I have helped many professional golfers, a world champion kick boxer, an England team boxer and numerous amateur sports people who recognise the value of the mental aspects of sport.
The Mind Game
At a competitive or non-competitive level the mental approach to sports performance is a critically important factor.
Arnold Palmer once famously said that the most diffcult 9 inches in golf was the space bwtween the ears. If you are not planning to maximise the ability of your mind to control the psychological aspects of your sport then you could be missing out on a great opportunity to improve your performance.
Like it or not we are emotional beings and our emotions directly affect the way that our bodies respond in many many ways.
Hynosis is the most effective way to allow our potential to be expressed because unhelpful response patterns are maintained in the subconscious. Hypnosis bypasses the conscious to help you lay down beneficial or helpful patterns of response that can be repeated in your specific sporting arena.
I currently work with a PGA professional golf coach and we deliver tailored courses for golfers who appreciate that the mental side of golf represents 80% of the game
My 'PURE FOCUS' SPORTS PERFOMANCE programme can help you address a whole variety if issues which may negatively influence your performance at whatever level you play at.
The issues that I can assist with are:
PERFORMANCE NERVES
CONFIDENCE (SPECIFIC OR NON-SPECIFIC)
UNHELPFUL BELIEF PATTERNS
POSITIVE VISUALISATION
PERFORMANCE REHEARSAL
UNCONSCIOUS CONDITIONED RESPONSES
ANXIETY IN THE COMPETITIVE ARENA
FACILITATING UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE
What sports can benefit most from working on the mental approach?
All of them.........Every sport benefits from relaxed concentration and so every sporting performance can be helped with hypnotherapy.
The Power of Imagery
The power of imagery is described in the following points:
Imagery allows you to practise and prepare for events and eventualities you can never expect to train for in reality. With practice it allows you to enter a situation you have never physically experienced with the feeling that you have been there before and achieved whatever you are trying to achieve.
Imagery allows you to prepare and practise your response to physical and psychological problems that do not occur normally, so that if they occur. This then means that you rrespond confidently. Hypnotic rehhearsal can be used to help with skills such as stress and distraction management.
It allows you to pre-experience the achievement of goals. This helps to give you confidence that these goals can be achieved, and so allows you to increase your abilities to levels you might not otherwise have reached.
Practicing in the relaxed state of hypnosis helps you to break down complex skills into their constituant parts so that you can isolate where problems in technique lie.
