Relieve stress and increase energy with the emWave from HeartMath.

This page is for anyone who wants to reduce stress, increase energy and creativity, enhance mental clarity and sleep better. The emWave from HeartMath allows you to relieve stress while increasing energy, emotional poise and mental clarity. Easy and quick to use, the emWave Personal Stress Reliever helps synchronize your nervous system by analyzing your heart for "coherence."

What is Coherence?

Coherence is a term scientists use to describe a physiological state that is highly efficient, where your nervous system, immune, hormonal and cardiovascular systems work together harmoniously and efficiently.

Frequent users report many benefits, including:

Reduced stress
Increased energy and resilience
Enhanced emotional balance and improved listening ability
Better mental clarity for creativity and decision-making
Deeper and more restful sleep

Who uses it?

The life changing benefits of the emWave are documented in numerous journals, such as the American Journal of Cardiology, Stress Medicine, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology, Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science and Harvard Business Review.

The emWave is being used now by a host of top medical centers to reduce stress, fatigue, sleep problems, and to improve emotional fitness. Some of these include Duke Medical Center, Stanford, Kaiser, Blue Cross Blue Shield, UNC and Sutter Health to name a few.

What's included?

The emWave Personal Stress Reliever Unit
Ear Sensor
Carrying Case
Battery Recharger
Coherence Coach CD
emWave Owners Manual
Quick Start Guide
Jump Start Card

Specifications of the emWave:

Size: 85mm x 55mm x 14mm
Weight: 2.2 ounces
Internal rechargeable Lithium Ion battery
Super bright LED light bar and display indicators
Finger sensor and two-way finger operated control button

How is the emWave different from a heart rate monitor?

A heart rate monitor only provides information about your average heart rate. The emWave Personal Stress Reliever analyzes your heart for coherence, the state in which your nervous, immune, cardiovascular, and hormonal systems work harmoniously and efficiently.

How does this device differ from deep breathing?

Rhythmic breathing exercises can help control heart rate and have a calming effect. Shifting attitudes and emotions take more than that. Research shows that the key to learning how to counter and neutralize the harmful effects of stress by actively adding positive feelings like appreciation, care and compassion to the process. Experiencing positive emotions has a much larger range of health benefits than just forcing the system into coherence with deep breathing. Using the breathing pacer found in the emWave, in conjunction with generating positive emotions, helps synchronize your nervous system and creates positive changes in your heart rhythm to create and sustain coherence.

What are some benefits and how long does it take to see results?

Frequent users have reported feeling stress reduction, increased energy and resilience, greater mental clarity for creativity and decision-making, enhanced emotional balance and improved listening ability and a better, more restful sleep.

Most people achieve medium or high coherence with a few sessions and feel stress reduction. The Quick Coherence technique is highly recommended as it accelerates the process of learning tools for stress management. Practicing stress management is key, but results generally come quickly. Additionally, emWave includes four challenge levels so as you practice you continue to refine your ability to eliminate the negative effects of stress.

How does the emWave differ from other stress management devices?

There are certainly other stress management devices designed to help people with stress and HeartMath's position is that we are very much in favor of any stress management devices or stress management techniques that can help with the mounting global stress problem.

What distinguishes the emWave from many other stress managment products is the significant body of published scientific research that has been incorporated into its development. Our 15 years of experience, validation and practical applications demonstrate the effectiveness in all of the stress management products that HeartMath offers. Additionally, emWave is just one of many products found in the HeartMath system. The system — consists of tools, stress management techniques and proven PC based technology (Freeze-Framer Interactive Learning System). All HeartMath products and services compliment each other and have been used for stress managment and increasing performance by hundreds of thousands of people in over 50 countries, and applied in Fortune 100 corporations, health care systems, government agencies and school systems. emWave is an extension of this system and carries with it the breadth of credibility and proven results associated with HeartMath.

Has HeartMath done studies to support the benefits of the emWave?

HeartMath has done numerous studies on the effect of positive emotions on stress, physiology and human performance. These studies have been published in prestigious journals including Stress Medicine, American Journal of Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science and Harvard Business Review.

Can I use the emWave along with other stress management practices?

Yes, emWave works well as an adjunct to other stress management practices. It can easily provide verification of the effectiveness of many other approaches to counter the effects of stress and can be used as a friendly facilitator of other stress management methods.

Do I need to be experienced with technology in order to use the emWave device?

No. emWave Personal Stress Reliever is very simple and easy to use. The Quick Start Guide and the owner's manual provide clear instructions on how to easily operate and immediately benefit from your emWave.

Aside from helping to reduce stress, are there other applications for using the emWave that I can benefit from?

The applications of the emWave Personal Stress Reliever include more than stress management. Increasing your coherence level — which is the primary goal of using the emWave — increases performance. Whether or not you feel the negative effects of stress, you can use it to improve mental clarity which will have a positive effect on business, communications and creativity. Additionally, emWave provides a great way to improve performance in sports. It trains you to more easily enter into a high performance state that athletes call “The Zone”.