Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Issue - 12, (1 June 2018) | Page 12

getting into the zone really meant. Throughout my career of playing sports,
I never reached that zone the same ever again. In fact, it was a puzzle to
me how I was able to reach it even that one time. I had no clue how it
happened until over 20 years later when I began to study the mind among
other very interesting topics.
It wasn’t until I became a Hypnotherapist that I learned how it happened.
Not only the “How” it happened in my own personal experience, but “How
to” assist others to reach it as well.
Today I spend my time teaching and helping others “to get into the zone”
when it counts using both my experience and knowledge gained from
learning hypnotherapy. The same principles apply to all sports, but I’ve
chosen to focus on the one sport I have the most knowledge and that is
“Baseball”. I am fortunate today to work with professional athletes who get
paid to play the sport.
As a hypnotherapist, I’m aware that there are many different forms and
approaches to induce the hypnotic state for our clients. The important thing
is to reach that point where the subconscious mind is accessible. Once
obtained, to assist in guiding the subconscious in producing the more
beneficial outcome for the client.
What I figured out with my own experience was that I had slipped into an
eye opened hypnotic trance like state while still operating physically within
the game. The game lasted several hours, and I recall at least 3 times
during that game, that I must have entered into this same “in the zoned
hypnotic state”. I finally came to the conclusion that the one inducing factor
that helped was a “pattern interrupt”.
The details to that game I wrote about often in my personal blog and while
the details are a bit humorous now looking back on it. I’m confident it was
the pattern interrupt that initiated the state of mind I slipped into. If you care
to
read
the
details,
here
is
that
story.
http://tahiltonjr-
hypno.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-subconscious-mind-will-take-over-if.html
In sports today, our athletes are instructed in so many physical
developmental approaches they forget about the mental preparation as
well. In fact, I’ve found that all this physical training and teachings are only