The roles of stress and focus in Studying

Are you relaxed to create?

1. You practise sensing the body following the movement of your natural breathing to be balanced between being relaxed and ready (for focused flow) - with the intent of being aware of this present moment.

Studies show that if you take 30-second pauses to sense your body during your day, you will increase energy up to 50% and improve productivity up to 15%.

2. In everyday life, it is less stressful if you are present with your process – when studying, for example, flowing from one portion of a subject to the next. Feel free to read my blog post about allowing in the sanctity of simplicity. 

3. Know that you will master the difficulties in your study material with spaced repetition. Going back and fro between focus and rest (like a game of ping-pong) is important to finding solutions and to master anything. Do these by dividing your time into 25-minute sessions of focus with 5-minute breaks. Give yourself a reward after finishing 8 of these sessions.

Tips for your exam preparations:

•           Use a timer to help you divide your day into sessions.

•           Space repetitions of your work over a number of days/weeks.

•           Plan sessions the night before and note what time you will complete your tasks the next day.

•           Be present in only one session, in the moment as it happens.

•           Reward yourself after completion of planned sessions.

•           Believe in your own abilities.

***

What is the Complete Study Course?



The Course is meant to give you or your children practical insight

 on how to learn more effectively and with less frustration. The
lessons in this course can help in learning many different subjects and skills.
Whether you love language or math, music, physics or history,
you will have a lot of fun, and learn a LOT about how to study!


It is provided to students on school or university level.

There are 2-week Courses available during the holiday!


Contact Details

Lucia Brand
082 782 4747
luciabrand@cybersmart.co.za

Stress Management in Studying

3 tips for Stress Relief.

Our lives and the lives of our children are filled with so much stress that at times many of us get overwhelmed.

For instance, how many of you are multi-tasking? We don’t have enough moments in our day to get it all done. Research has shown that doing two things at once reduces the quality of the outcome of either of the one.

1. The time has come to balance the doing with being. 

Even Olympic athletes start preparing by meditating. You can substantially improve your performance in this way because it is your mind that gets in the way!

For example, you tell yourself you need to fall asleep quickly because of the next day’s test. This stimulates more thoughts in the opposite direction which causes you to remain wide awake instead of closer to sleep.

2. Your perspective about stress affects its impact on your health and performance.

How do you see stress?

•      See stress as a sign that you have a meaningful life and you are involved in things that bring growth. You care about something!

•       Embrace the belief that stressors help you to do your best. Instead of “This test frightens me,” rather learn to adapt an attitude of “This test encourages me to do my best!” 

3. Stress buster: physical exercise

It turns out that your gym sessions are doing more than just lowering your stress levels – they can actually mimic the effects of antidepressants.