Emotional Stress, Positive Emotions, and Psychophysiological Coherence

A Scientific Monograph e-booklet by Dr. Rollin McCraty and Dana Tomasino

Changing Your Emotions — a New Approach to Stress Management

Until recently stress research and treatment has largely derived from a belief that mental processes alone govern or activate the body's stress response. Now the scientific monograph, Emotional Stress, Positive Emotions, and Psychophysiological Coherence, presents in layman's terms the latest stress research showing emotions, more than thoughts, activate the physiological changes comprising the stress response. This important monograph by HeartMath researchers for the landmark book, Stress in Health and Disease, explains the science and psychophysiology of stress and HeartMath's simple tools and utilization of positive emotions for permanently self-managing your stress and breaking the cycle of recurring negative emotional patterns.

Key Discussion Topics

Breaking the Stress Cycle: The Power of Positive Emotions

• Positive Emotion-Focused Tools and Techniques
• The Scientific Basis of the HeartMath Techniques
• More Than a Pump: The Heart's Key Role
• The Physiology of Positive Emotions

Two Life-Changing, Stress-Management Tools

• Freeze-Frame® Technique — for positive emotion refocusing (HeartMath's most widely used method internationally.)
• Heart Lock-In® — a technique to help you sustain heartfelt positive emotions and their benefits for longer periods.

• 18 pages
• Diagram and graphs
• 4-color cover & References

emWave®: Meditation, Prayer and Self-Help Assistant

The emWave Meditation, Prayer and Self-Help Assistant provides a comprehensive understanding of how to use the emWave to enhance your spiritual/self-help practices. Using the emWave and the Meditation, Prayer and Self-Help Assistant can be a facilitator to any system of meditation, prayer, self-help or healing techniques. In this program, all systems and techniques are honored and respected. Whatever practices you follow, using the emWave creates more ease and flow from the heart, which helps you get the most out of your meditations or affirmations and feel the benefits you are seeking more quickly. Follow this guide and you will learn how to use the emWave to experience new enrichment from your efforts. The emWave and the Meditation, Prayer and Self-Help Assistant will help you develop a deeper heart connection, refine your practices and get more value out of the time and energy you put into them.

File size: 5 MB

Pages: 60

Managing Emotions: Golf's Next Frontier e-Book
Based on research by Doc Childre and the Institute of HeartMath

If you are a passionate golfer, you can appreciate the pleasurable emotional state associated with playing at the peak of your game. You also understand how emotional blowups or meltdowns can quickly override and undo the results of countless hours of practice. A new, illustrated, 60-page book explains how you can achieve and maintain optimal emotional states for extended periods of time-even in the heat of intense competition. You'll learn HeartMath's Quick Coherence? technique for emotional balance and high performance in golf. It's easily integrated into practice routines, just like chipping, putting, ball striking, etc., and will help you maintain your energy, avoid errors due to emotional judgments and inner turbulence, shoot lower scores, and stay at peak longer.

"Effective management of the emotions in your golf game will not only lower your scores, but is guaranteed to increase your enjoyment of the game." --Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson, Voted Top 50 Teachers 2003-2004, Golf Digest

The Central Role of the Heart in Generating and Sustaining Positive Emotions

A Scientific Monograph e-booklet by Dr. Rollin McCraty and Dr. Robert A. Reese

The Benefits of Heart Coherence to Human Physiology

This insightful work explores the science behind heart coherence, the psychophysiological state that is marked by calm, emotional balance and alertness and is conducive to improved cognitive capability for problem-solving, decision-making, long-term memory and more. The authors explain in simple terms the heart's role in the emotional process and how intentionally experiencing positive emotions such as care, compassion and love can help you achieve heart coherence. This scientific monograph, which originally appeared in the landmark book, Stress in Health and Disease, also discusses HeartMath's emotion-refocusing tools and techniques and heart-rhythm-coherence feedback training, which many health experts around the world use with clients to improve their health.

Key Discussion Topics

• The Physiology of Positive Emotions
• Psychophysiological Coherence and Positive Emotional States
• The Key Role of the Heart in Emotional Experience
• Positive Emotion Refocusing Techniques
• Heart Rhythm Coherence Feedback Training: Facilitating Coherence
• The Heart, Positive Emotions and Spirituality

A Practitioner's Guide: Applications of the emWave® Stress Relief System (formerly the Freeze-Framer®) is an in-depth practitioners guide by Dr. Timothy Culbert with Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. and Howard Martin. This 24-page guide offers new tools for stress reduction and emotional management and includes:

• how to evaluate your clients.
• how to explain the emWave PC Stress Relief System to your clients.
• hands on use and step by step outline for using the emWave PC with clients.
• practical tips on designing effective strategies.
• interviews with practitioners in clinics, hospitals and private practice on applications and results.
• descriptions of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Psychophysiological Coherence.
• how to evaluate your clients.

The HeartMath Interventions Certification Program teleclasses provide licensed healthcare professionals with advanced, in-depth training on using HeartMath techniques and emWave technology in a clinical setting. The program includes the emWave PC and emWave Personal Stress Reliever handheld, the four HeartMath Transforming books, a 250-page manual, and many other benefits. Click here for program details and registration information.

File size: 3 MB