Well its the big game tomorrow. Will England do it or not?
Obviously, it can go one of two ways. What if it goes the wrong way and the unmentionable happens?
Research has shown that incidences of domestic violence rise when the World Cup is on.
Originating from Liverpool, and from a family that was divided between the blue side and the red side of Merseyside, I can fully understand the highs and lows of football. Isn't that what makes the beautiful game so great?
However, what can we do to stem the rise of those unwanted emotions, such as anger.
Anger is our bodys reaction to a percieved danger. It comes not only with psychological reactions but also physical reactions, such as increased blood pressure and increased adrenalin flow.
Over the years I have learnt a number of techniques that can help us change our emotional state, which I will share with you all:
1. Change the environment - Go for a walk, get out of the house, bar or wherever you are until you calm down.
2. Find a safe place to vent your anger - go somewhere quiet and shout out loud, stamp on some soft drink cans, break a cup or plate (obviously do it as safely as you can!). I have a punchbag at home which is excellent for reducing any anger.
3. Exercise - Exercise is a fantastic way of eliminating anger, as long as it is done in a safe way.
4. Count to 10, this actually does work! It helps you step away from the situation before you speak or take action you will later regret (perhaps Wayne Rooney should try this one).
5. Reframe your anger, take a step back and learn from it, or change it into a postive. For example, the England Players will be fresher for the start of the Premiership when it starts in August.
If anger becomes an unmanageable emotion in your life, it may be time to seek the help of a professional. Hypnotherapy and NLP are excellent ways of assisting clients deal with anger issues.
I hope we will all be celebrating an England victory tomorrow.
Until next time
Neil
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Monday 14 June 2010
World Cup Fever
Well its begun.
World Cup Fever has started, but what a disappointing start for England and Robert Green. How many of us have made an error like that? Just when we think everything is as it should be, life takes an unexpected turn and the ball bobbles into the goal!
So how do we get over something like that? How does Robert Green get over it?
Well, hypnosis and NLP can help, and I would dare say some of the sports psychologists the England team has taken over with them will be using NLP and hypnosis techniques to rebuild Robert Green's confidence. I have myself used similar techniques for both professional and semi professional sports people, these have included equestrian sports people, golfers and semi professional footballers.
So how can you get over something like a mistake at world football's biggest stage?
Here's how I would do it if Robert Green came to see me.
1. I would begin by using ego strengthening to restrengthen his dented confidence, and give post hypnotic suggestions for him to repeat, to give a surge of energy and confidence before and during the match.
2. State control would be taught using NLP Anchoring, which is a conditioning technique to assist clients to access resourceful emotional states when required, such as concentration, confidence and focus.
3. Relaxation techniques can be taught to keep the client in a relaxed state, to reduce nervous energy before the game and during half time.
4. The NLP Fast Phobia Cure could be used to help stop the client playing the mistake over and over again in their mind, which would affect their emotional state before the next game.
There are other techniques too numerous to mention, but hopefully this gives you some idea of how hypnotherapeutic techniques and NLP can help even with the most pressurised circumstances, and lets face it, it probably doesn't come any bigger than the first game of the World Cup.
If you have any questions or comments, why not give me a call or drop me an email.
Until next time
Neil
World Cup Fever has started, but what a disappointing start for England and Robert Green. How many of us have made an error like that? Just when we think everything is as it should be, life takes an unexpected turn and the ball bobbles into the goal!
So how do we get over something like that? How does Robert Green get over it?
Well, hypnosis and NLP can help, and I would dare say some of the sports psychologists the England team has taken over with them will be using NLP and hypnosis techniques to rebuild Robert Green's confidence. I have myself used similar techniques for both professional and semi professional sports people, these have included equestrian sports people, golfers and semi professional footballers.
So how can you get over something like a mistake at world football's biggest stage?
Here's how I would do it if Robert Green came to see me.
1. I would begin by using ego strengthening to restrengthen his dented confidence, and give post hypnotic suggestions for him to repeat, to give a surge of energy and confidence before and during the match.
2. State control would be taught using NLP Anchoring, which is a conditioning technique to assist clients to access resourceful emotional states when required, such as concentration, confidence and focus.
3. Relaxation techniques can be taught to keep the client in a relaxed state, to reduce nervous energy before the game and during half time.
4. The NLP Fast Phobia Cure could be used to help stop the client playing the mistake over and over again in their mind, which would affect their emotional state before the next game.
There are other techniques too numerous to mention, but hopefully this gives you some idea of how hypnotherapeutic techniques and NLP can help even with the most pressurised circumstances, and lets face it, it probably doesn't come any bigger than the first game of the World Cup.
If you have any questions or comments, why not give me a call or drop me an email.
Until next time
Neil
Monday 7 June 2010
Sports Hypnosis
Sports Performance
Professional or Amateur – are you getting the best out of your game?
Sport in the 21st century is moving into a new era, where an athlete’s mental performance is as equally important as their physical performance. The difference between winning or losing, between enjoying the game or struggling to achieve a satisfying result, depends on it!
For the average person hypnosis cannot turn you into a world champion. Other things other than mental training are involved such as skill, physical attributes. However, no matter what your sport is, hypnosis can you help you achieve better results.
Power of the Mind
As we learn more about the human brain, we begin to appreciate just how strong out mental skills need to be to support our physical skill, Every thought and every action emanates from our brains, and how we think and how we act is determined by what happens in our heads. Which is why it pays to devote the time and effort to improving our mental performance, as well as working on our physical conditioning.
To train the body to the limits of its capabilities without simultaneously training the mind is to invite, at best, mediocrity. Sports psychologists have claimed that forOlympic teams, 80 percent of an athlete’s performance is in the mind. This belief has been echoed by championship players in virtually every form of competition.
What the Mind can do
Mental rehearsal, also termed visualization, can create and reaffirm the confidence necessary to achieve top performance. The picture visualized in the mind can
convince the subconscious that achievement is possible. The automatic nervous system performs in exactly the same manner followed during a physical rehearsal. Neuro muscular coordination improves. What your mind can conceive, you can achieve. If you can think it and see it in your mind, you can do it !
What can be accomplished through the powers of the mind ? Perhaps most important is the development of positive attitudes. Negative thoughts pertaining to
performance skills can be changed or eliminated. Enjoyment of the sport will be enhanced to a major degree as skills improve to the point where intermittent
incidents of poor performance no longer arouse irritation, anger, discouragement or detrimental emotional reaction. Concentration, coordination, technique all can improve as well as awareness of proper form and posture. Sports enthusiasts face the same stumbling blocks that people have to deal with in other areas of life – business,personal relationships, achievement of goals and ambitions. The biggest of all is fear, and fear comes in many forms. Fear of failure is always restrictive and is very common in sports, as is its hidden partner, fear of success – an apprehension that success can create the expectation (among others) of further improvement. Fear of humiliation can be strong. Many golfers experience near terror on the first tee where people may be watching. The first drives. Competition can produce sensations of intimidation resulting in deterioration of skills.
Hypnotherapy, or properly learned and applied self –hypnosis, can work to reduce or eliminate the mental obstacles to peak performance in sport activities. This is
an area in which the truth of the phrase “what the mind can conceive, the body can achieve” becomes highly evident.
The Steps to Achievement
The goal of hypnosis in its applications is not learning or acquisition of the basic skills involved, though these could be helped through hypnosis as used in enhancing
learning skills. The goal is to enable the athlete to achieve the best personal level, performing at peak. As with virtually all hypnosis, the first step must be
relaxation. Relaxation to a level appropriate for the implanting of hypnotic suggestion is not really resting. It is deep, and can be brought about through a hypnotherapist. Goal – setting is essential. Without having an objective, it is pointless to begin a task, project or trip. Athletes, coaches or therapists or a combination there of may set goals. It is important for goals to be specific, focused on the area in which improvement is desired. Playing better tennis is not a valid goal. Improving a serve or backhand is a goal. Goals must be short – term Achievable and step-by-step, so that both success and completion are experienced. Concentration is vitally important, and sometimes
difficult to develop. Hypnotherapy has long been an effective means of improving concentration capabilities. Distractions must be eliminated. Post –hypnotic cues may prove useful in stimulating both concentration and specific skills. Visualization, not just in mental rehearsing, but at the moment of performance can produce dramatic results. Finally, mental rehearsal is the ultimate key to superlative performance. It can prove more productive than physical practice. Imagery is not merely visual in nature; it can include all the senses. In a diving competition, the form of the dive is visual; the smell of the chlorine water is olfactory; the wetness of the entry is sensory, the cheers of the crowd are auditory. Perfection requires the use of all senses.
My Approach
I employ a fresh, new approach to the ‘mental game’, utilizing the athlete’s own internal resources. It combines the latest thinking in sports psychology with Hypnotherapy, EFT and NLP techniques that stimulate the subconscious mind, mobilizing its tremendous power to unlock the door to successful performance.
Every athlete, whether a champion or not, has internal resources. The secret to fulfilling your potential is to access those inner resources and put them to work. Employing Sports Hypnosis techniques leads to improved performance and the opportunity to play to your true abilities. With sufficient effort, it enables an athlete to play consistently ‘in the zone’.
Why not give me a call or drop me an email to see if I can help you improve your game.
Until next time
Neil
Professional or Amateur – are you getting the best out of your game?
Sport in the 21st century is moving into a new era, where an athlete’s mental performance is as equally important as their physical performance. The difference between winning or losing, between enjoying the game or struggling to achieve a satisfying result, depends on it!
For the average person hypnosis cannot turn you into a world champion. Other things other than mental training are involved such as skill, physical attributes. However, no matter what your sport is, hypnosis can you help you achieve better results.
Power of the Mind
As we learn more about the human brain, we begin to appreciate just how strong out mental skills need to be to support our physical skill, Every thought and every action emanates from our brains, and how we think and how we act is determined by what happens in our heads. Which is why it pays to devote the time and effort to improving our mental performance, as well as working on our physical conditioning.
To train the body to the limits of its capabilities without simultaneously training the mind is to invite, at best, mediocrity. Sports psychologists have claimed that forOlympic teams, 80 percent of an athlete’s performance is in the mind. This belief has been echoed by championship players in virtually every form of competition.
What the Mind can do
Mental rehearsal, also termed visualization, can create and reaffirm the confidence necessary to achieve top performance. The picture visualized in the mind can
convince the subconscious that achievement is possible. The automatic nervous system performs in exactly the same manner followed during a physical rehearsal. Neuro muscular coordination improves. What your mind can conceive, you can achieve. If you can think it and see it in your mind, you can do it !
What can be accomplished through the powers of the mind ? Perhaps most important is the development of positive attitudes. Negative thoughts pertaining to
performance skills can be changed or eliminated. Enjoyment of the sport will be enhanced to a major degree as skills improve to the point where intermittent
incidents of poor performance no longer arouse irritation, anger, discouragement or detrimental emotional reaction. Concentration, coordination, technique all can improve as well as awareness of proper form and posture. Sports enthusiasts face the same stumbling blocks that people have to deal with in other areas of life – business,personal relationships, achievement of goals and ambitions. The biggest of all is fear, and fear comes in many forms. Fear of failure is always restrictive and is very common in sports, as is its hidden partner, fear of success – an apprehension that success can create the expectation (among others) of further improvement. Fear of humiliation can be strong. Many golfers experience near terror on the first tee where people may be watching. The first drives. Competition can produce sensations of intimidation resulting in deterioration of skills.
Hypnotherapy, or properly learned and applied self –hypnosis, can work to reduce or eliminate the mental obstacles to peak performance in sport activities. This is
an area in which the truth of the phrase “what the mind can conceive, the body can achieve” becomes highly evident.
The Steps to Achievement
The goal of hypnosis in its applications is not learning or acquisition of the basic skills involved, though these could be helped through hypnosis as used in enhancing
learning skills. The goal is to enable the athlete to achieve the best personal level, performing at peak. As with virtually all hypnosis, the first step must be
relaxation. Relaxation to a level appropriate for the implanting of hypnotic suggestion is not really resting. It is deep, and can be brought about through a hypnotherapist. Goal – setting is essential. Without having an objective, it is pointless to begin a task, project or trip. Athletes, coaches or therapists or a combination there of may set goals. It is important for goals to be specific, focused on the area in which improvement is desired. Playing better tennis is not a valid goal. Improving a serve or backhand is a goal. Goals must be short – term Achievable and step-by-step, so that both success and completion are experienced. Concentration is vitally important, and sometimes
difficult to develop. Hypnotherapy has long been an effective means of improving concentration capabilities. Distractions must be eliminated. Post –hypnotic cues may prove useful in stimulating both concentration and specific skills. Visualization, not just in mental rehearsing, but at the moment of performance can produce dramatic results. Finally, mental rehearsal is the ultimate key to superlative performance. It can prove more productive than physical practice. Imagery is not merely visual in nature; it can include all the senses. In a diving competition, the form of the dive is visual; the smell of the chlorine water is olfactory; the wetness of the entry is sensory, the cheers of the crowd are auditory. Perfection requires the use of all senses.
My Approach
I employ a fresh, new approach to the ‘mental game’, utilizing the athlete’s own internal resources. It combines the latest thinking in sports psychology with Hypnotherapy, EFT and NLP techniques that stimulate the subconscious mind, mobilizing its tremendous power to unlock the door to successful performance.
Every athlete, whether a champion or not, has internal resources. The secret to fulfilling your potential is to access those inner resources and put them to work. Employing Sports Hypnosis techniques leads to improved performance and the opportunity to play to your true abilities. With sufficient effort, it enables an athlete to play consistently ‘in the zone’.
Why not give me a call or drop me an email to see if I can help you improve your game.
Until next time
Neil
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