Transforming Stress: The Heartmath Solution for Relieving Worry, Fatigue, and Tension [Paperback]

Doc Childre (Author), Deborah Rozman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2, 2005

It's the quintessential buzz word of modern life. It hangs on everyone's lips from the first miles of the morning commute until the screeching alarm clock starts yet another day. Countless articles and studies tell the same story: lives controlled by unmanaged stress end early and none too well. This book describes a simple, straightforward method readers can learn and practice to literally transform stress by shifting the heart's own rhythms.

At the core of the HeartMath method of emotional regulation is the idea that, by focusing on positive feelings such as appreciation, care, or compassion, anyone can create dramatic changes in his or her heart rhythms. These changes precipitate a series of neural, hormonal, and biochemical events that dissipate stress and anger and lead to greater well-being. The benefits from using this system are remarkable and far-reaching: blood pressure drops, stress hormone levels fall, immune system activity increases, and anti-aging hormone levels rise. Through its interactive learning system, this book teaches readers to use the HeartMath method, enabling them to see and experience in real time how thoughts and emotions affect their heart rhythms. It teaches them how to engage their hearts to bring emotion, body, and mind into balance, and helps them stay in a zone of focused clarity, optimal health, and high performance. Changes brought about through this method are fast-acting and long-lasting, the perfect antidote to our chaotic and fast-paced lives.

HeartMath is a registered trademark of the Institute of HeartMath.

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This follow up to The HeartMath Solution and Transforming Anger reveals how becoming aware of the heart’s innate intelligence can dramatically reduce stress and tension. Based on over thirty years of research showing that it is possible to shift the heart into a "positive rhythm" that signals the brain, causing both of them to synchronize to more effectively respond to stress. In this book, the authors provide readers with the tools to not only respond to stress more resiliently, but to literally transform stress into positive emotions and creative energy. The keys to doing so are the transformative exercises developed by Childre and his team of researchers at the HeartMath Institute. The scientifically-validated techniques they share are easy to understand, and with regular, committed practice, as evidenced by the many illustrative case histories throughout the text, offer many benefits. Far more than just another book on stress management, Transforming Stress offers readers the means to more consciously create joy and contentment in their lives, while regaining the energy and enthusiasm that are normally sapped by life’s daily stresses and tension.--Larry Trivieri Jr.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (March 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157224397X
• ISBN-13: 978-1572243972
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Did we read the same book?, April 11, 2008

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Fender (Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transforming Stress: The Heartmath Solution for Relieving Worry, Fatigue, and Tension (Paperback)

The last two reviewers seem to have read two different books - and none of them are the book that I read!
I only give two stars, because the book did not add much to what I already knew about the HeartMath solution. I own the EmWave and am working hard to recover from serious stress, and here there was too little practical help. In stead, the book is postulative ("after reading this book, you will be cured") so much that you start to wonder if they are trying to hypnotize you to get better.
I still have high hopes for the heart coherence technique, but this book was not the 'home run' I had hoped for. But maybe people who are deeply stressed really need personal coaching by HeartMath 'professionals' in the initial phase?

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars must buy!, May 7, 2007

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Sunil U. Thakur "sunil" (Makati, Metro Manila Philippines) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Transforming Stress: The Heartmath Solution for Relieving Worry, Fatigue, and Tension (Paperback)

we all have stress and anxiety and it's killing us slowly whether we know it or not. the heartmath approach to dealing with stress and anxiety is excellent. highly recommended for ALL! :)

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Concise, Precise, Informative and Transforming! Outstanding! Highly Recommended!, March 27, 2008

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Dr. Michael J. Perkins "AWAKENR" (Norfolk, Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transforming Stress: The Heartmath Solution for Relieving Worry, Fatigue, and Tension (Paperback)

First, I would suggest to the highly critical, "bashing" reviewer preceeding this review, that they may have missed the message both regarding meditation practice and this book, which contains many pearls of wisdom, such as the distinction between "heart vulnerability," which is healthy, and "emotional vulnerability," which is unhealthy. Yet to absorb these and the many other excellent insights in the book and the heart coherence approach, it is actually necessary to read the entire book with equanimity, i.e, a "non-agitated" mind.

As a practicing clinical psychologist with 30-years of professional experience,and an equal number of years as a practicing meditator, I am profoundly grateful for the distilled wisdom inherent in "Stress Transformation", and I now routinely recommend it to most of my patients. A concise, precise and lucid presentation of "Transforming Stress" that weaves all the threads of our multi-dimensional humanity into a tapestry of beautifully integrated and meaningful "pattern," which greatly aids the digestion and bodily absorption of heart coherence and its rich nutritional value. A treasure of wellbeing and energy transformation... from existing to vibrant heart-centered Living!

The book also inherently highlights significant and profound differences between the heart coherence method, which so efficiently grounds us in our "embodied" multi-sensory experience, immediately promoting authentic wellbeing, and many methods of meditation which are really forms of "manipulative concentration" designed to bring about relaxing and blissful mind states. Yet other than very temporary and transient relief, these methods simply maintain the "trance" of self-dissatisfaction brought on by our social conditioning and frequent messages of disapproval leading to "dis-embodiment" and overly analytical,judgmental and striving minds seeking unattainable expectations and perfection and inadvertently perpetuating our conditioned discontent and unhappiness.

All the great wisdom teachings culminate in appreciating and expanding our hearts' capacity for love and compassion, and the heart coherence method and em-wave technology, so succinctly and beautifully articulated here, provide a short cut home.