expectations.( Many a time one may need to release the tension / stress of the parent who is on the back of the child, demanding performance, to release their pressure on the child.)
Following two cases shall demonstrate the benefit derived by students with the hypnotherapy intervention.
Case 1. Abha( name changed) was a bright student who had taken‘ commerce stream’ for her 11 th / 12 th boards.
Her parents found that she was very nervous whenever she tried to sit down to study‘ Accounts’ subject. She would just leave her books and say‘ she is going to rest for some time’, and then actually go off to sleep, showing a clear symptom of‘ avoidance’ to the‘ subject’. Her parents came to consult whether Hypnotherapy can help her.
I always say‘ you can try’, as we are dealing with the mind of the client at subconscious level, because that only produces our external behaviour, due to some reasons, which the conscious mind is not able to fathom or over ride.
They were‘ open’ enough to try it. Her situation / symptoms:
Abha came and expressed she liked‘ commerce’ as a stream, there was potential for jobs and she could help her father in his business. She did not understand what happened to her when she sat down to study‘ Accounts’. She expressed she would open the book and immediately felt that she was tired and that she needed to‘ rest’ for some time. She was good at all other subjects and scored well in them. Tuition in‘ Accounts’ was not helping her. She appeared a nervous person, bothered about her reputation and ambitious to pursue a career, and was extremely afraid as to how she would cope with‘ Accounts’. Even afraid that she would fail in that subject and that thought was creating a lot of anxiety in her.
What was done?: As a therapist, under hypnosis,
• I embedded a procedure for her use to relax in any situation, when she felt tension of any nature.
• She was given a technique to use when she sat down to study, which would bring her focus and concentration on the subject matter she was studying using any‘ study process’, viz. reading, writing, solving question / numerical, answering question requiring descriptive answers, etc.. She could even use the technique for concentrating on‘ listening to the teacher’ in a class.
And
• Then she was given a suggestion associating the concentration while studying, ' to remember ', whatever she studied, by whatever‘ study process’ she has used to study.
• Further, she was given a suggestion / technique to recall all that she had studied related to any‘ question’ that she was asked, in situations when she could be asked