HeartMath Inner Balance 30-Pin

Wanted to love this because it is a cool concept... unfortunately functionality is lacking in too many key areas. making this a complete waste of money-1 star - ear sensor does not pick up heart beats below 40 bpm... making this product useless when your resting heart rate reaches this zone.-1 star - ear sensor is very sensitive to motion. Even with shirt clip attached trying to walk with this usually stops tracking-1 star - "No sensor found" error... once session interrupted its annoying to have to unplug and re-plug ear sensor. Product randomly works and gets errors more times than it works fo me.-1 star - program does not work in the background so session stopped if u answer phone or textCustomer service is great but cant compensate for dysfunctional product

I have 20 years invested into training people to have peak experiences using flow coaching, meditation, yoga, diet modification, and behavior modification. I first heard about Heart Math almost 10 years ago when I was learning about pranic healing and the twin hearts meditation.I was reintroduced to this technology from Dave Osprey at BulletProof Executive. I thought well, if this guy has spent over $300,000 bio-hacking his body and mind and claims Heart Math tools are some of the most important bio hack tools he has ever used well, I'm game.And what a game changer.I have consistently used the HeartMath IOS for the past 3-months and have noticed tremendous improvements in my heart rate variability coherence levels. I practice only 1x a day for 15 mins. I'm already on the highest level setting and looking forward to maxing out the percentage.The benefits I have received are:greater emotional control and resilency to stress and emotional triggers.greater emotional flexibility to get back into coherence when I fall outgreater level of inner peace and joy throughout my daydeeper sleep than ever beforeoverall improvement in my wellness.The science behind the technology is rock solid with over 25 years of peer reviewed studies and research. And the organization itself is extremely helpful and dedicated to changing the world's stress level by global heart coherence.I have been meditating regularly for 14 years and find this an amazing instrument to validate and/or assist others with greater levels of emotional mastery and inner peace.Love it love it love it.

I own and have played with a bunch of biofeedback and neurofeedback devices and was totally underwhelmed by the heartmath. I did some simple breathing exercises and got high coherence stayed in greed the whole time.The application does not scale difficulty based on where you are (really weird). After some playing around I found a setting that allowed me to increase the difficulty.I still do not quite understand what coherence is all about and why it is so important and more important how it is determined based on heart rate variability. I am googling it right now and there seems to be a good scientific basis for it.The feedback is really weak the green blue red dots on a circle is reasonably effective at telling you when to breath but is a very course feedback hard to tell if you are at coherence 7.0 and green or coherence 2 and green.I landed up using the last screen which shows the coherence graph over time. This was definitely more effective for me in terms of a feedback process but it has been shown in neuro and bio feedback studies time and again that the graph output of a variable is generally not great for training since our brains do not become engaged by this feedback.I am still a little confused as to what they are hoping to achieve with this device.Having said this all I love biofeedback devices and love a decent biofeedback device on your phone. I love the convenience of a simple ear reader and the size convenience compared to GSR (Galvanic skin response) etc devices, Great for carrying with you wherever you go.In summary I think this is great technology. I just think this is a poorly implemented application.Hopefully with time more and better applications will become available.