Stress In College Hurts Motivation
Findings from a newly released study say college students are more stressed out than ever and the added stress is leading to serious consequences. Most students in U.S. colleges are just plain stressed out, from everyday worries about grades and relationships to darker thoughts of suicide, according to a poll of undergraduates from coast to coast. The survey was conducted for The Associated Press and mtvU, a television network available at many colleges and universities. Four in 10 students say they endure stress often. Nearly 50 percent say they feel it all or most of the time.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Short-term stress can affect learning and memory
Short-term stress lasting as little as a few hours can impair brain-cell communication in areas associated with learning and memory, University of California, Irvine researchers have found. It has been known that severe stress lasting weeks or months can impair cell communication in the brain’s learning and memory region, but this study provides the first evidence that short-term stress has the same effect.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
How to help kids keep test anxiety in check
You can’t dismiss the fear of test-taking, says Dr. Robert Rees, director of education and humanities for HeartMath, a nonprofit institute that has developed a program to help people manage test and other anxiety. “Test anxiety is an almost universal experience,” Rees says. Even students who are well-prepared, he says, sometimes “have so much anxiety that they can’t function cognitively.”
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Study links preschool teachers’ stress to student expulsions
Preschool teachers who are highly stressed because of classroom conditions, depression or other factors are far more likely than their colleagues to recommend expulsion for children with behavioral problems, according to a study released Thursday.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Institute of HeartMath Introduces New HeartSmarts Program
The Institute of HeartMath®, a leading research and education organization in Boulder Creek, Calif., recently released a new supplemental learning program called HeartSmarts™ to help students get their hearts and brains focused on learning. HeartSmarts is a social and emotional intelligence program for grades 3-5 that is based on HeartMath’s many years of research into the physiology of learning. The HeartSmarts program, designed for classroom use, helps students transform stress, improve learning and strengthen relationships. Students learn about their emotional physiology, how to identify their emotions and how different emotions affect them, their schoolwork and others.
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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
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Children who survive urban warfare suffer from PTSD, too
Countless children in San Francisco’s toughest neighborhoods experience murder, violence and trauma - an often unavoidable consequence of living in an urban war zone. The violence, layers of it overlapping year after year, can eventually take up residence in the children’s minds. Like combat veterans, they develop post-traumatic stress disorder - the soldier’s sickness. As many as one-third of children living in our country’s violent urban neighborhoods have PTSD, according to recent research and the country’s top child trauma experts - nearly twice the rate reported for troops returning from war zones in Iraq.
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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, March 28, 2007
Demand Rising for Mental Health Services on Campus
College students across the country are needing and using mental health services in increasing numbers, according to a new study released today by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA). Most schools offer a wide variety of mental health services, however, many schools do not offer specific services to treat anxiety disorders, the most frequently diagnosed mental illness in children and teens, and do not have the staff to respond to the growing demand for services.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
Study: Half Of College Students Feel Depression
A study found nearly half of all college students reported feeling, at some point, so depressed they were unable to function normally. New research shows one out of four young adults will experience clinical depression by age 24.
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
Aiming for the Brain’s Sweet Spot
As Congress prepares to debate whether to renew the No Child Left Behind Act, its members might do well to consider the biology of boredom, frazzle and the brain’s sweet spot for performance. Or they may inadvertently widen the gap between high- and low-achieving students.
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Happiness 101
One Tuesday last fall I sat in on a positive-psychology class called the Science of Well-Being — essentially a class in how to make yourself happier — at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. George Mason is a challenge for positive psychologists because it is one of the 15 unhappiest campuses in America, at least per The Princeton Review. Many students are married and already working and commute to school. It’s a place where you go to move your career forward, not to find yourself.