Name: Tips for Managing School Stress - ft. Study With Jess
Uploaded: 2016-11-21T12:17:33.000Z
Duration: 6 min 9 s
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second video this week,    I know that's pretty rare

To-infinitive

actually my first full  collaboration video.

So this week I partenered    up with my friend Jess

who runs another channel about studying and

learning called fittingly,    Study with Jess,

and I thought it'd be    really cool to do a video

on how to manage stress since we're just about

into finals right now and   hopefully you'll be able to

- Hi everyone, so  when I was studying my

but also some really  effective techniques that you

can implement throughout the year to help you

feel more calm and stay on    top of your stress levels.

So I'm going to be sharing    with you my top five tips

for reducing stress and   staying calm throughout the

busy school year but before   I get into that, I actually

wanted to cover what is    stress and what happens in

our body when we start to feel  stressed, so stick around.

Stress is your body's  reaction to any change in the

environment that requires   an adjustment or a response.

The body then reacts to    these changes with either

physical, mental or   emotional responses.

So in daily life, we often   use the term stress to mean

something negative, but  that's not actually the case.

Stress can either be  positive or negative,

So eustress is the term used  for describing positive stress

and this is the kind of    stress that motivates us,

Some examples of eustress    could be receiving a

promotion, starting a new    job or having a child.

In contrast to eustress,    distress is the term used

for describing negative   stress and this is the kind

of stress that impairs our    focus, leaves us feeling

anxious or nervous, often   it's perceived as outside of

our coping abilities and impairs our performance.

And some examples of distress  could be losing a job,

So what happens to our body when we start to feel stressed?

In the event of stress    our bodies defense systems

are activated in a rapid and automatic response

your breathing to quicken,    your blood pressure

to rise and your senses begin to sharpen.

Some stress is good, in    fact it actually helps to

improve our performance and increase our focus

so that we can execute a task more effectively.

or Yerkes-Dodson law  shows the relationship

between stress or arousal and performance.

This model, demonstrated by a bell-shaped curve,

says that up to a point stress actually improves

our performance, but when it becomes too high

So let's put this graph   into perspective, shall we?

For example, you sit down at   your desk to take an exam,

as you turn that page  over, you can feel

your heart start to beat a little bit faster.

You can feel your breath start to quicken.

to keep turning those   pages and tackle that exam.

the middle of the curve, showing that you've

and your performance  is actually improving.

But what if we actually turned up the level of

cortisol and adrenaline    pumping through your body?

This time you sit down at    your desk to take an exam,

and as you turn that page,    your breathing quickens,

you feel a pit at the  bottom of your stomach

and the thought of    actually trying to fathom

what these questions are becomes overwhelming.

This scenario would  be demonstrated by the

bottom of the curve,   showing that you've

Tip number one is to do some deep breathing.

So when doing deep    breathing you're actually

switching on your  parasympathetic nervous system

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