New Audio & Video Guided Practices, Meditations and Talks Are Now Available in the App
We have recently created some Guided Heart Meditations and Talks to enrich your practice. We have also created an Inner Balance video tour to introduce you to the features and functions on the Inner Balance.
The guided meditations make it easier to get heart, mind, and body in sync (coherent) and can add value to your meditation experience.
All of these live on the free Inner Balance app to use during your sessions, and we are adding more all the time.
Our need to feel loved and cared for and to give love and care to others seems to be an innate human quality programmed into our DNA. Feeling loved and cared for gives us a feeling of security and self-worth. Caring for someone else gives us a sense of wholeness — it’s an extension of our love. As good as it feels to care for someone or something, for many people it can also become a source of stress and emotional chaos that leaves them feeling mentally and emotionally drained. Which arises the question, is it possible to care too much? In most dictionaries the first definition of care is a burdened state of mind; worry; concern. It takes several lines before some dictionaries get around to defining care as “to feel love for, to look after, provide for, attend to.” Many people feel that if they’re not worrying or obsessing over things it must mean that they’re not caring enough. This need to worry or obsess is an “emotional habit” that operates under the seemingly healthy guise of attention, sentiment and sympathy toward people or situations, but often can end up causing disharmony, depression and a spiral of destructive stress. Psychologist Deborah Rozman, co-author of Transforming Anxiety: The HeartMath Solution for Overcoming Fear and Worry and Creating Serenity, says, “Emotional habits keep people locked into a loop of anxiety and even depression. One of the habits most of us can relate to is called ‘overcare.’ Overcare is a common emotional habit that causes us anxiety, worry and stress.” The term “overcare” was coined by Doc Childre, founder of the HeartMath® system and co-author of numerous books, including Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety, Transforming Anger, and Transforming Depression. Doc describes overcare as that which happens when the mind and emotions cross the line of balanced care and get too attached to and bogged down with whomever or whatever you’re caring about. Once you become too entangled in another’s web and realize your energy is drained from overcare and overattachment, it’s easy to be seduced into blaming and resenting the people or issues you care about. Examples of overcare:
A mother who equates love with constant worry and fret about her children.
A citizen concerned about those affected by a natural disaster becomes inflamed and judgmental towards government or public agencies’ actions.
A spouse who wants to reassure their partner that they love them ends up stifling their partner with attention.
An employee fearful of possible layoffs feeds his anxiety with constant negative projections and assumptions about the future.
A son’s concern for his elderly father leads to continuous arguments with his siblings about how to best care for their father.
In all of these examples, what starts out as a genuine and balanced intention to care gets muddled with overattachment and over-identity and leads to overcare for the person or situation. The original caring intentions instead become emotionally draining to all parties and often can create a negative effect. Examples of the effects of overcare:
The mother’s children feel suffocated and distance themselves from her.
The concerned citizen drains personal energy by harboring these judgments, and her resentment toward the system prevents her from taking a proactive approach to helping the people affected.
The smothered spouse craves personal space and the couple separates or even divorces.
The employee’s constant anxiety prevents him from sleeping and jacks up his blood pressure, while his assumptions fuel rumors among colleagues, creating a toxic environment of angst and stress.
The family’s arguments put even more strain on them, making it more difficult to come to a family consensus, and causes the father to feel that he has become a burden.
Examples like these are all too common and happen more than we realize. It’s not that we care too much, but more that we don’t know how to manage our care. We think that somehow if we anguish over something enough we’ll get a creative solution or we’ll somehow conjure up the productive motivation we need to take action and resolve something. Worry and anxiety do not solve problems. It is when we finally release the worry, decide to sleep on it, or talk with a friend who helps us let the worry go that the answers finally come to us. Dr. Rozman says, “Balanced care is not some placid state that lacks drive and passion. It’s quite the opposite, actually. Balanced care is dynamic, it is a place in your heart that allows you to flex through stress and stay resilient under pressure.”
Wendy Warner, MD, Founder and Medical Director of Medicine in Balance, LLC and President of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, says: “Overcare is often disguised as angst, worry, concern, sympathy, or even sentiment, and can lead to stress-related health issues such as headaches, backaches, high blood pressure, digestive issues, and hormonal imbalances. Although both men and women can experience overcare and related physical complaints, our society tends to ‘train’ and expect women to be caregivers, so they tend to be more prone to overcaring about people or situations.” As we learn to recognize when we’re starting to get over-identified, over-attached, over-expectant or overzealous, we become more sensitive to our own inner signals. This sensitivity allows us to make internal adjustments and get back to that balanced place inside where the original care started. Personal Evaluation Dr. Rozman suggests trying this personal evaluation: “Listen to and watch your feelings as you consider these questions. Notice any changes in your feelings as you answer the questions.”
In what areas is care adding to your energy and reducing your stress? Why?
In what areas is care draining your energy and giving you stress? What do you overcare about in the situation?
Are you over-identified with someone or some issue?
Are you over-attached to a particular outcome?
Which of the common masks of overcare – sentiment, attachment, expectation, or sympathy – best describe what you experience?
Rozman says, “This evaluation will help you recognize where you have overcare. The first step to getting back to your balanced care is knowing when you’ve crossed over into a state of overcare.” In their book Transforming Anxiety, Deborah Rozman and Doc Childre provide tools and techniques that will show you how to release the anxiety and worry associated with emotional habits like overcare. Letting go of the overcare will give you the inner security and strength you need to get back to the balanced care where you can tap into your creativity and passion. Tools to Ease Your Overcare The following tools from HeartMath are designed to help ease out any stressful emotions and the emotional drain that result from overcare. Notice and Ease™ In order to shift out of overcare you first need to identify what you’re feeling. By slowing down the emotional energy running through your system, you’re better able to identify whether it’s worry, anxiety, hurt, etc.
Notice and admit what you’re feeling.
Try to name the feeling.
Tell yourself to e-a-s-e – as you gently focus your attention in the area of your heart, relax as you breathe, and e-a-s-e the stress out.
Attitude Breathing® Attitude Breathing is a tool to help you shift out of an emotional draining state and back to a balance state of care. By practicing this you will learn to clear and replace the overcare with a more balance and positive emotion and gain a more intelligent perspective.
Recognize an unwanted attitude: a feeling or attitude that you want to change. This could be overcare, anxiety, self-judgment, guilt, anger, anything.
Identify and breathe a replacement attitude: Select a positive attitude, then breathe the feeling of that new attitude slowly and casually through your heart area. Do this for a while to anchor the new feeling.
Based on over 25 years of research, HeartMath has also developed unique technologies that give you objective feedback by measuring your heart rhythms. Using tools such as the Notice and Ease and Attitude Breathing in conjunction with the Inner Balance™ technology will give you the added benefit of real-time feedback – helping to quickly guide you back to a balanced mental and emotional state.
While world events are happening at a dizzying rate, more and more people are awakening to the need for positive change that represents the kindest aspects of humanity. The call to show up each day as our best self that expresses inclusive love and compassion is growing stronger. Perhaps this is what Confucius meant when he said, “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
Imagine the hopeful impact if we were to all commit to adding more heart wherever we go by increasing our care, compassion and tolerance of other’s viewpoints.
When we intentionally add heart wherever we go, we are positively impacting the energetic environment around us. With every kind word spoken and every compassionate or caring action, we contribute to co-creating a new world based on heart values that heal, and nurture others as well as our self. To illustrate beautifully what adding heart can accomplish, we want to share with you a couple stories about people who are dedicated to doing exactly that. These individuals were recently recognized by the HeartMath®Institute with the institute’s first Humanitarian Heart Awards. They were honored for their compassionate and caring heart work, giving aid, comfort, shelter and hope to many around the world.
These stories can inspire and remind us that wherever we go, the heart we add to each interaction and each situation truly matters.Majd KamAlmaz, Humanitarian Heart Award Recipient
n 2012, Majd KamAlmaz, recognized a huge shortage of professionals to help Syrians fleeing their war-ravaged country, so he established refugee aid centers in Lebanon and Jordan.
KamAlmaz, who spent his childhood in Southern California, devoted many years helping people in need in various parts of the world, including war-torn Kosovo and Indonesia, following the devastating 2005 tsunami there. He said he was compelled to help Syrian refugees when their mass exodus became a humanitarian crisis. He has been providing stress-management education to refugee children and adults and helped to build intervention and field work teams among other efforts.Tammy M. Cunningham, Humanitarian Heart Award Recipient
It took five years for Tammy M. Cunningham to recover from the death of her 2½-year-old son and embark on a journey that led to co-founding a nonprofit foundation that has touched thousands of lives.
Cunningham was honored for her and her late husband’s efforts in establishing the nonprofit internationally recognized Cunningham Foundation when they were living in Colorado. The foundation partners with the people of Ethiopia in organizing and initiating sustainable development projects. These projects include the Hope Bracelet Project, Quarters for Kids, Kids Helping Kids and the Ethiopia Library Project.
Adding more heart qualities to all of our life’s interactions and the environment is something we can each do. It costs nothing, yet it is one of the most valuable contributions we can make for co-creating a world we want our children to live in.
True self-care is important for maintaining balance and well-being. More people are now recognizing that self-care is not a luxury — rather it is a necessity. Advertisements for self-care encourage eating healthy foods, treating oneself to a new beauty product, relaxing at an extended weekend get-away, and other nurturing and enjoyable activities. Yet lasting self-care requires something else.
Learning to prevent and reduce the stress from today’s speed of change and uncertainty, while maintaining emotional balance and poise, is moving to the top of the list of self-care necessities. Optimizing our mental and emotional energy expenditures is often an overlooked aspect. By learning how to plug emotional energy drains, we renew our resilience and self-security as we move through daily challenges and experiences.
Here are some typical mental and emotional energy drains where we can apply more self-care and experience numerous benefits right away.
Measuring and Comparing:
Whether in social media, during workplace conversations, or at social gatherings, we drain emotional energy when we measure our success or happiness based on someone else’s life. When comparing our life to others, we generally don’t get the whole picture anyway. We see what is outwardly presented but we don’t always see the inner struggles, worries, anxieties or insecurities in others. The energy we use on comparisons and self-criticism can be more effectively spent unlocking our own higher capacities. Comparisons are tempting but with genuine heart intention, we can guide ourselves around these energy sinkholes.
Applying self-care would be to first become mindful of our comparisons and self-critical thoughts. Then from our genuine heart, we can practice rising above these lower feelings and replacing them with self-respect for who we truly are – and this magically opens the door for inner guidance in becoming our best and happiest self. Our core self has the heart power to change all of the mental, emotional and physical habits that block us from the higher capacities that our spirit provides when we are ready. Our genuine heart’s commitment can quicken this readiness.
Forgiving and Moving Forward:
Forgiveness and moving forward without carrying old emotional luggage is essential to our well-being. It’s important to remember that forgiveness is a win-win situation where all parties come out. It’s one of our most intelligent acts of self-care. Maintaining grudges, resentments and separation creates a continuous drain of energy and, unknowingly, clouds our joy and compromises our health. A wise person once said that holding onto resentment is like allowing someone to live rent-free in your mind. It’s obvious that some issues will take longer to release than others so be patient and approach forgiveness from the heart with ease. Practice on smaller issues and then move on to the more challenging ones. This heart-intelligent practice will yield numerous self-care benefits for increasing mental and emotional happiness and physical health. Some of the hardest things to do in life turn out to bring the highest return on our investment.
Self-Compassion:
We often ask children to show compassion to one another, but rarely do we tell them to have self-compassion. In our society, extending compassion to oneself is often seen as self-centered, even self-indulgent, and to be avoided. Take for example, the countless occasions when a parent comforts, encourages and unconditionally loves the son or daughter who has disobeyed a rule, done poorly in school, gotten into a scrape or otherwise has shown poor judgment in something else. Where is it written that encouragement and compassion are reserved only for others?
Denying ourselves compassion when we fail to live up to our own or others’ expectations, deprives us of the healing power of this comforting feeling of self-care. Increasing our self-compassion by understanding and forgiving ourselves – following an angry outburst, failing to qualify for a job, overeating, or making a mistake – really is okay. It’s an act of heart intelligence which helps us to re-balance our system for quicker recoup.
Self-compassion is an advanced step in anyone’s self-care practices. It provides a regenerative energy that serves as a tonic for our cells and our overall operating system. Self-compassion also opens our heart to intuitive solutions and support for the best ways to handle life’s situations.
To practice self-compassion find a quiet place some where you won’t be disturbed for a few minutes. Then imagine breathing self-compassionate care into your mental/emotional nature and into your physical cells. Do this for a while—like you would radiate warm care to others whose energies were down. Most importantly, do this from the heart. As you become familiar with the practice, it will begin to feel as if you are interacting with a best friend who truly cares, understands and supports. If for no other reason, do it because is smart, like adding a warm heating pad to ease certain body pains. Self-Compassion is legal self-care.
Research from Duke University Medical Center has suggested that workers who rely on coffee or other caffeinated beverages may be exacerbating workplace stress with their choice of drink. The study revealed that caffeine’s effects can last throughout the day and intensify the physiological effects of anxiety.
A recent study by CareerBuilder reports that many professionals say they “need” coffee just to get through the day, and some fields appear to have a worse dependency than others.
According to the survey, lab technicians, scientists, marketing professionals, administrators in education, writers and editors reported the most significant need for coffee to carry out their daily responsibilities.
Additionally, about 61 percent of coffee drinkers reported consuming two cups per day, while 28 percent said they drink at least three.
Results of this study suggest that people in these professions may be in need of employee wellness programs that provide tools and techniques to reduce workplace stress in a healthy way. Research has shown that physical and mental wellness can influence optimal employee performance, without the use of stimulants.
In this wireless era of high speed internet, smart phones and 24/7 accessibility, a lot of the work place stress we experience today comes from feeling caught in the middle of an expanding whirlwind of information and the belief that we have to do something about every single byte, NOW.
I remember when memos arrived in a stamped envelope. How did we ever get business done without voice mail, email or a smart phone PDA? Well, maybe the more important question is how do we survive with them?
Back in the day, a former colleague of mine would wait a day before responding to many of the urgent messages he received from his direct reports. More often than not, he told me, the ‘problems’ are neither important nor urgent. “They generally get resolved or just go away without my intervention.”
I’m not sure if ignoring all incoming information is the best stress solution or a good business strategy but I do believe that periodically we need to delete the less important stuff to give the high value, high priority ones more focus and energy.
Here are two ways to reduce inner turbulence as you sort, trim, filter, collect, combine or organize what’s in front of you and help you more efficiently decide what to do about it.
When you’re feeling information overload, take a minute to stop your inner dialogue and disengage from the stressful feeling often associated with urgency. Take a couple of deep breaths and then activate a positive feeling. This will allow your calmer, more balanced self to discern what’s important and needs your attention.
Once you have a shorter, more focused list of what should take up your time, repeat #1 and ask yourself, “What’s the best way to respond?”
Don’t become the next link in an ever-growing, ever-faster moving information chain. Add value to what you communicate by letting your own common sense be your guide as you decide what to pass on, how to deliver it and who should get it.
We all have them – those subtle whisper thoughts that constantly stream through our awareness. Many come and go quickly, but if a downer thought snags our attention and emotion, look out. It can quickly take us on an energy-draining ride that’s triggered by stress from self-judgment, blame and anxiety. Learn how you can better manage these whispers.
Downer thoughts can crash the effectiveness of a whole day or longer, once they expand into anger, harsh judgments, or hurt feelings and guilt for feeling that way. Even constructive thought loops can become hyperactive at a time when our focus in the moment needs to be on sensitive projects or issues. These unintended distractions can often result in mistakes and re-do’s along with the anxiety and worry that this can trigger.
Renewing Heart Qualities Can Offset Stress
On the positive side, many of our whisper thoughts and feelings renew us and support our best. We can benefit by noticing the difference between uplifting thoughts and feelings and those that produce worry, anxiety and low self-security. Practicing mindful observation gives us the chance to consciously reset lower thoughts and feelings with regenerative ones, such as kindness, gratitude, compassion, helping others, etc. These renewing heart qualities have been shown to offset stress accumulation from thought loops and feelings that strain our ability to reason and make comfortable choices.
Here are a few obvious trigger points that can spark worry from stressing thought loops: criticisms of self and others; a growing list of critical daily “reminders” to attend; looping worries about safety, finances, health issues, relationship complexities, political uncertainty, and more. These are normal challenges in any time period but seem much more pressing in today’s emotional climate.
Most all of us experience some of these challenges while learning to create a balanced flow in our mental and emotional nature. We don’t have to judge ourselves for this. Balancing and re-programing our self-sabotaging thoughts and feelings is a normal growth process in learning to be responsibility for our energy. With practice, our thoughts and feelings come under our management rather than randomly invading our immediate focus and care on what we need to be doing.
Practice Replacing Worry and Fear with the attitude of Managed Concern
Many people are finding it helpful to practice shifting their feelings of worry and fear into the attitude of managed concern. Managed concern is an emotionally balanced state that connects us with a clearer assessment of situations and a more grounded reasoning capacity.
Worry and fear tend to overpower our access to effective choices and decisions. Ongoing worry especially dims our heart’s intuitive suggestions, which can be critical at times. Excessive worry is one of the stealthiest ways we sabotage our well-being, and then worry more because we can’t figure out what caused the problem. We can take charge of this once our heart’s commitment supports our mind’s intention.
Try practicing this: Try to identify worries that stir fear and anxiety, then experiment with shifting them into the attitude of managed concern (intelligent concern) – which brings clearer reasoning and solutions without the stress package. The attitude of experimenting is a lighter approach which results in less self-judgment of our performance.
Imagine a child coming to you with fear and anxiety because he can’t find his toy. You would probably coach him to calm down, get still, and let’s figure out the best way to handle this. What you did was help him shift his fear and anxiety into the calm attitude of managed concern. We can to do that for ourselves. It’s practical make-sense, coming straight from our heart’s intuitive intelligence.
Practice first with smaller issues to build confidence. Review the benefits of managed concern compared to the energy drain from excessive worry, etc. Reviewing this can add the power of practicality to your commitments. Soon it will become an automatic reflex to calm yourself into the attitude of managed concern when looping thoughts and feelings start to take over.
Practicing managed concern along with engaging in renewing heart qualities, such as gratitude, patience and kindness can be helpful for balancing our energy expenditures. We can be under pressure at times, but often life’s pressures awaken our innate power to take charge of how we feel and respond to situations. This available power resides within our heart’s natural intuitive intelligence. It’s up to each of us.
Understanding stress can help us know when and how to take proactive steps to reduce and prevent stress. More stress awareness helps us better care for family, friends and colleagues, as well as ourselves. Here are a few less commonly known stress facts:
Fact #1: Your body doesn’t care if it’s a big stress or a little one.
The human body doesn’t discriminate between a BIG stress or a little one. Regardless of the significance, stress affects the body in predictable ways. A typical stress reaction, which most of us experience dozens of times each day, begins with a cascade of 1,400 biochemical events in your body. If these reactions are left unchecked we age prematurely, our cognitive function is impaired, our energy is drained, and we are robbed of our effectiveness and clarity.
Fact #2: Stress can make smart people do ‘not-so-smart’ things.
Stress causes what brain researchers call “cortical inhibition.” The phenomenon of cortical inhibition helps to explain why smart people do dumb things. Simply said, stress inhibits part of our thinking brain and we can’t function at our best. On the other hand, research shows we can learn how to shift our stress response to create “cortical facilitation” – where we are cognitively sharp, emotionally calm, and we feel and think with enhanced clarity. It’s called shifting into “coherence” where our brain, heart and nervous system are working in harmony. This physiological state of coherence facilitates cognitive functioning and optimal mental, emotional and physical performance.
Fact #3: People can become numb to their stress.
We can be physiologically experiencing stress, yet mentally we think we’re fine because we’ve become accustomed to it. Many of us have become so adapted to the daily pressures, irritations and annoyances of life that it starts to seem normal. Yet the small stresses accumulate quickly, and we may not realize how much they’re impairing our mental and emotional clarity until it shows up as an overreaction or poor decision that we later regret.
Fact #4: We have more control over our emotional stress reactions than we might think.
We don’t need to be victims of our own emotions, thoughts and attitudes. We can become more conscious of how stressful situations are affecting us before they take a toll, mentally, emotionally or physically. There are simple, scientifically validated solutions that can empower us to take charge of stress overload and even rewire our habitual stress reactions.
Fact #5: A most effective strategy is to handle stress in the moment.
The best way to stop stress accumulation is to deal with it the very moment you feel it come up. We can’t always do that with major stressors, but we can shift most stress reactions that we experience throughout a day. Millions of people unsuccessfully try the binge-and-purge approach when it comes to releasing stress. They stress out all day, believing that they can wait until later to recover. They may go to an evening yoga class, the gym, or wait until the weekend to chill out. Unfortunately, our health, productivity and life satisfaction suffer when we put off releasing our stress accumulation.
Research has demonstrated how different emotions change our heart
rhythm patterns. Stressful emotions create chaotic, erratic heart rhythm
patterns. (See above image)
In contrast, renewing emotions like appreciation, love and care
create inner balance and coherent heart rhythms, which look like rolling
hills in the image above– a smooth and ordered pattern.
People quickly progress in their personal stress management as they
use the heart rhythm technologies that can measure these changes.
The Inside Story uses engaging exercises, fun illustrations and “did you know” factoid boxes to explain how the brain works and how emotions affect our judgement, body and behavior. The e-book teaches a simple, effective HeartMath tool, Freeze-Frame®, to learn how to shift an emotional reaction to a more balanced response. Enjoyable and easy to read, the Inside Story is valuable at any age.
It’s interesting how things sneak up on you isn’t it? For several years now I’ve been dealing with anxiety. But I never admitted it to anyone, not even myself. So when I moved into a new neighborhood in Georgetown, I found I could no longer ride comfortably on the underground transportation system due to anxiety – I absolutely could not get on the Metro. Anxiety was keeping me above ground – Since everyone at work rode the Metro, it was a simple little symptom that I could point to when asked why I didn’t ride it. So I did. For three years until I’d finally had enough.
Last spring I went to visit Dr. Kogan at the Center for Integrative Medicine. He had been referred to me by a mutual friend who was also a Physician. Later I found out that she had spoken to Dr. Kogan about me in terms of “slight agoraphobia.” This was much more to the point.
The first time I met with Dr. Kogan we spent hardly any time at all talking about the Metro. Instead he asked lots of questions about my childhood, my day to day life and the number of times a day I felt anxiety – any kind of anxiety. Slowly, as I answered his inquiries I realized the truth. Anxiety was (and had been) affecting me for some time. In fact, it had snuck up on me and taken over my daily routine.
He introduced me to the emWave system and several techniques including Quick Coherence®. I should admit that I was skeptical at first. I mean really, how was this tiny machine going to help? But Dr. Kogan was kind and patient. He explained that what he hoped to do was retrain my brain and my thought patterns through meditation and concentration. I promised to practice – but didn’t hold out much hope.
Every day I’d practice the techniques that Dr. Kogan taught me. At first I met with him every few weeks and we’d practice in his office as well. Then the appointments stretched out into monthly visits. Almost without warning, a funny thing began to happen. I suddenly began to catch myself NOT worrying. If you’ve never suffered from anxiety this won’t seem like a big deal to you. But trust me when I tell you, it’s a very big deal. Here’s an example. As I walked to work (or walked anywhere really) I used to mentally rehearse what I’d do if I stopped breathing or had a panic attack. Who would I call? Where was the nearest hospital? It was just as exhausting as it sounds. But after a few months with the emWave, this happened less and less. And then one day – it stopped.
One day I tried to explain it to Dr. Kogan – it was as if my brain was pointedly choosing NOT to worry. Like anxiety and panic were knocking on the doors of my mind and instead of flinging them open, they stayed shut. Dr. Kogan smiled when I finished. It was working.
And so we continued – I got better and better with the emWave and eventually level one and two became too easy and I concentrated on three and four. I was feeling stronger and stronger. Soon things (crowded buses, bad traffic) that had always caused anxiety before began to seem . . . well . . . not that bad.
After about six months Dr. Kogan made a dramatic pronouncement – he thought I was ready for the Metro. I seriously doubted this, but I also trusted him. So I picked a day, brought along my human support system (someone had to hold my hand after all!) and tried it. I rode twice, stopping at two stations each time. After three long years, I was back on the Metro. When we got off I smiled wide and half expected applause from the other passengers – I hadn’t felt that proud or that brave in a long time.
When I returned to Dr. Kogan’s office the next week he actually jumped out of his chair at the news. We were both happy and came to the quick conclusion that while I needed to continue my practices, I had come to the end of my time with him. He made me promise to check in and sent me on my way with a smile and a hug.
Now, almost a year from that first visit – I am a different person. Life is not perfect mind you. Anxiety is still an occasional visitor to my world – but (and this is the kicker) it’s not a daily one. And even more importantly, when it does show up, I am prepared. Dr. Kogan, HearthMath and emWave have given me relief from anxiety. But more than that – they gave me my life back.
