Using a mechanical release can be challenging; sometimes those challenges have nothing to do with the actual release or body mechanics. Certain personality traits may contribute to a release going off prematurely.
The first one would be anxiety. If you are an anxious person, you may find yourself so distracted by the uncomfortable anxious feeling that you can’t hold the shot long enough to properly aim and settle in. Even if you don’t suffer from anxiety in your day to day, you can have anxiety about competition or performance that will produce the same effect.
The second one is impatience. Some people are more patient than others; those of you who don’t seem to have a lot of patience will find that shooting mechanical release may be difficult. Because we all know the proper way to execute a mechanical release is to wait for it to go off. If you are always in a hurry, this may be challenging.
The third one is control. If you're that person that always needs to govern over every moment of your life, you may not get to the level of accuracy that is needed to be competitive through command shooting the release. Although there are some people who have seemed to master this technique, they do it because they have no choice the only way they can execute the releases is by a method of complete control. They’ve adapted to their lack of options.
So what do we do? Everything I’ve mentioned above seems unfixable. People seem to accept these types of behaviors by saying that's just how I shoot and then go on to manage it in all types of different ways. A quick example of this is having four releases in your pouch just to manage an anxiety problem.
Everything I have mentioned can be changed through hypnosis. The three examples I mentioned are learned behavior not part of your personality. Somewhere along the way, you adopted these behaviors for one reason or another. We are not born inpatient, anxious or needing to control everything. These are byproducts of experiences from the past. Most of these concepts are adopted in your early days. This is why you think it’s part of your personality because you’ve always been that way as long as you can remember.
Reasons for these behaviors are usually different for everyone. All it takes is an anxious moment during the early stages of a child’s development, when the subconscious is being built between the ages of 1 to 10. A simple moment like the first day of school, the first time at bat--these don’t seem like big events, but in a young mind, they can seem like the end of the world if they don’t go according to plan. It’s moments like this where a young person cultivates a feeling that may dictate their behavior for the rest of their lives. Through hypnosis, we can revisit these moments and make adjustments that neutralize anxiety, find the reasons for the impatience, and let go of the need to control.
The outcome is only having one release in your pouch an no longer having to manage emotion that pulls your attention away from your shot. This frees up your mind which gives you the opportunity to tap more of your potential and rediscover the joy that you experienced when you first started shooting archery.