Studying On Study Table Or On Bed. Will It Make Any Difference?

This question was posted originally on Quora, and was answered by: Onyeuche Godson C, An author, speaker and freelancer. The author of 'The spirit of computer in man



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Yes, it does!

You see, the posture or position one stays while studying matters a lot. Every posture depicts one thing or the other. And while you study, it is adviced you get on your study table and chair for concentration and focus. If you sit on the bed, you may be tempted to lie down ignorantly and if you attempt to do so, you have divided attention towards your studies.

Distractions while sitting or lying on the bed may come through the following:

• fondling with the bed sheet, pillow or any other thing you may have on your bed at the present time. This may not be known to while you do it, because you will be absent minded
• You will be tempted to sleep as said earlier. As long as the bed is not the right place for studying, there is a tendency that anyone who studies on bed would sleep off or easily get exhausted. And this is 70% possible. Look at how it works. While lying or sitting on the bed studying, you feel the tenderness of the bed and also enjoy the softness of the it. While this is happening, you will be gradually lured by your brain to lie down and by so doing, you are in for sleeping.
• You have body reactions. While you sit on the bed studying, your body will definitely react towards getting tired easily because you are not rightly positioned. Hence, you have back or even waist pain; making you not to last longer while on the work. Apart from these, there are other things that may arise while you are wrongly positioned for studying.

Having yourself on a study table and chair will help you through the following:

• You will be very comfortable and enjoy your study period. There would be no tension or body reaction. If any of the recent mentioned occur while on study table, you know that you are naturally exhausted and it’s not caused by your position; Unless you are on the wrong table or chair (Which may be high or lower than you are in height). Thus, studying on a table and chair brings comfortability.
• You will not be easily distracted. Any distraction that would come to you while studying on a table and chair is when you are not really concentrated and ready to study, in that it is you, the two furniture and your books. Also, the position will automatically let your eyes fixed on the book, hands on the table and body erected accordingly.
• You flow while studying. There would be free flow of communication between you and your book, in the sense that nature made it so. Everything is meant for one thing they must represent. And without being told, study chair and table represents studying, and that’s how it is made. You cannot be on them without flowing, comprehending and assimilating what you study. while Bed is strictly known by all to be a sleeping tool

Therefore, you don’t have to study on the bed and expect the same amount of free flow of communication with one who studies on the study table. the study table is the right place.

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