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Below you will find both free and premium resources which effectively support Veterans, Service Members and their Families.
Resilience-Building Techniques
The techniques HeartMath teaches are intentionally designed to be simple, easy-to-use and adaptable to virtually any culture, setting or age group, regardless of religious belief or background.
Resources for Individuals
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.
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.
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.
Resources for Organizations
The Resilience Advantage™
The Resilience Advantage training helps service members build character, strength and resilience. As military personnel learn to “take charge” of and self-regulate their mental, emotional and physical energy, they are better able to handle stress reactions and develop more intelligent approaches to self-managing and renewing energy. As people increase their energy reserves, they can more easily prepare for stressful events and establish a cushion that prepares and protects them from the damaging effects of many common stressors. This enables them to perform at their best and sustain greater balance and operational readiness for deployment and day-to-day challenges.
Self-regulation and resilience-building techniques
Practicing the self-regulation and resilience-building techniques helps service members:
- Sharpen and maintain situational awareness.
- Increase mental clarity and flexible and focused thinking, especially under pressure.
- Improve reaction times and coordination.
- Reduce fatigue and sleeplessness.
- Reduce symptoms of operational stress.
- Strengthen connection to the mission, unit and team.
- Decrease friction in relationships and improve communication with unit and family members.
Resilience Advantage training programs can be tailored to suit tactical training windows. Introductory content can be delivered in two- or four-hour workshops. More thorough training can be delivered over one, two or three days. Programs can be delivered by HeartMath or certified military trainers.
Building Personal Resilience™
The Coach/Mentor Program is especially well-suited for support staff such as health educators in military resilience and family wellness centers. Building Personal Resilience gives staff a powerful set of tools to utilize in their initiatives for improving health and prevention strategies and personal performance.
Unit leaders who complete this program learn skills that are effective for mentoring the men and women in their units and ensuring their success in using HeartMath’s resilience and energy-regulation techniques and sustaining their benefits.
Benefits of Personal Resilience
Service members who take charge of their mental, emotional and physical energy experience a host of benefits, including increased:
- Resiliency
- Vitality
- Overall well-being
- Mental clarity for decision-making
- Emotional awareness
- Sensitivity to relational issues
- Ability to maintain composure in challenging situations
Health Professional Certification Program
The HeartMath Interventions Certification Program is designed for doctors, nurses, psychologists, counselors, social workers, therapists and other health-care professionals who want to add HeartMath tools and emWave technology into their clinical work with service members, veterans and their families. Health-care professionals who use the self-regulation techniques, protocols and technologies taught in the program guide service members and veterans in establishing a new physiological baseline that leads to sustainable perceptual, attitudinal and behavioral changes.
Benefits of Health Professional Certification Program
These easy-to-use, evidence-based tools, techniques and technologies have proven to be effective for a variety of emotional, mental and physical challenges. Regular use of emWave technology and the self-regulation tools has led to significant benefits stemming from stress reduction in military personnel with PTSD, chronic pain, anxiety, anger, depression, sleeplessness, panic disorders, irritability, mood disturbances, impulse control and substance abuse.
HeartMath’s research-based system of scientifically validated tools and technologies promotes internal awareness, self-regulation and emotion management. Your patients will learn how to regulate their nervous systems and develop valuable inner resources, self-regulation and self-responsibility.
This program includes effective treatment protocols for stress-related symptoms of trauma, PTSD, traumatic brain injury and more. It is used in numerous military facilities, veterans medical centers, PTSD clinics and substance-abuse and behavioral-health programs.
Research Papers and Articles
Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Bias Feedback Interventions to Prevent Post-deployment PTSD
This randomized controlled trial tested pre-deployment resilience training (HRV coherence biofeedback and cognitive bias modification) in Army National Guard soldiers. Results showed significantly lower PTSD symptoms post-deployment in older soldiers, demonstrating feasibility of technology-delivered interventions.
Non-Pharmacological Intervention for Chronic Pain in Veterans: A Pilot Study of HRV Biofeedback
This pilot study tested heart rate variability coherence biofeedback in 14 veterans with chronic pain. Results showed significant increases in HRV coherence and reductions in pain, stress, negative emotions and physical limitations, demonstrating promise for non-pharmacological pain treatment.
Resilience Training Program Reduces Physiological and Psychological Stress in Police Officers
This study of police officers is relevant for Service Members. Coherence training reduced physiological recovery time after high-stress scenarios and improved autonomic nervous system regulation, helping officers maintain composure during critical incidents.
H.E.A.R.T.™ HeartMath Education And Resilience Training™ Mini-Course
The H.E.A.R.T. mini-course incorporates research-based self-regulation techniques and technologies that have been shown to increase personal resilience, mental focus and personal performance and decision-making. Here we discuss the unique challenges facing veterans and service members and practical steps for taking charge of their mental, emotional and physical systems.