Do you find yourself feeling anxious before a game? Are you so wrapped up in anxious thoughts that you find it hard to focus on the task at hand? Hypnosis for sports performance can help athletes alleviate performance anxiety, reach new goals, and overcome debilitating psychological obstacles. Plenty of athletes find hypnosis to be effective in helping to address negative patterns that get in the way of a successful outcome.

Hypnosis and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) offers a variety of ways to improve performance across various skills, from playing golf to competitive lawn bowls. It can help increase focus, facilitate learning, and intensify practice through visualization. It also reduces performance anxiety, negative thought patterns, and other potential barriers to doing one’s best. Hypnosis has been used in various professions including dentistry, medicine, psychotherapy and sports, as a performance enhancement tool. Sports hypnosis incorporates cognitive and sports science methodologies. Hypnosis in sports therefore overlaps with areas such as biomechanics, nutrition, physiology and sports psychology. While sports psychology began to be studied around the 1920s, the study and use of hypnosis was not documented until the 1950s. Members of the Russian Olympic team are said to have made use of hypnosis as a performance-enhancing tool around this time. 

Some of the sporting benefits include:

• Helping to reinforce established sporting goals.

• Aiding athletes to better handle nervousness.

• Contributing to relaxation.

• Facilitating stress management.

• Increasing concentration.

• Providing the ability to eliminate distractions.

• Assisting in controlling pain.

• Increasing performance motivation.

• Improving bodily awareness.

Sports hypnosis success stories interesting facts.

At the age of 13, Tiger Woods started to use hypnosis and mental training to improve his game. Phil Mickelson also sought assistance with his mental game and the use of hypnotherapy. A sports hypnotherapist was used to cure Australian Gold Medalist Steve Hookers’ fears in pole vaulting in the 2008 Beijing Games. In 1973 Ken Norton used hypnosis to defeat Muhammed Ali, Ken was a 7-1 underdog in that fight and Ali began using hypnosis soon after. Golfer Jack Nicklaus says hypnosis and visualization techniques helped with his success in his sport and tennis pro Andre Agassi worked with Anthony Robbins using hypnosis and NLP to improve his performance on the tennis court. 

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How does hypnosis help in Sport

Your own subconscious mind is your most effective tool for change. For the most part, this is a part of the brain that we have minimal access to. In our society, we’ve gotten so used to using the thinking mind that we’ve lost our natural ability to tap into the conscious mind. Hypnosis allows the user to bypass this limitation in order to communicate with the subconscious mind. From there, various methods such as imagery and breathwork are used in order to embody the desired goal. It is in creating the hypnosis suggestion and then using methods like visualising or breathing techniques that the subconscious creates new patterns. Picture yourself being successful and then believe in yourself.

Art of Well-Being Hypnosis can help you achieve your peak performance and increase your level of focus and concentration. Enable you to better visualise your performance which can improve muscle memory and technique. In addition, I can help you reduce anxiety and nerves, both of which can hamper sports performance. Contact Brian today to learn more about  "Hypnosis for Sports Performance" program.

For more information about specific programs offered at Art of Well-Being Hypnosis Brisbane or call Brian on 0423 112 322 for a no obligation chat on how clinical hypnotherapy can assist you or email artofwellbeinghypnosis@gmail.com

Hypnosis for Sports Performance program consists of four appointments conducted over 4 to 6 weeks and each session is a tailored-made to the individual utilising the latest science based Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.