The HeartMath Meditation Assistant provides you with a comprehensive understanding of how to use the HeartMath heart coherence techniques and the emWave or the Inner Balance technology to enhance your spiritual/self-help practices. It provides scientifically validated HeartMath techniques to synchronize your heart, mind and emotions, and more easily find a place of inner stillness. The HeartMath Meditation Assistant can be a facilitator to any system of meditation, self-help or healing practice. In this program, all systems and techniques are honored and respected. Whatever practices you follow, using the emWave or Inner Balance creates more ease and flow from the heart, which helps you gain the benefits you are seeking and experience new enrichment. Throughout, you will find interesting stories and testimonials from people who have used the HeartMath methods to assist their meditation or mindfulness practices and gain more inner peace, clarity and connection to the intuitive guidance of their heart."Too often when people meditate, they actually have no idea how they're doing. There's no feedback. The beautiful thing about the HeartMath program is it gives you immediate ongoing feedback to know how you're doing. The HeartMath program actually measures where you are and can guide you to a better place scientifically - and that's the cool part. So the plan would be - you have to assess where you are. You can't know what you don't measure. You have to train your brain, which is really what HRV training is all about. It's soothing the brain. It's state training. It's how to get into an optimal state so I can feel and function at my best."- Daniel Amen, M.D., psychiatrist and best-selling author of Change your Brain, Change Your Life "Since I am one of the teachers in the movie and book, The Secret, and have been teaching the Law of Attraction for many years, I have also been recommending the emWave(R) and the Inner Balance(TM) to anyone who wants to more quickly create a 'vibrational match' for the things they want to attract into their life. Our emotions (joy, love, caring, compassion, appreciation) are the key, and many people do not know how to intentionally create the emotional states they want. The HeartMath tools and the emWave and Inner Balance technologies are ideal for easily and effortlessly accomplishing this."- Jack Canfield, Co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul(R) series "The emWave [or Inner Balance] technology is especially helpful to people who want to meditate but have little time; have been told by their doctor they need to meditate but don't know how; and for anyone who has been through the frustration of trying to meditate and having a hard time quieting their mind -- now you can with this personal pocket meditation assistant that takes you there."- John Räätz, Founder & CEO of The Visioneering Group"Part of my daily centering practice has been the meditative practice of taking and sending, or Tonglen and Lojong. They are Tibetan teachings from The Path of Great Awakening. The intention with these practices is to awaken us to the openness and softness of our hearts; and in so doing we can widen our circle of compassion. These practices, along with the HeartMath techniques, really support me each day in staying focused and in the present moment. Recently I decided to use my emWave Desktop to see what my meditative practice would look like in the language of my heart. I opted to run the Emotion Visualizer and the feedback was immediate! It validated for me what I was feeling in my heart, great expansiveness and compassion. It was as beautiful to watch as it was to feel. The more focused I was in my practice, the more validation I received watching the screen in front of me filled with beautiful color and images. In addition, at the end of my practice I was able to look at my heart rate variability and see my progressively improving coherence scores. I love that!"- Nellie M., Wellness Practiti