Sports Hypnotherapy

You don’t have to be in the Olympics to benefit from Sports Hypnosis!

Sports Hypnotherapy is cutting-edge sports science of the most effective kind designed to:

• Transform your sporting performance
• Give you cast-iron mental strength
• Boost your confidence, motivation, focus and self-belief.
• Get you in the Ideal Performance State
• Allow you to feel calm, relaxed, strong, confident and powerful every time you perform

Whether you are an avid marathoner, or just working off those excess kilos Sports Hypnosis can help you achieve the goals that you set for yourself.

Hypnosis in sport has a long history and was often used under different names, mental or autogenic training being two.  In the 1978/79 tour of Australia, England cricket captain, Mike Brearley consulted a medical Hypnotherapist. The Soviets and Eastern block countries have used hypnosis much longer than other countries for sports enhancement. Eleven hypnotherapists accompanied the Russian Olympic team in 1956.

You do not need to look too far in any sport to find great champions using hypnotic techniques to improve performance. The reason most of them do not like to talk about it is because of the age-old myth that hypnosis is a magical power to make you do things, plus there is the unfounded fear of having ones ‘power’ taken away. This is in fact untrue; all subjects have total control over their minds and bodies. The subject is consciously giving their approval to the hypnotist’s suggestions.

Suggestion is not a phenomenon that works only on the unconscious mind; its use can be just as effective at a conscious level. Countless experiments by psychologists and physiologists have proven that the human being can change his or her own beliefs significantly enough to alter the body in some astounding ways. Pain is eased or physical ailments cleared up in situations where drugs were unable to assist. Likewise athletic and sporting performance can be increased dramatically in many areas; style correction, technique, speed and strength enhancements are particularly effective.

Firstly we need to look briefly at what is hypnosis before we can understand what it can do for the athlete/sportsperson and how coaches may use a Hypnotherapist to help with the improvement of their athletes.

Athletes and Hypnosis Shorts:

*Billy Mills makes use of self-hypnosis techniques to prepare himself to win the Olympics Gold for the 10000m in 1964.

*Boxer Ken Norton used hypnosis training before his famous victory over Mohammed Ali.

*The entire 1983 Chicago White Sox team used hypnosis to help win their division and reach the playoffs that year.

*Famous tennis player,Jimmy Connors, used hypnosis in winning the U.S. Open Championship.

*Tiger Woods’ mental coach, Jay Brunza, hypnotizes him to block out distractions and focus on the golf course.

*Jack Nicklaus claims that his success is entirely owed to practicing concentration and visualization .