Benefits:
- Gain insight into your shifting moods
- Create a more positive outlook on life
- Change your reaction to stress
- Track your progress
- Award your success
- Feel more composed and poised in work & play
- For iPhone, iPad and iPod devices
This simple to use iPhone app with sensor takes a pulse reading from your earlobe, and instantly displays your heart rhythm pattern while guiding you to increased inner balance.
All purchases support the research and outreach programs of IHM.
Live with the Beat of a Smart Heart!
No other technology on the market today tracks HRV coherence at the refined level of the HeartMath Sensor. Learn more about the science behind Inner Balance.
Compatibility
- Made for iPod touch (3rd & 4th Generation)
- iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5
- iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3rd Generation, iPad Mini
- Compatible with the Apple adapter
Inner Balance, if purchased from IHM, includes free e-music from HeartMath’s acclaimed CD Quiet Joy!
All purchases support the research and outreach programs of IHM.
The Science Behind Inner Balance
HeartMath research has demonstrated that different patterns of heart activity (which accompany different emotional states) have distinct effects on cognitive and emotional function. During stress and negative emotions, when the heart rhythm pattern is erratic and disordered, the corresponding pattern of neural signals traveling from the heart to the brain inhibits higher cognitive functions. This limits our ability to think clearly, remember, learn, reason, and make effective decisions. (This helps explain why we may often act impulsively and unwisely when we’re under stress.) The heart’s input to the brain during stressful or negative emotions also has a profound effect on the brain’s emotional processes—actually serving to reinforce the emotional experience of stress.
In contrast, the more ordered and stable pattern of the heart’s input to the brain during positive emotional states has the opposite effect—it facilitates cognitive function and reinforces positive feelings and emotional stability. This means that learning to generate increased heart rhythm coherence, by sustaining positive emotions, not only benefits the entire body, but also profoundly affects how we perceive, think, feel, and perform.
Nearly two decades of research by the Institute of HeartMath, along with independent and collaborative studies related to HeartMath techniques, technology and programs are available to the public on this site.
IHM has formed partnerships with major universities, medical institutions and in the scientific and educational communities to conduct its research and to compile and publish its findings. HeartMath’s researchers and staff have collaborated with neurocardiologists, psychologists, physicians, professors, physicists and many other research professionals.
