At Christmas, many students get stressed learning stress, to be precise. What seems contradictory at first glance quickly becomes clear when you take a closer look: After the public holidays, the first exams of the semester are often due. And even if there are still a few weeks left before the next exam phase, the days off between Christmas and New Year must be used for studying. After all, the material doesn’t repeat itself.
For this reason, many students cannot switch off on public holidays. Her studies won’t let her go. Either they study over the Christmas holidays and try to work through their to-do list, or they set out to take a break but can’t let go because they’re mentally stuck on their uncompleted tasks and upcoming deadlines.
Merry Christmas? none.
Relaxation? Impossible.
If you feel the same way and the holidays mean more work than free time for you, then this article can help you. In the following, I will show you seven ways you can switch off and relax despite the stress of studying. At least for a brief moment.
Relaxing Despite the Stress of Studying on the Holidays
We often create stress for ourselves. I don’t mean to say that you are completely responsible for the strenuous and nerve-wracking phases of your studies. However, you have the power to influence your learning stress and increase or decrease it. Depending on how you behave and control your thoughts. Follow these seven tips and your holidays are guaranteed to be less stressful:
Make a Plan!
Plans are great things. Not only because they help us to go into the future in a targeted manner and to coordinate our actions. Plans provide a sense of security. As soon as we have something planned, that uncertain feeling in the stomach area disappears. We feel strong and well prepared. Strictly speaking, we’re just as vulnerable to the twists of fate as we were before, but it doesn’t feel like it.
Up to a certain point, our brain does not care whether we have already completed an activity or only planned it. As soon as we have thought through, structured, and timed a project, the stress disappears. And this is exactly what you can take advantage of during the holidays. Plan what you will do for your studies in the coming days. Create a learning plan and define specific learning activities. After that, you will feel much better.
Exert Yourself!
Sometimes a big bang is needed to break entrenched patterns of behavior full of tension. I’m not saying that you should prioritize silly New Year’s Eve activities — it’s about a symbolic action that marks the beginning of your personal downtime. You sort of draw a line under your everyday commitments so you can retire and rest for a few days (or moments).
A hardcore learning session lasting several hours, an extra shift at your part-time job or extensive sports are ideal for such occasions. In principle, it doesn’t matter which variant you choose. It’s all about you pushing yourself properly. You call on everything you can provide in terms of energy and power yourself out. After that, it’s no longer difficult for you to relax.
Reserve Time for Your Worries!
I know, I know: This avoidance and prohibition only work perfectly in theory. Of course, you should try to curb negative thoughts and not make your worries and fears stronger than they are. But firstly, constant repression is not healthy and secondly, your brooding will eventually find a new way into your life.
Therefore, a compromise suggestion: set a specific time of the day in which you devote yourself to your negative thoughts. Go even one step further and reserve an appointment for this brooding session. For example in the morning between 9:30 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. In this period of time, you deal with your worries. You can think about what could happen and how you should react to it. Outside of this time, however, you do not allow destructive thoughts, because now you have a break.
Learn But Do It Right!
If you can’t do without one or the other learning unit on the public holiday so that you can keep to the workload of your exam preparation, I refer to a well-known principle: either learn properly – or not at all. Many students have big plans for the holidays. They take tons of books and learning materials with them and try to catch up on a whole semester in a few days.
Such projects are doomed to fail from the start. So, if you really want to learn, then concentrate on a few topics and work through them in a focused and energetic way. Don’t study casually or do the exercises half-heartedly or write a professional personal statement on your own. You’re just wasting your time doing that. Determine a specific learning goal, set a binding duration, and then devote yourself to your learning material without distractions. Then switch off and relax for a few minutes.
Conclusion
Study stress is the last thing you want on the holidays. The rest of your semester is stressful and demanding enough that you should at least switch off and relax for this short period of time.
Take relaxation and recovery breaks in your studies seriously. You’re not weak or lazy if you occasionally take a breath and give yourself some free time. On the contrary: it is a smart strategic decision to use the holidays to regenerate. Switch off for a few days, review the past weeks and months and then start a successful new year with renewed vigor.
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