Stress in the classroom is reaching an all time high, as our educators become pressured by a global economy to increase our educational standards.
Our schools have become production lines where individual attention has all but become obsolete. Students are pushed through the system regardless of their levels of retention. Many university students would have problems trying to pass a literacy test. And the kids get caught in the middle. It becomes easy for the kids to label themselves. When that happens self-esteem plummets. But the pressures only escalate. Stress becomes the norm.
A child’s performance in school has been proven to be less dependent on their intelligence levels than on the study skills. It is a simple fact, A child that has good study skills will normally outperform student that don’t.
Yet study skill education is almost non-existent. It is assumed that children have this magic ability to instinctively know how to study. The best way to minimize classroom stress levels is to teach our children how to study. But how many of our educators know how to study themselves? Is it assumed that they automatically knew how to study, regardless of the fact that they very well may have been pushed through the system their entire lives.
First of all, how many kids believe entirely that they can study better with the radio on?
The human mind can only focus on one thing at a time. It is literally impossible for the mind split its attention. The level of information that is absorbed into consciousness is determined by the levels of focused attention.
The problem being, that the mind’s attention is vastly scattered. With this scattered attention only snippets of information become absorbed. When the mind becomes confused the emotion of stress becomes exacerbated. Classroom stress is a product of scattered attention.
The question is, how do we educate our children in study skills. What do they really need to know in order to become better students. The simple answer is to teach them how to focus, right?
The question is how do you do THAT?
A short time ago I had the privileged of working with a small but very progressive college in presenting a program to a group of their students. The program was designed to increase the students’ levels of focused attention.
Two classes were scheduled a week apart, In the first class, through using a technique in guided imagery, I was able to teach the students how to eliminate both the external and internal chatter. When the chatter is no longer an issue, focused attentions become simple.
This same technique can also be applied to anything that they choose to focus on. It becomes a life-skill.Even in sports, the one who had the greatest levels of focused attention normally will be the victor.
The second class teaches the subconscious mind to lock onto key words and phrases, for increased absorption and retention.
The entire process takes only two normal classes. Yet the impact can last a lifetime.
After the conclusion of the 2nd class I passed out a “Student’s Evaluation Sheet”. I wanted to get the opinions of the student’s themselves on how they felt and perhaps benefited from the 2 classes.
Their responses were infinitely stronger than I had imagined was possible.
Consistently their levels of Self-Esteem rose considerably. Their inter-reactions with the other students improved. The reasons for the changes are simple. They learned a simple thing. They weren’t dumb at all.. they simply didn’t know how to study!
Most of the student in the course even discovered that they no longer dreaded studying, but actually looked forward to it. They discovered that they grasped what they were studying easily.
The questions become evident. How can you, or your school, or university benefit from this program? How about your child? Will this information help them? If so, how?
The simple way , as an individual, is to just go to my products page, and download the 2 CD package. Hypnosis for Better Grades. Each CD should be listened to once a day WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS. No music… no TV… no one else in the room. Just the student and the CD playing, while they are seated comfortably. The first CD should be listened to for 7 days. then the 2nd CD listened to in the same manner for the same duration.
For classroom instructions, please contact Rev. Rod Kelly directly.
Incidentally, Guided Imagery and Hypnosis are one in the same. Both just allow the listener to shut out distractions to allow the information to become absorbed into the subconscious mind and accepted as a new belief system.
Stress is in fact the fear of failure or inability to perform a given task. Fear is created because of lack of pertinent information. When you eliminate the fear of failure stress evaporates.
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