Introduction
Due
to my repeated mentions of heart coherence,
HeartMath and the emWave Desktop (previously
known
as emWave PC or the Freeze Framer) feedback device
on this website, I am
often
asked by people about the differences between the Heartmath emWave
Desktop
and the Heart Tuner marketed by Dan Winter, and for my reaction to
some
stories and claims which have been spread by Dan Winter about Heartmath
and their device. (The emWave is also available in a compact portable
version called emWave PSR [Personal Stress Reliever] which doesn't have
as many features as the emWave Desktop.) One such recent
inquiry read in part as follows:
"I'm looking into
purchasing either the Freeze Framer [now known as the emWave
Desktop] or the
HeartTuner, and
would appreciate any views or opinions from users of both.
I'd especially
like to know how valuable people find these devices on a
day-to-day
basis.
I first became aware of
this research from the HeartMath Solutions book,
and
recently read some of the articles relating to the HeartTuner
and Dan
Winter. The HeartTuner sounds interesting based on the rather
esoteric
articles that are linked to it, regarding sacred geometry and
other
highly
complex mathematical links to heart coherence.
The company that make
the HeartTuner seem to criticise HeartMath and
the
Freezeframer..."
Here, with suitable
editing to make it more
understandable, is my reply to the person who inquired:
I have
been asked this question before. Here is my opinion on
the emWave
Desktop (previously known as emWave PC or the Freeze Framer) from the Institute of
HeartMath
(IHM) compared to the Heart Tuner (HT), with multiple
points. I speak
here as a mystic, healer and a degreed scientist, and as someone who
has investigated coherence and heart coherence for 7 years:
- The emWave Desktop from
Institute of Heart
Math (IHM) is an incredible bargain and incredibly inexpensive, at even
the price of the newly released (even more powerful) ver. 2.0 release
(about
$260 street price) [later note: this version number and price
are now out of date] compared to the Heart Tuner (HT) at
about $1,410 US
dollars at the current exchange rate. Recommended add-ons (recommended
by
the HT folks.....) for the HT add another $270 to $690 USD to the HT
price.
- For
sensing heart rate info, the emWave Desktop needs
only a finger sensor placed on one finger. On the other hand,
the
HT needs three electrodes hooked up to the chest/belly with paste and
bands/straps.
- The
emWave Desktop
from IHM (and Journey to the Wild
Divine, whose developers chose to use and license the
algorithms/methods
for coherence development used by IHM) uses what is in my opinion (and
that of most coherence experts) by far the most reliable and robust
formula/algorithm
for analysis of waveforms to sense evidence of true heart coherence,
and
particularly, of a type of heart coherence which has the greatest
potential
for the amount of information/intelligence "nested" or embedded within.
- On the
other hand, the very expensive HT employs
a different method and algorithm to sense a different heart rhythm
signature
altogether, detecting a waveform which does not offer much "room" for
true coherence or for nested information, and moreover, it is a heart
rhythm
pattern which is often associated with debilitated states and therefore
it seems unwise to be offering folks a biofeedback device which
encourages
exactly such states. I further believe that there is no harm for some
healthy
folks with good background in true (as defined by IHM) heart coherence
to
"play" with such a device as the HT at times, and to play at times with
learning to maximize the flat heart rates which the HT
encourages,
but I believe that a device such as the HT must be used wisely.
- Dan
Winter, who conceptualized some of the
HT and markets it, has made, and continues to make, a number of
inaccurate
claims about the HT, about the emWave Desktop from IHM, and also about
IHM
and
their
work in general. In fact, the extent and degree of inaccurate
claims
about the HT, the emWave Desktop and IHM in general finally led Dr.
Rollin
McCraty,
the Research Director at IHM, to issue a public
letter on the matter. I have posted a copy of that letter on
this
website.
- In my
opinion, it seems that Dan Winter's
credibility is questionable. Dan has not only fabricated his claimed
academic
and training background in the sciences (and has admitted this in a
court
case), as well as his claimed academic degrees in the fields of
science/technology,
but he has been convicted in US Federal court (in NY State) of repeated
copyright violation and plagiarism, and attendant public disparagement
of the persons from whom he stole ideas and theories. In
fact, one
of the conditions imposed by the Federal court on Dan was that he was
forced
to turn over his www.DanWinter.com
website
to the plaintiff in the case, as Dan had repeatedly used that website
to
not only attack the plaintiff, but to plagiarize his work and
repeatedly
violate his copyrighted works.
- The
name for the earlier version of the HT
(Heart Tuner), made in the USA, was the HeartLink (HL). At one time
just
before Dan left the USA, he and his associates had approached
Prof. Gary Schwartz at U of AZ in Tucson, a leading authority
in the academic
world on heart coherence, and asked him to evaluate it. Dr.
Schartz
ultimately had to refuse, because Dan refused to provide him with
information
absolutely necessary for evaluation, including what the HL was really
detecting,
the target waveforms, and the algorithms used. In fact, the
subsequent comments
claims made by Dan about Dr. Schwartz's test of the HL ultimately led
Dr.
Schwarz to issue a public letter on the matter to set the record
straight.
The letter may be found at: http://www.danwinter.com/HeartTunerStatements.html
- On the
other hand, IHM has always disclosed
fully, in over 22 articles in scientific journals and elsewhere, the
signature
waveforms of coherence which they are targeting for assay in the heart
waveforms, and also the algorithm and methods used to identify those
waveforms.
Again, at risk of repeating myself, the waveforms targeted by IHM in
the emWave Desktop device as signatures of heart coherence are also
endorsed by many
leading
coherence experts as well as many leading cardiologists as a measure of
true
heart coherence, and a type of heart coherence with great potential for
"higher" embedded information. Further, these waveforms have
been
associated for years with improved clinical outcomes.
- For
further information about Dan Winter,
please see the home page of the www.DanWinter.com
website at http://www.danwinter.com/
- when I
go into my intuitive inner mode and
access deep guidance from Being and my angels, and ask about the two
devices
and the potential benefit from using them, I get the following answers
on my Scale of Absolute Peace (somewhat similar to Dr. David Hawkins's
Map of Consciousness, and which I have drawn from a scale popularized
years
ago by Lester Levenson, the American spiritual teacher) which runs from
0 (lowest state) to 1,000 (greatest state of peace): that the emWave
Desktop
can
easily
lead most folks to a taste of a state of 588 on the scale, while the
replies
indicate that the HT is not as useful for many people and can usually,
at best, take a person to a temporary level of 324.
- I
could go on for many more paragraphs, especially
about the fact that the IHM folks offer with the emWave Desktop device
many
hours
of
free training (much in AV form on your PC or Mac) in how to attain
heart
coherence,
but also background info on coherence and its benefits.
Bottom
line: I strongly recommend the emWave Desktop
(previously
known as emWave PC or the Freeze Framer) over the Heart Tuner,
for the above reason as well as a few
others.
I have owned an emWave Desktop for years, and still
use it regularly; I
recently
upgraded to the current version. If the Heart Tuner had a
price tag
of $110
USD instead of 13 times that, I would likely be happy to purchase one
and
play with it, especially to get a better idea of the heart waveforms
which
Dan is examining. However, for what it does offer, and
especially
for what it does not offer (it does not offer detection of the
waveforms
measured by the IHM emWave Desktop device), I personally feel that it
is
simply not
worth anywhere near the asking price.
After I
had first posted the above reply
to my website, a caller who had just read my essay reminded me of a
great
paragraph or two on the website of the Meru Foundation, which has had
their
own share of run-ins with Dan Winter. Here goes with a brief excerpt,
as
referenced by my caller, from a letter from the Board of Directors of
the
Meru Foundation (full
text at www.danwinter.com
) on much the same matter:
"...One further
thought. Dishonest people, and people
who enjoy hurting others -- like Mr. Winter -- count on the fact that
the
vast majority of healthy, caring, well-intended people are not
suspicious
by nature, and accept what they are told at face value. This
is good.
Decent, caring people should not have to be suspicious, and should not
need to double-check every claim that is made. But
unfortunately,
this means that decent, caring people, young and old, students and
professionals,
are easily deceived by people like Mr. Winter, who go to so much
trouble
to deceive them.
No one who has been
taken in by Mr. Winter's claims should feel badly.
This is not anything to be ashamed of. The fact is that even
the
best informed and most careful people can be deceived by a determined
liar.
Please, if you did not immediately realize the truth about Mr. Winter
and
his claims, do not feel foolish, and please be respectful and
understanding
to other caring people when you speak with them. That's the golden
rule...."
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