Sports Hypnosis: Making The Mind Win
By
The Hypnosis Staff
It has been no secret that is widely accepted to use in therapy and for self improvement. Nowadays, athletes use sports to condition not just their minds but also their bodies to enhance their performance in their field of sport. And since the mind is the most powerful “computer” in the world, professional and amateur athletes perform sports primarily to achieve amazing things. Sports has been around for decades now and in the year 1932; a great deal of positive researches was printed entitled, “Das Autogene Training” by J.H. Schultz. Process of Sports Hypnosis Goal setting is the first part of sports and this is wherein you set your objectives and what outcome you want after the game has ended. Also on this part, other areas of the athlete’s life are being targeted such as solving relationships and personal hardships to compliment the purpose. It is also important that the goal be short-term to make it more achievable and realistic. Next is the mental imagery where the athlete experience and imagines the success he or she wants to achieve in their mind. This part would improve the athlete’s vision and focus on the goal, mentally preparing yourself in winning or achieving your goal. Lastly, the mental flow involves the athlete being “in the zone” and taking the event in a deeper, spiritual level. This is when the athlete may feel that he or she is invincible when in the game and this part is also known as the peak experience. Purpose

of Sports Hypnosis There are two areas in sports to enhance the performance of the athlete in sports. One area is in the control of the arousal level because no matter how much you motivate and condition the mind, the athlete’s arousal level always affects the sports performance. There are measures to be taken to attain and maintain the athlete’s level of mind and it must be free of other distractions and fears to perform magnificently. It is a fact that when you eliminate the psychological factors that restrains the athlete, the performance improves. The second area wherein sports can be used to enhance the performance is to facilitate the neuromotor pathways. Here, mental and visual imagery is important to improve the would-be movements of the athlete. It can be faster and more precise when the visual imagery techniques have been applied. The importance of this is that the athlete gets a physical imprinting of what the athlete could do during performance.