Enhancing Your Learning Power
A growing area of interest is the use of hypnosis to help concentration, attention, and stamina in educational and academic settings. Techniques can be used to make students feel more relaxed so that they will be able to get through their work with less stress than they would otherwise have experienced. It can also help to ease the problem created by low self-esteem, lack of motivation, and poor study skills.
Clear thinking
Hypnosis can help people to be more effective and flexible in their thinking and to find solutions to difficulties. It can eliminate external distractions during study periods, and, for people who find it hard to sit still in lectures, self-hypnosis can help them feel that the time is passing more quickly.
A more controversial subject in this area is whether hypnosis has any effect on boosting memory. Some researchers have claimed that it is not directly effective in improving memory, but others disagree. The problem with laboratory studies of this is that everyone is given a standard script that is not tailored to individual needs.
Exams
Taking exams is a very anxious time, particularly when students realise that much of their future life depends on the results. Hypnotherapy can be valuable to help manage examination nerves, particularly for people who know their material well but do badly in exams because of nerves. Anticipatory anxiety before exams can be reduced with desensitisation techniques. In hypnosis before exams, students can be given suggestions that they will sleep easily, that they will feel calm before the exam and that their memory is excellent. Students can be taught anxiety management routines for use at the start of exams. A number of studies have suggested stress can hinder the body's immune system defences. Researchers now say that people may be able to fight back with the stress-relieving techniques of self-hypnosis.
In a study of medical students under exam-time stress, investigators found that those who received "hypnotic-relaxation training" did not show the same reduction in key immune system components that their untrained counterparts did. The researchers looked at 33 medical and dental students during relatively low-stress periods and around the time of the first major exam of the term. Half of the students attended sessions where they learned to relax through self-hypnosis. The investigators found that during exam time, the self-hypnosis students launched stronger immune responses compared with students who did not learn the technique. And the more often students practiced the relaxation strategy, the stronger their immune response.
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