Hypnosis for Test Exam Anxiety
Do you struggle with test anxiety? Live in Chicago and want to improve your study habits? Hoping to achieve exam success? If the answer is yes, hypnosis may help you to reach goals that are important to your academic and professional success.
Let’s face it, getting yourself ready to take a test can be stressful. This is particularly true when your entire future depends on passing.
One of the great things about hypnotherapy for test-taking anxiety is how it can help to calm the subconscious mind. Through hypnosis, you remain relaxed while attending to the exam with greater ability to recall essential information.
The research tells us that hypnosis for test and exam anxiety can be beneficial. Here’s a study from the Journal of Effective Education that explores the topic.
As a hypnotherapist in Chicago, I’ve seen many students, college learners, and professionals use hypnosis as a powerful tool to create better study habits and pass tests.
Below, I have outlined how hypnotherapy may help you with your goals.
Hypnosis Can Help Study Habits By:
- Increasing concentration
- Maximizing focus
- Tuning out mental distractions
- Boosting your memory and overall recall
- Increasing follow through to study
- Developing better study habits
- Helping you to ritualize study habits
- Feel more confident about the material you are studying
Hypnosis Helps Test Taking and Exams By:
- Allowing you to remain calm and relaxed
- Increasing your test or exam scores
- Reducing pressure from the “time clock” to finish exam
- Teaching you to trust your answers (no second guessing)
- Encourages verbal and visual recall for test material
- Helps you feel more confident when taking an exam
- Links your mental goals with exam success
- Reduces subconscious fears of success
- Helps you to adopt a success mindset
Here’s a testimonial from a medical student who came to me for hypnosis to pass his MCATs.
“Hi, Frank! This is just a quick email to let you know I passed my final exams – all of them! Before coming to you, I had so much test exam anxiety that it was off the charts.
But after working with you for a few times, I felt a sense of calm. When I finally stepped into that room and started taking the tests, I felt a sense of confidence, calm, and inner peace. There is no way I would have been able to do this without your help. Thank you!”
-Doug, a medical student
Hypnosis for Test Anxiety Specifics
When you are preparing for an exam, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. It is during this time your subconscious retreats into a place of fight or flight.
When this happens, you can fall victim to negative thinking where a fear of failure begins to take over. If left unchecked, those fears can turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Hypnosis can help to ameliorate these thoughts and program your mindset to succeed. Instead of feeling apprehension and freezing up, you instead feel mentally strong, clear, and confident.
Successful Outcomes – Exam Anxiety
I’ve helped hundreds of students in Chicago, Cook County and the surrounding areas successfully pass their exams. Almost all of them have reported back to me to share their test scores got them over the finish line to pass the exam.
Here are the types of exams I’m talking about:
- GMAT
- LSAT
- MCATs
- NCLEX-RN
- Exams for lawyers
- Medical exams for specialties
- Licensure exams
- Final exams and tests for classes
- Foreign language focused exams
- Certification exams
Now, I am going to level with you. Hypnosis alone wasn’t the singular reason these folks passed their tests. Deep inside, each of them had a fervent desire to do their very best.
They also had the intellectual capacity to absorb and retain the information they were studying to make success a reality.
But what hypnosis did allow for them was an escape valve for exam anxiety, such as someone taking the Series 7 exam (GRSE) so that they could make space for confidence.
Researchers aren’t completely sure, but it is believed only a fraction of our brains is used each day. Through hypnotherapy, you allow yourself to open your mind more and tap into unused parts to store and retrieve information.
Study Habits and Hypnosis
One of the great things about hypnosis for better study habits is how it helps you to ignore distractions and associated stimuli that pull you settling down and absorbing the material.
Instead of feeling overwhelmed when you crack open a book to prepare for a test, you feel calmer and more relaxed. You won’t be tempted to hop on to social media or text-chat with friends. Instead, your mind will be focused like a laser beam on studying.
As part of hypnosis, I use the tenets of cognitive behavior and neurolinguistics to help you tune out those negative thoughts and overwhelming feelings of doom.
Imagine feeling more empowered and confident because you know deep down inside you are going to pass.
Here are a few emails and letters I’ve received from people over the years after working with me on hypnosis for test exam anxiety.
Stories of Exam Success
“Hi, Frank. Not sure if you remember me but I came to you several months ago for help with passing my MCATs. Recently, I just took these and got the results. I passed ALL FOUR sections and did incredibly well with the biological and biochemical part, which you may recall was the area that concerned me most. All I can say is thank you so much for your guidance. You gave me the tools I needed to succeed!” Angela in Naperville.
“For years, I would walk into an exam and freeze up like a popsicle. It had gotten to the point that it almost seemed like an automatic reaction. That’s why when I was scheduled to sit for my Series 7 exam, I was kind of freaked out. But after seeing you for a few sessions, I discovered new confidence. Today, I just got my results back and am happy to report that I not only passed – I did it with flying colors. OMG, thank you Frank for your wisdom and guidance!” – Jerry in Wicker Park.
“I used to read through my textbooks but was not very good at absorbing the information. In the past, I used to think there was something wrong with me. But once I started coming to you, something changed in me – deep inside. Hard for me to explain it. All I know is that through hypnosis with you, I started to retain the material I was studying a lot better. Today, I’m a nurse because I passed the NCLEX-RN for nursing. It would have never happened without your help. Many thanks!” Rita in Hoffman Estates.
“Growing up, I always wanted to be a lawyer. But once I got into college, my study habits took a turn for the worse. Friends started telling me I needed focus better or I might not get through law school. That’s when I came to you for guidance and for help with studying for the multi-state bar exam (MBE). In just a few sessions, you encouraged my mind to settle down and concentrate on what was important. I’m so glad I worked with you because I passed my law exam! Thank you a thousand times for your expert help!” – Chris in Chicago