Back to School

Question

I’m in my middle years, and I’m going back to school .  It terrifies me because I never did well in my earlier years of schooling.  I have trouble remembering things I read and I read very slowly.  It’s hard for me to concentrate and I’m easily distracted.  Also, I absolutely freeze during exams. I might know the stuff but nothing comes out. Can hypnosis help me get through school?

Answer

Besides practical suggestions that help build study-habits, your hypnotherapist can deal with the reasons for problems of study, including the belief that you’re not a good student.  I tell my clients who come to me for problems related to learning that to understand they are not “going back to school,” because that puts them back into their earlier learning habits and beliefs.  Instead, they should think of themselves as furthering their education.  From that point, hypnosis, then, is used to build their confidence level, get rid of their test anxiety, speed up their reading while being able to retain what they read, and to increase their ability to pull, at will, information from their subconscious “memory bank”.