Sport, Stress & Hypnotherapy
Understanding your stress can help with weight management, sporting achievement and general mental health and happiness. Resilient stress, eustress or chronic stress. What is the difference? Resilient stress is adapting to a trauma or adversity and is essential to our survival.
Eustress is a positive stress that we have when we are eager to train or compete or just get a job done..It is good stress.There is a rise in cortisol levels which drop once the event or goal is achieved.
Chronic stress is unhealthy and cortisol levels remain high and this can lead to weight gain and tends to increase extra padding around around our abdomen.It also has an adverse impact on our heart health.It is unhelpful in our training or when competing.
When we train for an event or just exercise it is important that our eustress does not turn into 'distress' which can lead to chronic stress and has an unhealthy impact on our bodies and our sporting achievement. Managing how our rational intellectual mind (pre frontal cortex) and our often irrational mind (limbic system) behave enables us to ensure we have the correct stress at the correct level to achieve our sporting goals. Psychology with clinical hypnotherapy can enable you to manage your stress and address or prevent distress/chronic stress to improve your sporting goals.
Week 1 of hypnotherapy for sporting goals explains how the brain works in relation to your sporting goals
Week 2. Setting goals and visualisation-an example of the information you will be given to take away Goals-1 small change Practice, rehearse- visualise your goals make them real in your mind remember the basketball players https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/mental/visualization.html See yourself performing your chosen activity in the first person ie you are playing and not observing See someone better than you visualise yourself becoming them-note how they feel, how they think and how they perform Visualise the steps rather the end goal alone Practice solutions for hurdles/things that may not go to plan. Work out how you will cope with an unexpected change to your sport-how will you adapt. Practice it in your mind and if possible, for real. Practice in slow motion eg catching a ball or how your feet and ankles may respond on uneven ground or how you may pull yourself back to prevent a fall which will practice your mental agility.
Week 3 Mirroring, motivation versus self motivation, week 4. Stress and anxiety 5. Avoid ‘choking, Going forward
All sessions are target towards your goal and the weekly information related to your sporting activity and how your brain works and how it evolves to improve your performance
