CEH299

Two Week / Four Night Training

Classes Start June 1 - 10 Tuesdays and Thrusdays

6 - 8 PM

at OTC

6:00 - 8:30 PM

$59.

Use the summer season to get a grip on your mental game in order to utilize your physical game to full effect. Learn the essential elements of maintaining a winners mentality. Map out your athletic goals to self-direct your sports future. Learn power visualization and “in the zone” techniques that turbo charge your sports performance.

Call to register today:

Ozarks Technical Community College

Continuing Education Center

www.otc.educontinuinged

(417)447-8888

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you’d like to win but you think you can’t,
It’s almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will -
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you’re outclassed, you are;
You’ve got to think high to rise;
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battle doesn’t always go
To stronger or faster men;
But sooner or later the man who wins,
Is the one who thinks he can.

Lake Country Soccer along with Total Demize Soccer Club will be hosting The Coca Cola/Dr. Pepper Cup on April 11 and 12, 2010.

Get out and support these young athletes during this tournament. They coming to Springfield from all over the state and from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Here is a link for additional information.

http://www.lakecountrysoccer.org/Tournaments/lcsfriendship.htm

This is a great place to see sports psychology in action. Watch the kids as they reach their goals, exhibit self-confidence, play in The Zone, and achieve success.

The mind game continues whether you are running on your own two feet or if you are running a finely tuned motor vehicle. Either way, the body needs to respond in a rehearsed and consistent manner.

Recently I worked with a gentleman who loves drag racing. Outside of work, his family recreation revolves around the cars he builds and the races he runs. Even his kids are into the sport.

Winning at drag racing involves lightening fast reflexes and total concentration. After all, the average race lasts all of 8 seconds!

Using Mental Conditioning helped this racer to improve his response time and hone his focus to a razor sharp edge - just the edge needed to bring home the prize money and build his points.

During his sessions using imagery and visualization, we concentrated on increasing speed off the “Christmas Tree” and greater awareness surrounding his time over the line. And, since a drag racer can spend stressful minutes waiting in a line-up for their event to begin, he learned to control his thoughts prior to the start of the race.

There are many skills to be learned by the athlete who wants to achieve peak performance. Sometimes even the simplest skill - learning to breathe - aids in reducing negative stress and boost eustress (the good stress) that helps during competitive situations.

Racers of all denominations can throttle up to peak performance by getting their mental game in full gear.

Four Week Training

Classes Start February 23 at OTC

6:00 - 8:30 PM

Use the winter season to get a grip on your mental game in order to utilize your physical game to full effect. Learn the essential elements of maintaining a winners mentality. Map out your athletic goals to self-direct your future. Learn power visualization and “in the zone” techniques that turbo charge your sports performance.

Call to register today:

Ozarks Technical Community College

Continuing Education Center

www.otc.educontinuinged

(417)447-8888

For additional information contact:

Jo Moon

(417)848-7946

Recently I was working with a 12 year old Springfield skater. He knew exactly which college team he wanted to play with and where he wanted his pro hockey career to go. His problem was that he would get so excited he was always jumping the gun and losing focus. We targeted his Mental Conditioning training around energy management/conservation and mental focus. The results have been exciting.

His coach is delighted with the change in his on-ice performance and his parents keep exclaiming about the improvement in his school grades. When students learn skills that help them in one area of their life such as sports, they usually carry these success techniques into all aspects of their life.

Professional Caliber Athletes Succeed Using Mental Conditioning.

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For runner Lee Evans, a famous 400-meter Olympic champion and world-record holder, success involved visualizing every stride of his race. His strategy was to seek-out and correct weaknesses in every stride he made on the track. Evans perfected his form in his mind, and then accomplished the same feat on the track. With the use of dual conditioning and a powerful ability to focus entirely on each stride of every single race, Evan’s became a true champion.

At the 2006 Junior Olympics in Baltimore, Maryland — Shelby Kennard, (a freshman) set the high school record of 12′ 6″ on her first jump. Shelby said, “I used to get frustrated while training, especially during meets. I definitely was not meeting my potential. When I added Mental Conditioning to my training, I began improving fast. I still listen to sessions on my IPOD before every meet to relax and focus during competition. It also helps with taking tests and my school work, which is an added bonus.”

Angela Bailey, three time Olympian, Olympic Medalist, and an internationally recognized advocate of drug free sports said, “Before I was an Olympic Medalist, I was overwhelmed by fear and doubt. But I was determined to achieve my dreams. Then I discovered hypnosis, and the rest is history.”

Boxer Ken Norton attributed his world-famous victory over Mohammed Ali in part, to the addition of sports hypnosis to his rigorous physical training program.

Wayne Gretsky used Mental Training for the edge it gave him, enabling him to become one of greatest hockey players in the world.

Mental Conditioning Increases Focus And Concentration While Helping To Black-Out Distractions.

Tiger Woods has a definitive edge - his personal Coach, Jay Brunza, is a trained and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. Brunza has been working with Tiger Woods for years. There is no question that Tiger Wood’s great golfing performances have been greatly impacted by the Mental Conditioning techniques he has learned and uses every day.

Jack Nicklaus is well known for coining the phrase, “Golf is a game of inches and the most important are the 7 inches between your ears.” Three of the best golfers in the world, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino have all made use of Mental Conditioning techniques to improve their play, avoid distractions and help them play every single hole of each game “in the zone.”

Elite basketball champion, Michael Jordan is yet another example of how Mental Conditioning has powerfully effected and improved his sports performance. Phil Jackson (who re-joined the Los Angeles Lakers as head coach on June 14, 2005) is the NBA’s career leader in playoff victories and playoff winning percentages. Jackson has won nine NBA titles, tying Red Auerbach for the most all-time.

Jackson insists that the Chicago Bulls practiced daily Mental Conditioning techniques when he coached Michael Jordan and the Bulls to their 6 NBA Championships. Later, after coaching the Los Angeles Lakers to a win in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals in 2002, Jackson credited his morning practice of Mental Conditioning with giving the Lakers the belief they could win - so they did.

Perhaps one of the most famous examples of the benefits of Mental Conditioning for an athlete is the story of Rod Carew, one of American baseballs finest. Carew had suffered a serious injury, which while technically healed, left him with pain and an elevated sense of self-doubt. A sports hypnotist was consulted. Carew began sessions. In a very short time, Carew came back and had the best season of his career, with a batting score of almost .400. He went on to win the MVP Award that same year.

Major league baseball players such as George Brett and Damion Easley have both made use of Mental Conditioning or sports hypnosis to improve their performances.

The entire 1983 Chicago White Sox team used Mental Conditioning to help them win their division and reach the playoffs that year.

Famous tennis player, Jimmy Connors, used Mental Training to win the U.S. Open Championship.

“My visualization has been refined more and more as the years go on. That is what really got me the world record and Olympic medals. I see myself swimming the race before the race really happens, and I try to be on the splits. I concentrate on attaining the splits I have set out to do. About 15 minutes before the race I always visualize the race in my mind and “see” how it will go. You are really swimming the race. You are visualizing it from behind the block. In my mind, I go up and down the pool, rehearsing all parts of the race, visualizing how I actually feel in the water.” Alex Bauman, Olympic Champion.

In the 1988 Seoul Summer Games, the power of sports hypnosis on focus and performance was displayed beautifully when Olympic diver Greg Louganis hit his head on the board while performing a complicated dive during the 3 Meter Final. In what is considered one of the greatest feats in sporting history, Louganis, his head gushing blood, had the wound treated (while he put earphones on to listen to his Mental Conditioning tapes.) Amazingly, Louganis then went out to score a perfect dive the second time, earning him enough points to win the gold medal.

Most athletes have and it usually isn’t any fun. Sport coaches are known for their loud, intimidating voices and immediate verbal corrections of a player’s most recent screw-ups. And, to make athletes feel embarrassed in hopes of changing their play, some coaches scream at their athletes inviting the whole world to see and hear their dissatisfaction with a particular player.

Does this effect their game? You bet it does. Athletes take coaching to heart. Depending on their personality type, some are able to shake off the negativity, correct their game and score, but other athletes hear the accusations and actually get worse.

Recently, I worked with a collegiate softball player here in Springfield, Missouri. Every time she got up to bat, her coach would scream at her if she hit out of bounds. She admitted she often hit way to the right but hated the way coach always pointed it out. The coach would scream at her in dismay, “You hit out to the right again! Stay focused.”

Often, when the girl approached the batter’s box, she would hear her coach scream, “Do it right!” She would try her best, but more often than not, the ball would go out of bounds to the right. Slump, rut, call it what you want - this player hit to the right and began to loose her confidence.

Finally, she came for Mental Conditioning sessions to retrain and regain her self-confidence. She knew she was a good, solid player and had been a peak performer in high school. This player spoke about how she used to frequently feel that she was in the zone when playing and how valuable she was to her varsity team. She had simply lost it in college.

So, what was going on with her?

Literally, she took her coach’s words to heart. Coach’s words went directly into her subconscious and played themselves out perfectly. You see, when a person is in a stressed condition (competitive play) and hear power statements from an authority figure (coach) the ideas/concepts can literally go deep into the subconscious uncensored. What the subconscious hears and acts upon is “You, hit to the right again.” “Stay focused.”  “Do it right.” And what did this player do? She stayed focused, played right, and hit to the right again and again and again. Did she do it consciously - no. She was simply acting unconsciously on the ideas accidentally implanted during practice and games.

We spent time working on mental toughness to rebuild self-confidence. Then, we focused on refocusing the negative programming of the coach’s reinforcement of her as being an out-of-bounds hitter to the right. This gal spent spent all of her time focusing on what she didn’t want - sending the ball out of bounds to the right - that she never thought of what she did want out of her game. We created power visualizations and affirmations that she used outside of practice and just before her games.

In a matter of days, by learning new mental skills, her game changed. She wasn’t hitting out of bounds to the right anymore - she actually started hitting home runs with the ball flying high across the field and out of the park!

By learning the 5 essential skills for achieving a Winner’s Mentality, she used her Mental Conditioning for Athletes training to achieve lasting success in her favorite sport. These skills will not only serve her well in sports, but they carry over into all other aspects of her life and career. It never hurts to be mentally tough.

Jo with Bob Reese

Bob, after retiring from the NFL as a trainer for the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets went on to receive his PhD in psychology. He is a Success Coach, Educator, and Peak Performance Specialist.

The system that I learned from Bob teaches the Winner’s Mentality system for Enduring Success.

I searched around for more information on this story and here is what I found:

The winning athlete is 26 year old Australia’s Steve Hooker who set a new Olympic record. Steve learned to use mental conditioning prior to the games.

Apparently, Hooker was so spooked of vaulting he used hypnosis to overcome his fears.

A hypnotherapist reversed Steve Hooker’s fear of pole vaulting a several years ago and his success was visible on Friday when he succeeded in achieving Olympic gold.

After the Athens Olympics five years ago, Hooker started mental conditioning sessions and used hypnotherapy to help overcome his fears. He learned visualization techniques and had imagined himself vaulting in the Bird’s Nest leading into the 2008 Games. “I felt like that kind of stuff was cool.”

Hooker told an Australian news paper that he nearly stopped vaulting in 2001. He threw tantrums in training and was not fully dealing with the mental aspect of the tough discipline.”

“I would run through a lot and not take off and it got to the point, by the end of it I thought about giving it in. It was so mentally draining going to training not knowing if I would be able to jump or not.

“I was throwing poles, cracking tantrums, I was in a miserable bad mood. Your whole life, it really brings it down when it’s really what you want to do and you can’t do it just because it’s not clicking in your brain,” Hooker said.

Hypnotism and visualization techniques brought Hooker back into alignment.

“I would talk to her at the start of the session and say, ‘I want to talk about lowering the pole vault in my last couple of steps and jumping off the ground.’ I would tell her the cues I wanted to work on, so she’d work it into the things that she was saying while I was under hypnosis.”

Hooker said, “The more you do it the more you realize pole vault is mental. Just having any sort of mental stimulation, where you are thinking deeply about what you’re doing, helps.”

“I feel like I have that self confidence now, where I can stand at the end of the runway, I know basically what’s going to happen as soon as I start my run-up,” Hooker said.