Self Regulation Technology

HeartMath’s emWave^® technology has been helping students ages 6 and up in thousands of schools around the world for many years. It’s in classrooms, computer labs, counseling centers and homes.

Getting in Sync
for School and Life

Students quickly learn how to self-regulate attitudes and emotions and bring balance to their mental and emotional systems. This balanced state leads to positive behavior, improved academic performance and greater ease in social settings.

emWave® Pro for Computer

The emWave® helps students manage challenges like test anxiety, low motivation, and behavioral issues from stress or overstimulation. Negative emotions create irregular heart patterns (red), while positive ones like appreciation or empathy produce smooth patterns (blue).

This simple program uses a heart-rhythm monitor to show how emotions affect heart rhythms, supported by research. See the charts below for the difference!

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I first introduced emWave to my high school students 8 years ago. Because my students see the effect of their emotions, they quickly develop emotional control. Their work improves and just as importantly, so do their behaviours and relationships.

Dianna Govan

Carmel High School, Carmel California

Utilizing HeartMath techniques and technology, I have trained tens of thousands of individuals including orphans in South Korea and Mexico. My husband and I currently head up two nonprofit organizations: The HD Institute of Resilience and Positivity and the Association of Emotion Coaching. The organizations’ mission is to spread the seeds of happiness.

Dr. Christina Sung Aie Choi

South Korea

About 500 students are introduced to the emWave Pro as part of my cooperative learning and leadership program each year. We explore what emotion is and how emotions can help or hinder what we do. We get into what is coherence and how that helps the mind and body perform better, like with test-taking. They all get it. They even tell me to use it when I get upset.

Linda Ganciato

Health Teacher, Driftwood Middle Academy of Health and Wellness, Hollywood, Fla.

I use it a lot! When my kids are out of sorts, they go to the emWave Pro center. All of them are able to quiet themselves and get focused.

Kim Wise

Third Grade Teacher, Justina Road Elementary, Jacksonville, Fla.

Through the emWave Pro, my students were able to identify what emotions interfered with their performance and then, using some of the HeartMath skills, neutralize those emotions so their brains could function better. Even the best students found it helpful.

Gail Haase

Director of Development and Research, Trinity Christian Schools, Las Vegas, NV

emWave® Benefits, Features and Uses in Education

Benefits

Students who have the opportunity to practice with the emWave self-regulation technology can experience a number of important benefits, including the following:

Focus and attention
Emotional resilience
Impulse control
Anger management
Motivation to succeed
Comprehension
Problem-solving
Test scores

Features

Real-time heart rate variability monitor.
Four challenge levels to help students raise their baseline coherence levels.
Coherence Coach®tutorial for learning and applying the Quick Coherence®
Interactive games that make if fun for students to build focus and emotional resilience.
Emotion Visualizer®, which provides stunning colorful images that vary according to a student’s emotional state and coherence level.
Secure data storage showing coherence levels for session and history review.

Education uses

Classrooms – Instructors have incorporated the emWave into biology, life science, psychology, math, health and nutrition, wellness, physical education and life-skills courses.
Counseling programs – The emWave helps improve students’ emotional health. It is a versatile technology that can be incorporated into programs that address bullying, conflict resolution, test preparation, drug and alcohol prevention and more.
After-school programs – Students supplement academic work with regular practice on the emWave to help with test preparation and decrease frustration from learning and behavioral and relationship challenges.
Test preparation – Educators typically set up emWaves in computer labs or libraries to help students improve focus while they learn how to regulate performance inhibitors such as test and math anxiety.
Special education classrooms – The emWave helps students improve impulse control, emotional resilience, academic focus and confidence, Students lean to overcome the emotional blocks to learning and test-taking.
Learning and tutoring centers – The emWave serves as a support tool for students with learning disabilities and those who perform below their academic capability.
Athletic programs and sports camps – The emWave helps teach athletes to improve focus, self-control and performance. For example, a student commented about it, “One big change is that I no longer throw my golf clubs.”

Learn more

About emWave® educational technology and how it can improve your students’ academic performance and emotional resilience by e-mailing us at [email protected] or calling (800) 711-6221

Educators Talk About Using the Technology

The Science Behind emWave Self-Regulation Technology

The emWave® and HeartMath System tools are backed by over 30 years of research on stress, emotions, and heart-brain connections.

The top graph shows an irregular heart-rhythm pattern linked to stress and negative emotions like anger or anxiety. The bottom graph shows a smooth, wave-like pattern typical of positive emotions like appreciation or love.

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