Enhancing Learning and Memory

We all have situations where we need to learn or use our memories and we can help you develop these skills using hypnotherapy.  Some of the uses of hypnosis for learning enhancement include:

• Succeeding in exams and tests

• Learning a new skill such as driving

• Having the confidence to take a new course

• Improving your memory for everyday or study-related situations

• Overcoming dyslexia and other learning difficulties

• Developing motivation and stamina for studying

Learning is a process that is often misunderstood.  From young children, we are told to work harder whenever we are struggling to grasp something new and this habit of forced concentration may become our default setting for learning situations.  In fact, we need to allow our mind to relax when we are learning so that information can sink in more easily. 

It is not always easy to understand new information immediately and often the best time for processing the new things that we learned during the day is when we are asleep.  This is why sometimes when you were struggling to learn something it suddenly clicks in to place the following day.  The use of hypnosis can have a similar effect in opening the mind and allowing learning to take place effortlessly.  Hypnosis can alter any negative or limiting beliefs about your ability to learn so that you approach new tasks more positively.

One aspect of study that many people find challenging is taking exams.  Good examination techniques and adequate revision are conscious requirements of succeeding in exams. However, retrieving this knowledge, applying it to the question and producing a good answer rely on processing information that is stored in the unconscious.  It is most useful in exams if you can enter a kind of flow state where the information pours out, rather than struggling consciously with every sentence.  Hypnosis can help embed self-belief and confidence and instruct the unconscious about the requirements of the exam so this flow state can be activated.

Many people have misconceptions about how memory works and decide that they have poor memories when in fact they only have poor strategies for remembering.  Believing that memory deteriorates with age is a socially acceptable excuse that has its basis more in self-fulfilling prophecy than biological fact.  Hypnosis can help in this respect as it can set up strategies for the rapid storage and retrieval of information.  Under hypnosis, people can recall all kinds of information that they would normally not be able to access.  By learning how to access a state of deep relaxation when you need to, most people can easily improve their memory.

Elizabeth provides hypnotherapy at Life Unlimited.  If you are curious to find out if we can help with your goal, check out the links above or call us for an informal discussion.

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