Elevated cortisol levels, often triggered by stress, can lead to procrastination through various mechanisms. It impairs decision-making, shifting focus to immediate rewards, increases anxiety, weakens self-regulation, reduces motivation, and hampers cognitive flexibility. These effects make it harder to initiate tasks, prioritize effectively, and manage emotions, contributing to the tendency to delay or avoid tasks. 

Excess levels of cortisol may be released as your body’s response to stress that may result in task avoidance. A triple blind placebo-controlled trial with athletes showed TouchPoints™ stabilized cortisol levels during stressful events and reduced the level of stress. (Leal-Junior, E. C., Casalechi, H. L., Machado, C. dos, Serin, A., Hageman, N. S., & Johnson, D. S., 2019) 

When using TouchPoints™ consistently before homework time, overtime your child may not need them as often as homework can become less stressful because of TouchPoints™. One of the ways BLAST works is by creating new neural pathways that help modify the memories that trigger our stress response. With continued use of TouchPoints™, these new neural pathways can build overtime, progressively reducing the release of stress related hormones that can contribute to homework avoidance.