A comprehensive tutorial is included covering how to use emWave PC, getting started, and the science behind the system. Revitalize your emotions, mind, spirit and body with emWave PC Stress Relief System (formerly Freeze-Framer). The emWave PC's software and accompanying USB sensor provide an entertaining and educational experience that reduces stress and increases performance. This easy-to-use program is designed to prevent, manage and reverse the negative effects of stress, and to enable users to operate their mind-body-heart as a unified system, achieving new levels of health and well-being. emWave PC incorporates over 15 years of scientific research on the interactions taking place between the heart and brain. It was developed by Doc Childre and the team of scientists at the Institute of HeartMath. emWave PC monitors your heart rhythms, displays them in real-time and determines their level of coherence-a mental and emotional state people experience when they are in-sync physically, emotionally and mentally. emWave PC displays your level of heart rhythm coherence and you learn to increase it, reducing emotional stress and improving cognitive function. How emWave PC Works The emWave PC technology is an easy-to-use software program with a heart rhythm monitor. The system is an innovative approach to stress relief based on learning to change the heart rhythm pattern and create physiological coherence in the body. With this program you can see how your thoughts and emotions affect your heart and nervous system through the user friendly graphics displayed on your computer screen. 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. Ordered and harmonious heart rhythms are an indicator of your "coherence level". High coherence is a state associated with positive emotional attitudes which send signals to the brain that reduce stress, improve brain function, hormonal balance, immune response, coordination and reaction times. emWave PC determines the degree of coherence found in your heart rhythm patterns and displays changes in real-time. View the emWave science presentation (requires Flash) to learn more. What the emWave PC Includes Coherence Coach which uses audio instruction, visual imagery and an adjustable breathing pacer for learning and applying HeartMath's Quick Coherence technique. Three, colorful, interactive games designed to help you transform stress into creative energy. The Emotion Visualizer which provides stunning colorful imagery that changes as you increase your coherence level. Heart rhythm display, data storage for session review, four challenge levels, audio control, application specific instruction, interactive tutorial and more. Testimonials "For over 30 years I experienced several life threatening chronic illnesses-kidney disease, blood disease, heart disease, kidney transplant, 2 strokes and Stage 4 B-Cell Lymphoma. In the fall of 1997, I was led to The Institute of HeartMath. I discovered that all of my illnesses were due to stress and anxiety I had been experiencing in my life. Through learning and practicing HeartMath's tools and technologies, I am able to prevent, manage and reverse the effects of stress, be more in-the-moment, and achieve excellent health, more energy, improved mental and emotional clarity, and improved performance and relationships. HeartMath's tools and technologies literally saved my life. " -John Bishop "After using my emWave PC for a week, I was given the daunting task of developing a decision tree for our hospital ethics committee. I avoided it as long as I could because it was so complicated. Then I decided to use my emwave PC and get myself in the green zone first. I was shocked at how quickly and clearly the decision tree ideas went onto the paper. I had it totally outlined in less than 30 minutes. The members of the committee said it contained everything they could imagine and was easy to follow. " -Claire Call MS BSN RN, Heart Failure Coordinator, Prairie Heart Institute at St. John's Hospital "The significant enhancements available in the emWave PC Stress Relief System provide both practitioner and client with an amazingly powerful tool to facilitate healing to Wholeness. " -Jon McIntosh, Guidance for Healing It's beautiful software and a really great system, all of it. As I wrote in a recent review, emWave PC 'is the gold standard of HRV biofeedback systems'" -Marshall F. Gilula, M. D. "Using HeartMath techniques and the [emWave PC] system are so effective because you can get immediate feedback on your internal state. Having real-time physiological feedback with the [emWave PC] takes the guesswork out of whether I'm in the right frame of mind and attitude and gives me something to hang onto-a concrete, internal reference point instead of just guessing or intuition. " -Marlo Stil, Professional Golfer System Requirements PentiumII compatible processor, Microsoft Windows ME-2000-XP-Vista, 800 x 600 16 bit color display or better, 64 MB DirectX 9 compatible video card, (recent ATI or Nvidia recommended), CD-Rom drive, one available USB port. What's in the Box emWave PC software CD, USB Pod, finger pulse sensor, 6-foot extension cable, and owner's manual. HeartMath research has shown that emotions are reflected in our heart rhythm patterns. The analysis of Heart Rate Variability (HRV), or heart rhythms, is recognized as a powerful, non-invasive measure that reflects heart-brain interactions and autonomic nervous system dynamics, which are particularly sensitive to changes in the emotional state. New clinical research identifies HRV as a key indicator of preventable stress and shows correlation with a broad range of related health problems. The Freeze-Framer 2. 0 package includes: Freeze-Framer 2. 0 Installation CD-ROM Quick Start Guide Booklet "Quiet Joy" music CD from Doc Childre Pulse sensor Free technical support Minimum System Requirements To successfully run Freeze-Framer, your system must equal or surpass the following configuration: Pentium 233 MHz (may run on slower PC's, but not recommended) Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4 Service Pack 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended, 256MB on Windows 2000 and XP) 50 MB of free hard disk space (without tutorial) 450 MB of free hard disk space (with tutorial) Available serial port (not being used by your mouse) for use by a serial port sensor, or a CD-ROM drive for program installation Monitor and graphics adapter capable of Desk Top area of 800 by 600 pixels and compatible with DirectX 8. Some computers may require a BIOS and/or video driver/hardware update in order to run DirectX 8 successfully. Recommended: High color (16-bit) color palette.