Me vs. Stress - simple tasks

Last year brought plenty of stress into our lives: restrictions, risks to our health and wellbeing – all that brings the mood down as well as our will and motivation to act.

“Me vs. Stress” program is designed to help adapt to this new reality, to bring back emotional stability, inner balance, will to act and to live a full life in spite of the circumstances.

Program is developed on the basis of scientifically proven protocols to fight stress, anxiety and depression. The course is designed for 30+ days.

Daily you get a list of simple tasks that build a set of skills helping to reduce stress, improve your mood, sleep, overall well-being and create a supportive atmosphere. When you do the tasks, you get a gift - a great stress relief game to enjoy.

Some of the tasks are designed to strengthen healthy habits and hence are regularly repeated throughout the course.

Tasks address these 7 important areas
- Health
- Activity
- Hobby
- New experiences
- Stay connected
- Help others
- Sleep

Why these 7 areas?

Health
“Health” tasks (both physical and emotional health) help to improve the overall feel good and resistance to stress. Numerous studies show that deterioration of health leads to lower stress tolerance and increases risks of developing a depression. Creating small positive routines related to quality of eating, caring for one’s health and prevention of emotional burnout and fatigue, strengthens overall emotional stability, improves health and creates a more optimistic attitude.

Activity
“Activity” tasks help to improve one’s mood, overall health and resistance to stress. Physical exercise get one’s brain to generate neurotransmitters that improve mood and reduce the blood content of cortisol - the stress hormone. These physical changes reduce negative feelings and thoughts.

Hobby
“Hobby” tasks help to stabilize mood and improve overall tolerance to stress. These tasks are based on cognitive-behavioral protocols for managing depression and are called “Behavioral activation”. Regular engagement in hobby activities increases skills, improves overall self esteem, widens behavioral repertoire and breaks up negative thinking.

New experiences
“New experiences” tasks help to stabilize mood and improve overall tolerance to stress. Creating new positive experience and bringing variety to behavioral repertoire breaks up negative thinking and brings down negative emotions.

Stay connected
“Stay connected” tasks help to increase overall quantity of social communication and support hence improving health and emotional stability. High levels of stress make people feel lonely enticing negative thinking and reducing effectiveness of managing life goals. Regular friendly communication and socializing stabilizes mood and creates a more optimistic attitude.

Help others
“Help Others” tasks help to improve quality of social communication impacting emotional health and stability. Stress and negative thinking make people feel useless and experience loneliness that deteriorates quality of social engagements and overall personal effectiveness. These tasks help to switch from negative emotions to simple activities that that create new experiences and stronger emotional bond with other people hence improving mood.

Sleep
“Sleep” tasks help to improve quality of sleep and speed of falling asleep that improves overall health and emotional stability. Numerous studies prove that stress negatively impacts both quality and duration of sleep while insufficient sleep increases level of stress. Developing and using efficient sleep hygiene practices help to improve duration and quality of sleep that positively improves one’s well being. Tasks include exercises focused on clsm breath and clm meditation. If you cant sleep (insomnia), add sounds of nature, relaxing melodies or sleepy sounds of white noise or rain. Use free music apps or white noise machine apps to help sleep better