Creating a new set of rules within one’s subconscious is an important aspect of hypnosis. Visualization is a critical element in terms of accomplishing this successfully. If you lack confidence or cannot understand how you might achieve something that is remotely challenging, then you have not yet learned how to clearly embrace or acknowledge the power of positive thinking. In order to productively apply hypnosis in the realm of sports, one must strongly consider adopting the technique of visualization.

Creative visualization has been used as an effective tool in healing and treating people for centuries. When an individual is in a state of hypnosis, the practice of visualization can significantly intensify. Channeling the power of visualization and clearly focusing on your ultimate goals can help in pushing you toward a higher success rate in terms of accomplishments.

In regard to sports hypnosis, visualization is an empowering tool in terms of improving race times, making the game-winning shot, or increasing the amount of weight that one can bench press. While it can be difficult to ignore negative distractions during our daily lives, sports hypnosis serves to teach athletes how to enter a state of deep relaxation, and channel their willpower and concentration toward their ultimate goals. By eradicating the internal noise that so frequently tends to envelop us, we’ve given ourselves the power to control our own visions.

In addition to practicing visualization in relation to how one hopes to perform on the court or on the track, it can also be used on the sidelines. For those athletes plagued with injuries, visualizing the healing process can help to speed up treatment. For those athletes that may not receive a lot of playing time, visualizing how to improve performance may lead to more action.

Quite frequently within the world of sports, we’ll notice athletes shooting foul shots without a ball or taking golf swings without a club in hand. By utilizing these motions as a prop in the visualization process, the individual has already taken the initiative in achieving his or her ultimate goal: sinking the free throw and driving the ball. By preparing yourself with these motions, you’ve already experienced success within your mind’s eye.

By granting yourself the opportunity and ability to visualize or mentally rehearse the outcome of a sports-related scenario, you increase your chances of successfully achieving your goal. As long as you channel your efforts toward a clearly depicted mental image, then the outcome that you intend on experiencing is more likely to happen than if you had not mentally prepared for it. Instead of physically practicing a certain skill or routine, mental repetition also serves to train your mind and body. By aligning your physical goals with your mental goals, visualization can help an individual to build experience, confidence, and effective peak performance techniques.

Utilizing visualization in conjunction with the power of positive thinking can only improve your chances of success and enhance your peak performance levels. Visualization as an element of sports hypnosis can easily maximize both efficiency and effectiveness in regard to training, practice, and results.

Source by Jim Guerci