Peak Performance
Peak performance
is not an accident. It’s usually the result of a powerful vision. What would you
decide to do, be or become if you knew it was possible for you? What’s holding
you back? This is an important and personal question. Take the time to answer
it as best you can. Most likely, it will seem as if the block is immovable. We
can provide you with some exciting and easy-to-master tools to remove the block, accelerate your progress and move you clearly towards
your goal.
Guided
Imagery and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) can help:
Increase Confidence – Increase Motivation
– Alleviate Performance Jitters – Focus More Clearly
Enhance Strength – Eliminate Distractions – Remove Negative Beliefs – Improve
Score and Skills
Remove Obstacles to Success -- Feel Like A Winner -- Have More Fun -- Create
New Beliefs
In sports, the importance of a strong
mental game is well documented…especially in activities where split seconds or
fractions of an inch separate the great from the mediocre athletes. Using
mental tools can profoundly increase our inner beliefs and, when it comes to
performance, belief is everything. The mind and body are linked in the same way
different parts of a computer are linked. Your mind tells your body what
movements to make and your body tells your mind what it is seeing, feeling and
experiencing. Competition can be intimidating and fear of humiliation often
results in diminished skills. The mind is the most powerful computer in the
world. With guidance and some simple tools you can overcome fears and other
limiting beliefs to achieve amazing things.
How It Works
Imagery works because, as you imagine yourself doing
precisely what you want, you are creating nerve patterns in your brain, just as
if you had physically performed the action. By simply practicing the move
mentally, these patterns become like small tracks engraved in the brain cells
helping you perform physical feats smoothly and automatically. Mental imagery
instructs your muscles to do exactly what we want them to do.
Not only can mental imagery improve specific motor skills but it also seems to
enhance the motivation, mental toughness and confidence necessary for top
performance. The visualized image convinces the subconscious that this
achievement is possible. What your mind can conceive, you can achieve!
EFTquickly eliminates emotional barriers to your success. This powerful new
acupressure technique can propel you towards success by removing tensions and
stress related to performance and helping you over barriers such as
nervousness, lack of confidence, fear of failure and much more.
What To Do
Call and come in to learn and experience these amazing tools, but until then,
here are some tips, adapted from Winning the
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Be
Relaxed….energized, yet relaxed. Your mind is calm and your body ready to go.
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Be
Confident…expect to be successful, not hope or wish to be successful.
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Be
Focused…completely absorbed in the present moment with no memory of the past
and no qualms about the future.
- Be Effortless…allow your mind
and body to accomplish things with little or no effort.
- Be Automatic…think less and
just allow yourself to be on auto pilot, with no interference from your
thoughts or emotions.
- Have Fun…feel like a kid
enjoying yourself with pure and innocent delight; everyone can see the
satisfaction you feel.
- Be in Control….what you think
and want to happen will. You are in charge of
your emotions, not the other way around.
Tiger Woods says Hypnotheraphy
can enhance Sports Performance
Jul 30th, 2007 by lanalm
By Terry
Doherty
Hypnosis
and Hypnotherapy have come a long way from the primitive notions of it being related
to mumbo-jumbo and sinister magicians. Today, the world is recognizing
hypnotherapy for what it really is – a life changing force which allows you to
conquer your mind. And we would all agree that our mind is indeed the greatest
instrument we have to alter our life and to change its course towards success.
In the recent years there has been a lot of speculation over hypnotherapy, and
it has been found that one of the areas where it can really work for you is to
improve your sports performance. If you are an athlete, or aspire to be a sport
star; it would be an entirely wise decision to consider hypnotherapy for
further honing your skills, and come up with one winning performance after the
other. What’s more hypnotherapy in High Wycombe and Buckinghamshire is now
available at Terry Doherty’s clinic. A lot of athletes in the past and in the
present swear by what hypnosis has done to their sporting performance, and how
they have produced master strokes in every game they have played since they
started practicing it. And no other sports person displays the brilliance of
Hypnotherapy, than the Golf Maestro, Tiger Woods.
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. Golf is a mind game, where each golfer has
to think well in advance what shots he/she is going to play. Visualization
techniques in hypnotherapy help a golfer do just that. It helps a player to go
over the winning strokes in his mind over and over again, till the stroke –
every muscle moved to create it, every angle in the body needed to achieve it,
is instilled in the player’s mind. Hypnotherapy also helps in calming down the
anxiety and nervousness that a player faces before any big game. The soothing
effect and the calming quality of hypnotherapy go a long way in instilling a
feeling of peace in the player’s psyche. And when a player is peaceful, his
mind is uncluttered – that way he can give in his 100% to a shot. He can
overlook all distractions, as his mind is completely focused on the perfect
stroke. In his mind, he can visualize the next stroke and play it near
precision – the results speak for themselves.
Tiger Woods
has been quoted in the August 2001 issue of Golf Magazine saying, “I always
have an inner peace on the golf course. I’ve learned to trust the subconscious,
and my instincts have never lied to me.” Much of the credit for this inner
peace and calm goes to the fact that he practices hypnosis at least once a
week. Jay Brunza, is the clinical psychologist who has been working with Tiger
Woods for a long time; it is he who introduced Woods to the tools of
hypnotherapy, the ways to conquer one’s mind, and the methods for self-hypnosis.
Jay Brunza taught Woods how to get himself into “the zone” at will. The zone
which we are talking about here is a state of complete calm and focus, when a
player can bring on his peak performance at will.
A player’s
state of mind is a major player in the kind of game he/she has. If one is calm,
relaxed and focused, the performance too will reflect the same mastery. In
fact, the next time you watch Tiger Woods play, pay close attention to his face
before he tees off. You will notice that his eyes open wide, and he blinks
twice. It’s not that he can’t see clearly, it’s just a nugget of hypnotherapy
he is using to ‘get into the zone’. It’s done on purpose, and his victories go
a long way in telling us that this post-hypnotic trigger has affected his game
more than we give it credit for.
If you would
like to enhance your performance with hypnotherapy, just call Mind & Body
Care to schedule your sports performance sessions: 847-534-7991