Why Is There a Need for Wellness Rooms in Educational Settings?

Stress and anxiety are intense and exhausting issues that all ages are experiencing in the busy and fast lives that we now lead.

Research has shown that overstressed, busy and anxious minds find it difficult to focus and learn.

A wellness room in your school, college or university will help to reduce the stress that students are feeling, helping them to focus and achieve in both their personal and academic lives.

Creating a wellness room where students can go to decompress will help them to destress and in turn regain their focus and be ready to learn. In recent years more and more students are leaving college or university courses as it all becomes too much for them. A wellness space will help them to reduce their anxieties by giving them a safe place to escape to calm and regain their focus. 

Research has shown that our behaviour is affected by both short and long term periods of stress and results in our working memory, planning and response inhibitions being impaired when our stress levels are elevated. More specifically, it has been found that if you are feeling stressed you are more likely to be forgetful and unable to remember information, all of which will hinder students’ learning and their ability to focus when studying.

Stress and anxiety activate the fight or flight reaction, and when this happens as a reaction our bodies send blood to the extremities, hands and feet. This decreases the blood flow to other areas of our bodies, including our brains impacting its ability to function as you need it to.

When we feel anxious and stressed, we can’t think logically and learn like we could if we’re feeling calm, safe and secure. A wellness room will help to alleviate stress, anxiousness and unbalanced emotions, allowing students to relieve the pressure they are feeling.

Designing a wellness space for students to relax and emotionally unwind will almost certainly help them to decompress and regain their focus, giving them the will and desire to learn again.

In recent years there has been lots of focus on creating online resources to help students in their studies and personal lives, however, it is now becoming clear that this, in a lot of cases, is not enough. Students also need a physical space they can escape to and relax in. By having both of these resources available it will help them, their fellow students, teachers and the educational setting as a whole feel better and achieve so much more.