Category: Fitness and health

1. Hypnotherapy for sports performance

   Posted on 12:25pm Wednesday 12th Jul 2017

   How do I use Hypnotherapy to improve my sports performance?

   

   When you watch top sports people and athletes it is easy to see that they need coaching to help them with the physical side of their performance. What you may not realise is how important their mental attitude is towards how well they compete.

   Hypnosis can really help with sports success..it doesn't take very long to learn how to help yourself.

    

   Did you ever wonder about how hypnosis could improve your success with your own sports performance?

    

   There is more research than you may realise into how looking ahead and visualising how you want to perform makes it so much more likely to happy.

   Regularly giving yourself a chance to imagine a detailed visualisation of the exact moves you want to make will increase the likelihood of this happening in reality. We always get more of what we think about.

   Rather than thinking.. “I can’t score that goal”, or “I will never putt that golf ball” you can learn to visualise yourself doing exactly what you really want. The more you imagine it the more it is likely to happen for you.

   All the psychological coaching that top sports players have can mean the difference between winning and losing. It's not just football and golf either. Even darts players have seen me for help with their arrows!

    

   It’s not just the things you think about.

    

   Another aspect that you may not think about at first, is that you can also learn to keep your emotions in check when you are taking part in sport.

    This includes finding a way to manage nerves and performance anxiety but can also be about learning how to manage temper or frustration when things don’t go your way.

   "The ball was in!"

   There’s much less shouting in tennis nowadays that in the old days of John McEnroe. He may have been unable to control his temper but you can learn to control yours.

   If things go wrong for you then you can learn to use this to help you focus and see how you can get the game back on track. Instead of falling apart you can regain your focus and start to see what you can do to help you get where you want to be. It is all about letting go of the negative an looking for the positive.

    

   Hypnotherapy for sports performance can make a real difference. From helping with a golf swing that feels like it is going wrong, to aiming for the back of the football net with more accuracy, to snooker balls that you can see being potted rather than missing, hypnosis can really help you.

    

   Sporting people can find that learning how hypnosis can help means that you increase and maintain your self-belief and confidence. The confidence to get what you want can make all the difference.

    

   If you are looking for help you can email me on [email protected]

2. Can Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy help Tinnitus sufferers?

   Posted on 12:00pm Wednesday 12th Jul 2017

   Hypnosis for Tinnitus

   

   You may not be aware that you can use hypnotherapy to help you with the stress that can be caused when you suffer with tinnitus. Here’s some information all about how this could help you to let go off the stress and anxiety that suffering from tinnitus can cause.

   What is tinnitus?

   Tinnitus is a condition characterised by the sounds of ringing, buzzing, whistling, humming, hissing or other noises in one or both ears.

   Statistics show that in 10 people will experience mild tinnitus at some point in their lives.

   It can be caused by loud music, or riding a motorcycle without earplugs, working in a loud environment, but can also occur naturally even if you do not experience any of those reasons. The sound you hear can be continuous or intermittent and may vary in volume. It's a relatively common condition and can occur at any age.

   The first thing to do is see your GP or other healthcare professional.

    It’s always important you seek advice from your doctor to see if there is an underlying cause that can be treated, such as an ear infection or a buildup of earwax. They can remove this earwax for you, or you can visit a private clinic like Specsavers who will remove the earwax and check your hearing for you.

   The most common type of tinnitus problems that people experience are in the form of high-pitched sounds. A ringing in the ears can be the first sign. This can come and go for you.

   
   Fortunately, tinnitus is rarely a sign of a more serious underlying condition. The biggest problem can come from the stress that you feel form having it, and that is where hypnotherapy comes in to help.

   What can cause Tinnitus?
   It can be caused by loud music or sounds from machinery if you are working. As someone who rides a motorbike, I know that I always wear earplugs, because the noise and wind could cause me problems otherwise.

   

   Everyone has a different experience in the way they are affected by tinnitus...

   Some people will only occasionally experience the ringing symptoms and so find that tinnitus can be easier to live with, whilst others may experience a constant ringing of loud noises, and hearing this all day, every day. If you find yourself in this position it can have a very detrimental effect on your quality of life. The stress and anxiety, and anger that you may feel can in fact make it worse for you.
   
   This can even lead to feelings of frustration, fear and underlying anger.

   Hypnotherapy for tinnitus..    

   Once you have seen your Doctor and been checked out then you may find that it is a good time to look at how hypnosis can help tinnitus symptoms.
   
   Hypnosis for tinnitus is an increasingly popular form of tinnitus treatment, which can greatly improve your quality of life.

    

   How does Hypnotherapy for tinnitus work?

   One of the things that we will look at is how your experience of tinnitus affects your everyday life. If you are finding that you are stressed, anxious or even angry about it then we can start to teach you ways to switch off.

   This can even help you if you are suffering from insomnia. It is common to have sleepless nights if you are lying awake feeling annoyed at the sounds you can hear.
   
   I generally also make sure that I record any hypnosis that we do. This way you can listen at home as often as you want and it can really help you to learn to let go sooner rather than later.

   You can email me on [email protected] if you would like to find out about booking an appointment to work with me to help you if you are suffering with tinnitus.