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Despite the enjoyable aspects, college life can also be quite stressful, particularly during exam season. Anxiety can mount as the stakes get higher, leading to poorer performance and reduced academic success.

If this scenario sounds all too familiar to you, then use the following tips and exercises to help lower your anxiety before the next big exam you take:

Insufficient sleep has been linked to various health problems, including obesity, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Therefore, it’s essential to prioritize getting enough sleep regularly for optimal health and longevity. To help combat insomnia, here are some tips that you can incorporate into your routine to promote better sleep.

Limit Your Activities in Bed

If you don’t like going to the gym, then find another activity. Hike, bike, swim, or dance. It really doesn’t matter. What matters is that you get your body moving for around an hour a few times per week and you do so consistently.

In order for all of us to be entirely healthy, it’s important to incorporate exercise into our everyday life.

We live in a 24/7/365 world. Many of us work more than one job, have families to raise, and burn the candle at both ends most days. When we have a moment to ourselves, we typically park our butts in front of some kind of digital screen and zone out with social media. But is this really self-care? Hardly!

Exercise helps beat depression naturally. It only takes moderate exercise three times a week to reap the antidepressant benefits. Exercise doesn’t have to be hard or complicated. Whatever form you like, commit to doing that at least three times a week.

Most of us think of tests as something designed specifically to trick us. The truth is, if you have studied and are totally prepared, then the test is actually an opportunity for you to show off how much you know.

As soon as you feel the anxiety coming on, focus intently on your breathing and nothing else. Begin to take slow… deep breaths. Slow deep breaths send a signal to our body that we are not under attack and everything is okay.

Exercise helps beat depression naturally. It only takes moderate exercise three times a week to reap the antidepressant benefits. You don’t have to train for a marathon or a triathlon to feel better.

The bigger and more important the exam is, the more we tend to suffer from anxiety. Exercise the morning before your exam. This will not only release built-up tension in your muscles, but it will also release “feel-good” endorphins that will put you in a better frame of mind.

In order for all of us to be entirely healthy, that means physically as well as mentally healthy, it’s important to incorporate exercise into our every day life.