Q. I think I have hit a slump in my study. I cannot focus and I get poor results even when I try hard.
A. The boy has been studying very hard with his own goals and plans so far. He has been successful at academic achievement with full support from his parents. Then, he began to find himself falling behind with his study plans and losing motivation. He tried harder to push himself asking parents for more support and taking more time for study.
Unfortunately, his efforts did not bring about much positive results. He entered the vicious cycle of getting more tired and less efficient with study. He couldn't focus and had to repeat the basic process of understanding the subject over and over. He came to the conclusion that he was not smart enough and felt lethargic. Parents and teachers provided him with sincere advice and other practical supports to no avail.
The boy is considered to have all these problems since he has not developed his own healing system in study. Studying necessarily induces stress since we have to constantly activate the consciousness. High school students have a lot to study and they naturally accumulate stress in the process. Males are designed to remove stress in their mind and psychology, and they also remove factual information associated with stress from their memory along the way. Without a healing system for dealing with stress that continuously flows in during studying, they cannot but end up losing efficiency and motivation.
There are two types of students who are good at studying at high-school level. One is students who have an independent healing system that deals with stress induced from activating the consciousness during studying, and the other is students who use studying itself as a healing system. In the latter case, studying is the cause of stress and a healing system at the same time, which leads them to be quite passionate about studying itself.
In addition, it must be noted that only those who make efforts hit a slump in the process of working hard. That is, studying itself is the cause of a slump. Those who are not interested in study and do not study hard never hit a slump in study. The boy deserves acknowledgement for his efforts to study hard and overcome the slump. However, the more efforts he makes for study and the more stress he accumulates by activating the consciousness, the deeper slump he falls into.
Another point to be noted is that it is better to experience a slump while he is a teenager and under the protection and guidance of his parents than experiencing a slump later when he becomes an adult. If he experiences a slump with more important life issues after he becomes an adult, he may have a more difficult time with successfully dealing with it. When he understands the mechanism of human mind and psychology, adequately overcomes the slump as a teenager, and build the ability to deal with slumps, he will be able to deal with other cases of slumps that may occur in the future.
Then, how could he go about overcoming the slump? Firstly, he needs to recover or maintain physical health. Psychological recovery must be always based on physical health. When your mind and psychology gets tired and lethargic, your body also gets tired and lethargic. You just need basic work outs such as going for a walk or doing simple exercises.
Secondly, he needs to build a healing system for study. When he feels stressed from studying, he can divert himself to leisurely activities and hobbies such as reading, listening to music, or even sleeping. Then, his psychology is stabilized again after adequately removing stress and he can resume studying with a sharp focus. When we have stable psychology, we naturally develop intellectual appetite leading to improved learning ability.
To be able to build an effective healing system, the boy must first understand the operational mechanism of human mind and psychology and how stress is induced and can be adequately addressed. As he applies what he has understood about human mind and psychology to real life situations, he will gradually form habits to smoothly deal with stress in daily life.
Of course, it will take some time for him to form habits for adequately dealing with stress. In the mean time, he can attempt to change the pattern of managing his study trying diverse patterns regarding time, place, and subjects. After some time, he will find that he has restored intellectual appetite and passion for study. Now, he has not only your own goals and plans with passion and motivation, but also his own healing system against stress.
It is recommended to emphasize maintaining healthy psychology as well as promoting effective knowledge education in order to maximize academic success in all teenagers who are doing their best to study hard everyday. After all, academic achievement is implausible and meaningless without healthy body and mind.
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