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| View Larger Image | emWave Personal Stress Reliever (Silver) | Health and Beautyby HeartMath
| List Price: | $199.00 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Sales Rank: | 18,131th |
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FEATURES | - A portable and convenient way to reduce stress, balance emotions and increase performance
- Helps you control feelings of anxiety, depression and anger
- Super bright LEDs, sound control, four challenge levels, coherence scoring and advanced user mode
- An easy-to-use device that lets you and your body better deal with the tension and stress of modern life
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| emWave PC Stress Relief System
by HeartMath
emWave PC is an easy-to-use software program and patented heart rhythm monitor designed to prevent, manage and reverse the negative effects of stress, anxiety, fatigue, depression and more. The system is an innovative approach to stress relief based on learning to change the heart rhythm pattern and create physiological coherence in the body. The analysis of Heart Rate Variability (HRV), or heart rhythms, is recognized as a powerful, non-invasive measure that reflects heart-brain interactions...
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| Relacore Stress-Related Abdominal Obesity Supplement, 90 Capsules
by Relacore
Stress Reducer/Mood Elevator. Helps prevent stress-related abdominal fat. Formulated to help: reduce stress, reduce mild anxiety, improve mood, fight mid-day fatigue, increase energy.
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| Masada Mineral Herb Spa Whole Organic Salts, Stress Relief, Valerian & Kava Kava with Orange Peel, 2 lb (907 g) (Pack of 2)
by Masada
100% Natural dead sea mineral salts with herbs & aromas. Herb therapy, mineral therapy, aromatherapy. Natural relaxants valerian, kava kava and Masada Dead Sea Salts help calm nerves and ease tight muscles for full relaxation. Orange peel, lavender and bergamot help promote restfulness. No animal testing. (Pouch is reusable.) Patent pending.
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| TwinLab Stress B-Complex Caps with Vitamin C, Capsules, 250-Count Bottle
by Twinlab
This dietary supplement contains high potency B-Complex vitamins. It is yeast-free and well tolerated by most highly allergic individuals. TwinLab Stress B-Complex Caps with Vitamin C are easier to swallow and assimilate. Contains no tablet binders, coatings or colorings. Free of the most common allergens such as soy, yeast, barley, wheat, lactose (milk sugar) and all milk, citrus, fish and egg products. No added flavorings, sugars, salt, artificial sweeteners, colorings, preservatives or...
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| Conair SU1W Sound Therapy, Silver
by Conair
Sound therapy with 10 soothing sounds.
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
emWave® Personal Stress Reliever®Relieve Stress Increase Energy Improve Mental and Emotional ClarityThe emWave® Personal Stress Reliever® provides a portable and convenient way to reduce stress, balance emotions and increase performance. This powerful and effective, handheld stress reliever uses colorful LED displays, audio feedback and a powerful stress relief technique to help you significantly reduce your stress and increase your feelings of well-being. The emWave is easy to use. Simply place your thumb on the sensor or attach the ear sensor. After your pulse is detected a breathing pacer will synchronize to your heart rhythms. Follow the Quick Coherence Technique, included with the emWave and you are on your way. The emWave is used by men and women worldwide for stress, anxiety, depression, hypertension, weight loss and to enhance their meditation practices.emWave Benefits Transform the physiological response to stress and quickly re-balance mind, body and emotions Be less reactive, think clearly and make good decisions, especially under pressure. Improve health, stamina and well-being; maintain personal balance and avoid stress and burnout in chaotic and changing environments. Maximize creativity and innovation. Boost performance and overall intelligence emWave FeaturesFour challenge levels to help you sharpen your coherence building skills. Adjustable brightness of the LED displays. Adjustable audio feedback levels. Advanced user mode. The Coherence Coach CD. Available in silver or metallic blue. Holds the Seal of Approval from the American Institute of StressCustomer Care: Free user orientation calls to get you started Free Online training Lifetime customer support Free monthly webinars(online seminar) focusing on stress, anxiety, personal well-being and empowermentPackage Contents:emWave Personal Stress Reliever Unit Ear Sen |
Amazon.com Product Description
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Through colorful LEDs you see your coherence level increase as you transform your stress and gain greater control over your emotions, mind, and body. The Coherence Coach is an entertaining visual and audio program to learn and practice the Quick Coherence technique and improve your coherence scores. Weighing just 2.2 ounces, the portable, sleek design of the emWave Personal Stress Reliever makes it easy to take and use whenever you need it. The device is used by professionals to improve their golf games and other sports activities. The emWave Experience, a free online interactive course takes approximately 30 minutes and is designed to enhance your emWave experience. emWave trains you to achieve a higher level of coherence, a scientifically measurable state characterized by increased order and harmony in our psychological (mental and emotional) processes as well as physiological (bodily) processes. Research shows that when we activate this state, our physical systems function more efficiently, we experience greater emotional stability and we gain increased mental clarity and improved cognitive function. emWave's patented technology monitors the subtle beat-to-beat changes in your heart rhythms and determines the level of coherence found in these rhythms. emWave Personal Stress Reliever provides a handheld, portable and convenient way to reduce stress, balance emotions and increase performance anytime, anywhere. It is especially useful when preparing for highly stressful meetings, for improving sleep, to improve athletic performance, to overcome the effects of stress associated with health issues, or to recover quickly from stressful situations. How emWave Works The emWave is based on hard science and incorporates the same patented HRV measurement and coherence scoring process found in the Freeze-Framer Interactive Learning System, HeartMath's award winning PC based product that is being used by ten's of thousands of people in over 50 countries. emWave 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 recognized as a powerful, non-invasive measure that reflects heart-brain interactions and autonomic nervous system dynamics, which are particularly sensitive to changes in emotional state. However, emWave does a lot more than just show the effects of stress on your body. It reduces stress by training you to create more "coherence." Coherence is a term used by scientists to describe a highly efficient physiological state in which the nervous system, 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". When you experience stressful emotions such as tension, anxiety, irritation, or anger, your heart rhythm pattern becomes irregular and incoherent, which negatively affects health, brain function, performance and your sense of well-being. 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, improve brain function, hormonal balance, immune response, coordination and reaction times. Using emWave emWave determines the degree of coherence found in your heart rhythm patterns and displays changes in real-time on a large tri-colored LED--the Coherence Level Indicator. A red light indicates low coherence which would be normal. A blue light indicates medium coherence which shows good improvement. A green light indicates high coherence the optimal high performance, stress-free state. The goal in using emWave is to reduce stress by achieving and sustaining High Coherence (green). The Coherence Coach CD (included) provides instruction on how to do the Quick Coherence Technique to improve your coherence scores with emWave. emWave is easy to use. Simply place your thumb on the sensor or attach the Ear Sensor. After your pulse is detected a breathing pacer which synchronizes to your heart rhythms begins. As you practice the Quick Coherence Technique, breathing with the pacer while at the same time activating a positive feeling like the care you have for someone or the appreciation you have for the good things in your life, your coherence level (indicated in a large colorful LED) will begin to change from red to blue to green. emWave offers four challenge levels to help you sharpen your coherence building skills. You can change the brightness of the LED displays and the audio feedback level. Additionally, it incorporates an accumulated coherence scoring display so you can track your progress during a session and an advanced user mode. For most people in today's high-stress world, it is rare for sustained periods of coherence to occur. Now with emWave Personal Stress Reliever you have a convenient, practical way to help you reduce stress and shift into a higher state of coherence anytime, anywhere. Your stress will diminish and your feelings of well-being, balance and enhanced energy will increase. Testimonials "I have been amazed at the difference between using emWave compared to other forms of focusing your energy or relaxation techniques. This is an easy tool to keep with you and use whenever you want the benefit of improved performance, whether it's dealing with a stressful situation or problem solving. I have also found it helpful before you go to sleep. Thanks for helping connect our mind and heart!" -- Cathleen Nelson, President, United Healthcare Partners "emWave Personal Stress Reliever is the greatest tool that HeartMath has ever put out. The Coherence Coach CD is wonderful and the device easy to use. The ear piece is also a helpful addition and the packaging is interesting and well done. Good job!" -- Michelle Cameron, RN, BSN, Manager, Nursing World Class Service, Cleveland, OH "The emWave Personal Stress Reliever is great. I have used it before every speech I have done since I got it. Some days are better than others but for the most part it has brought my anxiety level down and made me focus more on the subject than my feelings about the crowd. I gave one of them to my son who has difficulties with tests at school and he gets green before his tests. It has helped him to do better with the tests and from his teachers perspective he seems calmer when he takes them." -- Scott Rankin, CEO, Vulcan Spring & Mfg. Co. "Using the emWave Personal Stress Reliever has enabled me to recognize the effects of stress on my body at any given time, which then allows me to use the HeartMath techniques to immediately help relieve this stress position. My recent tournament performances in Germany and Holland were helped by the use of HeartMath emWave can recognize stress levels not otherwise detectable." -- Ian Woosnam, 2006 European Ryder Cup Captain and 1991 Masters winner |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 42 reviews)
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Blinking Lights Hurt My Eyes by EH (Earth)  1 Stars
February 21, 2010
The constant blinking lights hurt my eyes and were not relaxing.
I searched for an option to turn off the lights but I could not find it.
So I guess there is none. I have no idea how this helps someone go to sleep unless they put duct tape over the lights. I returned it the next day for a full refund saying it was different from the website description. It was not stress relieving; it created more stress!
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It works, but don't expect immediate gratification. by G. Weber (Arlington, Va USA)  4 Stars
January 22, 2010
As we all know, there's a lot of electronic device hyperbole out there, but this little gadget actually seems to work as described to gradually help diminish stress. People with short attention spans who expect immediate gratification are going to be disappointed, however. It's not an electric can opener, folks, it's an interactive stress relieving device, and you have to read the directions, take your time, and expect gradual improvement !
Getting started with the basic breathing exercise, which you do in time with the moving lights, is easy and encouraging, however, and the pulse indicator works quite well. To use it, you either place your thumb on the single plastic button, or choose to attach the included sensor clip to your ear. Next, you breathe in as the blue lights run up the scale and then out as they run back down, while thinking happy thoughts. After a few sessions, you'll feel like your stress has melted away and be ready for the more advanced levels.
It's like electronic yoga, without the positions ! (I think it also helps if you're in an environment free of distractions and play your favorite soothing music.)
Overall, I think this is a great little device that works as advertised. Of course there are a few negatives. It is fairly pricey, but you can get a steep discount and free shipping from Amazon, which helps a lot. Also, it's one of those "one-button" devices that looks elegant, but you'll find yourself often with your nose in the manual in order to figure out how to do multiple functions with that one button. I guess one would gradually learn how to use this control, but me, I like dedicated buttons for functions that I have to use frequently. Another negative is the imbedded battery, which can't be changed by the user. Millions of I-pod users don't seem to mind this, but no rechargable battery lasts forever, not even Lithium-Ion, and the factory is going to charge you most of a Ben Franklin bill to change it for you some day.
Nitpicks aside, though, it works..... so go ahead, get one of these little beauties and put some sitar music on the stereo. Ommmmmmmmmmmmm !
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Free Shipping by flying808 1 Stars
December 31, 2009
It said that there was a special discount on the item, which when clicking on said if you spent more than $100 on qualifying purchases I would receive free shipping but then when I entered the promotional code, it said no promotion was available so I ended up paying over $12 for shipping. It wouldn't have been as bad if they didn't tell me that I was going to get free shipping.
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Better built than Stress Eraser, but both have limitations by Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) 4 Stars
December 10, 2009
As other reviewers have mentioned, Heart Math's emWave comes with lots of new-agey jargon and inducements to use computer programs along with buying some of the books produced by Heart Math (it's practically a little industry if not a way of life). Nevertheless, if you're trying to decide between Stress Eraser and emWave, the latter is the better-built, better-finished, more reliable product. The Stress Eraser looks almost "plain" by comparison, but can be equally effective. The basic tenet of all Eastern, or Eastern-influenced, approaches to better health is to tap into a cosmic energy source the manifestation of which is the human breath stream. In layman's terms, you gotta breathe to live; moreover, breathing must be regular, coordinated with the cardio-vascular and neurological operations of the macrocosm (the individual who's breathing), and it must be deep (shallow breathing isn't breathing: it's gasping, or drowning).
Before proceeding to a consideration of either pricey gadget, it would be best to acknowledge what they can and can't do: 1. If you're unable to "locate" your consciousness in a secure and positive place (i.e. think relaxing thoughts, reflect upon your good fortunes and the things you have to be grateful for), you'll do well with either of these little machines. They'll register a pulse that's harmoniously synchronized with your breath in a regular, unstressed pattern, and you'll be doubly gratified to have visibly, quantitatively confirmed what it is you already know and feel. 2. If, on the other hand, you're under unusual or exceptional physical and/or emotional-mental stress, you're not going to be able to "force" your pulse and breath stream into a regular pattern that will register reassuringly on either of the devices' read-outs. In other words, these are potentially useful devices for ordinary people experiencing ordinary stress and likely to be helped to relax with a little bit of extra external motivation and encouragement. But they don't tell me what I don't know, and they don't serve as cause-effect stress reducers. All stress--let me repeat, all stress--is in the last analysis a construction, or creation, of the individual. An external device can't "cure" stress any more than it can "cause" it.
Now for a few pros and cons of each: The Stress Eraser, though larger, is less conspicuous to use in a public place (especially a dimly lit place). However, the batteries are consumed at a rapid, voracious rate (unless you choose not to use the light), the device can be extremely slow to find a pulse (especially if your hands tend to run cold), and the long-term settings usually wind up being short term. The emWave resembles a mini-slot machine with its bright psychedelic lights. But's it's more compact, more stable, and it's a bit more "fun" to use (but no faster or more effective in producing a desired effect). In fact, the Stress Eraser put me to sleep faster than its rival (by contrast, my wife kept complaining about the lights of the emWave as keeping her awake!). When I'm feeling exceptional stress, I have better success "forcing" a positive reading with Stress Eraser than with emWave. That's because Stress Eraser produces wave patterns that I can control, to a certain extent, by the manner in which I breathe (or hold my breath). As a result, I'm able to achieve the recommended 30 points and take at least some small measure of satisfaction in my accomplishment. With emWave, on the other hand, if stress is in "high mode," or close to "panic," all bets are off. You can huff and puff, hold your breath, think about cuddly warm puppies for dear life, but the gadget continually goes back to a red color, undoing any small accomplishment you might have claimed by raising the row of lights while in a blue or (most desirable) green color.
Both of these gadgets will work, and do so more efficiently and effectively than Herbert Benson's by-now-famous "relaxation response." For the reasons stated above, I would be wary of the emWave's hyperbolic claims (eliminates depression, improves health, provides energy, etc.). Also, neither device will enable the user to avert an all-out panic attack because both require a conscious effort of will, or control, before their benefits can be realized. The emWave comes with a CD which, after a few initially promising moments, proves to be mostly a pitch for Heart Math's books and associated products. The program is basically: 1. breathe, following the movement of the ball; 2. concentrate on that organ in the center of your chest, the heart; 3. think of a positive feeling (no more specific than that, and consequently a bit reminiscent of "Don't worry. Be happy"). The Stress Eraser, though eschewing the term "math" anywhere in its literature, is actually the more analytic of the two, providing numerical targets for individual sessions and for the entire day. mWave is colorful, and includes innocuous (but non-objectionable) ambience music to accompany its felicitously focused aerobics; Stress Eraser is black and white, with numbers and no music.
In sum, I'd recommend the emWave over the Stress Eraser for most individuals because of the superior build quality, the production values, and higher motivational component for most users. But the Stress Eraser is also worth a look (it's going for half the price of a year ago). There's no color, no flashing and streaming neon-like lights, no support groups and computer soft-ware, but sometimes less is more, especially when it comes to gadgets--themselves the source of more stress than we sometimes care to admit. The Stress Eraser makes it possible, even under adverse conditions, to accumulate 30 points and achieve some small degree of satisfaction; the emWave practically ensures a strike-out during those tense moments--say, after news of a death or bad health prognosis--when you walk up to the plate so frazzled you'd rather not look the pitcher in the eye let alone swing at fast balls.
[Contrary to the emWave's recommendation, the ear lobe clip was not easier to use--in fact, it failed to pick up any pulse whatsoever (but then I rarely wear a cap during Wisconsin's wintry weather, which may be the explanation for bloodless ear lobes). The Stress Eraser, as indicated, can also be non-responsive, especially if your fingers are cold. (Put your hand under hot water in these instances.]
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Handy, lightweight device by TBOCK (Northern California) 4 Stars
November 29, 2009
I think this is a handy device that I will use with my clients (counseling). It's light weight, easy to use, and fun!
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