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rejuvenates the mind and body, improves your concentration power, regulates your mood swings and sharpens
                 your brain for better decision-making power. Sleep is so important that irregular sleeping patterns or slight sleep
                 deprivation can bring irritation in your behaviour and cause severe mood swings.




                                                    Holidays with Family and Friends

                                                    Going out on holidays gives you a break from your daily routine. It gives you
                                                    an opportunity to spend time with your family and friends. This will work
                                                    as a wonderful medicine for de-stressing yourself, thus lowering the risk of
                                                    heart attack.






                         How can Students Manage Stress?

                 Following are some of the practices to manage stress:

                 •  Learning Time Management Skills: This will help a student to manage his time well. Always design a time table
                   for work allocated. Make short term and long-term goals.
                 •  Do Physical Exercise to Keep Your Mind and Body Fit: No matter how busy you are still keep some time in the
                   evening to play with your friends or involve yourself in some physical activity like badminton, football, aerobics,
                   etc.
                 •  Eat Healthy Food: Always carry a healthy tiffin to school. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables, avoid having junk
                   food, and drink lots of water.
                 •  Do Yoga and Meditation Sometimes: This will help you relax your mind and body. Also, your concentration
                   level will improve with meditation.
                 •  Positive Thinking: No matter what problems you face in life just always remember to ignore life’s less pleasant
                   things. Try to find good in every situation. It will have a big impact on your physical and mental health.
                 •  Spend some Quality Time with Your Family and Friends: You will experience less loneliness and so will help
                   you cope up with stress. Being physically present with loved ones creates a strong emotional support to face all
                   the challenges of life.


                         Working Independently


                 Sometimes you work in a group and sometimes you get a chance to work all alone on a project assigned. So
                 depending on the situations, your inner qualities need to be polished and used to the best of your capabilities.
                 Working independently is the ability of a person to work with full efficiency on assigned tasks without any interference
                 or supervision. Every person is blessed with some ability that gives them the power to exist independently.

                 Some can sing well, others are good at sports, some are good in logic and mathematics, and some may become
                 good actors. Everyone is special in their own ways.
                 To realise your own abilities it is important to work independently. Try to do the assigned task independently
                 by utilising all your abilities and work with your maximum productivity to accomplish the given task with great
                 success. Working independently means:
                 •  You take ownership of the work.
                 •  You become self-aware of your strength and weaknesses.
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