TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
With all the hope we have for the future of Iran, the process of change is a lengthy and distressing path. It is paramount, thus, to stay strong both mentally and physically while trying to take part in the success of the revolution. Here you can find a selection of resources we thought might be helpful for improving mental and physical health during this stressful time.
Applications
Headspace: Mindful Meditation
Through science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools, Headspace helps you create life-changing habits to support your mental health and find a healthier, happier you. This app can help you meditate and experience less stress, better sleep and improve overall health.
Fabulous: Daily Habit Tracker
Fabulous is an accountability partner in your pocket. Born at Duke University, they use behavioral science to help you make smart changes and build healthy habits.
Insight Timer - Meditation App
Insight timer is a free medication app that provides guided meditations, sleep music tracks and talks led by the top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford and music tracks from world-renowned artists. Insight Timer can help you calm the mind, reduce anxiety, and manage stress.
Balance: Meditation & Sleep
Take a moment for yourself with the Holiday Stress Single. You’ll choose to focus on what’s impacting you most this season: loneliness, social anxiety, overcommitment, big expectations, or something else.
Sanveloo: Anxiety & Depression
Whether you’re feeling anxious, lonely, overwhelmed, or just burned out, Sanvello will meet you where you’re at. Think of it as your feel-better toolkit, including therapy, coaching, coping techniques, meditations, and goal and mood tracking, designed by experts to help you feel better.
Best of all, your Sanvello journey is customizable to you. The app checks in with how you're feeling so you can track your emotions and progress over time. As patterns are identified, Sanvello will provide customized tools, rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy, to keep you on the path to feeling better.
Ten Percent Happier: Meditation
APPLE "BEST OF 2018" AWARD-WINNER
Want to sleep better, be more mindful, improve your relationships, and become just about ten percent happier? This is the app for you.
Our guided meditations, videos, talks, and sleep content will help you build (or boost) your meditation practice, and stick with it.
Daily Yoga
Daily Yoga is the platform that provides health benefits for both your mind and body with multiple yoga poses, various guided yoga classes, and weight loss yoga challenges.
There are dozens of beginner-friendly yoga classes that are easy to learn and perform. Start your day with a yoga workout. Choose to increase flexibility, improve strength, maintain good posture, or get fit and healthy!
7 Minute Workout
7 Minute Workout is the #1 fitness app in 127 countries. Daily HIIT exercises at home with no equipment. Become your own personal trainer to lose weight and get fit fast with simple daily workouts.
Seven
Seven’s workouts are based on scientific studies to provide the maximum benefit in the shortest time possible. With personalized workout plans Seven also makes sure you get the most out of your training.
J&J Official 7 Minute Workout
A fast, simple, science-based way to make every minute count!
Designed by Chris Jordan, Director of Exercise Physiology at the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, the workout has helped people around the world.
Strava
Strava makes fitness tracking social. We house your entire active journey in one spot – and you get to share it with friends. With Strava you can analyze your performance and progress over time.
White Noise
Because the hum of white noise is a pleasing sound for many people, it can help to induce a more relaxed state. By blocking out other sounds, white noise makes it easier to shut out the rest of the world and focus, as is necessary for practices like meditation that can aid sleep and reduce stress. Here are some YouTube videos:
Counseling Centers
Here is a gathered database of university counseling centers that are available to provide aid and support during this difficult time. If you do not find your university counseling center in this database, please help us to complete this database by adding the information of your university counseling center. You can add the information using this link.
