Measuring Workplace Stress – In A New Way Researchers studying the effects of stress on employees undertook a new approach in their research to improve upon what they said may be outdated and obsolete tools for evaluating workplace stress. As a result, they said, some of their findings were “astonishing.” The researchers, Adrian Low of the Hong Kong Association of Psychology, and study advisor HeartMath Institute Director of Research Dr. Rollin McCraty,
Doctor Uses emWave® in South Korean Orphanages HeartMath Education Projects There was a little boy known to those around him as the “terrible monster,” psychotherapist Christina Sung Aie Choi said of an 8-year-old she worked with at Boystown in Seoul, South Korea. “He ran over the desks, chairs and sometimes over other kids, had difficulty controlling his impulses (and) often was placed on a ‘thinking chair’ at school because he constantly disturbed and
Raise Your Vibration With Appreciation and Compassion Practicing genuine appreciation and compassion raises our heart’s vibrations. “When our vibrations are up … we respond to stressful situations with soundness, resilience and clearer discernment. We are less vulnerable to frustration, impatience, anger, anxiety, and we feel more self-secure and less critical of others and of ourselves. We are drawn to notice nature, flowers and trees that we usually sleep-walk past, as our preoccupations rob us of
Study Uses Paced Deep Breathing to Measure Dutch Workers’ HRV The researchers who conducted a recently published study using a short breathing protocol to measure heart rate variability (HRV) in a large group of Dutch workers say it’s the first of its kind. “This is the first study,” the researchers explained, “to explore a 1-minute paced deep-breathing HRV protocol as an objective screening measure for multiple future health issues in
Holiday Message from Doc Childre, HeartMath Institute’s Founder The holidays can magnify our care, kindness, and connection… yet they can also magnify energies of separation, like blame, chaos, and emotional instability. It’s helpful to make heart-firm commitments to add compassion, kindness, patience, and latitude as we interact with others and with ourselves. Practicing these heart qualities during the holiday period (or any time) can prevent much stress and lift our spirit for increased clarity, discernment,
Study Finds a Little Quick Coherence Good for College Students Editor’s note – “Coherence is the state when the heart, mind and emotions are in energetic alignment and cooperation. It is a state that builds resiliency – personal energy is accumulated, not wasted, – leaving more energy to manifest intentions and harmonious outcomes.”Dr. Rollin McCraty, HeartMath Institute Know someone about to begin or continue college this fall? Naturally, you’ll want to offer encouragement and helpful advice for coping
How A Pause Can Save The Day From time to time, we all need to take pause, a brief stillness, a moment to review “our initial reaction so we can move to the place where a calm, thoughtful response is born.” – L.R. Knost Through hindsight, we often realize how much stress we could have prevented by pausing to reconsider our choices before taking action. Many of us have learned this lesson many times
Study Shows Geomagnetic Fields and Solar Activity Affect Human Autonomic Nervous System Functions Did you know geomagnetic and solar activity can affect your autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls your breathing, heartbeat and digestive processes? It’s true: A recently published long-term study whose researchers included HeartMath Institute’s Rollin McCraty and Mike Atkinson, reached that conclusion. “These findings,” the study states, “support the hypothesis that these energetic environmental factors act as energy
Heart Humility Heart humility – that is, knowing who we truly are and accepting our strengths with gratitude, our limitations without judgment and the world around us with appreciation – is a powerful and attainable quality. Heart humility can help us to walk through this world with confidence, integrity and wisdom. Heart humility does not require reserve or timid postures in our interactions with others, but rather a quietness in
