The Mental Game - The Secrets - Sports Hypnosis

Sports Psychology you can understand.

Let me start with an easy question. Do you choke under pressure?
When the game is on the line, 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 know exactly how to fix that!

Hello, I'm Paul S. Palmer, Ph.B. founder and director of the Sports Motivation Clinic and the Palmer Smoking Clinic. I know the SECRETS to discovering your mental game. I've been working with Chicago-land athletes, using hypnosis techniques for over thirty years. My program is easy to understand, easy to use and the fastest way I know of to get your head in the game. I speak to you in plain language, I have a sense of humor and I occasionally scold my athletes for not doing their mental exercises!!!
Whether you are a professional athlete or amateur, you need to know how to master your mental game and you found the right place. I help you find your mental game. The zone starts here and the price is right!

At the Sports Motivation Clinic I teach you how to prepare your mind for competition, the moment of truth, crunch time. I don't teach you how to play your sport, I teach you how to develop your mental game. Sports Psychology tells us that game time performance can be 95% mental, yet most athletes do nothing to actually prepare for that moment. Do you know how to prepare or do you hope your hours of practice will magically turn you into a clutch performer. The good news. Any athlete can learn how to get their head in the game.

A bit of the Science behind the process

The mind has two important parts that contribute to sports performance the conscious and the subconscious. I trust you have heard of both of them. They are very different! They have different roles to play in your development and success as an athlete. If you don't understand their roles, your game performance will always be a crap shoot. If you slept through science class and can't even spell sighcollogy (psychology), you can still benefit from my program. I keep it simple. Trust me, even a dumb jock can get this stuff. Really!

Conscious Vs. Subconscious OR
The Learning Part Vs. The Automatic Part

The Conscious mind is what you use anytime you're awake. It's how you learn. A big part of its' job is to pass on information to the automatic part of the brain. That's why you go through endless hours of repetition in the hope that some day the automatic part of the mind will know exactly what to do. With your conscious mind, you can take things apart, analyze, and correct pieces and parts of your physical performance. Some sports spend 98% of their time at practice and physical training. I other words, you spend most of your time in the learning part of the mind. It's where you are most comfortable, it's home.

But wait! There is more the conscious mind does for you. It knows if it's a real game or just practice. It's 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 entire season rests on your shoulders. If you blow it, you'll be remembered forever as "the choker." As a social pariah, you'll be forced to leave town in the middle of the night, change your name, live in a trailer park and have ugly children. That's what else the conscious part of the mind does for you. Sound familiar?

The subconscious mind on the other hand doesn't care about the situation. It's the cool part of the mind. Its' job is not effected by pressure. It is the automatic part of the mind, that handles all the mechanics of your swing, your muscle memory, your hand/eye coordination, your fast twitch muscle response, instantly recognizes and adjusts to changing situations and it does it all behind the scenes in a split second, without you having to consciously direct it.

Question: Which part of the mind do you want working for you on the next pitch?

The automatic part, of course! Why? Because you can't be in the learning part of the mind during those moments of truth. Do you know how to make that happen? Do you know how to make sure the correct part of the mind is working for you every time it counts? If you don't, then you need to came and see me and the sooner the better. Cause, I help you fix that kind of stuff. And that's only the beginning of what I can do for your 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're 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? At crunch time, your mental game is what determines the outcome. Do you have a mental game? The most important athletic muscle 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.

Well, do you need to make an appointment? Then Call!
708-233-1111

A session with Paul S. Palmer, Director of the Sports Motivation Clinic, will be the best thing you ever did to improve your game. 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 athletes 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.

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 talents. My area of expertise is in hypnosis, a recognized therapeutic tool that can help the athlete get in touch with the 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 Coach the Coaches too. If you don't know squat about this mental conditioning thing, I can catch you up, fast. See my coaches corner for more info.

What does an office visit cost?

For any amateur athlete, a private hypnosis session and your own custom CD, the cost is only $250. 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 most athletes never learned to develop their mental game. 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. Pros pay $2500.

But, I have a whole team that needs help!

No problem. I have worked with High School and College teams 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 athletes. Team Workshops in the Chicago area start at $600. for up to 20 team members (you don't need 20) and includes a CD for each participant to continue using the program on their own.

How much time does mental conditioning take?

The mental training process will be the shortest thing you ever did to improve your game. It starts with a visit to my office. I explain how the process works, tell you the secrets that make it work, answer all your questions and then take you through the hypnosis (relaxation) and make you a custom CD. The CD will guide you through the process each day until you can start doing short sessions (5 minutes) on your own. This isn't like physical conditioning and repetitive practice sessions, 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.

Don't take it personal but... I don't want to see you every week, I don't need to see you every week. The idea of the CD is to short cut the learning process so you can develop your mental game FAST. I'll guide you. If you are a quick study, practice daily and can follow directions, you can be off and running on your own in no time at all. Clients come back for more because they want more guidance in taking their mental game to the next level. In which case, I'll be happy to see you.

Can you help a Pro?

Sure, unless you're a real dope, my program can help any athlete. If you watch professional sports, you know there are more head cases out there than the local barbershop. Many pros are just like the amateur athlete, they hope their mental game is there when they need it. But, how many times have you seen a million dollar baby have a brain freeze that cost them the game? I don't care how much you get paid, where you played, or who you know, if you don't practice being on top of your mental game, rehearse competing under pressure and prepare the mind specifically for the moment of truth, it won't magically be there when it counts! Do you know how?

If you are a professional athlete, chances are you make more money than my cardiologist and my preacher, combined. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but you have to pay accordingly for my services. Add a "0" to my single session rate for starters, call it a seat tax or a sign up bonus. An individual office session plus custom CD is $2500. Plus, a few tickets to the game, WHEN you start winning, would make your hypnotist happy. And, we all want a happy hypnotist, don't we? DON'T WE!

My help is always in confidence.

Most 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.

But I don't live in the Chicago Area!

I would prefer to work directly with all my clients, my explanation of the process is priceless. If you can't come to my office, the second best option is to order a Custom CD for the same cost as an office visit. I'll arrange an interview either by phone in the U.S. or e-mail. Amateur athletes only pay $250. Pros pay $2500.

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Regardless of what stage you are in your athletic career, I'm always happy to talk to you by phone about my services and explain anything and everything before you would make an appointment.

Call to make an appointment or to ask questions at ...
Office Number 708-233-1111

mailto:palmer-paul@sbcglobal.net

Sports Motivation Clinic

14810 S. Keystone Ave
(1 block West of Pulaski Ave.)

Midlothian, IL. 60445 Hours by appointment