Sports Performance & Hypnotherapy
“It’s not the will to win that matters — everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
- Paul “Bear” Bryant, Head Football Coach University of Alabama
We all want to win. No one is trying to lose or even happy to lose. When people say “it’s how you play the game,” they quit a long time before that. Preparing to win is more difficult than wanting to win. Preparing to win starts in the mind and the heart and then it proceeds into the training room and the practice field and then into competition.
I have worked with athletes in a wide variety of sports as well as a wide variety of ages. I have seen a 10 year old baseball player and a 62 year old amateur tennis player (and everything in between). What do these athletes all have in common? Their physical skills were great but there was something keeping them from performing at their best. That something was their mental attitude.
By changing your visualization, hypnotherapy can “adjust” your mental attitude so that your excellent physical ability translates into winning. Hypnotherapy can help you visualize winning, visualize the time you want, the score you want, the outcome you want. Mary Lou Retton, Olympic gymnast, said, “I see myself hitting all my routines, doing everything perfectly. I imagine all the moves and go through them with the image in my mind.”
Many pro athletes have used hypnotherapy in their training including Tiger Woods, Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson when he was coaching the LA Lakers.
Schedule a session with me to see how hypnotherapy can help you think and train like Mary Lou Retton. Whether you play an individual sport, a team sport or are an amateur athlete, mental training and visualization can make a tremendous difference in your sports performance.