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In 2007, the leadership team at Grinnell Regional Medical Center participated in a pilot project with the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) to assess the stress level of individual team members and its effect on the organization. At the beginning of the project, the leadership team completed a Personal a...

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is rapidly becoming the leading cause of death in developing countries around the world. Psychosocial factors are now recognized as playing a significant and independent role in the development of IHD and its complications. Mental stress has been implicated as a trigger...

Due to the prevalence of music performance anxiety and the emergence of new biofeedback technologies used to decrease anxiety, student musicians were recruited to participate in an experimental repeated-measures study to identify effects of heart rate variability coherence biofeedback training and e...

Chronic stress is among the most costly health problems in terms of direct health costs, absenteeism, disability, and performance standards. The Reformed Church in America (RCA) identified stress among its clergy as a major cause of higher-than-average health claims and implemented HeartMath (HM) to...

Coherence-based personal training regimens are emerging in the wellness industry to improve health(lowering blood pressure), neurocognitive performance(attention and reaction time), and mood(stress relief ). Unlike psychotherapy that focuses on mood and behavioral problems resulting from outdated pe...

The increasing prevalence of stress and anxiety on college campuses along with limited resources and budget reductions for many campuses has prompted the need for innovative approaches to help students effectively manage their stress and anxiety. With college students becoming more and more technolo...

Mae-Wan Ho, Ph.D., is best known for her pioneering work on the physics of organisms and sustainable systems; she is also a critic of genetic engineering biotechnology and neo-Darwinism. She is director and cofounder of the Institute of Science in Society (www.i-sis.org.uk) and editor-in-chief and a...

This study investigated the effects of a novel, classroom-based emotion self-regulation program (TestEdge) on measures of test anxiety, socioemotional function, test performance, and heart rate variability (HRV) in high school students. The program teaches students how to self-generate a specific ps...

We need to build a new foundation for 21st century medicine. The architecture for 20th-century organ-system medicine was not designed to accommodate both the robustness of traditional medical principles and wisdom and the riches that have poured from the biomolecular sciences in the last half-c...

The need for a new health paradigm is irrefutable and well documented. The ever increasing number of complex chronic diseases that cannot be managed by the "pill for an ill" model of traditional healthcare has necessitated a medical paradigm that deals with the underlying causes of complex...