Exam Anxiety

Hi,

Does anyone have a script for exam anxiety that I could purchase and download?
Or if you could point me in the right direction..

It would be much appreciated.

Peace,
Jilly

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on August 10, 2009 at 5:42pm

Here is an unedited script that will need to be adapted to a specific individaal, and needs a bit of development for specific uses. I will also try to attach an mp3
From the script section of my www.subliminalscience.com webpage

Test Taking Anxiety
Students at every level have benefitted from hypnosis for educing test taking anxiety to help them prepare for every kind of test imaginable. Studies show, that reducing anxiety can have as much impact on test taking performance as any other aspect of test performance. You are about the learn the skills of self-hypnosis that can assist you in reducing physical and emotional tension prior to talking examinations. With these skills, tests in school, vocational tests, entrance exams and board and licensure exam will be experiences in a new way, a way that approaches each exam with confidence, empowerment and success.
Hypnosis is a great tool for reducing test-taking anxiety. It will work to help you reduce anxiety because hypnosis is an educational process that will tech you easy to use skills for physical relaxation. In many cases it is the physical sensation of anxiety that produces more anxiety and this compounding effect can be broken with simple strategies for reducing physical anxiety. Everyone who experiences hypnosis learns the physical skills of managing anxiety automatically, just by engaging in the process of hypnosis and following the directions.
Hypnosis can also help you create new patters of emotional response. I am going to give you suggestions that will help you to see test taking from a new perspectives, and this will permit you to enter any situation where you are taking a test with confidence and calmness.
These skills can also be used apart from test taking, in any situation in life where you want to create confidence and handle situations without anxiety but with your new learnings form this CD
I am going to guide you through a process of hypnosis that uses progressive muscle relaxation. This is something you may be familiar with, but it is important to learn the difference between tension and relaxation, and so even the induction into hypnosis I am going to use will be a learning experience for you.
Are you ready?
INDUCTION
DEEPENER
ANCHOR: At this moment you have created a sense of vey deep relaxation, notice your breathing is slow, your heart rate is rested, and you muscles relaxed. This is a state that you have created, and it is uniquely your own experience, I am just the guide. And apart form this office (or this cd) you have the ability to return to this state at anytime, and I will teach you how. This will be of great benefit to you as you use your new skill of hypnosis to help you succeed
As you relax, with your left hand to your side or in your lap, I woant you to continue to allow each and every muscle of your body to be relaxed, but as you hear my words, bring your awareness to that left had resting in you lap. And now take a deep breath, relaxing even deeper as you exhale, but clench that right hand into a fist, holding your muscles in the hand tight for a second, perfect. Good. Now relax those muscles. And as you relax them allow yourself to feel the sensation of relaxation extend through each loosened finger, sending you into an even deeper state of trance. Perfect.

Now again, take in a breath, and as you exhale double the sensation of relaxation everywhere except that left fist, and bring any tension that remains to that point in your clenched fist where is tis held tightly. And now spread you fingers letting all the tension disappear and your hand loose and limp, heavy and relaxed feel the sensation of relaxation your mind and body both feel. Perfect.

This is called and anchor, and anytime you find yourself needing to return instantly to a state of both physical and mental cal, a state like the one you have created here, just tighten your left hand into a fist, hold that tension for a moment, and release your fingers, and as you do you will find that every muscle in your body and every stressful thought in your mind will instantly relax, bringing you back to this sensation that is at the heart of this very experience that you have created here today. Perfect.
This skill is particularly useful to you as you prepare for a test or exam. It may seem simple, but at any moment you feel a physical or mental rise in tension as you prepare for an exam, or enter an exam room or even when taking a test, you can for just a moment, close your eyes, clench that left fist and release it, opening your eyes again seeing, feeling and believing that both calm has replaced tension, that confidence has replaced fear and that energy to continue has replaces the fatigue of the preparation.

I want to congratulate you, you have done well to this point learning several new skills that will become second nature to you as you prepare for exams and take tests.
It is easy to look back at your old experiences and note the difficulty you have had. It is a normal process for us to look back and then project into the future, the same experiences or outcomes. But even though this is a normal process most of us do second hand, that process can be replaced with a new process, one that ends the expectation of failure or anxiety over performance.
To do this we are going to use a skill called visualization. You already have the ability to visualize, everyone does, it is simply creating a mental picture. Our minds are a lot like digital cameras, n that once we see or experience something that picture is in our memory, and perhaps you see yourself taking a test and experiencing tension, discomfort or other difficulties. Chances are you may even have several of these pictures in the memory card of your mind.
But just like a digital camera you have the ability to erase these memories and replace them with new pictures.
And so, take a moment to look at the pictures in your mind that are images that reinforce depression, anxiety, fear, look into the camera of your find and find that folder that hold pictures of your previous experiences. Now, imagine you are holding a digital camera in you had, the one that holds these pictures, and that it has a button at the top you can press to reformat the memory, leaving nothing but a blue screen ready for new pictures…. Now imagine pressing that button, the old memories of anxiety, fear, tension disappearing into a peaceful blue screen that is blank.
And relax
Take in a deep breath, and exhale, letting yourself go even deeper into trance.
Perfect.

Now imagine in your find a calm you. Maybe here in this office, or maybe in a relaxing place where you have felt secure. O just imaging you without being anywhere really, just standing or sitting but being calm and confident.
Now, imagine that with that camera you take a picture of this confident, relaxed you, and save it in the memory of the camera. Good.

Now I want you to imagine yourself, as the confident comfortable you, studying for an exam. And see yourself in the linray o on the computer or laying on the bed or at a table, reading or preparing. But it is this confident you, the calm you studying. And with that camera take a picture.
It too is now stored in the memory of this camera.
Now imagine yourself , the confident comfortable you, entering the room where an exam or test will be taken. See yourself as calm, confident, and this powerful you entering the room. Snap another picture.

And now, see yourself sitting to take the exam, at this point responding not as you have in the past but as the confident comfortable you, the you that feels a sense of calm and serenity when letting go of the tension in the left fist. Perfect. Snap another picture.

And now project into the future, seeing yourself as that confident comfortable you taking and even completing the test. Calmly, and without fear. Perfect. You know, what the mind can create, the mind can achieve, and so by even creating this image, you have conquered your anxieties, but snap a picture with that camera. And now another, as you close the last page of that exam. Perfect.
Now hold in your hand that camera, reviewing the files you have saved the pictures of you as you will be in the future calmly preparing for a test, entering an exam room, sitting to take the test and completing the test. Notice how you feel in each picture, how you look and how actually are what you desire.

You have learned new skills today, and are ready to use them in any test taking situation because people who learn these skills find them very helpful and you will too.
I am going to give you a few other suggestions though suggestions you have asked me to make by coming here today 9or listening to this CD). These are truths that come, not from me but from within you as evidence by your desire to do something new and come to hypnosis for learning to and to be your best.
You will find that as a result of taking the action of listening to this CD

You will find it easy to calmly remain seated through any testing situation.
You will discoverer that as you use you anchor of clenching that fist and releasing it, the results will be instantaneous leading to new confidence and passing your examinations with ease.
You will see yourself as calm test taker, someone who is able to easily and confidently take tests.

Copyright 2009. Richard K. Nongard
Not be be reporduced for commercial purposes, may be used by therapist specifically to help with individual clients in therapy.

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Permalink Reply by Karen Lockman on August 10, 2009 at 5:48pm

Hi Jilly:

If your client is having anxiety, you might want to consider doing regression work, finding the ISE or major SSEs, changing perception of those events, going back to the initial event and noticing it was just the fears of the child/young adult, etc., and now that the perception of that initial event is shifted, her response will be different.

Do an emotional regression on a scene in her mind where she needs to take an exam or be evaluated for her knowledge, dramatically intensify the feelings (insecurity, stress, anxiety, fears, etc.) and regress on the feelings. He/she will usually go back to somewhere in childhood for the initial event. Find the age, the feeling, who were the players, what happened and fade the scene (You don't want to leave your client in a negative emotional scene longer than necessary). This may also help you to find out if maybe she has a fear of failure, a fear of success, lack of self esteem, not being good enough to succeed, whatever.... You may need to do some major forgiveness work with someone who damaged her self-image or who actually hurt her. This is the changing perception of the event and feelings about herself. Then after that you can go through visualizations of success in focusing on the exam, recall of any information on that topics that she has ever seen, read, or heard, and total self-confidence, peace, calm and focus when taking the exam and passing it.

Just my two cents. I always do regression on just about everything, and it works almost every time. Get rid of the negative emotions first, then the client will be amenable in accepting positive suggestion.

Karen

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on August 10, 2009 at 5:56pm

Here is am mp3 for test taking anxiety...
Feel free to use it with clients, but not to rerpoduce this file for commercial purposes (like selling it).
Link is good for 14 days...

https://www.yousendit.com/download/Y1RxRGx3NDRFd2V4dnc9PQ

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Permalink Reply by Jill Bond on August 10, 2009 at 5:57pm

Richard,

Thanks a bunch! Very, very much appreciated. I will definitely comply with your conditions as well.

Peace,
Jilly

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Permalink Reply by Jill Bond on August 10, 2009 at 6:10pm

Karen,

Thanks for your input.
Great stuff!

Jilly

Karen Lockman said:

Hi Jilly:

If your client is having anxiety, you might want to consider doing regression work, finding the ISE or major SSEs, changing perception of those events, going back to the initial event and noticing it was just the fears of the child/young adult, etc., and now that the perception of that initial event is shifted, her response will be different.

Do an emotional regression on a scene in her mind where she needs to take an exam or be evaluated for her knowledge, dramatically intensify the feelings (insecurity, stress, anxiety, fears, etc.) and regress on the feelings. He/she will usually go back to somewhere in childhood for the initial event. Find the age, the feeling, who were the players, what happened and fade the scene (You don't want to leave your client in a negative emotional scene longer than necessary). This may also help you to find out if maybe she has a fear of failure, a fear of success, lack of self esteem, not being good enough to succeed, whatever.... You may need to do some major forgiveness work with someone who damaged her self-image or who actually hurt her. This is the changing perception of the event and feelings about herself. Then after that you can go through visualizations of success in focusing on the exam, recall of any information on that topics that she has ever seen, read, or heard, and total self-confidence, peace, calm and focus when taking the exam and passing it.

Just my two cents. I always do regression on just about everything, and it works almost every time. Get rid of the negative emotions first, then the client will be amenable in accepting positive suggestion.

Karen

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Permalink Reply by Dan Elliott on August 10, 2009 at 9:17pm

Hi Jilly.

It's been realised for some time now that learning is state dependent. One vector of the meaning of this is that we recall far better in the place where we first did the learning. For instance, if a student revises in his or her bedroom, she will in fact recall far better there than in the exam room.

So, not withstanding all the excellent pointers you've already been given, I could advise you to teach your client a very rapid anchor; for instance, a tightly gripped hand with eyes closed just as they take a seat, takes them back to wherever they did the learning/studying. Then, without distraction, open their eyes and look at the exam paper.

If you need more advice on anchors and anchoring feel free to ask.

My kind regards,
Dan.

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Permalink Reply by Pattie Freeman CH.t, MST on August 10, 2009 at 10:05pm

I also have one that i just used for a gentleman taking a state exam for his career in funeral directing and he took the test once and scored low..he passed with a 89% and he was thrilled...this is not the first time this script has done so well...
if you want more info email me at hypnosisbypattie@msn.com thanks

Pattie

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Atkinson on August 11, 2009 at 7:36am

Check with Katherine Zimmerman, California Hypnotherapy Academy. She spent many years when her practice was in Davis, California assisting U.C. Davis students. She has a great deal of experience in this area ... one of her many specialities. You can look her up on this website.