The Institute of HeartMath® is a nonprofit 501(c)3 research and educational organization dedicated to teaching heart-based living to people around the world.
IHM offers lots of free services and information that typically are only a click or two away to help you begin experiencing the joy and fulfillment of heart-based living. We encourage you, your family, friends, co-workers or clients to take advantage of these free services.
Research Publications: The Institute of HeartMath and other related entities have accumulated extensive, cutting-edge data over many years of research and development and have published papers and scientific abstracts that include basic research, clinical, organizational and educational studies of diverse subjects, including stress management, heart-brain interaction, emotional energetics, intuition, heart coherence, organizational coherence and epigenetics. Go to Research Publications.
Science of the Heart: Exploring the Role of the Heart in Human Performance: This insightful, comprehensive monograph provides fundamental and detailed summaries of the Institute of HeartMath’s 19 years of innovative research. It gives a brief overview of heart-rate variability, entrainment, coherence, head-heart interactions and the scientific discoveries that shaped the tools and techniques developed to empower
heart-based living. It also includes summary reports of research conducted in a variety of fields such as business, education, health, law enforcement and music. Charts, diagrams and full explanations are presented in a form that is both easy for the layperson and complete for the science professional. Go to Science of the Heart.
Solutions for Stress: Whether you’re having difficulty getting a good night’s rest, suffer from fatigue and need a natural way to boost your energy, always seem to have problems in your relationships, or seem to get angry for little or no reason, HeartMath’s Solutions for Stress can help. IHM’s many years of research have led to the development of tools, techniques and technology that can help you overcome many of life’s challenges and our Solutions pages will tell you all about them. Go to Solutions for Stress.
Education Applications: Getting an education is more complicated, challenging and stressful than ever in today’s classroom, where so much emphasis is placed on examinations. Education is at the core of the Institute of HeartMath’s commitment, expertise and solutions for improving performance, so we are pleased to offer you a broad range of Education Applications with important information, insight and ideas we believe can help students gain the advantage as they strive for academic excellence.
Our researchers, program developers and intervention specialists have devoted many years to finding ways of improving and enhancing the learning experience for students of every age and ability, as well as the teachers and others who guide them. Select from topics such as Test-Taking, Special Education, Teacher & Staff Resilience, Mentoring & Tutoring and Gifted Student, among others. Go to Education Applications.
IHM Newsletters: Each quarterly issue covers IHM’s major activities in the fields of education and research and gives you information about reducing stress and improving personal performance. You’ll learn about the latest scientific findings from our ongoing research activities and techniques, including some that have yet to be published in the HeartMath books, as well as updates on our products and services and how they’re being incorporated in schools, businesses, hospitals, the military, social-service programs and elsewhere. Go to Latest Newsletter and Archive.
HeartMath Report: An online journal devoted to developments relating to how thoughts and emotions affect our health, performance and relationships. Gain new perspectives by reading what people from a broad range of disciplines have to say about these and many other topics related to heart-based living. Go to HeartMath Report.
Stress & Well-Being Survey™: In this survey, you’ll discover your levels of stress at work and in your relationships and your level of adaptability, and we’ll guide you until you can easily achieve the "Zone of Performance" on your own. The survey is a thorough assessment tool for your state of mind and heart. Use it as often as you feel you need to assess yourself, especially during key periods of your life. Go to Stress & Well‑Being Survey.
Community Tracker™: The Community Tracker is like a shorthand version of the Stress and Well-Being Survey. It focuses on three aspects: physical vitality, emotional vitality and overall well-being. Think of it as a stethoscope for the heart of the community and how it is feeling in real time – over the previous 24 hours – and see how you compare to the community of those who’ve filled out the survey in the last 24 hours. See where they live – in your same city, state or country. Go to Community Tracker.
Personal Tracker™: In Survey 1 of your Personal Tracker, you can follow over time your Five Aspects of Well-Being: Physical Vitality, Emotional Vitality, Social Connectedness, Spiritual Connectedness and Overall Well-being. This amazing tool will track your last 20 sessions and report your trend with graphs. It will compare your last session with the average scores of all your previous sessions and then lets you see your progress visually. In Survey 2, you can hone your skills with the emWave® PSR or emWave PC/Mac and watch the change in your performance and state of well-being as you score.
Go to Personal Tracker.
Notice and Ease™ Tool: Once you name and then identify and admit unwanted feelings such as anxiety, tension, anger, worry and sadness, you’ll find it’s a lot easier to neutralize and release them. The simple steps of Notice and Ease will guide you, teaching you to take the intensity out of negative emotions, ease them out and experience more good feelings such as joy, compassion and vitality. These positive emotions will increase the biochemical DHEA, which promotes emotional vitality, slows the aging process and offsets the stress hormone cortisol. Go to Notice and Ease Tool.
The Quick Coherence Technique® – Adult: Create a coherent state in about a minute with the simple, but powerful steps of the Quick Coherence Technique. Using the power of your heart to balance thoughts and emotions, you can achieve energy, mental clarity and feel better fast anywhere. Use Quick Coherence especially when you begin feeling a draining emotion such as frustration, irritation, anxiety or anger. Find a feeling of ease and inner harmony that’s reflected in more balanced heart rhythms, facilitating brain function and more access to higher intelligence. Go to The Quick Coherence Technique for Adults.
The Quick Coherence Technique® – Ages 12-18: Quick Coherence is a powerful technique for refocusing your emotions, connecting you with your energetic heart zone and releasing stress. With practice, you can learn to do it routinely in about a minute. You can apply the three easy steps, Heart Focus, Heart Breathing and Heart Feeling, first thing in the morning; during school or at work; in the middle of a difficult conversation; when you feel
overloaded or pressed for time; or any time you simply want to get in sync. Athletes use Quick Coherence whenever they need to boost their energy levels, coordination, reaction times and speed while engaged in sports. Military, police and firefighters use Quick Coherence to maintain alertness and the ability to think quickly on their feet, especially in extreme situations. You can use it to help you improve your test-taking and scores, get along better with others and relax and calm down when you are feeling anxious or stressed. Go to The Quick Coherence Technique for Ages 12‑18.
Shift and Shine Technique® for Ages 3-6: Piloted with preschoolers, the Shift and Shine Technique is a simple, fun and powerful tool for children ages 3-6. This scientifically developed technique gives young children an early start at developing and strengthening positive attitudes and emotions. Practiced regularly, Shift and Shine can help young ones control impulsive behavior, improve relationships with family and peers and increase their readiness for learning and the classroom environment. Go to Shift and Shine Technique for Ages 3‑6.
HeartQuotes™: – HeartQuotes™, an amazing collection of interesting and inspirational messages from the world’s greatest thinkers that is compiled by the Institute of HeartMath’s sister company, HeartMath LLC. A carefully chosen quote is sent each day, five days a week to tens of thousands of people around the world and archived here for your enjoyment and use. Begin receiving HeartQuotes today.
