Feng shui also can help your studies and excel in the exams. Some of you might think that using feng shui might required you to buy some expensive stuffs like those feng shui master said. I found some tips from the famous Lilian Too's '16 Tried and Tested Tips To Scholastic Brilliance'. Here i copied some of the very basic feng shui tips from the article that i always applied without any extra cost.Good luck in your exams!!
1. Engage the yang chi- make notes as you study
Effective studying requires the use of the input-output method all the time every time. So get into the habit of taking and making notes. Merely reading textbooks without making notes creates study frustration, as it is a yin activity. When you only read, you are only performing input, not output. So come exam time you will find it harder to output. This results in very frustrating feelings.
You know that you know what is being asked, but you simply cannot show that you know! You cannot output what you know and this is because you are engaging only yin energy when you study. When your hand moves across the pages of a notebook making notes, you are engaging yang energy, and then study becomes auspicious and far more successful.
2. Allow time for the mind to warm up
If you have too many things on your mind, you cannot make the most of any single thing. To learn something really well, you must focus. The best way to achieve focus is to allocate enough time for each subject, and when you are working on that subject, stick with it for at least several hours. Your brain needs to warm up to the job when you’re trying to learn something, and scheduling one hour learning periods for each subject is definitely not enough.
Budget to spend at least a half hour for warming up before getting into the nitty gritty of the subject. Allow at least one hour to learn, and do not go beyond an hour and forty minutes. Then allow a half-hour to wind down.
3. Wake up surrounding chi
Another technique that came in useful while at University cracking my head over what to write for my dissertation during my third year Economics Finals was simply to move the Chi in my room around. Sometimes, when you are lacking good ideas, stuck in a rut or have “writer’s block”, the best way to shake yourself out of that stagnant state is simply to rearrange your furniture. It almost doesn’t matter how you change your room arrangement, as long as you move things about. You do not even need to change the layout – just move your desk, bed and cabinets out, clean the hidden corners of dirt then move them back in. This moves the chi.
4. Turning night into day?
So many young people turn night into day and day into night, getting their inner signals all mixed up. Nocturnal creatures somehow find the nighttime hours excellent for study. Daytime distractions interrupt their thought processes. The problem with this is that exams are almost always held during daytime hours. It is the old concepts of yin and yang kicking in.
Unless your body and mind follows the natural rhythms of the Universe, you will find yourself being dominated by unbalanced chi energy. You are certain then to perform below par. When you suffer form lack of sleep, your brainwaves slow down, and your clarity of thought gets compromised. Then no matter how much you have learned, you will never be able to produce a first-class exam paper with a tired mind. So, try to be in bed before the hour of the Rat (11pm) if you want to be a straight “A” student.
5. Reduce notes to single key words
When you make notes, or copy the textbook from cover to cover, you are teaching your mind to input and output what you learn. Now it’s time to go further. With your set of notes, the night before the exam, make yet more notes. Make your notes increasingly more succinct as you get nearer exam date, until just single keywords are left. Make sure you have a light nearby, as this will enhance the yang energy you need. Your key words become your trigger words, opening up an entire mountain of knowledge for you to tap into.
6. Learn to mug
Every person can be a straight “A” student. There is no such thing as being born clever. I have met geniuses with high MENSA scores who disappoint in their exams, while students touted merely average rise up to shine and score. Why? Because they got the method right. In school, when you need to take a host of subjects, it is unlikely you will have a natural aptitude for every single one.
For the subjects you are weakest in, learn how to mug. Revise, revise and revise until you make yourself good at it. Put in the time. For languages, learn vocabulary. For Maths, practise doing variations of the same sums using past exam papers and activity books. For English, read as much as you can. You can become good at anything you want to excel in, if only for the exam. After the exam is over, who cares if you can remember those lines in Shakespeare or how algebra works. You’ve got the grades you need, and that is what counts.
7. Energizing the Study Area
Having a messy and dirty study area will store more negative chi in the surrounding and will makes you more frustrated during studies. Try to rearrange and clean up the your study desk. Make sure your study desk is under a proper lightning. Study under low light or too bright condition will effect your concentration on studies. Only allow the study materials such as notes,textbooks and stationaries to be placed on the desk. Too much extra stuffs like mobile phone and computer on the desk will easily distract the concentration.
8. Mind-mapping
I used to develop plenty of mind maps in my time. I want to recommend it as a powerful study tool. Developed by Tony Buzan in the late 1960’s, this is a powerful graphic technique that unlocks the potential of the brain. I used this very effectively in my college years to refresh my memory just before stepping into each exam. Essentially, you create a map using colours, images and symbols to unlock pockets of knowledge in your mind.
Only make a mind map once you have made notes in the conventional long-form format. When you have a good overview of your subject, start mind mapping. Begin at the middle of the page and branch out like a spider to the outer edges of the page, using a different leg for each theme. Each leg of your spider can in turn have more legs as you move into sub-themes. What I always did was to make one mind map for each topic within my subjects and paste them around the room to look at while changing, brushing teeth and so forth. Before going into an exam, I would bring along the relevant mind maps and have a last read just before sitting the exam. They work!
