Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 1 Issue 4, (I October 2016) | Page 7

questions.
• Visualisations under hypnosis were done to help experience those situations.
• In addition to the above, if any anxiety or fear was felt at any stage of studying
or answering questions in related situations, desensitisation of the anxiety and fear
was done, under hypnosis as a part of hypnotherapy.
• Lastly, she was given a visualisation of success, and the feeling of happiness
was anchored in her, relating to ‘success in performance’.
The above took around six sessions.
Result of therapy:
Her fear of ‘Accounts’ was totally removed.
Her anxieties related to exams and the results were totally gone.
She studied all subjects using the technique ‘to concentrate while studying’.
She was made to understand that she has to focus on the process of the study and the
study material and keep herself away from the result. (This was also a part of the
suggestion under hypnosis.)
She used the technique of ‘recalling everything she had read’ in all examinations.
The final result was that she stood first in her school and had a good rank in the board.
(Later on she continued to use the techniques she learnt, in her college studies and was
very successful in her MBA from a prestigious Business school.)
She was happy, her parents were happy.
The therapist, that is me, am happy till today for being able to help a child correct
her direction of her life and be free from fear and anxiety, related to studying.
2nd case
Another student Sneha (name changed) was brought by her parents on 28th January,
when her 12th board examination was to start from the 1st of March. They expressed
th
that she had not studied at all during her 12 . She had been spoiled due to affluence
and money and was only fond of shopping. She had got 17% marks in her pre-board
exams. She was from the ‘arts’ stream. They asked if I could help her pass.
They had been recommended by a dear friend, and I saw a lot of expectation in the
parents. They very sincerely wanted me to help their child.
I was skeptical, that was the time when I had not worked with many children and did
not know whether she could be helped by ‘hypnotherapy’ to perform better in the
exams which were going to take place after a month only.
I did take up the case and called her for three sessions, as she lived very far away and I
did not want her to spend lot of time away from studying for her exams.
The therapy
Under hypnosis she was given the technique ‘to relax’, ‘to concentrate’ and ‘to recall
what she had studied’. Desensitisation was done for the anxiety present, from her ‘fear
of failure’.