PHOENIX SPORTS HYPNOSIS

Pattie Freeman BCHT, MST, CI

MENTAL PERFORMANCE SKILLS TRAINER  

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How To Get In The ZONE

How to get in the zone with most sports athletes at some point in their career will talk about their biggest achievement by ‘being in the zone’. To some this is a phenomenon by getting in the zone and staying there is not as easy as most athletes would have hoped. Sport Hypnosis techniques and tools it will help you to enter the zone and stay there for extended periods of time.

In order to enter a zone-like state it is important to begin to trust and act on your instinctive feelings. How many times during a performance have you said to yourself ‘I knew that was going to happen’ and not acted on this foresight?

Top athletes who enter zone-like states regularly do so because they are prepared to let go, and act on their impulses without fear. They can do this just by putting themselves their automatically. This happens when the Body and the Mind work together and achieve what they set out to do through practicing visualization is a power of your imagination to create positive emotional state of mind.

By replaying this personal positive experiences encourages your mind to perform at it’s highest level. The brain does not distinguish between real and imagined events this is powerful to get your mind in the ZONE.

This strengthens your sense of focus and discipline that is required to perform well at the highest level of sport. By practicing with such intensity and commitment the brain is trained to work automatically under greater levels of pressure, allowing your instinct to take control

One thing I’ve learned from many top athletes establish routines as part of helping themselves get in “The Zone.

Some have said ” Every time I step into the batter’s box, even now in non-competitive situations, I always go in with the same routine.

The Zone” everything just feels right. They established routines that helped them feel confident, that helped them get into the right frame of mind to perform their best. These routines helped them get closer to being in “The Zone.”

The ability to concentrate is critical to successful performance in all sports—and it’s the basis for getting into the zone.

Great Athletes talk about being in the zone as a state of "flow, "being "in a bubble," or "in a cocoon" during which nothing can penetrate their focus. The zone is characterized by complete attention to the task at hand without the burden of self-imposed or external distractions.

During a game, a player's focus goes in and out with the flow of play and changes in Inning, quarters, periods. In sports, such as baseball, hockey, football or basketball, where you have a lot of "downtime" or inactivity, it's hard to maintain concentration because you have to turn your concentration on and off several times during the game. Concentration involves several elements, which include:

  • knowing the cues  
  • focus  
  • shift attention  
  • refocusing attention from distractions  
  • controlling the thought process

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