We could write a really complex story about this, but it boils down to: getting your brainwaves in the right frequency! Without being aware of it, your brains can instantly switch to a relaxed mood when properly triggered. Thinking about positive and simple items makes your brainwave frequency shift from the Beta state (active thinking, working mode) to the Alpha state (relaxing mode). Practically it is a sort-of combination between day dreaming and meditation. Relax in a minute.com provides the triggers to encounter that relaxed moment every day. This website is effective because of its colors, tips, images, simplicity, elegance and user-friendliness. These are carefully selected in order to have maximum effect. Below you can read more about the background of every feature.
Colors
Colors effect your emotional state and influence several physical processes (blood pressure, appetite, etc.). The effects differ for each color. Every day the main color of the images on this website is different. The effects and background of the colors we use are mentioned below:
Blue: makes you calm down. Symbolizes wisdom, stability and confidence.
Green: most restful color for human eye. Has obvious emotional correspondence with safety and is the color of nature. Symbolizes fertility, harmony and freshness.
White: associated with purity, peace, sterility, innocence and cleanliness.
Orange: represents creativity, stimulation, happiness, success and encouragement.
Purple: symbolizes ambition, power, nobility and luxury.
Yellow: stimulates mental activity and arouses cheerfulnes. Color of sunshine and representing energy, happyness and joy.
Tips
The daily 'tips' let you think of something positive and relaxed, like your last holiday or just an interesting object in your environment. Every day a new tip appears on relax in a minute.com. The tips do not contain negative words, are short and easy, and everyone can use the tips to refer to one's own situation. By reading them your attraction for your current activities will decrease and you will concentrate more and more on the related positive item. Easy theory, easy application and effective result!
Images
The images shown at this website have at least one similarity: they all depict positive things nature, relaxing landscapes, just colors, etc. They stimulate day dreaming by their colorful appearance and lack of detail.