Exam/Sports Preparation and Performance
Aim To Improve Your Game
The difference between winning and losing begins with your mind!
When it comes to sporting performance, studies show that between 70% and 85% of an athletes’ success can be predicted and determined by psychological factors. This means that while athletes invest significant time and effort in their physical training and nutrition to reach their goals, a key component that may be overlooked is the importance of training the mind for success.
The challenge many athletes experience is succeeding to a particular point and having trouble moving further, reaching a plateau in their performance or experience a set back that can be hard to shake mentally and emotionally. Although it’s obvious to continue training the body during these setbacks, what may be less obvious but just as important is focusing on the mind.
Despite being physically ready there are times when for whatever reason, an athlete becomes plagued by inklings of self-doubt, worry or fear of injury. Anyone who has experienced this or known someone going through this can understand how challenging and frustrating the experience of being ‘stuck’ can feel. This can be an especially difficult prospect for those who have put much effort and care into their game, only to feel discouraged by an inability to move past negative self-talk or fear of failure.
Focused Psychology Hypnotherapy and Mindfulness Approach
Focused Psychology and Hypnotherapy works with athletes of all ages in improving skills, increasing confidence and helping to meet and exceed their performance goals. E
Hypnosis helps athletes fine-tune techniques, increase their focus and confidence, enabling them to excel beyond previously held expectations. Although each case is unique, many of of our clients report either overthinking, dissecting physical movements, becoming overwhelmed by negative self-talk, performance anxiety, pre-game anxiety or loss of confidence as the main problems in their game. The good news is that Hypnosis and Mindfulness can help overcome subconscious blocks and be a great tool for any Athlete looking to move to the next level! (Baker, Jones & Greenless, 2013)
Although some athlethes use visualization to improve their game, you can think of Hypnosis and Mindfulness as taking that approach one step further on the road to meeting performance goals. In
In addition to helping accuracy and improving concentration and skills, empirical research suggests hypnotherapy also improves also helps with concentration and performance anxiety, both of which can be detrimental to sports performance (Jalene & Wolf, 2014) (Cummings & Maynard, 2002)
In order to tackle the underlying reasons for performance blocks, the first step in our approach involves a pre-talk that explores the past events and learned behaviours that may have contributed to present problems. By taking the time to understand your situation and life experiences, we can create a hypnosis session that is personalized and highly effective.
Following the pre-talk, the second step in our approach involves providing a comfortable, safe and empowering hypnosis session. The word hypnosis is actually derived from the Greek word Hypnos – which means to sleep. Similar to the experience of daydreaming, our clients often describe hypnosis as a highly relaxed and focused state of calm that provides them with an opportunity to increase their ability to focus on their performance or specific skills and visualize their ultimate goals.
Unlike traditional hypnotherapists who use only positive visualization and sports hypnosis, we know that eliminating stress and worry and cultivating Mindfulness are also paramount to personal and team success.We take the time to help each client overcome old beliefs and fears so athletes can be the best they can be. Our tools are Hypnotherapy and Mindfulness training to help each client increase confidence and improve focus for personal or team success.
How To Improve Memory And Studying, And Prepare For Exams Through Hypnotherapy
The power of hypnosis can help you unlock portions of your subconscious mind that store and retrieve your short- and long-term memories. In fact, when used by a skilled practitioner, hypnosis can help focus attention on both parts of your memory system, how the information was stored, or how to recall it.
Focused Psychology and Hypnotherapy uses proven hypnosis techniques to provide the tools to help improve your memory. We will improve your concentration, help you stay focused, retrieve information, retain more information, recount your actions when you thought you’d lost something important, and improve study habits to make you a better student.