{"id":94,"date":"2020-05-31T03:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/?p=94"},"modified":"2020-05-31T03:16:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:16:25","slug":"week-10-dead-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/2020\/05\/31\/week-10-dead-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10: Dead Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wellness Challenge is officially over, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t continue challenging yourself and your wellbeing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dead week is usually when papers, projects, and studying for finals happens all at once. It&#8217;s an understatement to say it can be a little stressful. We hope this post can encourage you to step away from the books and screens for a while and make time for yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#f57600;font-size:30px\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Stress Relief Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Try to stay away from caffeine. Caffeine can increase cortisol in your body, your stress hormone, and increase overall anxiety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Take walks outside as study breaks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Stay off of your phone when you&#8217;re not studying. With everything online, we need to give our brain as many screen breaks as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Make time for your creative outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Take a relaxing shower if you are getting too stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Write down your goals. Why are you here? Why are you studying? Is it going to be okay if you don&#8217;t end up with the A? Bringing what you&#8217;re doing into perspective can help with motivation and stress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff780a\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Relaxing Music<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Hidden Valley: Beautiful Relaxing Music for Stress Relief, Sleep &amp; Meditation\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2OEL4P1Rz04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wellness Challenge is officially over, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t continue challenging yourself and your wellbeing! Dead week is usually when papers, projects, and studying for finals happens all at once. It&#8217;s an understatement to say it can be a little stressful. We hope this post can encourage you to step away from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/2020\/05\/31\/week-10-dead-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 10: Dead Week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}