emWave® PC Stress Relief System

Revitalize Your Mind, Body and Spirit
Watch your heart rhythms in real time, see how emotions affect them and discover which emotions you can activate to effectively manage stress and boost vitality. HeartMath’s 16 years of research has shown emotions are reflected in our heart-rhythm patterns. Learn how to intentionally shift to a positive emotional state and see how shifts in your heart rhythms create physiological responses. Stress will diminish and feelings of well-being and energy will increase. The emWave PC Stress Relief system is a software and hardware program that collects pulse data through a fingertip or ear sensor, plugs into your computer and translates the information from your heart rhythms into user-friendly graphics displayed on your monitor. Track your progress, play interactive games, experience the Coherence Coach™ and Emotion Visualizer™. Take control of and revitalize your life. *Formerly known as Freeze-Framer.

How it works
The emWave PC shows the effects of stress on your body by measuring the subtle changes in your heart rhythms. This type of measurement is known as heart-rate-variability analysis or HRV. The analysis of HRV is a noninvasive measurement that reflects heart-brain interaction and autonomic nervous-system dynamics, which are particularly sensitive to changes in your emotional state.

emWave PC does much more than show the effects of stress on your body.
It reduces stress by training you to create more “coherence.” Scientists use the term coherence to describe a highly efficient physiological state in which the nervous, cardiovascular, hormonal and immune systems are working efficiently and harmoniously. Coherence is a state very similar to what athletes experience when they are in what is called “the zone.”

Heart Rhythms and Coherence
When you experience stressful emotions such as tension, anxiety, irritation, or anger, your heart-rhythm pattern becomes irregular and incoherent, negatively affecting your health, brain function, performance and sense of well-being. When you experience positive emotions such as appreciation, care, joy and love, your heart-rhythm pattern is more ordered and coherent.

Ordered and harmonious heart rhythms are an indicator of your “coherence level.” High coherence is a state associated with positive emotional attitudes, which send signals to the brain that reduce stress and improve brain cognitive function, hormonal balance, immune response, coordination and reaction times and your overall sense of well-being.

The emWave PC Helps You:

• Prevent, manage and reverse the negative effects of stress.
• Achieve new levels of health, performance and well-being.
• Benefit by gaining clarity, calmness and control.
• Experience immediate and long-lasting effects.
• Decrease feelings of anxiety, fatigue, depression and more.

Features Include:

• Categorized content sections with well over 100 pages of reference information. Applications include Health and Well-Being, Health Professional, Sports Performance, Workplace Performance and Testing and Learning.
• The Coherence Coach™ an entertaining software application that teaches HeartMath's Quick Coherence® technique. The Coherence Coach gives you the training to increase coherence evels while using your emWave PC system.
• Emotion Visualizer™ provides four stunning colorful images that vary according to your emotional state and coherence level.
• Three new, beautiful and colorful interactive games designed to help you transform stress into creative energy while building your coherence scores.
• An integrated music player and improved audio feedback functionality.
• Integrated Web access to online forums, troubleshooter and knowledge base.
• Advanced data logging for pulse, interbeat intervals, power spectrum and more.
• New and improved tutorial and a fully updated help system.

emWave PC Package Contents:

• emWave® PC 1.0 software CD
• In-depth computer-based tutorial
• USB sensor pod (interface device)
• USB fingertip pulse sensor with strap
• USB 6-foot extension cable
• Free technical support
• Free telephone orientation class
• *An optional ear sensor, which can be purchased separately, can be used instead of the fingertip sensor.

emWave PC System Requirements:

• Pentium® II-compatible processor or faster
• Microsoft® Windows® Me, 2000 SP2, XP SP2 or Windows Vista™
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB or more on Windows 2000, XP and Vista)
• 300 MB available disk space
• 32 MB of Video RAM (required for use of Emotion Visualizer™)
• CD-ROM drive (for installation)
• One available USB port (USB 1.x or 2.0)
• Internet compatible (Ethernet or WiFi LAN card)

Safety Information: As with any physiological training tool that can effectively help you improve your health, you may find you need less medication. If you are taking medications for stress, anxiety, pain, high blood pressure, diabetes or other stress-related disorders, it would be wise to discuss any changes in your medication needs with your prescribing doctor.