Reduce your stress by playing five minutes a day!

Almost everyone is familiar with the damage caused by the long-term stress, persistent concerns of any kind, loss of sleep, or early onset of health problems. In today's modern life, it is almost assumed that any shoulder stress given individual in the direction of their lives that what is considered ideal or even good health.

Although much stress is caused by worrying about the important things like paying bills or meeting the next deadline at work, recent research in psychology has shown that stress has both a person social anxiety, or the time and energy spent worrying about how they are perceived by others. The problem with this type of stress is that it does little to help a person meet any specific objectives, however, carries just as much negative impact on mental and physical health.

Account of customs, a video game designed to help train people to change their perception of social threats and strengthen their self-confidence has also been shown to reduce hormone production cortisol stress. By repeating the game, the game trains the mind to orient more toward positive aspects of social life, reducing the impact of stress related work.

"There are many possible applications for this type of game," said Prof. Baldwin, chief designer of the game, "help people cope with social anxiety of public speaking or meeting new people, to helping athletes concentrate more on his game instead of concerns about poor performance. "

In a recent study from McGill University, Habits of Mind 23 employees hired from a telemarketing call center to play one of their games, that is to click on the smiling face of the frowning faces on a screen as quickly as possible. The new findings appear in the October issue of the Journal American Association of Psychology and Social Personality Psychology.

Employees in call centers this morning of each working day during a week. They completed questionnaires and daily stress and self-esteem had cortisol levels tested through saliva analysis on the last day of experiment. These trials showed an average reduction of 17 percent in cortisol production compared to a control group that played a similar game but without the smiling faces. Since cortisol is associated with heart-related, could have immediate health benefits go hand in hand with reduced emotional well-being Stress!

These award-winning games and their benefits have been written in all parts of ABC News to the Journal of Medicine. But you do not take our word for it read over and playing for free a www.mindhabits.com .

About the Author

Dr. Baldwin is a psychology professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University, in Montreal Canada, and is the Lead Inventor of the software licensed to MindHabits Inc.

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