emWave Personal Stress Reliever (Silver)

List Price: $199.00 Discount Price: Too low to display

Features:

• A portable and convenient way to reduce stress, balance emotions and increase performance anytime, anywhere
• Helps you control feelings of anxiety, depression and anger; get a more restful night's sleep; stop emotional eating and reach your desired weight; and recharge your emotions, mind, and body
• emWave Personal Stress Reliever has earned the Seal of Approval from the American Institute of Stress
• Super bright LEDs, sound control, four challenge levels, coherence scoring and advanced user mode
• An easy-to-use device that lets you and your body better deal with the tension and stress of modern life without requiring you to make a change in your overall lifestyle

Accessories:
emWave PC Stress Relief System	Relacore Stress-Related Abdominal Obesity Supplement, 90 Capsules	Aveeno Stress Relief Body Wash, With Lavender, Chamomile, and Ylang-Ylang, 12-Ounce Bottles (Pack of 3)	Masada Mineral Herb Spa Whole Organic Salts, Stress Relief, Valerian & Kava Kava with Orange Peel, 2 lb (907 g) (Pack of 2)	TwinLab Stress B-Complex Caps with Vitamin C, Capsules, 250-Count Bottle

Customer Reviews:

Algorithmic mind clearing apparatus [Posted on 2008-07-08]
There's a lot of hype about these products. This one works. Here's a simple definition of what this and the (much) more expensive 'stresseraser' do:
They detect your heartbeat.
Specifically, they measure the beat-to-beat timing, and show you how this (ideally) increases and decreases as you breathe in and out.
If you're angry or stressed or winded, your heart's just going to pump madly away and ignore the available oxygen in your lungs. If you can clear your mind, let go, and just breathe, you can get your heart working in synch with your lungs. It'll pump a little faster when there's more air available, a bit slower when there isn't. You can try this on your own. The product helps you learn to feel that and detect it. Within a month or two you'll just have this trained as a reflex and you'll be able to do it on your own, and know when you're doing it right.
Once you've got it 'tuned' you can do fun things like imagine irritating coworkers and watch your bpm go up, and see what sorts of relaxy things make it go back down.
Little details: the ear clip is _very_ comfortable, surprisingly so.
The thing's _very_ light, easy to hold.
The way the LED red/blue/green feedback readout fades slowly between colors is FANTASTIC - it avoids making you heart rate spike when you're doing it wrong.

Stress reducer works great [Posted on 2008-07-10]
Works as advertised. I use it to help meditation and reduce stress. Easy to use and compact. Strongly recommend it for stress reduction and studies are good for blood pressure control.

Not a Medical Device [Posted on 2008-07-24]
From the Box "This is not a medical device." I found no difference after using it. The only thing it relieved was my money.

Great product! [Posted on 2008-07-29]
Works as advertised. I also ordered the book . . . very interesting and certainly has the potential to bring the reader and emWave user to a higher level of awareness.

Not bad but waaay overpriced for such a simple concept [Posted on 2008-09-26]
This gadget is not magic or "algorithmic". It's actually quite simple.. it checks your pulse and gives you red..green score based on this. It helps you to slow down your pulse using the breathing indicator light. It does NOT actually test your breathing.

Controlling breathing to reduce stress is a very simple but good concept that is used in meditation, yoga, tai chi, etc... They did a nice job of making the gadget intuitive but they also apparently made it seem like there's more to the technique than there is (which I guess gives them the idea that they should charge $200 for it). Really I'd say it's worth about $50.

Also, this is very focused on reducing stress/anxiety which will cause your pulse to rise. Don't get the idea that it will always make you feel good, it's easy to maintain a low pulse when you are feeling low/depressed.

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