This sucks! (warning, I say fuck a lot)

[november_flower]

Fucking Christ, my test anxiety is definitely getting worse. I just had my first test of the semester in Linear Programming and I was seriously flipping out. I started forgetting everthing I know (not just the matierial from the class... we're talking EXTREMELY basic shit here) so much so that I was nearly incapacitated. This is really awful. I

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[aegrus]

I suggest chamomile tea and/or ale on a daily basis. If that doesn't work, yoga breathing exercises help me when I'm stressed.

[november_flower]

I'm sure you're right. I really should be drinking chamomile tea regularly. Instead I have just started drinking entirely too much coffee and diet coke. I don't know why so much, all of a sudden. It makes me feel better in some respects, but altogether I think it's probably making me feel worse. And pumping myself full of caffeine all the time is a shitty habit. I probably ought to stop it before my body gets too used to it.

Where can I learn about these breathing exercises???? I always try to just make myself breath deeply but that isn't enough.

[aegrus]

The secret is breathing in deeply for about twenty seconds, hold for another twenty seconds and let the air out slowly for a further twenty seconds. That usually does the trick. Yoga books should be available, but you do live in Michigan now so... *shrugs* If there is a concern about money, there are resources online. A lot of yogi seems silly, but it does help..

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Tea Time

[november_flower]

Yummmm tea. I'm going to make sure to drink some sleepy time tea before bed tonight.

Thanks for all the links. That breathing advice is very helpful. I think the problem with my attempts to breath deeply was definitely that I wasn't doing it slowly or thoroughly enough. When I took yoga they never really taught us this stuff. That class was pretty useless.