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The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of heart rhythm variability (HRV) biofeedback training with emotional regulation on the athletic performance of women collegiate volleyball players. The participant’s ability to self-regulate and her perception of the intervention wer...

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...

The purpose of this study is to share the findings of a three-month project that focused on recognizing and reducing the negative effects of test anxiety on gifted 4th grade students. Test anxiety has been recognized as an inhibitor of test performance among students. It has even been deemed an...

The accountability movement, firmly established in the sixties by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), has been strengthened through No Child Left Behind’s (NCLB) empirical data driven focus and sanctions for failure to meet test score requirements...

Previous studies investigating correlations in brain activity between isolated pairs have found significantly correlated brain activity in approximately 20% of participant pairs when one member is engaged in a specified task and the other is not. Participants who demonstrate correlated electroenceph...

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...

Building upon the quantum-holographic theory of nonlocal communication presented at last year’s AGSE conference (Bradley, 2006), this paper extends the theory to include both nonlocal communication (intuition) and nonlocal agency—the subtle but significant (scientifically measurable) eff...

The Coherent Heart is IHM’s most comprehensive scientific monograph to date. It provides an in-depth understanding of the role of the heart role in the emergence of systemwide coherence and new research findings on how heart-brain interactions affect various aspects of cognitive performance. T...

This study assessed possible effects of exposure to compassionate presence on people in comatose or non-communicative states near death. It used several different instruments in this assessment: biofeedback technology, co-researcher interviews and survey reports. The biofeedback tool chosen for use...

There is more to Reading/Language Arts achievement than simply reading and writing well. Recent research has demonstrated the importance of physiological, psychological and social factors in the teaching and learning of reading and writing. The focus of this study was on social relationships and emo...