Hypnosis for Sports Performance
Hypnosis is used by many professional and amateur athletes to enhance their performance and to enable them to perform in competition at their peak abilities. These people know that the mental edge is the winning edge.
Have you been frustrated by your ability to play well in a practice situation, only to see your performance decline in an actual game or competition? You know the answer is not physical. The answer lies in your subconscious mind.
Cindy Locher, C.Ht. provides hypnosis for sports performance to high school athletes and adult amateur athletes in many sports. Call 763/218-3231 today or email for more information. Put 100% of your head in the game!
Look at what internationally-known hypnotherapist Tom Nicoli has to say about hypnosis for sports perforamance:
Sports Performance and Hypnosis
By Tom Nicoli, BCH, CIWhen it comes to all the myths and misconceptions about hypnosis there is one group of people who have used the power of hypnosis for sports improvement... athletes. Athletes use what has been referred to as guided imagery or visualization techniques. This is exactly the process of self hypnosis.
There is a timeless saying "what the mind believes the body achieves." Using hypnosis or self hypnosis engages this process for we first see and do in our mind whatever it is we desire to achieve, which begins to create the deep belief it is possible and then we have an increased chance of actually achieving what we first created mentally. Using the subconscious mind to engage in the imagery and created visualization of what we desire has been written about in cultures around the world since there has been documentation. It's not new and athletes use it routinely. Golf legend Jack Nicklaus once said, "Golf is a game of inches. The most important seven are between your ears."
Here are just a few athletes who used self hypnosis for sports performance:
Angela Bailey, the current Canadian Record Holder in the 100 meters. She holds the record in a time of 10.98 seconds.
Tiger Woods has acknowledged the fact that he turns to hypnotherapy to calm his mind and improve his focus before every game he plays. In fact he is said to have been practicing it ever since he was 13.
Kevin McBride, a heavyweight boxer who beat Mike Tyson for the championship. "A lot of athletes use only 2% to 8% of their ability at any given time," said McBride. "What hypnosis does is send out signals to the subconscious mind that makes you leave nothing behind."
Michael Jordan used hypnosis. It was a regular part of The Chicago Bull's preparation, because of Phil Jackson, the head coach, who believed strongly in mental stamina.
The list of athletes who use and have used hypnosis as the way to strengthen the most important part of any sport performance, the mental part of the game, is a long list. The easiest and most effective practice that takes place is before the field, track, course, court or ice rink… is in the athletes mind. Hypnosis helps with the outcome as the athlete first sees it in pre-game preparation but it also allows the athlete to be more relaxed, which in turn allows for improved sports performance. When an athlete is in a slump it's not because they forgot their skills and how to play their sport, they lost their mental edge. The mental edge is maintained and strengthened through the subconscious techniques of hypnosis where the athlete is guided into the process by a facilitator or done alone as self hypnosis.
Any athlete in any sport, whether on a team or playing alone has any better tool in their arsenal to improve athletic performance than hypnosis. The team that is best on paper based on statistics and odds isn't necessarily the winner, which is why the game is played. It's the team or player with the mental edge that can rise above to the winner's circle. Just ask the champions and superstars of their sport.
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