STRESS

Stop Stressing! Start Living! 

                    
In a world bursting with situations that can cause stress — such as traffic jams, layoffs, illness, and money woes —it's not surprising that many people are feeling stressed out. And stress is reflected in a negative way that affects both the individual himself and best people in the surrounding.


How stress affect your body:

-     When you encounter something stressful, your brain signals the adrenal glands, which release hormones such as cortisol, adrenaline and noradrendaline. These stress hormones race through your bloodstream to different parts of your body, preparing you to fight or flee.
-      Your breath quickens as your lungs take in extra oxygen.
-      Glucose and fats are released from the storage sites in your blood stream. This supplies your body with the energy needed tofend the threat.
-      Your sight and hearing become sharper, to make you more alert.
-      Your heart beats faster, sometimes up to five times as quickly as normal.
-      As your heart starts pounding, blood pressure rises. Certain blood vessels constrict, which helps direct blood flow to your brain and muscles and away from other organs.
-      Your muscles tighten.

People can learn to manage stress. Here are some tips to help you keep stress at bay:

1-     Keep a positive attitude.

2-     Accept that there are events that you cannot control.

3-     Be assertive instead of aggressive. Assert your feelings, opinions, or beliefs instead of becoming angry, defensive, or passive.

4-     Learn and practice relaxation techniques; try meditation, yoga, or tai-chi.

5-     Exercise regularly. Your body can fight stress better when it is fit.

6-     Eat healthy, well-balanced meals.

7-     Learn to manage your time more effectively.

8-     Set limits appropriately and say NO to requests that would create excessive stress in your life.

9-     Make time for hobbies and interests.

10-  Get enough rest and sleep.

11-  Don't rely on alcohol, drugs, or food to reduce stress. Ease up on caffeine, too.

12-  Seek out social support. Spend enough time with those you love.

13-  Seek treatment with a psychologist or other mental health professional trained in stress management to learn more healthy ways of dealing with the stress in your life

Emotional Intelligence

  Emotional Intelligence: A necessity for Success

 

I.Introduction:

Developing emotional intelligence can be very beneficial for those working with people especially when in the role of leadership or cooperative group situations. Having a high level of emotional intelligence is synonymous with having good people skills. There are some people who just get along well with others. They are great at listening, solving problems, and always know just what to say and how to say it regardless of what position they may find themselves in. By nature they are kind, considerate, and compassionate people whom other people flock to. In addition to working well with others, people with high levels of emotional intelligence are also good at controlling their own emotions. Even when they are placed in stressful situations, they know how to keep their cool and maintain a positive outlook in order to get the job done. They look honestly at themselves and take criticism well and use it productively to improve themselves and their work

II. What is emotional intelligence?

 Goleman defined it as "It is the capacity for recognising our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in us and in our relationships." Or, as Maurice Elias, Rutgers University psychology professor, defines it as, "It's the set of abilities that helps us get along in life with other people in all kinds of life situations”.

II.How Understanding Emotional intelligence helps educators in their lives?

Emotions are important in the classroom in two major ways. First, emotions have an impact on learning. They influence our ability to process information and to accurately understand what we encounter. For these reasons, it is important for teachers to create a positive, emotionally safe classroom environment to provide for the optimal learning of students. Second, learning how to manage feelings and relationships constitutes a kind of “emotional intelligence” that enables people to be successful.

In addition to affecting learning and allowing people to be successful, it helps students build a sense of empathy, motivation, managing emotions, self-awareness, and handling social relationships.

III. What to do to help in order to help students become more emotional intelligence?

Here are some student-centred activities you can use:

1- Institute morning meetings:
                     
                                    

Starting your day with a morning class meeting provides numerous opportunities to support social and emotional learning: It helps build a sense of community, creates a climate of trust, and encourages respectful communication.

2-    Introduce journal writing: This familiar educational tool can be an effective way to help students develop self-awareness

3-    Emphases responsibility: Formalise tasks in your classroom, such as maintaining chalkboards or whiteboards, bringing papers to the school office, or handing out playground equipment at recess. Such duties help encouraging a sense of responsibility among your students and provide everyone with the opportunity to contribute to daily classroom management.

4-    Encourage creativity: Joshua Freedman, director of programs for Six Seconds, a nonprofit organisation supporting emotional intelligence in families, schools, corporations, and communities, suggests that creativity is most necessary in times of emotional hardship, such as when we're frustrated or angry. By providing your students with ongoing opportunities to express their creativity, you'll also be helping them handle the inevitable curve balls that life throws at them.

Health As Number One to a Healthy Mind

An observable isse in the lebanese news nowadays is the selling of unacceptable food, that passes the expiry date, so i found it's important to highlight the health for a healthy life.


An arab proverb says that the healthy brain is in the healthy body.
If you want to protect your brain, you might as well protect the rest of your body, so here is the point!
What to do, how to save both is an important point to work on through differnt ways, in school through hidden curriculum or directly in the science classes or at home by the involvement of parents in the process. Knowing that both plays an important role in educating the individuals and preparing their healthy minds.
Many ways helps  maintaining both, including:
- exercises
- low calories diets
- fruits and vegetables
- it's important to stop smoking and to avoid drinking
It's not hard to live in such a healthy state, through the will and the courage, for sure gaining both the brain and the health will be on the benefit of the human, so the key to u're success and improvement is between u're hands so hurry up before time passes.

David Caruso: “It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head -- it is the unique intersection of both.”

Emotional intelligence is the ability to use emotions to enhance thought. The higher the emotional intelligence, the better the social relations. In a addition to that, it improves the individuals social effectiveness. It is presented in four different branches:

1. Perceiving Emotions: The first step in understanding emotions is to accurately perceive them. In many cases, this might involve understanding nonverbal signals such as body language and facial expressions.


2. Reasoning With Emotions: The next step involves using emotions to promote thinking and cognitive activity. Emotions help prioritise what we pay attention and react to; we respond emotionally to things that garner our attention.


3. Understanding Emotions: The emotions that we perceive can carry a wide variety of meanings. If someone is expressing angry emotions, the observer must interpret the cause of their anger and what it might mean.


4. Managing Emotions: The ability to manage emotions effectively is a key part of emotional intelligence. Regulating emotions, responding appropriately and responding to the emotions of others are all important aspect of emotional management.

Far Looker

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Happy teachers day for all of you :)

Graduation Day

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet"~Aristotle

What students think about throughout their education life is reaching this day, so that they end up the mastering of skills, content and knowledge, and move to the new world, the world of applying these skills. They shout for the really world “Here I come”. Their hearts and minds were fulfilled with a great feeling of satisfaction and pleasure, shouting “Yes I did it!” This is the process of transmitting the received knowledge to benefit society, to benefit others, and to start building the working life! Yes, it's really nice to end up this level of education, so that students will feel exactly the taste of success of being able to use what they've learned throughout more than 15 years of learning. But of course we have to highlight that education is a continuous process that never stops, except by the end of life. So to be successful in life, learning must continue, and improvement must be renewed, whenever technology is still proceeding. At the end an important advice for a successful and fruitful life is never stop learning because success needs hard work and a far looker.

Education

Education is the most fundamental building block, that is essential for everyone, without it life will stop, and no more improvement and development will occur, without these importand blocks we'll be standing in our places. Education is the process in which we work on through our life in order to be successful participants in this society.