Exams and tests are a common feature of modern Western life. Within the UK, from primary school level to the advanced professional level, we all find ourselves sitting an exam at some point in our lives. For many of us, this is not a negative experience. However, for others, it is an experience that triggers a sense of dread and even panic.

Exam anxiety is a situation-specific response centering on the extent to which an individual finds exams/tests threatening. It is often fuelled by memories of past exam stress and perceived ‘failure’, and/or avoidance of the exam situation or fixation on it.

More often than not the person sitting the exam fears failing the exam, but test anxiety also includes the fear of negative evaluation from self and others, personal worth being strongly associated with grades achieved.

Emotional, cognitive, behavioural, and physical components can all be present in exam/test anxiety. Sweating, dizziness, headaches, racing heartbeats, nausea, fidgeting, and drumming on a desk are all common. A certain level of physical and mental arousal is necessary to best complete a task such as an exam; however, when the anxiety or level of arousal exceeds that optimum, it typically results in poor study skills and a decline in exam performance.

But, test/exam anxiety can be swiftly and enduringly transformed with hypnosis / hypnotherapy. Old experiences from the past that are interfering with the present are re-evaluated and re-framed, the body and mind taught to retain easy control through deep relaxation, confidence in the present built, and understanding of future success both established and cemented.

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