Sports Motivation Clinic
The Mental Edge In Competitive Sports
Sports Hypnosis Chicago
Welcome athletes and coaches. The Sports Motivation Clinic can teach you
how to prepare the mind for competition. Athletes need to learn how to
get their head in the game and coaches need
to know how to help them achieve that. At crunch time the most important
athletic muscle is between your ears and you have to prepare the mind
for the moment of truth with the same diligence and passion that you prepare the body.
I help athletes get their head in the game.
When you compete, is your mind your best friend or your
worst enemy? Choking under pressure, slumps, loss of concentration,
inability to recover after a mistake, unable to do in the game what you do in practice, are all examples of how
your own mind can be your worst enemy. I can help you fix that.
Hello, I'm Paul S. Palmer, MA, founder and director of the Sports Motivation Clinic and
the Palmer Smoking Clinic. I've been working with
athletes, coaches, and teams using hypnosis techniques for
over thirty years. It's mental training that can produce remarkable
results quickly and any athlete at any level can benefit from the
process. If you need to improve the mental side of your game, you found
the right place.
The Coaches Best Friend
Attention, coaches and instructors! I don't tell the athlete how to play
their sport, that's your job. I don't interfere with coaching, but I can
make you look like a genius. I teach the athlete how to master the
mental side of competition and maximize your coaching expertise. My area
of expertise is in hypnosis, a recognized therapeutic tool that can help
the athlete get in
touch with that part of the mind that controls sports performance. I get their head in the game and the
coach gets all the credit! Is that fair, I ask you?
I also Coach the Coaches. If you don't know squat about this mental
conditioning thing, I can catch you up, fast. See my coaches
corner for more info. If you work with young athletes you need to
know the basics of mental conditioning too. Preparing the young mind for sports
competition is just as important as teaching them the rudiments of the game.
Did you say hypnosis?
Yes, I did. Pretty scary stuff, huh? Hypnosis has been around for a few
hundred years and yet most people have no clue what it actually is. I'll
answer a number of hypnosis questions on my "Why Hypnosis" page but for now lets call the
process Mental Imagery or
Visualization, or
Relaxation Therapy or even Meditation
if it makes you feel better. When you begin to understand what
these techniques can do for you, you won't care what they are called.
What can this mental mumbo jumbo do for me?
This mental stuff can help you become the best athlete you possibly can become,
when it counts. Is that clear
enough for you? The most important athletic muscle you have is between
your ears and if you don't exercise it properly, every day, all your
work conditioning and training your body and the best coaching is a waste
of time.
There are so many ways mental conditioning (Hypnosis, if I dare say it!)
can help your game but lets start with the most basic.
The mind has many different parts, agreed? Two important parts that
contribute to sports
performance involve the conscious and the subconscious. I trust you have
heard of both of them. They are very different. They have different
assignments when it comes to your sports performance.
Conscious Vs Subconscious
For instance, your conscious mind handles your immediate awareness of
the situation. It remembers the wise words of the coach and the strategy
of the game. It can reflect on all
those many hours of practice that got you to this moment. It's also the part of the
mind that recognizes that at this very moment the game is on the line.
You are up to bat and the success of the whole season rests on your
shoulders. If you blow it, you'll be a social pariah for the rest of
your life. That's what the conscious part of the mind
does. Sound familiar?
The subconscious mind on the other hand doesn't care about
the situation.
It's the automatic part of the mind that handles all the mechanics of
your swing, your hand/eye coordination, your fast twitch muscle
response, and it does it all behind the scenes in a split second,
without you having to direct it.
Question: Which part of the mind do you want working for you on the next pitch?
I help athletes that choke under pressure.
And
that's only the beginning of what I can do for your game.
How much time does mental conditioning take?
Here is the surprise. After your initial visit to my
office (1 1/2 hours) or a team session (1 1/2 hours) you start off with
5 minute mental sessions a day. The practice CD you get is only15 minutes and even that you don't have to listen to every day. This
isn't like your physical training and/or practice, that can go on for
hours. How can these short mental exercises help? The short answer is,
you are using techniques to train the mind. Longer is not better, it's
the precision of the process not the length
of time that's important.
I make my process easy to understand and easy to use.
Read any good articles on sports psychology lately? Have you tried
to plow through the literature? A lot of it seems to be written for other sports psychologists! They have their own
language and theories that the average jock doesn't have the time to
learn. If you thought you were a dummy, it's not you. I've read that
stuff, (so you don't have to) and I'll be your translator. My
athletes want results in the shortest amount of time. I've made it
my business to make my program easy to understand, easy to work with and
affordable.
My help is always in confidence.
Many of my athletes seek my help and don't want the world to know
how they improved their performance. If you wish to pass my name on to
other athletes, I'll be eternally grateful but I won't rat you out to
your competition or use your success story to advertize my business.
Well, do you need to make an appointment? Then
Call.
A session with Paul S. Palmer, Director of the Sports Motivation
Clinic, will be the best thing you ever did to improve your game. Then
you'll have a reason to get that new set of clubs! Who's
Palmer? See Bio.
Next, you'll need to answer a few questions.
Before you come in for your private session, I ask my clients to
fill out a short Sports Performance Questionnaire. It saves a lot of precious time,
and asks you to start to focus on the things we will work on during your
session. Use this link to get to a printable
questionnaire.
But, I have a whole team that needs help!
No
problem. I have worked with teams and/or coaching staffs for years. My 1
1/2 hour workshop explains the mental conditioning process
in a easy to understand, enjoyable way. I won't even call it hypnosis if
it makes you more comfortable. See my teams page for all the details on how I can help your team
take that championship.
What kind of athletes have you helped?
Here is a sample: 1 NFL quarterback, 3 NFL players, 3 Pro Baseball
players, 2 Pro Soccer players, 1 Pro Hockey player,14 minor league
baseball players, 300 plus college scholarship athletes,1 race car
driver, 1 tour golfer, 1 Pro Fisherman, 8 Olympic competitors, 1
National Championship winner, 83 State
Championship High School players and a whole bunch of amateur
competitors who just want to play the best game they can.
What does an office visit cost?
For a private hypnosis session and your own custom CD, the cost is
only $250.oo. Can one session do it? One session can do a lot, but to be
honest the reason one session can be so helpful is that many of my clients
never did anything to help their mental game before. Even one baby step
can mean a big improvement in performance. Additional sessions are about
honing your mental game and addressing specific parts of your
performance. Once you are familiar with the basics the rest is easy. Mental conditioning skills
are no different from other skills, they take some practice and there are many
levels to challenge even the best athletes. Most clients use the CD very successfully and others work better
with periodic office visits. My personal touch and the time I spend with
my clients is what I'm famous for.
Team Workshops start at $500.00 plus
$15.00 per athlete for up to 30 team
members and includes a CD for each participant to continue using the
program on their own.
New for 2008. You can now order a Custom CD for the same cost as an
office visit for those athletes who don't live in the Chicago area.
Instead of an office visit, I'll arrange an interview either by phone or
e-mail. Only $250.00
Also new for 2008, my Tip Of The Month.
It's the secret stuff you won't get anywhere else.
Call to make an appointment or to ask questions about the program.
Office Number 708-233-1111
Sports Motivation Clinic
9748 S. Roberts Road
Palos Hills, IL. 60465
Hours by appointment