Dissertations 

HRV biofeedback training improved self-regulation and stress management in collegiate volleyball players but showed no significant performance gains.

Therapist empathy, heart rhythm coherence, and therapeutic alliance significantly impact psychotherapy outcomes, reducing client symptoms and depression scores.

HRV's link to work ability is unclear; study finds mean heart rate range negatively impacts WAI, but more research needed for objective mental health measures…

This thesis introduces Musical Bonding (MB), a theory of musically induced Altered States of Consciousness, exploring its physiological and psychological effects in EDM contexts.

Resilience training helped healthcare leaders reduce stress, depression, and fatigue while enhancing self-awareness, vitality, decision-making, and workplace performance.

This thesis develops and evaluates a heart-focused prayer/meditation program for healing and compassion, fostering interconnective oneness and social responsibility.

Addiction treatment faces challenges due to executive function deficits affecting self-regulation. Holistic programs integrating spirituality and emotional regulation show promise for sustainable recovery.

Teacher educators must prepare preservice teachers for challenges beyond pedagogy, using stress measures to identify struggles and optimize reflective growth.

This study examines a self-regulation strategy's impact on adolescents' reading ability, self-concept, and well-being, integrating cognitive and emotional processes.

This dissertation explores using biofeedback to develop heart intelligence in high school students, promoting stress reduction, better choices, and balanced lives

This study demonstrates that individuals with chronic brain injuries can improve emotional regulation and heart rate variability coherence through HeartMath HRV biofeedback training, despite no…

This study explored correlations between Myers-Briggs personality factors and electrophysiological prestimulus responses, finding significant HRV in Sensation types.

This qualitative study examines the experiences of eight HeartMath practitioners using heart-mind coherence techniques daily for 30 days. Findings reveal improved calmness, stress management, energy,…

This study explores stress reduction through heart coherence training using 10-second rhythmic breathing. Stressed mothers improved physiological, emotional, and cognitive balance.

HRV biofeedback training for pregnant women improved autonomic function but showed no significant anxiety or stress reduction. Fetal HRV results were inconclusive

This study explores person-centered accountability (PCA) as a positive leadership approach, complementing regulatory accountability to improve healthcare outcomes.

A three-month study explored test anxiety in gifted 4th graders, teaching coping strategies to reduce its effects. Pre- and post-measures showed positive outcomes

This study highlights the role of student well-being in academic success, analyzing diverse data on safety, relationships, and emotional measures from 749 students.

A study explored heart rate (HR) and EEG correlations in 14 familiar pairs. High EEG correlation pairs showed significant HR synchronization, dominant 0.1 Hz HRV,…

HRV biofeedback and emotional self-regulation techniques significantly reduced music performance anxiety and improved physiological and emotional measures.

This study explored the effects of compassionate presence on near-death comatose patients, showing sensitivity to interactions and mutual responses beyond the study period

The study examined emotional re-focusing tools in the TestEdge curriculum, finding reduced test anxiety, improved heart coherence, and academic gains with proper use

HeartMath® resilience training revealed rural Missouri educators faced reduced calmness and expression in fall vs. summer, impacting students via emotional contagion.

Social, emotional, and physiological factors impact Reading/Language Arts achievement. Stress and negative emotions hinder learning, emphasizing emotional management and teacher-student relationships for effective instruction.

A 2004 pilot study of the TestEdge program in Southern California explored reducing test anxiety and improving emotional resilience in students and teachers.

HeartMath’s Freeze Frame method in 99 students improved HRV coherence in Low Anxious teens, no EI/anxiety changes. High Anxious benefited from positive events

This study used a multiple-baseline design to examine the effects of computer-assisted biofeedback on engagement and self-regulation in children with autism. Results showed improved speed…

Teaching mindfulness and SEL with biofeedback helped Grade 9 students reduce anxiety, improve focus, and enhance emotional regulation through heart-based breathing.

AI-based study analyzed 2023–2024 global tree data, linking geomagnetic storms to circadian rhythm shifts and showing ML outperformed deep learning.

This project proposes classroom activities using emotional regulation and self-compassion to reduce perfectionism in elementary students.

A pilot study of New Vision Wilderness Therapy (NVWT) found improvements in psychological and psychophysiological functioning for adolescents with complex trauma. Caregivers also reported lasting…

A 6-week study explored biofeedback as a Tier 1 SRL strategy for 10th graders but found no significant effects on SRL or classroom time, prompting…

Self-location in the head or heart correlates with personality and connection traits. Heart-located individuals show warmth and connectedness, while head-located ones emphasize logic.

HeartMath biofeedback reduced nursing students' perceived stress by 11.9%, though adherence goals were unmet, suggesting its potential effectiveness despite limitations

This study examined coherence-building interventions in therapeutic dyads, finding increased coherence, interoceptive awareness, and physiological synchronization.

HeartMath techniques and HRV coherence training improved stress management, resilience, and self-efficacy in healthcare workers, showing positive physiological effects.

HeartMath stress management techniques reduced burnout in critical care nurses, significantly decreasing absenteeism, transfer requests, and resignations over 8 weeks

Workplace stress, worsened by COVID-19, harms employee health and organizational outcomes. HRV training shows promise in reducing stress and improving wellness.

This review examined the efficacy of Loving-Kindness Meditation, gratitude practices, and HeartMath interventions in reducing anxiety, highlighting their success and the importance of therapeutic relationships…

This study assessed the feasibility of Bio-Intrinsic Transformational Therapy™ for reducing depression and anxiety in adolescents, showing promising results.

The Trauma Drama study explored creative-arts interventions for complex trauma, showing reduced dissociation and depression in youth, moderated by physiological subtypes

Stress and emotions affect heart activity, influencing cognition and feelings. Effection at Melbourne Museum uses biofeedback, light, and sound to reveal coherence.

Geomagnetic activity influences human physiology, affecting cardiovascular health, brain activity, and stress responses. A magnetometer in Lithuania, installed in 2014, enables local studies and global…

The study demonstrates a causal link between emotional and oxidative stress, showing that stress reduction via emWave biofeedback lowers oxidative stress.

Thomas Aquinas’s De Motu Cordis explores the heart’s motion as vital to human existence, linking it to the soul’s desires and aligning with modern physiology.

This study explores how therapeutic music and heart coherence practices can enhance holistic health and emotional well-being in choral music education.

The first quantitative study in Singapore on the HeartMath System (HMS) found significant improvements in HRV, stress, and resilience after a 13-day intervention.

Quantum Medical Hypnosis (QMH) significantly improves PTSD symptoms by enhancing Heart Rate Variability (HRV), with HRV rising from 34 to 41 and heart rate decreasing…

This study explores a self-regulation technique to reduce test anxiety, improve academic achievement, and validate self-regulation theory for high schoolers.

This dissertation explores how heart coherence, achieved through practices like meditation and grounding, affects energy fields locally and remotely, enhancing healing.

A stress-reduction project using Quick Coherence® improved emotional vitality (18%), reduced stress levels (28–39%), and lowered intention to quit by 26%.

A nursing education project on relaxation therapy improved nurses' knowledge by 35% and reduced palliative patients' pain, anxiety, and breathlessness.

This study evaluates workplace stress using emWave Pro Plus for HRV, finding significant correlations between HRV measures, perceived stress, age, and tension.

A 4-hour program teaching evidence-based stress management improved nurse executives' resilience, retention, and performance, reducing burnout and turnover.

Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) enhances self-efficacy, emotion regulation, and reduces anxiety and depression, but more rigorous research is needed.

A pilot study tested Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback (HRVB) in accelerated nursing students, showing reduced stress and increased coping ability and resilience.

Earth's geomagnetic activity may influence human health, particularly in those with pre-existing conditions, affecting heart, nerves, and biological rhythms.

This study examines correlations between Earth’s magnetic field variations and heart rate in young individuals and professional riders during daily activities and horse interactions.

Holoflux theory posits consciousness as energy integrating Pribram, Bohm, and Teilhard de Chardin's models, bridging space-time with transcendent domains through three dynamic modes, supported by…

A biofeedback intervention teaching heart and brainwave synchronization reduced autonomic activation, anxiety, and HIV viral loads while increasing CD4 T-cells.