3/10: Focus On Recovery

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Karin Andrea Stephan

Entrepreneur, Senior Leader & Ecosystem Builder with a degrees in Music, Psychology, Digital Mgmt & Transformation. Co-founder of the Music Factory and Earkick. Life-long learner with a deep passion for people, mental health and outdoor sports.

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If you find it much easier to engage in alertness and wakefulness as compared to relaxation and sleep, you’re in good company. Humans can force themselves to pull an all-nighter or stay up late but can’t really force themselves to fall asleep.

Immediately calming down and relaxing needs practice and because it’s hard to control the mind with the mind, try engaging the body to access calm states.

Happy office-based female employee using Earkick to disconnect from work and recharge. She's sitting on a seat, using a headset and stretching arms with closed eyes, taking break from computer
Happy office-based female employee using Earkick to disconnect from work and recharge

Next time your mind gets stuck in a loop or you need to disengage from your thoughts, check out the content section 🎧 on the Earkick AI mental health chatbot.

Make short breathing sessions your superpower and train your nervous system to go from high alert to deep relaxation within minutes. Try engaging music’s positive effect on your emotional well-being by tuning into the Ambiance mixer whenever you need to destress. At work, in sports, art or innovation, remember that your power is proportional to your ability to relax.

Since this snackable content is all about mastering recovery, there are three screenshots showing the content overview, a breathing exercise and the Ambiance Mixer feature.
Three screenshots showing the content overview, a breathing exercise and the Ambiance Mixer feature

Want to dig deeper into the science of recovery and how to train relaxation in real time? Check out the following sources:

  1. Breathing for Mental & Physical Health & Performance
  2. Recovery from Work: Advancing the Field Toward the Future
  3. The recovery paradox: Portraying the complex interplay between job stressors, lack of recovery, and poor well-being
  4. How to Recover from Work Stress, According to Science
  5. Micro-break activities at work to recover from daily work demands
  6. Research Overview on Ultradian Rhythms
  7. How to Relax in Stressful Situations: A Smart Stress Reduction System
  8. Relaxation Techniques
  9. Effectiveness of Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Deep Breathing, and Guided Imagery in Promoting Psychological and Physiological States of Relaxation
  10. The Effect of Guided Relaxation on Cortisol and Affect: Stress Reactivity as a Moderator
  11. Science On Relaxation Training

Prefer listening to reading? Give your eyes a break with this podcast:

Dr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Optimizing Sleep, Enhancing Performance, Reducing Anxiety, Increasing Testosterone, and Using the Body to Control the Mind

The Earkick AI therapy chatbot is built on four science-based elements. Check out the respective blog post on why and how we designed it.

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Karin Andrea Stephan

Organisational Psychologist, Senior Leader, Entrepreneur, Author, with a degrees in Music, Psychology, Digital Mgmt & Transformation. Co-founder of the Music Factory and Earkick. Life-long learner with a deep passion for people, healthspan and outdoor activities.