How To Improve Your Ability To Recall Information And Overcome Test Anxiety
You Can Succeed
If you are someone who is trying to improve your grades, there are a list of tricks that will help you to amplify your capacity to focus your attentiveness, absorb the materials that you study, and remember it during a test without suffering from mental blocks or test anxiety. Here are the best ways that I know to establish good study habits:
(1) Set up a place for study and only study in that place! Find a peaceful room that will be conducive to a focusing of attention without any distractions. Some typical examples would be a library, a vacant classroom, or your home office. You want to create the custom of studying when you are in this place. So it's best to not use your special place for other activities like daydreaming, watching TV, or eating, etc.
MAKE SURE THAT YOUR STUDY PLACE HAS:
(a) A comfortable chair, but not excessively comfortable
(b) A desk
(c) First class lighting
(d) Sufficient ventilation
MAKE SURE THAT YOUR STUDY PLACE DOESN'T HAVE:
(a) Distracting views of other activities
(b) A phone
(c) Music that will distract you
(d) A big screen TV set
(e) Another person who talks all the time
(f) A refrigerator filled with distractions
(2) Divide your homework into small, short-range components.
(a) Set up small highly specific goals like, "I am going to study my math from 2 PM to 3 PM. Otherwise you will set yourself up to not succeed.
(b) Set a reachable work goal for the quantity of time you've set aside. For example: finish reading chapter six in my English text book, or complete a rough draft of my history paper, etc. Set your goals when you you are ready to start studying but before you actually begin to study. Set realistic goals. You might possibly do more than reach your goal, but set a reasonable goal even if it seems way too easy.
(3) Test Anxiety
(a) Some students experience physical symptoms for the most part, like faintness, nausea, or feeling hot or cold, etc.
(b) Other students experience mostly emotional symptoms, like feeling irritable, crying, or getting frustrated quickly.
(c) The main trouble with anxiety is that it can trigger you to have a memory block. Or it could trigger thoughts that are racing out of control.
(d) Although you may currently experience some level of anxiety while taking a test, you can learn to diminish that anxiety, or even completely eliminate it!
(e) Feelings of anxiety and the resultant stress are as a rule the main causes of a lack of the ability to focus your attention. Stress can also cause a mental block when one tries to recall 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) Hypnotherapy CD's can be used to program your mind for the positive expectation of relaxation and the ability to recollect information during a test. Relaxation is effective at reducing or eliminating test anxiety. (h) There are a number of hypnotherapy techniques that can quickly get rid of a test phobia!
About the Author
Alan B. Densky, CH has specialized in the practice of hypnosis and NLP since 1978. He offers hypnosis & NLP CD's for memory and recall enhancement. Visit his Neuro-VISION NLP site for free hypnosis newsletters, articles, and MP3s and his Video Self-Hypnosis Blog for free video taped NLP tips.
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