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March 2, 2011

Test Anxiety – Common Signs And Symptoms

Filed under: Self Help — Tags: , , , — jobself @ 11:27 am

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Every student is tasked to attend class and learn. Right?

An exam determines their performance in school and is one of their challenges.

After sleepless nights of reviewing lectures, answering sample questions and extensive studying, many students tend to freak out at the big day of their exam.

Nervousness and anxiety are common for students on exam day. It’s perfectly fine. Too much anxiety and stress can result to low test performance and poor concentration.

This feeling is generally called test anxiety.

Test Anxiety
It is characterized as an intense feeling of dread and worry before, during and after the exam.

Test anxiety can cause impaired cognitive function (thinking), which can cause mental blackouts that results to poor test performance.

What does it imply? It means that during a test, you can’t think well and you’re likely to forget what you studied!

Test anxiety brings headaches, muscle spasm or stomach aches in students. Some may feel heart palpitations, sweaty and shaky hands and even nausea.

Signs and Symptoms of Test Anxiety
Before taking a test, you often find yourself…

  • Distracted and reluctant to start studying.
  • Having a hard time getting prepared for review
  • Lacking focus and concentration
  • Full of negative thoughts
  • Low in self-esteem

While taking the test, you see yourself…

  • Doodling on your test paper.
  • Having trouble understanding general instructions and questions.
  • Feeling light headed, uncomfortable and anxious.
  • Wishing you were in another place
  • Day dreaming

After taking the test, you can…

  • Remember the correct answer or information you couldn’t recall during the exam.
  • Compare you grade in the exam to your previous tests

You can overcome any anxiety by performing EFT tapping or Emotional Freedom Techniques.

Relieving stress and test anxiety is possible by learning tapping therapy. Get ready to overcome your test anxiety by reading the EFT manual to help you overcome test anxiety.

 

November 27, 2010

A Bright Way To Start Your Day

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Some days, you can’t avoid waking up feeling a little stressed and anxious about your day. This article will teach you an odd but effective form of emotional therapy.

What can you do when you wake up feeling stressed?

What you can do is  tapping therapy .

EFT, also known as Emotional Freedom Techniques, combines long-used Chinese acupuncture with today’s psychology.

But unlike acupuncture, no needles are used.

A common description for EFT is ”emotional acupuncture without needles.”

What is the method? In the simplest form, you just tap in certain meridian points on your upper body while saying aloud what’s bothering you.

I bet you’d like to know how that could change anything?

Amazing, but it does help.  All of your thoughts and feelings effect your mind and your body.  So when you think negative thoughts and feel upsetting emotions, the effects are felt throughout your body.

And these negative states get stuck.

Ever had a song replay over and over in your head? That’s what I mean by a state getting stuck.

When you tap on specific acupuncture points – with your fingers – and think the upsetting thought at the same time, it moves the stuck energy.

By doing that, your emotional state changes and your mood improves. You’ll likely find it easier to think and plan. And you begin to see possibilities instead of dead ends.

Here’s a short example of how to use tapping therapy to brighten your day.

Tap on the locations listed below, while you make the associated statement.

EFT Tapping

Eyebrow:  The day ahead is stressing me out.

Side of Eye: How can I get everything done?

Under Eye: I don’t see how I can get everything done.

Under Nose: When I think about I feel so stressed.

Chin:  I feel anxious. I feel nervous.

Collarbone:  I feel the anxiety in my body.

Under Arm: My To Do list is stressing me out.

Top of Head:   All this stress and anxiety.

Now take a deep breath.

Notice how you feel.  Many times you’ll feel better after just one round.

But if you’re feeling about the same, or just sightly better, tap another round or two. This time, add in your own thoughts and feelings.

Thousands of people have got help from EFT tapping for everything from pain relief to confidence-building to improving their love life.  Tapping is a way to address nearly any issue with a do-it-yourself tool that can help you feel better fast.

Are you interested in more information about EFT?  Take a look at this free EFT manual.

November 21, 2010

Do You Feel Overwhelmed Sometimes?

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Have you ever felt anxious about all your big responsibilities?

The feeling of piled tasks, duties and deadlines makes you anxious and overly stressed. The entire scenario can be totally overwhelming.

There’s so much work left to do and household errands to manage.

The feeling of anxiety and overwhelm is too much to handle.

Let Loose

If you’re feeling pressured and tired because of tight schedules and many “must-do” tasks, STOP!
The feeling will eventually fade. It will gradually fade away.

Slowly breathe and calm yourself for five minutes. Free your mind and let thoughts flow.  This can help refocus your thoughts.

Breathe slowly and blow away your anxiety and stresses.  Doing non-work related activities can aid in eliminating stress.

Preventive Measures

Creating a well defined schedule and list of tasks can help.

This way, you can timely organize and manage everything. Make sure your basic needs and necessities are covered (food, sleep, clean clothes for example).

Learn to prioritize and let go non-priorities.

Make a separate schedule for your work days and non-work days. Erase job tasks that are scheduled over the weekend.

Take Time to Unwind During Your Weekend

You’ve worked all week and you deserve a break!

Do the things you love to do over the weekend. Bake cookies, cook a delicious meal or invite friends over. You can relax and have fun with your family or friends by going out of town.

Tensions, job deadlines and stress are part of everyday life.

These feelings help us become a better person. To avoid the state of being too overwhelmed, learn to prioritize certain tasks. Pause, breathe, and focus on your tasks to achieve goals.

One effective and quick way to overcome feeling overwhelmed is tapping therapy.  This unusual form of emotional therapy is often called emotional acupuncture without needles.

This no-charge EFT manual (EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques) will teach you how to do it in minutes.

September 27, 2010

Anxiety Cure

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Is anxiety something you live with often?

About Anxiety

Anxiety limits your life in so many ways.

When you have limiting beliefs and danger-filled thoughts about your life, anxiety results.  When these thoughts are generated, your physical body undergoes many fight or flight reactions and prepares you to deal with life-threatening danger.

Keeping anxious takes a lot of your strength, energy and life force.

There is so much energy used by anxiety that you don’t have very much left for experiencing joy, creativity, exercising, having fun, feeling loving – or even making love .

Cure for Anxiety

Here’s an easy four step process that works great for me to reduce anxiety.  I call it SALT.  That stands for…

Stop

Ask

Listen

Tap

Here are the steps in more detail.

Stop

When we’re feeling anxious, we don’t want to stop.  Instead of stopping, our tendency is to keep going, afraid if we slow down or stop, what we fear will happen.

So the first step is easy.  Just stop what you’re doing.

Step Two:  Ask

The following questions will help you discover what you’re running from.

What is scaring me?  What is making me anxious?  What am I thinking that’s causing this anxiety?  Under this anxiety, what thoughts am I thinking?  Are there related beliefs? 

Step Three:  Listen

The next step is to listen to the answers.  The answers may be surprising.

Do not discount or argue with the responses.  They may seem silly, illogical, crazy or juvenile.  The human mind has lots of that stuff lurking just under the surface.  And awareness is the first step to recovery.

I recommend writing down the answers you hear.  All of us wants to have a voice and be heard.

These first three steps can do a lot to calm you.  This last step can play a role in reversing your tendency to get anxious and set in place new, healthier mental, emotional and physical reactions to stress.

Step Four:  Tap

As the last step, you do EFT tapping.  For tapping statements, you use what you heard in the Listening step. While doing tapping therapy, you use the answers as tapping statements.  At each tapping point, state one answer.

If you’re new to EFT tapping, get a free EFT manual.
Next time anxiety comes your way, just use a little SALT!

September 26, 2010

Need To Shake A Bad Mood? Here Are Six Easy Ways

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Do you sometimes find yourself in a bad mood?  It is something we people just go through

But, because a bad mood can really block us from feeling good, from getting things done and from enjoying life, it’s valuable to have some tricks to get out of feeling bad.

Here are six of my favorite ways to start feeling better fast.

One:  Smile
When you smile you disrupt the negative pathways in the brain. In addition it helps train the brain to think more positively more often.

Just a little grin, even when you’re alone, will improve your mood.  When with others and you smile, other people are inclined to smile too, making them happy also.

#2 Yawn
The simple yawn is quite amazing due to the fact that it triggers some very beneficial results.  It lowers stress, relaxes your body and enhances pleasure and sensuality. 

Just open your mouth wide and induce a yawn.  Give it a try right now!

3.  Say YES!
Simply saying the word “yes” can help you get into a more positive frame of mind. 

Counting on your fingers, ask ten questions of yourself and answer “yes”.  Start out easy, such as do I have two eyes?  Answer “yes”

Get more emphatic as you go, asking questions that make you happier and happier.

#4 Appreciation
Begin by looking around wherever you are and find one thing to appreciate. Come up with one reason you feel appreciation for it.  Next think of another reason you appreciate it.  Keep going with more and more reasons.

Then move on to another object.  This is something you can do while waiting, driving – any time.

Five:  Tap
Our body’s energy system can become habitual both in patterns of thought and in patterns of emotion.

When you tap on some specific points, the same ones used in acupuncture, can release the blocked energy and enable good thoughts and feelings to return naturally.

This easy-to-learn technique is known as EFT tapping.  You can learn how to do this tapping therapy in as short a time as ten minutes by reading and following this free EFT manual and watching the short YouTube EFT video on this page can help too.

Six:  If I did feel happy…
When you’re already in a lousy mood, it’s pretty difficult to go from low to high in a single leap.  Try this.

Either silently, aloud or in writing.  Say, “If I did feel happy, I could possibly feel happy about”  and finish the sentence.

Continue starting that sentence, finishing the thought with something that you would feel happy about. 

After a short while, you’ll find yourself feeling better and better.

I hope these six suggestions help you next time you want to shake a bad mood.

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