Emotional Stress, Positive Emotions, and Psychophysiological Coherence

Stress in Health and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 342-365

  Mccraty, Rollin ^a   Tomasino, Dana ^a  

^a Institute of HeartMath   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional stress; HeartMath techniques; Positive emotions; Psychophysiological coherence; Stress and the individual; Stress in health and disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891316272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/3527609156.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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