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Women with breast cancer face numerous physical and psychosocial challenges during and post cancer treatment that may decrease functioning and reduce overall well-being. Interventions that afford opportunities to transcend negative life experiences are needed but frequently not provided due to lack...

This study assessed personality correlates to electrophysiological measures of prestimulus response (PSR). PSR is the body’s response to a future stimulus prior to experiencing the stimulus. PSR may be an approach to measuring an aspect of intuition. One-hundred candidates for the study comple...

Schools today have perhaps the greatest influence in meeting the needs of children outside the family environment. It is widely accepted that emotional health is an important factor in the foundation for success not just in school but in everyday life. The Behaviour and Attendance Strategy in E...

Until recently stress research and treatment has largely derived from a belief that mental processes alone govern or activate the body’s stress response. Now the HeartMath Institute’s scientific monograph, Emotional Stress, Positive Emotions, and Psychophysiological Coherence, presents i...

Developed by the Institute of HeartMath (IHM), the Early HeartSmarts (EHS) program is designed to train teachers to guide and support young children (3–6 years old) in learning emotional self-regulation and key age-appropriate socioemotional competencies, with the goal of facilitating the...

Background Reduced heart rate variability has been reported in a variety of clinical anxiety conditions, including combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Growing evidence suggests that deficits in attention and immediate memory are also associated with Post traumatic Stress Disorder in combat...

In this dissertation, I explore the experience of living and practicing heart-mind coherence techniques as taught by the HeartMath Institute. What is the experience of individuals who have had heart-mind coherence training? How do they use these tools in their daily lives? This is a qualitative stud...

This article presents theory and research on the scientific study of emotion that emphasizes the importance of coherence as an optimal psychophysiological state. A dynamic systems view of the interrelations between psychological, cognitive and emotional systems and neural communication networks in t...

This study investigated the impact of a new stress management program on physiological and psychological stress and health risk factors among 75 correctional officers. The experimental group received training in emotion self-regulation techniques intended to reduce stress and health risk factor...