HeartMath is referenced in over 300 books, a number of which are written by esteemed best-selling authors such as Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Barry Sears, Patricia Aburdene, and Stephen R. Covey. HeartMath studies have focused on the psychophysiology of positive emotions and their impact on the quality of our life, health, and relationships. Much of this work has helped to break new ground in the scientific understanding of cardiac coherence and has greatly contributed to the research on heart rate variability and heart–brain interactions.
An Array of Books Talking About HeartMath’s Work
The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader – Jan Phillips – 9th Element Press—August 2006.
Discusses HeartMath’s research on how the heart’s electrical field is affected by different emotions and is registered in the brain patterns of those around us, as well as HeartMath’s laboratory studies.
The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything: The Essential Guide for Everyday Life – Amy and Peter Bernstein, St. Martin’s Press—May 2006.
A critically acclaimed extensive guide that provides useful solutions to a vast array of topics. The Institute of HeartMath’s TestEdge Interactive CD-ROM is featured as a solution to test anxiety.
What Happy Companies Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Company for the Better – Dan Baker, Cathy Greenberg, Collins Hemingway, Prentice Hall—May 2006.
This book is a persuasive and encouraging guide to introducing the new science of organizational happiness into the workplace and investigates the underlying emotional, psychological and even neurological influences on good and bad business practices. The authors write about HeartMath’s research on the heart, including its electromagnetic field, relationship and communication between the heart and brain, heart-rate variability and how heart-rhythm patterns affect cognitive function and health and what this means as it relates to business. Also included are the results achieved in schools, healthcare systems and corporations that have implemented HeartMath techniques and programs.
The DNA of Healing: A Five-Step Process for Total Wellness and Abundance – Margaret Ruby – Hampton Roads Publishing Company—March 2006.
References HeartMath’s studies showing that heart-focused emotions can produce biological effects both within and outside of the body. The author also writes about HeartMath’s research on the heart’s energy field and its measurable physiological effects.
The Heart Speaks by Mimi Guarneri, M.D., FACC, Touchstone—January 2006.
A heartwarming book that references the little brain in the heart and talks about IHM’s research on how the heart communicates with the brain and why HeartMath’s techniques work. It cites a HeartMath study on the effects of anger versus compassion on the immune system. The author also tells the story of a patient who suffered a stress-induced heart attack and how she taught her patient the HeartMath techniques.
The 10-Minute Energy Solution – Jon Gordon – Putnam Adult—December 2005.
Includes a comprehensive summary of HeartMath’s research on the heart. The author also recommends HeartMath’s Quick Coherence® technique as well as the emWave® PC/Mac software program.
Beyond Reason – Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro – Viking Adult—October 2005.
Discusses HeartMath’s research on paper the effects of appreciation on cognitive ability, stress and anxiety, performance, and cortisol levels.
Unleashing Your Brilliance: Tools & Techniques to Achieve Personal, Professional & Academic Success – Brian E. Walsh, Ph.D., Walsh Seminars—September 2005.
Includes informative sections on HeartMath’s philosophies, techniques and technologies, including the emWave® PC/Mac Stress Relief System and TestEdge Interactive CD-ROMs, with an emphasis on IHM research into the relationship between emotions and the heart, mind and body.
Megatrends 2010 by Patricia Aburdene, Hampton Roads Publishing Co.—September 2005.
Includes HeartMath as part of The Wave of Conscious Solutions, which is one of seven megatrends she predicts. The author refers to HeartMath’s work with many corporations throughout the book.
Every Shot Must Have a Purpose by Pia Nilsson & Lynn Marriott, Gotham—September 2005.
Discusses HeartMath’s research on how emotional reactivity and stress lead to cortical inhibition and impaired reaction times, coordination, and thought processes. The authors teach their golf students HeartMath’s Quick Coherence® technique and how to use the emWave® PC/Mac technology to help them get coherent and back on track on the golf course or in any area of their lives where they get stressed.
The Right Decision Every Time: How to Reach Perfect Clarity of Tough Decisions – Luda Kopeikina, Prentice Hall—August 2005.
The author discusses the physiological impacts of using the emWave® PC/Mac software program. She also documents her own research project in which she uses the software to confirm attainment of coherence before and during the decision-making process.
How to Replace Workplace Conflict and Stress: How Leaders And Their Employees Can Protect Their Sanity And Productivity From Tension And Turf Wars – Anna Maravelas, Career Press—August 2005.
An insiders’ guide to navigating the conflicts and stress of organizational life. The author writes about how corporations use HeartMath’s technologies to help employees manage anger, as well as our research on HRV and how different emotions affect health, productivity and communication.
Emotional Intelligence In Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders and Managers – Marcia M. Hughes, L. Bonita Patterson, James Bradford Terrell, Reuven Bar-On (Foreword) – Pfeiffer—August 2005.
Includes information on the "brain in the heart" as well as HeartMath’s research on the significant role the heart plays in emotional intelligence. The author also quotes Doc Childre on the effects of stress on the body and gives an overview of the Institute of HeartMath’s work.
Think Logically, Live Intuitively: Seeking the Balance – J.R. Madaus, Hampton Roads Publishing—July 2005.
The humorous and insightful story of a computer executive expanding his consciousness. The author discusses HeartMath’s research on the heart’s energy field and its effect on the physiology of those around us. He also tells of his experience while attending one of HeartMath’s Inner Quality Management® (IQM) stress-reduction programs and HeartMath techniques and research he learned about along the way.
The Translucent Revolution by Arjuna Ardagh, New World Library—June 2005.
Includes information on HeartMath’s research, programs, products, and techniques and refers to HeartMath as "having a dramatic translucent influence on a wide range of businesses." It discusses in detail HeartMath’s work with organizations and hospitals to reduce stress and improve performance, health, and wellbeing. The author interviews HeartMath’s CEO, Bruce Cryer, about our work with multinational corporations.
The Energizing Heart – Nathalie Campeau, M.D., You Are Energy Inc.—April 2005.
This full-color book includes a significant amount of HeartMath’s research, with an emphasis on the science of heart-rate variability and cardiac coherence. The author also discusses how our scientifically validated techniques and emWave® PC/Mac Stress Relief System have been proven to facilitate cardiac coherence by teaching users to shift their emotional state, and this then shifts their HRV patterns. Visual depictions of changes in HRV and ECG illustrate the dynamic impact of emotions on heart function. Campeau also summarizes HeartMath’s work in education and with large corporations.
Breath of Relief: Transforming Compassion Fatigue into Flow – Karl La Rowe, Acanthus Publishing—March, 2005.
References HeartMath’s Science of the Heart monograph as well as our research on heart-rate variability and psychophysiological coherence. The author also describes the emWave PC/Mac technology and how he used it in an experiment to test the levels of entrainment achieved by using various meditation and breathing exercises.
Field Notes on the Compassionate Life by Marc Ian Barasch, Rodale Books—March 2005.
Talks in depth about IHM’s research on the heart, brain and emotions. The author came to IHM’s Research Center to meet with several researchers, as well as founder Doc Childre, and he describes his experiences and interviews. He mentions HeartMath’s work with corporations and schools using the Heart Lock-In® technique and speaks about his own experience with the emWave® PC/Mac technology.
Anti-Inflammation Zone by Dr. Barry Sears, creator of "The Zone" diet, Regan Books—December 2004.
Recommends HeartMath’s emWave® PC/Mac Stress Relief System as a way to measure one’s success in eliciting a relaxation response during meditation.
The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey, Free Press—November 2004.
Includes an excerpt from From Chaos to Coherence, by Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, on the effects emotions can have on intelligence capacity, as well as HeartMath’s research on the connection between emotions and health—specifically how emotions can affect the immune system.
The Instinct to Heal by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., Rodale Books—February 2004.
Discusses how IHM has researched and developed techniques and practical applications for cardiac coherence and refers to IHM’s research on the role of positive emotion in heart-brain communication and overall physiological coherence. The author provides a detailed account of IHM’s research as well as the significant results seen in corporations that have incorporated HeartMath’s programs and techniques. Includes focus on the value of the emWave® PC/Mac technology.
Deadly Emotions – Don Colbert – Nelson Books—October 2003.
The author refers to HeartMath’s research on the relationship between the heart and emotions throughout the book and also discusses HeartMath’s Freeze-Frame® technique as one of his favorite forms of meditation.
The Change Champion’s Fieldguide edited by David Ulrich, Louis Carter, Marshall Goldsmith, Jim Bolt & Norm Smallwood, Best Practice Publications—June 2003.
Describes HeartMath’s work with organizations and the tools/programs implemented by major corporations and health systems to help improve the organizational climate, as well as the significant resulting outcomes. It talks about IHM’s research on the heart, brain, and emotions and it’s implications for business leaders, as well as IHM’s scientifically validated tools to improve the stress/performance ratio.
What Happy People Know – Dan Baker, Ph.D. and Cameron Stauth – Rodale Books—January 2003.
References the Institute of HeartMath’s research on the effects of appreciation versus frustration on heart rhythms and autonomic nervous system activity. Talks a lot about the scientific examination of how the heart influences the mind and emotions, and how IHM has been at the forefront of this research. Also mentions the Freeze-Frame technique and how it can enhance the rhythm of the heartbeat.
Life Makeovers: 52 Practical & Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week at a Time – Cheryl Richardson – Broadway—December 2002.
The author discusses a HeartMath study on emotions and the immune system, which showed how emotions affect the body’s ability to fight off germs and pathogens.
Stress-Related Disorders Sourcebook – Edited by Joyce Brennfleck Shannon – Omnigraphics—June 2002.
Includes a chapter that is exclusively about HeartMath’s research on the physiological and psychological effects of compassion and anger, as well the techniques and software developed by HeartMath. Also includes a chapter on HeartMath’s research study titled "Music Enhances the Effect of Positive Emotional States on Salivary IgA," which was published in Stress Medicine, as well as the follow-up study titled "The Effects of Different Types of Music on Mood, Tension, and Mental Clarity," which was published in Alternative therapies in Health and Medicine.
Your Body Believes Every Word You Say – Barbara Hoberman Levine – Wordswork Press—October 2000.
References HeartMath’s research on the effects of stress and mental and emotional states on the electrophysiology of the body.
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom – Christiane Northrup, M.D. – Bantam—March 1998.
Mentions the Institute of HeartMath’s heart-focusing techniques, including Cut-Thru, and refers to studies that have shown improvements in health and well-being in individuals practicing the techniques. The author also recommends the HeartMath techniques to help with heart palpitations, anxiety, fear, and depression associated with menopause.
