When I quit my addiction counseling job to focus solely on professional hypnosis, I anticipated working with mostly stop smoking clients. But when I opened my office and started to look into buying radio ads, the only station I could afford to advertise on was an AM sports radio station. I thought it was pretty ironic, since I don’t consider myself an athlete. In fact, quite the opposite – I played clarinet in high school and was a definite band geek. I really wasn’t sure how to do sports hypnosis.
But I bought the ads, and when my first client came in he was a 63-year-old marathon runner, who felt he was no longer performing to his expectations. I helped him by using both future pacing and revivification, and he was a very happy client. The next couple of clients I worked with were golfers, and I even worked with a competitive shot-gun shooter, and a professional bull rider.
One of the more interesting clients I worked with was a minor-league baseball player, with a promising career. But at bat one day he hit a foul ball that seriously injured an umpire, and after that trauma his batting average sharply declined. In this case, he was an excellent batter because his swing, his timing and his action were completely committed to the subconscious mind. Every time he was at bat, he was consistent, until… that fateful day when the umpire was injured.
After that when he stepped up to the plate, his conscious mind would bring thoughts like, “Where will the ball go?” and “Where is the umpire?” This intrusion of the conscious mind (thoughts) into what should be an automatic process (the “zone” athletes often talk about) caused him to lose focus and his performance suffered.
Now I love doing sports performance hypnosis, and I am grateful that back in the day, the sports radio station was the cheapest to advertise on. It gave me an opportunity I otherwise never would have pursued, and I found I was very good at sports performance hypnosis, even if my own athletic interests have never been competitive. And of course, even though I do not compete, I do go to the gym locally and swim regularly, and so I have been able to use self-hypnosis as a strategy to improve my own performance in many ways.
Doing sports performance hypnosis can help you build a reputation in peak performance and results oriented hypnosis. Athletes are familiar with hypnosis as a part of their mental game because top golfers, Olympic athletes, and professional athletes regularly talk about their use of hypnosis to enhance their game. How to do sports hypnosis can be answered in my course on sport hypnosis that you can get online access to right now.
