HeartMath in the Media

Tis the Season to be Stressed Out?
The holidays are just around the corner and, for many of us, so is stress. The demands of gift buying, parties, and family gatherings can create feelings of overwhelm. This holiday season arm yourself with emWave Personal Stress Reliever, a new solution from the HeartMath System.
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Fox TV in New York takes a closer look at how stress has become an accepted way of life, but it doesn’t have to be.
Fox 5's Doctor Sapna Parikh says there are devices on the market that can make you feel better. Dr. Parikh tries out emWave Personal Stress Reliever and the American Institute of Stress gives emWave their seal of approval. Click below for the full story.
“Stress Busters”:

Ian Woosnam, 2006 European Ryder Cup Team Captain, reveals his secret to a winning performance – HeartMath® emWave Personal Stress Reliever®.
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An independent study demonstrates that HeartMath® stress reduction techniques effectively improve memory.
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emWave Personal Stress Reliever®
An innovative handheld technology to prevent and quickly recover from stress .
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emWave Personal Stress Reliever®— What is it?
emWave Personal Stress Reliever® represents a breakthrough in personal stress reduction technology. emWave is a handheld interactive device, small enough to fit in your purse or pocket. Weighing just 2.2 ounces, emWave is a discreet and effective solution for reducing stress anytime, anywhere.
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Rhythm and blues
Ode Magazine talks about emWave Personal Stress Reliever®
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To learn about Ode go to www.odemagazine.com

Is this the 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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HeartMath® to demonstrate exciting new technology—
emWave Personal Stress Reliever® —
at the American Psychological Association convention
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To learn more go to www.emwave.com

Quantum Intech, Inc. introduces emWave Personal Stress Reliever®
A sleek, compact portable device for reducing stress anytime, anywhere
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To learn more go to www.emwave.com

Woosnam Signs with HeartMath
2006 European Ryder Cup Captain, Ian Woosnam, has announced he will be using HeartMath® techniques to help him cope with the pressure of the year ahead.
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MIRAVAL, LIFE IN BALANCE®, ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE WITH HEARTMATH®
America’s leading proponent of mindful, balanced living announces exclusive new technology to improve guest’s quality of life.
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Does your heart sense your emotional state?
As part of the “Heart Smarts” series, “Today” explores the link between your heart health and your emotions. The heart's more than a pump — it actually sends messages to the brain. Dr. Rollin McCraty of the Institute of HeartMath visited “Today” to discuss the science behind the theory.
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Healing Lifestyles and Spas Magazine
Miraval Spa guests are learning how to improve their heart rate variability, thereby reducing their risks of heart attack, stroke, and other cardio-related diseases.
See article titled, “Heart Power for Healing.”

New Computer Program Can Help Lower Your Stress
We could all use a little bit of help in reducing stress in our lives. Now a computer program is giving University of Washington students the stress relief they desperately need.Read the article here or
watch the video .

Australia's Occupational Health and Safety Bulletin highlights Heartmath
Emotional Management training is critical to dealing with the pressures of everyday working life, according to a specialist in personal and organisational development. Read the article here.

Education World highlights HeartMath's Resilient Educator™ program
"I'm totally stressed out." Listen carefully when teachers repeat that almost-routine mantra. They could be experiencing stress that affects their performance, students, and personal lives. But, stress doesn't have to take a toll. With Heartmath’s program teachers begin to understand what stress is -- emotional reactions that turn into turmoil and then performance blocks -- and engage in "positive emotion refocusing techniques" that help teachers build positive energy and responses to challenges and alter stress' physiological impact." Read the full article here.

ODE magazine cover story. A change of heart changes everything. A California institute demonstrates how people can actually make their heart beat in a healthier way. Through its research, the Institute of HeartMath proves that health starts with love, and that love can reduce stress. It is a method that is used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and more than 100 organizations--from global corporations to hospitals to government agencies and schools. This simple method is changing the world. Read the full article here

The Power of the Heart
A Newsweek Web Exclusive--By Julie Scelfo
A new book offers a novel approach to beating stress--by regulating the rhythms of your heart. Newsweek's Julie Scelfo spoke with Deborah Rozman, the book’s co-author, about the role the heart plays in exacerbating, or alleviating, stress. Read the article

Delnor-Community Hospital wins prestigious award from American College of Healthcare Executives for HeartMath Intervention
At the Congress recently held in Chicago, Delnor-Community Hospital was honored as the 2005 recipient of this prestigious award. The poster, “A Case Study in Staff Retention and Achieving Excellence in Employee and Patient Satisfaction,” describes the close collaboration between Delnor and HeartMath since 1999, resulting in dramatic improvements in Delnor’s key success measures. The Management Innovations posters are judged on the basis of creativity, scope, impact on the organization, and adaptability to other settings. Full Press Release

Transforming Stress: The HeartMath® Solution for Relieving Worry, Fatigue, and Tension
It's been called an epidemic. It can be an addiction. It ruins marriages and careers, undermines a parent’s ability to care for his or her children, ravages health, and generally makes those caught up in it miserable. If you’re thinking it’s a new street drug, think again. It's stress. Full Press Release

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New York Post reviews emWave™ Personal Stress Reliever™
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US Airways emWave review
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Transforming Stress: The Heartmath Solution For Relieving Worry, Fatigue, And Tension a part of PsychJourney's Book Club
Psychjourney's President Deborah Harper interviewed the book's co-author Deborah Rozman about the heart's role in transforming stress. You can listen to the interview by pressing the play button below.

To learn more about Psychjourney go to psychjourney.com. To learn more about Psychjourney's Book Club go here.

A Whole New Life
An inspiring story of a woman who used the power of her heart throughout the challenging recovery process following her brain surgery. Read the article (PDF only)

The Resonant Heart -- By Rollin McCraty, Raymond Trevor Bradley, and Dana Tomasino
Research discussing the body's Heart Field: An electromagnetic field produced through the heart that can be detected several feet from the individual. Read the article (PDF only)
Posted with permission from the Institute of Noetic Science. For more information on the publication, SHIFT: AT THE FRONTIERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS please go to http://www.noetic.org

Freeze-Framer Program is Key in Helping Teach Peace -- By Betsy Yagla, The Tico Times
Costa Rica schools infiltrated with the local 'Peace Army' use the Freeze Framer Interactive Learning System to help change social and emotional learning. Read the article (PDF only)

Heart Rate Variability and Emotional Shifting: Powerful Tools for Reducing Cardiovascular Risk -- By Lee Lipsenthal, MD
Lee Lipsenthal discusses Heart Rate Variability, the beat-to-beat change in heart rate, as an indicator of autonomic nervous system activity, providing important insights into a patient's risk of cardiovascular disease. Read the article

Helping take stress out of school -- By Nancy Pasternack
HeartMath helps students at Watsonville High School combat school related stress for improved academic performance. Read the article

PGA.com -- A Snowball's Chance
As in life, emotions in golf have a tendency to snowball. They can spiral in a positive or negative direction. It's up to you. Read the article

QC Magazine
On page 40-45 for the article titled, "Count Your Blessings", Quad Cities Magazine interviewed Dr. Rollin McCraty about Institute of HeartMath research on appreciation.
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Dr. Mona -- Take Stress Out of the Equation -- CBS 11 TV - Dallas, Texas
We've known for a long time that smoking and family history are two risk factors for heart disease. But we've only recently added stress to that list. Now programs that target the heart through physical strengthening are also teaching patients how to keep their emotions in check. Click here for video link (click under the image of Dr. Mona Khanna on the link titled 'Heartmath Targets Stress; Dr. Mona Khanna reports').

Play Golf "In The Zone" All The Time
Golf Tips magazine acknowledges the Freeze-Framer in their Golf Tips Technology Awards.
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Listening to the Telltale Heart
Be sure to click the HEARTMATH video link on the left side of the following page to watch the story of how HeartMath helped a successful businessman who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, avoid severe depression and fear of the future of his condition.
http://umanitoba.fitdv.com/new/articles/article.html?artid=136

HeartMath Published in The Korea Herald
The Heartware Group--HeartMath's alliance in Seoul, South Korea--gets published in The Korea Herald with an article titled East Meets West in Stress Control.
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Also published online at: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr

HeartMath Airs on PBS' Healing Quest Series. See how the Freeze-Framer is helping one man manage his chronic health issues.
HeartMath segment on Healing Quest in Episode #7: Segment 1. Click on the link below to read the transcript.
View transcript

Articles

Why More Professionals Need an 'Inner Vacation'
By Sue Shellenbarger, The Wall Street Journal Online
http://www.careerjournal.com/columnists/workfamily/20031010-workfamily.html

Educators Focused on Test Prep, Learning Readiness for At-risk Students
By Stephen Bevilacqua, Special Ed Connection Editor
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HeartMath Featured in the 5minute Consult Column of HealthLeaders Magazine -- August 2003
How Methodist Health System in Dallas is helping reduce stress for their nurses.
5minute Consult

The Change Champion's Fieldguide -- June 2003
In the newly released Best Practices Publication titled, The Change Champion's Fieldguide, HeartMath founder Doc Childre authors a chapter on how to get exceptional business performance results through managing organizational and emotional business chaos. Doc says, "Organizations that seek to build and sustain high performance will diligently address its prime disabler: emotional stress." The Fieldguide provides necessary elements to champion change. The book includes a number of contributors who are widely recognized as the best in organization change and leadership development. They provide invaluable lessons in succeeding during crisis or growth modes and economies. To learn more about this book go to
http://www.bestpracticeboard.com/fieldguide.htm

HeartMath Featured in Modern Healthcare -- June 2003
In our first annual status report on the healthcare industry's workforce, we find an existing shortage of qualified staff is set to get much, much worse.
Help Wanted, Desperately

Special Report on Strategic Landscape -- February 2003
HeartMath helps Delnor-Community Hospital in Geneva, IL, in its goal to become a national leader in patient satisfaction, as well as the first choice in its primary market.
Advanstar Communications, Managed Healthcare Executive

High Stress Linked to Spiraling Health Care Costs -- July 2002
Seventy-five percent of Americans now describe their jobs as stressful, and evidence is linking stress to high health care costs.
Penton Media, Inc., Occupational Hazards

Heart Rhythm Coherence Feature Article -- Spring 2002
Heart rhythm coherence - an emerging area of biofeedback.
Heart rhythm coherence (PDF)
(PDF format only.)

T+D Magazine -- February 2002
Use this set of business tools to link your head and your heart—so you can think more clearly, perform better, and be healthier.
Put Your Heart Math into It (PDF)
(PDF format only.)

Medical Economics -- 2001
Interview with New York vascular surgeon, Joe McCaffrey about his use of HeartMath tools at his hospital. "Two ways to beat stress." Medical Economics 2001;14.
Medical Economics Interview with New York Vascular Surgeon

Sun Server (Serves Sun Microsystems/Internet community) -- December 2001 "Maximizing Human Performance and Organizational Intelligence" by Bruce Cryer.
Cover feature article on HeartMath's benefits to the business world. Sun Server Magazine" Maximizing Human Performance and Organizational Intelligence"

Biofeedback Magazine -- December 2001
Psychophysiological Correlates of Spiritual Experience.
Biofeedback Magazine Winter 2002 (PDF)
(PDF format only.)

CNN.com "Software Aims to Relax Pre-Test Jitters" -- March 2001
Freeze-Framer helping with test-taking in schools (text only.)
CNN News, Test Relaxer Freeze-Framer Software

ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings -- February 2001
Real player video clip of police officers and school children successfully using Freeze-Framer real-time technology to reduce stress, improve performance at work/school.
ABC News World News Tonight Story

PBS special - "Lessons from the Heart" featuring Bruce Wilson, M.D.
How a cardiologist uses Freeze-Frame with his patients. (text only)
PBS special, "Lessons from the Heart"

HP World Magazine - "Reinventing the Heart of HP" -- December 2000
HeartMath program's success with The Hewlett-Packard Co.
HP World News, Reinventing the Heart

Advance for Health Information Executives - "Science of the Heart" --November 2000
Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva, IL, integrates HeartMath into its staff and work environment to enhance performance and balance. Interviews with HeartMath President Bruce Cryer and staff at Delnor. In an environment of shrinking reimbursement, high turnover rates and everyday decisions that affect life and death, you might think that stress is as much a part of a hospital setting as needles, latex gloves and wheelchairs..."
Advance for Health Information "Science of the Heart"

Nurse Week - "Follow Your Heart - Researchers explore the connection between cardiac rhythms and stress." -- September 2000
Diane Ball, RN, and Joan Stephens, RN, of Delnor Hospital tell how HeartMath saved their nursing careers, and how they use the technology in cardiac rehab.
Nurse Week - "Follow your heart..."

Global Technology Business On Line -- September 2000
20 minute Real audio interview with HeartMath President Bruce Cryer on working at today's global speed. Great tips on managing a stress-filled lifestyle.
Global Technology Business On Line, Real Audio Interview

Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal - "It's Not 'Mind Over Matter' Anymore" -- March 2000
Feature article on how HeartMath is helping those in the IT world manage stress and increase performance, success and creativity.
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal "It's not 'mind over matter' anymore"

Journal of Innovative Management (Goal QPC)
HeartMath CEO Doc Childre and President Bruce Cryer explain their business model of Inner Quality Management in this article, "Achieving Coherence Out of Chaos."
Journal of Innovative Management, "Achieving Coherence Out of Chaos."

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