Mind over Matter (Mental Health - mini session)

This was very important and helpful

Very nice

In the meeting, I really started to see how crucial it is to prioritize my wellness, especially when trying to juggle school, work, and personal responsibilities. We explored and discussed two types of stress, acute and chronic, which made me think about how different situations affect my mood and energy in different ways. At the end, we also watched videos on mindfulness and breathing techniques. The session made me realize that it’s hard to focus when I'm stressed so I need to be more intentional about managing stress and taking care of myself before diving into tasks.

Today I learned that stress isn't exclusively a bad thing. Apparently it also comes from good things in our lives too such as planning celebrations, exercising, graduating, etc. This is called eustress. I've also learned mindfulness strategies to help me better manage stress, such as body scanning and the 5-4-3-2-1 method.

I learned about types of stress, like eustress, a good stress that offers positive benefits on mental health. I also didn't know PGCC had a Wellness and Mental Health Center. I might check it out sometime, thanks to this meeting.

I really enjoyed this meeting and i’m glad that I joined because sometimes I do struggle with having my academics in order and sometimes I fall off track when it gets overwhelming for me but some of the techniques that were shown in this session were really good especially journalism because I used to do that a lot but I had stopped, but I think it’s would be a good idea to start back journaling because it really does help a lot!.

I think that this mini session was very informative and will help me a lot in dealing with stress. I'm surprised on how impactful negative stress is to my life and I also figured out that my problem of having a hard time finish work and having a hard time sleeping may be caused by stress. I will try to implement the mindfulness techniques shown like the mindful walking and the breathing excises to improve and fix my problems.

I enjoyed this meeting and all the information that it was taught, before I didn’t really have any techniques for stress but now I do