MIT students describe how making deliberate efforts to recognize and attend to their emotions as well as their bodies has helped them cope.
Utilizing Strategies
MIT students share the strategies they have used to cope with difficult situations. While there are many routes to overcoming challenges and no single strategy will work for everyone, listening to others’ strategies might help you reframe your own struggles and cope more easily.
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Mindful Awareness
Cultivating awareness of thoughts and emotions and focusing on the present
Learning more effectively, setting priorities, and exploring academic interests
Recognizing unhelpful ways of thinking and gaining new perspectives
Building healthy habits, supportive relationships, and joy
Cultivating awareness of thoughts and emotions and focusing on the present
Reaching out to others to gain perspective and access support
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Read more: Coping with Anxiety
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Coping with Anxiety
View all clips: Coping with AnxietyMIT students share strategies they used to calm their nerves before stressful situations.
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Meditation
View all clips: MeditationMIT students discuss meditation practice and how it helped them shift their perspectives to gain mental clarity, feel more compassion, and lessen rumination.