I am working with quite a few students at the moment to help with exam nerves and stress. As we approach the season of exams many people struggle with the importance of these few weeks and how much impact they will have on their lives in the future.

I am very fond of saying the expression "we get more of what we think about".

It is very true and it applies in so many cases to people that I see. In the case of exams what could happen is this:

You start to worry about what will happen in the exam and then you think that you will do badly in it, you also think that you probably won't get much sleep the night before and you will lie awake wondering if you will sleep. Then you also think that you will oversleep when you do get to sleep... and that as soon as you enter the exam hall you will begin to shake and forget everything that you have learned.

Does this sound familiar? The truth is that if you do think that then you may well find that it comes true. You have begun to mentally rehearse the situation and you do "get more of what you think about" !

This is why I work with my clients to help them prepare and imagine being calm, knowing they have done all of the work that they need to and that breathing, taking time and relaxing will really help to get them through the exam.

When you think about it, you will find it makes great sense. Sometimes it is difficult though. We find we get into a cycle of worry and we struggle to get out of it.

Rest assured that I work with many people who were in that cycle, and then after time changing their thinking habits they can go on to great happiness and success in all areas of their lives.

As well as working with students and helping schools and teachers to explain my techniques to their students I spend a lot of time doing one on one sessions. It is clear to me that not everyone can afford these personal sessions so I have taken my "Exam Stress Buster MP3 download" out of my shop where it sells at £9.99 and added it to it's own page where you can buy it for just £4.99.

I did wonder about just giving it away for free, but so much of what I do is about positive thinking that if you got it for free then there would be no need to bother listening or caring about it! I want you to listen to it, and I want you to be prepared and I want you to feel invested in it.. so that's why there is a small charge. That way I help more people and you really need to make that little bit more effort !

If you would like to get the Exam stress buster download for yourself just click HERE

Good luck with your exams... if you are prepared you can actually look forward to them !

I popped to the shops at lunchtime to grab some milk, and normally that would be the end of the story...but today was slightly different..

As I was walking past a very nice looking house there was a woman and a man standing in the front garden looking rather perturbed.

I smiled at them and they frowned back. I asked them if everything was alright.

"We can't ask him", said the woman.

"We could see!", said the man hopefully.

I asked what was up and what it was they they couldn't ask me. They explained that there was a dead bird at the bottom of the stairs and they were too scared to pick it up and dispose of it.

I smiled and said to the mand who was in his late twenties that if he didn't think he could do it I would be happy to pick it up for them.

The look of relief in their eyes was the same that I see when I explain that I can help a client overcome a problem they have carried with them for years.  I duly disposed of the bird and explained that being a hypnotherapist I knew that the fear was all in the mind. I offered them a card and explained that should they ever come across another dead bird on the stairs they could call me and I would help them to be able to do it for themselves next time. I was only getting milk between clients so I didn't really have time to go through a session with them at the time, and to be honest it did seem fairer just to dispose of it this time !

So, a normal trip to the shop left me feeling good that I had been able to help someone a little and you never know, they may decide to do something to help themselves in the future. It made me smile.....until I remember the poor dead bird of course.