The Power of Hypnotherapy for Runners

Hypnotherapy is an increasingly popular form of therapy used to help improve physical and mental health. It works by harnessing the power of suggestion, allowing people to access their inner strength and achieve their goals. This can be especially useful for runners, who often need a little extra boost to get out and hit the pavement. Here’s what you need to know about hypnotherapy for running.

How Hypnotherapy Works

Hypnotherapy works by putting the client in a relaxed state and using positive suggestions to help them access their subconscious mind. During this relaxed state, clients are more open to suggestion and can begin to tap into hidden strengths they didn’t realize they had. The therapist may use visualizations or guided images that allow the client to imagine themselves succeeding in whatever task they are trying to accomplish—in this case, running.

The Benefits of Hypnotherapy for Running

The benefits of hypnotherapy for running are numerous. For starters, it can help with goal setting and motivation. By tapping into their subconscious minds, runners can visualize themselves achieving their goals—whether it’s running a marathon or simply getting out for a daily jog—and develop the confidence needed to make those dreams a reality. Additionally, hypnotherapy can help runners strengthen their focus, allowing them to maintain concentration even when faced with setbacks or fatigue on the track or trail. Finally, hypnotherapy can also reduce stress and anxiety associated with competing or training for long-distance events.

In short, if you’re looking for an extra boost as you work toward meeting your running goals, consider giving hypnotherapy a try! Whether you’re a seasoned runner or just starting out on your journey, it could be just the thing you need to unlock your full potential on the track—and beyond! For runners looking for an edge over their competition (or just wanting an extra push), hypnotherapy may be worth exploring further.

The Power of Hypnosis in Boxing

The Power of Hypnosis in Boxing

Blog Introduction: Boxers are a special breed. They have to be mentally tough and physically strong. To succeed, they must master their technique, stay focused on the task ahead, and maintain a level head even in the most heated of battles. But what if there was an extra weapon in a boxer's arsenal? What if hypnosis could help boxers take their performance to the next level? Let's take a look at how hypnosis can be used to enhance physical and mental performance in boxing.

The Physical Benefits of Hypnosis

Research has shown that hypnosis can help athletes increase strength and endurance by teaching them relaxation techniques that allow them to push their bodies further than they normally would. This is done by helping athletes learn how to listen to their bodies, identify areas where they are struggling, and then use visualization techniques to visualize themselves succeeding despite those obstacles. By practicing these techniques regularly, boxers can train their minds for peak performance during competition.

The Mental Benefits of Hypnosis

Hypnosis also has mental benefits for boxers. It helps them clear away distractions and focus on the task at hand. It can also help boxers develop better control over their emotions and reactions to situations in the ring—allowing them to stay calm when faced with adversity or difficult opponents. And because it helps boxers become more aware of their own thought patterns, it can help them recognize anxiety-related behaviors before they become issues—helping them stay confident when facing challenges inside or outside the ring.

Hypnosis is not just something out of movies or books—it’s an incredibly powerful tool that boxers can use to gain an edge over their opponents both physically and mentally. With regular practice, it can help boxers relax more quickly, increase strength and endurance during training sessions, focus more intently during matches, and remain composed even when faced with adversity or difficult opponents. All in all, hypnosis is one weapon every boxer should consider adding to his or her arsenal if they want to achieve maximum success in the ring!

People Are Powered By Belief

I wonder if you can accept what I’m going to tell you? I wonder if you can take this deep inside? People are powered by beliefs… If you accept that your belief in yourself is more important than anything else... You will understand what you need to prioritise… The question is? Do you need experience to create belief or can you create belief without experience?

If you can say it, then you can believe it, then you shall receive it…

Belief comes first, that’s right it’s an inside job…

From the beginning of its conception the idea of the four-minute mile seemed like a too lofty ideal to break... No one thought it was possible… People had the idea that the 4-minute mile was a beyond human limitation... So no one ever came close, no matter how close people came they were limited by the belief it was impossible…

Perhaps this was a cultural limiting belief? The accepted belief was that your heart would burst due to rapid combustion…

One man ‘Roger Bannister’ was able to suspend this cultural belief and ask himself what if it was possible? What’s if I could run a 4-minute mile?

From that thought came a belief that he indeed could run a four-minute mile... Eventually through creating a laser focus and taking massive action in the direction of his goal he achieved the four-minute mile…

He was the first runner to do it because he had more self-belief than any other runner at the time…

Once that paradigm was broken, six weeks later someone else smashed it and then someone else did it and then someone else, until many people had broken the 4-minute mile many times…  

However, what was king, was the thought “What if it could be done” from that question came belief…

The question ‘what if it could be done?’…

Once you acknowledge this, when you become conscious of the right questions you need to ask yourself… Then and only then, you’re going to create that laser focus and tunnel vision…

Then you’ll develop the confidence which turns into belief and then anything is possible…

You don’t need to be great to start but you need to start to be great…

As Muhammad Ali used to say… “I always said I was the greatest even before I became the greatest.”

I’m not saying you need to be the greatest. Even Roger Banister wasn’t great when he first started he had to make mistakes to become great, and guess what? That’s how we learn… Win or learn…

Roger Banister was so passionate about the fact he was born to run and this made it easier to persist in the belief that he would achieve his goals…

One thing you must remember, whether you think you can do something or whether you think you can’t you’re probably right… If you create a big enough goal and then break it down into small chunks, with every mile stone accomplished your motivation increases and self-esteem flourishes.

How do you eat and elephant? One bite at a time… And just like a snow ball that rolls down a hill that momentum turns that snow ball into a giant unstoppable force of nature…

Until you take that first step there will always be hesitation. Once you commit to that path then providence moves with you...

Once you allow yourself to believe… Then that belief is yours it belongs to you... it’s yours for the taking… That resource will always be there in your unconscious mind ready and waiting to be activated… Ready to power you…

You will always remember how belief can get you anywhere in life, to believe in yourself you must believe, even if it means taking a leap of faith…

See, hear think and feel yourself doing that thing, until you become driven…

Remember where attention goes energy flows, and by taking action you are making it happen, take massive action in the direction of your goals and you will live the life of your dreams…

Greatness comes from doing all the little things, belief is knowing that you are enough of a character to get things done…

By cultivating discipline, you will create a stronger character... Discipline is not a dirty word, it comes from the word disciple... Self-discipline means to be a disciple of yourself…

A belief is like a solid table made with strong legs, each leg is a reason why that belief is true… Make your self-talk strong and you will have unshakable beliefs…

If you have self-doubts, then you must increase your belief in yourself… When you cultivate this you can do anything…

To become great, say it, believe it, and you will receive it… Then you will know because you will experience it…

Visualisation…

I want you to imagine It’s August 6th 1954 and you are looking down on an athletics track. You can see about 35,000 spectators… This is a race that came to be known as both the “Mile of the Century” and the “Miracle Mile,”

I want you to see Roger Banister at the start line of day he runs a 4-minute mile…

As the gun fires I want you to slip effortlessly into the body of Roger Banister see through the eyes, hear through the ears and feel how good it feels to be Roger Banister on this victorious day…

I WANT YOU TO ACT AS IF YOU ARE ROGER BANISTER

You are feeling tremendously full of running…

Your legs seem to meet no resistance at all…

They are impelled by an unknown force…

It feels like you’re going so slowly, so you impatiently shouted faster…

Landy in front keeps his head and doesn’t change the pace…

 You keep on putting one foot in front of the other…

You’re feeling calm and relaxed running with ease and grace...

Your mind runs ahead of your body…

Every time you run you feel it’s an opportunity of a life time…

Lap 2…. You feel so full of running…

Because the leader is running so fast he makes the success possible….

You feel so full of running

“Then you hear a voice in the crowd shouting ‘RELAX’ unconsciously you obey.

You barely noticed the half way point pass in 1 minute 58 seconds…

You are so relaxed…

You’re so relaxed your mind has detached from your body…

You’re in a flow state… So focused on the goal…

Time and space merge into one…

It’s incredible that you can run at this speed without strain…

You’re barely aware of the fact that Chris Chatterway is going into the lead.

At 3/4s of a mile the effort is barely perceptible…

The time is 3minutes 0.7 seconds…

By now you can hear the crowd roaring… The 4-minute mile is possible…

Somehow to do it you have to run the last lap in 59 seconds…

Chattaway leads round the next bend…

Then you pounced past him on the beginning of the back straight…

300 yards from the finish… 

You accelerate faster and faster and cross the line in 3.58.8 seconds and achieve the mile of the century the miracle mile, The perfect mile…

Feel what it feels like to be so determined to achieve that level of perfect perfection

The long hours of excellence and training, the years of dedication, never giving up… To always belief in yourself…

Feel that level of belief... Notice where you feel that belief…

Now reach out with your arms and take Roger Banisters beliefs, qualities, abilities and capabilities, and bring them into yourself and make them yours…

As you return to your body now… Bring all of these beliefs and qualities back with you now…

And on the count of three open your eyes… 1,2,3

Ultra-Mind- Visualisation

Right in.

The subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between a thought, a day dream a dream or reality

When you practice meditation long enough to visualise you will synchronize both hemispheres of the brain.

“When you visualize, then you materialize.”. Denis Waitley.

Keys to Visualisation

· Take long slow deep breaths

· Relax deeply and sink

· See what you see

· Hear what you hear

· Feel what you feel

Visualise everything

· Warming up in the changing room or out on the field or track like a strong confident runner

· Getting to the front of the start line, confident, head up, chest out, shoulders back.

· Feeling and looking calm, collect and confident.

· See yourself getting to the front of the race and staying there.

· Visualise yourself passing your competitors with ease and grace

· See yourself dominate your race, with every person you pass your confidence and belief in yourself grows stronger and stronger.

· Visualise yourself holding your medal held high in victory, and feel how good it feels to win your race.

“Be the flow.” Jay-Z

Zone in, and win

Flow is simply the absence of thinking. Visualisation attracts flow states and reduces anxiety. When you’re in the zone powerful gamma brain waves of create insight are experienced, this will aid in a winning performance.

Ultra-Mind

Ultra Mind- Winning

My years studying boxing helped me to produce champions in amateur, white collar and professional ranks respectively.

One of my biggest highlights was helping a heavyweight boxer in his 3rd, successful attempt to become the British Heavyweight Champion

I used a tool from NLP called ‘modelling’ I modelled the famous Boxing coach of Mike Tyson called Cus D’Amato. By going deep enough into one subject you transcend it.

‘Success leaves clues Jim Rohn’

Now ive moved from Boxing hypnotherapy to Running hypnotherapy, from the hurt business to the help business…

Winning is always the number one thing to focus on in boxing and if you’re a runner or training for a race then this is also, as important.

So, the competitive runner just like the boxer must set a clear goal to win his/her race.

A simple exercise a runner can do is to write down ten times a day on paper that he/she will win their race at the place on the day and date.

Also, affirm this in the mirror 10 times a day with emotion, tone and inflection…

Take the wish out of the secrecy of the mind and just like an affirmation say it as if its already true, this will drive the desired outcome deep into the unconscious part of the mind making the outcome more likely.

An affirmation is simply saying something that isn’t true as if its already happened.

‘I always said I was the greatest even before I was. Muhammad Ali’