About This Tool

A perfect tool to enhance your awareness on stress signals and how to take best care for you in that moment

Stress is the body's reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response.

We can define stress by saying that it involves the "set of emotional, physical, and cognitive (i.e., thought) reactions to a change." 

So not good or bad, experiencing stress always has the function tell us how we are doing. Stress helps us to be alert and awake to handle and cope with a challenging situation, so we can learn and grow from it. So the more aware we are of the signals of stress and intensity of it, the more we can cope with stress and attune with it, so we feel stress works FOR us instead of against us.

This tool will help you to:

Become more in tune with the signals of your body, mind and energy

Increased awareness of the symptoms and signs of stress

Feel more comfortable and confident in handling stress

Becoming more resilient in handling stressful events and sensations

Gain control of your life in order to handle the ups-and-downs of life

Taking better care for yourself

Acting more out of self-love and compassion

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Why It Works

A Review of Emotion Recognition Using Physiological Signals https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069143/

Interoception and emotion https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X17300106

Emotion in the body: Jacobs Hendel, H. (2018). Emotions Are Physical. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 31, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/emotions-are-physical/

Regulating emotion to improve physical health through the amygdala: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381236/

Bodily maps of emotions: L. Nummenmaa, E. Glerean, R. Hari, J. K. Hietanen. Bodily maps of emotions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321664111

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