The iPhone is fast turning out to be a multi-faceted device with diverse applications released to cater to different needs of a user. Now a new app ‘Check In’ launched by the Institute for Health Solutions offers daily emotional support from a science-based technique to combat stress.
Instead of relieving stress by eating, drinking, shopping or overworking, people can swap their brain state from stress to well-being via easy mental practices and only some touches of this new iPhone app
“People wanted ready access to the tools and the mobile device provided an easy answer. People were suffering through a tense staff meeting, with one co-worker popping antacids and another with clenched teeth and wanted to use the tools. Now people can get daily emotional support with a few touches of the screen. It is a convenient way to be more relaxed and productive at work or at home,” commented, Joe Mellin, director of development at the Institute and the app’s developer.
This new iPhone app that supplies this every day emotional support is based on Emotional Brain Training (EBT), a neuroscience-based technique that was created at the University of California, San Francisco and has apparently confirmed as effectual for stress and mood by Laurel Mellin, associate clinical professor of family and community medicine and pediatrics and director of the EBT Center of Excellence in the Center for Health and Community.
Laura Mellin, stated, “Emotional Brain Training is based on emerging research that shows that mood management is not one size fits all. The brain moves through five different states depending upon the level of stress. Using the same mental process for each of the states compromises results. That’s why most people complain that they can’t meditate when they are stressed.”
Check In app facilitates users to classify their brain state, and then choose the appliance that is most efficient in reducing stress when in that condition. The app has two chief attributes. One is the Brain State Finder that consumers can apply to detect their emotional state on a scale of 1 to 5. If their emotional condition points to 1, then the person has flow, clarity, and productivity. If it is 5, then the user is overwhelmed, confused and stressed out. The next feature is ‘Get to 1’. For reaching that brain state, it trains the user through the mental process to return to that condition of optimal functioning and flow. The procedure can be learned effortlessly thanks to video and audio support integrated in the app.
Joe Mellin remarked, “The launch of Check In is step forward in meeting the mission of Emotional Brain Training: supporting a new paradigm in health care: switch from treating the symptoms of stress, such as obesity, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure to treating the stress itself.”
The process is also accessible through health professionals who are qualified EBT suppliers locally or through training and groups by telephone. The technique was claimed to be first crafted to treat obesity in children as the Shapedown Program, and afterward tailored to weight loss for adults, then to treat the variety of stress symptoms.
Emotional Brain Training provides a means to process stress more efficiently, thereby reducing the regularity and length of stress incidents and with it the flow of stress hormones that affect health in harmful ways.