Sports Hypnosis In Practice

This book offers new strategies and scripts for hypnotherapists, sports counsellors and sports psychologists working with athletes to help them achieve their peak performance. A major focus of the book is that the therapist does not necessarily need to be familiar with the sport or activity to serve as a "mental coach" to the athlete. The athlete is instructed that the goal is not to improve the mechanics of their performance (that is left up to their coaches) but, rather, to help them to relax, concentrate and focus so that they fulfill their maximum potential. They learn not to let the mental side of their game trip up the physical side, but rather to enhance it.

The author aims to help athletes learn to sharpen their mental focus, relax ther bodies, visualize successful performance, think positively, and control their emotions during training or when facing important competitions. The book covers all these psychological skills and more.

Golf is geared toward golfers open to the idea of improving their game through hypnosis. Joseph Tramontana, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist who specializes in clinical hypnosis, is an internationally known author and speaker on the subject. In simple language, he shares how to: • achieve golf goals using hypnotic techniques; • create and develop a plan to get the results you want; • identify behaviors and beliefs that are holding you back; • gain precise control over your body. Throughout the book, Tramontana provides numerous case studies of athletes who have improved their game as a result of hypnosis. He also explains why almost anyone can be hypnotized. Tramontana’s previous book on sports hypnosis was written for the hypnosis practitioner or sports psychologist, but this book is written specifically for golfers. You will learn methods to improve your game through mental training techniques.

Providing powerful mental techniques and strategies Unlimited Sports Success shows how we all have the potential to elevate our athletic performance to the next level. You will be guided on the ways in which champions harness their mind power to achieve the results they enjoy, introducing you to remarkable secrets used by both amateurs and Olympic champions for decades. With over twenty real life case studies and custom made hypnotic scripts, you will have access to tools enabling you to forge new results in area such as;  Improved performance.  Alleviate pre-competition nerves.  Switch on Muscle building processes.  Remove obstacles to success.  Lose or gain weight.  Focus more clearly.  Improve mental stamina.  Enhance strength and dexterity.  Increase motivation. And much more. Statistically the sports person who believes they will fail always will, unfortunately the opposite is not always true. Success programming is a simple but profound technique. The traits you need mentally, emotionally and physically for success you already possess within. With the assistance of hypnosis you can gain access to these abilities and experience the reality of your potential success. You are capable of being the athlete you wish to be.

Hypnosis is an invaluable tool that can quickly and effectively influence the subconscious mind and promote lasting change. This is an excellent resource for anyone currently working with athletes who wish to use hypnosis to improve performance, as well as everyone currently using hypnotherapy techniques wishing to expand into sport psychology.

This Book teaches Hypnotists to intervene and help athletes by bringing both the best of Hypnosis techniques as well as techniques drawn from Sport Psychology. The content in this book helps Hypnotists have expanded techniques that help athletes achieve Mental Edge Strategies in their sport. One of the chapters is about how to conduct an Assessments with athletes. Another chapter focuses on working on Goals. Visual Imagery has been discussed as a way to achieve heighten Laser Focus. Minimizing distractions, which are either internal or environmental, also help to maximize one's focus, so essential for solid athletic performance. The use of Stop Thought techniques is crucial. If an athletes is overly cautious, has inner self doubts about his skills, is lacking in Self-Confidence or has negative self-talk, how will this influence the athlete's performance? The answer is all of these dynamics contribute to and result in a poor performance. Utilizing Stop Thought Techniques reverses poor performance into solid and commendable performances. There are ways to stop overly cautious or negative thoughts dead in their track, which in turn results in stellar performances. The readers will learn how to accomplish this by using Stop Thought techniques and substitute Positive Self-Talk. Athletes need to learn how to manage their energy levels. The readers will likewise learn how this can be accomplished. The reader will also be introduced to ways to enhance Concentration, Self-Confidence, the use of Cue word to increase one's energy levels, how to increase Mental Toughness, and how athletes can develop Competition Plans. In summary, the concepts and techniques taught in this book are essential for the Hypnotists who wish to expand their knowledge and techniques of working in the field of Sport Performance Enhancement.

SPORTS HYPNOSIS - techniques and methods is intended as a textbook in the most fundamental and orthodox methods of producing trance states with which to assist athletes with performance optimization. Step by step, the book goes through the methods and techniques needed to become a master in the art of sports hypnosis

This book is aimed at helping both newly trained and experienced mental health professionals become comfortable and adept in using hypnosis in their clinical practice. Despite dramatic evidence of the effectiveness of hypnosis and its growing acceptance, only a small percentage of psychotherapists employ their hypnotherapy training in their practices. This under-use of hypnosis is due to exaggerated misconceptions about its power and the resultant performance anxiety therapists experience after their training. This text is designed to address therapist performance anxiety surrounding the use of hypnosis by exploring the myths surrounding its power and therapeutic potential. The integration of a straightforward systematic hypnotic approach into therapeutic practice has value both in assessment and treatment. Using clinical anecdotes and personal experience, the authors of Hypnosis in Clinical Practice explain induction style and trance work in a way that is fundamental and highly accessible.