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Heartfulness Wellness Tools: Apollo Neuro

Key benefits observed and reported:

  • Helps shift mental, emotional, and physical states
  • Helps increase resilience to stress
  • Helps with falling asleep
  • Supports states of focus, calmness, sleep, energy, and transitions between states

Apollo Neuro is a wearable device that is worn like a wristwatch or pager clipped onto your clothes (for those of you who still remember pagers!). The device provides different types of vibrational frequencies and is intended to use the body’s natural touch response to balance the nervous system and shift mental, emotional, and physical states. It is reported to be based on decades of independent scientific research on the benefits of vibration frequencies on the body and nervous system. This device may be especially helpful for individuals who have difficulty transitioning between different mental, emotional, and physical states (e.g., from wakefulness to sleepiness, sleepiness to alertness, unfocused to focused, under-activated or over-activated, etc.), which is why we feel it may be helpful for our clients.

Heartfulness Psychotherapy has partnered as an affiliate with Apollo Neuroscience, Inc. to offer you a discount on your purchase of an Apollo wearable wellness device because we’ve tried it and believe in its benefits. 

You can now sample Apollo’s vibes for free through the Apollo app.

Further information can be found here: 

https://apolloneuro.com

https://apolloneuro.com/pages/science

Get a discount of up to $60 here!

Reference:

Grace, R. (2020). New Wearable’s Vibrations Help Your Body Combat Stress: Apollo Neuroscience is using polycarbonate for its biocompatibility and durability. Plastics Engineering, 76(2), 38-40. https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA615531616&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00919578&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Ebd1d8bed&aty=open-web-entry

*The Apollo wearable is a consumer wellness device intended to help manage stress, challenging life transitions, and to promote a healthy lifestyle. Apollo Neuro is not intended to treat or cure any medical conditions and is not a substitute for professional medical care. These statements have not been evaluated by the United States Food and Drug Administration [FDA]. Individual results vary. Speak to your doctor if you have questions and to discuss solutions that may be appropriate for you. Heartfulness Psychotherapy is an affiliate of Apollo Neuro. By participating in the Program and/or using any of the affiliate promotional links, Apollo Neuroscience, Inc. may receive information from or about visitors to this website to track referrals. Please note that you are under no obligation to try this device. The decision to purchase the device is entirely up to you; you reserve the right to determine whether or not it may be a beneficial investment in your wellness

Heartfulness Wellness Tools: Red Light Therapy

Red Light Therapy

Did you know that the benefits of red light therapy were originally discovered by NASA?!5 Since then, low-level laser therapy (LLLT) or photobiomodulation, such as red and near infrared light, has become an increasingly mainstream scientific approach with therapeutic applications used in ophthalmology, neurology, psychiatry, and rehabilitation.2, 3 Research has found red light therapy (LLLT) to have a range of beneficial effects on cognitive functioning, wound healing, pain relief, inflammation, tinnitus, skin rejuvenation, acne, 4 hair (re)growth and alopecia, muscle fatigue and recovery, arthritis, mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, recovery from stroke, myocardial infarction, degenerative or traumatic brain disorders such as traumatic brain injury (TBI),1 sleep, fatigue, fibromyalgia,2 and inflammatory-related issues such as COVID long-haul. It’s beneficial properties have been associated with its effects on cerebral blood flow and cellular functioning, particularly mitochondrial function, enhancing neural metabolism and supporting nerve cells in the retina and brain and nervous tissue.3, 6 Red light therapy has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Red light therapy can be calming, healing, and has virtually no adverse side effects! 

Key benefits of red light therapy:

  • Improved cognitive functioning
  • Faster wound healing
  • Pain relief
  • Decreased inflammation
  • Beneficial for tinnitus
  • Skin rejuvenation, acne
  • Hair (re)growth & alopecia
  • Decreased muscle fatigue
  • Increased muscle recovery
  • Beneficial for arthritis
  • Decreases anxiety and depression6
  • Supports recovery from stroke
  • Supports recovery from myocardial infarction
  • Supports recovery from degenerative brain disorders1
  • Supports recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI)1
  • Improved sleep
  • Decreased fatigue
  • Supportive for fibromyalgia
  • Circadian rhythm (sleep/wake cycle) regulation6
  • Reduced cellular oxidative stress
  • Neuroprotective effects on central nervous system diseases (i.e., Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, TBI, depression)6
  • Improved mitochondrial health and energy6

Heartfulness Psychotherapy has partnered as an affiliate with Hooga to offer you a 12% discount on your purchase of a Hooga red light because we’ve sampled their devices and believe in their benefits and quality.

Use the coupon code: HEARTFULTOOLS

1 Hashmi JT, Huang YY, Osmani BZ, Sharma SK, Naeser MA, Hamblin MR. Role of low-level laser therapy in neurorehabilitation. PM R. 2010 Dec;2(12 Suppl 2):S292-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmrj.2010.10.013

2 da Silva, M. M., Albertini, R., de Tarso Camillo de Carvalho, P., Leal-Junior, E. C. P., Bussadori, S. K., Vieira, S. S., … & Serra, A. J. (2018). Randomized, blinded, controlled trial on effectiveness of photobiomodulation therapy and exercise training in the fibromyalgia treatment. Lasers in medical Science, 33, 343-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10103-017-2388-2

3 Julio C Rojas & F Gonzalez-Lima (2011) Low-level light therapy of the eye and brain, Eye and Brain, 49-67. https://doi.org/10.2147/EB.S21391

4 Glass, G. E. (2021). Photobiomodulation: The Clinical Applications of Low-Level Light Therapy, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Volume 41, Issue 6, June 2021, Pages 723–738, https://doi.org/10.1093/asj/sjab025

5 https://spinoff.nasa.gov/NASA-Research-Illuminates-Medical-Uses-of-Light

6 Shirkavand, A., Tavakoli, M. A., & Ebrahimpour, Z. (2023). A brief review of low-level light therapy in    depression disorder. Journal of Lasers in Medical Sciences, 14, e55.

*Hooga is a consumer wellness device intended to promote a healthy lifestyle. It is not a substitute for professional medical care. The statements made on the Hooga website have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Hooga products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Hooga products are low-risk, general wellness/fitness products that do not require FDA clearance. Of course, Hooga is just one of many commercial manufacturers on the market for your consideration. Speak to your doctor if you have questions and to discuss solutions that may be appropriate for you.