I’ve heard this many times after failed school tests. Failing exams at school or in college can really knock you sideways. I worked with a sixteen year old who had always done well academically until he failed on school test and felt like he should give up his whole school career. Fortunately, we worked together and – once he had calmed down and reconnected with his personal resources for ‘bouncing back’ – he was able to put that academic failure behind him.
Learning to deal with school test failure
My latest session for hypnosisdownloads.com on ‘Failing school tests’ is really focused on staying positive and not being put off by the experience of failing a test. For some people, failure is ‘not an option’ – but of course to err is human. Dealing with failure – academic or otherwise – is a true test of character. If someone can’t deal with a failure once in a while, then how are they ever going to truly appreciate success?
This new hypnosis session seeks to calm the student right down so that they can put their test failure behind them and quickly move on. While shock and self-reproach last, they just get in the way of future school test performance. By the end of the first time of listening to this download I expect students to feel as if they have emotionally put the test failure behind them, and can focus and concentrate on what they have to do.
Being success orientated means knowing how to move on from blips by seeing them as a blip and not a catastrophe. Because, ultimately, many apparent catastrophes are really very minor in the great scheme of things.
This session will be a great opportunity for students to experience relaxation and calm… as well as a way of sharpening the focus of the mind.
Looking forward to feedback
All the best everyone.
Mark
It was useful to listen to your thoughts on this. Though it is generally useful for me to discuss how I feel with others, at times of stress and failure, there is a natural tendency to express negativity instead of positive reflection. Listening to your thoughts is almost like a silent extension of myself talking back and fourth with you without expressing negative feelings.
Thanks Chris for this feedback. Certainly expressing negatively may be useful up to a point just as a way of realizing and releasing how you feel but to really move forward we need new more positive perspectives.
All the very best to you
Mark