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There has been a long history of hypnosis in sport, often used under different names such as mental or autogenic training. According to Les Cunningham in his well known book “Hypnosport”, during the 1978/79 tour of Australia, England cricket captain Mike Brearley consulted a medical hypnotherapist. In the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the Russian team took no less than 11 hypnotists. You don’t need to look too far in any sport to find great champions using hypnotic techniques to improve performance. The reason most of them don’t like to talk about it is because of the age-old myth that hypnosis is a magical power to make you do things. Athletes use all kinds of scientific technology to improve their performance including equipment, training advances, nutrition and even applied sports psychology which will usually include focusing and visualisation techniques for improvement.

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Hypnosis can help sports performance
You don’t have to be a champion to use hypnosis. Anyone can learn and perfect simple, self-hypnosis techniques for:

Mental imagery and future rehearsal of success (including effective techniques from areas like NLP)
Focusing on success, strategy (how to get into the success zone when you need to)
Overcoming mental blocks and barriers
Reinforcing self-belief, motivation and positive thinking
The largest percentage of sports people coming to visit hypnotherapists tends to be those wishing to improve at golf. However, hypnosis can be equally useful with all kinds of individual and competitive sports. The greatest of champions and athletes also tend to be the ones who have learned to think successfully, they have mastered the psychology of their individual sport.

A few extra pounds are not overweight. However, it may indicate a tendency in gain weight easily and a need for changes in diet and/or exercise. Generally a child is not considered overweight until the weight is at least 10 percent higher than what is recommended for the height and body type. Weight gain most commonly begins in childhood between the ages of 5 and 6 and during adolescence. Studies have shown that a child who is overweight between the ages of 10 and 13 has an 80 percent chance of becoming an overweight adult.

The causes of weight gain are comlex and include genetic, biological, behavioral, and cultural factors. Weight gain occurs when a person eats more calories than the body burns up. If one parent is overweight, there is a 50 percent chance that the children also will be overweight (1). However, when both parents are overweight, the children have an 80 percent chance of being overweight. Weight gain in childhood and adolescence can be related to:

* Poor eating habits (see the article all in the Family)
* Lack of exercise (see the article Play station Generation: Childhood Obesity)
* Family history of overweight
* Medical illness
* Medications
* Stressful life events or changes
* Family and peer problems
* Low self-esteem
* Depression or other emotional problems

Health risks are associated with weight gain. Some of the risks include:
* increased risk of heart disease
* High blood pressure
* Diabetes
* breathing problems
* Trouble sleeping

Child and adolescent weight gain also is associated with increased risk of emotional problems. Teens with weight problems tend to have much lower self-esteem and be less popular with their peers. Depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder also can occur.

If the child does not have any medical conditions the only way to alleviate overweight issues is to reduce calories and exercise. Some ways for parents to assist children with overweight issues include:

* increase physical activity and have a more active lifestyle
* change eating habits
* plan meals and make better food selections and avoid junk food
* control portions and consume fewer calories
* monitor what children eat in school
* eat meals as a family around a table with conversation, instead of while watching television or at the computer
* do not use food as a reward
* limit snacking
* Exercise with your kids
* play games as a family (i.e. basketball, soccer, etc.)

When an overweight child or adolescent also has emotional problems, a hypnotherapist and personal trainer. can work with the child’s family and child to develop a plan of action, Such a plan would include reasonable weight loss goals, dietary and physical activity management, behavior modification, and family involvement, Parents of an overweight child can improve their child’s self-esteem by emphasizing the child’s strengths and positive qualities rather than just focusing on his/her weight problem.

1. American Academy of child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Fact’s for Families

The mind is a powerful organ. Majority of the time, many individuals do not know the potential and capabilities that the mind can produce. Hypnosis is a technique that can be used to tap into those abilities and capabilities.

Little Known Facts

 Hypnosis is a cooperative venture between two people-not something one person does to another
 Fewer than 1 out of 20 people are not susceptible
 Trance is not like on-off switch. People enter trance gradually and experience different levels of trance. A person in a deeper level of trance is more likely to accept suggestions than one who is in a light trance or not in a trance.