{"id":5027,"date":"2014-06-17T13:25:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/?page_id=5027"},"modified":"2017-06-07T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:02:21","slug":"the-monthly-trance-setting-your-zone-state-for-great-sports","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/the-monthly-trance-setting-your-zone-state-for-great-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monthly Trance — Setting Your Zone State for Great Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Your<\/a>Obviously, sports are a physical endeavor. There’s motion, coordination, balance, learned physical skills, and so on. But there’s more to it. It’s a mental endeavor as well. I would suggest that playing sports is MORE mental than physical. To be the best at your game, you need to integrate these two, the physical and the mental.<\/p>\n

When you’ve learned something and learned it well, it moves to the realm of “unconscious competence.” \u00a0For example, you know how to ride a bicycle now, you don’t need to think about it. You don’t need to think about balance and pedaling and steering. You just hop on and GO, although you once had to learn those things. So it is with any sport. You’ve trained. You’ve practiced. Your body knows the moves. The problem impeding your best performance is your conscious mind, and the thoughts, worries and lug wrenches it throws into the works. It can and often does interrupt the natural flow of your body’s performance of the sport.<\/p>\n

Through hypnosis, you learn to calm your conscious mind, and allow your best unconscious game to shine forth. Whether it’s the golf course, or the basketball court, or karate dojo, or any other sports venue where you do your thing, hypnosis improves your performance, and gets you back in touch with your best unconsciously competent game.<\/p>\n

I’ve worked with all skill ranges from hobbyists to “big name” professional athletes. \u00a0Here’s a simple anchoring technique I’d like to share with you to grab that “zone” state of best play. \u00a0We all know it. \u00a0That amazingly “on” day when everything goes right in the game. You’re focused, you’re oozing confidence, you’re having fun with it, and so on.<\/p>\n

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Setting an NLP Anchor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Step into that memory of fabulous performance. \u00a0Live it, as though it is happening now. What do you see, feel, hear? \u00a0Revel in it! \u00a0This is GREAT play. \u00a0And you are great in this moment. \u00a0The home run, the hole in one, the amazing shot from mid-court! \u00a0When the good feelings are alive in you, touch your thumb and middle finger together and hold for about a second. \u00a0Let go. \u00a0Repeat the process. \u00a0Step back into the memory again. \u00a0Feeling good?? \u00a0Touch, hold briefly, and then let go. \u00a0You have just set what is known in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) parlance, as “an anchor.” \u00a0A stimulus response. \u00a0Now, here’s how to use it.<\/p>\n

Run the upcoming game or event in your mind, while HOLDING your thumb and middle finger together. \u00a0You are associating your zone state of play with the event–your mind is making linkages. \u00a0This goes with that! \u00a0When you step into the moment for real, your mind brings back the zone state of play. \u00a0It really is that easy. \u00a0Standing at the golf tee, losing focus? \u00a0Feeling distracted? \u00a0Touch and hold the anchor for about 30 seconds to a minute. Voila! \u00a0The focus and confidence is back.<\/p>\n

With NLP, we automate this process. \u00a0So you just play harder, smarter, better. \u00a0Whatever brings you pleasure and the win. \u00a0As an extremely competitive person myself, I know the joy of winning. You can have it, too, in your life’s passion sport or just-for-fun sport du jour.<\/p>\n

Go for it, and enjoy!
\nConnie Brannan, CHt.
\nNeuro Linguistic Hypnotherapist & Licensed Trainer of NLP\u00ae<\/p>\n

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Connie Brannan, CHt & Licensed Trainer of NLP ™<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can also find out more general information of the successes to be had with these mind technologies of hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming here:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.mindworkshypnosis.net<\/a>
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Obviously, sports are a physical endeavor. There’s motion, coordination, balance, learned physical skills, and so on. But there’s more to it. It’s a mental endeavor as well. I would suggest that playing sports is MORE mental than physical. To be the best at your game, you need to integrate these two, the physical and the […] <\/p>\n

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