Achieving success while remaining resilient and healthy can be difficult. An important step to creating personal and professional excellence is developing the ability to generate more coherence—the highly ordered state in which your body’s systems are synchronized for maximum efficiency. Coherence is a state of calm, focus, heightened awareness and balance. When in a high state of coherence you are operating at peak performance. Decision-making, communication skills, relationships, mental clarity, and leadership effectiveness are all enhanced.

The emWave System provides a window through which you can observe and measure your coherence—the physiological state that supports peak performance and good health.

Coherence is a progressive state: the more we build it, the more we have in reserve. The aim of using the emWave System is to increase the ratio of time spent in coherence. Increased personal coherence yields greater flexibility, productivity, creativity and less stress.

Getting Started

Under the appropriate emWave Tour, detailed information about the emWave system’s features and functions. Start here to get clear instructions on how to use this program. Next, learn review the Quick Coherence® Technique. Click here to learn what coherence is and get step by step instructions on how to build coherence with the Quick Coherence technique.

With practice, once you’ve learned how to record a session while using the Quick Coherence technique, you’ll start to see the heart rhythm pattern change. When you shift to and sustain a positive emotion, the beat-to-beat changes in your heart rate will create a smooth pattern and your coherence score will increase. You can train with the Coherence Coach® to fine tune your coherence-building skills. The Coherence Coach can be found in the View menu within the program.

Once you are able to achieve 50% or more medium or high coherence, you are ready to add another entertaining way to practice your skills with one of the emWave games or the Emotion Visualizer® sessions. The games and Emotion Visualizers can be found in the View menu.

It is recommended that you do 5 to 15 minute sessions on the emWave System, five days a week. Of course you can do longer or more frequent sessions if you’d like, or if situations are particularly challenging or stressful. With practice you will increase your coherence scores. This is evidence that you are re-training your system so that you have a new internal baseline that is more naturally coherent.

Suggested Applications

In the morning before you start your work day to set a baseline for increased clarity and performance
Take a five-minute break during the day to recharge your system.
After a particularly stressful experience to bring you back to balance mentally, emotionally and physically.
Before a meeting to increase your mental acuity and emotional balance.
Before and during creative projects to give your system a boost.
While traveling—at the airport, on the plane, in your hotel—to maintain balance and stay energized.
Before going to bed to facilitate deeper, more regenerative sleep. Bringing your system into coherence can help you sleep more deeply and wake up refreshed.

"Thank you for the excellent contribution the HeartMath program has made to the Stanford Executive Program over the past seven years. I have seen that the HeartMath tools provide our executive participants with very important and highly relevant skills for managing large, complicated organizations anywhere in the world, and for managing oneself. In this increasingly competitive global environment, the skills you have taught these leaders provide them with both the confidence and the strategies to transition back to their environments with a minimal level of stress and an optimal level of effectiveness."
— Beverly H. Smith, Administrative Director, Stanford Executive Program

"This is a great set of leadership tools. I can now recognize and deal with stress as it comes. I find myself much more aware of when I have become angry or frustrated... I recognize and use the tools to restore balance and a more positive attitude. Another benefit of using HeartMath is I don't wake up tired anymore. I plan better, and am able to be more direct with people."
— Sam Ruffing, MS, RN, Vice President, Methodist Health System

Enjoy using your emWave System and experience the benefits of coherence for your mind, body and heart.

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