Exam Stress Hypnosis in Ely and Newmarket
Exam season is upon us and that means revision and focus. It can also mean exam stress and anxiety.
I can well remember the revision season back when I was at school and university. Day one of revision was drawing up a nicely coloured timetable to make sure everything would get covered. Then, armed with my very pretty timetable, it was head down and going everything all over again. The first wave was always reading, making sure I understood the content and getting my notes written up. These notes were then what I would religiously review, learn and memorise the day before the exam. I would go over and over them, covering them up and testing myself, until I could almost recite the information word for word.
With all the information going through my head and feeling a bit stressed, I would always struggle to sleep the night before. There were just so many bits of information going around and around my head when I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. On the morning of the exam I would usually avoid talking about it with others, especially that person who is always there before an exam who claims to have done no revision (which seems plain daft, particularly as you could normally see they had a bag full of revision notes with them). Then it was into the exam room, take my seat and then block out everything else until that moment where we were allowed to turn over the exam paper and begin. I would do my best to leave all the information into my exam answers and then to leave and forget all about it. It was then onto the next exam subject and repeat.
The period around your exams can be intense and stressful. I’ve been watching my daughter as she prepares for her GCSE exams this year. It’s all perhaps a little harder now with so much information only accessible online and so many other distractions waiting for you every time you look at the screen. All I had to distract me around exam time was my ZX Spectrum or watching something on one of the four available channels on television. I’ve been very proud of the way my daughter has been applying herself to her revision. As an added bonus she is doing catering so I got to enjoy a freshly made scone with home made blueberry jam yesterday as she did a run through for her practical exam.
We all know that a little bit of exam stress can be helpful. It gives you motivation and focus to revise and then perform to your best in the exam room. However, too much stress and your ability to function gets compromised. You can feel restless, tense, agitated and on edge. You can struggle to eat and sleep. And you may struggle to think clearly, focus on what you need to and to remember what you have learnt. It can diminish the success of your revision and can leave you anxious and unable to perform in the exam room.
However, there is a solution that can support you with doing your best in the exam room. Exam stress hypnosis can help you to manage your thoughts and feelings so that you can capably revise and learn before putting into practice in your exam so that you perform calmly and confidently on the day.