FINAL LESSON: Utilizing Sports Hypnosis to improve Athletic Performance

In this final Self-hypnosis lesson you will utilize the self-hypnotic skills you learned in lesson one and two that will help you surpass your present athletic abilities and performance. How exciting it is to learn what professional and great athletes have known for decades and have used to beat their competition, win games, and gold medals.

If you have done your homework, in lesson one and two, you are ready to add some standard and simple sports hypnotic techniques to take you to the next level in your Game of choice. You can utilize relaxation to calm and focus your mind on a winning performance without pregame jitters. Autosuggestion, imagery, and visualization will help you perfect your athletic technique and skills for optimal performance.

SPORTS HYPNOSIS

Sports hypnosis can help you overcome issues of performance anxiety and self-doubt which may block your optimal performance. Hypnosis can help you utilize your unconscious mind to enhance your athletic skills, perfect athletic techniques, and boost your self-confidence to exceed what you have thought possible. Hypnosis can help you acquire the deep concentration and focus necessary to beat your previous athletic performances. Hypnosis can enhance your performance regardless of what sport you love to compete in.

FOUR POWERFUL SPORTS HYPNOSIS TECHNIQUES

1. Positive Visualization and Mental Rehearsal

2. The Athletic Zone

3. Imagination

4.  Autosuggestion

Exercise One: Positive visualization and mental rehearsal are key elements to sports improvement. Take three slow deep breaths and think about your special place of calm to trigger your relaxation response. Now focus your mind on your best performance as if watching a movie. Then run the movie again and carefully analyze your performance to gain insight into what you can improve. Rerun the movie in slow motion to gain further insight into enhancing your performance. Now play the corrected version with you in the movie feeling what is like to play at your very best. When finished slowly open your eyes and pat your heart with your fist three times. Then before your next game or performance tap your heart three times to trigger your best performance and positive expectation.

Exercise Two: The Athletic ZONE is where you perform to the best of your ability, in a state of relaxed yet focused, high-level performance, which feels effortless. Here you’re conscious thoughts, conscious activity, and efforts no longer influence or guide your performance. Your conscious mind’s concerns, worries, and control are suspended. Everything you do and experience becomes effortless, automatic and unconsciously orchestrated. Great athletes depend on the zone for their best performance.

Now close your eyes and take three slow deep breaths. When you are in your calm place remember a time when you felt in the zone and merged with the game or your performance, or other personal events where you felt one with the experience and everything seemed to flow effortlessly. Now, vividly remember that moment and the experience you felt totally immersed in. Let the feeling and experience flow through you until your inner mind’s eye sees it clearly. Repeat this exercise until you are satisfied with the feeling of being in the zone then slowly open your eyes and pat your heart three times. In the future, when you need to access the zone tap your heart three times.

Exercise Three: Imagination Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” In the world of hypnosis imagination is unlimited in creating what your stated goal is. Specifically, imagination can make you what you want to be. In your relaxed state of mind picture your favorite athlete who you want to model yourself after. Repeatedly, review, in your mind’s eye, their best performance to gain understanding and insight into their patterns of performance and their specific athletic skills and techniques. Once you have memorized their athletic excellence then enter your calm place and visualize them in action. When you can vividly see their top performance step into their body and experience what it would feel like to be them. When you’re satisfied with the experience of being your favorite athlete ask yourself, “What did I learn?” Slowly open your eyes bringing back with you anything you learned and how it felt to be them. Pat your heart three times. Just before your next performance or game pat your heart three times to trigger that feeling.

Exercise Four: Ideally, your autosuggestion should be coached in the form that your top performance has already happened, for example, I broke the record time in the mile, or I won the P.G.A. Championship, or I won the gold medal in wrestling. Giving your unconscious mind your resolute command, in your calm and focused mind, is a powerful gateway to ultimate success. Give yourself this forceful suggestion just prior to your performance or game.

Conclusion

Experiment with these sports hypnotic techniques to find what is most effective for you and have fun exploring. Furthermore, when you think about it these hypnotic techniques can have applications in many areas in life.