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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...

This study investigated the effects of a novel, classroom-based emotion self-regulation program (TestEdge) on measures of test anxiety, socioemotional function, test performance, and heart rate variability (HRV) in high school students. The program teaches students how to self-generate a specific ps...

Until recently stress research and treatment has largely derived from a belief that mental processes alone govern or activate the body’s stress response. Now the HeartMath Institute’s scientific monograph, Emotional Stress, Positive Emotions, and Psychophysiological Coherence, presents i...

Developed by the Institute of HeartMath (IHM), the Early HeartSmarts (EHS) program is designed to train teachers to guide and support young children (3–6 years old) in learning emotional self-regulation and key age-appropriate socioemotional competencies, with the goal of facilitating the...

Background Reduced heart rate variability has been reported in a variety of clinical anxiety conditions, including combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Growing evidence suggests that deficits in attention and immediate memory are also associated with Post traumatic Stress Disorder in combat...

In this dissertation, I explore the experience of living and practicing heart-mind coherence techniques as taught by the HeartMath Institute. What is the experience of individuals who have had heart-mind coherence training? How do they use these tools in their daily lives? This is a qualitative stud...

This article presents theory and research on the scientific study of emotion that emphasizes the importance of coherence as an optimal psychophysiological state. A dynamic systems view of the interrelations between psychological, cognitive and emotional systems and neural communication networks in t...

In this study the human being is presented as a dynamic system, that functions in continuously changing circumstances, aiming at balance. Self-regulating capacities can keep the human being in balance within the boundaries of the state of equilibrium, however when new or ’threatening’ ci...

Spirituality is not consistently integrated into health care even though it is thought to play a vital role in health and recovery from illness. Recreation therapy (RT) can capitalize on the free and expressive nature of leisure-based interventions to facilitate spiritual growth and help individuals...

What explains the success of repeat entrepreneurs? A team of researchers from the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE) and the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) have been investigating the proposition that nonlocal intuition accounts for the repeat entrepreneur’s extraordinary abil...