Olympic Gold for Hypnosis

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Permalink Reply by Doreen Cohanim C.Ht on August 22, 2008 at 6:12pm

Thanks :)

Doreen

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Permalink Reply by Bonnie Pierce on August 22, 2008 at 7:20pm

Thank you so much for sharing this article. There was one last Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle about hypnosis and skeet shooting. I collect articles like this for my self-hypnosis classes, and photo copy them, placing them in a folder for each student, along with other handouts and information.

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig - HypnosisAustin on August 22, 2008 at 7:53pm

Thank you for sharing this.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on August 22, 2008 at 7:58pm

Rayma Ditson-Sommer is a sports psychologist who runs a training facility in Phoenix, Arizona. Many Olympic and pro athletes come to her facility to use her hypnosis protocols combined with her color and sound programs. Her Olympic athletes brought home 17 gold and silver medals from the 2004 Olympics. She won' t know until the games are over how many medals her hypno athletes will bring home this time. The swimmer who almost beat Michael Phelps was one of her athletes who was using her hypnosis programs combined with the use of specially colored glasses and sounds. And the two female beach volleyball players who won the gold medals were hers also. Hypnosis is alive and well in big time athletics.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on August 22, 2008 at 7:59pm

One of my success stories was a 16 year old top seeded youth skeet shooter. He made it to the top...

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on August 22, 2008 at 8:00pm

I have worked with many professional and semi-pro athletes. Please post links to any of these stories of athletes using hypnosis... thanx!

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Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on August 22, 2008 at 8:14pm

Sorry. I don't have links. I talked with Rayma today and found out some of the accomplishments of the athletes using her hypnosis protocols and color/sound gizmos. There were others but these were the 2 I remembered. She is a member of IMDHA so I imagine she will post on those bulletin boards when the results are all in. I'll try to remember to watch for them and post it here.

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Permalink Reply by Alan117 on August 22, 2008 at 8:16pm

athletes using hypnosis, what else is new?.

this homepage woulda suffice tho.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/athletics/hooker-in-pole-position-aft...

or did you had to type it up manually from the paper? in that case props to you.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on August 22, 2008 at 8:29pm

I've helped several amateur athletes go pro, mostly in golf and billiards. This summer concludes my latest golfer's first full year on the pro tour circuit. He was on the college golf team and his coach sent him over because he would always lead on the first 9 by as many as 5 strokes and would always lose it on the back 9. He got such good results that he quit college, tried out and made the pro circuit. This summer will conclude his first full year on the pro tour. He tells me he still listens to the CD's we made for him every night.

When my daughter was competing with her horses, she used self hypnosis to focus in the show ring. She placed #2 in the World in 2004 on a horse she had only been training for 6 months. She went back to the world championships in 2007 with a horse she had only been riding for 90 days and got 3rd on him. Yes, she's talented but she had the advantage of self hypnosis so she was not nervous or anxious. She was totally focused on her performance in the ring so that nothing else existed. As a result, even though her competitors had more experience than she did and certainly had more expensive and better trained horses she simply out performed them due to lack of distractions. She puts herself in a trance when she enters the show ring and re-alerts when she comes out of the ring.

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Permalink Reply by James Klingensmith on August 22, 2008 at 8:49pm

I would like to see more articles if your willing to share.

Here is a good one about Iron Mike

http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/boxing/articles/2005/05/2...

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-11-tyson-mcbride_x.htm

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Permalink Reply by Daryl Wilkinson on August 22, 2008 at 10:13pm

Yes Alan117, there is nothing new in this. (Yawn?) I have been doing it for many years, runners, golfers, divers etc. It is one of the mainstays of my practice. It is nice to see someone get gold though and it is nice for hypnosis to get a good rap rather than the negative press we often get. Thank you for posting the link direct to the AGE. The reason I made a copy is that The Age has the habit of removing articles, sometimes within hours, and then asking you to pay for access to their archives. I didn't want to post a dead link.

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