The emWave Personal Stress Reliever & Biofeedback | A Proven Natural Way To Reduce Stress And Your Blood Pressure

The emWave Personal Stress Reliever is a pocket-size biofeedback electronic apparatus that measures the user’s heart rate patterns and through a clever system of winking LED lights explained below, helps the user to relate to their own heartbeat, synchronize their heart beat with their breathing.   The emWave induces users to focus on modifying their breathing rate, something that many would find frustrating if left to organize themselves.  The outcome is a satisfying reduction in the user’s stress level and blood pressure level.

The emWave in effect induces the conditions for a state of fairly deep meditation as taught through the ages by Buddhists, Hindu ashrams and of course, familiar to most of us, in name if not in deed, in Yoga classes. The emWave manages to sidestep the cultural route and the lengths to which one must go and presents a solution literally in the palm of your hand!

An Answer for Insomnia

The most common use of the emWave is as a tool against restlessness and insomnia. It chimes, some would say pleasantly, as it detects the removing the need to keep a finger pressed to a sensor while trying to sleep and one does not need to use the additional aid of the LED lights.

Achieving Deeper Meditation with the emWave

Through provision of a tangible object – the emWave - compared to trying for a more spiritual mental state such as attained in Yoga that provides visual confirmation of progress of the user’s physical state, the EmWave dispels any demotivating reservations that the user inexperienced in meditation might experience about having the necessary attitude needed to achieve the right state of mind.

Reports from many emWave users suggest that they enjoy a true feeling of relaxation, when at the end of a session, they have succeeded in illuminating the whole display with light. The emWave even creates a record of the relative amounts of time spent in negative, neutral, and positive states enable the user to keep a written or computer record of their progress.

The emWave Personal Stress Reliever – Summing Up

I have written this article with a view to conciseness and simplicity so if you want to skip this and move a couple of paragraphs, I would understand! However, for readers who will find this interesting, a little on this topic will be useful.

The emWave PSR, is a unique heart rhythm coherence training device.  "Coherence" is the terminology used by the Institute of Heartmath as a way of describing the benefits that the EmWave can provide. 

Essentially, heart rhythm feedback, which is what the emWave is designed to do, trains indiduals to learn to attain a psychophysiological state conducive to stress reduction and thereby promoting raised physiological coherence leading to physical, mental and emotional rejuvenation.  Phew.  Well I said you might want to skip that bit!

The emWave is not alone in the market for devices that will lower stress and blood pressure, notably the RESPeRATE blood pressure lowering device.  As it happens, the writer of this article has owned a RESPeRATe for several months and it has certainly achieved “what it said on the box”.  There is a significant price difference between the emWave and the RESPeRATE and this is where the emWave, which is less expensive, may be the  choice.  It is a tough one if I am asked my preference and as often as not, it will ultimately come down to an emotive feeling rather than based on hard facts, as each of the devices can produce the desired results but in slightly differing ways.

The devices each have their supporters suggesting that one or the other device but in all fairness, they are both excellent pieces of kit.  The RESPeRATE is probably the sturdier piece of equipment and perhaps more likely to withststnd knocks and drops but I’m certainly not proposing destructive tests to see which fares the best!  Stating the obvious, they are each electronic devices which have no doubt been painstakingly developed and deserve proper care and attention, so maybe the structural differences should not carry much weight when making a choice.

Even if the user’s objective isn’t solely to achieve sleep to lower their blood pressure or simply achieve a feeling of well being the unavoidable result of using an emWave PSR is an overall state of calmness. The emWave Personal Stress Reliever is going to do so much more than lower your blood pressure.