Standard - 12 Unit – 3.
1 English(SL)
MANAGE
YOUR STRESS
Strengthening Mental Flexibility
Std – 12 – English MANAGE YOUR STRESS Unit – 3
Mind, emotions and body are all
closely interlinked and always work
together. It helps you distinguish them
more clearly if you try to understand
them separately. Your mental
capacities are your abilities to
concentrate, to take in new information, to remember old
and new information and to be in a position to think
logically.
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You need your mental capacity in order to study, to
work, to impose a constructive(સર્જ નાત્મક) and workable order
on your life, and to make rational day-to-day decisions
For example, if you had the choice of walking to work or
taking the car, the fact that it was raining hard and you
had a cold could lead you to the decision that it was better
to take the car.
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That would be a rational decision based on the
current circumstances. The mind is the rational, logical
part of you that helps you to make unemotional
choices, to store and retrieve
information and to order
and calculate. It is the
counterpart to the emotions.
A good example of the
interaction.
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between mind and emotions is exam nerves. Your mental
capacity has helped you retain what you have revised
You ‘know your stuff? but when you enter the exam
room and start getting emotional by expecting
difficulties and imagining failure, all of a sudden the
carefully stored information is no longer available. Your
emotions have barred the way to your inner information
store. Do you find yourself reacting in any of the
following ways?
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➢ You find it difficult to concentrate on things.
➢ Your memory is letting you down frequently
➢ You have lots of different things on your mind but
cannot grasp a clear thought.
➢ You are often undecided these days and this is
untypical for you.
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➢ You make longer to do tasks that you were able to
complete quite quickly before.
➢ You start lots of things but don't finish any.
➢ If yes, then it gives a sign of mental stress present in
you. The better you deal with stress, the less your
mental capacity will be affected.
The following exercises will help you build better
stress resilience and rebalance yourself if your mental
capacity has already started to suffer due to stress.
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Stop over-thinking :
When tasks and pressures start building
up, the mind can sometimes go into over
thinking and you come to the thought,
'I wish there was a switch in my head that
I could flick and turn off all the thoughts going around in my mind!'
It is not that easy. There is a technique to help yourself during the
problem of over thinking:
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➢ Say to yourself repeatedly
during the day :
'I have no expectations and I
will deal with whatever happens...
when it happens.’ When you think
about a stressful day that lies in
front of you, your thoughts run
approximately like this: 'Oh my
God, I have so much to do!
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I must do X and Y and Z and after that, A and B need to get
sorted out as well! I don't know how I'm going to do it all. I won't
even have time to eat!
Basically, the day hasn't even started but you are already in a
tizz. What is happening is that your mind is racing ahead of you
and anticipating how tired and stressed you will feel once you
have completed all the tasks ahead.
These frantic(ગાાંડપણ) thoughts start weakening your energy and as
a result you are entering into a busy day with only half of your
normal energy.
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Then, when you end up shattered at the end of day, you seem
to have proved that you were right all along-you had a dreadful day
and you feel physically drained.
In order to have the maximum energy available at the start
of a busy day, use 'I have no expectations and I will deal with
whatever happens when it happens' as a form of mantra. You will
notice how your body starts relaxing at the thought of 'no
expectations’.
This relaxation tells you that you have just stopped yourself
from wasting valuable energy. You will feel calmer mentally and
emotionally as a consequence.
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