| Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy have come a long | | | | hypnotherapy go a long way in instilling a |
| way from the primitive notions of it being | | | | feeling of peace in the player's psyche. And |
| related to mumbo-jumbo and sinister | | | | when a player is peaceful, his mind is |
| magicians. Today, the world is recognizing | | | | uncluttered - that way he can give in his |
| hypnotherapy for what it really is - a life | | | | 100% to a shot. He can overlook all |
| changing force which allows you to conquer | | | | distractions, as his mind is completely |
| your mind. And we would all agree that our | | | | focused on the perfect stroke. In his mind, |
| mind is indeed the greatest instrument we | | | | he can visualize the next stroke and play it |
| have to alter our life and to change its | | | | near precision - the results speak for |
| course towards success. In the recent years | | | | themselves. |
| there has been a lot of speculation over | | | | |
| hypnotherapy, and it has been found that one | | | | Tiger Woods has been quoted in the August |
| of the areas where it can really work for you | | | | 2001 issue of Golf Magazine saying, "I always |
| is to improve your sports performance. If you | | | | have an inner peace on the golf course. I've |
| are an athlete, or aspire to be a sport star; | | | | learned to trust the subconscious, and my |
| it would be an entirely wise decision to | | | | instincts have never lied to me." Much of the |
| consider hypnotherapy for further honing your | | | | credit for this inner peace and calm goes to |
| skills, and come up with one winning | | | | the fact that he practices hypnosis at least |
| performance after the other. What's more | | | | once a week. Jay Brunza, is the clinical |
| hypnotherapy in High Wycombe and | | | | psychologist who has been working with Tiger |
| Buckinghamshire is now available at Terry | | | | Woods for a long time; it is he who |
| Doherty's clinic. A lot of athletes in the | | | | introduced Woods to the tools of |
| past and in the present swear by what | | | | hypnotherapy, the ways to conquer one's mind, |
| hypnosis has done to their sporting | | | | and the methods for self-hypnosis. Jay Brunza |
| performance, and how they have produced | | | | taught Woods how to get himself into "the |
| master strokes in every game they have played | | | | zone" at will. The zone which we are talking |
| since they started practicing it. And no | | | | about here is a state of complete calm and |
| other sports person displays the brilliance | | | | focus, when a player can bring on his peak |
| of Hypnotherapy, than the Golf Maestro, Tiger | | | | performance at will. |
| Woods. | | | | |
| | | | A player's state of mind is a major player in |
| Tiger Woods has acknowledged the fact that he | | | | the kind of game he/she has. If one is calm, |
| turns to hypnotherapy to calm his mind and | | | | relaxed and focused, the performance too will |
| improve his focus before every game he plays. | | | | reflect the same mastery. In fact, the next |
| In fact he is said to have been practicing it | | | | time you watch Tiger Woods play, pay close |
| ever since he was 13. Golf is a mind game, | | | | attention to his face before he tees off. You |
| where each golfer has to think well in | | | | will notice that his eyes open wide, and he |
| advance what shots he/she is going to play. | | | | blink twice. Its not that he can't see |
| Visualization techniques in hypnotherapy help | | | | clearly, it's just a nugget of hypnotherapy |
| a golfer do just that. It helps a player to | | | | he is using to 'get into the zone'. It's done |
| go over the winning strokes in his mind over | | | | on purpose, and his victories go a long way |
| and over again, till the stroke - every | | | | in telling us that this post-hypnotic trigger |
| muscle moved to create it, every angle in the | | | | has affected his game more than we give it |
| body needed to achieve it, is instilled in | | | | credit for. If you want to avail of |
| the player's mind. Hypnotherapy also helps in | | | | hypnotherapy sessions for sports performance |
| calming down the anxiety and nervousness that | | | | in High Wycombe and Buckinghamshire, get in |
| a player faces before any big game. The | | | | touch with Terry Doherty on |
| soothing effect and the calming quality of | | | | terry@mind-works.co. |