keeping the athlete within the wrong state of mind during the games. Think about it. If your client comes to you for help and you do everything you can to keep him / her in the conscious state of mind. There is little you can do at that point other than teach that person cognitively. However, if you use your training to rest the conscious mind to access the subconscious, the healing modalities we all use can perform miracles within days where that client may have spent years trying to eliminate certain mental blocks.
In baseball these days, our athletes practice different than we did back in the 70’ s. Today, hitters practice indoors more so than they do outdoors. In my day, we practiced outdoors all week long to get ready to play on Friday nights and the weekends. Professional ball players play games 6 days a week. So, they may work on individual techniques indoors in the mornings and begin warming up and playing live games that afternoon, within perhaps one day week rest time.
Imagine from a hypnotherapist perspective, that your client has been programming his mind to perform a certain way only to be surprised that his performance is lacking when it truly counts, during the game. I share with my clients that it’ s the same as if they were asked to study chapter 1 to prepare for a test back in high school only to show up to school the next day to find out that the test is on chapter 3. They are simply unprepared and are dealing with the anxiety of the event on top of that.
I enjoy teaching my clients cognitively as well as using hypnosis in hypnotherapy sessions because I feel it helps when they fully understand why I’ m working on several different issues. I help them to use triggers to induce the state during the game. I help them to break old patterns that were actually triggering the wrong state of mind( Like getting nervous) before. I assist them to not think during the actual pivotal points when their subconscious should be taking over during the games.
All professional baseball player’ s statistics are recorded. Everything they do during the game is measured and documented. These statistics during their whole career is what helps to determine how long he / she will be playing the sport as well as how much money they are able to make within the sport. A client who is so focused on their statistics will exhibit high anxiety when the stats begin to decline. Using hypnotherapy can also eliminate this anxiety