What's the best way to master using mental imagery for sports?

Can imagining yourself doing your sport or exercise really well make a detectable difference to your performance?

These questions probably go round and round in your head when you think about how to improve at a sport or exercise. You've probably heard about talented sportsmen and women using visualisation to help themselves get better at what they do, but it's not so easy to pin down exactly what it is that they do.

But let's start with the second question first. Does it make a difference?

Does mental imagery make a difference in sports?

The answer is pretty unequivocal. Yes it does. Thanks to modern brain scanning technology, changes in brain activity when you actively imagine doing something can be monitored, and matched to what happens when you do something as opposed to imagine doing it.

Researchers have found that repeated mental imaging over time can even trigger significant muscle growth.

And, of course, many highly successful sportspeople testify to the value of mental rehearsal. Nobody claims that you can just use your imagination and not bother with physical training.

But when you combine your physical training with targeted visualisation, you give yourself the best opportunity to really improve.

So what about the first question?

How hypnosis can help you quickly master mental rehearsal

Mental Imagery for Sports is an audio hypnosis session that takes all the effort out of figuring out what to do and remembering what to do next.

You just sit back and listen and surrender yourself to the powerful hypnotic suggestions that have been crafted to allow you to quickly and easily master the art of hypnotic rehearsal in your chosen field.

As you repeatedly listen and relax to your session, you'll notice that you

• quickly become adept at entering a deeply relaxed and focused state (the best learning state, in fact)

• learn how to learn from yourself and use your knowledge to your future benefit

• can more and more easily picture the process that you want to be going through and connect with the tiniest aspect of that process

• master the simple yet powerful technique that 'triggers' the particular performance 'quality' you want

• successfully combine your physical training and practice with your mental efforts to take your sport or exercise to new levels