When you are mentally and emotionally reacting to life with frustration, anxiety and indecision you are releasing self-poisoning stress hormones into your system, draining your energy and distorting your perspective.

Mental and emotional attitudes have profound effects on the heart’s electrical system and on immune and hormonal systems of the body. Daily accumulation of little stresses takes a huge toll on us.

Learn to:

Change your perception/Change your physiology

Neutralize the reactions as they occur before they impact your health

Balance the nervous system

Slow down the heartbeat; lower the blood pressure and respiration

Increase DHEA the anti-aging hormone

Increase immunity

Reduce muscle tension

Increase mental clarity

Anyone can do it!

Easy to learn, easy to use, extremely effective. Validated in numerous scientific studies.

The Power of Your Own Heart

These are stressful times and you know how tough it is these days keeping up with all that you have going on. Doc Childre, founder of the Institute of HeartMath, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, recognized a critical need back in the early 1990s for strategies to help people deal with their increasing stress. He and others made the remarkable discovery that the human heart possesses a vast intelligence and wisdom capable of guiding each of us to healthier and more productive lives.

Today, IHM is at the forefront of a global effort to bring heart-based living to people in every corner of our planet. As you and people around the world learn to connect with the power of your hearts and achieve personal coherence, we all can work together to transfer that coherence to those around us, our communities and countries. One day we will achieve global coherence, and it begins with you.

The institute’s long and extensive clinical, classroom and workplace research into heart-brain interaction, emotional physiology and how and why we learn and perform has led to cutting-edge technology and programs utilized in more than 50 countries across five continents.

IHM’s emotional-management and heart-coherence tools and techniques are practiced daily across a wide spectrum of societies in the U.S. and abroad. Our scientifically researched and tested learning and training programs have proven effective in the education sector with at-risk, lower-achieving and gifted students and teachers and administrators. Among the numerous benefits realized by individuals, schools, police departments, hospitals, corporations and other entities that have turned to HeartMath programs over the years, are stress reduction, lower blood pressure and decreased employee dissatisfaction and burnout.

We would like you to join with us in a HeartMath adventure through these pages, which we believe will enlighten, energize and inspire you as you learn about the wondrous capacity of your intelligent heart and allow it to guide you for the rest of your life to a state of health, happiness and productivity that has always been within your reach.

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

—Mahatma Gandhi

The Science in HeartMath

The Rhythm of the Heart – The very core of HeartMath’s findings regarding the ability of human beings to improve their lives emotionally, physically and mentally is what is known as "heart-rhythm coherence." In simple terms, your heart is coherent when your heart-rhythm patterns are smooth and balanced such as might be seen in an electrocardiogram. An incoherent heart is marked by jagged, disordered or irregular heart-rhythm patterns. When you are in a coherent state, you are more energetic, less susceptible to sickness and disease and able to perform your daily affairs more effectively and with greater clarity and ease.

Through applied science, Doc Childre and IHM researchers made two key discoveries early on:

1. The stresses of modern life as well as our emotions – from anxiety and anger to love and caring – directly influence the coherence or incoherence of our heart rhythms. For example, when you are feeling anger, typically, an irregular heart-rhythm pattern will be displayed on a heart-rhythm monitor or other measuring device.
2. You can influence the quality of your heart rhythms by intentionally and sincerely focusing on positive feelings. IHM scientific studies have shown conclusively, for example, that if you are feeling anger, then shift your focus to sincere appreciation such as for the friendship or love of another person, you can quickly change your irregular heart-rhythm patterns into smooth and balanced patterns.


"As people practice the tools and techniques that harness heart intelligence, they begin to notice that they feel less caught up in their problems and in the hectic pace of daily activity."

—The HeartMath Solution, Doc Childre and Howard Martin

HeartMath Today … For You!

We’ve developed simple, easy-to-use tools and techniques for you to apply to your daily regimen, spiritual practice or self-help program. HeartMath is about you and connecting with the intelligence of your own heart to help shape a healthier, happier you.

The Institute of HeartMath’s early discoveries led to the development of these tools and techniques, along with learning and training programs and technology that comprise the HeartMath System for heart-based living. Today we teach this system to people of all ages around the world, providing them with technology to help guide them in transforming not only their own lives, but the lives of those around them and, ultimately, our planet.

Tens of thousands of children and adults from North and South America to Africa and Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia have used the HeartMath System to tap into the vastness of their hearts’ intelligence and experience life-changing results. Doctors, nurses, therapists, sports figures and leaders in education, business and religious organizations offer high praise to HeartMath’s award-winning, and proven technology.

Heart Math - This revolutionary program is based on the belief that the heart actually exerts formidable control over the brain and that it is actually possible to take control over our emotional self. The program features techniques that virtually everyone can learn to use.

Watsu and Waterdance - Stress is a serious health issue worldwide and now increasing numbers of people are finding an antidote to it in aquatic bodywork that blends Shiatsu massage and the healing properties of warm water.

Labyrinth - It has been with us for more than 2000 years and now this winding pathway is finding its way into mainstream healing environments. We'll see how one leading hospital is using the labyrinth as a resource to help patients deal with major medical problems.

"Nearly every disease or illness I've seen or treated in two decades of medical practice could have been improved or even cured had my patients or I known how to access the physical power of our heart's intelligence. HeartMath is the owner's manual we've been waiting for to help us recognize and use our heart's energy to help heal our bodies and our lives."

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