Think about this for a minute. As you sit there right now reading this article, bits and pieces of information are entering your mind through your eyes. But you are also hearing sounds, experiencing physical feelings like the pressure of the chair touching your buttocks and back, the sensation of the clothing on your body, and the air temperature and movement on your skin. You are also in receipt of information via your nose in the form of aromas. And of course, you're receiving data in the form of the various tastes on your lips.
And how about the emotional feelings that you are at the moment feeling? That is also data that you're presently processing. We exist in an information intensive world. Thanks to the Internet, almost anything and everything that you could ever want to know is only a few clicks of a mouse away.
Recently I read an editorial that said that even in a calm and peaceful environment, we are bombarded by sixty thousand stimuli per second. And that is happening sixty seconds out of each minute, and sixty minutes out of each hour. And it goes on twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, week in and week out for our entire life.
And that's a big part of the crisis. We are all suffering from "information overload." And that makes it very difficult to remember all of the data that we want to remember or need to be able to recall.
Quite often, when we are reading, we discover that our eyes have been traversing the phrases on the page, while our conscious mind has been off somewhere else on a tangent. When we get to the bottom of the page, we become conscious of the fact that our eyes have seen the words, but we have no conscious memory of what we've just read. That is because our mind has been somewhere else worrying about a problem, or working out a scheme.
Today it is widespread to hear even young people state things like, "I'm having a senior moment." No matter what your age, and whether you are a student, part of the labor, or a retired senior, you know what I'm talking about. In our chaotic world it is often quite difficult to focus your attention.
SO WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS YOUR PROBLEM?
A. Your mind begins to roam as you read or study, and then gradually you appreciate that you do not have the slightest idea what you've been reading.
B. When you are in a social environment and you are introduced to new acquaintances, you forget their names almost as rapidly as you hear them.
C. You recall that you have a chore to do in another room; but as soon as you start towards the other room you totally forget what that errand is.
D. You are able to stay focused and take in new information. But when you take an examination, "Test Anxiety" rears its ugly head and causes a mental block, and you are not able to recall the answers to the questions on the test that you really know.
The principal cause of a student's failure to focus their attention is that people are suffering from too much tension. And the principal cause of a mental block to recall is also tension. So it stands to reason that the more relaxed a person is, the better they will be able to focus their concentration, absorb information, and then be able to recall it at a later date.
Today, hypnotherapy and memory enhancement has become a popular topic. That is partially because hypnotherapy is a brilliant tool for creating a relaxed state. As a matter of fact, the very essence of the hypnotic state is relaxation. And as the mind calms down, the capacity to stay focused increases. Similarly, a tranquil mind enhances the capability to retain information, and remember it when it is needed.
Hypnotic memory enhancement is a powerful modality for eliminating test anxiety and mental blocks. There are several hypnotic methods that can be used to program a student with the positive expectancy of relaxation, self-reliance, and achievement while taking exams.
Students can take a course on how to apply hypnotherapy quickly and affordably in the privacy of their own home by ordering hypnosis CD's. It's easy to locate more information on hypnotherapy to improve memory and recall in the Hypnosis Research Library located on my website.
Alan B. Densky, CH has specialized in the practice of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming since 1978. He offers hypnosis CD's for memory and recall enhancement. Visit his Neuro-VISION Hypnosis site for free resources & MP3 downloads, and his Video Hypnosis Blog for tips & tricks.
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