Tham khảo tài liệu 'acing the gre 8', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | --------------------------------- STUDYING FOR THE GRE ----------------------------------------- ond cramming tends to raise your anxiety level and your brain doesn t do its best work when you are anxious. Anxiety produces a fight-or-flight response that sends blood away from the brain to the arms and legs in case we need to defend ourselves or run away. Without a good supply of oxygen-carrying blood your brain won t be able to think as well as it can. So it is important to reduce your anxiety about the GRE by relaxing and changing your anxious attitude to one of calm self-assurance. How to Relax If you want to do productive work the night before the GRE spend the time working on your confidence I ve worked hard and will do well . Visualize your graduate environment really see yourself there. Here are some other relaxation techniques you can use if you find yourself getting anxious at any time before or during the GRE. 1. Breathe. When most people think about breathing they think about breathing in. The fact is when you want to relax it s more important to focus on breathing out. You want to be sure you are exhaling completely. It s also important to breathe deeply and to use abdominal breathing rather than shallow chest breathing. Try this Place one hand on your stomach and the other hand on your chest. Sit up straight. Now inhale deeply through your nose. Try to move your stomach as much as possible and your chest as little as possible. Exhale and feel your stomach deflate. Again your chest should hardly move. Count slowly as you breathe to make sure you spend at least as much time breathing out as you do breathing in. This kind of breathing relaxes you. It gets rid of carbon dioxide that can otherwise get trapped in the bottom of your lungs. You can practice this deep breathing anytime anywhere you need to relax. 2. Tense and relax your muscles. As your anxiety mounts your muscles tense just in case they are going to be called on to fight or flee. Of course in .
