Resiliency and stress reduction
Discover practices to help you relax your body and calm your mind
HEADSPACE
Enjoy free, premium access to Headspace. Let Headspace be your personal guide to meditation and mindfulness which can help you to stress less, focus more and sleep soundly.
Brain break
Take some much-needed you time with a ten-minute, pre-recorded "Brain Break” from Disney's Dedicated Wellness Coordinators! You may choose from a wide variety of mini wellness boosters to refresh your mind and refocus your energy.
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Hunt the Good Stuff
Learn how to "Hunt the Good Stuff", a resilience skill designed to counteract the negativity bias, enhance the resilience competency of optimism, and generate positive emotions such as gratitude.
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- You can also call LifeCare directly at 1-800-873-1322. Language assistance available.
Resiliency Podcast
Learn how you can develop a more resilient mindset.
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- You can also call LifeCare directly at 1-800-873-1322. Language assistance available.
Mindfulness Series with Dan Harris
Prioritizing self-care is more important than ever before. The Disney Learning & Development team, in partnership with Disney Benefits, invites you to attend a new Mindfulness Series with Dan Harris, exclusive to our employees.
Additional resources
- Ten Percent Happier Website
- Ten Percent Happier Challenge
- You Belong: A Call for Connection by Sebene Selassie
- ABC News & Dan Harris Podcasts
- Guided Meditation with Disney and Pixar
Mindfulness playlists
Click here FOR THE PLAYLIST OF RECORDINGS, INCLUDING SEPARATE CLIPS OF EACH GUIDED MEDITATION.
ESPN Wellness LIVE OFFERINGS
Live virtual offerings designed and delivered by our own ESPN Wellness Team, including live meditation, pilates, yoga, and more. Visit the ESPN Wellness page for the schedule of offerings.
Virtual Yoga Session with the ESPN Wellness Team
Watch a virtual session led by the ESPN Wellness team to help you relax, restore and be well
Experiencing Mindfulness
We can all face challenges as we try to reduce stress, find balance, and be our best selves at work and in our personal lives. These wellness seminars and management trainings can help. Sign up for an upcoming live webcast using the easy one-click registration. Or listen to an on-demand replay webcast whenever it’s convenient for you.
Staying Strong and Resilient
A lot of people don’t like change. It can be frightening, overwhelming, and overpowering. Resilience is the tool used to cope with change and adversity… and you can build up your resiliency to stay strong!
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Mindfulness Meditation limited series
This series of one-hour virtual workshops is for anyone interested in achieving optimal well-being and improving their levels of workplace performance.
LifeCare login instructions:
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- You can also call LifeCare directly at 1-800-873-1322. Language assistance available.
Stress Reduction Toolkit
Managing stress is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle. Knowing how to manage stress can improve your mental and physical well-being as well as minimize health-related issues frequently caused by stress.
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Relaxation Techniques
Hectic schedules can result in feelings of exhaustion and a lack of clarity in our work and personal lives. Presenter Carrie Gallagher teaches relaxation exercises that can help reduce tension and stress.
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Address Stress with Mindfulness
Mindfulness meditation is a popular form of meditation that can help you cope with stress and other emotional health issues. It can be combined with clinical care and help you keep a healthy lifestyle and stay mentally fit. Meditation can help you learn to better control your emotions. It can also help you become more aware and accepting of negative thoughts. You learn not to be judgmental about your thoughts and instead think of those thoughts and feelings as momentary impulses that will pass.
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- You can also call LifeCare directly at 1-800-873-1322. Language assistance available.
Learn to Bounce Back
Think of emotional resilience as armor for the mind, push-ups for the brain. Emotional resilience helps to protect a person from the debilitating effects of trauma and high-stress situations. Some people may seem more naturally resilient than others, but resilience can be developed and strengthened.
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- You can also call LifeCare directly at 1-800-873-1322. Language assistance available.
BUILDING Resilience in Times of Stress
We are living in stressful times. Some stressors we can anticipate and others take us by surprise. Because we may not be able to avoid stress, it’s important to have strategies for managing it. Building your resilience can help you manage on a day-to-day basis. Resilience is the ability to adapt well to difficulty, change, or other sources of stress. Being resilient doesn’t mean that you will not feel stress or anxiety. It does make it more likely that you’ll be able to manage that stress and feelings of anxiety or uncertainty.
LifeCare Stress Management
Stress is your body’s reaction to an event that stimulates you. When you encounter such an event, adrenaline, a stimulant hormone, is released into your bloodstream. Adrenaline, along with other stress hormones, produces a number of changes in the body, which are intended to be protective. While mild to moderate stress can help improve your overall performance, too much can compromise your quality of life. The challenge is to keep yourself at a level of stress that is healthy and enjoyable. This guide provides general information on the causes of stress and techniques to successfully manage it.
Taking Care of Yourself in Stressful Times
It can be hard to prioritize self-care in challenging times, but this is exactly when it’s needed most. This checklist can remind you to take time for moves that can help you be more stress-resistant.
Mindful Meditation: Release the Stress Webinar
How and why mindfulness can be useful in your everyday life, especially with all the chaos in the world. This webinar gives an overview of each type of mindfulness technique: square breathing, progressive relaxation, and guided meditation.
Help Your Pets De-stress
While pets and humans can have similarities, we are drastically different species. These differences in how we approach the world can result in stressing pet parents out, but more commonly, it really affects the pet. Here are the seven biggest reasons pets get stressed out, and how to avoid them.
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- You can also call LifeCare directly at 1-800-873-1322. Language assistance available.
Declutter the Easy Way
As things start to pile up around you, the clutter in your life can cause unnecessary stress and strife. But what if you could remove the clutter by implementing one easy habit? It’s a simple strategy with the goal of leaving no trace—doing something with complete presence, and then moving on to the next thing without holding on to previous activities. Doing each and every activity with a simple, clear mind.
LifeCare login instructions:
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- You can also call LifeCare directly at 1-800-873-1322. Language assistance available.