Stress management for a desk day, with what the research backs.
Read the guideAcute stress passes quickly. Chronic stress lasts weeks or months; if yours has, talk to your doctor.
Two kinds of stressOne review of 47 trials with 3,515 people: small to moderate easing of anxiety and depression. For stress itself, weaker.
MeditationBetween two calls
Box breathing: two minutes, laptop lid down. Nobody needs to know.
Box breathingA 10-minute walk after lunch and after the commute, five days a week, is already 100 minutes.
Move in burstsNone makes stress vanish and the effects are modest. Pick one, fit it into a moment you already have, keep it a week.
The techniquesThe article sets out two small studies of women on stress and snacking, and why it keeps the chai break.
From The Sweet Change
Monk Fruit Drops
Monk fruit extract, water and vitamin C
Monk Fruit Powder
Monk fruit, guar fibre and allulose, no erythritol