Sports Hypnotherapists differ from Psychologists in that they work directly with the Subconscious part of the mind the part that controls our behaviours, so change with hypnosis is often rapid and lasting.
In the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the Russian Olympic team took no less than 11 hypnotists to develop mental clarity and help the athletes with visualisation. In addition out of 20 Australian swimmers named in the 1980 Olympic team 12 had been using Les Cunningham’s tapes for two months previously. – ‘Hypnosport’ by Les Cunningham. Previous to this, in a tour of Australia, England cricket captain Mike Brearley consulted a hypnotherapist to improve his game.
In 1996 Steve Collins beat Chris Eubank for the World Boxing Organisations Super-middleweight title. Much of his success being attributed to the focusing of attention created by hypnosis administered by Dr Tony Quinn, himself a former Champion bodybuilder. Collins was programmed to deliver two punches to Eubank’s one. In the fight Eubank threw 300 punches, Collins threw over 600. Nigel Benn, WBC Super Middleweight Champion and Frank Bruno, WBC Heavyweight Champion both used Sports hypnosis for Boxing performance enhancement and more recently Athlete Iwan Thomas and Golfers Ian Woosnam and Tiger Woods also used the power of hypnosis.
S ince working with players from such prestigious teams as West Ham and Arsenal. To help them with the mental side of the game, Kathleen was invited to work with soccer players and coaches in California LA to help youngsters to achieve there soccer dreams to be the soccer stars of tomorrow, today. Working with Premier League goal keeper for West Ham, Ian Feuer also working with Nike ‘Coach of the year’ Dan Metcalf helping to train the number 1 ranked club teams in the USA.
Kathleen and Ian help players of all ages and have put a very powerful programme together to help young and mature players reach their ultimate potential and be a winner on every level helping with the Mental, Emotional and Physical side of sports performance. to achieve their dreams; one important tool they empower their players with is the art of focus and guided visualisation. While Kathleen looks after the psychological, emotional and mental side of the game and the pressures they may endure when once reaching the limelight and teaching how to cope with the pressure of the media and such, Ian looks after the technical side of the game together with one to one coaching keeping the passion burning thus encouraging positive change on every leval, thus creating the 'Winners Edge Programme'.
David Beckham one of the world’s greatest soccer players is a great example of the power of visualisation.. David was seen in a in a home video as a young boy of around 9 or 10 years old, he David was speaking to the person behind the camera that his dream was to one day become a professional footballer. David was born and brought up in the south of England in the London area however, youve probably guesed already that the football strip he was wearing in this old film was Manchester United, his visualisation had already begun, seeing himself as part of the team. Most young boys his age would have been so pleased if any of the London clubs like Arsenal or Tottenham Hotspurs had signed him – in fact his Dad is a Tottenham supporter supporter. Uninfluenced by his dad, David was already dreaming at this very early age of just one thing….becoming a great player for Manchester United. You too can learn from David’s example and so many other people who have used the power of visualisation to make their dreams come true.
Kathleen has had over 15 years of experience in dealing with sports enhancement enabling individuals and teams to reach their ultimate potential with golf, football, tennis, skating, and more. Kathleen is also the Author of ‘Empower your child from the sidelines’ and master of 4 Fantastic mind power CD’s for ‘Guided visualisation, ‘Empowerment to win’, ‘Play a superb game and get noticed’ and ‘Confidence and Self esteem builder’ and more... CLICK HERE
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Ian Feuer is one of the Top Goalkeeper Trainers in the World. His ability to teach Goalkeeping is not only unique, but unbelievably effective for every level of Keeper. Ian is the first US Goalkeeper to play in the English Premier League, playing for West Ham United, Wimbledon, Derby County and Luton Town to mention a few of the teams that Ian's 6ft 7" frame covered the posts. He also represented the USA in the Olympics as well as playing in the MLS for Colorado Rapids and New England Revolution
Using Visualisation For Excellence
Linford Christie proved he was the fastest man in the world when he won the 100-metre Olympic gold in Barcelona. He Said :
“The Olympics is the pinnacle of every athlete’s career. They said I was too old but I did it.
I had practised in my mind and saw myself do it”.
Prior to the race Linford was seen to be so intense and focused on what he was about to do that he was oblivious to what was happening around him. Absolutely nothing was going to distract him, in Linford’s mind he had seen himself win the race before he started it. He had practised it in his mind a thousand times… his determination was steadfast and unmoveable.
One UK football team found themselves at the bottom of their league, so someone suggested printing a fake league table dated in the future with .them at the top. It was placed where all the players could see it every day. Their results changed completely and they started to dramatically rise all the way up the league table for real Thinking back to David Beckham again who is world famous for scoring spectacular goals from free kicks. He always believed he would become an expert free kick taker and that’s why he always stayed behind after training to practice more and more on his own. Some people might say that his skills must be natural, that he was born with talent. Part of that is undoubtedly true but one thing about winners is that they always go that extra step further….practice just that little bit longer an harder than the average person….they believe that they will be great and they prove it.
Recently David Beckham took part in an experiment for television along with leading professors looking at the power of visualisation. They measured David’s brain patterns whilst he was taking free kicks then they sat him down in a comfortable chair and asked him to imagine taking free kicks in his mind. The amazing thing was that the brain patterns were nearly the same. By using powerful visualisation, David could practice his free kicks just with his mind. The best part being that he could practice scoring every time which helped his mind believe that he could and would.
Dan Metcalfe received the award for Nike Coach of the Year for 2004. The award was presented at the annual AGM meeting in Anaheim, the home of Disneyland.
Dan received his award for helping the youth of today achieve their dreams in the real world, bringing soccer and the joys of achievement to so many of tomorrow's stars.
From working with AYSO and Recreational programs, to training the Number 1 ranked club teams in the USA, Kathleen Dan and Ian have an amazing ability to build confidence in any player and master the techniques to empowering the super-conscious mind in their totally unique Clinic.
(Currently this Clinic is only run in the States but will be coming to the UK in 2008) However our UK programme is very powerful combining: Hypnosis ‘powerful positive suggestions’, NLP, visualisation and positive affirmations
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How can the Power of Hypnosis and Visualisation Help?
Hypnotherapy can help with a wide range of common psychological problems experienced by sportspeople of all ages and levels, and in both individual and team sports:
One of Hypnosis's main benefits over some other forms of Psychology is it's ability in accessing unconscious behaviours rapidly. It's often easy for an athlete to be aware of their 'problem' but solving it is another matter when they retain unconscious motivations to keep it alive