UNWIND (WHILE YOU STUDY)

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TO INCREASE FOCUS AND DECREASE STRESS

SAFER SEX SUPPLIES ON CAMPUS

UNWIND (WHILE YOU STUDY)

If you are feeling tense from studying, try these simple techniques to unwind (while you study).

• Shake it out: Shake your arms and wrists to increase circulation.

• Stretch like an executive: While sitting, lock your hands behind your head. Bring your elbows back as far as possible. Inhale deeply while leaning back and stretching. Exhale and relax.

• Shrug your shoulders: Slowly bring shoulders up to ears and hold for three seconds. Rotate shoulders back and down. Repeat ten times.

• Ease eye strain: Massage your eyes. Focus on distant points in the room. Expose your eyes to natural light whenever you can.

• Breathe deeply: Filling the abdomen and lungs keeps your body relaxed and reduces anxiety, muscle tension, headaches, and fatigue. Standing in a relaxed position, place one hand on the abdomen and one on the chest. inhale slowly through the nose, hold for 4 seconds and exhale slowly through the nose. Teach yourself to associate deep breathing with computer work. breathe deeply every time you check your e-mail or each time you turn your computer off or on.

Click here for more strategies for coping with stress.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TO INCREASE FOCUS AND DECREASE STRESS

Mindfulness meditation has been found to improve concentration, decrease anxiety and stress and increase creativity and flexibility in thinking. The Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at UCLA has several brief meditations you can download or listen to on the web.

Click here to take a few minutes to ease your stress and improve your focus!

You can also visit our webpage on mindfulness.

SAFER SEX SUPPLIES ON CAMPUS

Buy safer sex supplies privately with pocket change--condoms (1 dime), dental dams (2 quarters), lube (1 quarter), and gloves (1 dime)--from the vending machine in J. Walter Wilson's gender neutral 1st floor bathroom at the end of the mailboxes hall.

Safer sex supplies are also available in Health Services, 1st and 3rd floor bathrooms, Health Education (3rd floor of Health Services), in the LGBTQ Center, the Sarah Doyle Women's Center, from your RPL's door, or from your local SHAG peer educator (shag@brown.edu).

For safer sex info, written by Brown students for Brown students, click here.