Hypnosis in Sport

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This paper looks at the growing awareness and recognition that hypnosis can be used to help athletes enhance athletic performance. The paper talks about some of the popular sports figures who say they have used hypnosis to help them achieve their successes in sports and reviews some of the literature available concerning the subject.

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"The popular media seems to have spent quite a bit of time covering hypnosis in sports, and a quick search of the Internet will reveal literally dozens, if not hundreds, of sites belonging to gurus promising greater sports achievement if one takes their self-hypnosis course. It has been suggested that Venus and Serena Williams use hypnosis to excel at tennis. Tiger Woods has stated that he uses imagery to perform his golf feats. Lesser-known athletes also claim greater results after hypnosis. Byron Wallien, who took one of the hypnosis courses offered online, said self-hypnosis helped him to win National Weight Lifting Championships and to break 11 weight-lifting records when he was 74 years old. Steve Born, a Race Across America participant, said that the self-hypnosis techniques he learned were his "secret weapon." (Jim Zinger Web site)"

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