De-stress With Internet Games

It was not until Hans Selye released his book, Stress without Distress in 1974 that health practitioners and the public started paying attention to stress. His idea was that the body developed pathology from ongoing and unrelieved stress, which we know it to be true. How you manage your stress can contribute to an early death or an exceptionally long life.

How do you de-stress from the daily grind? Do you blow off steam in the gym? Call your friends and vent? Eat? Drink? Pray? Sing or listen to music? Any one of these methods to de-stress is beneficial, but there is one you may not have thought of before: playing internet games that bring out your inner child.

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Some of these games can be found on greeting cards. For AmericanGreetings.com has a card called the Leprechaun Toss which is perfect for St. Patrick's Day. This one even has Irish music in the background.The goal of this game is to toss the New Year's Eve baby, Santa and the Easter bunny the farthest you can. You win points for how far you toss the characters.

There is one obstacle: you must start the toss before the running leprechauns get to the dirt bump on their path. To perform the actual toss, you simply click hold your computer mouse.As soon as you click hold the mouse, a meter shows up on the screen and starts climbing up to the green zone. You must release the mouse hold before it gets to the red zone.

If the meter goes into the red zone, the Santa, Easter bunny or New Year's baby will be tossed but land on their head, which becomes buried in the ground.This is not good and you get no points! Your points are tallied after three tosses and you receive the proclamation that you have the luck of the Irish with a high score. It is a very fun game and only takes about 45 seconds to complete!

I ended up discovering the benefits of de-stressing from playing this game when I was involved in an intensive book writing project with strict deadlines. Whenever I was brain dead, I would play the Leprechaun Toss, and within a few minutes, I was back to being stress-free.

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At American Greetings, you will also find greeting cards that are matching games, the type of games where you have to match two items to eliminate the pair from the board. My favorite of these is the Monster Match, great for Halloween. This one is difficult at first because there are over 24 different items to match within a minute.

That doesn't leave much room for mistakes. However, by de-stressing from your daily problems and playing four or five games, you can start to come close to finishing the game in one minute. I noticed as I cleared the board, I also cleared my stress.

Another memory game is one that includes identification. In the Celebrity Valentine Game, your goal is to recognize known celebrities through their disguises. This is sometimes more difficult than what you may imagine, but I am amazed at how many people actually get these celebrities right on the first try!

Nevertheless, this identification game brings up the fact that although we are all born with the ability to recognize faces, our skills are only at the level of that of a 5th grader, according to face recognition psychologists. Playing this little game can help! You'll master it in very little time. The entire game takes less than 45 seconds to complete.

Once you have this game learned, you may feel a little sense of accomplishment. And a lot of de-stressing occurs as you play the game, too.

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Superhero Games Always Recharge Your Batteries

You may already be familiar with a Superman internet game. This one was released just before the latest Superman movie hit the box office as an attempt to revive interest in Superman. In this little internet game, your job is to act like a photographer and snap a snapshot of Superman as he flies through the air over four different cities in the world, including Sydney and London.

Superman appears quickly and it takes a little finesse to snatch the photo. You have the opportunity to take six photos in every city. To get your snapshot on the front page of the newspaper, you need a score of 6/10 or 7/10 on any one of your photos. The best photo of Superman is one you take that is a close-up shot. Unfortunately, for some reason, the Superman Snapshot internet game links are not working at this time. This game takes about two minutes to play.