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Hypnotherapists who enjoy working with athletes or who want to add sports psychology to their practices will cheer for Joseph Tramontana s Sports Hypnosis in Practice. Unlike other fine books that address hypnosis for a specific sport (like Tom Saunder s Golf) or a generic approach to hypnosis for all sports (like Edgette and Rowan s Winning the Mind Game), this book devotes individual chapters to specific sports, from gymnastics to rugby: Fifteen individual and team sports in all. The book opens with an overview of the literature on sports hypnosis and the emergence of sports psychology. The first chapter gives information on general considerations for the practitioner, such as introducing sports hypnosis to the client, tests of hypnotizability, hypnotic inductions, deepening, guided imagery, self-hypnosis, regression, reframing, and cognitive behavioral therapy. The subsequent chapters, on hypnotic approaches to specific sports, show practitioners that each sport has its own vocabulary and performance standards. The author writes from his own experience as a runner and as a hypnotherapist who has worked with many athletes; amateurs and professionals. Like Tramontana s Hypnotically Enhanced Treatment for Addictions, this book is highly readable with excellent case examples (many of which can be used as metaphors), hypnotic scripts, treatment strategies, and verbatim interviews with coaches and athletes about the psychology behind specific sports. A chapter on helping athletes recover from injury includes pain management, imagery for healing, and a hypnotic question-answer process for pinpointing the origin of psychosomatic illness. The final chapter on addictions and eating disorders in sports is as timely as today s sports headlines. This book hits a home run! --Judith E. Pearson, Ph.D. is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Master NLP Practitioner/Trainer
Anyone serious about hypnotic sport psychology will insist on having this book in their library. The chapters on working with the injured athlete returning to their sport and working with the addicted athlete are both unique and most valuable. Taking the information in this book and individualizing and tailoring it to the sportsperson actually sitting in front of you will garner great results! --John H Edgette PsyD, co-author of Winning the Mind Game and Director, The Milton H. Erickson Institute of Philadelphia,USA
An excellent read for sports psychologists, sports therapists and lovers of sport. Techniques that work are all backed up by a wealth of experience. --Aaron Surtees, Director, City Hypnosis
Anyone serious about hypnotic sport psychology will insist on having this book in their library. The chapters on working with the injured athlete returning to their sport and working with the addicted athlete are both unique and most valuable. Taking the information in this book and individualizing and tailoring it to the sportsperson actually sitting in front of you will garner great results! --John H Edgette PsyD, co-author of Winning the Mind Game and Director, The Milton H. Erickson Institute of Philadelphia,USA
An excellent read for sports psychologists, sports therapists and lovers of sport. Techniques that work are all backed up by a wealth of experience. --Aaron Surtees, Director, City Hypnosis
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This highly readable volume provides new strategies and scripts for hypnotherapists, sports counselors and sports psychologists working with athletes to help them achieve their peak performance. A major premise of the book is that the therapist does not necessarily need to be familiar with an athlete s particular sport or activity in order to serve as his or her mental coach . The athlete is instructed that the goal is not to improve the mechanics of their performance (that is left up to their coaches) but, rather, to help them to relax, concentrate and focus so that they fulfill their maximum potential. They learn not to let the mental side of their game trip up the physical side, but rather to enhance it. There are also chapters on returning from injury and addictions, which are often important factors in athletes careers. The book contains a number of case studies from a variety of sports where the author has worked successfully with athletes. In the case studies the author notes how surprised he was to learn that many clients have a vivid memory of the techniques he taught them, indicating just how important these techniques were to them.
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This is not a great book. The instruction is very basic. It really skims different sports and the author doesn't even appear to be very experienced in many of the areas that he is talking about. Quite why someone would feel that they are in a position to teach techniques when they openly admit in the book that they have only worked with a few clients in a particular sport is beyond me.
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If you are a hypnotist, this book could become very useful to you. If you aren't a hypnotist, this book will make it clear why hypnosis is emerging as such an important discipline in the 21st century. This book is so practical that I have been giving it to students in my hypnosis certification classes. While focused on sports hypnosis, it provides a practical guide to general hypnosis as well and will be useful to beginning hypnotists, seasoned professionals and hypnosis instructors.
The first chapter: Overview of Hypnotic Approaches with Athletes" could aptly have been titled: Overview of Hypnotic Approaches. Tramontana lays out hypnotic suggestibility tests, a variety of inductions and a format for multiple sessions, including suggested inductions and the stories, metaphors and suggestions that form hypnotic work.
As he unpacks the usefulness of hypnosis in a variety of sports settings, he begins with the solo sports, where the athlete is striving for personal best performances. He leads the way with golf, the ultimate "mind game". At anything beyond the beginner level, Golf is about 10% physical skill and 90% mental toughness. Tramontana addresses that with wit and wisdom. The case studies open up the field of potential golf clients. The hypnotic strategies have broad application beyond golf.
He takes readers through "Track and Field" competitors in the next chapter. He illustrates the benefit of hypnosis by talking about his own work with jumpers, runners and sprinters. That these too are mind games as much as physical capacity games he draws attention to the time when it was thought no-one could break the 4 minute mile. No one could, until Roger Bannister did. Then breaking 4 minutes became commonplace. When he shared the story of the young jumper who exceeded her previous personal best by several inches he shares that "...I came to believe that some athletes had never yet performed even close to their optimal level, so their peak performance has not yet been established..." he clarifies the value of hypnocoaching in all areas of life and work. Do you know your peak level of performance? I teach my clients that the only hindrances to their success are within. As a hypnocoach, I can tell you that most people have no idea what they are capable of achieving.
Gymnasts and cheerleaders are covered next. Sometimes fear gets in the way of performance and in this chapter he lays out ways of guiding clients to overcome their fears. Gymnasts must rely on the mental game in competition, and he shows how to use future progression as a part of hypnotic work. Equestrian leads the way toward the sports most are more accustomed to, football, baseball and basketball. If you are an athletic coach at any level you must read this book. Then reach out to a hypnotist in your area and allow your teams to find their peak performance levels.
He integrates some of his other specialty work as he shows how to deal with and overcome substance abuse and addictions using hypnosis.
This book also provides readers with a usefully annotated bibliography. "Sports Hypnosis in Practice" represents an advance in the literature of sports hypnosis.
The first chapter: Overview of Hypnotic Approaches with Athletes" could aptly have been titled: Overview of Hypnotic Approaches. Tramontana lays out hypnotic suggestibility tests, a variety of inductions and a format for multiple sessions, including suggested inductions and the stories, metaphors and suggestions that form hypnotic work.
As he unpacks the usefulness of hypnosis in a variety of sports settings, he begins with the solo sports, where the athlete is striving for personal best performances. He leads the way with golf, the ultimate "mind game". At anything beyond the beginner level, Golf is about 10% physical skill and 90% mental toughness. Tramontana addresses that with wit and wisdom. The case studies open up the field of potential golf clients. The hypnotic strategies have broad application beyond golf.
He takes readers through "Track and Field" competitors in the next chapter. He illustrates the benefit of hypnosis by talking about his own work with jumpers, runners and sprinters. That these too are mind games as much as physical capacity games he draws attention to the time when it was thought no-one could break the 4 minute mile. No one could, until Roger Bannister did. Then breaking 4 minutes became commonplace. When he shared the story of the young jumper who exceeded her previous personal best by several inches he shares that "...I came to believe that some athletes had never yet performed even close to their optimal level, so their peak performance has not yet been established..." he clarifies the value of hypnocoaching in all areas of life and work. Do you know your peak level of performance? I teach my clients that the only hindrances to their success are within. As a hypnocoach, I can tell you that most people have no idea what they are capable of achieving.
Gymnasts and cheerleaders are covered next. Sometimes fear gets in the way of performance and in this chapter he lays out ways of guiding clients to overcome their fears. Gymnasts must rely on the mental game in competition, and he shows how to use future progression as a part of hypnotic work. Equestrian leads the way toward the sports most are more accustomed to, football, baseball and basketball. If you are an athletic coach at any level you must read this book. Then reach out to a hypnotist in your area and allow your teams to find their peak performance levels.
He integrates some of his other specialty work as he shows how to deal with and overcome substance abuse and addictions using hypnosis.
This book also provides readers with a usefully annotated bibliography. "Sports Hypnosis in Practice" represents an advance in the literature of sports hypnosis.
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