It's a fact that daily stress can knock our bodies out of sync resulting in sleepless nights. With more than 16 years of experience researching the relationship between the heart, brain, stress and emotions, the Institute of HeartMath's emWave® Solution for Better Sleep, is a drug-free way to reset your body's natural rhythms, to help facilitate deeper sleeping, night after night.

The emWave Personal Stress Reliever (PSR) is a complete system designed to help recalibrate the body's ryhthms - both the nervous and hormonal systems - to enable you to sleep better, and wake up feeling refreshed and restored.

How the emWave works
To use you just need to place your thumb over the sensor (or you can use the ear sensor) and after your pulse has been detected , a breathing pacer will syncronize to your heart rhythms. The 'Quick Coherence Technique', included with the emwave provides the rest of the strategy to help you identify and reduce stress.

This short introductory film from HeatMath provides a great overview of the product and the company behind it.

What we liked about it

• It's price makes it an affordable and practical stress support tool for families, individuals and carers.
• When you buy the emWave PSR you also get access to a short 30-minute online course, to show you exactly how to get the most out of you PSR. Once a week there is also a training session by phone which anyone can dial into, so there's no excuse for not being able to use this with great effect.

If this sounds like the kind of tool you or a friend might be needing, read on.