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How emWave™ Reduces Stress and Creates Coherence

EmWave™ Personal Stress Reliever will help you reduce the negative effects of stress, allowing you to experience greater health, more energy, and improved emotional balance and mental clarity. The “em” in emWave™ stands for empowerment; emWave™ empowers you to shift your emotional state and experience stress relief.

The emWave™ is based on hard science and incorporates the same patented HRV measurement and coherence scoring process found in the Freeze-Framer® Interactive Learning System, HeartMath's award winning PC based product that is being used by ten's of thousands of people in over 50 countries.

Here's why it works. emWave™ shows the effects of stress on your body by measuring the subtle changes in your heart rhythms. This type of measurement is known as heart rate variability analysis or HRV. The analysis of HRV is recognized as a powerful, non-invasive measure that reflects heart-brain interactions and autonomic nervous system dynamics, which are particularly sensitive to changes in emotional state.

However, emWave™ does a lot more than just show the effects of stress on your body. It reduces stress by training you to create more “coherence.” Coherence is a term used by scientists to describe a highly efficient physiological state in which the nervous system, cardiovascular, hormonal and immune systems are working efficiently and harmoniously. Coherence is a state very similar to what athletes experience when they are in what is called “The Zone”.

Heart Rhythms and Coherence

When you experience stressful emotions such as tension, anxiety, irritation, or anger, your heart rhythm pattern becomes irregular and incoherent, which negatively affects health, brain function, performance and your sense of well-being (see the graph below).

Figure 1: heart rhythms when stressed

When you are experiencing positive emotions such as appreciation, care, joy or love, your heart rhythm pattern becomes more ordered and coherent. (See graph below.)

Figure 2: heart rhythms when feeling a positive emotion

Ordered and harmonious heart rhythms are an indicator of your “coherence level”. High coherence is a state associated with positive emotional attitudes which send signals to the brain that reduce stress, improve brain function, hormonal balance, immune response, coordination and reaction times. emWave™ determines the degree of coherence found in your heart rhythm patterns and displays changes in real-time on a large tri-colored LED--the Coherence Level Indicator.

• A red light indicates low coherence which would be normal.
• A blue light indicates medium coherence which shows good improvement
• A green light indicates high coherence the optimal high performance, stress-free state.

The goal in using emWave™ is to reduce stress by achieving and sustaining High Coherence (green). The Coherence Coach CD (included) provides instruction on how to do the Quick Coherence™ Technique to improve your coherence scores with emWave.

emWave™ is easy to use. Simply place your thumb on the sensor or attach the Ear Sensor. After your pulse is detected a breathing pacer which synchronizes to your heart rhythms begins. As you practice the Quick Coherence Technique, breathing with the pacer while at the same time activating a positive feeling like the care you have for someone or the appreciation you have for the good things in your life, your coherence level (indicated in a large colorful LED) will begin to change from red to blue to green.

emWave™ offers four challenge levels to help you sharpen your coherence building skills. You can change the brightness of the LED displays and the audio feedback level. Additionally, it incorporates an accumulated coherence scoring display so you can track your progress during a session and an advanced user mode.

For most people in today's high stress world, it is rare for sustained periods of coherence to occur. Now with emWave™ Personal Stress Reliever you have a convenient, practical way to help you reduce stress and shift into a higher state of coherence anytime, anywhere. Your stress will diminish and your feelings of well-being, balance and enhanced energy will increase.

For More information on emWave, view the official website or see our emWave™ Links.

The emWave Personal Stress Reliever and the Freeze-Framer and the given exercises are intended as tools for stress reduction, individual balance, optimal performance and personal growth. This is not considered a medical device. It has been found to be very safe and helpful when used as intended for educational and entertainment purposes.

HeartMath is a registered trademark of the Institute of HeartMath. emWave and emWave PC and Coherence Coach are trademarks of Quantum Intech, Inc. Freeze-Framer is a registered trademark of Quantum Intech, Inc. Quick Coherence is a registered trademark of Doc Childre.

Note: These products have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease.