As a pharmacist and health care
professional for over thirty years, I have seen the importance of
understanding how your total person - mind, spirit, soul, body -
effects your health. Proactive approaches to personal health care
management, especially stress management, can directly impact quality
of life.
As you know from other pages on this
site, my research in alternative and complementary health care models
has focused on the importance of enhancing your diet with spagyric
herbal dietary supplements with a focus on the importance of holistic
stress management for all the areas of you total person - body, mind,
and soul/spirit.
Having seen the negative impact addiction
to prescription pharmaceuticals can have on individuals in
terms of cost, side effects, and a host of other problems, I am
convinced that one of the most important investments you can make is in personal heath care
management, especially in the area of stress and the heart. (For ABC
World News Tonight Story on HeartMath click here. For
PBS HeartMath story click here)
Having seen the negative impact addiction
to prescription pharmaceuticals can have on individuals in
terms of cost, side effects, and a host of other problems, I am
convinced that one of the most important investments you can make is in personal heath care
management, especially in the area of stress and the heart. (For ABC
World News Tonight Story on HeartMath click here.
For centuries, the heart has been
considered the source of emotion, courage and wisdom. The Institute of
HeartMath (IHM) Research Center is doing important research on
physiological mechanisms by which the heart communicates with the
brain, thereby influencing information processing, perceptions,
emotions and health.
Are you able to measure the
effectiveness of your stress reduction methods? Do you think the
techniques you are using are producing the desired results you are
seeking? You need ways to bench mark your techniques by monitoring
them on a sustained basis.
There are many stress reduction
techniques and programs available today. The products on this page,
however, will actually allow you to measure your success on a daily
even hourly basis. eMwave™ and Freeze Framer™ are scientifically
proven to safely and effectively monitor your stress and emotional
balance levels.
Watchdog group Public Citizen on
called for U.S. regulators to pull Cyberonics Inc.'s depression
treatmentdevice from the U.S. market, claiming the company has not proven
that the electronic stimulator device is effective. The Blue Cross
Blue Shield Association rejected an appeal by Cyberonics last month to
pay for the device, which costs about $25,000 per implant.
Imagine! A device which costs $25,000
and needs invasive placement. HeartMath devices are a tiny
fraction of the cost of the Cyberronics device. Think of the
investment savings!
HeartMath has introduced innovative,
scientifically proven products that can significantly enhance personal health care and stress
management. These products are coupled with their Freeze Frame, Heart
Lock, and Cut Thru techniques designed to create and sustain a more
balanced, stress free, and heart centered life style.
emWave (R) PC™ Personal Stress Reliever™
is designed to help you learn how to change your emotional state and
heart rhythms to reduce stress levels and revitalize your entire body.
It measures the subtle beat-to-beat
changes in your heart rate and showing you the rhythmic patterns over
time. This is called heart rate variability (HRV) analysis.
emWave (R) PC™ Personal Stress Reliever™
also analyzes your heart rhythm pattern for coherence, which other HRV
monitors do not do. In addition to seeing your heart rhythm in
real-time, your
coherence or entrainment level is displayed as an accumulated score.
Benefits of frequent use of the
emWave (R) PC™ Personal Stress Reliever™ include: reduced stress, increased energy and
resilience, greater mental clarity for decision-making and creativity,
enhanced emotional balance, and improved listening ability and
improved pscyhophysiological coherence.
Benefits of Coherence
Coherence confers a
number of benefits to the system in terms of both physiological and
psychological functioning. At the physiological level, there is increased
efficiency in fluid exchange, filtration, and absorption between the
capillaries and tissues; increased ability of the cardiovascular system to
adapt to circulatory demands; and increased temporal synchronization of
cells throughout the body.
This results in increased
system-wide energy efficiency and conservation of metabolic energy. These
observations support the link between positive emotions and increased
physiological efficiency that may partially explain the growing number of
documented correlations between positive emotions, improved health, and
increased longevity.
We have also shown that practicing certain
techniques that increase physiological coherence is associated with both
short-term and long-term improvement in several objective health-related
measures, including enhanced humoral immunity and an increased
DHEA/cortisol ratio.
This translates into a variety of
additional personal and professional benefits. For instance,
teams have reported greater
creativity, increased efficiency, and reduced stress from using the emWave (R) PC™ Personal Stress Reliever™ during meetings or individually.
Sales and customer service managers
report increased sensitivity on the part of personnel trained in the
emWave (R) PC™ Personal Stress Reliever™
to the needs of their customers, often leading to
increased sales and/or customer satisfaction
Athletes have reported surprising
improvements in golf scores, tennis prowess and other athletic
activities. Parents report calming and balancing
effects with children, and studies indicate profound improvements in
test-taking skill. For these and many more reasons, it is worth adding
HeartMath products and techniques to your personal health management
portfolio!
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