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

mailto:palmer-paul@sbcglobal.net

Sports Motivation Clinic

9748 S. Roberts Road

Palos Hills, IL. 60465 Hours by appointment