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Feeling stressed is a commonly experienced emotion as there are many factors in our everyday life that can trigger this feeling. It can be described as a physical or emotional tension where you may feel nervous or frustrated about something. This is a natural reaction to any obstacle you may come across. In some ways, stress can be a positive thing as it can encourage you to approach a situation as avoiding it can only increase your stress levels.
At times when you feel your stress levels are too high, there are various ways to manage it in order to remain productive. Firstly, it is important to understand that many factors could be causing you stress. These factors may include not getting enough sleep or support from surrounding peers, having experienced a major life event, poor physical or mental health, or a poor diet.
Now in order to reduce stress, you must accept what you need from a situation to ease these anxieties. What is it that is causing you stress? Once you can identify these triggers you can decide whether it is best to avoid them or cope with them. Time management is extremely important as it provides structure and self-discipline to get any of your responsibilities completed within a reasonable time period. Along with practicing your time management skills, practicing meditation or relaxation can help immensely. Exercises like deep breathing can help speed up the rate of progressive muscle relaxation.
While you may be working on a specific task or assignment and you start to feel overwhelmed, it is perfectly fine to take a step back from your work and take a moment to yourself to detach and digress. Once you feel ready to come back to your task at hand you should feel slightly refreshed and ready to continue. Incorporating exercise into your daily routine allows your body to produce natural stress-relieving hormones in which your body’s overall health should improve. Some exercises that you can partake in include biking, dancing, or simply taking a walk outside and enjoying the fresh air.
In a school setting, many stressors may come from events that have happened in said school. This may lead to negative behavioral responses in which disciplinary measures may be required. In times like these behavioral intervention therapy can help students control their emotions and behavior. Intervention therapy may include strategies like self-instruction in which one talks to themselves in order to ease their emotions during a heightened situation. This promotes the skill of self-control as you are not reliant on the reinforcement of others but
yourself. Strategies like problem-solving, emotional regulation, and the enforcement of a
routine can be applied to these situations as well. In the case of study skills, the process
in which you have to organize new information by allowing yourself to take in this
information, retain it, and apply it to real-life scenarios, it is recommended to practice
stress management and incorporate it with study skills to achieve academic success.
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