Tenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

As technology becomes more fluid in today’s culture, it is natural to combine its use with traditional behavioral services to help measure emotional responses that create higher degrees of resilience and coherence. Heart rate variability (HRV) analysis is evolving as an objective measure of self-regulated emotional responding. Heart-rhythm-coherence feedback training is a user friendly innovative method designed to promote a psychophysiological resilient state that is conducive to stress reduction, enhanced performance, and emotional harmony. The method allows a heart-brain communication to occur instructing individuals to raise their heart rhythm coherence baseline, which is a key marker for enabling and sustaining behavioral change. According to research and due to the advanced technological development created by the HeartMath Institute, measurements of neuroendocrine and immune activity have been identified which accompany an array of physiological responses that are representative of different emotional states (McCraty,2015). By utilizing a simple self-regulated tool and training program, individuals, health professionals and organizations have improved their health and well-being, while concurrently reducing their stress and improving performance and productivity. The technology has been utilized worldwide in diverse settings ranging from 200 universities and colleges nationally to help students manage test anxiety (Ratanasiripong, 2012) to its implementation with special weapons and tactics [SWAT]) officers to increased resilience and reduce stress (Judith P. Andersen,J., Papazoglou, K., Koskelainen, M., et. al, 2015). The instrumentation is intended to promote physical, psychological and emotional regeneration (McCraty, 2003) which has global implications as it relates to environmental cohesion, emotional stability, and social cohesion.