How do you handle or reduce anxiety?
The night before a class I can feel tension running through me. I usually only get 4 hours of sleep before a class. Then I’m exhausted in the class. I’m someone who generally needs 8 hours of sleep.
The actual in-class experience has been getting gradually better with the teacher I’ve done 7 lessons with. It’s still pretty rough, but there are things I genuinely enjoy. With another teacher that I have less experience with, I’m sometimes stressed to the point that I can’t get words out or can’t understand a simple point that I would otherwise understand.
I’d welcome the perspective of either learners or teachers.
If something like this happened with you, did you just have to push through? Did something make it better? If something like this happened with some of your students, what are your thoughts?