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Background Physicians often experience work-related stress that may lead to personal harm and impaired professional performance. Biofeedback has been used to manage stress in various populations. Objective To determine whether a biofeedback-based stress management tool, consisting of rhythmic breath...
Background Physicians often experience work-related stress that may lead to personal harm and impair...
The world’s oldest cities date back more than 10,000 years, but humans actually began living together in small communities, or villages much earlier. Like the inhabitants of the oldest known village, which dates back 20,000 years on the southwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, humans band...
The world’s oldest cities date back more than 10,000 years, but humans actually began living togethe...
HeartMath Techniques, Technology Aid Military Couple The physical dangers and mental and emotional stress that the nation's servicemen and women face in Iraq, Afghanistan and other trouble spots are well chronicled daily in the press. The hardships of those they leave behind garner far less att...
HeartMath Techniques, Technology Aid Military Couple The physical dangers and mental and emotional s...
Background The need for treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among combat veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq is a growing concern. PTSD has been associated with reduced cardiac coherence (an indicator of heart rate variability ) and deficits in early stage information processi...
Background The need for treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among combat veterans retu...
In 2007, the leadership team at Grinnell Regional Medical Center participated in a pilot project with the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) to assess the stress level of individual team members and its effect on the organization. At the beginning of the project, the leadership team completed a Personal a...
In 2007, the leadership team at Grinnell Regional Medical Center participated in a pilot project wit...
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is rapidly becoming the leading cause of death in developing countries around the world. Psychosocial factors are now recognized as playing a significant and independent role in the development of IHD and its complications. Mental stress has been implicated as a trigger...
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is rapidly becoming the leading cause of death in developing countries...
Chronic stress is among the most costly health problems in terms of direct health costs, absenteeism, disability, and performance standards. The Reformed Church in America (RCA) identified stress among its clergy as a major cause of higher-than-average health claims and implemented HeartMath (HM) to...
Chronic stress is among the most costly health problems in terms of direct health costs, absenteeism...
The need for a new health paradigm is irrefutable and well documented. The ever increasing number of complex chronic diseases that cannot be managed by the "pill for an ill" model of traditional healthcare has necessitated a medical paradigm that deals with the underlying causes of complex...
The need for a new health paradigm is irrefutable and well documented. The ever increasing number of...
Pets: Making a Connection That’s Healthy for Humans We feed them, groom them and sometimes even dress them. We coddle them in a multitude of ways, taking great pains to make sure they are healthy and worry when they are not. When they pass on, the loss for many is as profound as any other....
Pets: Making a Connection That’s Healthy for Humans We feed them, groom them and sometimes eve...
This study assessed personality correlates to electrophysiological measures of prestimulus response (PSR). PSR is the body’s response to a future stimulus prior to experiencing the stimulus. PSR may be an approach to measuring an aspect of intuition. One-hundred candidates for the study comple...
This study assessed personality correlates to electrophysiological measures of prestimulus response...