Image via Wikipedia

Stress sells. It is certainly selling iPhone apps. The iTune store has 19 apps beginning with the word stress. Our holistic health guru Deepak Chopra, MD has his own stress app called Stress Free. NPR’s story, Therapist In Your Pocket talks about how therapists are using phone apps to help their patients in ways other procedures weren’t before the apps.

These apps take two prevalent phenomena – stress and phone apps and puts them together. These apps make being aware of stress and releasing it, fun and easy. When you have a technology assisting you, what was hard to remember and do, becomes automatic and cool.

These apps certainly beat becoming sick from stress or taking drugs to reduce stress.

What are your favorite apps for stress?

Further Reading:

1. Stress Manage Comes to the iPhone

Here is an excellent video by Gina Trapani the founder of a great blog – Lifehacker. The video is a short course on why not to multitask. The magazine Fastcompany produced this video and blog post on the downsides of multitasking. Bottom-line, it produces stress trying to keep your focus on two or more items simultaneously. Don’t do it.

Further Reading:

1. Mindfulness does Google

Deepak Chopra, MD created an app, Stress Free for your iPhone to deal with stress. NPR has an interview Chopra on the features of the app, including its ability to tell jokes.

It is great we are using some of the technology that creates our stress to reduce it. Now if we only can get the iPhone to massage shoulders, I would buy one.

Further Reading:

1. Stress Apps for Your Phone