A hundred students passing by on the street were asked: "What is one of the biggest nightmares, if not the biggest, of students preparing for the exam?" If we ask, most of them would probably answer in unison, "Teacher exam anxiety!" , it starts with heart palpitations, excitement, then shaking hands during the exam, dry throat, thinking that you have forgotten everything you know, a fast beating pulse and the result is disappointment. So, what happened? Because of this thing called exam anxiety, all dreams were destroyed before they even started.
Believe me, in our country, neither young people perished, nor dreams were destroyed, nor minds were destroyed because of this malady called anxiety.
So, what is it, what kind of thing is it? This test anxiety is a disease and what can be done to eliminate it?
Actually, there is no need to define test anxiety, instead it would be better if we define the students who experience test anxiety.
These students are like a timid gazelle. . They look like the world will collapse around them at any moment. Every time they take an exam, after the exam they say, "Wow, I'm excited again!" They start complaining, that's why their faces are generally sullen.
It seems to happen more to female students, but there are not a few male students who experience this as well. Of course, they try not to notice it, because men do not cry, nor do they worry.
Most of the time, their anxiety is masked by their reluctance to study, and they neither study nor solve tests properly at home. They think they don't feel like studying, they are tired or something. In fact, their anxiety and fear of failure have masked themselves as "reluctance" to prevent them from encountering failure.
Then these students say the same things in unison, like members of a secret sect. “What if I can't succeed, what if I can't do it, it won't happen again, what if it doesn't happen this year” are just a few of these sentences. They never stop saying these doomsaying sentences. If they see themselves making a tiny mistake in a trial exam they take or a test they solve at home, they immediately become astrologers and say, "Didn't I tell you that it wouldn't happen, it won't happen!" they jump.
These students When you see this, you immediately think, "I wonder if they get paid to talk like this?" you may think. It's normal, because sometimes we don't even think. But when we asked them this question, they all said "yoooo!" says. We say, “Well, if you are not getting paid or have not signed an agreement with someone, then say the opposite.” This time, "What would change if we told him, sir?" they say. Even if we say, "Many things change, especially if you change your language first, your thoughts will gradually change along with it," what we say won't help much.
However, if you start changing the beliefs that bother you with your language, you can change so many things. . And believe me, if you knew the impact that what you say and think has on you, you would never use these sentences again.
Let Your Ears Hear What Comes Out of Your Mouth!
Those Japanese people are really interesting, but that's one thing. They are such original guys. There is a professor among them who is even more interesting, but in our opinion, he broke new ground with his research. His name is Masaru Emoto.
Prof. Emoto took the water that we drink, wash with, and brew tea with, and asked, "I wonder how the things we say, our thoughts, the movies we watch, the music we listen to affect the structure of water?" He asked himself and decided to document the answer to this question. Then, he froze the water droplets with his microscope that can take photographs and examined them.
As a result of hundreds of studies he conducted with water samples taken from different parts of the world and in different situations, Emoto reached the following conclusion: “Water is alive and reacts to our every emotion and thought. article. When something positive or negative is said to water, it is instantly affected and can easily copy the energy of what is said.”
In the photographs above, you see only some of the water molecules that the Professor made and photographed with his microscope. Before freezing these waters, Emoto writes "thank you" on one of the bottles and "you make me sick" on the other. After a while, the molecules of the water in the bottle with the words "thank you" become quite beautiful, while the molecules of the water with the words "you make me sick" look like they were hit by a truck.
Emo to reached similar results after examining water samples taken from clean and polluted water sources, after listening to different styles of music such as classical music such as Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and Heavy Metal music, or after movies with or without fear and violence.
No matter how diverse his investigations are, the conclusions he reaches are generally the same: "Water is affected by the emotions and thoughts given to it, and its molecular structure changes positively or negatively accordingly." In fact, it is not only Emoto who has reached the same conclusions, but also many other researchers have reached mostly the same results in their experiments after this study.
Water, which covers three-quarters of our body as well as the world, enables the exchange of information between cells, so what you think and say is Everything affects all your cells. Therefore, after a while, you begin to be and live as you think and talk. If you look at those around you who say "I can't do it, I can't do it, I'm such a failure, I'm so incompetent", you can see this better.
Think about it now. If your thoughts and what you say can have this effect on water, I wonder what it wouldn't do to you and your environment... Maybe you hear it around you, sometimes people ask themselves "how are you?" When asked, they say, "Let's say it's fine." Come on, change your language first, stop telling yourself "what if I can't do it, what if I can't pass, what if this happens, what if that happens" and turn those few days when you are preparing for the exam into a torture for yourself. Now say "good" and let that be your motto.
Your Future is Hidden in Today, Appreciate It! It is because he focuses too much on the future and cannot see the present. Students who are preparing for exams and suffer from what we call excitement or exam anxiety are stuck not in the moment, but in the moment of the exam that will be held after I don't know how many months. Their situation reminds us of the story of the young man who was always looking for happiness.
“A long time ago, in a distant land, there was a young man who was looking for the mystery of life and the source of happiness. This One day, the young man tells his father that he wants to reach the mystery of life and the source of happiness, but he does not know how to do it. His father tells him that only the Wise King can help him and that he must go to him.
After a few days of journey, he appears before the king. He asked the King, "Can you help me find the mystery of life and the source of happiness?" says. The king tells him that he can help him later and now he should go and tour his palace for a while. And he gives the young man a spoon. He puts two drops of oil into the spoon and warns him not to spill the oil. The young man goes and wanders around the palace and comes before the king again at the time he is told. King: “Have you explored my palace thoroughly?” says. The young man says "yes". “Okay,” says the king; He looks at the spoon in the young man's hand and sees that no oil has spilled. King: “Have you seen the famous silk carpets in my palace?” says. The young man answers "no". “So, have you visited my garden? There were many beautiful flowers, my gardener has grown them for many years, have you seen them? he asks. The young man says "no". The king said, “Have you seen the guards? “I have a very trained and disciplined army.” The young man says, "I didn't see it."
The king drops the oil on the spoon again and says, "Visit my palace again." He doesn't forget to say, "Take a good look around you."
The young man starts to tour the palace again with the spoon in his hand. And he sees the magnificence of the palace and comes back to the king in astonishment. Amazed, he tells the king about the garden he saw, the silk carpets and the magnificence of the palace.
The Wise King says, "Well, let's look at the oil in the spoon." There was no oil left in the spoon in the young man's hand, all of it spilled. There is no trace of oil. And the Wise King says to the young man: "This is the mystery of life and the source of happiness, learning to look around and at the world without losing the two drops of oil in your hand." You can think of it as the moment of your exam that you cannot remove, and the oil inside as the fear, anxiety or excitement you feel when you think about that moment. Now sit back and stop thinking about those few hours of exam time five or ten months from now. Focus on the now, the only moment you have the power to change, and do your best. to do…
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