Take Care of Your Well-Being: What You Fill Your Head With

Your focus right now is learning new things, writing papers and taking exams.  What you fill your head with is going to have a huge impact on your learning and, especially, on your stress levels.

So, what do I mean by “what you fill your head with?”  I’m talking about what you watch on TV (especially right before you go to bed), what music you listen to and what you listen to on the radio (the non-music stuff).

I’ll hit each of the above, but, in general, you want to avoid filling your head with a bunch of negative junk! 

Let’s talk television…  The very worst thing you can do is to watch the news right before you go to bed at night!  Hey, all the local news shows do is tell you about all the terrible things that happened in your city that day and it’s a huge downer.  Hearing all that stuff is definitely stressful and not what you want your mind to be thinking about while you sleep.  Yes, the last thing you put into your head is what your mind with think about and dream about all night.  In fact, I’m not a fan of you watching TV news at all.  I’m not saying that you shouldn’t know what’s going on in your world.  You should!  It's important that you know what's going on in the world, so you should watch the "world news," if anything.  The least stressful way to get your world news info is to just check out the front pages of the newspaper (doing that online is the easiest.)  World news talks about politics, the economy – the big stuff.  Local news talks about the latest baby who was found in a dumpster and THIS you do NOT need to know about.

Two other types of shows to avoid before bedtime are the cop and medical dramas.  Yeah, some of these are really good shows, but we are talking about your stress levels here.  Seeing people get hurt and die (and you know someone always bites it on these shows) is not what you want to fill your head with.  If you really want to watch them, tape them for a weekend or afternoon viewing.