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My Work
From years as a sports therapist, international athlete and Trainer of and Master Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner, I understood early on in my career that the connection between the mind, body and ultimate performance was stronger than any of my books, lecturers of colleagues were telling me.
From competing at international level myself for over 15 years and overcoming many of the most common problems that an athlete faces, I knew that mental preparation and the performance of the body, is at least 60% dependant on the state of mind at the time.
Lengthy experience in coaching, rehabilitating athletes back to competiiton and ongoing education, the understanding of the neural pathways and nervous system responsiveness to brain stimulus and "signalling" became clearer and I began to implement new strategies into the
coaching and training regimes of my clients.
You may recognise from your own training or competing a pattern you have
developed or a routine you have that is unique to you. Something you believe
that gets you into the right state of mind to recreate your performance as well
as it had done before and you still do it??
This is the very basis of optimising your performance. You already began
to do it yourself without even realising it.
What NLP and hypnotherapy does is to work out your personality type, your response to certain situations in training or competition, the way you think and react and harness that to create your optimum mental state to give you your best physical results. The other benefits are being able to to show you how to read the competition by their actions and also from information you can gain from them in conversation, by observing certain physiological markers and by the phrasing and terminology they use.
World Title Helsinki 2005.
Underlying Problems in Your Performance
Many sports people have fundemental problems like a low self esteem or lack of self confidence plus many more varied issues which we deal with before implementing any work in training. Frequently this on its own enhances performance drastically and some clients in fact don't need any further assistance at all as their results have improved so much. Again, the use of hypnotherapy and NLP techniques in this instance, are used purely on a personal therapeutic basis rather than in relation to their sport, that comes later. Good Sports Psychologists also have great techniques for underlying issues.
Individual Motivation
Motivation can also be a problem, especially with sports people who have competed for some time or have reached a very high level of competiton and can't see what challenges they have left or even a fear of failure (for those of us lucky enough to have never lost at anything!). Creating motivation is again based on state elicitation and detailed personalitly profiling which gives the keys to that persons motivation and what stimulates them. The implementation of a specifically designed strategy is then easily done so the "triggers" to create motivation are fired at the correct times instead of possibly different or not relevant ones.
Reading Your Opposition
A real key in sports where you need to be able to real your competitor or competitors. I can show you the inside information in how to read people by understanding and recognising key words and the way they verbally communicate. Physical signs that show you what they naturally best respond to which gives you an insight into what strategy they are most likely to use during competition. There are patterns everyone uses and all we have to do is to understand them and recognise them in others.
Copyright 2007 Emma James & Sport Optimisation. All rights reserved. This work is registered with the UK Copyright Service: Registration No:273038
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