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4 ways to relax and reduce stress with Apple Watch
Whether it’s something recurring or an unexpected event, we all experience stress and anxiety. You may not have thought about it, but if you have an Apple Watch, there’s a useful tool on your wrist to help deliver some peace and calm. Follow along for 4 ways to reduce stress and relax with Apple Watch. Table of contents Much of the spotlight for Apple Watch as a health-focused device lands on features like the , and activity tracking. But is a handy resource to relax in a variety of ways. Let’s dive into some native options as well as some third-party apps to relax with Apple Watch, even when you’re right in the middle of a stressful situation. 4 ways to relax with Apple Watch Built into watchOS is the Mindfulness app. Formerly called the Breathe app, the Mindfulness app includes three options: , Reflect, and Breathe. It’s a simple yet well-done app that uses a proven technique to reduce stress and help you relax. The Breathe sessions use nice haptics to signal when to inhale and exhale, and also record your heart rate. Reflect sessions use a question to help you focus your energy along with a nice visualizer. Here’s the science behind focused breathing to relax from : By shifting our breathing rate and pattern, we can stimulate the body’s parasympathetic nervous system, and trigger a calming response, which decreases our heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle tension. New with watchOS 10 is State of Mind – which helps you track your mood across time, build greater self-awareness, and more. The Mindfulness app on Apple Watch has a light blue overlapping circle icon. Tap it to get started. To customize the app, head to the Watch app on your iPhone to set up alerts, haptic feedback preferences, and more. You can also adjust session length by tapping the three-dot icon in the right corner of the Mindfulness app. Going further with mindfulness, there are some great meditation apps for Apple Watch. Two of the most polished and robust are and . They both feature some limited free content with subscriptions to unlock everything. A really neat feature in the Headspace Apple Watch app is an SOS three-minute “Feeling Overwhelmed” meditation that you can quickly pull up anytime you need it. and are free downloads from the App Store. If you’d like to incorporate some full-body movement to find some calm (and don’t have anything memorized), you can access yoga right on your wrist. is a nice option that offers both free and paid plans. You can of course also just use the native Exercise app on Apple Watch to track a Yoga or Mind & Body workout and do a series of self-led stretches/poses (or not track it at all 😁). Or you might go for more active exercise like a run, bike ride, HIIT workout, or something else to help you shift your focus away from stress and help you feel better as you get your endorphins flowing. If none of the above sounds like the right fit, don’t forget about the power of music or background sounds. Thanks for reading our guide on ideas to relax with Apple Watch! Do you have another way you like to deal with stress? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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