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The background will be a soothing colour preferably light pink. The gadgets will be things that reduce stress or about how to reduce stress.

Self-Massage Techniques

Scalp Soother	Place your thumbs behind your ears while spreading your fingers on top of your head. Move your scalp back and forth slightly by making circles with your fingertips for 15-20 seconds.
Easy on the Eyes	Close your eyes and place your ring fingers directly under your eyebrows, near the bridge of your nose. Slowly increase the pressure for 5-10 seconds, then gently release. Repeat 2-3 times.
Sinus Pressure Relief	Place your fingertips at the bridge of your nose. Slowly slide your fingers down your nose and across the top of your cheekbones to the outside of your eyes.
Shoulder Tension Relief	Reach one arm across the front of your body to your opposite shoulder. Using a circular motion, press firmly on the muscle above your shoulder blade. Repeat on the other side.

Source: Northwestern Health Sciences University

Games to Relieve Stress??

You can find many reasons to laugh. Either you can watch some funny movie or show or you can talk to your friends and discuss some funny incident. Another way to make your self enjoy a good laugh is by funny games. We all have played in our childhood and we can continue to do this as a funny stress buster.  There are a number of games that you can play with friends and family and have a lot of fun. In today’s world almost all have easy access to the internet. Internet too provides the opportunity to play many games online. You can play these games all by yourself too.

Certain games are simple but funny while some require great mental efforts. Numerous websites offer different types of funny games that you can play and relieve yourself of all the stress. Such games gives you a much needed mental challenge, this keeps your mental strength alive. Certain games that you can play online are very simple but really funny. You enjoy them and this takes your mind off from all your tensions. If you can get other people to play with you, then nothing can be better than that.  Or you can also play games that require some physical work. This helps to keep you active physically.

Playing such funny games to relieve stress is one of the ideas. When you are playing, you enter a completely different world leaving all your worries and problems that you face in your everyday life behind.

   

Feeling stressed out?  Stress is an emotional and
physical response to pressures from the outside world.
Today, stress seems more pervasive and persistent.    
Numerous studies show between 75 - 95% of all visits
to primary care physicians are due to stress related
issues.  Most of us are coping with a great deal of
stress and need to learn how to relieve stress.  Check
these signs of stress against your symptoms of stress,
and see if you need more tranquility in your life.  You
can also try these stress relief tips to help discover
more ways to relieve stress.

Stress Quiz

Play the stress quiz

http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourlife/yourlife_stressometer_game.html

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