Get in the Zone!........Get in the Zone!........Get in the Zone!

Hypnosis can get you into the Zone!

Every sports person has heard of "Being in the Zone" and most of us have experienced it at some point or another. That feeling where everything seems to happen so easily, you seem to have boundless energy, the adrenaline levels are high, your nerves are replaced with excitement, your focus of attention is narrowed and intensified, blocking out all distractions. It's almost as though you are witnessing yourself feeling and performing like a champion without any conscious thought as to how you're doing it - you're "on fire" and you know it! What a fantastic feeling! Wouldn't it be great to be this way all the time? Of course it would! 

Without getting too technical, hypnosis can do this by bypassing the critical conscious analytical mind and working directly with the accepting subconscious mind. It's like changing from the inside out.

As well as assisting athletes to get in the zone, hypnosis is excellent for correcting bad technique or enhancing good technique. The more we practice the more we reinforce whatever it is we are practicing and sometimes bad habits can develop which can be painstakingly slow to change the traditional way, with cognitive correction (thinking your way through it). Hypnosis can change these bad habits right where they live - in the subconscious.

I am so confident that hypnosis will improve your game that I am willing to give you this guarantee:

Hypnosis will improve your game or I'll give you your money back.

Although hypnosis has been practiced for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, there is still a lot of mystery that surrounds it, so I have addressed some of the more common misconceptions here.

Hypnosis Myths

Hypnosis is unnatural:   Hypnosis is an altered but natural state in the same way that we experience an altered state when we daydream. I'm sure we've all had the experience of daydreaming and not even heard our name being called by someone. Most of us would have also experienced "Highway Hypnosis" - arriving at our destination in our car without having any real memory of the trip. Sleeping and dreaming, something everybody does every day is also a naturally occurring altered state.

I'll do something I don't want to do:   This is a common misconception perpetuated by "Stage Hypnotists". In this scenario audience members who put up their hands to volunteer to be a part of the entertainment realise beforehand the types of things that would be expected of them as a participant. Even though some would say that these people are making fools of themselves, they are not doing anything against their will. They have already agreed to do what is required when they volunteered to be on stage. In short, you won't do anything you don't want to do.

I won't be in control:    You are in full control and may choose to accept or reject suggestions as you see fit. You may even choose to come out of hypnosis at any time you wish.

I cannot be hypnotised:    Levels of hypnosis vary greatly from person to person. I have had clients who have achieved what is termed as a "light trance state" through to clients who can achieve a "somnambulistic trance state". Anyone who has the ability to concentrate can be hypnotised, it's just the degree that varies and like all things, the more experience you have the better you get at reaching deeper states. In my experience though, when it comes to sports hypnosis, the level of trance achieved has little bearing on the therapeutic results -  all levels of hypnosis produce a positive effect.

If you have any concerns yourself please feel free to call or email me and I'd be happy to discuss them with you.