Class Presentation 11/8

After reading the article about stress and ways to cope with stress itself, I would have to say that I disagree with meditation as a way to deal with stress. In my opinion the second that you’re done with meditation or yoga the stress you felt prior to it will just return. This is my opinion because I’ve tried techniques to cope with stress and relieve myself from stress. I’ve always been really stressed out for whatever reason. I think half of the reason that I get so stressed out is that I do it to myself. I tend to only get stressed out over school. For instance, I had a huge lab exam tonight and I’ve been studying for days now but I was still freaking out. I’m way too concerned about my GPA apparently because my mom, who has always drilled into my brain that I need to do well and get good grades, talked my down and said that It wasn’t the end of the world if I didn’t do that well. She told me that half of the stuff that I need to know in college I’ll never use or need to be able to apply to my work as a nurse.  However the way I see it is that I need to have a high GPA to get in the program. So if I have a low GPA and I’m stressed out about it, meditation is not going to help me what so ever. Even though I may feel somewhat relaxed during yoga or meditation the second that it is over I’ll remember what was stressing me out and be just as stress possibly more because now I’ve wasted time doing something that hasn’t helped me at all. That’s why meditation or yoga could never work for me.