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Sports Hypnosis – How It Can Give You the Mental Toughness You Need for Sports
When you see your favorite athlete sink the winning 3-pointer, score a last-second touchdown, or slap in the winning goal, you’re watching more than just physical ability at work. You’re also watching mental toughness.
Did you know that successful athletes spend a lot of time on mental training? After all, competition is tough on the mind as well. In fact, having mental toughness for sports is just as important as having physical toughness. An athlete may have all of the physical skills in the world – but if he can’t perform under pressure, he’ll never be a winner. Without mental toughness, your favorite athletes wouldn’t be where they are today.
If you’re looking to improve your golf game, develop your pitching skills, or get better at soccer, you need to develop mental toughness that will push you through the challenges that all competitors face. In order to be a successful athlete – whether you’re trying to make it to the big leagues or just perform better in your recreation league – you need:
- Flexibility to deal with the unexpected
- An ability to perform under pressure
- Courage to do what’s right for the team
- Resiliency to bounce back after a tough loss, a missed shot, or a mistake that cost you the game
So, how do you develop this mental toughness?
The answer is with sports hypnotherapy.
If the mental side of your game is holding you back, you can use sports hypnosis to access your subconscious and work through issues. All of those nagging thoughts that say “you can’t” are products of your subconscious mind. Instead of being in “the zone” you are falling victim to self-doubt that’s making you anxious and unable to live up to your potential.
Sports hypnosis will re-program your subconscious so that it says “you can”, instead of “you can’t”. You and your consulting hypnotist will teach your subconscious to believe in you and your abilities. As a result, you will go into sporting events with confidence – making it much easier for you to excel.
What exactly will you do in a sports hypnosis session?
Visualization plays a big role in sports hypnotherapy. Your consulting hypnotist may have you envision being at your baseball game, standing tall on the pitcher’s mound, and striking out every batter. By having that experience stored in your subconscious, you increase the odds that you’ll live it out in real life. If your subconscious is familiar with how it looks and feels to win the big game, it will give you the mental toughness to go out and win.
Once you develop mental toughness, you’ll see that the physical side of things comes much easier. That’s because your physical skills depend on having the right mental toughness for sports!
Eli Bliliuos is the founder of The New York Hypnosis Institute. He specializes in helping clients develop mental toughness.
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Why Every Baseball Player Should Consider Hypnosis
If you think baseball hypnotherapy is nonsense, you are likely unaware of the many professional athletes who utilize hypnosis. One of the famous quotes by the legendary player and coach, Yogi Berra, is “Baseball is 90 percent mental, the other half is physical.” He got that right more than a half century ago. Baseball is a game that mostly relies on the player’s state of mind. However, baseball is not the only sport that can benefit from hypnosis.
Hypnosis has been involved in sporting at some of the most sophisticated sporting venues in the world. For instance in 1956, the Soviet athletic team travelled with 11 hypnotists to the Melbourne Olympics. Heavyweight boxing champion, Ingmar Johannson used hypnosis training before his 1959 winning match against Floyd Patterson. In 1984, Mary Lou Retton underwent hypnosis. That year she won the American Classic gold medal at the LA Olympics.
Phil Jackson makes basketball hypnosis a part of training for championship basketball. Known as the “Zen Master,” Jackson coaches the Lakers and before that he coached the Chicago Bulls. One of the top coaches in the world, he knew the value of basketball hypnosis very early on.
Some other famous sports people who used hypnosis are:
- Tiger Woods who started hypnosis and mental training when he was 10 years old
- Rod Carew used hypnosis to deal with the pain that remained after an injury. The pain was on the verge of ending Carew’s career. Hypnosis took him past the pain to a.400 batting average.
- George Foreman, Greg Louganis, and Wayne Gretzky used hypnosis as part of their training as they knew it enhanced their performance and helped them set records.
- Don Sutton and Nolan Ryan both increase performance through baseball hypnotherapy.
Baseball hypnosis can reshape your mental mind-set – removing negative thoughts and bringing in positive ones. As many people know, if you try too hard, you can freeze up. If freezing up inhibits you, imagine what an unfocused mind can do. If a player is distracted, his or her normally automatic physical responses to the game can be limited. Ideally your mind has to be completely in tune with your body.
As you wind up for a pitch, your mind and your arm have to be attuned to each other. If your mind is trained to recognize the feelings of playing like a champion, peak performance comes naturally and effortlessly. Hypnotism uses relaxation, concentration, positive suggestions and imagery to bring the power of the subconscious to the game. These all focus on the way moves should be made, how the ball should be thrown, and how the bat should swing. Using the memories stored in the subconscious mind, hypnosis trains your mind to direct your body to respond optimally and spontaneously.
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Improve Your Tennis Game With Hypnosis
Tennis hypnosis works on the mental focus aspect of a match. The ability to play at the highest level is something every tennis champion needs to possess. Sure, in tennis, you need technique and agility and a good racquet. But these elements only take you so far. To get over the hump and take your game form mediocre to superb, you need that extra element. You require the ability to get into the zone. The right attitude calls for a relaxed state of mind and focus, not to mention, an overabundance of self-confidence.
This is where tennis hypnotherapy comes in handy. The real secret to winning tennis is the mental presence that allows you to enter into the zone where you and the game are in complete synchronicity. A certified hypnotist skilled in working with athletes will know the subconscious triggers to access. While competing on the court, hypnosis helps with your breathing techniques. It also helps by accessing the positive mental images and a sense of calm that will move you from being aware of all the distractions around you, to being completely focused on the ball and your racquet’s connection with it.
It is a fact that in tennis, and all sports for that matter, top athletes excel at two things – the physical training for the game and the mental training for the game. Utilizing hypnosis, you can practice the stretching and mental imagery exercises that will move you closer to being the ideal tennis player. With a balanced mind-body connection, you are faster, more agile, and more in tune with how you respond and connect with the ball.
The reason for the smoother and faster responses to the game is that hypnosis conditions your subconscious to make each required mental process an automatic event. Just as you don’t think about breathing, you don’t think about tuning your mind to the championship mode that makes you unbeatable on the court. It becomes an instinctive part of the process.
Your body will move and respond on its own during the match. This eliminates the delay between brain message and response. There is power behind your play and the power is not just muscle power, but mental power as well. Your subconscious stores all your memories and uses them spontaneously to form your reactions to people and events.
Tennis hypnosis uses these memories to reshape your attitude towards your previous matches and shape your assessment of upcoming matches. This allows you to retain and access the amazing feelings that will help you play at the highest level. Your body accepts your mind’s assurance that this is the right attitude and the right stance. It does not need to stop for the seconds normally needed to send these mental messages to your body. The result is that you are a faster and more powerful tennis player.
Tennis hypnotherapy is something every serious tennis player should consider utilizing.
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Improve Your Golf Game With Hypnosis
Golf hypnosis can be a huge asset in the battle that takes place on the golf course. All dedicated golfers work on their swing and keep looking for an edge. As you stand there, addressing the ball, you know the routine. Check your stance, check your posture, check the ball, check the wind, and check everything that you believe will help when your swing connects.
What you are doing is getting into the zone, the mental state of preparedness where you are one with the gold ball. Golf is all about attitude and mental focus. The truth is that 80 percent of your score depends on your mental attitude. This is where hypnosis comes into play. Golf hypnotherapy prepares you for golf by implanting strong visualizations of success.
Hypnosis relaxes you and can help retrain your subconscious to help you achieve that moment of excellence just when you need it. Just when you are ready to swing, the least bit of uncertainty or stray limiting memory of a bad swing will affect you negatively. In fact, if you are off a hair’s breadth, you can negatively impact your entire game. With the mathematical precision of a good swing you can hit the green almost on cue if your brain is poised for the delivery of the perfect stroke.
With golf hypnosis your brain will learn to be prepared to deliver peak performance automatically and subconsciously; the state of mind that a winner needs. You will feel like a champion golfer and as such, you will act like a champion golfer. Every move we make is the result of a message to the brain that transmits that message to the body.
Every nerve, every muscle receives its directions and instructions from the brain. Some of the things you do are automatic. Think about driving your car. When you get behind the wheel do you actively think about inserting the key, putting the car in gear, or any of the tasks involved in getting on the road? Chances are you don’t. Your brain has learned how to do these steps automatically.
Golf hypnotherapy does this for you. It turns your winning golf game into an automatic mindset. Your subconscious is conditioned to not only put your body into the optimum position for the shot but it puts your mind into that wonderful invincible zone where you know you can do it and do it perfectly. Every stroke you save is a stroke closer to playing at the championship level. Let hypnosis reprogram your subconscious mind and set the stage for you to play at the highest level.
To learn more about golf hypnosis and sports hypnosis, click here Golf Hypnosis New York
New York Hypnosis Institute LLC
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New York, NY 10001
877-800-6443
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