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Stress-busting Techniques in Classrooms during the New Normal


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1 Student, BA Final Year, MCM DAV College, Chandigarh, India
2 Assistant Professor, Psychology MGSIPA, Sector-26, Chandigarh, India
     

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COVID-19 was declared a pandemic worldwide and many people suffered through various physical, mental, sociological, and psychological problems. Even after returning back to normal, people have not been able to cope with the stress. Amidst all, students are also finding it difficult to adjust to the new normal, which has caused feelings of anxiety, fear, distress etc in them. Keeping this in mind, this paper highlights the two major stress-busting techniques I.e., mindfulness and emotion regulation that can be used in the classroom during the new normal to restore health and well-being. The paper discusses various activities of mindfulness like five minutes of meditation, and musical drawing (Silver et al., 2017). Etc along with emotional regulation techniques such as positive reframing, kindness chain, expressing feelings (O'Neal et al., 2019) etc.

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Stress-Busting Techniques, New Normal, Classroom.
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Authors

Saadgi Malhotra
Student, BA Final Year, MCM DAV College, Chandigarh, India
Nayanika Singh
Assistant Professor, Psychology MGSIPA, Sector-26, Chandigarh, India

Abstract


COVID-19 was declared a pandemic worldwide and many people suffered through various physical, mental, sociological, and psychological problems. Even after returning back to normal, people have not been able to cope with the stress. Amidst all, students are also finding it difficult to adjust to the new normal, which has caused feelings of anxiety, fear, distress etc in them. Keeping this in mind, this paper highlights the two major stress-busting techniques I.e., mindfulness and emotion regulation that can be used in the classroom during the new normal to restore health and well-being. The paper discusses various activities of mindfulness like five minutes of meditation, and musical drawing (Silver et al., 2017). Etc along with emotional regulation techniques such as positive reframing, kindness chain, expressing feelings (O'Neal et al., 2019) etc.

Keywords


Stress-Busting Techniques, New Normal, Classroom.

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