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“What makes our films unique,” said Robert Capria, LoungeV’s film producer, “is that the video camera never moves during one shot. This eliminates annoying zooms.”

LoungeV HD video downloads allow you to soak in and appreciate peaceful moments and experience instant stress relief and inner peace all from your smartphone, Blu-ray player or HD-TV.

Short film clips — 35 to 40 minutes — and longer versions are available for free download. Each downloadable video clip is optimized to achieve the highest video and audio quality while maintaining reasonable file sizes.

The videos can be used in a variety of settings:

• In private homes to create a personal oasis
• In business offices to diffuse stressful situations or encourage creativity
• In waiting rooms to reduce anxiety
• In electronics stores to demo home theaters, flat-screen TVs and sound systems.

Three-hour films will also be available for sale on Blu-ray discs through stores to be announced in the near future.

Equipment provided by Modernights.

This is the premise behind “AIR from PRAGUE” …they claim to carefully collect air from the most popular places in the city and cram it into an empty paint can an slap a $4.99 price tag on it.

The maker’s claim the product is 100% organic, relieves stress, and cures homesickness
and helps fighting nostalgia.

What a great gift idea!

We all know what happened next with Tetris popularity wise, but what you may not know is that a new study out of Oxford University says that playing Tetris a few hours after trauma exposure can help prevent flashbacks, which are typically a symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder.

PTSD is caused by a psychologically traumatic event involving actual or threatened death or serious injury to oneself or others. Such triggering events are called ‘stressors’; they may be experienced alone or while in a large group.

According to the study, which appears in the journal PLoS ONE, playing Tetris soon after a traumatic experience appears to protect against these flashbacks, by distracting the brain from the event and short-circuiting how upsetting memories and images are stored.

How do they know?

Sixty participants watched a film containing scenes of injury and death. After a 30-minute structured break, 20 participants played Tetris, while another 20 played quiz video game Pub Quiz. The remaining subjects did nothing. Those who played Tetris had fewer flashbacks of the traumatic film than any of the others did. Incidentally, those who played Pub Quiz had the most flashbacks out of any of the groups.

Health.com: Playing Tetris may build up your brain

As it turns out, a great number of people play Tetris to relax,” he says. In fact, in Japan, they play it at the end of the day — women specifically — before they go to bed, or in the bathroom.

For all the men and woman in the service doing their jobs so we can live the way we do, CHEERS!

If you don’t already have the game, you can play it free here.

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