Fear of failure

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Permalink Reply by Art Long CHt. Traditional Doctor on July 30, 2009 at 9:15am

Over 40 years now I have been training Olympic and World championship athletes, strength and motivation including hypnosis. At one stage I had 11 World Champions Hypnotherapy help not only overcome fear but to perform at 120% effort by taking away the restrictions of judgmental critical brain...Art Long CHt

Permalink Reply by Fredrik on August 5, 2009 at 9:05pm

Thank you very much for your reply. I feel that I remove the restrictions of the judgmental critical brain every time I put my clients into trance - then I wonder if the trick is to get them to relax into a light trance when it is time for the race?

Or would you suggest that I work on their fear of failure while the critical judgemental brain is "switched off"?



Art Long CHt. Traditional Doctor said:

Over 40 years now I have been training Olympic and World championship athletes, strength and motivation including hypnosis. At one stage I had 11 World Champions Hypnotherapy help not only overcome fear but to perform at 120% effort by taking away the restrictions of judgmental critical brain...Art Long CHt

Permalink Reply by Art Long CHt. Traditional Doctor on October 13, 2009 at 7:31pm

Fear of failure can easily be overcome by the thought of "I can" rather than that of teh judgmental brain saying "I can't" once the thought of success is in the subconscious a person does not doubt their abilities as the argument occurs with the brain that everything they need do can be done, I have been using this for 40 years now and have had uncountable World Champions as a result.

Permalink Reply by light sleeper on November 4, 2009 at 9:43am

Strengthen the thoughts/feelings associated with the success.
Build in a reward system that suits your client. (move toward for athletes)

Permalink Reply by Fredrik on November 4, 2009 at 4:44pm

Thanks Lightsleeper, but I don't fully understand what you mean by "Move towards".

light sleeper said:

Strengthen the thoughts/feelings associated with the success.
Build in a reward system that suits your client. (move toward for athletes)

Permalink Reply by light sleeper on November 5, 2009 at 8:26am

Generally Fredrik, I have found that, elite athletes tend to have more of a ..." move toward a positive end result" motivational strategy.