Effective Means for Managing Stress, Nerves and Anxiety for University Students

This article discusses different ways to manage stress, including exercise, diet, and time management. It also covers the importance of stress management for students and the physical and emotional effects of stress.

Education Artefacts

Contents
ASSESSMENT 1.............................................................................................................................1
REFLECTIVE SUMMARY........................................................................................................1
Development plan........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................2
Discussion on effective means for managing stress, nerves and feeling anxious for university
students........................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

ASSESSMENT 1
REFLECTIVE SUMMARY
Learning and development is essential in academic life of a students as it allow them various
opportunity to develop various skills. In University, my focus in on develop various skills,
knowledge and understand in order to get opportunity to develop good career. Reflection is one
of term that provide me opportunity to me about my learning experience and also allow me to act
in different manner (Kassymova, et. al. 2018). Study at university aloe me to attain various goals
of career to me that provide me success. I at university takes active participation in different
academic activities that allow me to develop skills. These skills allow me to concentrate on
learning which create good situation for attainment of personal and professional target. I also
learn things from previous experience that also helps to me to act in different manner.
Development plan
It is a important tool which is used by individual for purpose of making improvement in different
area of development and also helps for getting development opportunities. It is also important for
me to improve on by skills and make me efficient. I have lack of time management skills and
decision making skills. With helps of development plan, I can take action in order to make
improvement in my skills within certain period of time. It is essential for improving
competencies and efficiency of a person that is good for develop of skills. There are different
types of skills which helps me to improve my capabilities like communication skills, problem
solving skills leadership skill, listening skills and others.
 Skill 1: I have strong communication skills that allow me to share my views, ideas,
opinions and thoughts with other person. It is important as it allow me to develop good
career opportunity.
 Skill 2: I have problem solving skills that allow me to develop various solution in order
to overcome of problem faced by me. It is important in order to overcome of situation
and also for managing stress.
 Skill 3: I have leadership skills that allow me to create influence over others for purpose
of attainment of team goals. It is important in order to manage work in a team.
Resources: Different types of resources are used by me in order to improve my skills and
knowledge. In order to learn things, a person require proper resources like notes, teaching
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material, pen, internet connections, books and other things that is important in order to access to
wide range of teaching (Singh, et. al. 2021).. It allow me to improve my knowledge and
capability and also assist me to complete my higher education in effective manner.
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned discussion, it can be concluded that reflective skills are important for
students as it will improve their learning and also allow them to learn from past. It is essential as
it allow them to perform in academic life in effective manner. There are various skills require by
a person in order to complete education which can be developed through development plan.
ASSESSMENT 2
INTRODUCTION
Stress can be described as natural defence of body against danger and predators that came
to body due to flood hormones and prepare system to evade and confront danger. It create
various challenge over human body and does not allow them to concentrate on work
(Amanvermez, et. al. 2020). In order to manage stress, a person needs to apt different ways. This
project report includes discussion of different ways adopted by a person for managing stress.
MAIN BODY
Discussion on effective means for managing stress, nerves and feeling anxious for university
students
Stress can be described as feeling of emotional as well as physical tension which can be
came from any thought, situation or event. It can be a reaction of body of a person at time of
facing challenge. It is essential for a person to manage stress in effective manner as it can results
chronic condition. Stress can be cause by a person from academic pressure, financial pressure,
relationship, work of a person that can create challenge for well being of a person and results in
stress. It can be motivator and also can also be essential for survival. It is a defence of body
against danger and predator and cause body to flood with various hormones which develop a
system to evade and confront danger. There are various people who are fight or flight mechanism
at time when human are facing various challenges (Bhargava, and Trivedi, 2018). At time when
people face challenge, their body has physical response and activate different resources which
assist people to stay and face challenge and get them to safety. There are various body change
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came due to stress on a students like blood pressure or pulse rise, digestive system slows down,
speed up of breathing, mussels to be more tense, decrease in sleepiness. There are lots of reason
due to which a person face stress like job issuers, lack of money, bereavement family issues,
career tension, moving home, relationship and others. There are various ways with which a
person is a able to manage stress.
Stress management is a wide concept that is related to techniques, psychotherapies. It
aims at controlling stress level of a company like chronic stress for purpose of making
improvement in functioning. There are different things which helps to manage stress of a
students like it is important to keep positive attitude that helps students to be prepare for
challenge occur in their life. Students also needs to accept the fact that there are certain event
which cannot be control by a person. It is also important for a person to be assertive instead of
aggressive. In this, a person can control feeling, belief and opinion of a person instead of angry,
passive as well as defensive. Time management is also a things that assist a person to manage
time effectively that helps them to reduce stress of limited time available for a certain work.
Social support is another ways that allow a person to spend time with their beloved one (Chesak,
et. al. 2019). It allow them to share their feelings and also helps to manage stress on effective
manner. There are different means on basis of which students can be manage their stress. These
are mentioned below:
Exercise: It is a one of important physical activity which helps a person to improve their
sleep and also helps them to manage stress in effective manner. Exercise allow a person for slow
wave sleep that s good for brain. Exercise refresh brain of a person and also reduce memory
impairment in context of stress. It also helps a person to control their mood swings and release
endorphins which helps to improve pain and improve sleep. People who prefer to do exercise
likes to be less anxious and also more positive about themselves. Some of exercise which helps a
person to relief of stress are running, cycling, dancing, swimming.
Diet: It is important in order to manage stress as healthy food helps a person to improve
their health and also extend their mental health. Health dies helps a person to create good impact
of stress, level up their mood, build immune system, manage blood pressure. On the oppose side,
food that contain more sugar and fat does not create good impact over stress. Staying heath heps
a person to overcome of various disease. These also helps to protect a person for fighting against
damage that can be cause due to stress. There are different types of food like beans, vegetable,
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fruits, spices like ginger and others. For this, person needs to reduce intake of alcohol, caffeine
and drugs. They should focus on balance diet that contain vitamins and minerals.
Time management: It is one of important ways to reduce stress of a person. It allow a
person to manage their time in effective manner that provide them sufficient time for completion
of work. It is important for a person as it provide them proper time to a person for spending on
productive activities and also allow them to get career success, lowering down stress. There are
various benefit a person can be get on basis of time management as it will improve efficiency of
a person and also improve their productivity. It allow a person to manage their schedule in a
ways that reduce their anxiety and also reduce work burden over of a person.
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned discussion, it can be concluded that stress is a pressure created on
a person that create various bad impact over health of a person. It is important for a person to
manage stress in effective manner and for which they can adopt different things like they can do
exercise on regular basis. They can also manage time in effective manner that allow a person to
saves time for productive work and also allow them to saves it to spend on non productive
activities.
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REFERENCES
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