The Key To Control Lies In Your Unconscious

July 5, 2008 at 1:37 pm | Posted in Sports Psychology | 2 Comments
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You walk in to a room and freeze up. There are strangers all
around – and you’re paralyzed, thinking “Am I good enough for
these people? Am I attractive, smart, and wealthy enough?” For
millions of people all over the world, social anxiety and low self
esteem are a daily problem.

When someone has a lot of confidence, other people can tell and
they tend to treat that someone better. Without a strong feeling of
self-worth, people act like they’re not worth anything at all.
Almost all interpersonal problems can be solved with a healthy
injection of confidence and self-esteem.

The enemy of confidence is anxiety. If you’re constantly thinking
about what other people think, how can you be confident? There
are plenty of ways to deal with anxiety, from taking up watercolors
to going for a jog, but one of the most effective methods for
leaving your anxiety behind and getting on with your life is
hypnosis. For over 200 years, hypnosis has been used to great
effect to help those with anxiety and self-esteem problems.

When most people think of hypnosis, they conjure up an image of
some guy in a top hat and a cape making people quack like
ducks. This picture couldn’t be a less accurate depiction of what
goes on during hypnotherapy. The point of hypnosis isn’t to force
others to do your will; rather it is to attain a state of deep
relaxation so that your mind can operate without all the normal
blinders and restrictions of conscious thought.

Once in a state of hypnosis, the subject can work with his
subconscious mind, planting “suggestions” or ideas there to bear
fruit while in your normal state. Think of it as changing the
wallpaper in your brain. Rather than playing a constant loop of
“I’m no good,” you can replace the backdrop of your daily activity
with “I’m successful and intelligent.” Not only will this help you
feel better, but it will produce results at work, school, and on the
athletic fields.

A 2003 study by a group of German scientists gives us strong
reason to view hypnosis as the effective tool that it is. It showed
that in a meta-analysis of a group of 57 studies completed on the
usefulness of hypnosis, at least 64% of those treated achieved
success towards their goal as compared to 37% of those who
tried to do it without hypnosis. Even more surprising, when an
additional 76 studies on hypnosis were included, it was found that
an astonishing 74% of those treated were successful, while only
27% of those who were untreated achieved success.

Whether you want to feel better about yourself, get the confidence
to talk to that stranger at a party, or shave some time off your
mile, hypnosis may be the tool that helps you to achieve your
goals.

Until then…Peak into Your Future,
Coach Jim Guerci

Are The Voices In Your Head Coaching or Catastophic?

June 17, 2007 at 10:37 pm | Posted in Golf, Mental Training, Sports, Sports Performance, Sports Psychology | Leave a comment
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All the athletes who I’ve coached come to me with their problems with athletic performance. They act as if they forgot how to compete. They use such phrases as I used to, I can’t, I don’t know if I can, and the big one…I forgot how to. In dealing with athletes and clients, I closely listen to the words they use. People are constantly communicating with you. Most of the communication is so subtle while other communication is so blatant and so obvious that we miss it. I’ve trained myself for an extraordinary heightened awareness. It takes some training, but with our wonderful ability to create a habit, I’ve been able to do it. I love to teach anyone how to do it. I can sum it up in one word…decision. I will get into that in some later post.

Getting back to communication using words being our flags and highlights which we often mix. People’s words get lost in the buzz of society, media, and our own thoughts. When you focus on the communication, it expands to extremely revealing ways. Above, I mentioned the athlete killing phrases my athletes and clients use. Look back at them for a moment. Now, I have to give you the inside scoop about words. I have learned that our human history harkens back to a time of magic, wizards, and enchantment. There are the paraphernalia of these people of power and we all know them because it’s a part of our mythological history which we tend to push off as fanciful and just stories. The items of power are the wand, the spells, incantations, and curses along with the talismans and lucky charms to ward off evil. These things are still alive and well in modern society. Now they are not hidden in some secret enclave or secret societies. They are right in front of our eyes and we can’t see it. That’s because we are in a spell too. Do I have your interest peaked?

I’ll break it down to a less “out there” terms. Let’s ground it. There are the phrases that we repeat over and over that cause major breakthroughs and breakdowns as an athlete. Anything we repeat over and over has to engrain itself in our subconscious mind where we unconsciously act upon the thought. I believe the last statistic in regards to how many times a thought goes through your mind it 100,000 times. Hey, if someone is repeating something that many times to me, I’m believing it. It kind of sounds like brain washing or mind control. Well, it is, however, we relegate the power outside ourselves when the power lies within all of us.

We provide our own mental nutrition, look for others outside ourselves to confirm that thought, and then provide evidence in our performance. Remember me mentioning about magic wands, well that thing is right inside our mouths. We wag our tongues using spells that we have picked up along the way. The spells and incantations mesmerize and encompass our minds. We are quite literally entranced by our own words. We speak, think and act on these words daily. Since understanding this, I have instructed my athletes and clients to be vigilant guards to their minds, only letting in what will help them because that support will be repeated over and over. An athlete’s mental nutrition is of utmost importance. Some athletes watch every morsel that enters their bodies, but allow their minds to host an open house in each interaction.

Other high performing athletes are accused of single mindedness. These are the athletes who are munching on high octane thoughts, thoughts which catapult them to the highest ranks and accolades. So our mythology shows us that we are the wizards casting the spells upon ourselves. I won’t get into what we do to each other. I will save that for another posting. We use the wands, words, and charms to help us or hurt us. The unbelievable fact is that we make up the story. We create all the characters, situations, dramas, the rises, the falls; it’s all made up by us. Let’s start telling us a different story, one that makes us legends in our own minds. Until then, our subconscious mind can only follow through with the dominant thought. What’s dominating your thoughts…victory and the agony of defeat?

Until then…

Kick butt and be a champion!

Coach Jim Guerci

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