Doc Childre is the founder and chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Institute of HeartMath, the chairman of HeartMath LLC, and the chairman and CEO of Quantum Intech. He is the author of seven books and a consultant to business leaders, scientists, educators, and the entertainment industry on Intui-Technology. His HeartMath System and proprietary heart rhythm technology for coherence building, called the Freeze-Framer, has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, Prevention magazine, Psychology Today, Army Times, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and on NBCs Today Show, ABC Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, CNN Headline News, CNN.com, as well as numerous other publications and television programs around the world
He and his coauthor Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., wrote Overcoming Emotional Chaos. He also wrote The How-To-Book of Teen Self-Discovery and coauthored The HeartMath Solution and From Chaos to Coherence.
Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., is a psychologist and author with thirty years of experience as an educator and business executive. She is President of Quantum Intech, overseeing strategic alliances and the expansion of HeartMath technologies worldwide. Dr. Rozman is a key spokesperson for the HeartMath system, giving media interviews and keynote addresses on heart intelligence and Intui-Technologies for executives, scientists, and health professionals throughout the world. She is the author of four books and is listed in Whos Who in California.
This new book, Transforming Anger, is excellent. Refreshingly simple and easy to read, the book offers profound insights into the most critical issue of our day: our violence toward self, world, and other. Surely the work is pertinent to our times and fills a serious personal-social need.
Joseph Chilton Pearce, author, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, and The Biology of Transcendence
In these days when both health professionals and the public are apt to turn to medication whenever anything goes wrong, Transforming Anger is a welcome breath of fresh air. Here is a technique and scientifically-based method for developing self-control that does not short-circuit normal biological regulatory processes.
Karl H. Pribram MD, Ph.D. (Hon. Multi), distinguished research professor, Georgetown and George Mason Universities; professor emeritus, Stanford and Radford Universities, author, Languages of the Brain and Brain and Perception; and coauthor, Freuds Project Reassessed and Plans and the Structure of Behavior
Transforming Anger points out that this powerful negative emotion can not only affect our health, but also impair our ability to think and reason clearly. I have been teaching the tools discussed in this new book since 1997. These tools, proven effective in breaking the cycle of anger and all of its consequences, are extremely easy to learn and are based on elegant scientific research that has taught us how the heart and the brain communicate.
Bruce C. Wilson, MD, chairman, board of directors, Heart Hospital of Milwaukee, former director, University of Pittsburgh Heart Institute
How much energy do you waste being angry during your average day? What effect does that have on those you care about? In Transforming Anger, Doc Childre and Rozman give you a series of easy-to-learn, highly effective tools and the science behind them, showing you how to prevent that loss of energy and heal those relationships. A much needed fix for our fast-paced, often overwhelming lives.
Lee Lipsenthal, MD, medical director, Lifestyle Advantage and The Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease
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Copyright 2003 by Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman, Ph.D.
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This book is dedicated to all those who have tried to control their anger but cant. It is also dedicated to people who want to help others transform anger and reinstate care and harmony in lifes interactions. Through genuine connection with your own hearts intuition, you can stop payment on personal power loss due to anger, frustration, and blame. This progressively ensures more peace, quality, and happiness in your life, the lives of others, and your environment.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Transforming Anger is the product of over thirty years of research into the human heart. It has been validated by scientific studies on the heart-brain-body communication system. We want to honor those researchers who are bringing new understandings of the intelligence of the heart into science and helping to develop the new field of neurocardiology. We want to thank everyone who has contributed to this book through their scientific studies or through their practice of the techniques and tools presented here. They have proved that it is possible not only to control anger but to transform anger into caring and effective action. We also want to thank those individuals who contributed their transformative stories for this book. (Their names have been changed to protect their anonymity.) We appreciate the health-care professionals who use these tools to help their patients transform anger when nothing else works and they feel hopeless.
We also want to thank their patients and all those who are trying to help themselves and others transform anger using the HeartMath methods.
Finally, we thank Institute of HeartMath researchers Dr. Rollin McCraty, Director of Research, and Dana Tomasino, assistant researcher, who contributed to the editing of this book, and the HeartMath staff for their sincere practice and help in the refinement of these tools. We also thank Priscilla Stuckey for her editorial assistance. We especially thank Matt McKay, founder and publisher of New Harbinger Publications, for inspiring this book based on his care and sensitivity to a need for in-the-now solutions in the field of anger management.
Foreword
This book marks a significant breakthrough in the treatment of anger. Thats because it is based on a new technology for changing our inner lives. All great new discoveries have roots that run deep in the past. In the same way that the Wright brothers drew inspiration from Chanute and Da Vinci, Salk from Pasteur, and Jung from ancient symbologies, Doc Childre has drawn on a three-thousand-year tradition of recognizing the heart as a source of wisdon and power to create a radically new treatment for emotional problems.
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