MySELF: Mindfully Mitigating Stress Effects with PsychologicaL Flexibility

Intelligent Automation, Inc. proposes to develop an application called MySELF: Mindfully Mitigating Stress Effects with PsychologicaL Flexibility. MySELF will not only be an instructional program that fosters psychological flexibility and teaches warfighters effective stress management techniques, but also a personal tool to help warfighters integrate these powerful techniques into their daily lives. The instructional approach will work both bottom-up from the physical and top-down from the cognitive to achieve the desired mind-body connection. Key innovations of the proposed solution are:Use of techniques that can be easily taught and employed without the need for a licensed instructorIndividualized integration with daily activities and schedules so that the practices become automatic and habitualUse of a mobile platform for delivery of readily accessible instruction and performance supports to help users implement techniques whenever and wherever they are neededUse of voice-based stress analysis models and other data to prompt timely employment of the techniquesUse of validated assessments of perceived stress, mindfulness, and psychological flexibility to monitor the users state and provide individualized prompts to use techniques when needed