Sports Motivation Clinic
The Secrets of the Mental Game
Why Use Hypnosis?
Hypnosis
has been around for a few hundred years. It is the oldest tool to help
athletic performance. Before sports psychology there was hypnosis. In
the beginning, it wasn't always clear exactly how hypnosis worked it's
magic with athletes. Today, I can tell you why it works. I'm
Paul S. Palmer, Director,
Sports Motivation Clinic.
With the help of sports psychology we
can confirm that sports performance and hypnosis are a match made in
heaven. Hypnosis was always on the right track working with the
subconscious to cure a multitude of athletic ills. Every new insight in
psychology over the past fifty years has helped the hypnotherapist to
refine and redesign their techniques. It's not your fathers hypnosis
anymore.
What you need to know about hypnosis.
If you think hypnosis is scary, the work of the devil, mind-control
or you are worried it will make you cluck like a chicken, you have to
get your head out of the Dark Ages. Think of anything you ever saw in
the movies where the evil hypnotist sent his helpless victims out to do
dastardly deeds. And now ask yourself, have you ever seen anything like
that on the 6 o'clock news? Have you ever read in the newspaper of that kind of thing
happening, anywhere? No, no, a thousand times, no.
Every crackpot throughout the ages has been accused of using mass
hypnosis to dupe their followers and yet there is not one speck of
evidence that actual hypnosis techniques were ever employed, it doesn't
work that way. Hypnosis is a powerful tool because it can help
you
maximize your own abilities and not because it's a tool to control
the mind of others.
Here is what hypnosis can do for the athlete.
Hypnosis helps prepare the mind for competition, the
moment of
truth, crunch time. It puts you in
the proper frame of mind to work on the mental part of your game. It
helps develop the mindset for peak performance that the best athletes in
the world have experienced.
Am I hypnotized during the game?
No. The hypnosis (relaxation) process happens off the field, first, in my office and
then in your lounge chair at home. The locker room isn't the place
to work on your mental game. You want a place where you won't be
disturbed, away from any distractions. That's always a big surprise to my
clients.
What happens when I'm in a trance?
One of the biggest misconceptions about hypnosis is that you are out
of it or in a trance, unconscious and under the spell of the hypnotist.
That's only in the movies. You are only relaxing in the same way you
would relax if you were intending to take a nap. You use this relaxation
process to program in what you want to have happen during the game. Think of it as getting mental reps at winning so
that during the game you have this experience logged in. And that's only
the beginning of what you can work on.
Can anybody be hypnotized?
Yes, unless you are have some condition that prevents you from
normal relaxation or following directions, you can be hypnotized. Hypnosis is not a new state of mind that you've never
experienced before. You are trying to duplicate the same levels of relaxation
you experience every night on your way to sleep. This doesn't mean that
everyone can do it instantly, only that you were born with all the
tools to be hypnotized. There has also been the notion that smart people
can't be hypnotized. I don't know where that idea came from. One thing I
know for sure is smart folks are often the best subjects. I witnessed this early in my career
when I was going research and using college students as Guinea pigs. The
smartest always caught on quicker and turned out to be our best
subjects. Like any skill, it takes some practice and like everything
else, some people catch on faster than others.
Will the hypnosis process interfere with coaching or training
sessions?
No, never. I don't tell you how to play your sport, only how to
master your head game. However, your coaching and training will always be brought
into the mental exercises.
Who's uses hypnosis techniques?
The list is longer than your arm, but here is a small sample. Jack Nicklaus,
Tiger Woods, Rod Carew, Mary Lou Retton, Lee Evans, Ken Norton,
George Brett, Jimmy Connors, Wayne Gretzky, Chris Evert, Bill Buckner,
Phil Jackson and the Chicago Bulls, the 1983 Chicago White Sox, a few
Chicago Bears, members of the 2010 Stanley Cup winning
Chicago Black Hawks and
Olympic Athletes by the
thousands going back to the 1950's, all use mental techniques derived from
hypnosis. I can't say I hypnotized them all but I can say I know what they are using,
and I can teach you how to be a winner too.
Call for information and appointments
708-233-1111
Sports Motivation Clinic Paul S. Palmer, Director
14810 S. Keystone Ave.
(1 block West of Pulaski Ave.)
Midlothian IL. 60445