Exam Tips for Students: Visualize Your Way to Better Test Scores

Visualization is a valuable technique for many professional athletes. Golfers and other professional athletes in sports are taught to visualize perfect performances before a competition.

But what about a perfect test score before an exam? Many students work hard to study their material, take notes and pay attention in class, but then get almost paralyzed by the exam itself. They sit down with the test in front of them, read the first question, and their mind goes blank.

Test anxiety can not only make getting good grades challenging, but creates negative and uncomfortable feelings for the student, both emotionally and physically.

Many students with test anxiety experience uncomfortable physical sensations such as headaches, a knot in the stomach, a pounding heart, or excessive sweating. Studies show that excessive stress interferes with focus, memory and concentration.

Fortunately, visualization through hypnosis can eliminate that test anxiety, allowing the student to feel relaxed and confident, gain focus and concentration, and recall the material learned.

One important visualization process is releasing stress and tension. There are various guided visualization techniques used in hypnosis to eliminate stress and tension and allow a person to feel relaxed and peaceful.

Another important visualizing process is to image taking the test while feeling relaxed and confident, performing really well and receiving a top score. Visualizing a scenario as being real during hypnosis tells our subconscious that it is real, because the subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between things imagined and things that are real.

Visualization during hypnosis allows a student to transform any level of dread, low self-esteem, anxiety or nervousness into positive, confident feelings and allows them to be calm and focused and ready to tackle the test.

Article written by Laura Rude, CHT of HealthWise Hypnosis.

HealthWise Hypnosis is located in Issaquah and run by certified hypnotist Laura Rude. Other issues that can be helped with hypnosis include weight loss, quitting smoking, insomnia, pain management, stress and anxiety relief, and fear and phobia removal. For more information or to schedule a free 30 minute consultation, visit the HealthWise Hypnosis website.