Heart Rhythm Coherence Feedback: A New Tool for Stress Reduction, Rehabilitation, and Performance Enhancement: (565762011-001)

An Introduction to Heart Rate Variability Feedback Heart rate variability feedback is an exciting new technology that has broad-based applications in stress reduction, rehabilitation, and performance enhancement. This article focuses on heart rhythm coherence feedback training, which has proven to facilitate rapid, profound, and enduring improvements in a wide variety of conditions. An important reason this technology is effective in so many and diverse applications is that it facilitates the maintenance of a physiologically effi cient and highly regenerative inner state, characterized by reduced nervous system chaos and increased synchronization and harmony in system-wide dynamics. This psychophysiological mode, termed physiological coherence, is conducive to healing and rehabilitation, emotional stability, and optimal performance. This article provides an introduction to heart rate variability feedback, explores its advantages, and discusses the use of heart rhythm coherence feedback to promote the physiological coherence mode. A new heart rhythm coherence monitoring and feedback system known as the Freeze-Framer is introduced, and examples of the effective use of this technology to reduce stress and promote positive emotional states and coherence in a wide

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