A physician had experienced severe test anxiety and panic attacks during her medical board exams for years, causing her to fail the exam twice. She underwent a single hypnotherapy session six months before her next exam to uncover and resolve the root cause of her anxiety. The root cause was found to be critical comments made by one of her professors early in medical school that had left an unconscious "imprint". Through hypnotherapy, the patient was able to analyze the situation logically and release the negative programming. Follow up sessions reinforced her new perspective and taught exam strategies. As a result, she passed her board exam on the third try with no anxiety, completing it early.

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GENVIÈV MARTIN BERNARD, DESS, BCH
Forensic & Clinical Research Center
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Clinical Case Files
Performance Anxiety
Physician aces board exam with flying colors
after failing systematically year after year due to paralyzing anxiety
The clinical case study below demonstrates how we were able to correctly and permanently address, regress
and release the root cause responsible for her repetitive failures, enabling the physician to embark on a new
chapter of life and the career of her dreams, freed from the weight of an imprint that had, for years, paralyzed
her potential.
Young Adult Onset
In the spring of this year, a bright young woman came to seek my help for severe exam anxiety. Considering
she had a four-hour round-trip drive to get to me, we conducted a single session, six months prior to her
exam, to uncover, shift and release the root cause responsible for her unexplained anxiety.
A straight-A student through the course of her youth, she never worried about exams
and succeeded effortlessly until she began medical school, where she suddenly
became plagued by acute anxiety. She couldn't comprehend what caused such
radical shift in her abilities and performance.
Her symptoms were so severe, she experienced debilitating panic attacks during
exams. Her mental potential paralyzed, she was unable to think, process the
information, or perform appropriately.
Anxiety built within her chest, prompting shortness of breath and moist palms. Mounting panic rushed to her
head as tears burst through her eyes. Her thoughts spun out of control, circling in endless loops in her mind,
repeating she would not be able to do this. Her condition worsened as the test progressed, culminating in
debilitating panic attacks that left her entirely unable to perform. For the first time in her life, she was unable
to maintain her academic excellence, and failed her medical board exams two years in a row before ending up
in my office.
Root Cause
Working with brain plasticity, we brought her to the situation triggering her anxiety: sitting in the exam
room, in situation, attempting to take her medical board exam for the third year in a row.

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Instantly, she began exhibiting the symptoms she had described. Overcome by muscle spasms, she began to
cry, to hyperventilate, and her body curled up as she exhibited symptoms of a full-blown panic attack. As soon
as she had connected with the anxiety she experienced during examinations, I regressed the panic back to its
root cause. What we call the ISE (Initial Sensitizing Event) was, in her case, criticizing comments from one of
her professors during her early years of medical school. As a young student in her early 20s, entering the
medical field, she was impressionable and under pressure to perform.
Whenever our emotions are heightened by stress or a sense of insecurity, our subconscious mind becomes
considerably more vulnerable to imprints. An imprint is a statement our subconscious mind takes in as truth
at a level so deep, it bypasses our conscious, logical, barriers and becomes edged in the emotional fabric of
our mind, embedded as truth. The event itself is often forgotten thereafter, leaving us with an "imprinted"
truth that becomes our reality, influences our actions and reactions and changes the course of our path.
When the ISE comes from a figure of authority, it is all the more easily accepted and integrated as truth by our
subconscious mind. In the case of this bright young woman, the event responsible for the collapse of her
academic excellence originated in the threatening comments of a professor who expressed doubts about her
ability to succeed in her chosen field.
Methodology
Once the root cause is unveiled, we are able to analyze the situation in a logical
manner, with a clear, detached frame of mind, freed from the confusion of
unnecessary emotions.
We are able to help her realize her professor did not know her personally, was not
aware of her lifelong academic track of excellence and, therefore, had no way of
knowing whether or not she had the ability to succeed in this field. There is no
logical reason for a bright student, who always excelled in her studies, to suddenly
lose her ability to continue performing well in her field of choice. Having no
personal knowledge of this student, the professor's comments could have just as
well been brought on by his own self-doubts, inner-fears or preconceived
limitations. Having excelled effortlessly through the course of her education, the
young woman had long demonstrated the ability of her mind to comprehend,
memorize and apply knowledge into proper applications.
Analyzing imprints at the subconscious level of the mind enables us to release the negative programming left
behind by authority figures, restore our self-image, and recover our original potential.
Uncovering the root of a problem of this nature allows us to disconnect its hold on our subconscious mind.
When we understand how and why the imprint took place, we are able to shift our perspective of the initial
sensitizing event, and reveal the truth behind the illusion. Very often, when we are at the receiving end of an
attack, we are in fact witnessing a reflection of the attacker's own fears, issues and limitations. Once we
understand that, we are able to observe the actions of others from a different perspective. This stops them
from affecting our sense of self-worth.
Having successfully resolved the root cause of this young woman's anxiety, I followed up methodologies
enabling us to restore her natural confidence and success. I anchored suggestions allowing her to remain
relaxed, focused and calm during her board exam. Using a simple finger technique, I gave her a way to
replicate the complete control of her breathing, clarity of mind and profound relaxation she experienced in
session by herself anytime and anywhere.

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One week prior to her board exam, we conducted a follow-up session to reinforce the work, strengthen her
ability to reach a profound level of calm, focused relaxation and clarity of mind during her exam, and deepen
her self-confidence. We solidified the calm, peaceful, solid and serene awareness she experienced during her
sessions. Lastly, I trained her in exam-taking techniques, allowing her to make optimal use of her time during
the length of the exam, in order to progress through every question in a calm and efficient manner.
Result
She attended her anticipated board exam the following week, for the third year in a row. This time, she passed
with flying colors. The root cause unlocked, shifted and released, the paralyzing panic and anxiety that had
plagued her since medical school and caused her to fail two years in a row were permanently released.
The exam techniques enabled her, she reported, to prioritize her
responses efficiently and make excellent use of her time in a calm,
focused and goal-oriented manner. She completed her morning
session with an hour and a half to spare, and her afternoon session
one hour early.
She now enters a new chapter of life and the career of her dreams,
freed from the weight of an imprint that had, for years, paralyzed her
potential.