Mind over Matter (Mental Health - mini session)

Well put together and very helpful mini session

I’ve been dealing with stress recently from school. This session was helpful in differentiating the types of stress and how to handle it.

My biggest takeaway from this session was that we as a society don’t do research on religious practices rooted in paganism. We just accept things that are popularized or trendy in that era. It’s really dangerous to teach young people about yoga practices when we don’t know the portals they’re opening up into their lives. I appreciate being told about the facilities that we can use a students, but to be told about practices that we know nothing about is very deceiving.

Distress is a negative stress.

During this session, I learned more about how to relieve stress. I learned about many mindfulness techniques, like breathing exercises and mindful walking, which I plan on doing in the future whenever I am stressed. One takeaway from this session is learning the difference between good stress and bad stress.