Stress relief technique for college students

This is common when the college students feel stressed with the huge and pressing timetable during the final week. After that, try to take some moment to relief the stressful days with some simple techniques. This is to ensure you still have the positive spirit of yourself to start the other activities both summer schools or holiday. There are some stress relief techniques for college students. These are simple, and you can do it at any time.

Deep breath is very simple and effective. This will help you calm yourself and your state of mind. You can do this anytime and anywhere, which makes it quite easy. Try it when sitting in traffic, waiting to be called up for an appointment, or if your class has grown too boring to follow. You can combine with your abdomen breathe. The second technique is for those imaginative persons, you can visualize yourself on such beautiful and quiet place. The next is thought-stopping, where you just need to close your eyes and say “stop” in middle of your hectic situation. This might need some processes and time, until you feel you are ready again for the situation. The most common is that you should take a break. This might be the combination of the three above. Take a time is precisely effective, but the consequence you might start from “zero” after the break.

Everything is started from yourself. Just start by turning off your iPod and laptop, and start by doing these simple techniques. You need not to go vacation or relaxation through spa or any massage clubs. This is expensive and also takes time; you may consider this if you have spare time. Above all, those simple stress relief techniques in releasing the stressful thought can be done at any time effectively, especially the college students with the pressing schedules.

A Call to Do (Now)

Earth is a blue planet that is covered by glimmering white clouds. The question is, how long will our generations see the world like this?

People from all over the world gathered at the climate change conference (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, last December. The representatives from 190 countries talked about issues related to climate change, such as global warming in certain time periods: 2010, 2020, and 2030 - as if the problem of the climate change was related to future decades.

Since a significant temperature increase in the Arctic was first reported in the 1990s, the amount of ice that has been melting is getting bigger. Hemingway's The Snow of Kilimanjaro immortalizes the memory of real snow on the highest mountain in Africa.

As the chyrosphere, or ice area, on earth is getting smaller, the surface of the sea is rising. By 2100, it is predicted, more than 40 archipelagic countries will no longer exist. Worse still, as the population grows, future generations will have limited space.

What can we learn from this? While the 190-country conference didn't create any binding agreements on how to curb and solve global climate change problems, together we can do something big to this small planet.

Our country is one of the countries that support programs to conserve rainforests. Indonesia is determined to decrease air pollution by 26 percent in the next decade and if developed countries do give their support, the decrease will be even greater.

The idea of "one man one tree" should be practiced in our daily lives to contribute to reforestation efforts. Reforestation will help to make the world's climate become more stable.

And those actions need not to be delayed or just planned for future decades; we have to take action today. It can't wait.

This article is published on The Jakarta Post.