View, Smell Or Touch Plants

Add to your desk a fragrant plant and smell it when you feel stressed. Also, feeling their leaves letsyou use a different part of your brain, and restores your attention to something natural, instead of lists and demands.

If you can’t have plants, looking out the window at trees or greenery.

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