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.
Exam Stress Hypnosis
Exam stress can arise for all sorts of reasons. You may have an existing tendency towards anxiety and overthinking that gets exacerbated by thoughts of what could go wrong in your exams and how that would then negatively impact upon the rest of your life. You may be struggling to get everything done in your revision and worry about having enough time. You may have a history of getting over anxious in exams that stops you doing well and you worry about it happening again. There can be particular subjects or areas that you are struggling with. You may be worried about what others are doing towards their exams or about what they think of what you are doing. Or maybe it just seems like the enormity of it all and the pressure to do well on the day is just overwhelming.
There can be many reasons even beyond these why your stress and anxiety levels about your exams are running so high. I’ve helped students who get too anxious to revise and retain the information. On occasion, these students have been overwhelmed just at the thought of sitting down and revising, let alone going into the exam room. And recently I successfully helped someone who had a history of panic in the exam room that stopped her answering the questions. She learnt how to manage her thoughts and feelings so she felt calmer in the exam room and could think more clearly about how to answer the questions that came up.
Exam stress hypnosis can help you to successfully go through your exams feeling calm, confident and in control.
I’ve also covered exam anxiety and stress, along with some suggestions for coping more effectively, in these earlier articles:
Hypnosis and Exam Anxiety – Could hypnotherapy help you perform to your best in exams?
How To Beat Exam Stress & Anxiety – Cambridge News
Now Available – Exam Stress & Anxiety Guide
Exam Stress and Test Anxiety Help – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket
Ending Exam Anxiety in Ely – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket
And you may want to have a look at my Exam Stress and Anxiety Hypnosis download, designed to help you to feel calm, confident and in control before and during your exam: Exam Stress & Anxiety Hypnosis Download (there are also hypnosis downloads about switching off and feeling calmer, as well as increasing your confidence and self-belief).
If you are struggling with exam stress and anxiety then you may benefit from getting in touch to book your free initial consultation. However much that stress is interfering right now, it is possible to learn how to bring it down to a more helpful level. You can prime your mind for exam day confidence and learn how to manage your own thinking processes and feeling processes. You can discover how to get into the performance zone where you can focus and concentrate in a way that supports your revision and boosts you when you are in your exam.
And whichever exams you have coming up, I wish you every success with them and hope that you get the grades you are after.
To your exam success,
Dan Regan
Hypnotherapy in Ely & Newmarket
Seeking help to overcome your exam anxiety so you can perform to your potential? Book your Complimentary Hypnotherapy Strategy Session with Dan to learn more now: Appointments
Find out what other people have said after their anxiety hypnotherapy sessions with Dan: What People Say
And check out these powerful hypnosis downloads that can start helping you right away with exam room anxiety and stress: Hypnosis Downloads
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