Your mental state can play a huge part in your sports performance. No matter how many times you’ve practiced an aspect of your sport, it’s easy to get in your own head and mess it up. Athletes are known to be hard on themselves, and once they mess up once, it’s sometimes tough for them to shake it off immediately and do better the next time around. Hypnotherapy can help relax your mind and take you back out of your own head, so you can get back to playing like you’re used to.
Practice and physical conditioning are huge parts of normal sports regimens and are implemented to make sure the athlete stays in good shape. However, adding a mental aspect to training can increase the gains even further. If an athlete can train themselves to get “in the zone” during practices, it will be easier for them to get there during the game. This mental training can greatly increase confidence, consistency, and ability in the athlete.
Pam Greenberg is a certified hypnotherapist and life coach. She specializes in hypnotism for weight loss, smoking cessation, sports performance, immune diseases and cancer, and she is certified in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Her office is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (SC), but she also proudly serves the entire Low Country area, including Charleston, Isle of Palms, and Sullivan's Island.