Study Habits For Concentration, Retention, And Remembering Information (nlp)

November 16th, 2008 admin Posted in hypnosis |

By Alan Densky

If you are a person who is trying to bring up your grades, there are a list of tricks that will help you to improve your capability to sharpen your attentiveness, absorb the data that you study, and bring it back to consciousness during a test without being tormented by mental blocks or test anxiety. This is a list of how to go about instituting good study behaviors:

(1) Set up an environment for study and only study in that place! Locate a peaceful room that will facilitate a focusing of attention without distractions. Some usual examples would be a library, a vacant classroom, or your office. You want to generate the routine of studying when you are in this place. So it is best to not use this place for other activities like daydreaming, socializing, or playing games, etc.

MAKE SURE THAT YOUR STUDY PLACE HAS:

(a) A comfortable chair, but not too comfy

(b) A desk

(d) Good air flow

MAKE SURE THAT YOUR STUDY PLACE DOES NOT HAVE:

(a) Distracting views of other activities

(b) A phone

(d) A big screen television

(e) Another person who talks a lot

(f) A refrigerator filled with sweets

(2) Break up your study periods into small, short-range goals.

(a) Set up small highly specific goals like, “I am going to study my history from 3 PM to 4 PM. Otherwise you will set yourself up to fall short.

(b) Set a doable work goal for the quantity of time you have allocated. For example: finish reading chapter twelve in my math text book, or complete a draft of my biology paper, etc. Set your goal at the specific time that you are ready to sit down and study, just before you begin. Set reachable goals. You might do more than reach your goal, but set a reasonable goal even if it seems much too easy.

(3) Test Anxiety & Phobias

(a) Some people mostly experience physical symptoms, like feeling hot or cold, nausea, or faintness, etc.

(b) Other people experience emotional symptoms for the most part, like feeling frustrated, irritable, or crying easily.

(c) The main trouble with anxiousness is that it can trigger one 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 anxiousness when taking exams, you can learn to significantly diminish that anxiety, or even completely eliminate it!

(e) Anxiousness and the resultant stress are usually the main causes of a lack of ability to focus concentration. Stress can also cause a mental block when you try 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) Hypnosis and NLP CD’s can be used to program your mind for the positive expectation of peace and the ability to bring back to mind the information during a test. This is valuable for reducing or getting rid of test anxiety.

(h) There are a number of hypnotherapy methods that can promptly eliminate a test phobia!

Alan B. Densky, CH has specialized in the practice of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming since 1978. He offers NLP CD’s for improving memory and recall. Visit his Neuro-VISION NLP site for free hypnosis newsletters, articles, and MP3s and his Video Self-Hypnosis Blog for free video taped hypnosis tips.

Motivation Is Yours With Weight Loss Self Hypnosis
By Alan Densky

With bitter, winter days ahead for many of us, the thought of braving the weather to get to the gym or go for a jog doesn’t sound very attractive. Keeping the motivation to stick to your weight loss goals when everyone else wants to hibernate is simple with self hypnosis for weight loss.

A lot of people who are trying to lose weight agree that motivation is especially challenging when the weather changes, so what if you could stay dedicated to your exercise plan and diet just by viewing a hypnotherapy weight loss DVD or listening to a CD? Better yet, a hypnotherapy weight loss program can diminish your cravings too.

Hypnotherapy for weight loss works simply, but effectively, by guiding you to a deeply relaxed state during which your unconscious can more effortlessly receive suggestions, such as the ones that will keep you motivated to stick to your fitness track, even in the midst of winter.

It is a fact that if a person exercises, it will speed up their metabolism and increase the rate that weight is dropped. Some of the most successful hypnotherapy for exercise motivation techniques comes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. With NLP, the unconscious mind is programmed to use the same thought processes that are producing a problem, to get rid of it. Said another way, the same thought processes that the unconscious mind utilizes to create cravings and oral compulsions could help to completely stop them! And similarly, the same processes can be used to increase your motivation to exercise.

Anchoring is an NLP practice that can be practiced to give you a “switch” for sparking behaviors and feelings. Creating a hypnosis appetite suppression anchor works simply and effectively like this: A qualified hypnotherapy weight loss practitioner will safely direct you into a tranquil hypnotic state. Then the hypnotherapist will ask you to recall a time when you were happy and excited about anything in your life.

The goal of this exercise is to remember and re-experience as many sensations as you possibly can from numerous times in your life when you felt eager and motivated to do anything you wanted to. Then, the weight loss hypnosis therapist will ask you to anchor those feelings by simply touching two fingers together.

Next, you will be asked to visualize yourself exercising and enjoying it. As you make this mental image, you’ll trigger your anchor by touching those two fingers together again. When you do that, your unconscious will connect the feeling of excitement and eagerness from the other memory to the thought of exercising.

From this point on, whenever you wish to feel motivated to exercise, you can simply trigger your anchor and re-experience those same affirmative feelings that will motivate you to workout. NLP and weight loss hypnosis can even be used to discourage behaviors, so you can easily beat cravings. That sounds much easier and encouraging than beating yourself up for missing a workout or giving into temptation, doesn’t it?

A successful weight loss hypnosis program will also address the root cause of weight gain for many of us, namely a lack of self-esteem. In a relaxed state, you can accept post-hypnotic suggestions that will develop your self-esteem as you lose more weight. The lack of self-esteem is a big factor in being overweight.

Many people wonder if, after attempting every new diet and buying every exercise implement on the market, something as straight forward as weight loss hypnosis can work for them. The good news is that it has been found that all normal people are hypnotizable to a greater or lesser extent. However, it should be noted that people who have less than a 70 I.Q. or those who are in an active state of psychosis or with senility generally are not hypnotizable.

But for the rest of us, self hypnosis for weight loss can actually make us look forward to exercising and eating healthily. That said, the major proponent for victory in any fitness routine, whether it embraces weight loss hypnosis or not, is wanting to achieve your weight loss goals.

On a related note, that is exactly why you can’t force someone to undergo weight loss self hypnosis just by giving them suggestions. If someone is against an idea, no amount of weight loss hypnosis they hear or see will take hold. In reference to the NLP explanation above, if someone does not have a memory of feeling positive or motivated, they can still be successful with NLP and hypnotherapy because they can envision what it would feel like if they did feel that way, and anchor the imagined feelings.

So, if you are like many of us and find your enthusiasm diminishing as the temperatures drop and the days get darker, weight loss hypnosis can assist you to regain (or maintain) your interest for carrying out and finally hitting your fitness aspirations.

Alan B. Densky, CH is a leader in the use of Video appetite hypnosis. His Neuro-VISION technology was awarded a US Patent because of its effectiveness. He offers quite a few unique appetite suppression hypnotherapy programs. Visit for free hypnosis resources & downloads.

Dont miss the trance to lose your fear
By Paul W Howard

We all like to believe we’re unique. But when it comes to our fears, we’re anything but.

Spiders, flying and public transport are all it takes to send many people into a state of anxiety or panic. Crowded places are simply terrifying to some people; some fears are of course rational, but others seem to have no simple explanation.

Experts say a few are evolutionary and they have developed in response to dangerous situations that may cause harm, such as a poisonous bite, or being in a situation that makes us feel trapped. If they aren’t instinctive we generally learn them from our parents, or by some long forgotten childhood event or a more recent trauma.

Many fears have some element of perceived danger in them, said Paul White, Chairman of the National Council for Hypnotherapy. To the sufferer, even a seemingly silly phobia - for example of boiled eggs - will hold a perceived danger, food poisoning perhaps, and this may have been set up by eating an egg that was rotten.

Fortunately, in the main, these responses are normal and often useful.

Children for instance, may retreat from a cliff edge because they sense they could fall. Fear of public speaking, which can reduce even the most confident person to a gibbering wreck, comes from a belief that they may be judged and seen as stupid, incapable or unprofessional. As a result, they will spend more time preparing to make sure their speech or presentation goes well.

However, for a large proportion of the public who experience a seemingly irrational reaction to an everyday object or situation, they have to deal with an entirely different form of anxiety that is commonly known as a phobia.

For instance, an agoraphobic may have a fear that they will be sick in public, which could have been set up because they were sick in front of some friends when they were a child and were ridiculed for it. This fear/phobia may not appear for 20 years and will seem to come out of the blue. For example he or she may initially have feelings of nausea, rapid heartbeat, flushing, increased respiration and chest pain when travelling on a bus. This initial attack will be interpreted in their mind as being unwell, believing it might be a heart or asthma attack. Not surprisingly this often makes the feelings of panic a lot worse. This attack will now be linked to the bus and travelling on public transport, where they felt trapped. He or she may have no understanding that it came from an earlier event. The fear of another attack may cause them to go to great lengths to steer clear of any situation where they may be trapped in a public place, or whatever circumstance triggered the reaction in the first place.

Surveys show that as our lives are improving in materialistic ways, our expectations are also rising with regard to happiness and fulfilment, and when the reality doesnt match the expectation; it leaves many of us feeling less content.

Acts of terrorism, despite the low odds of actually being affected by one, have naturally made flying and even travelling into our cities, more stressful.

But don’t get too worried or depressed. According to The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy, major anxiety problems are very treatable. Statistically hypnotherapy has been shown to be far more effective than virtually any other form of psychotherapy. Dr. Mary Lee Smith, world-renowned statistician, concludes in her book The benefits of Psychotherapy, that hypnotherapy is the most effective type of psychotherapy; with hypnotherapy being twice as effective as most other forms.

The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy has been working successfully with various types of anxiety for many years. They have seen just about every type of anxiety going, from a fear of bananas, to a lady in her seventies with claustrophobia, agoraphobia and OCD.

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Paul Howard has been specialising in Anxiety and Psoriasis for nearly ten years. He has trained many hypnotherapists around the country. He works at The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy in Wallington, Surrey, UK. He can be contacted via the website at www.sich.co.uk. He is also the Marketing director for The National Council for Hypnotherapy - The premiere governing body in the UK.

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