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Creating Mentally Healthy Habits

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Dana Sittler

The document discusses five mobile applications that can help college-aged women develop mentally healthy habits by promoting exercise, happiness, and relaxation. The applications include BuddyRunner for running tracking and social sharing, FitSync for workout tracking and finding partners, Track Your Happiness for monitoring mood and insights, Yoga RELAX for full yoga classes, and Relax Alarm Clock for customizable relaxation alarms. The document argues that by using these mobile apps, exercise, happiness, and relaxation can become habitual behaviors that contribute to good mental health.

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Creating Mentally Healthy Habits in College - Aged Women using Mobile Applications Dana Sittler habits.stanford.edu
Overview Top 5 tools to creating mentally healthy habits by promoting the following behaviors Equation for good mental health: Exercise + Happiness + Relaxation
BuddyRunner iPhone Application: Personalized Tracking Community: Share your running stats and locationswith your friends via Facebook http://www.buddyrunner.com/
FitSync Mobile Application: Personalized Tracking Linked website with workout routines Community: find a workout partner and share results fitsync.com
Track Your Happiness iPhone Application Push Notifications to assess your happiness Personalized timing of notifications Insight into who and what circumstances bring you the most happiness Trackyourhappiness.org
Yoga RELAX iPhone Application Options for Instructor, Length, Music Full Yoga class Calming atmosphere Community: group yoga sessions http://www.neildot.com/mobileapps.html
Relax Alarm Clock iPhone Application: Customizable Combine Relaxing and Waking up Community: weather available right when you wake up
Exercise, Happiness and Relaxation as Habit By encouraging and enabling these behaviors using the mobile device that is ubiquitous amongst college-aged women, these behaviors can become habit. BuddyRunner, FitSync, TrackYourHappiness,YogaRELAX and RelaxAlarmClock provide the means to do just that. habits.stanford.edu

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Creating Mentally Healthy Habits

  • 1. Creating Mentally Healthy Habits in College - Aged Women using Mobile Applications Dana Sittler habits.stanford.edu
  • 2. Overview Top 5 tools to creating mentally healthy habits by promoting the following behaviors Equation for good mental health: Exercise + Happiness + Relaxation
  • 3. BuddyRunner iPhone Application: Personalized Tracking Community: Share your running stats and locationswith your friends via Facebook http://www.buddyrunner.com/
  • 4. FitSync Mobile Application: Personalized Tracking Linked website with workout routines Community: find a workout partner and share results fitsync.com
  • 5. Track Your Happiness iPhone Application Push Notifications to assess your happiness Personalized timing of notifications Insight into who and what circumstances bring you the most happiness Trackyourhappiness.org
  • 6. Yoga RELAX iPhone Application Options for Instructor, Length, Music Full Yoga class Calming atmosphere Community: group yoga sessions http://www.neildot.com/mobileapps.html
  • 7. Relax Alarm Clock iPhone Application: Customizable Combine Relaxing and Waking up Community: weather available right when you wake up
  • 8. Exercise, Happiness and Relaxation as Habit By encouraging and enabling these behaviors using the mobile device that is ubiquitous amongst college-aged women, these behaviors can become habit. BuddyRunner, FitSync, TrackYourHappiness,YogaRELAX and RelaxAlarmClock provide the means to do just that. habits.stanford.edu