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February 14, 2025

Get stress management tips with AI

Sure, some stress is unavoidable, but stress-reducing activities and strategies may lighten the load. Check out a few ways to reduce stress with AI.

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Personalize a guided meditation

Guided meditations take you on a mental journey that might help reframe or release a stressful experience or moment. Generative AI writes guided meditations based on your prompts. Do you want to visualize going to a specific place, seeing an important person, or doing something in particular? Try AI prompts like these to create guided meditations just for you:

  • I want to use guided meditation to help relieve stress. Ask me questions to guide the creation of a personalized, relaxing guided meditation.
  • Write a happy place guided meditation series. Each meditation should be five minutes long and take me to a warm beach. Please address me by my name: [name].
  • Create a guided, stress-relief meditation that incorporates my favorite things: [favorite things].
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Maximize mindfulness

Gently directing your attention to the current moment is a powerful way to reduce stress. Mindfulness practices like paying attention to your breathing, mindful walking and eating, and noticing the sensations in your body powerfully root you in the present moment. Build on these practices and make them your own with AI prompts like these:

  • I want to try mindful eating. Guide me on that practice and how to use it to limit my work stress.
  • I have ten minutes. Give me a mindful breathing routine to follow.
  • I’m worried about the future. Give me five mindfulness practices to manage that stress.
“Mindfulness practices like paying attention to your breathing, mindful walking and eating, and noticing the sensations in your body powerfully root you in the present moment.”

Have a laugh

Sometimes the best way to break tension in a stressful situation is to find something funny. If generative AI whips up sonnets in seconds, of course it also comes up with quick quips. Try prompts like these to have a tension-breaking, mood-lightening laugh with AI:

  • I’m stressed! Act like a comedian and have a conversation with me that might make me laugh.
  • I need funny GIFs stat. Find the ten most popular funny GIFs.
  • What are the funniest stand-up comedy lines ever written?

Learn more ways to reduce stress

When it comes to stress management, there’s no shortage of useful strategies. Ask AI for new methods or a fresh take on a tried-and-true stress-relief technique. Do more with AI stress management tips and guidance with prompts like these:

  • I heard that exercise helps with stress. Tell me about that and which exercises are most effective.
  • I’m having a hard time with stress management. Provide resources near [location] and give me a list of stress-relief techniques to explore.
  • I love yoga, and I want to find new ways to use it for day-to-day stress management. Please provide tips.

Breathe a little easier with these AI stress-coping tips and tricks. Find other ideas to improve your days, from upping inspiration to rethinking your morning routine, at the Everyday AI hub.

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