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TURTLE PARADISE 4K Undersea Ambient Nature Relaxation Film + Jason Stephenson Meditation Music 🐢🥰

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A 60-second meditation tool to help clear your mind

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A 60-second meditation tool to help clear your mind

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GRACE Gorilla Forest Corridor | Explore.org

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Watch live video of gorillas at the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center (GRACE) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa. Watch as the gorilla's pass through, graze on vegetation, and make their nest for their overnight slumber

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Hours upon hours of soothing, waxed based visuals.

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Lava Lamp Yellow 4+ Hours Of Relaxing Decompress Enjoy See Bonus 16X Speed At 4hrs 6 Min

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Colorless templates of famous paintings that can be filled in shade by shade.

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Art Coloring Book - Google Arts & Culture

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A full hour of lullabies in multiple languages to help you relax and focus.

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Under the Green Corn Moon  -  Native American Lullabies  (full album)

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Digital bubble wrap that never runs out. 

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Stress-relief satisfying web app. Environmental friendly bubble wrap.

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Studies show that blowing bubbles is a great coping mechanism for stress relief. If you don’t have any bubbles on hand use this website to blow and pop bubbles without the mess!

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Because we all need more animated fractals in our lives.

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A paid app with a 15 day free trial. An immersive tool with a built in music library to help you focus on writing.

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Create your writing atmosphere. Focused full-screen writing web-application. Get your first 15 days of ZenWriter free! Just $2.95 after. No credit card required

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Take a break with a collection of online jigsaw puzzles.

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Millions of free jigsaw puzzles created by a large community. Create, play, share jigsaw puzzles and compete with other users.

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Even more online puzzles!

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Large selection of premium online jigsaw puzzles. Use multiplayer mode to play with family and friends. Create and share puzzles using your own photos.

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A classic game of marbles and visual logic. (Beware: not mobile friendly).

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Go to the classicreload site. In the top right of your browser screen, find an icon with "ad blocker" or something similar in the title (hover or click the icons to find out what they do.)

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Once you've located the ad blocker, click it and select an option that says something like "Pause on this site" or "disable for this site".

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Still seeing this message? Try refreshing the page.

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Marble Drop is an object based puzzle game similar to a cross between The Incredible Machine and Pachinko. Gameplay involves depositing marbles of different colors into tiny funnels which will race down tracks, trigger events and, hopefully, wind up in the corresponding color bin.

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You know the Louvre, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Eiffel Tower, but scroll on for some slightly less famous (but still fascinating!) museums around Paris. Click, drag, and use the arrows to go on an alternative day out!

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Alternative Day Out: 8 Museums You Never Knew Were in Paris - Google Arts & Culture

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You know the Louvre, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Eiffel Tower, but scroll on for some slightly less famous (but still fascinating!) museums around Paris. Click, drag, and use the arrows to go on an alternative day out!

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Tired of studying in your room? Take a trip to Paris!  It’s a cool rainy night and you kept one window cracked open to hear the music playing in the little café next door.

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Oldies playing in another room and it's raining (City night Ambience Paris, open window 3 HOURS ASMR

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If the room is too quiet but you can’t study with your own check out this at the library background noise. Let the gentle sounds calm your brain and allow yourself to focus.

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Relax with comforting Disney nostalgia while you’re studying.

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Relaxing Disney Piano Music ~ Beautiful Music for Studying & Sleeping

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An endless loop of a calming rain storm. Perfect for essay writing and general relaxation.

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Welcome to Rainy Mood, the internet’s most popular rain sounds. Millions of people use Rainy Mood while sleeping, studying, and relaxing. Enjoy the free web version, or try the iOS/Android app with additional features.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Chaco Culture National Historical Park, United States — Google Arts & Culture

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world’s treasures online.

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Virtual Hike: Moraine Lake Banff National Park, Alberta -Actual Sound/18min

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The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland, offers a virtual video tour so guests can prepare for their visit.

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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device. Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no longer on display.

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Overwhelmed? Calm your mind with this mindless and nostalgic game. With every press of key and hop, let yourself let go of the stress and breath. Remind yourself that it is all going to alright.

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Play Dinosaur Game Online for Free | Lofi and Games

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Play Dinosaur game online for free. Beautiful Dinosaur game, delightful gaming experience, no download nor registration is required.

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Feeling Anxious? Spin the fidget spinner and see how many rounds it will spin?

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10 minute Stress Relieving Stretch // Somatic Chair Yoga

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Press and Know that Everything Will be OKAY

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Press and Know that Everything Will be OKAY

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The Magic Button that makes everything OK

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Feeling overwhelmed? Take a break and ground yourself using this exercise.

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Melissa Nunes-Harwitt, LMSW, shares another method, called Hand on Heart, to help ease a racing mind.

Anxiety is something most of us have experienced at least once in our life. Public speaking, performance reviews, and new job responsibilities are just some of the work-related situations that can cause even the calmest person to feel a little stressed. This five-step exercise can be very helpful during periods of anxiety or panic by helping to ground you in the present when your mind is bouncing around between various anxious thoughts.

Before starting this exercise, pay attention to your breathing. Slow, deep, long breaths can help you maintain a sense of calm or help you return to a calmer state. Once you find your breath, go through the following steps to help ground yourself:

5: Acknowledge FIVE things you see around you. It could be a pen, a spot on the ceiling, anything in your surroundings.

4: Acknowledge FOUR things you can touch around you. It could be your hair, a pillow, or the ground under your feet.

3: Acknowledge THREE things you hear. This could be any external sound. If you can hear your belly rumbling that counts! Focus on things you can hear outside of your body.

2: Acknowledge TWO things you can smell. Maybe you are in your office and smell pencil, or maybe you are in your bedroom and smell a pillow. If you need to take a brief walk to find a scent you could smell soap in your bathroom, or nature outside.

1: Acknowledge ONE thing you can taste. What does the inside of your mouth taste like-gum, coffee, or the sandwich from lunch?

This technique is one of many options you could use if you are feeling anxious or overwhelmed. If anxiety is something that you struggle with regularly, and you continue to have trouble refocusing or coping with these feelings, please talk to your doctor or contact Behavioral Health Partners at (585) 276-6900. Behavioral Health Partners is brought to you by Well-U, offering eligible individuals mental health services for stress, anxiety, and depression.

By: Sara Smith, BSW

Source: SOAR, Inc.

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Anxiety is something most of us have experienced at least once in our life. Public speaking, performance reviews, and new job responsibilities can cause even the calmest person to feel a little stressed. A five-step exercise can help during periods of anxiety or panic.

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myNoise is the brainchild of Stéphane Pigeon, a passionate sound engineer and audio enthusiast who single-handedly maintains and curates the platform. With a background in signal processing and a Ph.D. in applied sciences, Stéphane brings his expertise and dedication to create this exceptional auditory experience for all. He takes immense pride in the fact that myNoise operates entirely on donations, which is a testament to the value and impact it has on the lives of its users.

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myNoise sets the standard for online background noise machines and interactive soundscapes.

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This playlist was created for the Health & Wellness 2026 wellness luncheon. It features podcasts by Bay Path's Crystal Senter-Brown as well as from The Hidden Brain, AZen Mind Guided Meditations, and The Happiness Lab.