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| 05 Oct 2009 08:33:57 pm |
 A Mind to Ride - Overcoming Competition Nerves (part 2) |
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Ooops! Sorry for the long delay in posting part 2. Hope you'll find it was worth the wait...
Here is the first (of seven) tried and tested strategies to help you manage your competition nerves-
Future Pacing
I think it was Linford Christie who described ‘future pacing’ when he said that he never ran a race he had not run many times before. He meant of course that he ran it through in his mind in the way in which he hoped to run it when he competed. If you want to use this technique to help you create those all-important positive perceptions of the competition environment, simply set yourself realistic goals and imagine yourself achieving them. Do this several times a day in the run-up to the competition, paying particular attention to the detail of what you will see, hear and feel when you get where you want to be.
Watch this space for the next strategy. In the meantime, A Mind to Ride is available worldwide - just click here for your copy! |
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Category : A Mind to Ride (for Horsey persons!)
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| 26 Jun 2009 10:16:55 am |
| A Mind to Ride - Overcoming Competition Nerves (part 1) |
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If you’re taking you're stressed out taking your horse to competitions, you’re not alone. Confidence isn’t a stable commodity (urgh!) and even the most experienced of riders suffer competition nerves. These can vary in severity from the odd butterfly suddenly deciding to strut its stuff in your stomach to absolute, downright debilitating fear.
Here’s what happens when you get nervous -
Your reaction to stress is largely generated by the so-called ‘Fight, Flight or Freeze’ response. This is part of our primitive emergency survival mechanism and many horse riders are astounded to discover that they are inadvertently adopting stone-age survival strategies that are often counter-productive in this space-age world.
· Fuel reserves are mobilised and sent to the brain and muscles. Extra oxygen is taken in to burn the fuel.
· Blood pressure and breathing rate increases making the heart beat faster
· Palms and feet get sweaty to give better grip (i.e. on spear or for climbing trees etc.)
· Blood is shunted away from the extremities, where it is not needed – also reduces blood loss in event of injury.
· Energy consuming digestive processes are closed down, including the production of saliva.
· Concentration improves. The pupils dilate to let in more light.
· If the situation becomes really life threatening, we may even vomit or defecate to make the body lighter and less appetising.
· Muscles under the skin partially contract so that hair stands on end to make us look larger and more threatening to potential predators
These physical and mental adaptations are brought about by chemical changes in the body. It is our perception of the challenge or threat that determines the cocktail of chemicals released and these in turn determine our emotional response. Contrary to popular belief, it is noradrenaline (not adrenaline) that gives rise to those lovely feelings of excitement and drive as well as physical strength. For this reason noradrenaline has been named the ‘kick’ or high performance hormone which in large amounts stimulates special areas in the brain that produce a feeling of pleasure. In contrast, the feelings and sensations associated with high levels of adrenaline are not pleasant – these are the ones generating the need to flee, leaving us overwhelmed, inadequate and afraid.
Watch this space! Part Two will give you some techniques to help manage your competition stress. In the meantime, A Mind to Ride is available worldwide - click here for your copy. |
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| 15 Feb 2009 08:01:45 pm |
| Presentation Skills |
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Hypnotherapy can be a great help to those who suffer presentation nerves. However, it cannot substitute effective preparation.
Top Ten Speaker Complaints
Here are the Top 10 Speaker Complaints – giving you some ideas perhaps of what to avoid 
(1) Speakers who read their notes
(2) Speakers who make no “connection “ with the audience
(3) Speakers who provide no or very sketchy documentation
(4) Speakers who either provide no slides, too many slides or slides which are too cramped, in small fonts or otherwise illegible
(5) Speakers who do not cover the points raised in the published programme
(6) Speakers whose presentations overlap
(7) Speakers who try and sell their services to the delegates (however subtly!)
(8 Speakers who run overtime, throwing the overall timing of the programme out
(9) Speakers who do not tailor their speech to the level of experience and needs of their audience
(10) Speakers who fail to appear at all!
You can contact me via www.theconsultingrooms.co.uk or by telephone on +44 (0)1278 784490. Personal consultations are available in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset which is easily accessible from Bristol, Bath and North Somerset, South Wales, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Devon. You will find me very close to the M5 junction 22 at Brent Knoll between Bridgwater and Weston-super-Mare. |
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Category : Personal Development
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| 14 Jan 2009 04:21:28 pm |
| Horses, Humans & Hypnosis - part 4 |
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Hypnosis for Horse Riders – Realising our Human Potential
I wrote my self-hypnosis audio CD, ‘Equinimity’ to help horse riders make the most of their human potential to overcome difficulties. Self-hypnosis is the ultimate self-help tool. It's versatile, safe, fast, simple, pleasant, effective, non-invasive and non-addictive. Nearly everyone can do it and it's stood the test of time - humans have been doing it for thousands of years! Best of all, it encourages self-sufficiency because it empowers us to use our own resources to help ourselves.
‘Equinimity’ will help you manage your horse riding experiences positively by better managing yourself and your emotions. It utilises the advantages of our natural trance state in two ways
1. It will help you to access your creative ability to find solutions to problems so that ideas, insights and constructive information become more readily available.
2. It will create an environment where you are able to accept positive and helpful suggestions without the restrictions ordinarily imposed by your conscious abilities and responses (as in “yeah but - it won’t work for me, I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to …….” for example!).
The effect is compounded because as you transform your cycle of negative thinking into a positive cycle
· Your positive beliefs give birth to a more positive attitude that in turn leads to more positive expectations.
· This expectation means that you start noticing when you behave differently and more positively and so you start to notice the small improvements
· The positive cycle continues because as you notice these improvements, so more positive beliefs will grow.
A Mind to Ride and my Equinimity Self-hypnosis audio CD are available worldwide. For more information you can contact me via www.theconsultingrooms.co.uk
or telephone +44 (0)1278 784490 |
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| 12 Dec 2008 03:17:43 pm |
| Horses, Humans & Hypnosis - part 3 |
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Humans and Hypnosis – A Natural Solution
Humans have an entirely natural ability to use hypnosis. Like the flight, fight or freeze response it’s part of our human inheritance. Although we must have always utilised trance states, the first records of humans deliberately using hypnotic phenomena date back about 4000 years to the Egyptian priest, Imhotep who used hypnosis in his ‘Sleep Temples’ and to the ancient Greeks who dedicated their ‘Sleep Temples’ to the healing god Æsclepius.
In spite of its early associations with sleep, hypnosis is not sleep – it’s a natural suspension of awareness somewhere on a continuum between wide-awake and fast asleep. Modern biofeedback methods show that when we use hypnosis, we slow our brainwaves from mostly beta to alpha and theta. The advantage of this, as the ancient civilisations discovered, is that the slower brainwaves create physiological and psychological changes that enhance our natural human resources. Alpha brain patterns for example are associated with an increase in the production of serotonin (the ‘molecule of happiness’) and theta brainwaves offer us potential for behavioural change along with heightened levels of learning, memory and creativity.
A Mind to Ride and my Equinimity Self-hypnosis audio CD are available worldwide. For more information you can contact me via www.theconsultingrooms.co.uk
or telephone +44 (0)1278 784490 |
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