Customer Reviews

Emwave Pc Stress Relief Biofeedback Heartmath System

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Nothing magic. Simply a tool for registering your pulse and motivating greater awareness of the vital breath-stream. (In fairness, it can exert a palpable relaxing effect, though it's more likely to induce me into a soporific state than to "energize" me, as claimed.) Simply carry it around along with your MP3 player, cellular phone, camera, etc., and use it at your leisure. Durability may a consideration. Before the end of a year of very moderate use my personal unit started behaving like a broken slot machine, and I was hard-pressed to find a place to send it to for repair. (The accompanying manual says little to nothing about mechanical support.)

While working, the device was quite effective in readily registering a pulse and responding to the user's input: there are 4 difficulty levels, 4 sound levels, 3 brightness levels--but be sure not to misplace the instructions if you hope to remember how to access your preferred level of any of the aforementioned variables. And whether or not the changing colors--red is bad, blue is neutral, green is "pass Go and collect your reward"--are truly an accurate measurement of any meaningful physical state remains questionable. Some of my experiments suggested that the colors would appear, disappear, and reappear regardless of the user's rate and quality of inhalation and exhalation. All the same, it's nice to know that just about any of us is capable of attaining a green rating (i.e. "coherence") now and then (on the other hand, if you're not especially concerned about being in "coherence" or are determined to know exactly what "coherence" is, the Emwave probably isn't for you).

[I thought my review was for the personal hand-held unit, but I see the picture of the hand-held device has been replaced by the computer-software version. If you sit at a desk during your 15-30 minutes of relaxation; if you have no prohibitions against such public use of the system, the computerized version perhaps has its advantages--greater durability and dependability, lower price, even clearer settings. But my hunch is that most users would find the hand-held portable model more convenient.]