Question

What is your experience with stress management? If you have been to a CISD, did it seem to help or not? What do you think meditation, contemplation, and visualization can do for managing everyday psychological pressures and t-traumas? Do you believe that such practices build psychological resilience and provide tools useful for emergency responders facing critical incidents? Can you apply anxiety and stress management techniques to your school work – like test taking for example? Did you prefer the guided visualization over the talk-free bilateral sound? Why?

Answer 1

• Mindfulness is defined as a non-judgmental awareness in the present moment.
• It encompasses a variety of practices such as meditation,contemplation and visualization.
• When applied to educational settings these practices help in adaptive coping of the students to build academic buoyancy.
• Maladaptive coping to psychosocial stressors posed by multiple college demands on students leads to unhealthy consequences.
• Integration and inclusion of these do help in stress relieving in students.
• Mindfulness techniquues increases resilience and promotes self esteem in individuals.
• The confluence of personal,social and academic demands and pressures with transition to college often results in stress and anxiety in students.
• Mindfulness practices can help students to increase academic buoyancy and everyday resilience to stressors in academic context.
• Stress reduction programmes often incorporate body scan techniques in which attention is directed from the entire body starting from head to toe and become aware of your sensations;Meditation helps in focusing your energies on a single point and deep breathing helps in relaxation.
• Billateral sound is prefered since it relaxes your mind more and one can do it while walking,running,dancing etc.