Heya playas, have you ever felt stress or anxiety in school?
Whether it's getting ready for a big test or being upset because you failed one?
In today's video a Meditation Guru and I are going to share with you 3 ways on how to deal
with stress and anxiety.
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For those of you who don't know, Jason Stephenson has a ton of guided meditations for topics
like Bullying, Affirmations for how to love yourself and plenty of meditation music tracks
that you should definitely check out.
Good day guys, greetings from Australia, my name is Jason.
Thank you so much Josh for having me a guest on your channel.
I'm more than happy to be here, I'm delighted to be here and to share my knowledge on how
to cope with anxiety and stress, especially when it comes to exams period.
I reached out to him and asked him what techniques he could recommend for a kid suffering from
anxiety in school, here's what he had to say.
So what can you do if you're feeling anxious about a test tomorrow.
Well the first thing is, if you've studied, if you've done all the preparation you can
do, then be happy with that and let it go.
If the anxiety is creeping into your mind and the stress is creeping into your mind,
focus on your breathing.
Breath in for a count of four through your nose, hold for two seconds, then breathe out
for a count of 4 through your mouth.
Blow it all away, now when you focus on your breathing, you've got no room to think about
studies.
You can even give the breath a color if you like.
If you want to give it a color green or blue, so you can actually see the breath going in
all the way down holding in there and see the breath, the color of the breath coming
out through your mouth.
Breathing truly is key in everything that you do.
Being able to focus your breath in this moment allows you to perfectly be in tune with your
own body.
Most of the time when we feel anxious, it's usually because our minds are wandering to
things that have already happened or to things that we think may happen in the future.
But, if you can learn to calm yourself, in this moment, right now.
Then the thing that are causing you stress become that much more manageable.
This will really help with anxiety and the great thing is, this can be done anywhere.
You can do this just before you're going into exams, you can do this as you're waiting for
the paper to come to you.
It's an ideal way just to be centered and be in the present moment.
Think about it, how many times have you tried your hardest in school and still at the end
of the day fell into the trap of thinking it wasn't good enough?
You're not alone because everyone thinks like that.
You begin to second guess, did you really understand what the teach meant when she assigned
this work?
Or should I have marked B instead of C on the test?
So if you failed a class or an exam, ok.
I know that if that happened you're probably stressed at the moment, you're probably really
upset.
And I understand that, I perfectly understand that.
I've been there myself and I've failed countless times.
But, it's not a failure.
You see in society we place a lot of pressure in that we cannot fail.
Don't fail at all costs, just don't fail.
The thing is, you can actually congratulate yourself because a failure is a stepping stone,
it's one more stone to success to where you want to be.
If you've done your best, actually give yourself a pat on the back and say well done.
Don't worry about the points, don't worry about the scores.
Don't be connected to that.
If you did your best then that's fantastic.
Allow life to unfold and take care of itself as it should and you'll go where you're meant
to go.
To truly get over that fear, the best thing you can do is apply yourself.
Now, applying yourself can come in many different forms.
Sometimes it's just studying harder or looking for a tutor to help you out.
If however you didn't prepare well and you failed, and you put not much effort into it,
then you might be giving yourself a pat on the back, you should give up- give yourself
maybe a kick up the ass for that and just promise yourself that ok next time I'm going
to put more effort into it.
If you want to create a stress and anxiety free environment, you gotta start from the
ground up.
When you're studying yourself, keep your mind clear.
One way to do this is listening to calm music while you study or listen to pop music.
Listen to whatever you want to listen to however as long as it's not distracting and taking
your mind from your study, if it's taking your mind from your study then it's the wrong
type of music.
If you feel you're getting tense while you study.
If you feel you're crouching over the computer, open up.
Open yourself up, breathe.
Breathing.
Go back to your breathing, let the blood flow throughout your entire body, it gets your
brain functioning much better.
Keep a glass of water with you, keep your liquids up all the time.
If you approach your anxiety with a "can do" attitude and a solution to get things done,
then your stress levels are going tremendously decrease.
What do you guys think though, do you suffer from anxiety or stress in school?
Leave a comment below and we'll talk about it.
If you haven't already definitely check out Jason's channel, I'll put the link right here.
I listen to his meditation music all the time at work or when I'm just trying to get myself
in a positive head space.
Also you can check out my playlist right here where I talk about different things like anxiety,
stress, meditation, lots of good stuff to just get your body in the right groove.
Stress can always be defeated, you just have to remember that if if it doesn't kill you,
it allows you to move forward and be stronger.
All the best with your studies guys, I'm Jason if you want to subscribe to my channel I would
love to see you along.
Thanks again Josh for inviting me to be a guest on your channel.
As always guys, love and peace.
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