HeartMath Reaches out to America in Crisis

Free public services helps to build emotional security in children and adults

In the wake of recent tragic national events, HeartMath^® is providing FREE public services to help us all regain – and sustain – peace of mind and heart. Right now, according to a recent poll by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research in Washington, 36% of American adults say their mental health has worsened, 38% say they have been unable to stop thinking about the day terrorists struck. 73 % say they have felt "general sadness" because of the WTC attacks, one in four say they’ve been unable to concentrate at work, and one in five have been either anxious and panicky or listless and lacking energy.

From a deep desire to help, HeartMath is providing a number of new programs and services for children and adults. Several of these services are free on their website, www.heartmath.org. One such service is their offer of FREE web access to one of HeartMath’s most powerful tools called the Heart Lock-In^® technique.

This technique is clinically validated to help relieve stress, regain emotional stability and mental clarity, and function with maximum effectiveness in the moment. Dr. Paul J. Rosch, President of the American Institute of Stress and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College says, "HeartMath is a unique stress reduction system that is unusually effective for reducing anxiety and improving performance. Unlike many other services and products that make similar claims, it has a solid scientific basis, and has been thoroughly tested in a variety of settings that have clearly demonstrated these benefits."

Psychologist Deborah Rozman, an executive for HeartMath says, "We’re encouraging people to use this technique as often as possible. Tapping into the heart’s curative intelligence right now will help us all regain our emotional balance."

Dr. Rollin McCraty, the Institute of HeartMath research director explains, "When we consciously shift our feelings to love, care, compassion or other positive, or loving emotions, our heart rhythms immediately shift. This change in the heart creates a favorable cascade of physiological events that benefit the entire body. Blood pressure normalizes. Stress hormones drop. The immune system pumps up. Anti-aging hormones increase. We gain clarity, calmness, and control."

For over a decade, HeartMath^® research has shown that quieting the mind and sustaining a solid connection with the heart – locking into its power – reverses the physical effects of negative emotions and adds regenerative energy to your entire system.

In addition to the Heart Lock-In Tool, HeartMath is also offering to children, parents and teachers, the "Emotional Security Tool Kit" which adapts HeartMath^® techniques to the specific and urgent needs of children during this crisis. November 15, 2001 the tool kit will be ready to download by going to www.heartmath.org. HeartMath is making this tool kit available on-line and free to anyone who is wanting to help their children with immediate feelings of stress and anxiety and to better prepare them for future stressful events.

HeartMath is also offering a special classroom version of the "Emotional Security Tool Kit" for teachers. Kim Wise, an emotional literacy teacher in a public school commented, "A little over a year ago I integrated HeartMath tools into my curriculum. Interestingly, I began a big focus right before the 9/11/01 tragedy. Though the majority of my students are extremely at-risk, living daily in the most challenging of environments, they have responded impressively. There is a deeper level of calm and focus even in the face of calamity. As National Peace Educator of the Year, I strongly encourage the HeartMath curriculum, and right now for healing, specifically the Heart Lock-In^® tool. If HeartMath could focus on this one simple tool and offer it to all schools right now, we could all move to another level of consciousness. The children get it!"

Teachers can immediately reserve the "classroom" version of the "Emotional Security Tool Kit for Children" at the web site, www.heartmath.org or call the Institute of HeartMath at (866) 221-6339. The classroom version includes a teachers manual and materials. HeartMath’s goal is to reach 5 million children in America by distributing the "Emotional Security Tool Kit" through state, district and local school systems. Simultaneously to this outreach effort, they’re conducting an emergency fundraising drive to help raise the money needed to produced the tool kits and distribute them.

HeartMath’s 10-year history of compassionate desire – and proven ability – to create strong, healthy, peaceful hearts has prepared them well to serve the nation’s children in these painful times. All donations are tax-deductible. Call the Institute of HeartMath at (866) 221-6339, or go to their web site, www.heartmath.org. The Institute of HeartMath is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.