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About
emWave™ Personal Stress Reliever
Introducing emWave Personal
Stress Reliever, an entertaining stress relief technology to help
you balance your emotions, mind and body. This scientifically validated,
handheld stress reliever was carefully developed by Doc Childre,
founder of the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) and CEO of Quantum Intech,
and a team of top scientists and engineers, using the Institute's
15 years of innovative research on the relationship between the
heart, stress and emotions.
Stress creates incoherence
in our heart rhythms. However, when we are in a state of high heart
rhythm coherence the nervous system, heart, hormonal and immune
systems are working efficiently and we feel good emotionally. emWave
Personal Stress Reliever helps you reduce your emotional stress
by displaying your level of heart rhythm coherence in real time.
But emWave does more than just display coherence levels. It guides
you toward stress relief by training you to shift into a coherent,
high performance state.
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stated, more coherence equals less stress.
Using colorful LED
displays, audio feedback, the emWave breathing pacer and an
instructional stress relief technique on how to generate positive
emotions will improve your coherence level — sharpening
your ability to reduce stress and increase vitality, mental
clarity and emotional balance.
The emWave Personal
Stress Reliever also comes with the Coherence Coach™
CD, an entertaining stress relief software application that
teaches HeartMath's Quick Coherence® technique for stress
relief and increasing performance. Step-by-step, through narration,
animations and music, the Coherence Coach gives you the stress
relief training to increase coherence levels while using your
emWave.
emWave Personal Stress Reliever provides
a handheld, portable and convenient way to reduce stress,
balance emotions and increase performance anytime, anywhere.
It is especially useful when preparing for highly stressful
meetings, for improving sleep, to improve athletic performance,
to overcome the effects of stress associated with health issues
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emWave™
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
How is the emWave Personal Stress Reliever
different from a heart rate monitor?
The emWave is very different from handheld devices that simply measure
heart rate. The emWave Personal Stress Reliever analyzes your heart
rhythms for “coherence”, a term used by scientists to
describe a highly efficient physiological state in which the nervous
system, cardiovascular, hormonal and immune systems are working
efficiently and harmoniously. A heart rate monitor only provides
you with information about your average heart rate.
How
does using this stress management device differ from deep breathing?
While rhythmic breathing exercises can help control your heart rate
and have a calming effect on the body, shifting attitudes and emotions
take more than that. Research shows that the key to learning how
to neutralize and counter the effects of stress is by actively adding
a positive feeling such as appreciation, care and compassion to
the process. Experiencing positive emotions has a much broader range
of health and wellness benefits than simply forcing the system into
coherence through rhythmic breathing. Generating feelings of appreciation,
care or compassion adds a dynamic element for stress management.
Using the breathing pacer found in the emWave in conjunction with
generating positive emotions helps synchronize your nervous system
and creates positive changes in your heart rhythm patterns to create
and sustain the coherence needed for stress relief.
What
are some of the benefits I could expect from using the emWave and
how much time does it take to see results?
Frequent users of the emWave Personal Stress Reliever report:
- stress reduction
- increased energy and resilience
- greater mental clarity for decision-making and creativity
- enhanced emotional balance and improved listening ability
- better, more restful sleep
Most people get into medium or high coherence within a few short
sessions and feel a reduction in stress. Using the Quick Coherence®
technique, which you can read about in the manual or learn from
the Coherence Coach CD included in the package, is highly recommended
as it accelerates the process of learning tools for stress management.
Practicing stress management techniques is the key, but results
generally come quickly. Additionally, emWave includes four challenge
levels so that as you practice you can continue to refine your ability
to eliminate and counter the negative effects of stress.
Is
the emWave Personal Stress Reliever like a biofeedback device or
biofeedback therapy?
Biofeedback is a specific term used to describe the measurement
of changes in brain waves. Unlike biofeedback, emWave does not measure
brain waves but rather measures changes in coherence levels. Some
think of it as biofeedback because it does give you information
about what is going on in your body. However, emWave is based on
a different scientific discipline and is not classified as a biofeedback
device.
How
is the emWave different from other stress management devices?
There are certainly other stress management devices designed to
help people with stress and HeartMath's position is that we are
very much in favor of any stress management devices or stress management
techniques that can help with the mounting global stress problem.
What distinguishes the emWave from
many other stress managment products is the significant body of
published scientific research that has been incorporated into its
development. Our 15 years of experience, validation and practical
applications demonstrate the effectiveness in all of the stress
management products that HeartMath offers. Additionally, emWave
is just one of many products found in the HeartMath system. The
system — consists of tools, stress management techniques and
proven PC based technology (Freeze-Framer Interactive Learning System).
All HeartMath products and services compliment each other and have
been used for stress managment and increasing performance by hundreds
of thousands of people in over 50 countries, and applied in Fortune
100 corporations, health care systems, government agencies and school
systems. emWave is an extension of this system and carries with
it the breadth of credibility and proven results associated with
HeartMath.
Has
HeartMath done studies to support the benefits of the emWave?
HeartMath has done numerous studies on the effect of positive emotions
on stress, physiology and human performance. These studies have
been published in prestigious journals including Stress Medicine,
American Journal of Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology, Journal of
the American College of Cardiology, Integrative Physiological and
Behavioral Science and Harvard Business Review.
Can
I use the emWave along with other stress management practices?
Yes, emWave works well as an adjunct to other stress managment practices.
It can easily provide verification of the effectiveness of many
other approaches to counter the effects of stress and can be used
as a friendly facilitator of other stress management methods.
Do
I need to be experienced with technology in order to use the emWave
device?
No. emWave Personal Stress Reliever is very simple and easy to use.
The Quick Start Guide and the owner's manual provide clear instructions
on how to easily operate and immediately benefit from your emWave.
Aside
from helping to reduce stress, are there other applications for
using the emWave that I can benefit from?
The applications of the emWave Personal Stress Reliever include
more than stress managment. Increasing your coherence level —
which is the primary goal of using the emWave — increases
performance. Whether or not you feel the negative effects of stress,
you can use it to improve mental clarity which will have a positive
effect on business, communications and creativity. Additionally,
emWave provides a great way to improve performance in sports. It
trains you to more easily enter into a high performance state that
athletes call “The Zone”.
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