"BACK TO SCHOOL" BRINGS STUDENTS
"BACK TO STRESS"
Many
students over these past few months have enjoyed a relatively leisurely summer.
Soon they will again begin their schooling season. Unfortunately, instead of experiencing
a purely focused learning environment, many students' stress levels will ramp
up quickly. It's that time of year again when students begin to prepare all semester
long only to once again be enveloped in the stressful ritual of cramming for exams.
Too many students can't take the pressure and drop out.
According to a recent study, the percentage of college students experiencing
anxiety over their academic performance has grown significantly over the last
two decades. The Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA) found that over 30 percent of college freshmen feel "frequently
overwhelmed by all I have to do," compared with 16 percent in 1985.
When students see their education as a challenge, stress can bring them an
increased capacity to learn. But when it becomes a threat, stress creates feelings
of helplessness and a foreboding sense of loss.
Stress is very subjective. What is too much for one is just right for another.
Recurrent physical and psychological stress can diminish self-esteem, decrease
interpersonal and academic effectiveness, create a cycle of self-blame and self-doubt
and may cause physical illness.
In the New York Times best-selling book Dianetics: The Modern Science
of Mental Health, author L. Ron Hubbard explains how these stressful situations
affect our drive towards happiness, achievement and survival. And how these stressful
mental states can even affect our physical health.
Dianetics describes just how the reactive or subconscious part of the
mind can overwhelm the analytical mindand why this causes stress. This mechanism
in the mind managed to bury itself from view so thoroughly that only many years
of exact research and careful testing uncovered it.
"This is the mind which makes a man suppress his hopes, which holds his
apathies, which gives him irresolution when he should act and kills him before
he has begun to live," writes Hubbard in Dianetics.
It is also the part of the mind that causes illnesses which have been described
as psychosomaticlike headaches, allergies, asthma, high blood pressure and
a host of other stress-induced 'syndromes' and ailments.
Brent Wisner was studying at UCLA when he felt his stress levels spiraling
out of control, "I remember sitting in a lecture, shivering. I was nervous
about a test that was going to happen in three weeks! It was like I was possessed,"
remarks Wisner. "One philosophy class became so upsetting, I actually starting
thinking college was a waste of my time. Everything bothered me: my mom, my friends
and even my girlfriend. There was this haze over everythingI couldn't think
straight."
Then he read Dianetics. "After I read Dianetics, I truly
understood what was causing it all and what I could do to fix it. Then, after
using the simple procedure, I started being able to control the cause of this
stress myself. The stress melted away, class became enjoyable and my girlfriend
and I stopped fighting. It made college, and life, fun again."
Before stressful education further attacks the future leaders of our nation,
it is vital that we truly educate them on how to overcome such anxiety and stress.
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