Hypnosis for Exam Success

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the thought of your upcoming tests? Are you wondering how to pass a state test, pass your boards or other professional exam?

Do you struggle with test anxiety or have trouble retaining the information you've studied so hard to learn?

Hypnotherapy might be the solution you've been searching for.

How Hypnotherapy Helps with Test Anxiety

Test anxiety is a common challenge that many students face. It can manifest as a range of symptoms, including:

• Racing thoughts
• Difficulty concentrating
• Sweaty palms
• Rapid heartbeat
• Nausea
• Insomnia

These symptoms can severely impact your performance, making it hard to demonstrate your true capabilities.

Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool that helps alleviate these symptoms by addressing the root causes of your anxiety. Here's how it works:

1. Relaxation Techniques: Hypnotherapy induces a state of deep relaxation, calming your mind and body. This state of relaxation reduces the physical symptoms of anxiety, such as tension and restlessness.
2. Positive Visualization: During hypnotherapy sessions, you'll be guided to visualize yourself successfully taking and passing your exams. This positive imagery builds confidence and creates a mental blueprint for success.
3. Reframing Negative Thoughts: Hypnotherapy helps you reframe negative thoughts and beliefs about your abilities. By replacing these with positive affirmations, you'll approach your exams with a more optimistic mindset.
4. Stress Reduction: Through regular hypnotherapy sessions, you'll learn techniques to manage stress effectively, ensuring you remain calm and focused during your exams.

Enhancing Retention and Recall

Retention and recall are critical for exam success. Even the most prepared students can struggle to remember key information under the pressure of an exam setting. Hypnotherapy can enhance your memory retention and recall abilities in several ways:

1. Improved Focus: Hypnotherapy helps you develop laser-like focus, making it easier to absorb and retain information during your study sessions.
2. Memory Enhancement: Hypnotherapy techniques can enhance your memory, making it easier to recall information when you need it most. By accessing the subconscious mind, hypnotherapy strengthens neural pathways associated with memory.
3. Study Skills: Hypnotherapy can teach you effective study techniques, such as how to break down complex information into manageable chunks and how to organize your study materials for better retention.
4. Mind-Body Connection: By fostering a strong mind-body connection, hypnotherapy ensures that your physical state supports your mental efforts. This holistic approach enhances overall cognitive function.

Hypnosis can be very effective for weight loss by helping to change your relationship with food and exercise. This can include things like:

• Increase your motivation to exercise - By visualizing yourself as thinner, you may feel more in control of your eating habits and feel more motivated to exercise, which can increase your exercise routine.

• Reduce your cravings for unhealthy foods - By changing the way your think about food, hypnosis can help to reduce your cravings for unhealthy foods and increase your desire for healthier options.

• Change negative beliefs about your ability to lose weight - By changing the negative beliefs you have about your ability to lose weight, hypnosis can help to boost your self-confidence and have a positive mindset. This can help you overcome obstacles and setbacks that can arise during a weight loss journey. Believing in yourself can help to increase resilience and determination to overcome obstacles, such as cravings, temptations or lack of motivation.

• Reduce stress and emotional eating - By reducing stress and emotional eating, hypnosis can help to make it easier to stick to a healthy lifestyle and avoid overeating.
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Are you interested in hypnosis for weight loss? Set up a complimentary 30 minute phone consultation with me to find out more.

For decades, people have turned to hypnotherapy to help them with all sorts of issues, from resolving hidden issues from childhood to major behavior modification. Hypnotherapy has been used with great success in helping people quit smoking, reduce stress and anxiety, build self-esteem, increase focus and memory retention, eliminate fears and phobias, sleep better, and more.  It’s no wonder people are turning to hypnosis in greater numbers to also help them lose weight.

Does it work, you ask? Hypnosis works on the unconscious mind through the power of suggestion, and the effectiveness with which a person can be hypnotized depends on how receptive they are to the experience. Put another way, hypnosis works best for people who come at it with an open mind and a true desire for change.

How does hypnosis help a person lose weight? The same way it helps modify any behavior, by targeting your habits. It is a person’s habits that lead to excessive weight gain, and it’s a change in those habits, (replacing old “bad” ones with new “good” ones), that produce the kind of changes that can be sustained.

To build new, desirable, and sustainable habits, it’s necessary to break down all those old associations regarding yourself, your weight, your appearance, food and eating, exercise, etc. and build new, positive and desirable associations. This is where hypnosis truly shines.

In a hypnotic state, you can more easily overcome those unconscious obstacles that can block your weight loss efforts. Most people already know full well that proper diet and exercise is the way to lose weight, and yet so many find themselves helpless to do what they know they “should” be doing.

Habits (whether good or bad), become so much a part of us we don’t even think about them most of the time, much less question them. But when we remove our conscious mind from the equation, we’re more easily able to access those deep-seeded assumptions and reprogram thoughts, feelings, beliefs and behaviors.

Successful weight loss is a state of mind. A person must be willing to release that weight – not simply be willing to diet and exercise, but deep down, willing to rid the weight. True success depends on a winning attitude on an unconscious level that permeates everything you do, in whatever you do.

Hypnosis can make adopting new, healthier habits so much easier and more pleasurable, as it can put you in the right frame of mind to reap the benefits of all you do to help you reach your weight loss goals.
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Hypnosis can help with building a new self-image, allowing you to envision yourself at your future, ideal weight. It can help build your optimism, enthusiasm and (most importantly) self-esteem for the task. And, hypnosis can help you experience some of the benefits of living at your ideal weight here and now, in the present, even while you live in the body in which you currently have.

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​Like most people around the world right now, you may be feeling overwhelmed or frightened during this time of turmoil with the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.
 
This is a stressful and anxious time for everyone. Kids are out of school, people have lost their jobs, businesses are closed, and most of us are working really hard to stay healthy and virus free.  All this while we need to remain strong and carry on. 
 
Feeling anxious, stressed or fearful is a normal and expected reaction to this pandemic, but increased levels of stress can weaken your immune system. This is a time when you need your immune system to be stronger than ever!
 
In light of this, I have created a FREE hypnosis session recording to help relieve some of that stress and worry so that you can feel calm and relaxed and remain strong in both body and mind.
 
You can access your complimentary hypnosis session on my Youtube channel by clicking here: https://bit.ly/C19Hypno
 
Feel free to share this link with anyone you know who would find it useful.  We will get through this!

So many people go through their lives not understanding why they make the same mistakes, follow the same bad patterns, and exist in the same rut for years. They aren't happy with their current situation, but they seem to be unable to make any lasting changes.
 
Maybe you have attended seminars, read self-help books, and taken courses, but, in the end, fallen back into the same dysfunctional patterns you have always followed.  You may wonder why it always turns out this way.
 
We struggle to make permanent, lasting changes in our lives when we input information only into our conscious mind. Here's the problem: your conscious mind is not what directs your behaviors and belief system.
 
To change your behaviors, you must first re-program the hard-wired center of your mind: your subconscious mind.
 
How Does Your Subconscious Mind Work?
 
The subconscious not only contains all of the messages we have received throughout our lives, but also holds millions upon millions of thoughts grouped into clusters that form beliefs, mindsets and character traits.
 
The relationship between the conscious and subconscious minds is like an iceberg. The conscious mind can be characterized like the visible tip of the iceberg, while the subconscious is like the enormous lower portion of the iceberg, hidden from view.
 
Although you can’t see the subconscious in action, it most definitely has a major impact on the voyage you take in your life.
 
The subconscious is the place where all of your learned behaviors reside. Once you learn to walk, you don't need to consider how to move each foot to take the next step, do you? Of course not. Your subconscious mind automatically controls your steps.
 
Your subconscious learns behavior through repetition and practice. Just as it learned to control your footsteps when you learned to walk, it also controls your footsteps in your life's journey, based on what you've reinforced throughout your life.
 
Hypnosis allows us to communicate with the subconscious mind.  When you re-program your subconscious, you can achieve just about anything.  Hypnosis enables us to find a way to override the limiting or damaging messages that are stored in your subconscious mind by means of suggestion or other techniques so that you can make the permanent, positive changes you have been yearning to make.
 

​The holidays can be a time of joy with wonderful times shared with family and friends.  The holidays can also turn into a time of overindulgence and overeating.  Many people start the New Year drastically dieting, depriving themselves and feeling miserable.
 
But it doesn’t need to be that way!  You can learn how to stop overeating or snacking on junk food with the help of hypnosis, and finally reduce and maintain your ideal weight in 2019.  Imagine finally fitting into those jeans that have been lurking in the back of your closet for so long.
 
Hypnosis is not magic, but simply a state of inner absorption and concentration.  When you're in hypnosis, your attention is highly focused, and you're more responsive to suggestions, including behavior and habit changes that can help you lose weight.  

With hypnosis, the conscious (analytical) part of the mind is bypassed and communication is made directly with the subconscious part of the mind.  This is where all of your memories, feelings, behaviors and habits are stored.

Forget the crash diets, starvation and feelings of deprivation.  With hypnosis, you can actually feel satisfied and look forward to looking at that thinner you in the mirror.

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Did you know that hypnosis has been shown to be 3 times as effective as the nicotine patch and 15 times more effective than willpower alone?
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The results from more than 600 individual studies involving over 72, 000 people from America and Europe were analyzed and studied.
 
The findings state that on average, hypnosis is over three times as effective as the Nicotine Patch and 15 times more effective than trying to quit with willpower alone.
 
As with any goal, you must be motivated to make the change.  One good way to get clear on the reason for your goal is to ask yourself what your life will be like one year from now if you don’t make the change.  What about five years in the future?
 
Then, ask yourself how much better your life could be when you stop smoking.  Isn’t it time?

(Source: New Scientist, University of Iowa, How One in Five Give Up Smoking , Journal of Applied Psychology, October 10, 1992)

​Maybe you're really good at planning balanced meals, but things go awry during the hours in between. Mindless snacking can put you over the limit of food you should be consuming in a day and fill you up with sugar and other things you want to avoid.
 
You can rid yourself of excess weight and protect your health by changing the way you snack. Check out this list for ideas about how to snack less and make smarter choices.
 
How to Snack Less

Be mindful. Are you surprised to find you've eaten half a cake when you really meant to have one slice? You'll probably be satisfied with less food if you pay attention to each bite. Turn off the TV and chew slowly.

Leave the table. It's difficult to tell when dinner ends and snacking starts if you sit around nibbling leftovers on the serving platters. Clear the table and go for a walk.

Drink up. Many people think they are hungry when they are actually thirsty. The next time you want a snack, drink a glass of water to see if the desire to snack goes away.

Sleep well. Chronic fatigue can also make you want to eat. Go to bed on time and practice good sleep habits.​

Chew gum or Drink Tea. Sugar-free gum or tea are ideal snacks. Satisfy your sweet tooth and enjoy chewing without consuming any calories. Gum even helps to clean up bacteria in your mouth in between brushing and flossing. Caffeine free flavored teas are great substitutes for snacking.

Keep a log. You may be snacking more than you think. Use your phone or a notebook to track what's really going on.

Manage stress. Are you eating as a distraction to deal with difficult emotions? Call a friend or listen to music instead. Run in the morning or go to the gym after work. And finally, listening to a hypnosis recording can change your state and have you relaxed and feeling in control once again.

Social anxiety, also called social phobia, is one of many anxieties for which people come to my office to be hypnotized.  People who suffer from this disorder have an excessive and sometimes overwhelming fear of social situations.

A person with social anxiety feels intense nervousness and self-consciousness. They may fear making mistakes, or worry about being embarrassed or humiliated in front of others.  Social anxiety can be amplified if a person lacks social skills or experience in social situations. In extreme cases the anxiety can build into a full blown panic attack.

Some people with social anxiety often quietly endure the social situations, all the while feeling extreme distress.  Others may avoid any social gatherings or situations altogether.  Many times a person who has social anxiety suffers "anticipatory" anxiety, the fear of a situation before it even happens (sometimes days or even weeks before the event). In many cases, these people know (consciously) that the fear is irrational, yet they are unable to overcome it on their own.

Without intervention, social anxiety can negatively affect a person's normal daily routine including school, work, social activities, and relationships. The fears can range from being afraid of a specific situation such as speaking in public or being the center of attention, or may involve the fear of going to parties or being in a group, asking questions or speaking up, or even just standing in line in public.

Hypnotherapy is one of the most effective ways to heal social anxiety permanently, because we resolve in the subconscious mind what is causing it (the “root” cause).  Once the cause of the social anxiety is resolved, the fear and related systems can automatically disappear.

You don’t have to live with social anxiety. Hypnotherapy can boost confidence and raise self-esteem and help you regain control of your (social) life.