What is Freeze-Framer TM?

Freeze-Framer TM is a heart rhythm feedback tool for helping you observe the state of balance in your autonomic nervous system. The key to improving one's heart rhythms is learning two HeartMath tools or techniques, the Heart Lock-In and Freeze-Frame. Freeze-Framer TM can also be used to see the effects of different techniques such as meditation, breathing and other approaches to stress reduction. Remember that the games are controlled by the degree of coherence in your heart rhythm, and the HeartMath tools are particularly effective in increasing the coherence in your heart rhythm and nervous system.

How can I benefit from using this technology?

With a little practice, you can learn to create amazingly positive effects in many areas of your life.

- Change your physiology in ways that can improve health and well being.

- Help achieve profound relaxation, reducing the background of fear and anxiety that inhibit the efficiency of our actions and the joy of living.

- Unwind from stress.

- Gain a more comprehensive perspective and find real solutions to problems.

- Enhance both creativity and decision-making ability.

- Used with Freeze-Frame and Heart Lock-In, you can use this tool to learn to stop stressful reactions the moment they occur.

You will be able to apply these techniques in:

- Health -- to help enhance the immune system, reduce cardiovascular efficiency and reduce physical symptoms.

- Business -- to overcome job anxiety, transform stress into creative energy and improve communication with co-workers and clients.

- Relationships -- to successfully deal with family and spousal conflicts, improve communication and enhance the quality of interactions with spouses, partners and children.

- Sports -- to achieve a harmonious, "entrained" state, which improves mental, emotional and physical performance.

- Meditation and other similar practices -- to enhance breathing techniques or achieve new depths of inner vision or calm.

- Quality of life -- to achieve new levels of concentration, creativity, communication and overall well-being, all of which can contribute to greater clarity, efficiency, purpose and fulfillment in life's activities.

- With children -- To help children establish healthy attitude shifts and reinforce these healthy patterns.

- Recreation -- Play the three software games just for fun, and let the benefits sneak up on you!

Can I practice these techniques without using Freeze-Framer TM?

Yes, in fact, that is exactly what the Institute of HeartMath recommends. They should be done frequently when you are not "hooked up." However, the Freeze-Framer TM provides real-time physiological feedback which helps you become more sensitive to the state of your nervous system, moment to moment. Bring this sensitivity to your daily use of the tools. It will add clarity and power to the application of your heart intelligence.

What does Freeze-Framer TM actually measure, and by what means?

The direct physiological function being measured is your pulse as viewed in your finger via a pulse plethysmograph. A small LED (light emitting diode) shines light into the skin of your finger and a photo-sensor records the changes in the reflected light as each pulse travels through your finger.

Freeze-Framer TM measures the interval between each pulse and computes your heart rate after every new pulse. Most people as heart rate varies constantly, speeding up and slowing down.

Freeze-Framer TM then charts your heart rate as it changes. Heart rate variability (HRV) is also called heart rhythm. HRV is a complex wave that reflects many different things that are occurring inside our bodies -- it can be used and interpreted in many ways.

In general, a smoother HRV pattern indicates a more balanced autonomic nervous system, and a more irregular, jagged HRV pattern indicates a less balanced autonomic nervous system. Freeze-Framer TM notices the degree of smoothness or jaggedness of your heart rhythm and feeds that information back to you via the built-in games and some of the other functions of the program.

Other functions within the Freeze-Framer TM software provide different ways of recording, viewing, compiling and comparing your HRV readings. Some of these may be helpful in building your awareness of your own level of physiological balance. Others are more technical and will be of interest only to technically oriented users.

Why is heart rate variability (HRV) important?

HRV (commonly referred to as heart rhythm) has been at the forefront of scientific heart research for the past decade. It is an essential indicator of the state of heart/brain interaction. Of all the indicators measured in numerous studies (including years of research by the Institute of HeartMath), HRV stands out as the best way to measure our inner emotional states and stress from moment to moment.

The Institute of HeartMath researchers discovered that the negative emotions disrupt heart rhythms and upset the healthy functioning of the autonomic nervous system, which affects the rest of the body. In contrast, positive emotions create increased harmony and coherence in the heart's rhythms, and improved balance in the nervous system overall. Click on Research summary to read a summary of various studies on HRV.

How can I positively influence my HRV?

Actually, the more appropriate question is "How can I use HRV monitoring to help improve my performance, relationships and well-being?" In our research, the Freeze-Frame and Heart Lock-In techniques have been proven time and again to be associated with By monitoring your heart rhythms as you engage in the HeartMath exercises and other techniques you may want to try, you will receive feedback that can guide, encourage and reinforce positive psychological and physiological improvements. dramatic changes of both a subjective (internally felt) and objective (outwardly observable and measurable) nature, including changes in HRV, immune function and hormonal balance. However, no single measurement or group of measurements is reflective of all of the subjective and objective changes that occur with these exercises.

It is like listening to yourself on tape, or watching yourself in an "instant replay." Your experience of an event is not equivalent to listening to or watching yourself, but having that kind of feedback can greatly enhance your awareness and speed your progress in managing your emotions and balancing your physiology.

    
    

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available through two simple techniques. Use your PC as the window from which to observe the positive physiological changes these techniques impart on your body and mind. Practice, improve or share these powerful techniques with others by using accurate graphs and charts, and three fun, colorful games. Monitor your progress by reviewing your recorded physiological data. Do all this with the Freeze-Framer TM Emotional Management Enhancer. It's easy to use, effective, convenient, accurate, fun - and affordable.

The Freeze-Framer TM is an educational tool specifically designed to support you in applying Freeze-Frame ¨ and Heart Lock-In ¨ - two fast, simple, powerful techniques that quickly bring the emotions, body and mind into balance. A new technology, the Freeze-Framer TM displays your physiological entrainment levels by recording your heart rhythm through a fingertip pulse sensor that plugs in to the serial port on your computer.

The recorded heart rhythm is continuously processed through a mathematical algorithm to provide an accurate, constant representation of your physiological state. The Freeze-Framer TM calculates your heart rate, entrainment levels, accumulated entrainment score and heart rate variability power spectrum so you see an actual account of your progress. The data recorded in each session can be saved for later review and analysis.

The Freeze-Framer TM was developed based on scientific research conducted by Doc Childre and the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California. IHM's research explores the physiological mechanisms by which the heart communicates with the brain, thereby influencing our perceptions, emotions and health. When the brain's rhythms and other biological systems synchronize with the heart's rhythmic beating patterns, we enter a physiological state called entrainment. Entrainment reflects a harmonious balance between the two branches of the autonomic nervous system. This internal state of heightened physiological efficiency enhances health and promotes optimal performance. Dramatic positive mental and emotional shifts can also occur during entrainment. Often, personal perception of a difficult situation shifts to a more decided outlook, which reduces stress levels and restores the body to a state of balance and well-being.

The Freeze-Framer TM is easy to install and use both at home and in the work place. Applied daily, the Freeze-Framer TM reinforces your entrainment practice, and helps you make emotional, mental and physiological balance an integral part of your life.

Minimum System Requirements:

Pentium 90 MHz processor
Windows 95 or 98
32 MB RAM
30 MB free disk space
1 available serial port (not being used by a mouse)
CD ROM drive
Monitor and graphics adapter capable of Desk Top area of: 800 X 600
High color (16-bit) color palette


Software Features

Fingertip pulse sensor
Real-Time pulse wave recording
Real-Time HRV monitoring
Entrainment scoring and ratios
Real-Time entrainment score feedback
Frequency spectrum summaries
Three easy, fun, self-reinforcing games
On-Demand Session Review
Session to session progress review
In-depth, on-line reference menus

Each FFEME Package includes:

FFEME installation CD (or optional floppy disks)
Quick Start Guide
Owner's Manual
Registration card

The book,
Freeze-Frame:One Minute Stress Management,
by Doc Childre

The music CD,
Heart Zones; Music Proven to Boost Vitality,
by Doc Childre


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Dr. Philip Brotman
Biofeedback Instrument Corporation 255 W. 98th Street
New York, N.Y. 10025
Tel. (212) 222-5665 (5667 Fax)
Email: brotmanp@verizon.net