New Poll Results: Significant Other, Kids and Work are leading causes of Emotional Chaos

The three major sources of emotional chaos in American life are significant other, kids and work but not necessarily in that order. According to a recent Harris Poll, men ranked work relationships as their #1 source of emotional chaos, and ranked children #3. Women on the other hand, ranked children as their number one source of emotional chaos and ranked work #3. Both genders ranked spouse or significant other #2. Is there such a thing as caring too much? Yes, says "Overcoming Emotional Chaos: Eliminate Anxiety, Lift Depression and Create Security in Your Life" by Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman, Ph.D. (Jodere Group, July 2002), the break-through book on emotional management and heart intelligence.

Too many people feel that if they're not worrying or obsessing over things it must mean that they are not caring. This "emotional habit," operates under the seemingly healthy guise of attention, sentiment and sympathy toward people or situations, but really it causes disharmony, depression and a seemingly endless spiral of destructive stress.

Examples:

• The mother who equates love with constant worry and fret about her children.
• The manager who strives for impossible perfectionism at work.
• The spouse who smothers and stifles a marriage partner with attention.

These are examples of Overcare, Over-identity, Over-attachment, when caring intentions become emotionally draining to all parties and often boomerang in their effects:

• The mother's children feel suffocated and distance themselves from her.
• The insecure manager loses the job.
• The smothered spouse needs space and the couple divorces.

"Overcoming Emotional Chaos: Eliminate Anxiety, Lift Depression and Create Security in Your Life," written by Doc Childre and psychologist, Deborah Rozman from the Institute of HeartMath®, astutely identifies these subtle yet corrosive emotional patterns that persist, mostly unnoticed and unrecognised, in our lives. As importantly, the book presents concrete, practical and yet remarkably quick personal tools for eliminating debilitating emotional habits, resolving our emotional imbalances and changing our lives once and for all.

These tools are culled from over ten years of research conducted at the Institute of HeartMath, the renowned, cutting-edge research organisation in Boulder Creek, California. HeartMath's scientific findings have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as The American Journal of Cardiology, Stress Medicine, the Journal of Advancement in Medicine and Complementary Therapies in Medicine.

All of HeartMath's efforts – its scientific research, technological developments, business and health-related training and educational services - focus on the heart as an intelligent organism, as an information processing system, and the key to the next frontier of human evolution – understanding the emotions.

HeartMath's aim is the intelligent resolution of our emotional issues. The purpose is to neither suppress nor to vent our emotions, but balance them. Then, we can flex through stress, stay resilient under pressure and diminish the fear projections, self-judgments and blame that lead to Overcare, Over-identity, Over-attachment and Emotional Vanities, the false identities we have created by trying to be who we think we should rather than valuing who we are.

Balance is achieved through what HeartMath calls "heart coherence," a physiological state where all our systems –heart, brain, emotions, and body - are synchronised with our spirit.

HeartMath's research has shown that the more loving and relaxed the emotions, the more coherent the heart rhythm patterns will be, the more the brain functions will improve, and the more harmonious all the body’s systems will operate. The balance and coherence of your entire system results in increased mental, emotional and physical health and ultimately a change in negative emotional habits.

"Overcoming Emotional Chaos" includes personal self-evaluation pages to determine what issues need the most attention. The book also walks the reader, step-by-step, through the personal, easy-to-implement tools for gaining heart coherence. They include:

• The Cut-Thru® Technique, in which you shift control to the heart, resulting in a flow of heart intelligence and an ever-evolving shift in emotional attitudes and management.
• The Heart Lock-In® Technique, which enables you to stay in and get back to heart coherence through a five-minute exercise.
• Attitudinal Breathing, which allows you to quickly, shift mood or attitude. This is especially valuable while you’re on the go in emotional emergency situations.

These tools, among others in the book, have been proven to ease depression, manage overwhelm, relieve fatigue, create greater inner security and increase performance in the workplace.

It is all a result of being and coming from our coherent heart, from a physiological place of sincere love that transforms how we feel. HeartMath has developed processes that let us be and stay in our heart at will. "Overcoming Emotional Chaos" is the first book to make these simple but powerful, truly life-changing techniques available to the public at large.

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