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HYPNOSIS FOR SPORTS

Maximize your athletic abilities and potential, 

build your confidence, minimize negatives and improve mental concentration with the personalized sports program!

Special Tips for athletes and parents of athletes to effectively help improve performance.   Number One Tip: Accentuate the positive!!

1. Integration of Mind and Body - Goal Setting
2. Visualization Strategies
3. Mental Flow - creating the "ZONE"
4. Positive affirmations
5. Coaches need to motivate and bring out the best! Click her for an opposite view. 
6. What can a parent do?

Whatever the sport, Hypnosis can help you perform better!  

We also train the competitor in Self-Hypnosis.

Our methods step-up the mental training process.

“Playing in the Zone”. 

Remember all hypnosis is all Hypnosis is Self-Hypnosis.  We train our clients and teams to easily use Self-Hypnosis to achieve their own individual goals.  We give you the tools to MAXIMIZE YOUR PERFORMANCE AND YOUR POTENTIAL.

Our personalized sports program helps the athlete/team maximize:

‹     Speed

‹     Strength

‹     Skills

‹     Ability to focus and concentrate

‹     Willpower

‹     Confidence

‹     Determination

‹     Ability to "visualize" a perfect performance

‹     Positive self-talk

‹     Workouts and practices

‹     Enjoyment of the activity

‹     Creation of positive imagery

‹     Efficient use of training time

Our personalized sports program help the athlete/team minimize:

"    Distractions

"    Tension and stress

"    Down time due to injuries

"    Disappointments – they become a learning experience

"    Negative – self defeating thoughts

"    Healing time from injury

"    Block out external distractions

"    Discomfort and frustration

What does it take to make a champion? The attributes of those who have risen to the top of their game in both amateur and professional athletics are always a constant.   Working with our methods you effectively learn the following “Champion” attributes and skills:

%                 Control performance anxiety & pre-performance nervousness

%                 Expand your game by enhancing sensory awareness

%                 Trust in your abilities, training, coaching and team mates

%                 Instantly refocus after mental lapses of anxiety or anger

%                 Enhance performance skills

%                 Increase and maintain self-confidence

%                 Develop unmatched muscular control

%                 Control sports arousal (aggression)

%                 Focus motivation and commitment

%                 Control internal dialogue

%                 Block out external distractions

%              Block out crowd noises 

%                 Enhance visual imagery techniques

%                 Increased motivation

%                 Block out negativity

%                 Practice feeling of being grounded, calm, relaxed and receptive

%                 Use Self-Hypnosis

%                 Control changes that interfere with coordination, timing and power

%                 Practice repeating positive self-affirmations.

Call to speak to us and schedule time to design your

(570) 223-9600 

Sports and Athletic Performance Enhancement  

As your attitude improves so does your performance!!

Integration of the mind and body.  Our mind and our body are related in the same way components of a computer are linked.  They communicate with each other; your mind tells your body what actions to take and your body tells your mind what it is sensing, how it is feeling etc.  And like your computer it has a memory to retain the actions and the sensations.

The mind is a fabulous processor, it is the most powerful computer in the world.  With this tool we can do and achieve amazing things. Our minds can learn, retain and retrieve information for creating rockets and sending people into outer space and it can make enormous medical and scientific contributions.  For the purposes of sporting excellence and achievement the mind can help us to be the best that we can possibly be.  Integrating the mind with the body can help an athlete achieve great things.  In order to begin the process there are some important behaviors that we need to develop:

1.    Goal Setting (for achievement and performance goals).  Goal Setting does not just involve setting goals or outcomes within the sporting arena. It also involves setting goals for life. At first some of the goals seem as though the have nothing to do with sports – often tit is needed to enhance our personal development skills.  What's the point of asking an athlete to focus on winning a gold medal if they are having difficulties in personal relationships or they are about to be declared bankrupt. It is not possible to isolate sports from the many aspects of one’s personal life. Goals need to be broad and all encompassing.  Some areas of specific goal setting need to be formulated for time management, communications and leadership.  These goals can be changed and recreated any time – nothing is written in stone.  And always remember - there is no failure only feedback.   The advantages of Goal Setting will spill over into many other aspects of your life.  It takes some time to fully actualize your potential.  Don’t wait until the season starts before you begin your mind training.  Prepare your mind and yourself now for being better when going in to the activity.  If you are in training, you need to learn how to get the best results from your training sessions and take what you have learned in practice into actual play and/or competition.  This skill will help.

2.    Visualization strategies (to help create state of mind for confidence and motivation).   These techniques are sometimes referred to as Mental Imagery (How is it going to be when I achieve those states and goals?)  Mental Imagery or Visualization involves seeing and experiencing success in your mind.  Some people like to see the images  – some people are much better at feeling things.  Imagine how it feels to perform at your best every time! Learn methods of visualization that will give you the edge and enable you to achieve the kind of performance you can be proud of.  Learn to develop the kinds of images that will get your mind and body in harmony and have complete control of your performance; and achieve an ideal state of being in which to perform.   Imagine how it feels to have that gold medal placed around your neck!  Imagine how it feels to hear swish every time you shot a basket!   Positive affirmations assist you in imagining the peak moments.  They are self-talk and encouragement.   You could repeat 'everyday I am getting stronger and faster. I am the greatest' This will improve your 'self-talk' but to truly change your internal belief system it is necessary to make use of mental imagery and rehearsal.   World-class athletes and Olympians are successful users of self-talk.  It improves your vision and your focus.  Rehearsing success in your mind starts to help you feel successful.  If you use mental imagery and rehearsal in your preparation and training you are more likely to achieve positive personal development and performance levels as well as motivation, self-confidence, self-esteem and a new and powerful personal belief system.   Most highly successful people who win gold medals, championship trophies etc have all done it a thousand times in their minds and in their dreams before they ever do it in reality.  Using Positive self-talk you will overcome any anxiety or nervousness and enjoy looking forward to your sports activities as much as you enjoy the actual playing. Most people invest a lot time and money in their sports activities and the frustration of not progressing in your game can spoil the whole season. 

3.     Mental Flow - Mental Flow involves being in the zone.  Being engrossed in an event to an almost enlightened level. Have you ever known you were going to score a homerun before you even made contact with the ball?  Have you ever felt invincible as if it was your day and nothing could possibly go wrong? This state of performance is sometimes known as a peak experience.  ”Flow” involves positive state management. In other words, getting into that championship state more often and just when you need to.  This is where your mental imagery comes in handy. 

IT IS FAIRLY COMMON KNOWLEDGE AMONG ATHLETES AND SPORTS PROGRAMS … that relaxation, visualization techniques, goal setting and creation of flow have been used by professional and amateur athletes for a long time now.  The advantage of using such techniques is obvious in the success of those who use them well.  HypnoCounseling and self-hypnosis training can help our clients to take these techniques to their highest level of potential.  The conscious and subconscious mind must work as a team.

Develop the mind skills and the sport skills at the same time!  Also the confidence, the ability to relax and concentrate, and the appropriate attitude must all be in place if you are to perform to goal standards.  Developing skills, being consistent in using those skills under even the most demanding conditions and circumstances are also crucial to playing any sport well.  Whether playing competitively or for recreation, most people play better when the satisfaction of participating is maintained.  This often also depends on how well people play.  Athletes enjoy their sports more when they know they are playing their best.  You can learn to get the most out of your game by acquiring the knowledge to perform to your own potential.

A challenge that sometimes arises in involvement, especially in competitive situations is the commonly experienced performance anxiety. This quandary prevents even the most competent and talented individual to not utilize all the learned and practiced skills, or not function at peak levels. Many a contest has been lost due to this pre-performance nervousness that in some cases lasts throughout the activity.  We can work to prepare the mind to stand up to the adversities or underlying issues that bring about this test and prevent the person from functioning at their best in a sports activity.  The sub-conscious and conscious mind and the body need to work together!  You can rise above whatever problem is preventing you from doing your best and improving your performance.  Hypnosis is an ideal modality for it is relaxation at its full potential, and it causes the process of visualization to have more impact as it reaches deeper levels of mind than would otherwise be possible using other relaxation techniques.

You will learn to use self-hypnosis  - so your mind will work well for you.

Accentuate the positive!! Successful performance in any endeavor requires success-oriented thinking. Many people want to change the ways they think  - but few are aware of the techniques that can enable such change. Consistency of skills is always a plus in sports and consistency of thinking can be just as elusive as consistency in physical performance. Many athletes  tend to get easily frustrated when things do not go as expected and lose their cool which also causes loss of mental focus. That's when a game can really begins to falter. The consistent use of positive affirmations over time can prevent this from happening.  And, as you practice your athletic skills over AND over again you also need to repeatedly go over and over your positive affirmations!  This is critical! 

Positive thoughts strengthen the energy system and increase the power of the mind and the body. I purposely avoid discussing negative thinking because it is just that!  And we should at all cost avoid negative thinking!  There are no limitations to the potential that we can achieve.

Cultivating positive attitudes requires one to say positive things to him/herself, such as:  I can do this. 

What can Parents do!

Call to speak to us and schedule time to design your personal program for Sports Performance Enhancement.   Specially designed team and group programs are available!

(570) 223-9600