The HeartMath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath's Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart's Intelligence

I have to say that I'm a little surprised that this gem of a book from almost 25 years ago has less than 1000 reviews. This is such a profound technique!!! I do a lot of various breathing techniques and breathing into the heart is one of my favorites. I also have been meditating for years and still struggle to quiet the mind, but when you tap into the heart, it's so much easier. I feel like I get into deeper states of relaxation and slower brain waves with HeartMath tools than just meditation alone. I recently read Letting Go by David Hawkins and loved the idea. But it lacked real world suggestions for how to surrender deep emotions. HeartMath fills in that missing piece for me and now I have sound strategies for how to release old emotions or deal with everyday stressors. I strongly believe that our emotions are huge energy drains so I'm excited to have these tools to help me better use my body's resources. Thank you Doc and Howard!!!

You want to read to the end, but you must stop to practise instead. Your mind tells you to finish the job, but your heart tells you to wait; there is no hurry, so take your time to practise. It was an exciting read. So exciting that I had to use Freeze Frame to control my emotions. The book is packed with science (evidence) and real-life stories you can relate to. My health is out of whack due to stress. I have tried various diets and none can or will fix my gut (my health) if I don't get a handle on my anxiety. My relationship with my family cannot improve if I am who I became. My choices made me, but I can choose again. Choosing to read this book and applying these tools and techniques will go a long way to healing the one who needs healing. Me! The book tends to elaborate. I feel it should cut some fat. It's dated with mentions of Saddam Hussein, for example. I read it on Kindle and found a few typing errors. Things lik.e a punctuation mark at odd placed and other small errors. But do not let these distract you from the benefits of reading and applying this book.

I would not have believed this, anything that's supposedly going to help so many ways usually just helps the seller make money. But I found a lot of documentation for what this man says. I can't begin to give enough information about the benefits of these books and the emawave 2, the model I have. I can watch my heart beat, like an EEG, on my computer screen. It shows the degree of coherence between the heart and the brain. It's similar to biofeedback, but much more. The more compliance, the better then brain functions. The best analogy is a 3 legged race. If you work in synchronization, you can do it. If not, you'll never be your best. I can take the little gadget with me anywhere. I just put my thumb on it. The color of the light lets me know my level of coherence. There are many activities that are fun, as well as the basic monitors. It will keep records on your computer, if you use the computer program. Don't freak about the price. Watch for used ones. My emwave 2 is perfect and was less than $100 (on Amazon). Even at full price, what would it cost to buy a biofeedback machine that's better than a mood ring? Here's some of the sources for my decision to buy all this. PBS has a show about it. http://www.pbs.org/bodyandsoul/203/heartmath.htm Amazon customers recommend it, http://www.amazon.com/The-HeartMath-Solution-Revolutionary-Intelligenmuch ce/dp/006251606X http://www.amazon.com/emWave-PC-Stress-Relief-System/dp/B000Q7HXZ2/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top an independent review http://www.pulsemassagers.com/2013/11/30/review-heartmath-emwave-stress-relief-system/ (I have an older device than this, but it seems basically the same and I have never had any of the problems a few have mentioned.) Dr. Oz used one on his show. He didn't say anything about it, but I saw it in his hand as he explained what he was doing. With this much evidence, I ordered the book. wow. Now I think I have all the books and booklets by this author. I have learned so much about myself by looking outside the "western medicine" box. It fits congruently with many other beliefs about mind and body, and not what you read from the AMA. The AMA doesn't make money from healthy people. Some alternative ideas help you get and stay healthier, both medically and emotionally. The authors make money selling books that will help you. You just need an open mind. . Check things out, don't just do/swallow everything someone recommends. I'm often a skeptic--but this passed all my "tests". I have so many new insights from his writing. Having read and researched his books I recommend them 100%.

The Forward to this book should be sufficient to sell most musicians on the method. It speaks of the relationship between time and health and the stress we produce under the mis-impression that we never have enough "time" when in fact the real culprit is "dysrhythmia." Like musicians who mangle time, forever failing to "swing," most people misunderstand and mismanage time. Like musicians who "drag" down the tempo and those who "rush" the tempo, most individuals don't stay in the "pocket," are never "centered," are never in touch with the "heart," which is no mere pump or metronome but the metaphoric equivalent, or source, of love--which in turn accounts for the best, and most vital, qualities that distinguish us as human beings. Musicians refer to those few musicians who express this quality as having "soul." Dragging and rushing are at once the cause and manifestation of "heart disease." Being "in the pocket," on the other time, is not merely having or keeping "good time." Human beings are not metronomes or machines: they're lovers. According, the only "right" time is when the individual is in synch with his or her own heart, which in turn is a microcosm of the external world. When the individual is "in balance" with the heart, he or she is "in synch" with the rest of the world. Conversely, when the individual is balance with external reality, the heart responds with an expression of the same balance, manifesting a healthy glow. It's permissible to "bend" and vary the time--in fact, it can be necessary to the primary challenge of being "in synch" with others. Without a doubt, this is one of the better (one of the few) "self-help" books in that it talks about "common-sense" things in ways that are likely to produce insight and understanding. It's not alternative medicine but integrative medicine, relating the heart beat to the rhythms of life as they're felt and perceived, experienced and expressed. It will not solve the problems of the many "non-swingers," those metronomic non-feelers and non-thinkers who are unable to "feel the beat." But it will help the attentive reader deal with and understand stress, rather than experience greater stress because of either arhythmic or overly-symmetrical individuals (who mark time with sledgehammers). It offers, instead, awareness of a subtle but insistent pulse transmitting signals capable of leading each of us to "the heart of the matter." All the same, much of the "science" is questionable (as science) and overstated (not to mention extraneous). At its most basic level, the book is another version of cognitive psychology, one that supplements the mind's effect on behavior with the role of emotions in decisions that carry weight only when made with the heart's consent. The reader who is new to the field and who responds to taxonomy like "freeze frame" and "heart lock-in" in place of less metaphoric diction will no doubt profit most from the book. Others will find scattered nuggets of insight, such as the view of personal energy as a finite resource to be conserved rather than wasted. Otherwise, the book has much anecdotal "evidence" and common sense observations about stress that many readers are apt to know all too well already. Half-way through the book I couldn't help but wish the author had settled for an essay, thus sparing the reader gratuitous, repetitious prose. At times the language could use sharpening. For example, the reader is told that "knowledge" is not "understanding." Either the authors need to substitute the word "Information" for the first term or "empathy" for the second for the statement to make sense. In another instance, a passage about making judgments certainly seems on target, resonating with Chopra's insistence on "silent witnessing without judgment" as a way of knowing the heart's rhythms. But without qualification the advice falls short. Knowledge and human identity are of themselves dependent upon our unique ability as humans to reason and to make intelligent decisions based on judgment. Without judgement, we identify with the natural world at the expense of what individuates us from it. So perhaps the question is one that comes down to "negative," or enervating, judgment vs. "positive," or constructive, judgment that replenishes rather than depletes reservoirs of personal energy.

After reading this book I realize my perspective on stress issues has changed. I now evaluate most situation as energy gain or deficit. Whenever I recognize a situation that creates deficit, I try to minimize its negative impact. On the other hand I also cultivate situations, feelings that create an energy gain. This alone is worth the price of the book and more: I now have a rational view on stress and can take action, with methods proposed in this book or any other method that I can integrate in the plan. But solutions proposed in this book go further: not only it teaches you to recognize stress, but it also teaches you to TRANSFORM it. This is, to replace an energy deficit, with an energy GAIN. You are not moving from negative to neutral, but from negative to positive (not traditional positive thinking, but positive feelings and emotions, and thus triggering physiological regeneration). This is the breakthrough of the methods in this book. Unfortunately, I find the tools very hard to apply. Basically you are asked to generate genuine positive feelings (appreciation, care, love....) whenever a stress event occurs, or whenever you want to regenerate yourself. Problem is it seems I can't just trigger at will an authentic feeling such as care, love, compassion or appreciation. This is the main problem for me. Maybe I will be able to with more practice ? Anyway it's worth trying.

The findings of the Heartmath institute make their way around the web by various experts and authors in the personal development community, and that led me back to the source. Reading this book was eye opening to say the least. It shares some of the research findings done by the institute in an easy to read way. It then shares some stupid simple exercises that I've done for about the past year with great success for stress management. Since some of their exercises and information are free on their website, I just tell everyone to check out Heartmath as their stress management "tool." Then if someone wants to find out more about why it works (people that are into this stuff like myself), I'd say they absolutely should read this book. I actually encourage everyone to read this book at some point as managing stress is absolutely essential to good health, and if you don't believe that now you will after reading the research the Heartmath Institute has conducted. Get this book if you want to really expand your mind about the way the human body, mind, and heart works.

This is a profound book. The science is good, and the common sense is even better. There are practical exercises to "lock in" intuitive intelligence. This is, in a sense, mindset work of the 2.0 variety, in that the heart knows things we cannot think our way to, and engaging that mature intelligence centers and grounds our thinking in practical and scientifically sound ways that carry appeal for both the heart-centered and the proof-oriented.

Great book. Makes you stop and realize how often Heart and mind need balance and it's better to work together in sync. Less stress reactions.

Es un libro con consejos mucho muy prácticos para dejar de usar tanto la mente y accedar a la inteligencia del corazón ...

This book is perfect if you want to live an amazing life. But the physical book needs to be improved 1. Increase in size of book or fonts 2. Fonts needs to be more dark. Otherwise it's an amazing book..

Techniques to manage and optimize your emotions so they serve you rather than slowly destroy you.

Pragmatic view of the heart, simple yet profound techniques that are immediately useable. All supported by great scientific research, case studies and personal stories. I also like the website and the film via there The HeartMath Experience. A book for our times written 20 years ago!

This book introduces accessible tools to manage stress and emotions through heart-brain coherence. It's both practical and science-based, ideal for anyone seeking a more resilient, calm, and focused life.