“I achieved 40 seconds of uninterrupted concentration.”
Apparently, this is cause for celebration. For the past 10 minutes, I’ve been staring at my phone, trying to move a digital ball up a hill using only the power of my mind. The Mendi headset I wear analyzes my brain activity and reflects it in my games. The more you concentrate, the higher the ball will rise.
This exercise is thought to work your mental muscles, just like you use weights to train your physical muscles, ultimately increasing your focus and reducing stress.
Like thousands of other people, I’ve been wearing smartwatches for years to help me track my fitness and improve my physical health. But the wearables industry has set its sights on a new target: mental health. We now have smart watches and brainwave-reading devices that not only analyze the state of our nervous systems, but perhaps intervene proactively to improve our well-being, and we now have mental health support. We’re making it more accessible and wearable than ever before. “We’re harnessing the brain’s ability to rewire to give people greater control over their emotions,” said Mustafa Hamada, chief product and scientific officer at Mendi.
As someone who suffers from stress and anxiety, I’m willing to try anything that helps me control it. But I have a background in neuroscience, so I’m wary of believing the hype. So I took a closer look at the growing number of devices targeting concentration, concentration, stress and anxiety to find out how they work and which ones actually make a difference…
(Tag Translation) Mental Health
