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Recognizing Anxiety Anxiety can be described as any or a combination of feelings that all have their roots in some type of fear, including unease, worry, apprehension, dread, powerlessness or a sense of impending danger – real or imagined. Symptoms can be wide-ranging: the mind goes blank or other cognitive functions are lost, obsessive thoughts, phobias, chronic worry, ongoing unease, sweaty palms, tension headaches, trembling, difficulty breathing, dizziness, panic attacks, increased heart rate and palpitations. Anxiety disorders such as panic attacks may result from certain physiological conditions, most notably heart arrhythmias, and anyone who experiences this should seek immediate advice to make sure the cause of the attacks is not physical. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 40 million American adults – that’s 18% of the population – have anxiety disorders, which often begin in childhood. Social phobia alone, when people become overwhelmingly anxious and excessively self-conscious in everyday social situations, affects 15 million adults, and specific phobias, an intense fear of something that poses little or no actual danger, affects 19.2 million adults in the U.S. “Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” Arthur Somers Roche, American journalist, writer, 1883-1935. Anxiety is a feeling, a type of emotion. Some anxiety such as fight or flight is encoded in our genetic makeup and is a normal human response to many of life’s uncertainties. Among them nervousness over an impending test or a sought-after job, uneasiness in a relationship or concern over the health of a loved one, speaking or performing in public, or worry in the workplace for a variety of reasons (the most common being the employee performance review). It is when anxiety becomes exaggerated that this otherwise natural human emotion can threaten our well-being “As the turbulence of anxiety churns in the subconscious and plays out in your thoughts and actions … it can cause fatigue, sleep disorders, hormone imbalances, health problems and premature aging.” “Transforming Anxiety”, Childre, Rozman 2004. Learn scientifically validated tools and techniques for overcoming anxiety with the emTech Media e-booklet or audio file Eliminating Anxiety. Years of research by the Institute of HeartMath has shown you can achieve a healthy balance in your emotions. Learn to stop feeding anxious feelings, create new emotional patterns and behaviors and replace the negative ones that have been draining your energy and spirit. HeartMath scientific research and controlled studies have shown your own “heart intelligence” holds the key to this transformation. By achieving coherence in your heart, mind and spirit you can maintain a calm, balanced, yet alert state at home, school, work and play. A HeartMath TIP: You’ll be amazed at how much calmer and relaxed you feel after trying these three quick steps adapted from the HeartMath Notice and Ease® tool, which has helped so many reduce their anxiety. The emTech Media e-booklet Eliminating Anxiety contains a complete discussion about this simple, but powerful tool. It is also available in audio program. Notice and admit what you are feeling. Try to name the feeling. Tell yourself to relax as you gently focus in your heart, calm your breathing, and ease the stress out. Benefits of Reducing Anxiety Stress hormones decrease, energy level increases, and you feel better Stronger, more satisfying relationships Quality of life and feeling of empowerment increases Reduce “overwhelm” – time pressure, information and stimulation overload, mentally scattered feelings and impatience. Decrease projections of worst-case scenarios, negative thinking Improved memory, cognitive functions Tools for Overcoming Anxiety emWave®: Regular use of this scientifically validated, stress-relief technology has proven to be a vital tool in reducing anxiety, stress, anger, emotional chaos and boosting energy and vitality. The emWave technology is easy to use and noninvasive. It will help you achieve heart coherence – synchronization between the heart and brain – and reach your optimal physical, mental and emotional balance. When your emotions are in balance, you stop the energy drain and start the energy gain. Then, by practicing the easy-to-learn techniques you’ll receive with your emWave only minutes a day will help you revitalize and re-energize your mind, body and spirit anytime, anywhere. » Learn More emWave® Pro: emWave Pro turns your computer into a self-contained heart-rhythm-coherence monitor and manager. It lets you see how thoughts and emotions affect your heart rhythms – negative ones pulling you down and draining your energy, positive ones lifting you up and allowing your body to perform its normal function of replenishing your energy. Discover how easily you can reduce your stress level and replace those negative emotions with positive ones that, with a little practice, can give you instant energy boosts and gradually help build a more invigorated you. Relying on decades of scientific research, the emWave Pro, in tandem with key HeartMath techniques that you’ll receive and easily learn, will help you increase your energy and start living life more fully. » Learn More (Note: Use the handheld emWave and emWave Pro to help regulate your emotions in preparation for events you know may trigger anxiety and to help you recover from stressful episodes and get back on an even keel fast.) Reducing Test Anxiety and Improving Test Performance in America’s Schools: Eight-state U.S. Department of Education-funded study that researched anxiety and effective solutions. 372 page e-Book of the study report. » Learn More Effects of Heart-Rate Variability Biofeedback Training and Emotional Regulation on Music Performance Anxiety in University Students. Student musicians were recruited to participate in an experimental repeated-measures study to identify effects of heart-rate-variability, biofeedback training and emotional self-regulation techniques on music performance anxiety and music performance. » Learn More

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