Sports hypnosis

Sports hypnosis can help in many ways to increase your sports performance.

If you’re a professional athlete to someone who uses the gym hypnosis can help you.

I normally find sports people are a little sceptical about how much there mind can effect there performance so I use a variety of demonstrations to prove that there mind has a major part to play especially at the higher levels of sport because professional sports stars have mastered the skills and fitness levels to compete at that level

One simple test you can do is kinesiology muscle testing to see how the brain affects the body. Just stick your arm out to the side and parallel to the floor and have someone push on your wrist gently while you resist the force. Then have them ask you some questions that are true and false and any time you tell a false answer your arm will become weak with out you being able to stop it.

Hypnosis can:

Help visualisation

By visualizing you are training your nervous system to activate the same muscles you use in the same order you use them when you compete.

De-stress

Stress can slow healing and reduce performance hypnosis can help to reduce stress to increase healing, the immune system and emotional stability.

Aid relaxation

Being able to relax helps in healing as well as being in an optimal state while performing. If athletes are to tense when competing lactic acid can build up in the muscle.

Increase motivation

Motivation can be boosted which will help you set goals and keep you on track in training.

Boost immune system

The immune system can by boosted to fight off colds or flu or to speed up healing of an injury.

Reduce pain

Pain can by reduced as well as blood flow and bruising which speeds healing and recovery time.

Ideal performance state “in the zone”

Being to arouse can cause too much tension in the muscle as well as excess stress hormones being in the blood which reduces performance.

Not being aroused enough can also reduce performance

Confidence building

Building your confidence is very important when you play sport because it helps to motivate you and enjoy the sport.

Time distortion

Time distortion can be used to expand or retract your perception or time so that your perception of time will allow you to complete a task with out rushing it.

Increase focus

Increasing your focus can help you block out any distractions and concentrate on what you’re doing. You can also learn how to focus more effectively on what is important.

Bellow there are some examples of how hypnosis can help in sports performance.

The telegraph
20 Mar 2008

Strongman shatters karate chopping record

A karate-chopping strongman from Cornwall has smashed the record for breaking concrete blocks with your bare hands.

Ed Byrne, a 40-year-old martial arts master, chopped through 55 granite and concrete edging stones in 4.86 seconds using only the power unleashed by the palm of his hand.

The ninth dan black belt shattered the previous record of 17.49 seconds.

He said: “I used to break things when I was a kid for fun with my friends and I would break things easily whereas my friends wouldn’t.

“People think it’s a lot easier to break blocks than it actually is – I make it look easy.

“I have hypnotherapy and picture breaking the slabs. I also feed off the energy of the crowd.”

For his next challenge, the muscle-bound karate king hopes to break more blocks in one stack than ever before with a single strike.

The record currently stands at 31 slabs of concrete in one chop.

The telegraph
16 Nov 2006

Championship standings

I had an absolute ball competing in the domestic rallying championship in Finland this year. It had been a few years since I’d got to the end of a stage and I thought: ‘That was absolutely fantastic. I want to do it again! If I had to stop tomorrow I’d be happy because I loved that.’ Now I’m dying to stick on my launch control at the start of the first stage in this weekend’s World Rally Championship round in New Zealand and off I go!

Motorsport has brought me more highs and lows in 10 years than I would have experienced if I’d done something a tad more normal, and it is through those extremes I have re-evaluated my approach to life. I’ve realised how important it is to hold on to that feeling of pure enjoyment.

I discovered racing when I was at Buckingham University, studying History of Art and Heritage Management. A friend was competing in Formula Three and I thought, ‘That looks all right’. I never imagined driving would become my passion. There was no interest in my family. I started simply because I loved it and it grew until I found myself competing in the world championship.

Its appeal? The speed and the control. I’m not a controlling person, but I like to be in control of what’s going on, full stop. The satisfaction is overwhelming when I get to the end of a very tough rally because it’s physically hard work. I’m 5ft 2in so I have to fight the wheel more than a 6ft bloke would. The adrenaline high stays for days.

At the other end of the scale, the lows have been awful. I’ve seen people have accidents and sadly die. One was my co-driver, Roger Freeman, and I thought the absolute world of him. That was a life lesson. My brother asked me to stop rallying after Roger died. I thought about it, but I couldn’t. I realized I love this thing I do so much, I will not stop. Life’s for living, I believe that.

Sometimes it’s not been a healthy balance – the rollercoaster of emotions – and I’ve found clinical hypnotherapy has helped me. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 2003 and had to stop driving. I lost my confidence that year because Roger had been killed. The lowest point was being on a rally seven weeks after my best friend had been killed in a helicopter crash. I’d gone probably 40 metres down a mountain, rolled eight times, climbed out of the car, pulled my co-driver out, and sat at the top bawling my eyes out.

Clinical hypnotherapy restored my confidence and cured me of arthritis. It’s a fascinating practice which enabled me simply to get back in the car. Then, at the end of last season, Kaj Lindstrom – a fantastic co-driver who used to sit with former world champion Tommi Makinen – suggested I go to Finland to really ‘get it back’.

I’ve learnt that flat-out is best. Finland is the breeding-ground of drivers – rally drivers and ’roundy-roundies’ as I call Mika Hakkinen and the other ex-Formula One guys who often compete in their home rallies. These Finns have no fear. They don’t back off for anything. Sometimes I don’t agree with that, because I don’t fancy putting it into a tree. But it’s been liberating. I’ve learnt more about my driving. My car control is very, very good, but maybe because Roger was killed I took myself back two steps. Now I’ve probably gone forward three or four steps. A penny has dropped, or I’ve let the penny drop. If you just go out and really enjoy it, then a potential accident is never on your mind.

Having experienced the benefits, I qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist and now have my own clinic, Mynd Force, in Manchester. It’s worked well, balancing it with the domestic rallying scene in Finland and a couple of rounds of the WRC. Now I know I won’t stop motorsport until I stop enjoying it.

In 1996 Steve Collins beat Chris Eubank for the World Boxing Organisations Super-middleweight title. Much of his success being attributed to the focusing of attention created by hypnosis administered by Dr Tony Quinn, himself a former Champion bodybuilder. Collins was programmed to deliver two punches to Eubank’s one. In the fight Eubank threw 300 punches, Collins threw over 600

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