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- The Apple Watch is a great way to improve your mental and physical health.
- I'd been dealing with more stress and anxiety ever since moving to Canada a little less than two years ago.
- While I learned mindfulness techniques to help me cope, nothing has done a better job at calming me down than the Apple Watch.
Immigrating to a new country, changing my job status, and my lapse in medical coverage — not to mention my wife and I were planning our own wedding that year — gave me anxiety, which was sometimes hard to overcome.Dave Smith/Business Insider
So, about a year ago, I decided to learn mindfulness techniques and strategies to cope with stress. (Here's me, looking stressed.)Dave Smith/Business Insider
Mindfulness is designed to teach you to be aware of your body, but to treat it with sympathy and curiosity instead of alarm. If you feel pain, you're supposed to try to examine the pain instead of reacting to it. Or, if it's too much to bear, to distract your brain so you don't focus on it so much that you go down a rabbit hole of worry.Shutterstock
One of the best mindfulness lessons is to focus on your breathing — and one of my favorite techniques is called "box breathing," where you breathe in for four or five seconds, hold it for four or five seconds, and breathe out through your mouth for another four or five seconds, then start the process again.
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