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Need a wellness break? Check out a few different tools below to help deal productively with stress, manage emotions and build resilience during these challenging times!
Need a wellness break? Check out a few different tools below to help deal productively with stress, manage emotions and build resilience during these challenging times!
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Coloring has the ability to relax the fear center of your brain (the amygdala) and calm the thoughts of a restless mind. This generates mindfulness and quietness, which allows your brain to get some rest after a long day of thinking, analyzing, and worrying.
Assembling a puzzle or playing a game is a way to practice focusing your attention on the task at hand while clearing your mind of stressful thoughts and negative emotions. Each connected puzzle piece or forward progress in a game increases your level of dopamine. Dopamine is the "feel good" chemical in your brain.
The balance between complete silence and white noise is important. White noise allows your brain to take a healthy break. Listening to new music (even if you decide you don't like it) can energize your brain and keep you out of the pit of boredom and anxiety.
Taking a "breather" and focusing on self-care can help reframe unpleasant or stressful thoughts and energize you when you’re in an emotional slump. The slower pace of natural landscapes featured here can help slow down chaotic thoughts and bring you to a calmer place.
Yoga and movement can support our mental and physical health by relieving stress, helping with concentration and calming our nervous system.
Having a pet can reduce stress, anxiety, depression and loneliness. In addition to our mental health, pets also have a number of positive effects on our physical health. Don't have a pet? Check out these live animals cams to interact virtually with one!
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