According to the American Institute of Stress, up to 90% of all health problems are related to stress.  Additionally, a large body of research confirms that our thoughts and emotions have a dynamic effect on our health and vitality.  

Emotions like frustration, insecurity, depression, and helplessness are stressful and inhibit optimal health.  Positive emotions like appreciation, care, and love not only feel good, they promote health, performance, and well being.  

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) biofeedback allows you to watch in real time how thoughts and emotions affect your heart and nervous system.  Using sophisticated computer technology you can monitor your heart rhythms and learn how to achieve nervous system balance. 

This type of real-time feedback enables you to manage your levels of stress and negative emotions. 

Using the techniques in this program you will learn how to intentionally shift to a positive emotional state.  These shifts in your heart rhythms create a favorable change in neural, hormonal, and biochemical events that benefit the entire body and mind.    

The effects of this short-term training are both immediate and long lasting.

Columbia Neurofeedback Center usesthe emWave PC technology from the Institute of Heartmath (www.heartmath.com) to learn and practice a powerful HeartMath technique proven to transform stress.  Play interactive games to sharpen your skills and increase your coherence scores.  Experince Emotion Visualizer to enjoy images as you feel positive emotions. 

Measure your heart’s performance in an easy and efficient manner.  With this program you can see how your thoughts and emotions affect your heart and nervous system. When stressed, your heart rhythms have an irregular, jagged incoherent pattern. When you shift to a more positive emotional state, the heart rhythm  pattern changes to a smoother, wave-like coherent pattern. By seeing the visual change on the screen and associating it with a more peaceful, calm internal state, you learn to manage stress and maintain a state of physiological coherence and balance.

Regular use of the emWave technology has resulted in significant stress reduction benefits with ADD/ADHD, anger, anxiety and PTSD, chronic pain, depression, hypertension and sleep disorders. Clients using this technology report the following benefits: