e-Books

New - 12 HeartMath® Tools for Reducing Stress and Staying Balanced –

This e-Booklet is filled with 12 effective HeartMath tools and practices that are designed to help you learn to increase self-security through balance, clear thinking and heart-guided choices. As a gesture of our care, we are gifting you our new e-Booklet, 12 HeartMath® Tools for Reducing Stress and Staying Balanced – downloadable in PDF.  More info »

Accessing Inner Guidance To Raise Our Consciousness Baseline
Accessing intuition, the capacity for sensing or knowing things not immediately present or stored in the brain, has long been a source of cultural traditions and mystique and scientific research. Laypersons and scientists alike will appreciate this discussion’s insights, which confirm what we’ve suspected through the ages and expand on what we know and believe. Includes the widely acclaimed Freeze Frame® Technique and guidance for increasing intuitive capacity.  More info »

Exploring the Human-Earth Connection
Classical physics for millennia has defined reality as a vast array of solid objects separated by empty space. Scientists today, however, suggest an unseen thread ties all things together, what the authors of the 34-page e-book call a “holistic web of interconnectedness.” They explore the emerging field view of reality and the four central hypotheses that drive HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative research, including that Earth’s magnetic fields carry biologically relevant information that connects all living systems. You’ll learn about the potential for increasing collective consciousness as people begin to better perceive their personal biofields and manage the energy they radiate  More info »

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This insightful and comprehensive monograph provides fundamental and detailed summaries of HeartMath Institute’s many years of innovative research. It presents brief overviews of heart rate variability, resilience, coherence, heart-brain interactions, intuition and the scientific discoveries that shaped techniques developed to increase fulfillment and effectiveness. Included are summary reports of research conducted in the business, education, health and first responder fields. Both the layperson and science professional will appreciate its simplicity and thoroughness.  More info »

Heart Intelligence, Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart — By Doc Childre, Howard Martin, Deborah Rozman Ph.D. and Rollin McCraty Ph.D.

HeartMath’s newest book Heart Intelligence provides breakthrough research linking the physical heart to the spiritual (energetic) heart. This book provides simple techniques for accessing our heart’s intuitive intelligence for moment-to-moment guidance and discernment. Authors share their vast knowledge and understanding of heart and emotional intelligence, coherence, intuition and how we all are interconnected. Heart Intelligence, 268 pages, is presented in a conversational style that inspires the reader and provides direction for living a heart-centered and balanced life through the demanding and accelerating pace of change. This fascinating and important work just might change your life forever!  More info »

The Psychophysiology of Positive Emotions and Optimal Functioning
This scientific monograph gives an overview of the physiological correlates of positive emotions and personal performance. The heart's association with positive emotions, wisdom and intelligence is central to most cultures, and now the latest research offers scientific validation for this relationship. Steps and applications of HeartMath’s Freeze Frame® and Heart Lock-In® techniques are provided to help engage the heart in transforming stress and sustaining coherence.  More info »

Bioelectromagnetic Interactions Within and Between People
A fascinating monograph that explains the bioelectromagnetic interactions in and between people. Did you know your physiological systems constantly interact with each other in subtle ways, that the electromagnetic signal produced by your heart is registered in the brain waves of people around you? Discover why scientists believe the heart's electromagnetic field acts as a central synchronizing signal within the body and a carrier of emotional information.  More info »

Heart-Brain Interactions, Psychophysiological Coherence and System-Wide Order
The Coherent Heart provides an in-depth discussion of heart-brain interactions and the role of the heart in organizing systemwide coherence. Includes: Theoretical Considerations, Psychophysiological Networks, Benefits of Psychophysiological Coherence and its Measurement, A Typology of Psychophysiological States, how vagal afferent traffic inhibits pain perception and affects cognitive performance, difference between respiration and positive, emotion-driven coherence and the heart's roles in emotional experience and processing.  More info »

Changing Your Emotions – a New Approach to Stress Management
Until recently, stress research and treatment has largely derived from a belief that mental processes alone govern or activate the stress response. This scientific monograph explains in layman’s terms the latest stress research showing that emotions, more than thoughts, activate the physiological changes comprising stress responses. It describes how HeartMath’s simple tools engage positive emotions to permanently self-manage stress and break the cycle of recurring negative emotional patterns.  More info »

The Central Role of the Heart in Generating and Sustaining Positive Emotions
Learn about the science behind heart coherence, the psychophysiological state marked by calm, emotional balance and alertness that improves cognitive capability for problem-solving, decision-making, long-term memory and more. It explains the heart’s role in the emotional process and how intentionally experiencing positive emotions such as care, compassion and love can help you achieve heart coherence.  More info »

The Proven, Natural Way to Lower Your Blood Pressure
Hypertension, a leading cause of heart attacks and strokes, is called the "silent killer" because many people don’t know they have it. This book helps you understand the underlying causes for many forms of cardiovascular disease and gives you scientifically proven techniques, based on many years of research, to improve your body’s health. HeartMath techniques can help you recognize stressful situations and shift into a healthier emotional attitude.  More info »

The Making of Emotions
Explore recent scientific advances that clarify a number of central controversies in the understanding of emotion, including the relationship between intellect and emotion. A discussion of the critical role of ascending input from the heart and body to the brain in the generation of emotions culminates in a detailed presentation of a new model of emotion in which the brain functions as a complex pattern-matching system.  More info »

Neurocardiology: Anatomical and Functional Principles
This technical monograph discusses the heart’s intrinsic nervous system, also known as the "heart brain." The anatomical organization and function of the intrinsic cardiac nervous system and its complex neuronal processing and memory capabilities  are described. Learn how the heart brain, independent of the central nervous system, can process information and make decisions about its control.  More info »

The emWave® Stress and Weight Management Program
Experts agree emotional eating causes around 75% of overeating, meaning many people use food to cope with their feelings. This program helps you learn to change your emotional diet by practicing HeartMath tools and using the emWave2. The program relies on genuine compassion for the difficult struggle of losing weight and a deep understanding of human psychology and how the emotional-metabolic system works.  More info »

Eliminate anxiety, lift depression and create security in your life
Are you vulnerable to overreaction, anxiety, anger, hurt, overwhelm, depression and fatigue? Understanding these common emotions. Use the proven Cut-Thru® Technique to release negative emotions. Learn to dissipate subtler emotional patterns that bog you down. Personal evaluation pages help track what you observe in yourself, where to focus and how to track progress. Tools help you renew your vitality and create a future free of anxiety habits.  More info »

80 Games & Fun Activities for Raising Balanced Children in Unbalanced Times
Teaching Children to Love, by Doc Childre, presents new perspectives and building blocks for new levels of intelligence, emotional management, deeper communication and self-security – helping children feel positive and hopeful. This e-Book includes an explanation of the physiology of heart intelligence, instructions for three of HeartMath’s core techniques and easy-to-use, entertaining games and activities. Each activity has a learning purpose, step-by-step instructions and variations. This is for parents, childcare providers, counselors and everyone who is responsible for loving, educating and caring for children.  More info »

A Practitioners Guide, Applications of Using the emWave® PC* Stress Relief System
This is an in-depth practitioners guide* that offers new tools for stress reduction and emotional management. Discussion topics include how to evaluate clients; explaining the emWave® PC (Now called emWave Pro) system to clients; hands-on use and step-by-step outline for using HeartMath techniques with clients; practical tips on designing effective strategies; interviews with practitioners in clinics, hospitals and private practice, who discuss applications; and results and descriptions of heart-rate variability and psychophysiological coherence.  More info »

A Comprehensive Heart-Rate-Variability Analysis-Interpretation Guide and Instructions
This guidebook provides an excellent introduction to using 24-hour heart-rate-variability (HRV) analyses in assessing the autonomic nervous system. HRV analysis provides a unique window into the dynamics of sympathetic and parasympathetic control of the heart, is useful for assessing autonomic involvement in a number of pathologies and enhancing health risk stratification.  More info »

e-Pub and Mobi Versions - Add balance and ease for a great experience
College is stressful, with personal and academic challenges. This helpful handbook teaches you what you can control and how to maintain ease and flow. Based on HeartMath’s many years of stress and emotion self-regulation research, this highly touted book can help serious students recognize their stressors and learn to stop them in the moment. Practicing easy-to-learn techniques can improve test-taking, learning and the ability to replenish your energy and resilience.  More info »

Understanding the Power of Feelings
This booklet helps teens and young adults understand how emotions, health, performance and daily life are connected. Clear, engaging and visually pleasing text is filled with vital information on the latest neuroscience, emotional physiology and stress research. The Inside Story guides youth through key ideas, reflective activities and the powerful Freeze Frame® Technique, which promotes healthy behavior and well-being while reducing emotional turmoil, anger, hostility and depression.  More info »

The Power to Change Performance
This pragmatic and passionate exploration will challenge, stretch and transform your outlook on personal and organizational excellence. It embraces four dynamics: internal self-management, coherent communication, boosting the organizational climate and strategic processes of renewal. This revised edition is essential for developing people and powerful organizations that respond gracefully to change, crisis and challenge. Includes two HeartMath tools for increasing personal and organizational coherence.  More info »

One-Minute Stress Management
The Freeze Frame e-book explains how to manage your thoughts and emotions in the moment in five simple steps. Learning the scientifically proven Freeze Frame® stress-reduction technique will help you make better and clearer decisions, improve creativity and communications and decrease sleeplessness and fatigue. Freeze Frame studies, published in peer-reviewed medical journals, show it improves nervous-system balance, heart health and the immune system.  More info »

Golf's Next Frontier
If you’re a passionate golfer, you love how you feel playing at your peak. You also understand emotional blowups or meltdowns can quickly sabotage countless hours of practice. This illustrated, 60-page book explains how you can achieve and maintain optimal emotional states for extended periods – even during intense competition. You’ll learn HeartMath’s Quick Coherence® Technique for emotional balance and high performance in driving, chipping and putting.  More info »

Facilitating Emotional Self-Regulation in Preschool Children - A Research Study
Children as young as age 3 learned, practiced and retained socio-emotional skills taught in an Early HeartSmarts® Ages 3-6 pilot program in 19 Salt Lake City School District preschools. This comprehensive e-book details that highly successful pilot and study and the “compelling evidence” for how the program enhanced children’s growth in four key development areas. Includes discussions on the program’s science and the heart’s role in emotional experience.  More info »

<strong>Connecting Heart and Mind for Optimal Performance</strong><br>Emotional stress and the strains of modern life contribute to cognitive decline. Memory, and concentration are especially vulnerable. Learn to take care of your brain, improve mental functions, remain alert and develop brainpower with the HeartMath Brain Fitness Program. It includes practical and simple steps for using HeartMath techniques and the emWave Pro, sold separately, to improve and sustain cognitive abilities throughout your life.  More info »

Sleep peacefully, wake up refreshed with this simple 5-Step Program.
Millions of individuals have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or waking up refreshed. Research shows a highly effective and lasting solution is learning to manage stress, the No. 1 cause of sleeplessness. This booklet, which is designed for use with emWave® or Inner Balance™ Trainer technologies, guides you through a proven scientific method for getting peaceful, restorative sleep. Includes two powerful HeartMath energy self-regulation techniques.  More info »