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Subject: What We Teach Them
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Focused Guided imagery has been successfully used for years to help students improve their grades.
With Focused Guided Imagery, the student is taught, in their subconscious mind, how to focus and concentrate powerfully on the situation at hand. To accomplish this, the individual must be guided into relaxing their bodies and concentrating and focusing all their attention on the way that their mind works.
Just like bodies can be built through exercise and nutrition, the power of the mind can be strengthened.
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Our sessions last about 3 hours and are broken down into 45 minute segments. Most clients tell us they don’t notice anything different at all when they leave the session. Others say, they just went to sleep and don’t remember anything. Perfect! The reality is, their conscious minds and their bodies were relaxed but their subconscious minds heard every suggestion of how, if they will allow, they can master the secret of learning. At that point, the positive seeds have been planted and if watered, fertilized and placed in the sun, they will grow.
Focused Guided Imagery teaches a person to focus and concentrate and, like physical exercise in the gym, the more you exercise the mind, the stronger and easier it becomes to be focused and to powerfully concentrate on the tasks at hand. In Focused Guided Imagery, the student will learn how to concentrate and focus and their grades will improve. We guarantee it!
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| Focused Guided imagery has been used for years to help athletes improve their concentration and focus during competition. Athletes train their bodies to react automatically to situations they face. Athletes do this by practicing physical repetition. Bobby Knight, the winningest men’s basketball coach in NCAA history, once said, “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” In other words, an athlete’s success is mostly controlled by his mind. Guided Imagery helps athletes improve their mindset and concentration, as well as helping to intensify focus.
An easy example of this is tying our shoes. When we were children, we could not tie our shoes. We learned to tie our shoes by repetition, and by thinking about what we were doing at the time. As we continued to repeat the process, we got better and better until we tied our shoes without thinking about it.
This is an example of what we call Muscle Memory. Concentration and focus are imperative since it is the same action repeated over and over. Anyone can induce muscle memory by repeating the same motions until the action becomes automatic. Just like tying our shoes, we no longer think about the action, we just do it.
Muscle memory helps us perform certain tasks without really thinking about them. In Focused Guided Imagery, we teach you to build muscle memory and to repeat the same action over and over in your mind. Your mind does not know the difference between the actual action and just thinking about the action.
A perfect example in sports is foul shooting in basketball. The reason many athletes have trouble with foul shots is because the intense pressure can cause a player to lose focus. Unlike a jump shot, where the shooter catches and releases the ball often in less than a second, free throws require a player to stop and think about the task they are about to perform. Football coaches sometimes use this technique when they call a timeout before the opposing team attempts a field goal. The theory is that the extra time will cause the kicker to over-think an action he has performed literally thousands of times. Focused Guided Imagery helps that same player bring himself into focused concentration, allowing muscle memory to take over.
Hitters in baseball are also a tremendous testimony to the effects of Focused Guided Imagery on athletes. By using Focused Guided Imagery, hitters can set the strike zone in their mind. This allows a hitter to eliminate or significantly reduce the number of bad pitches he swings at. When a hitter decides where the best pitches are in the strike zone, he is more likely to hit the ball.
Let me share with you another success story. A year and a half ago I worked with a young man who suffered a very painful back injury as a teenager and had lived with that pain for more than a decade. He was forced to decline a college football scholarship because of the pain. He knew his quality of life was in jeopardy when sitting up in bed and standing up to make breakfast was excruciatingly painful.
I spent several days working with this young man after I learned of his problem. Again that was a couple of years ago. I have since learned that young man has run two marathons and today, he has very little discomfort in his back.
Now, rather than using hypnosis for sports performance enhancement, I use Focused Guided Imagery. The two are different and I have found FGI works best for needs such as improving school grades, stress reduction and athletic excellence. On the other hand, I use Hypnosis mainly for the elimination of pain, preparation for surgery and any other problems needing very deep hypnosis.
Elijah “Kirk” Kirkpatrick, CHT
Certified by:
International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association
International Association of Counselors and Therapists
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