Blogs

If you’re suffering from exam nerves or poor memory then hypnotherapy can help you to:

• Overcome exam nerves and anxiety.
• Overcome fear of failure.
• Increase your concentration, confidence and motivation.
• Enable you to feel more relaxed and in control during the exam, helping you to think clearly and recall information better.

Doing well in exams requires two separate skills.  Firstly you need to acquire and understand the subject material.  You also need to keep calm, be able to think clearly enough to read and understand the questions, plan and prioritise your answers, recall the material and use its principles to write down the correct answers in the time available.

The stress of all this can be very hard on the high proportion of us who tend to react to stress with the “fight or flight response”, a racing heart and mind stopping us from thinking clearly.

It is hard for our children who have little experience, and on those who have struggled with exam stress in the past and have lost confidence to do well in the future.

During a hypnosis session, although you are fully conscious and in control, you are in a state of deep relaxation. Whilst in this state positive suggestions can be made to the subconscious mind.  The effect of these suggestions is to change the automatic responses you get from your subconscious mind to challenging situations. You no longer experience spiralling anxiety when faced with an exam, but are able to stay calm and think clearly. Negative thought cycles can also be stopped, and so instead of constantly thinking you might fail, your confidence improves, further enabling you to stay calm, focussed and to enable the best outcome/result.  You may even look forward to sitting the exam and to pouring out all of your knowledge.

I offer my exam hypnotherapy services from GCSE’s through to A levels and degrees and professional diplomas.