Personalised hypnotherapy · Brentwood & online UK
Hypnotherapy for performance
In training it's there. On the day, something is half a beat behind. The same shot, the same pitch, the same room, and a version of you that is doing it slightly more carefully than it needs to.
It isn't nerves exactly. It's the gap between what you can do and what turns up when it counts.
Why it runs.
Under pressure the primitive brain takes the wheel, and it is fast but not precise. The thinking brain, which is where judgement, timing and perspective live, leads best when you are rested and the stress bucket is low. Most performance drop-off is not a skill problem, it is which part of you is driving on the day.
The whole picture is on the method: the primitive brain, the stress bucket, the polar bear, and sleep.
Your script.
You name the moment: the event, what changes in it, what you want available to you when it arrives. John builds a script around that and signs off every line before it reaches you. It lands in your library within days, in his voice, and you run it in the build-up, as reps, not as a one-off before the whistle. As the pattern shifts, the next one arrives.
your situation, your language, your script
The first weeks.
You start with the moment itself: the event, what changes in it, and what you want available to you when it arrives. Specific beats general here, so a named race, fixture or presentation is far more useful than wanting to perform better.
The script comes back within a few days in John's voice, and it is run as reps through the build-up rather than once before the whistle. Most of the value sits in the ordinary weeks beforehand. Treating it as a pre-event ritual is the most common way people get less from it than they could.
The check-in gives you a line across a training block. That is worth more than a feeling on the day, because performance gets judged on outcomes that plenty of other things also affect, and a line separates your state from the result.