HeartMath

What is stress?

Stress has become the number one malady of our time. The constant pressure associated with living in a fast-paced world has created an environment where nearly everyone feels the effects of stress.

Stress is the term used to describe wear and tear of the body experiences in reaction to everyday tensions and pressures. Change, illness, injury or career and lifestyle changes are common causes of stress,however its the effects of stress like pressure and tensions, that we feel in response to the little everyday hassles, like rush hour traffic, waiting in line, and too many emails that do the most damage

Stress is the body and mind response to any pressure that disrupts its normal balance. It occurs when the perception of events does not meet our expectations and we are unable to manage our reaction. As a repsonse, stress expresses itself as a resistance, tension, strains or frustration, that throws off our physiological and psychological equilibrium, keeping us out of sync. If our equilibrium is disturbed for long, the stress cab become disabling and create numerous health problems

Stress and effects of stress are often misunderstood. We look at outside events as the source of stress, but in fact stress is really caused by our emotional reactions to events. The stress we experience in today world often go unnoticed or unmanaged. Many people has simply adapted to stress in an unhealthy way, resigned to thinking its just the way it is. Unfortunately, lack of stress management has created a pandemic of low grade, anxiety and depression.

The health effects of stress

The effects of stress in people are seen physically, mentally and emotionally. According to American Institute of stress, up to 90% of all health problems are related to stress. Too much stressa can contribute to and agitate many health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke, depression and sleep disorders. Additional studies confirm the debilitating effects of stress on our health.

• Three 10-years studies concluded that emotional stress was more predictive of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease than smoking. People who are uneffectively managing stress has 40% higher death rate than non-stressed individuals.
• A Harvard medical school study of 1623 health survivors found that when subjects got angry during emotional conflicts, their risk of subsequent heart attack was more than double than those of remained calm
• A 20 year study of 1700 older men conducted by Harvard school of public health found that worries of social conditions, stress and personal finances, all significantly increased the risks of coronoray disease
• Over one-half of heart disease cases are not explained by standard risk facts such as high cholestrol, smoking or sedentry lifestyle.
• According to mayo clinic study of individuals heart disease, psychological stress was the strongest predictor of future cardiac events, such as cardiac death, cardiac arrest and cardiac attacks

How to relieve stress? The HeartMath solution

In order to effectively relieve stress, it is important to understand that it is not the external events or situations that do harm, it is how you respond to those stressful events. More precisely, its how you feel about them that determine whether you feel the negative effects of stress, and ultimately relieve stress

Emotions or feelings have a powerful impact on human body. Emotions like frustration, insecurity and depressing feelings are stressful and inhibit optimal health and relieve from stress. Positive emotions like appreciation, care and love not only feel good, they promote health, performance and well-being.

HeartMath research has shown how to shown how to learn when you intentionally shift to a positive emotion, heart rhythms immediately change. A shift in heart rhythms may not seem important but in fact, it creates a favourable cascade of neural, hormonal and biochemical events that benefit the entire body. The stress relieft effects are both immediate and long lasting

The emWave technology has designed to help you learn how to change your emotional states and heart rhythms to reduce stress level and revitalize your entire body.