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Institute of HeartMathreg Introduces New HeartSmarts Program that Helps...

Most educators would agree students today are distracted from learning by what they're bringing with them to school. It's not their iPods, cell phones or video games, but rather a preoccupation with unresolved emotional issues that is sabotaging many students' ability to learn.

Whether it's stress from family issues or peer pressures, or feeling overwhelmed with life in general, this kind of pressure increases students' resistance to test-taking and learning and stifles their care to learn.

This has created an even greater challenge for teachers trying to bridge academic and emotional learning. Research has shown a direct link between a student's ability to self-manage emotions and academic performance.

The Institute of HeartMath (http://www.heartmath.org/education/heartsmarts-classroom.html) to help students get their hearts and brains focused on learning.

HeartSmarts is a social and emotional intelligence program for grades 3-5 that is based on HeartMath's many years of research into the physiology of learning.

The HeartSmarts program, designed for classroom use, helps students transform stress, improve learning and strengthen relationships. Students learn about their emotional physiology, how to identify their emotions and how different emotions affect them, their schoolwork and others.

They also learn easy-to-use, heart-focused tools to shift out of undesired emotions such as frustration, anxiety, and anger, all of which impede their ability to learn and connect with others, and into beneficial emotions like appreciation and care, which facilitate learning and social connectedness.

Researchers at HeartMath have identified a measurable physiological state that underlies optimal learning and performance (

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