Skills for good health can be covered in 4 key areas – mindfulness, time management, support and stress management.
Mindfulness is about focusing on the present. This means that you’re not thinking about things that have happened in the past or about what’s coming up. So how can you focus on the present? One way is to focus on your breathing, with attention placed on the rise and fall of your breath. Your mind will wander, as this is what it naturally does, but you’ll have to refocus your mind back to your breathing.
The benefits from mindfulness includes:
Studying at college takes up a lot time, so it’s important to be able to manage your time well. But sometimes, procrastination occurs and this makes it a bit more difficult to manage time. Procrastination occurs when you start putting things off, and you may do this when you’re feeling uncertain about an upcoming task or when you start substituting tasks around.
A few things that you can do to help improve your time management skills include:
Support is all about your network. It’s about making sure that you have supportive friends and family that you can talk to and hang out with. If you’re looking to create some supportive connections, then you should attend activities where you can meet new people such as volunteer work, class, clubs/societies, or events.
Stress is part of everyday life, and we can’t avoid it. It may be a part of your studies, your personal life, your finances, or something else, but stress is there. The good news is that there are steps that you can take to deal with stress: