Helpful Apps for for Stress and Anxiety:
Colorfy Android Colouring App. Go back to your childhood days of colouring, but now electronically - environmentally friendly. An simple easy way to relax and destress. Take a Chill This app is great for tweens and teens. It sends gentle reminders to practice mindfulness and affirmations periodically throughout the day. It provides a way to track your mindfulness practice and has small activities built directly into the app. Great introduction to mindfulness practice! iZen Garden Just like the sand trays with little rakes that allow you to calmly draw beautiful lines in the sand, this app is perfect to promote a moment of calm. Using your fingers instead of a rake, you can draw lines in the sand while listening to cheerful chimes. Gratitude Journal The Institute of Heartmath (http://www.heartmath.org/), shares extensive research on the relationship between thinking thoughts of appreciation and feeling relaxed and at ease. What better way to practice with your child than to keep a gratitude journal. Try out this adorable app that reminds you and your child to think of 5 things you are grateful for each day. Silent Island Relaxation Lite Listen to the peaceful sounds of a bubbling brook, rushing waves, rain, or birds. Bonuses include videos of floating ice and a slideshow of the islands. It is perfect for those much needed mini moments of relaxation. This version is free, but a full version can be purchased to forego the ads Pocket Pond Create relaxing ripples while you enjoy the sounds of nature. Interact with the fish – scare them, feed them, and watch their school behavior. It’s your own personal pond to cleanse your worries and free your mind. Sleep and Relax Well Relax and Sleep Well’ is a high quality hypnosis recording by the UK’s best selling self-help audio author Glenn Harrold. This free recording will help you alleviate stress and anxiety and sleep well at night. Panic Attack Aid Panic Attack Aid is a revolutionary new application designed to bring instant calming relief to panic attack suffers. Panic Attack Aid uses a combination of breathing techniques, reassurance about your crazy scary symptoms and exercises designed to distract you. Stress Shaker Stress shaker as hundreds of quotes arranged in four stress levels: Beautiful World, Dealing with Daily Life, Coping with Stress, and Never Lose Hope. Think about each quote and reflect. With a tap of the screen, you are elevated to a calmer, more peaceful, state to become closer feeling the inner peace within you. Stress Reducer Need to unwind and let go of some stress? Select a picture of a shell, put your iPhone to your ear and hear the ocean waves through the shell. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and relax. You’ll feel the weight of the world lift off your shoulders. Massage Me Massage Me uses the iPhone’s vibration motor to provide you with a relaxing massage. Simply tap in your patter, press Start, and then relax to your own customized vibration. Press Repeat to cycle your pattern continuously as you slip into a state of blissful relaxation. Move your iPhone around different parts of your body. You can repeat it over and over and vary its speed using a slider control. Your pattern is memorized for next time and if you prefer to control each individual pulse there’s a button for that too. |
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