BRISTOL HYPNOTHERAPY CLINIC
Courses
Problems with studying can be due to bad habits. Your sense of how to manage your
time or how to concentrate may be poorly defined and put into action. This results
in an unnecessary drain on your energy and emotions. For example, if you have an
exam, a progress report, research for a lecture, any act of learning that requires
preparation and organisation, you can see it as a traumatic, self punishing experience
by delaying it. If, instead, you did the task in small bite size increments before
your deadline, your task would be considerably easier.
This is not a complex, tedious process. It simply involves breaking your whole project
into workable segments. You can do this with any block of material, such as the information
to be learned for an exam. Your learning module can be compared to a jigsaw puzzle
piecing together each bit until the whole picture emerges.
Other poor study habits may result from the physical location of your study area
and your association with it.
1. Designate one particular location for study and use that place consistently.
2. Eliminate any external distractions.
3. Leave the location as soon as you are unable to concentrate.
Some distractions will never be easy or even possible to eliminate, such as a neighbours,
dog barking, or traffic.
If your concentration has diminished it can be regulated by a time set for your activity.
Give yourself a starting and stopping time that is within your normal attention span
and then work within those limits. Without a time limit you can create exhaustion.
Don’t keep to your stopping time if you can no longer concentrate. When you can’t
focus your attention on your material, it is time to stop and leave the location.
This will allow your to associate with the study area as a positive one. You will
view it as a productive place where you can succeed at what you are doing.
Anxiety, stress and depression are all too common these days and with these negative
thoughts and feelings, it is very difficult to concentrate on studying.
Study Problems
Taking Exams
Many students fail to do themselves justice during exams. Even though they have spent
time studying and learning in great detail, when the time comes to take the exam
they become so nervous that their mind goes blank. They might have expected a higher
grade but have performed with less efficiency, getting lower grades or even failing
altogether. Fear is a powerful force, which can seem to erase volumes of material
that you thought you had successfully committed to memory.
It is these cases that can benefit from one or two sessions of CBT to break-up old
habits, and learn new skills and techniques for reducing the constant worry.
University / College Students with Poor Concentration or Memory
University and college students contact me due to their perceptions of not being
able to concentrate or complain of having a poor memory. There is nothing wrong with
their concentration or memory, it is frequently due to underlying anxieties and occasionally
depression that is causing the problem. When these are alleviated their memory and
concentration improves dramatically.
Bristol Hypnotherapy Clinic in residence at the
Greenway Community Practice, Greystoke Ave, Southmead, Bristol BS10 6AF
Tel: 0117-968-6886, Mobile: 07811-373703,
International 44117-968-6886 USA Cell phone 248.635.3726
