Sports Psychology for Optimal Performance
A Hypnotizing Training Tool
Being a well-rounded athlete means maintaining a healthy sports psychology. Athletic goals are some of the most enjoyable endeavors and can even be life-long hobbies. Despite our best efforts, many of us have experienced a feeling of “hitting a wall” while training or competing. Rather than giving up, let’s examine the real barriers to progress, here. Limited thinking, past trauma, and unwanted habits can inhibit your success more than you may think. Hypnosis is an excellent option for individuals seeking guidance on their path to betterment in sports psychology and overcoming life’s general challenges. Hypnosis has long been misrepresented in the movies. So, if you’re looking for a swinging pendulum or watch, chances are you’ll not find it in modern hypnosis!
Get Unstuck with NoVA Hypnosis & Wellness!
At NoVA Hypnosis & Wellness, we’ve helped over 3,500 people get unstuck. Now, it’s your turn. With the help of one of our professionally trained hypnosis practitioners you will embark on your own personal path to wellness. Some techniques used in genuine hypnosis include visualization and verbal exercises with the goal of unlocking hidden sources of fear or anxiety and working towards behavior modification. Hypnosis is dependent on your efforts along with the hypnosis provider’s “coaching” or guidance. Instead of being unaware of yourself or your surroundings, you’re actually in a state of heightened awareness! Getting to this point allows you to process your memories and experiences in a way which allows you to move forward to live a full and healthy life.
Who Can Benefit from Hypnosis?
You may be surprised to learn that hypnosis can help a wide variety of individuals with all kinds of struggles. Hypnosis can be used to improve chronic pain conditions, dementia symptoms, PTSD, skin conditions, digestion, ADHD, obesity, and more. It is also incredibly helpful for athletes in overcoming performance anxiety. Since athletic performance is mental as much as physical, athletes need to train their minds along with their muscles. As individuals in motion, athletes are more prone to injuries. Physical healing may take place, but sometimes the mind doesn’t seem to catch up. Athletes who experience or witness traumatic injuries can struggle with performance anxiety and pre-event jitters that make their sport more of a battle than an enjoyable challenge.
How Does Hypnosis Really Help?
Experts in sports performance psychology recommend hypnosis for young athletes who want to continue successfully training after an injury or traumatic event. Here is a testimonial from August, our client who has overcome a similar situation with the help of hypnosis!
Hypnosis for sports performance not only helped this young athlete with his sports performance, but also with his academics! High performance psychology can touch multiple areas of your life as your fears and psychological barriers gradually come down. Sports psychology for kids in particular can increase their confidence levels both on and off the field. Finding a child sports psychologist who specializes in hypnosis can be a challenge. With NoVA Hypnosis and Wellness, improvement for the psychology of your young athlete is just around the corner no matter where you are! In addition to in-person sessions, we offer online sessions to accommodate challenging schedules and distances.
Hypnotizing Results in Any Game
Research in the field of sports psychology has consistently shown that sports require you to train your mind as much as your body. While all sports engage the mind along with the body, some seem to stand out more than others in terms of mental stamina required. Looking into hypnosis for golf in particular can help you to stop holding back in the game. If you’d like to start enjoying a more relaxed, positive outlook with your swing, a golf sports psychologist may recommend hypnosis. Perhaps you’ve been on the green and just can’t seem to get in the flow. No two days are exactly alike depending on what’s going on outside of the game. It can be discouraging to see such shifts in performance from one day to another! Golf psychology can seem like a tough code to crack for the golfer, but hypnosis can help you break down negative-self talk and other negative thoughts which may be impeding your performance.
Is there a game with as much drama as baseball? It’s a game which can change pace rapidly and demands adaptability on the part of the player. It’s not uncommon for a young athlete to feel anxiety when stepping up to bat, or even while sitting in the dugout. What’s worse is that after falling below our expectations, we tend to expect worse in subsequent performances! Thankfully, there is hope for changing this behavior. Applying skills learned in hypnosis sessions can mean the difference between a strike and a hit. Trying hypnosis may help you see your baseball psychology can be changed through just a few sessions.
Tennis and basketball are similar in that they both require the player to visualize and send the ball toward a desired target. If your mind isn’t fully in the game, you’ll see the ball go in directions you never intended! Have you ever taken a swing or a shot and wondered how it was so far from where you aimed? Hypnosis will grow your visualization skills in ways which are completely adaptable for the basketball or tennis court.
