Driving test anxiety is a perfectly normal emotional response to the upcoming event.
So it's not some sort of mental disorder. Often people are you know sensitive to knowing that
they will be nervous and they can't pinpoint the source of their anxiety other than being
anxious by nature, in their words. But let's see what you can do about your anxiety and you know
how to neutralize the effect. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones, don't think that
disaster is looming around every corner. Visualize how you do it right, how you do it with ease and
you know with joy as well. Don't tell your friends if you don't have to that you're going for your
test because that puts just unnecessary pressure on you. So you know it's easy to break you know
good news you know, so don't have to tell everyone that you're going for a driving test. Avoid early
morning or late afternoon tests if you, you know, if you don't like congested traffic or if you
don't operate well in the early morning hours. If you're not an early bird just don't do it early,
it's just as simple as that. Avoid thinking too far ahead. A lot of times we hear stories from
people how they didn't see the sign, it was a 40 road works and they simply didn't see it. What you
fear is probably not going to be something that you're going to fail for you know so
just try not to think about it, just you know if you can cut your tasks into smaller pieces
where you will watch the corner that you're taking at that particular time, rather than thinking
what's going to happen if they take you to some car park where your friends you know told you you
know it's the worst car park. So it's not going to help at all so that's for sure. If you're doing
the exercise left something behind, think of the exercise left something behind. If you're merging,
think of merging you know, do it one thing at a time, and it works 100 per cent times.
Of course, this advice is strictly for people who can drive relatively well but can't pass a
driving test because of the anxiety. If you use it to your advantage it might be a good thing so you
know don't think of it as you know something that's going to put you off that you know
you're not going to be able to connect you know pieces because you know you're going to be too
nervous. And a lot of times people are just anxious because they know they're going to be
anxious so you know, there's no like I said you know, they can't pinpoint the source of
anxiety where it's coming from you know. A lot of times you'll hear that you know people are simply
anxious but they can't really say which part, okay. So which part is making you more anxious,
is it parking, is it you know merging, is it changing lanes, is it entry back to the
licensing centre? We hardly ever have a situation where somebody fails multiple times for one
identical thing. So it hardly ever happens. If at any point you feel that your you know facial
muscles you know start to twitch or anything like that, try to adjust your breathing because
you know, you've got to breathe okay so you know, a lot of times even though it sounds you know
that we all breathe and you know what no matter what we do and how we do it but your breathing
rhythm does get disrupted when you're too anxious when you're too nervous so you know. But if you
consciously improve your breathing, particularly beginning stages of driving assessment that's
where people get nervous and often we see people with some sort of white residue in the corner
of their mouths which is you know some sort of chemical reaction when you're not breeding you
know properly. So you're thinking triggers it, but you've got to understand that it's it's easily you
know relieved if you do simple conscious actions such as breathing when you feel too nervous,
just make sure that you're breathing, and don't let the rhythm go too fast or you know that you
stop breathing completely. So that's important you know. We've done it with people and you know,
I personally successfully helped hundreds of people who experienced driving test anxiety.
And they admitted that you know, everything that happens you know if they address it consciously
it becomes a lot easier, whether it's you know telling the assessor hey I'm really nervous by
obviously saying, look I'm not trying to say uh you know look at me differently, I'm not trying
to induce the outcome by saying that I'm nervous but I'm just saying that you know,
and then when you feel that you're you know sitting next to a human being you're going to feel
different. So something as simple as that. Because if you bottle up and you know if you don't breathe
it's not going to help. Everyone experiences anxiety but it's how you handle it okay,
and whether you know what you can do to just you know alleviate that level of anxiety. Anxiety is
healthy because if we didn't care we wouldn't be anxious. So it means that you care, it means you
want to be good, it means you want to do it right. So you know there's absolutely nothing wrong with
it. Like anything else in life that's important if you if you're walking up to a person that you
like and you want to you know to buy them a drink, you want to do it right. It's the same same thing,
you know if you're going for a driving test you want to do it right and that is why you get
anxious. Visualize how you do it right, visualize how you do it effortlessly with joy, don't think
there's there's a disaster looming around every corner. Nothing's wrong with you, always think of
the anxiety as some sort of defensive mechanism that's telling that you've got to stay alert,
that you've got to watch what you're doing. You've got to be alert, you've got to watch out,
you want to do it right, you don't want to get yourself embarrassed and that sort of stuff.
I hope this advice was useful to you, thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video.