Improve self confidence and Learn to Relax With unique clinically proven games by MindHabits
In a recent post, I gave a brief history of self-development software. Now I want to spotlight the world’s first life training software ready for prime time!
If you get stressed or into a funky mood, your usual response might to find and read the current trendy self-help book everyone is talking about.
You know how much good that usually does. Reading the book is passively absorbing information that is easily forgotten later.
Now when a blue mood hits you, there is something better and more effective you can do. The answer will surprise you.
Play games on your computer.
But not just any old game. You should play Mindhabits.
MindHabits is self help software that will teach you better ways of thinking things in your life that habitually depress you. You learn to approach these things differently by playing the games.
Based on social intelligence research conducted at the prestigious McGill University, these stress-busting, confidence-boosting games provide a series of simple-to-use, fun-to-play exercises that players develop and maintain a more positive frame of mind.
Finally there is a video game that can actually increase your happiness and sense of well being. Get a brighter mood in just a few minutes with MindHabits.
On the MindHabits website, you can read many articles about the new program including articles in the Wall Street Journal and the New Scientist as well as coverage by ABC news.
An in depth explanation of the development of MindHabits is provided as well as extensive information on the science behind the software.
There are tips for playing the game available. You can even download free software that allow you to add faces of you and people in your life to MindHabits.
Here are some of the principles and features found in MindHabits:
Software Configurations: Either download the Windows software version and use it like a video game (example of a typical screen in Windows)
or play it in any web browser capable of running Flash. Here is a typical screen in a browser:
The Games: There are four games with 100+ levels of play. The games are:
- Matrix
- Words
- Who Are You
- Grow Your Chi
Scientific Principles Behind the Games: Based on the principles of social intelligence. A key concept is the idea of MindHabits, of which there are four types including
Outlook: Scientific psychology has shown that our minds continuously filter our experiences, including our view of ourselves and our interactions with others. This filter determines how we feel about and react to the world. In MindHabits, this is called your Outlook. “Outlook” on a daily basis using a series of automatic tests and self-report questions, which are explained in more detail later in this document and in the Science Lab of the MindHabits game.
If your Outlook is relatively more positive on a given day, you will pay attention to warm, supportive feedback from other people, you will interpret unclear interactions in a positive way, you will focus on your strengths rather than your weaknesses — in general you will find the warmth and kindness in your relations with other people.
If your Outlook is not as positive, you may tend to be on the lookout for social threats like criticisms and rejections, and you may worry more about any flaws of your own that might provoke those kinds of negative reactions.
Inhibition – Inhibition plays a key role in the way we make sense of the complexities of social life. Inhibition is not meant to describe a negative frame of reference, rather it is used to describe a process whereby you may stop paying attention to the potential negative cues in your environment, and begin to pay attention, instead, to the more positive cues.
If you focus on and dwell on threatening information, this can increase your feelings of stress. Sometimes it is helpful to be able to “inhibit” or disengage from threat – or in other words, to just “let it go”.
Association: Reactions to situations are often shaped by links, or “associations” between one idea and another. If thinking about yourself, for example, triggers thoughts about criticisms and rejections, this may act to undermine your self-confidence.
If, on the other hand, thinking about yourself can become associated with thoughts of support and acceptance from others, as well as the positive emotions that come along with that, then this may help you feel more self-confident and better able to deal with stress.
Activation – Research has shown that it is possible to bring to mind, or “activate” one frame of mind or another. So, if we bring to mind thoughts of warmth and support, this shapes our Outlook to be more attentive to whatever warmth and support is available in our interactions with others. Research has shown that activating a secure frame of mind in this way can often help people feel more self-confident, more creative, more tolerant of uncertainty, and less self-critical.
The “Words” Trainer game works on this principle by getting players to think about a certain list of “activation” words over and over again. By placing words such as “loved” and “caring” into our mind, these games can help us develop a more positive state of mind automatically.
I could continue to tell you more about MindHabits but the only way to understand the “play” of the game is to do it. Please visit MindHabits at their official website to try these new self-help and personal development games.
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