Stress is an unavoidable, recurring problem in life; whether you're an over-achieving student or an overworked employee, chances are you've tried almost everything to manage stress.
While stress is unavoidable, it is manageable. We only need to know what to do, and there’s no “on-cure-fits-all.” Every individual will have a different way of coping with stress. I, for one, love movies, so TV series and movie streaming are my means of relaxation, but a friend of mine loves talking or chatting, so she’s always on WhatsApp when she’s stressed with work. To each his own.
The beauty of today’s technologies is we don’t have to be confined to a specific place to relax. Now, so long as we have a phone, we can download apps that would help ups relieve stress, and some of these apps are what I give to you on this page.
Sit back and open your mind to trying these apps and figuring out what best fits your needs.
Breathe2Relax
Breathe2Relax is a smartphone app with instructions for dealing with stress and exercises to help you even more. Take note that conscious breathing is very relaxing and there are studies to back this. However, with this app, you not only learn diaphragmatic breathing, but you are also given detailed information about stress and how it affects the body, so you don’t battle stress blindfolded--you know what you are dealing with.
Finding Optimism
Finding Optimism is an app that helps you to track your mood and keep daily records of your symptoms and triggers. This is especially for people with anxiety and depression, and other mental health issues. The app has data visualization tools and extensive information on wellness and strategies, Finding Optimism isn't only best for stress, but also for mental stability.
GPS for the Soul
GPS for the Soul is an app that helps you determine your levels of stress using biofeedback. Once it detects your stress level, it'll help you manage stress with meditation tools, calming images, and music. Basically, it’s like a doctor that diagnoses you and gives you treatment after. It makes sense because why would you do something that cannot treat the kind of stress you have?
Happify
Happify is a brain-training app based on research on activities, and it's connection and helpfulness in combating negativity. Through the information in this research, Happify will help you find an activity that makes it easier for you to combat stress and anxiety while helping
Headspace
While not free, Headspace is one of the most helpful stress management apps there is. Headspace provides guided meditation sessions and mind games to help you not only with your stress but also with your brain functionality.
My Mood Tracker
My Mood Tracker is, as the name suggests, a mood tracker. Tracking your moods daily will help you avoid those stress-inducing actions or routines and helps you to manage them over time. Through figuring out your trigger for today, you can avoid said trigger the next day, and the day after that. With avoiding your stress trigger, your mood will elevate and will give you more reason to continue this with other events.
Pacifica
Recording your thoughts, through voice recording or diary keeping, will help you manage it easier than just simply keeping it to yourself. Pacifica helps you with that. Pacifica also provides breathing and muscle exercises, and a mood tracker.
Pay It Forward
Pay It Forward is a positive app that encourages daily acts of kindness, an act proven to be a stress reducer. There will be a list of suggestions that you can do throughout the day, and you can also communicate with a community of people who have also committed to Pay It Forward.
Personal Zen
Personal Zen helps reduce your stress and anxiety through psychology, neuroscience, and a series of games that will not only help you with stress and anxiety but elevates your mood, too. The games are interesting ways to pass the time when you’re bored.
Pocket Yoga
Pocket Yoga is an app to help you do yoga on your own if you're too shy to go to a yoga class by yourself. All you need to do is search up a specific pose, or maybe even a whole routine, to help you calm your mind. Through Pocket Yoga, you can also make your own routines to share with others.
Squeeze and Shake
If the calm and collected methods of stress relief aren't for you, you can go and grab Squeeze and Shake, an app with a virtual rubber duck where you can vent your anger.
Stress Doctor
Stress Doctor is a stress-relieving set of breathing exercises combined with a heart monitor to help you see the effects of the exercises on your own body.
The Mindfulness App
The Mindfulness App provides you five guided meditations with a choice between calming music or nature sounds to help you relax your brain and meditate.
Conclusion
Stress is inevitable at a time when the pace of life is becoming faster by the day. However, it does not mean we must give in to stress. Technology has made solutions to our stress handy. Even if you’re stuck in traffic, you can put a headset and listen to relaxing music or mediation guides. You can play games or do acts of kindness. You won’t run out of things to help you relax.
I suggest you explore each on this list until you find the one that fits you best. Then let me know what you think by dropping a message in the box below.
Author Bio:
Lyn Alforque is a freelance writer who writes about different topics such as computer software, mobile application, financial information, among other things. She has been engaged in writing how-to guides and informative articles directed for various kinds of readers. During her spare time, she loves to read fiction books and watch movies or TV series..
