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Children: Don't you just love them! So joyful, caring, appreciative and openhearted. Whether you are 6 or 60, these are qualities to be cherished and admired. What parent does not wish to nurture such qualities as they watch their children grow? The HeartMath Institute shares this wish, and dur...
Children: Don't you just love them! So joyful, caring, appreciative and openhearted. Whether yo...
Objective The objective of our intervention is to help students overcome stress and anxiety, by introducing them to a new stress management technique, and heart rhythm coherence biofeedback (cardiac coherence). They can thus best know themselves and gain more confidence in their resources. Introduct...
Objective The objective of our intervention is to help students overcome stress and anxiety, by intr...
Principal Topic Much of the literature on intuition in business monographs and journals takes a phenomenological approach. Some of this work dates back as far as the early 1930s. The modern-day approach primarily adopts a cognitive-psychological perspective, which utilizes self-report measures of in...
Principal Topic Much of the literature on intuition in business monographs and journals takes a phen...
Aims This pilot study was designed to assess changes in psychological status, quality of life and hematologic measures predictive of long-term health and well-being in patients with diabetes following a stress reduction and emotional self-regulation program. Methods Twenty-two patients with Type 1...
Aims This pilot study was designed to assess changes in psychological status, quality of life and he...
Unmanaged emotional reactions to stress not only lead to behavior problems in young people but also create physiological conditions that inhibit learning and potentially increase the risk of disease later in life. For these reasons, the integration of emotional self-management skills training progra...
Unmanaged emotional reactions to stress not only lead to behavior problems in young people but also...
The idea that an energy exchange of some type occurs between individuals is a central theme in many healing techniques. This concept has often been disputed by Western science due to the lack of a plausible mechanism to explain the nature of this energy or how it could affect or facilitate the heali...
The idea that an energy exchange of some type occurs between individuals is a central theme in many...
Although cardiac sympathovagal regulation has been studied during stress using power spectral density analysis of heart rate variability, little is known about its regulation during emotional states. Using heart rate variability measurements we studied autonomic balance in 20 subjects trained i...
Although cardiac sympathovagal regulation has been studied during stress using power spectral densit...
Salivary IgA, heart rate and mood were measured in thirty individuals before and after experiencing care or anger. Two methods of inducing the emotional states were compared: self-induction and external induction via video tapes. Anger produced a significant increase in total mood disturbance and he...
Salivary IgA, heart rate and mood were measured in thirty individuals before and after experiencing...
We have recently defined two new physiological states in terms of their unique electrophysiological characteristics (1). These states are generated using specially designed mental and emotional self-management techniques which involve intentionally quieting the mind, shifting one’s awareness t...
We have recently defined two new physiological states in terms of their unique electrophysiological...