Academic Performance

Attention Students (and Parents of Students), No Matter What Age, Grade, or Subject . . .

Now You Can Rapidly Improve Academic Performance In
Any Subject

Including Better Focus, Faster Learning, Less Test Stress, Higher Test Scores,

Better Memory and Recall, and Higher Grades, Quickly Easily, and Naturally

Do you, or does your child student . . .

Have trouble focusing at school, doing homework, and during test?
Perform poorly on tests due to high stress (“test anxiety”) when taking tests?
Make low grades in some subjects (saying things like, “I’ll never be good at _____”)?
Have memory/recall problems, a tendency to be a “slow learner,” or a so-called “learning disability”?
Have trouble with learning how to spell, read, write, do math, or learn difficult subjects?
Lack self-esteem or self-confidence academically or socially around peers?
Dislike particular teachers/tutors and find them hard to listen to and learn from?
Lack motivation to study or direction for work, college or career?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then read on, because you can eliminate all of these problems improve grades by using our Rapid Learning Hypnosis and NLP Coaching Program.

Problem — What the Real Problems
Are With Learning

When we are very young we tend to “soak up knowledge like a spung soaks in water,”

But as we get older, we need to learn how to learn. This requires developing strategies, skills, motivation, discipline, and confidence for learning.

One problem is, learning how to learn is rarely — if ever — taught in schools.

Also, because most parents weren’t taught well how to learn, students often don’t learn how to learn well at home either.

So, as students get older and subject-matters become more difficult, learning becomes harder.

What’s more, research has consistently shown that all learning, behavior, and change, happens at the level of the “Subconscious” or what we call the Unconscious Mind.

Think about it. Anything you’ve learned is stored in your Unconscious Mind. You aren’t going around thinking about it every minute of every day. But when you need it, if you’ve learned it, you can call it up from your Unconscious Mind.

This means that we need to learn how to more quickly and permanently get new academic information into our Unconscious Mind.

Another problem is that our Conscious Mind’s “critical faculty” often get in the way of learning. As students encounter new subject-matters, new classes, new levels of difficulty, new teachers, new school social environments, and increased expectations, both academically and socially, the conscious mind tends to get distracted by all of the new stimuli, making it difficult to learn.

Like a skilled athlete who performs based on “muscle memory” — that is, Unconsciously — students need to learn how keep the Conscious Mind calm, while exercising new strategies, skills, motivations, discipline, and confidence, that allows them to install and recall new learnings into and from the Unconscious Mind.

That’s where Hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) come in, to help students rapidly achieve learning and increase academic performance.

Promise — How Hypnosis and NLP Help Achieve Rapid Learning and Higher Grades

We are so confident that our Rapid Learning Hypnosis and NLP Coaching Program works that we promise you, if you, as a student (or your child student) are 100% committed to the program, and follow our process, you (or your child student) will achieve significantly increased academic performance even after the first month.

Our Rapid Learning Hypnosis and NLP Coaching Program is customized to each client’s individual needs. Customized client programs can last anywhere from a month to two years, depending on the individual’s needs and interests. The minimum commitment required is one month. Regardless of whether your program is customized for one month or up to 24 months, during each month we will meet:

Twice a month
Every other week
For two hours per session
For a total of 4 hours per month

Proof — How You Can Know It Works

Hypnosis is a heighted state of attention that helps the Conscious Mind to temporarily to “get out of the way,” and allows new academic learning to quickly, easily, safely, and naturally, flow into the Unconscious Mind. Hypnosis has been used for many years to help students of all ages, improve their learning and skills.

Among the many proofs that hypnosis can help improve academic performance is the following study, which . . .

"Investigated the effects of cognitive-behavioral hypnosis in reducing test anxiety and improving academic performance. 44 introductory psychology students received 4 sessions of hypnosis and 50 Hawthorne controls received no treatment over the same time period. Ss' midterm test grades and scores on the Test Anxiety Inventory were examined. There was a decrease in test anxiety and improvements in achievement for the hypnosis group. The treatment gains were maintained at 6-wk follow-up." (Sapp, M. (1991). Hypnotherapy and test anxiety: Two cognitive-behavioral constructs: The effects of hypnosis in reducing test anxiety and improving academic achievement in college students. Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis, 12(1), 25-31.)

NLP (which stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is defined as “The Study and Replication of Excellence.” Since the early 1970’s, the field of NLP has studied and modeled excellent achievers in a wide range of human endeavors, including Olympic athletes, military sharp-shooters, high sales performers in business, a wide range of therapies, as well as education and academic performance.

Based on this modeling of excellent learners, the field of NLP has a variety of tools and techniques that have been proven to help students rapidly learn and improve their grade-point averages.

Of the many studies on the effectiveness of NLP in improving education, we cite the following as being particularly relevant.

“The paper also contains the first systematic and comprehensive literature review of research evidence into the impact of NLP in education and discusses the content of 111 papers and references including quantitative and qualitative research evidence. The majority of published work was found to be supportive of the use of NLP in schools and education . . .” (Carey, J., Churches, R., Hutchinson, G., Jones, J. and Tosey, P. (2009) (foreword by John WestBurnham) Neuro-linguistic programming and learning: teacher case studies on the impact of NLP in education, Reading: CfBT Education Trust.)

We use Hypnosis and NLP together to provide a very powerful and valuable set of benefits that help students of all ages improve their academic performance. These benefits include:

Increased focus
Reduce test stress
Improved listening
Better memory and recall
Improved reading skills
Improved note taking skills (as well as training on when to take notes and when not to)
Better study and review skills
Improved test taking skills
Replacement of procrastination with motivation
Faster learning
Improved self-esteem and self-confidence
Better social and communication skills with peers and teachers
Higher grades
Clearer plans for work, college, and/or career

Example Case Studies

Consider the following case studies of how we have helped students improve their academic performance:

CASE STUDY

1

Middle School Student Goes from the Bottom of the Math Class to the Top in Two Weeks

Problem

The mother of young lady who had just entered Middle School came to us concerned about her daughter’s (we’ll call her Ellie) performance in math. Although the daughter, Ellie, had been an above average math student in elementary school, she was failing math about mid-way through her first year of Middle School.

Ellie had a new math teacher who she didn’t like. She couldn’t follow the teacher’s teaching style and therefore couldn’t understand to how solve the math problems. The teacher gave students handouts that, to Ellie, were unintelligible. Also, the teacher didn’t do a good job explaining math problems on the black board. When Ellie would raise her hand to ask questions or try to get answers after class, the teacher wasn’t very helpful. So Ellie felt “lost” in the class.

Making matters worse, Ellie was in a new grade with new peers and peer pressures. As we all know, Middle School kids can sometimes be mean to one another, and some students were just bullying her every day. Peer pressure to “fit in” to the new class group was causing Ellie extreme stress, which further distracted from her ability to learn and perform well on the test.

Ellie had many Negative Emotions (anger, sadness, fear, hurt) about the way her peers were treating her and her inability to learn math from her new teacher. She also had multiple Limiting Beliefs about her ability to do math (such as “I can’t learn math”) and to fit into her new peer group (such as “I’m not good enough”).

Solution

With her mother nearby, we worked with Ellie using “waking hypnosis” and NLP. Over a couple of sessions, totaling about four hours, and we helped Ellie rapidly:

- Eliminate all of her Negative Emotions about her peer pressure and math class

- Replace those Negative Emotions by eliciting, anchoring, and teaching her how to activate positive mental resources when needed, including self-esteem, to help her both in math and with peers

- Eliminate all of her Limiting Beliefs about her ability to learn and test well in math

- Replace those Limiting Belief with positive beliefs about her ability to learn math, perform well on match tests, and get along with her peers without being bullied

- Learn how to get into the “Learning State” in which she could quickly, easily, and naturally absorb new math learnings into her - Unconscious Mind

- Develop new strategies and skills for listening and taking notes in math class

- Develop new strategies and skills for studying and reviewing math problems at home in preparation for tests

- Eliminate her “test anxiety” and replace it with a calm and confident state during tests

- Install new strategies for taking math tests successfully

- Communicate better and develop rapport with her peers to eliminate bullying

- Communicate better and develop rapport with her math teacher so that the teacher would more patiently answer questions about math problems

Result

Within two weeks, Ellie went from failing math, at the bottom of the class, to performing in the top of the class on her math tests. Within two months, Ellie was understanding how to do the math problems and getting along so well with her teacher and peers that the teacher had her coming up in front of the class to demonstrate on the black board how to solve the math problems. Two years later, match was still Ellies best, highest-performing academic subject.

CASE STUDY

2

High School Graduate, Unmotivated to Work or Go to College, Gets a Good Job and Starts College Majoring in a Subject He’s Passionate About

Problem

The parents of a very intelligent young man (we’ll call him Jim) came to us concerned about their son. Now that Jim had graduated from high school, he had spent the last year doing little more than playing video games. Many times his parents had urged him to get a job or go to school, which they offered to pay for, to make something of his life, but he just wasn’t motivated. Many times he said he would get a job or go to school, but he kept procrastinating.

To make matters worse, a good friend of Jim’s had recently gone missing and was later found dead, which was causing Jim to be suffering from severe sadness. This was obviously contributing to Jim’s lack of enthusiasm about life and had caused him to be feeling unwarranted guilt that maybe he could have done something to help prevent his friend’s death.

Additionally, Jim had experienced several “bad bosses” in previous jobs during high school. This caused him to harbor anger, sadness, fear, and hurt about those past bossed. It also caused him to have a limiting belief that he could ever be successful and happy working in a job. These negative emotions and limiting beliefs were contributing to Jim’s procrastination and lack of motivation about working, going to school, or being under any “authority figure.”

The parents asked me to meet with the young man to see if I could help him get over his sadness and procrastination, help him find a clear direction in life, and help him get motivated to find a job or go to college.

Solution

When I (Steven Ethridge) first meet with Jim, he said his reason for meeting with me was that his parents wanted him to but he really didn’t want to be there. This made for an especially challenging case because we usually require that our client(s) be 100% committed to the coaching process.

So, the first thing I had to was establish strong rapport with him and gain his cooperation. Once I had done that, the series of steps went as follows:

Meeting #1: On the first meeting, using Hypnosis and NLP, I helped Jim . . .

- Completely eliminate anger, sadness, fear, hurt and guilt

- Delete his limiting beliefs about his ability to work for another boss

- Replace procrastination with motivation to get a job or go to school

- Taught him how to anchor and activate states of mind (e.g., confidence, self-esteem, motivation, happiness) that he would need to move forward in his job and/or school career

Meeting #2: On the second meeting, I administered the following assessments to help Jim identify his personality preferences, values, principles, and priorities as guides to help him select the type of job and/or subject in school that he might want to pursue; then I explained what the results meant to him . . .

- Myers-Briggs personality profile

- Values Elicitation and Hierarchy of Importance of his values

- Coaching Values Inventory (based on Graves Values and Spiral Dynamics)

Meeting #3: On the third meeting I presented to Jim a long list of the types of employment and fields of study that were suited to his personality preferences and values, and explored with him which he might be most passionate about. To Jim’s surprise, he learned that there were several that he didn’t even know existed that he now had a place to channel his new-found motivation toward. I then gave Jim an “Opportunity Assignment” to go home and decide which one(s) he wanted to pursue.

Meeting #4: On the fourth meeting I helped Jim identify specific places where he might apply for a job and/or go to school to his new-found career passions. I then . . .

- Helped him develop a strategic plan of action to pursue those companies and schools

- Taught him some important communication skills that would be useful to him when applying for and interviewing with jobs or schools.

- Develop an Accountability Plan whereby he agreed to meet with me every other week to report on his progress with searching for a job and/or school

Meeting #s 5 and 6: Finally, I met with Jim two more times for what I call Encouraging Accountability until he finally got the results that he and his parents wanted.

Result

After three months, Jim both landed a job and got accepted to a university in the field that he was most passionate about, and he is performing well in both. Needless to say, his parents were very pleased with these outcomes because they were positively life-changing for Jim.

CASE STUDY

3

Executive at a Fortune 500 Company Attends Difficult Training Conference and Achieves One of the Highest Test Scores Without Taking Notes

Problem

A business executive (we’ll call him Sam) had gone to an out-of-town training conference to gain some new technical software skills that would allow him to be more effective manager of others who use the software. Although there were three levels of training, he needed to pass the highest, most difficult, level in order to manage others effectively.

When Sam arrived in class, he found it to be full of round tables with chairs. Although he had arrived early, other students had already filled the class, leaving him only one available seat with his back facing the front of the class where the teachers were. The room was so crowded that when he turned around to face the front, he didn’t have enough room for his laptop computer or his notebook to be able to take notes and do the training exercises.

Therefore, Sam was very frustrated and concerned about his ability to absorb the class information and pass the test at the end of the day.

Solution

Fortunately, we had taught Sam the “Learning State” a few weeks earlier. The Learning State is a mildly hypnotic state (“waking hypnosis”) that allows a student to relax, listen, and absorb new information directly into the Unconscious Mind.

Sam got into the Learning State and, for the remainder of the class, just observed and listened to the teachers at the front of the class. He completely forgot about taking notes or doing any of the training exercises on his laptop. Instead, he just observed the examples on the teacher’s projector screen and listened to the teaching.

Result

At the end of the day, between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m., Sam, along with the other students, were asked to take a test on their laptop computers. For this, Sam could turn back around to his round table and use his computer because he didn’t need to be looking at the front of the class. Without having taken any notes or doing any of the training exercises on his laptop during the class, Sam was able to recall the learnings and perform the computer exercises using the software at a high enough level to score in the top 10% of the class. Considering the difficulty of this subject matter, in that it was the highest and most difficult level of certification for this software, needless to say, Sam and his boss back in the office were extremely pleased with his performance on the test.

Price — What Difference Does It Make Whether a Student Scores Well Academically or Not?

These days, performing well academically, whether in school or in the workplace, is often the difference that makes the difference in whether you (or your child) can get ahead in life or not.

Therefore, when you consider the price of our Rapid Learning Hypnosis and NLP Coaching Program, you would be wise to consider not the short-term out-of-pocket cost but rather the long-term value to your (or your child’s) long-term life trajectory.

Then click the link below to book your Rapid Learning Hypnosis and NLP Coaching Program Now.

We offer both in-person sessions in the Greater Memphis Area in Tennessee and/or Online Sessions through Zoom.com’s video screen sharing session. We have had very good success with both types of sessions.

If you prefer a live, in person session, we have several locations to choose from and, once book your appointment, we will have a brief phone call to mutually choose a location for your session that is convenient for us both.

Satisfaction Life Time Guarantee

We are so confident that our Rapid Learning Hypnosis and NLP Coaching Program works that we offer you a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. This means that in the unlikely event that if, after any session, you are not completely satisfied with that session, tell your consulting hypnotist/coach at the end of that session and we will refund your money for that session (each session is paid in advance), and you will be under no obligation to complete any further sessions.