If you are a student who is trying to enhance your grades, there are a number of shortcuts that can help you to amplify your ability to focus your attention, memorize the data that you study, and recall it during a test without suffering from mental blocks or a test phobia. This is a list of how to go about instituting good study behaviors:
(1) Set up an environment for reading and study only in that place! Establish a peaceful location that will be conducive to a focusing of attention without distractions. Some possible examples would be a library, a vacant classroom, or your office. You want to create the habit of studying when you are in this place. So it’s best to not use your special place for other activities like daydreaming, conversations, or eating, etc.
Be Sure Your Special Place Has:
(a) A comfy chair, but not excessively comfy
(b) A desk
(c) First class illumination
(d) Proper ventilation
Be Sure Your Special Place Doesn’t Have:
(a) Distractions
(b) A phone
(c) Music that you will find distracting
(d) A large screen TV
(e) Another person who talks all the time
(f) A refrigerator filled with sweets
(2) Split your study periods into tiny, short-range components.
(a) Set up small specific goals like, “I am going to study my English from 2 PM to 3 PM. Otherwise you will be setting yourself up to fail.
(b) Set a doable study goal for the period of time you have allocated. For example: finish reading chapter eight in my English text, or complete a draft of my history paper, etc. Set your goal at the time that you are ready to sit down and study, just before you begin. Set reachable goals. You might possibly do more than reach your goal, but set a realistic goal even if it seems much too easy.
(3) Test Phobias
(a) Some students experience physical symptoms for the most part, like feeling hot or cold, nausea, or faintness, etc.
(b) Other students experience mostly emotional symptoms, like feeling irritable, crying, or getting frustrated quickly.
(c) The main problem with anxiousness is that it can make one have a memory block. Or it could make one have thoughts that are racing out of control.
(d) Although you may currently feel some level of anxiousness when taking examinations, you can learn to greatly diminish that anxiety, or even completely eliminate it!
(e) Feelings of anxiety and the resultant stress are frequently the main causes of a lack of ability to focus your concentration. Stress can also trigger a mental block when one tries to remember information.
(f) Hypnosis CD’s can be utilized to relax your mind and focus your concentration. As your mind calms down, your ability to stay focused will increase. Similarly, a calm mind enhances your ability to retain information, and recall it when it is needed.
(g) Neuro-Linguistic Programming CD’s can also be utilized to program your mind for the positive expectation of relaxation and the ability to bring back to mind the information during a test. This is effective at reducing or eliminating test anxiety.
(h) There are a number of NLP methods that can promptly do away with a test phobia!
Alan B. Densky, CH has specialized in the practice of hypnotherapy and NLP since 1978. He offers hypnosis & NLP CD’s for memory and recall enhancement. Visit his Neuro-VISION Hypnosis site for free hypnosis newsletters, articles, and MP3s and his Self Hypnosis Video Blog for free video taped NLP tips.