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emWave
Optimum performance relies heavily on the ability to manage your of your emotions under pressure. Beyond the Barriers have developed a range of innovative products and programmes to help you achieve top results in everything you do.
emWave, a bio-feedback system from HeartMath, together with the HeartMath techniques help you change your response to stressful situations and get you into an optimal performance state where the heart, brain and nervous system are all in synch. Managing the impact of stress and changing your default response helps you perform at your best under pressure and helps build your baseline level of resilience.
By using the specially designed set of products known as emWave, you will have access to real time feedback on your heart rhythms and be able to assess how you cope with stress and pressure. Using the technology in conjunction with HeartMath techniques helps you to quickly rain your stress response.
Combining the skills and knowledge of a specialist Beyond the Barriers team (including Athletics World Champions, Doctors and Nutritionists and Psychologists), with the HeartMath training programmes and emWave bio-feedback technology, performing at your best on a consistent basis becomes an achievable goal.
If you are looking to reach your goals, improve your performance and need some help along the way, get in touch with Beyond the Barriers through their website.
HeartMath Training
Our expert team realise that being able to function at an optimum level gets superior results.
Here at Beyond the Barriers, we’re more than aware that resilience is one of the most important success factors in productivity. Being able to relish challenge and bounce back when things don’t go according to plan is an essential part of life today. We aren’t born with this resilience but we can train ourselves to be more resilient.HeatMath training helps you train your system to be able to choose your stress response and effectively manage your action.
With the supply of top level training and coaching using our HeartMath licence, we are able to supply our professional clients with programmes that not only help them reduce stress levels and manage the associated pressure and strains of work, but also help them perform at their best by getting them into an optimum performance state on demand.
HeartMath’s emWave technology is used in both group and individual training sessions an is used to manage our heart rhythms and train our physiological and emotional response to stress.. It can in turn help individuals to increase productivity, control their levels of stress, as well as improving sleep and overall health.
more detail on HeartMath can be found on our website. Take advantage of offering your team improved health and peformance – we invite you to talk to our team to find out more.
emWave2 the benefits
emWave2 is one of the newest innovations that is currently helping people to take stock and re-balance the body and mind.
The benefits of the emWave2 are spectacular for those looking to harmonise psychological and physical elements of the human body.
The gadget can be used at the desk or while travelling which make it one of the most convenient ways to settle stressful, angry or anxious feelings, by readjusting your mind and body to be calm, clear and relaxed.
The sensor on the emWave2 collects pulses from your body and converts them into unique data, displayed in graphics on your desktop or laptop. This helps to balance your nervous system and emotional state as you practice, and the device only needs to be used for just a few minutes a day.
If you choose to use the emWave2 during the day while on the go, messages can be stored so that they can be viewed for training later in the day or in a quiet period.
Improve health, relationships at home and work and become clearer – finally we can control emotions that otherwise take over our natural ability to stay clear headed and calm.
To find out more about the emWave2 visit the Beyond the Barriers website where you can browse the range of stress beating products and buy online with fast delivery to the UK.
emWave
In all aspects of life, whether in business or personal life, situations will arise that raise our levels of stress. How we manage stressful situations determines how the impact on our performance and overall well-being.
High levels of stress greatly impacts our ability to perform at an optimum level. The key to achieving optimum performance is to find a way to monitor, control and then overcome the negative effects of stress. Many successful people have found that an effective way to achieve this is with the revolutionary techniques from HeartMath, and the associated use of the emWave bio-feedback technology.
The innovative emWave device collects pulse data through a sensor and translates the information from heart rhythms into easy to track lights displayed on your computer screen or hand held device. By using the technology for just a few minutes a day in conjunction with HeartMath techniques, the emWave technology can train us to manage our stress response and transform feelings of anger, anxiety or frustration into peace, ease, and clarity. The emWave technology makes it simpler than ever to achieve peak performance and a calm and coherent state.
The new emWave2 is a portable and convenient addition to the emWave range, which can help you to train your physiological response to stress, balance emotions, and improve performance. The emWave2 is a handheld, biofeedback device. For added convenience it can be instantly connected to your laptop to enable instant monitoring and analysis of your heart rhythms in graphical form, this convenience makes the emWave 2 a significant development in the battle against stress.
Beyond the Barriers are experts in performance. They are trained and licensed in the use of HeartMath and the emWave technology and will be able to advise you or your business how best to achieve maximise performance.
To find out more about emWave technology, and how you can benefit from it, why not visit the Beyond the Barriers website where you will find a wealth of information about mWave and HeartMath
Heartmath
At Beyond the Barriers we know that only optimum performance gives first class results. Our team of top professionals in the field are on hand to provide the best in high level health, resilience and performance training as well as incorporating the latest HeartMath bio-feedback technology.
As an official HeartMath licensee we can provide structured training programmes approved by HeartMath LLC. High level professionals from all walks of life have used HeartMath to help improve leadership performance as well as significantly reducing their levels of stress. In the business world the full range of HeartMath programmes can be delivered via both group training sessions as well as on a one-to-one basis and the general public can also benefit from these seminars, helping to build levels of resilience and perform well under pressure.
Businesses can benefit from increased staff performance, helping to cut the incidence of fatigue and depression as well as sleeplessness. The flagship Transforming Stress into Resilience programme provides group sessions to companies to help employees manage stress levels which can ultimately help improve productivity and lower health costs.
So visit our website today to find out more about HeartMath and to facilitate a fundamental shift in health, well-being and prformance.
emWave2
emWave2 is here. One of the most impressive uses of bio-feedback technology, the emWave2 is a portable stress monitor – perfect for those concerned about their levels of stress, who want to relieve it and control it, and improve their overall health, performance and well being.
As one of the most innovative and recent products recently to be launched, the UK can now really benefit from the emWave2. The current economic climate couples with our ‘always on’ society has raised our levels of anxiousness and stress – we are continuous;y trying balance our work and leisure tim. Building use of the emWave2 into our daily routines can have a fundamental effect on our overall health, resilience and performance.
Whilst some consider it a simple piece of gadgetry, it is in fact a small yet complex device that is easy to use and highly effective.
The emWave2 combines the latest technology and state of the art software, sensors and lights designed to help the user train their stress response to build resilience and perform under pressure. The aim of the device is to help individuals to get into a high performance state, where the heart brain and nervous system are working in sync with each other on demand.
Enhancing our way of life and gaining a way to control stress can mean it is easier to balance our lifestyles while becoming more alert, focused and calm. The sophisticated emWave2 does exactly that – bringing peace, tranquility and positive energy to aid productivity and sleep when they are most needed.
Golf With Your Heart! – Peter Fox
New Research at the Institute of HeartMath Indicates The Yips Are a Result of Your Heart, Not Your Head. Peter Fox discusses the benefits of the powerful HeartMath techniques for managing your emotional game in golf.
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Recouping Mental Energy – Joe Thiel
Joe Thiel USA PGA Master professional discusses the benefits for using HeartMath tolls and techniques to manage you emotional game in golf.
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Stress, performance & the modern football manager
Dr Dorian Dugmore discusses the impact of stress, the warning signs and some antidotes for the football league managers in November edition of The Manager – the LMA magazine.
Is it really possible to slow down or reverse the ageing process?
The Manager, The Magazine of the League Managers Association, Issue 6
Dr Dorian Dugmore offers some insight into this age old problem.
The stresses and strains of modern management can
take their toll on a manager’s
health and fitness, and can even
contribute to premature ageing. I
s there a way that managers
can ‘hedge their bets’ and either
beat the ageing clock or, at least,
turn it back a little?
Hydration strategies for optimal performance
Reserach shows that losing as little as 2% of fluids, may cause your performance to decline by as much as 10%.
Additional, research has shown that level of dehydration can slow 10-km run times by 6.3% compared to running in a hydrated state. That equates to a race time 3 minutes 15 seconds slower if you usually run a 50-minute 10k!
Run For Your Life
Does a ‘Running Lifestyle’ protect your heart?
Some years ago now, a famous journalist and sports writer called Jim Fixx wrote the ‘Complete Book of Running’ extolling the virtues of the running lifestyle and then died tragically during an early morning 6 mile (10 kilometer) run in Vermont, U.S.A. The running cynics were quick to jump on the bandwagon and criticize running and its potential risk to heart health.
Fit to Manage with Dr Dorian Dugmore
The Manager, The Magazine of the League Managers Association, Issue 5
Dorian Dugmore examines the myths and realities behind one of health’s most intoxicating subjects
To drink or not to drink? That is the question. Within the high pressure caludron of football management, a drink can sometimes be perceived as a way to relieve pressure, by aiding sleep and relaxing the body and brain… but does it realy achieve this?
For more LMA tips, insights and news go to www.leaguemanagers.com
Positive Thinking: Try, Try and Try Again
The Manager, The magazine of the League Managers Association, Issue 4
When illness hit, Anna Hemmings was told her professional sporting career was over. But instead of giving up, she came back stronger.
Its a well-worn phrase in team-building and self-help sessions the world over – you can achieve anything if you want it badly enough. While in practice the link between achievement and self-belief isn’t always so clear cut, some cases highlight brilliantly the power of positive thinking and gritty determination.
Dr Dorian Dugmore monitors Sam Allardyce and Dave Bassett for ITV’s Tonight Programme
Dr Dorian Dugmore conducts an experiment for the documentary ITV’s Tonight With Trevor McDonald to prove that football management is one of the most stressful occupations around.
Leicester City manager Bassett and Bolton Wanderers boss Allardyce took part in the experiment that showed managers literally put their lives at risk. The pair were wired up to heart monitors for the television documentary, and the evidence produced was frightening.At times within the tense relegation struggle between Bolton and Leicester, which ended 2-2, both came dangerously close to suffering severe heart problems.
Tip-top from the top down
HR and Training Journal 6. October 2009.
Dorian Dugmore, President and Founder of Wellness International, discusses the benefits of setting a good example in organisational health and wellbeing leadership. (more…)
Peak Performance In The Workplace: The New Corporate Ethic
Adapted from The Mental Game journal
Corporations today are committed to helping organizations empower their people with high performance work styles. People who are identified as peak performers, even in high stress environments have mastered the skills top achievers in all disciplines possess. We share the secrets of renewing oneself in a high-stress world. (more…)
Driving a heart bargain
Public Service Review: European Union 18
Dr L Dorian Dugmore, President and Founder of Wellness International discusses the growing recognition of the benefits of corporate wellness programmes.
The global recession, accompanied by the current financial crisis, has put an ever increasing burden on corporate Europe. People inevitably are the driving force behind any business surviving and succeeding in such difficult times. Consequently their health and wellness becomes of paramount importance for any organisation to survive and prosper. (more…)
Workplace Yoga and Meditation Can Lower Feelings of Stress
Ohio State University, 5th August 2009
Twenty minutes per day of guided workplace meditation and yoga combined with six weekly group sessions can lower feelings of stress by more than 10 percent and improve sleep quality in sedentary office employees, a pilot study suggests. (more…)
Employee Cardiovascular Health Relates to Psychological Wellbeing
Source: Kansas State University, 18th March 2009
A Kansas State University researcher has found a link between physical and mental well-being that employees and employers may be able to capitalize on to improve both the health, and potentially the wealth, of their organization in these turbulent economic times. (more…)
Happy Employees are Critical for an Organisation’s Success
Source: Kansas State University, 9th February 2009
One’s happiness might seem like a personal subject, but a Kansas State University researcher says employers should be concerned about the well-being of their employees because it could be the underlying factor to success. (more…)
