Power Nap for students!

PowerNap

This highschool teacher created a PowerNap kit for overworked students. Its interesting to take a look into...see how music and listening to lectures in audio helps reduce stress.

Motorola had an anti stress booth at a 3GSM. Might be interesting to design spots/booths in the city which offer free massages, pedicures, manicures or just a place to lounge and relax on the street to literally address the problem of stress head on.

I really like the campaigns that Amy uploaded! They look really smart. I was thinking we could include these anti stress squeezey things in the campaign. They could hypothetically be handed out or be available around the city in dispensers around high traffic/stress areas. They're good for migraines too!

Graphic tool

Maybe we can use the heart rate as a graphic that we can place in areas to show how stressful this area tends to be... maybe some type of monitor, and then we could add the text like remember to breath. We can also use the warning colours to symbolize the danger zones from blue to red.

Neet idea to collect our own data!

What if we all bought a little heart rate monitor that we can wear for a couple days. we can carry a booklet and write down our heart rate every 15 minutes and describe our circumstances. just in our daily activities. Or we can create a root that brings us around certain areas while traveling and set a destination time to add the pressure and mark down our heart rate every 1-2minutes. we can do this maybe 2 or 3 days. Then we can create something using our findings. We could maybe so this in a certain area that we want to map.

http://www.anxietyandstress.com/stress.html

Oh man! look at this site, the number one way to manage stress it to remember to breath.
I really like this description:

Take a deep breath. Now exhale slowly. You're probably not aware of it, but your heart has just slowed down a bit. Not to worry; it will speed up again when you inhale. This regular-irregular beat is a sign of a healthy interaction between heart and head. Each time you exhale, your brain sends a signal down the vagus nerve to slow the cardiac muscle. With each inhale, the signal gets weaker and your heart revs up. Inhale, beat faster. Exhale, beat slower. It's an ancient rhythm that helps your heart last a lifetime.

Remember to breath could be our campaign...

The virtual Water project

This virtual water project is awesome.
It would be really cool to be able to measure stress and document it... I'm going to see if there is any research anywhere for this. Maybe we could create a map for stress free travel with hot zones and cool zones of possible stress. With information on how to remain calm. Maybe we could target one small area in Toronto as a "test" location. We could also paint the landscape and write little messages that correspond to the map (virtually of course). In the end we could tie it all together with a website, poster and images documenting everything like the water project.