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Discover free HeartMath resources—guided practices, articles, and tools for stress relief that build heart coherence and help you connect more deeply with your heart’s intelligence and others. We also have premium resources, click here.

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Free Resources

The HeartMath Experience
On-Demand Mini-Courses
The HeartMath Experience

This free interactive video program offers nine chapters with scientifically validated techniques to manage stress, access heart intelligence, and improve emotional balance—helping you navigate daily challenges with more ease, clarity, and resilience.

Personal Well-Being Survey
Survey
Personal Well-Being Survey

This scientifically developed assessment tool gives you a snap shot of your current level of well-being and stress management. The survey will offer recommendations on practical tools to improve your levels should you have a low score in any of the four dimensions.

Science of the Heart
e-Book
Science of the Heart

Science of the Heart presents foundational research on heart-brain communication and heart intelligence, explaining how heart rate variability (HRV) coherence influences emotions, cognition, intuition and resilience. Discover how coherent heart rhythms support personal and organizational well-being

12 HeartMath® Tools for Reducing Stress and Staying Balanced
Tools and Techniques
12 HeartMath® Tools for Reducing Stress and Staying Balanced

This concise e-book introduces twelve practical HeartMath tools to help you reduce stress, stay balanced and deepen your connection with your heart’s wisdom in everyday life. Through simple, science-informed practices like anchoring, coherent communication and cultivating qualities such as ease, pat.

Global Coherence App
Other
Global Coherence App

We measure group coherence by tracking the heart rate variability (HRV) coherence of people around in the world. Participate in group coherence activities, meditate with others, and help us better understand the power of global coherence.

The Energetic Heart
e-Book
The Energetic Heart

This fascinating monograph explores bioelectromagnetic interactions within and between people, revealing how the heart’s electromagnetic field acts as a central synchronizing signal carrying emotional information and influencing interactions between individuals.

Free Subscription - News and Tools
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Free Subscription – News and Tools

When you sign up, you’ll receive access to all of our free Subscriber downloads. In addition, you will receive HMI News & Tools, updates on the latest scientific and educational research and more. Plus receive access to a special library of written and audio materials.

The Science of Interconnectivity
e-Book
The Science of Interconnectivity

Explores the fascinating connection between Earth’s magnetic fields and human health, emotions, and consciousness—revealing how solar activity and geomagnetic patterns carry biologically relevant information that influences our well-being and behavior.

Solutions for Stress
Tools and Techniques
Solutions for Stress

HeartMath Solutions for Stress offer research-based, heart-focused tools that help you self-generate heart (HRV) coherence, reduce stress reactivity and build resilience. Explore targeted solutions for job stress, impatience, sleeplessness, burnout, overwhelm, anxiety and everyday stress, and begin transforming pressure into more ease, energy and clarity.

Transforming Stress
On-Demand Mini-Courses
Transforming Stress

This free video program helps you understand how stress affects you and what you can do to reduce it—offering simple strategies and three practical tools to eliminate stress accumulation and navigate life with more ease.

Trauma Education for Responders
On-Demand Mini-Courses
Trauma Education for Responders

This course teaches evidence-based self-regulation techniques to help professional and volunteer responders build resilience, protect against burnout, secondary traumatization and help those they serve after man-made or natural disasters.

10 Heartmath Practices
e-Book
10 Heartmath Practices

Offers heart-based exercises and inspiring insights to reduce stress, boost clarity, and improve decision-making—helping you navigate challenging choices with more self-security, care, compassion, and cooperation in daily interactions.

Coherence
On-Demand Mini-Courses
Coherence

This free online course with Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., explores the science underlying physiological coherence (HRV Coherence), explaining how heart coherence improves physiological, mental, and emotional self-regulatory capacity—including an introduction to social coherence.

Heart Rate Variability Basics
On-Demand Mini-Courses
Heart Rate Variability Basics

Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., explains heart rate variability (HRV—the beat-to-beat changes in heart rate—covering physiological mechanisms, HRV coherence assessment, and its significance for personal well-being, clinical practice, and research applications.

HeartMath Ed and Resilience Training
On-Demand Mini-Courses
HeartMath Ed and Resilience Training

Free for Veterans, Service Members and their families, this course teaches research-based self-regulation techniques to build stress tolerance, resilience, mental focus, and composure—helping manage challenges including transition issues, sleep problems, and hyper-arousal.

Improving Your Heart Connections and Communications
e-Book
Improving Your Heart Connections and Communications

Features key research findings on heart connection and communication, plus step-by-step HeartMath tools to improve relationships with your own heart and others—helping you reach new levels of coherence in your daily interactions.

Building Inner Readiness
Service Members and Veterans
Building Inner Readiness

This HeartMath e-Book helps military personnel and veterans build resilience, stay calm under pressure, and restore emotional balance using simple, science-based heart coherence techniques for greater clarity, readiness, and well-being.

Smart Hearts Newsletter
Newsletter
Smart Hearts Newsletter

A quarterly newsletter sharing the latest research, HeartMath initiatives, educator stories, and practical tools for supporting children’s emotional regulation, resilience, and well-being—keeping educators, parents, and youth agencies informed about new developments.

Mysteries of the Heart
Infographics
Mysteries of the Heart

An infographic depicting fascinating understandings of the human heart from HeartMath Institute’s nearly three decades of research. Features lesser-known ‘Did You Know?’ facts exploring how your thoughts and emotions affect yourself and others, enlightening curiosity about heart intelligence.

Connect with your Heart
Infographics
Connect with your Heart

An educational poster for ages 6-10 teaching children they have choices when facing conflict. Features the Heart-Focused Breathing™ technique to calm down, resolve conflicts through communication, and draw on heart power to stay positive and strong.

HeartMath Appreciation Tool and Excercises
Tools and Techniques
HeartMath Appreciation Tool and Excercises

Invoke and sustain sincere appreciation to improve mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This simple technique deepens your heart connection where intuition and inspiration reside—giving you power to transform stressful moments.

Quick Coherence® Technique for Adults
Tools and Techniques
Quick Coherence® Technique for Adults

Learn to create a state of coherence in about 60 seconds by releasing stress and stopping draining emotions such as frustration, irritation, anxiety and anger. As you increase your heart coherence, your thoughts and emotions become more balanced and you experience more ease and inner harmony.

GCI Heart Coherence Technique
Tools and Techniques
GCI Heart Coherence Technique

Increase and sustain your personal heart coherence to open your heart and amplify compassion and love, radiating to the planet or specific areas of need by imagining it flowing like a river, radiating like light, or moving with your breath.

The Quick Coherence Technique Ages 12-18
Children and TeensTools and Techniques
The Quick Coherence Technique Ages 12-18

Use this simple three-step technique anytime to manage stress and sync your body, mind, and emotions—helping you become more confident, calmer, and engaged in projects, relationships, and challenging situations.

Quick Coherence Technique Military
Tools and Techniques
Quick Coherence Technique Military

Designed for veterans, service members, and their families—this three-step technique helps you create heart coherence in about 60 seconds, reducing stress and draining emotions to achieve more balance, ease, and inner harmony.

HeartShift Tool Ages 7-11
Children and TeensTools and Techniques
HeartShift Tool Ages 7-11

Teaches children emotional awareness and how to feel better when upset by shifting from negative to positive emotions—noticing their feelings, focusing on the heart area, and breathing calmness in through a simple three-step process.

Shift and Shine Technique Ages 3-6
Children and TeensTools and Techniques
Shift and Shine Technique Ages 3-6

With parental guidance, this technique helps young children develop positive emotions and learn joyful heart qualities—putting attention on the heart area, breathing slowly, and feeling the feeling of something that makes them happy and loved.

Premium Resources

Inner Balance™ Coherence Plus with HeartMath App
HRV Coherence Biofeedback
Inner Balance™ Coherence Plus with HeartMath App

A precision HRV coherence biofeedback sensor combined with the HeartMath app for real-time heart rate variability coherence training—reducing stress and anxiety while improving emotional balance, mental clarity, resilience, intuition, and overall health and well-being.

$249.00
emWave® Pro
HRV Coherence BiofeedbackSchool and Family
emWave® Pro

A computer-based HRV coherence biofeedback system with pulse sensor, interactive tools, and games for real-time heart rate variability coherence training—reducing stress and anxiety while increasing energy, sharpening mental focus, and restoring emotional balance.

$399.00
emWave2 - Charcoal Gray
HRV Coherence Biofeedback
emWave2 – Charcoal Gray

A portable, phone-free HRV coherence biofeedback device delivering real-time heart rhythm feedback for building emotional resilience through daily practice—reducing stress, increasing mental flexibility and performance, and supporting emotional balance anywhere, anytime.

$229.00
Heart Intelligence - Book
Book
Heart Intelligence – Book

Our most popular book—with simple, research-based HeartMath techniques for accessing your heart’s intuitive intelligence and emotional guidance. Build coherence, reduce stress, strengthen resilience, and navigate life’s challenges through heart-centered living and balanced decision-making.

$16.95
Transforming Stress - Book
Book
Transforming Stress – Book

Learn HeartMath’s proven coherence techniques to shift heart rhythms, regulate emotions, and reduce stress. Includes exercises and exploratory questions throughout to deepen practice, build lasting resilience, restore energy, and create emotional balance through simple, research-based daily practices.

$17.95
Transforming Anxiety - Book
Book
Transforming Anxiety – Book

Master HeartMath techniques to release fear and worry, retrain neural patterns, and restore serenity. Features exercises and exploratory questions throughout to deepen your practice, build intuitive heart intelligence, and create lasting inner security through scientifically proven self-regulation practices.

$16.95
Trauma Sensitive HeartMath Course and Certification
Certifications and Courses
Trauma Sensitive HeartMath Course and Certification

Trains mental health and healthcare professionals to apply HeartMath’s evidence-based techniques in trauma-informed care, helping clients build resilience, emotional regulation, and a renewed sense of safety through practical self-regulation tools and integration with existing therapeutic modalities.

$299.00$349.00
Building Personal Resilience HeartMath Coach Certification
Certifications and Courses
Building Personal Resilience HeartMath Coach Certification

Trains individuals to coach others in HeartMath’s resilience-building skills. Guide individuals and small groups through transforming stress, expanding resilience capacity, and building coherence. Includes blended learning, practice coaching, and optional ongoing community support for a sustainable worldwide practice.

$1,295.00
HeartMath Interventions Online Certification for Health Professionals
Certifications and Courses
HeartMath Interventions Online Certification for Health Professionals

Trains doctors, nurses, psychologists, therapists, and healthcare professionals to integrate HeartMath techniques and emWave HRV Coherence biofeedback into clinical practice. Apply evidence-based methods and assessment protocols to help clients with stress, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, depression, and other conditions.

$499.00$748.00
Activating the Heart of Teams
Certifications and Courses
Activating the Heart of Teams

Trains facilitators and coaches and trainers in HeartMath’s assessment-based team development approach. Master the Team Coherence Assessment and science-backed techniques to transform team dynamics from the inside out, building collaboration, creative decision-making, sustained performance, and organizational effectiveness.

$3,995.00
License for 50 Stress and Well-Being Assessments
Certifications and Courses
License for 50 Stress and Well-Being Assessments

Self-paced, highly visual course with 6 short video modules to help you share HeartMath’s science-based tools for empowerment, resilience, and heart-guided choices.

$245.00
Stress and Well-Being Assessment Provider Program
Certifications and Courses
Stress and Well-Being Assessment Provider Program

Equips coaches, counselors, and wellness professionals with validated assessment tools, training, dashboards, and licenses to evaluate stress across 12 life areas, track client progress, and fast-track meaningful conversations for individuals and small groups with evidence-based insights.

$495.00
Transforming Anger - Book
Book
Transforming Anger – Book

Learn proven HeartMath techniques to release rage, frustration, and irritation while retraining emotional reactions. Features Freeze-Frame®, Heart Lock-In®, Neutral®, and Attitude Breathing® practices to help adults, teens, and children transform anger into heart-centered responses and restore emotional balance through scientifically validated self-regulation tools.

$16.95
HeartMath for Parents
School and Family
HeartMath for Parents

A self-paced video program teaching six HeartMath techniques and interactive family activities. Features real parents sharing success stories. Learn to manage stress, improve emotional regulation, transform family conflict, enhance communication, and build resilience through coherence practices.

$27.30$39.00
Sunshine Secret™ Single User License - Parent and One Child
School and Family
Sunshine Secret™ Single User License – Parent and One Child

An interactive HeartMath e-learning program teaching young children emotional self-regulation, confidence, healthy relationships, and positive behavior through engaging stories, activities, and science-based heart-breathing techniques that support school readiness and lifelong well-being.

$14.95
HeartSmarts Adventure® Ages 4-6+ Single User License
School and Family
HeartSmarts Adventure® Ages 4-6+ Single User License

A trauma-informed, blended social-emotional learning program for ages 4-7+ combining teacher/parent guides with self-paced online adventures. Features 60+ activities using videos, games, art, and music teaching heart health, emotional regulation, self-regulation techniques, compassion, and resilience.

$29.95
WiseHeart™ Ages 7-10 Single Child/Student License
School and Family
WiseHeart™ Ages 7-10 Single Child/Student License

A CASEL-aligned social-emotional learning program for ages 7-10 featuring 3D animated videos, interactive activities, and self-regulation tools. Builds emotional intelligence, empathy, decision-making, and communication skills with pre/post progress trackers assessing learning outcomes.

$29.95
Smart Brain Wise Heart™ - Single User Online Course License
School and Family
Smart Brain Wise Heart™ – Single User Online Course License

A blended social-emotional learning program for ages 9-16 using whiteboard animation videos, enrichment activities, and self-regulation skills. Builds decision-making, self-control, and resilience with pre/post assessments measuring student progress and program effectiveness statistically.

$29.95