Don't I Need to Get Myself Psyched Up?

Research shows that persons who are less tense can concentrate better, learn new information more efficiently, and remember more. For example, give a group of college students one test that measures how fast they read and how much they remember and another test that measures their intelligence. Then teach part of them how to be more relaxed while studying and taking tests. Take several weeks so they learn to relax well. Retest all the students. The ones who learned to be less tense will read significantly faster, remember significantly more, and show increases in intelligence scores when compared with the others.If you learn how to go to a test a few minutes early and prepare yourself by relaxing your body and clearing your mind, you probably will do better on the test than if you were all psyched up. Take a moment right now to create, in your mind, a special place for relaxing. It could be some special place you’ve known in the past or one that exists only in your mind. Practice going to your place for a few seconds or minutes and enjoy the relaxation. Practice a lot so you can go there mentally to relax before a test begins. It’s difficult for many students to think about relaxing a lot before taking test. And, it takes practice to do it. But those who take the time to learn to be more relaxed and try their newly found skills find themselves rewarded by being better students.

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