Facing pressure and anxiety, perhaps achieving health can be as simple as lifting your wrist

Achieving health can be as simple as lifting your wrist amidst pressure and anxiety

Everyone hopes to have a healthy body, but do you know the most complete definition of “health”?

The World Health Organization defines “health” as follows:

In fact, physical health is not just the absence of disease, but also requires a peaceful mindset. Even in today’s increasing stress, “mental health” should receive more attention. Because it is crucial to a person’s thinking, emotions, and behavior, it can not only affect empathy and self-esteem, but also impact the functioning of the immune system.

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October 10th of each year is World Mental Health Day, a holiday aimed at raising awareness of mental developmental disorders and sharing scientifically effective knowledge about these diseases. It also calls for individual attention to mental and psychological health, and improvement of mental health and psychiatric hygiene. Now, with the help of technology, you can also conveniently pay attention to your own mental health.

When it comes to the connection between “health” and “technology,” many people will focus on wearable devices that exist on the wrist. Compared to other devices, wearable devices accompany us every day and are lightweight and compact, making it easier for us to grasp our mental state in a timely manner. For Apple ecosystem users, the Apple Watch precisely takes on the function of “health monitoring,” especially with the assistance of watchOS 10. With just a few simple taps, you can record your mental state and view it anytime.

After upgrading your Apple Watch to watchOS 10, you will see the newly upgraded “Mindfulness” app. In addition to meditation and breathing exercises, the new “Mental State” feature can help us record our current mood in a timely manner.

Record your mood in the mindfulness app

“Mental state” can help us record current feelings or overall feelings of the day, and provide very unpleasant-unpleasant-slightly unpleasant-neutral-slightly pleasant-pleasant-very pleasant, and other detailed options. We can accurately record our psychological condition based on our actual situation.

Similarly, Apple Watch makes it even more effortless to record our mood. Now, I will automatically set the time to record my mood every day in the Health app, and simply tap the screen a few times when I receive a notification. When recording, Apple Watch also brings different animations based on different mental states. For example, the animation for positive emotions is a round and smooth flower, while negative emotions have some sharpness. These different animations also make people more willing to record their mood.

After wearing Apple Watch for a long time, the watch will automatically help us record data related to the heart – HRV (heart rate variability). Generally speaking, when the body is less stressed, the HRV data will be higher. And by using other apps within the Apple ecosystem, we can also timely understand our own stress levels.

Use the “Grow” app to view HRV values

This app called “Grow” is quite suitable for viewing our psychological stress levels. It is an app with a very elegant UI design, and the feature of viewing HRV values does not require any additional payment. In daily use, you can directly add the widget of this app to your Apple Watch, or add the HRV value to the watch face. When you see that your HRV value is low, you may want to relax a bit and soothe your inner self.

Everyone has their own way of managing stress, such as communicating with friends or going for a walk, which can help alleviate psychological pressure. Among various methods, my favorite is deep breathing because it does not affect my current work rhythm. It just requires me to calm down and increase the intake of oxygen by slowing down the breathing rhythm, stimulating the balance of the nervous system, and achieving a certain degree of relaxation and tranquility.

Using Apple Watch to guide the rhythm of inhalation and exhalation

When practicing deep breathing, you can also use the Apple Watch to guide you. Simply open the “Breathe” app in the mindfulness app, and the Apple Watch will prompt you to inhale and exhale rhythmically by gently tapping your wrist, helping you quickly master deep breathing.

Checking the “Time in Sunlight” for yourself

Going out and basking in the sun can also help alleviate stress to some extent. After upgrading your watch to watchOS 10, you will see a new feature called “Time in Sunlight” in the Health app. This feature uses the ambient light sensor inside the watch to record the time spent under sunlight. Spending a long time outdoors can also help relieve the pressure in our hearts.

Apple Music has a large collection of mood playlists

Listening to music is also a way to relieve stress. Open Apple Music and you can find various mood atmospheres in the “Browse” tab, including mood playlists curated by the Apple Music team. By opening the noise-canceling mode of AirPods and listening to your own music, you can greatly alleviate the pressure in our hearts.

While paying attention to our physical health, we should also frequently look inward to gain a more comprehensive understanding of our mental health. At this time, the Apple Watch is the perfect companion, as it is the device that accompanies us the longest each day and is also more capable of helping us find suitable methods to reduce stress and anxiety, improve our quality of life, and increase our sense of happiness.

Similarly, Apple has not set too many barriers for “mental health”. You do not need to purchase a completely new Apple Watch. Simply upgrade your watch to watchOS 10, and you can begin recording your emotions and moods.

Of course, regardless of which method we choose, we should know that achieving a healthy lifestyle requires persistence and patience. Let’s get started now and maintain our physical and mental health to enjoy a wonderful life.

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