Stress Toys Come in Many Shapes


by Jenn Jenkins - Date: 2007-08-23 - Word Count: 510 Share This!

There is a stress toy called Zen Garden that comes with a wooden tray, pure white sand and some rocks, along with a rake. The sand represents water, and the rocks, mountains. You use the rake to make patterns in the sand, resembling swirling pools or swift streams as the seller suggests, and contemplate the mountains rising out of them.

This is a great aid to contemplation, reflection and meditation.

Meditation has indeed been found to be a good stress reliever, with its effect of calming the mind and slowing down heartbeats.

Stress toys come in all shapes and you can even order toys in your own preferred shape. They could provide short-term relief to stress, a widely prevalent problem.

Relieving Stress with Stress Toys

We saw how the Zen Garden can help contemplation and meditation leading to stress relief by calming the mind and even physical processes.

Then there are stress toys that you can use to vent your frustration. Use the stress hammer made of foam to whack your monitor when your computer is taking all the time to load a page. Or when you are told that your cell phone is out of range, throw it (along with its stress toy foam jacket) against the nearest wall.

There are Choke-Your-Boss stress toys that can come in handy on many occasions you are quite likely to be familiar with.

Distracting or Amusing Yourself With Stress Toys

Squeeze the hard granite like stress toy and it goes crash (impressing the ladies around with your strength). Or work with strange-colored putty doing whatever you want - squeezing, whacking, punching, or working into some amusing shape.

Or see your dog jump when it chews an elephant shaped stress toy, and the elephant raises its trunk and trumpets. And squeeze a green frog stress toy and hear it croak.

Or give yourself a break after a session of brain overloading work by just playing with stress toys in all kinds of shapes.

Stress Toys as Corporate Gifts

Stress toys are great as corporate giveaways to seminar attendees, customers and even your employees. The seminar attendees might then not go to sleep, embarrassing your speakers; the customers would give you more business; and hopefully, the stress-relieved employees would produce more work.

Stress toys can be made in custom shapes to reflect themes relevant to your industry. A stress toy shaped like a pint of beer could be appropriate for a liquor company. Or give out Turkey shaped toys during the thanksgiving season.

The custom made stress toys can carry your company logo and are ideal handouts at trade shows, corporate team meetings and name recognition marketing campaigns.

Conclusion

Stress toys, as their name says, relieve stress in different ways. Some might help you meditate while others help you give vent to your frustration. Stress toys could also help you relax and amuse yourself after some brain-numbing work.

Stress toys are also ideal as corporate gifts to seminar attendees, customers and your employees. They can be ordered in the specific shapes you want and printed with your logo.

About Author:

Daniel Frenchy, Director of Stress Balls UK - Europe's leading supplier of custom stress toy balls.

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