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Exploring Stress Management Through VR

By Vini Darbar Last updated: July 1, 2023 8 Min Read
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What if you told your grandparents that stress management through VR is possible, would they believe this? All they must do is put on the digital screen straps on their heads and immerse themselves in the virtual space.

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1. Stress Management Through VR: A Promising New Approach2. The Additional Benefits of Stress Management Through VR3. Conclusion

Of course, they won’t believe any of this. Because since childhood, they have been taught stress management in very different ways.

When they were stressed, they might keep themselves distracted or engage themselves in different activities like going for a walk, painting, listening to music, or reading. But these activities were just a temporary solution to reduce stress.

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Moreover, in many cases, people face various health related issues, like having high blood pressure or any heart disease, due to stress.

There are few people who face problems like obesity because few types of stress result in stress eating or binge eating disorder.

But with increasing technological transformation in the health sector even problems like stress can be managed and reduced carefully.

Stress management through VR is now possible, no matter what the reason behind your unstable mental health. Be having an unhealthy lifestyle or stressing about some serious work or health related problem.

This stress management doesn’t restrict itself to a particular reason for stress to be cured by it. It will help you reduce and cure the stress caused by any reason. All you need to do is take advantage of VR if you are too shy or hesitate to share your tension with others.

1. Stress Management Through VR: A Promising New Approach

People who go through stress often receive advice saying they should listen to motivational speeches, videos, or listen to songs. How much of a benefit, though?

I assume everyone here is aware of the reality that individuals frequently forget what they hear. However, they remember pictures more clearly and for a longer amount of time.

And this is what stress management through VR is all about. You might wonder how any video content can reduce stress, right?

It is said that if a human eye sees something that is very much eye pleasing or mesmerizing, then that visual is captured by the brain, which sends signals and positive waves to the body.

These waves can calm the mind, and people tend to forget all their worries and have unrealistic experiences.

Stress management through VR is now your new virtual medicine, or you can say, your new virtual treatment for stress.

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Just imagine that you are very stressed because of your final exams at the university. And at the same time, you need a break because you are too exhausted after completing all the assignments.

At this point, you will worry about which subject to study first, and your exhausted mind will just give up after studying for a few hours.

This might be a very stressful situation when you are just 19 years old. But through stress management through VR, you can solve this situation.

Just put the device over your head and enjoy the beautiful view of snow-covered mountains from 360 views, eat Maggi, and listen to some good music.

You will feel like you are in the mountains, and you will feel refreshed, and your mind will be calm, leaving behind all the tensions.

2. The Additional Benefits of Stress Management Through VR

Immersing in the virtualized world can heal unseen wounds. And this is what stress management through VR does for everyone.

The therapeutic features, like when you put that device on your head, bring your three sensory organs into contact with the VR.

Viewing spectacular films or clips would allow you to virtually participate in them. Beyond that, you will be able to hear different sounds, which will make you feel like you are in a real setting.

And only a select few gadgets enable you to engage with virtual places by letting you experience the environment.

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If you have a treadmill at home, get on it, put on headgear, and begin strolling to a lovely beach or even along mountain pathways.

You can even sit down in a corner of your house and meditate through VR someplace outside some Buddhist temple and relax your mind and body.

Stress management through VR can also help you overcome any phobia that can cause severe stress in your life.

Your office building has a glass lift, and every day you just take the stairs to avoid that anxiety feeling of taking the lift and looking down, because you have acrophobia.

This might cause stress because climbing stairs every day and then working the whole day is way too tiring. And with acrophobia, you even skip going out with friends in places that are higher than ground level.

In this case, stress management through VR will help you overcome the fear.

You can immerse yourself in various locations with significant heights using those headgears, and your digital assistant can help you learn how to conquer your phobia. Stress is also eliminated when fear is.

3. Conclusion

With stress management through VR, you can counsel yourself. Through VR, you may see things from the perspective of another person if you are in a difficult scenario.

Your mind can be at ease if you can identify where you are going wrong and where you can find the answers.

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Sometimes when you are stressed, the voice inside you will disturb you, but your eyes will experience calm and beautiful things, which will soothe those voices of stress.

Stress management through VR will change how you feel, it will make you feel safe and secure.

People who are hesitant to share the reasons behind their stress but want to calm their mind can use stress management through VR.

But people who have serious mental disorders can’t fully depend on VR.

Proper therapy and stress management through VR can be used as an additional method to reduce stress for those people.

Many companies have opted for this VR treatment for their employees. So that when employees submerge themselves in digitalized space, they refresh their minds. And when they get back to work, they give their 100 percent.

Stress reduction workshops are held with the help of VR not just in commercial sectors but also in academic sectors.

Last Updated on July 1, 2023 by ritukhare

TAGGED: stress management, Stress management through VR, virtual reality
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Vini Darbar
By Vini Darbar
Vini comes from a mass media background and is a writer by passion. Her articles for Icy Destiny serve as a source from which she can share her unique perspective and unique creative vision with the world. Traveling and writing are not only mere tasks for her, but a big part of her life. And you will understand this when you read her articles. Education/Qualification: Mass Communication
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