Hypnosis Can Improve Your Sports Focus

Want to play a better game of tennis, golf, bowling or basketball? Do you want to train your mind to compete in a marathon, skiing competition or the olympics? You can play at your best to meet any challenge. It's the simple notion of mind over matter.

The mind/brain system is complex and the conscious and subconscious mind both play important roles in the functions involved to achieve the best possible performance. The conscious and subconscious mind must work as a team.

Hypnosis is an ideal modality for it is during a hypnotic trance can the process of visualization have more impact. During this focused deep state, the mind can rehearse and create a holodeck of successful experiences.

Sports psychologists, Joseph Teal use "Hypnotic Sports Enhancement" techniques for the Ecuadorian National Swim Team, the International Sports Training Institute, and the University of North Alabama Baseball Team. Dr. Teal discusses sports and athletic performance and how hypnosis benefits athletes:

Suggestive hypnosis can be used to lose weight without cravings and stop smoking without gaining weight, as well as for pain management and sports and athletic performance. As athletes participate in sports, they usually work very hard to train their bodies. But some sport psychologists say that 80-90% of their performance is in their mind. This involves the use of their imagination, thought processes, and attitudes, to provide incentive, support, reinforcement, and refinement of special skills. In the Wall Street Journal, performance psychologist Dr. Charles Garfield explained why it is that some people are able to become superior performers, while others are not. Over the years, variations of the technique have been called by different names. But, whatever you wish to call it, it is nothing more than a step-by-step mental preview by the patient of the athletic goal he wishes to accomplish. It is believed that as he imagines the activity occurring, his neurons fire in exactly the same patterns they would follow if he were actually performing the activity. And as he sees the pictures in his mind, his subconscious mind is convinced that the desired feat is possible.

You will be taught self-hypnosis and NLP techniques which can be practiced on your own prior to the event.