• Articles in this issue
• Increase Your Self-Compassion
• Researchers Make Connection Between Brain and Emotions
• Institute of HeartMath Wishes You Happy Holidays, Heart Connections
• Test Relief Available for College Students

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• Join the Mission Give the gift of membership to loved ones or yourself.
• What People Are Saying Letters of Gratitude
• Looking Ahead We invite you to join IHM in making an extra effort to be a little more patient, kind, compassionate, caring and loving in your life.
• Master Your Heart HeartMastery is a new online program offered by Institute of HeartMath sister company HeartMath LLC. Heart Moments Calendar A beautifully designed reminder to stay focused and connected to the heart each day, each month.
• HeartMath Tools for Well-Being For more than two decades, IHM researchers have been developing methods to help people put their emotional lives in order – reduce stress, improve cognitive abilities, increase energy and resilience, and improve physical health.

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The HeartMath Tools for Well-Being

For more than two decades, researchers at the Institute of HeartMath, www.heartmath.org, have been developing methods for people to put their emotional lives in order. They know, based on numerous scientific studies, if people can do that, they also can reduce stress, improve their cognitive abilities and actually increase their energy and resilience and improve physical health.

All of this adds up to what HeartMath calls our overall well-being. For a long time, HeartMath has made a number of the tools it had developed available to anyone who wanted to improve their overall well-being.

To date, in HeartMath’s 20th anniversary year, hundreds of thousands of people of all ages around the world have taken advantage of these free tools and you can, too. Not long ago, IHM added a section in its Free Services pages called Tools for Well-Being. You, your family, friends and colleagues have an open invitation to visit this section whenever you are feeling stressed, down or not quite up to coping with events taking place in your lives.

Tools^† for What’s Happening in Your Life

The two science-based adult tools featured in Tools for Well-Being – the Notice and Ease^® Tool and Quick Coherence^® Technique, will help you reduce stress and self-manage your emotions: in the moment when you use them before or during specific stressful events; and over the long term, when you practice them regularly. Like all of HeartMath’s tools and the revolutionary emWave^® Technology, they rely on your body’s heart intelligence and ability to heal itself.

All of the steps of these tools, which are quite easy to learn and take only minutes a day, are designed to guide you toward greater coherence, an optimal state in which your heart, mind and body all function in harmony. You are able to think and communicate more clearly and live your life more intuitively and creatively when you are coherent. The synchronization and higher functioning of heart, mind and body also produce chemical processes that promote improved immune-system function and ultimately better health.

You also will find tools developed especially for youth in Tools for Well-Being:

Quick Coherence^® Ages 12-18

Great for quick relief from negative emotions, before or during test-taking, to strengthen all of your relationships or simply to get a fast energy boost.

HeartShift™ Tool for Ages 7-11

HeartShift, which helps children shift to their hearts, can work wonders when they are feeling sad, upset or unwell.

Shift and Shine^® Age 3-6

Parents, you can guide your young children with the Shift and Shine Technique as they experience all of the new sights and sounds around them for the first time. This technique was designed especially to help your children begin developing positive emotions, control impulsive behavior and learn the joyful qualities of the heart.

† All of the Tools for Well-Being are available in audio files as well. Download MP3 Audio Files now.