O TAO DA MEDITAÇÃO: um caminho alternativo para diminuir a ansiedade em estudantes pré-vestibulandos

Abstract

This monograph attempts to link the psychophysiological changes resulting from the practice of meditation with the state of anxiety in students pre-school students in order to investigate whether meditation can be an alternative resource in Physical Education classes to reduce the anxiety of those students. Thus, were identified in the literature, psychoendoneuroimmunology changes resulting from meditation practice and state of anxiety, defined by the context of students pre-school candidates. Studies consider the preparation for the exam as an environmental situation of chronic stress that may cause stress in students, and with it the anxiety which, like fear, is a state of tension and apprehension that accompanies subjective stress. The high level of anxiety may jeopardize the student's academic performance, depending on which way it deals with the period of preparation for the exam. Given this consideration, related to the practice of meditation, considered as a mental training of attention in present-moment awareness, with the reduction of anxiety. Taking into account that meditation can develop in people a better ability to perceive and thus react to stressful situations. Establishing psychoendoneuroimmunology (PNI) as a means of articulating the changes involved in meditation and anxiety, it was found that meditation can produce a state considered hypometabolic state opposite to the alarm generated in anxiety, which cancels the mechanisms associated with stress . Overall, while the state of anxiety stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, preparing the body for fight or flight, meditation acts on the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system, related to the feeling of relaxation. This relationship is given by the activation or inhibition of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA), which starts from the perception that the individual has with the situation. After collecting these data, we concluded that the practice of meditation in the school context is not only possible but should be a suitable alternative use in physical education classes to help reduce anxiety in students pre-school students.