Many of you are sit­ting ex­ams at this time and for those of you who are not, the dread­ful time will soon come. We have had peo­ple writ­ing in to gieMAGAZINE say­ing that they are too stressed when it is time for an ex­am and they can't sleep and func­tion prop­er­ly. For those of you who feel like this, a way to calm one­self be­fore an ex­am is by med­i­tat­ing. Med­i­ta­tion can get rid of nerves and en­hance men­tal per­for­mance. This way you can do your best in the ex­am.Re­mem­ber that once you pre­pare there is noth­ing to wor­ry about. If that lit­tle wor­ri­some thought steps in say to your­self: "I have pre­pared and there is no rea­son why I won't do well." Al­ways try to keep calm.Try this tech­nique for a stress free ex­am. The tech­nique was tak­en from www.med­i­ta­tion-is-for-every­one.com and may work for some but not all.

1. Pre­pare your mind

Start each study ses­sion with med­i­ta­tion - this could last from five min­utes to an hour de­pend­ing on how ex­pe­ri­enced you are and how much time you have., Close your eyes and vi­su­alise some­thing that makes you feel very calm and peace­ful, such as a wa­ter­fall or a rain­for­est. Take slow deep­breaths and sit still for as long as you feel nec­es­sary be­fore open­ing your books.

2. Fo­cus your mind

While you are study­ing, make sure that your minds re­mains at­ten­tive and that you con­cen­trate on every­thing that you are read­ing. Check that the in­for­ma­tion has been kept by stop­ping of­ten to test your­self to make sure that you re­mem­ber the facts. Af­ter each study ses­sion, close your books and take your mind back to that calm scene you vi­su­alised be­fore you be­gan your ses­sion. Try a walk in the fresh air or some oth­er ac­tiv­i­ty that helps you to feel calm and re­laxed.

3. De­vel­op­ing your self-be­lief

Start each day with a mantra, a pos­i­tive af­fir­ma­tion such as "I can do this" or some oth­er state­ment that helps you to feel good about your­self and be­lieve in your abil­i­ties. This will al­so help you pre­pare for ex­ams, self-be­lief is very im­por­tant, you must be able to be­lieve that you can achieve what­ev­er you set out to achieve.

4. Ac­ti­vat­ing Calm

The night be­fore and the day of the ex­am, get rid of nerves by vi­su­al­is­ing your calm­ing scene. Re­mind your­self that you have done as much as you can and the nerves will on­ly dis­tract you from your goal. By now you should have enough ex­pe­ri­ence to be able to achieve re­lax­ation fair­ly quick­ly - just be­fore en­ter­ing the ex­am room, ac­ti­vate those feel­ings of calm.

5. En­gag­ing your mind

When your ex­am be­gins, take time to read the ex­am pa­per be­fore you an­swer the ques­tions.This will al­low your mind the time to fo­cus on the job at hand and re­cov­er the right in­for­ma­tion. It will al­so give you time to calm your­self so that you can avoid mak­ing need­less mis­takes.

6. The Pow­er of Pos­i­tive Think­ing

If you have put all the nec­es­sary work in and stay calm, there is no rea­son why you won't do well in your ex­am so stay pos­i­tive!Re­mind your­self that every­one else is in the same sit­u­a­tion and that you are in­tel­li­gent, pre­pared and

YOU ARE GO­ING TO SUC­CEED. Ex­am suc­cess can be achieved by pos­i­tive think­ing and fo­cus­ing on your goals and us­ing med­i­ta­tion to help you calm and cen­tre your­self and al­so be con­fi­dent in your abil­i­ties.