Deep breathing is one of the easiest ways to soothe stress. Let’s start here, then look at more ways to manage stress and anxiety.
Deep Breathing for Beginners
A guide shows you deep breathing exercises in 4 simple steps for improving oxygen uptake and reducing stress and fatigue.
- Starting Position
- Posture
- Rib Cage Movement
- Abdominal Movement
First Step
The first step is finding simple ways to manage your stress right now.
6 Easy Tips for Dealing with COVID-19 Stress
This short video from the World Health Organization shows how the COVID-19 pandemic can cause stress, and offers four tips for maintaining the well-being of ourselves and those around us.
Next Steps
The next step is finding easy ways to manage stress in your everyday life.
Mindful App: Find Peace With UCLA’s Mindful App
This simple app helps you practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Scientific research shows mindfulness can help manage stress-related physical conditions, reduce anxiety and depression, cultivate positive emotions, and help improve overall physical health and well-being.
Mindshift App: Work Toward Daily Mindfulness With Mindshift
MindShift is an interactive app that uses scientifically-proven strategies based on cognitive behavioral therapy to help you relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety.
The Safe Place: An App for Black Mental Health
This app offers tips and strategies to manage the changes brought on by COVID19, including staying in touch with others and connecting with faith virtually. It lets you keep track of the strategies that work for you.
Going Further
Let’s find some active ways to help you make a change.
Find Your Stress Busting Activities
Need help getting started? Use this chart from California’s Office of the Surgeon General to find new everyday activities to help you manage stress and feel better.
Happify App: Play Mini-Games That Promote Positive Thinking
Build the skills for maintaining happiness with this interactive app rooted in positive psychology and cognitive behavioral therapy. Happify invites you to play games and tackle activities that help you think more positively, deal with challenges, and overcome tough moments.
5 Ways To Manage Worry, Loneliness, and Financial Anxiety
This short video from the mental health and psychology community Psych2Go offers five ways to manage anxiety, decreased financial security, increased health anxiety, loneliness, and worry due to COVID-19.