We all feel nerves when we go into a competition. But did you ever ask yourself where this feeling comes from? Where does the feeling of pressure come from? It’s not like they have special machines that make it. The truth is that we each create our own nerves and pressure at archery competitions. It is not some kind of mythical phenomenon. We do it to ourselves; it's just a societally expected occurrence. But the sad thing is that we feel like we just have to deal with it.
So if we make this up, we can turn it off. The reason this happens is because we learned how to do it at some point. As a young child, you didn’t know what performance pressure and nerves were. At some point in your early developmental stages, you experienced it, and it imprinted. That memory is still alive in your subconscious. This is why you feel it now.
Through hypnosis, we can revisit these early critical childhood moments and make some changes, re-creating the moment without the pressure or nerves. By recreating this process with a new outcome, the recorded information is revised. So now when you go to a competition, the recorded information that tells you how to be nervous doesn’t exist. So now you are free to focus on your shooting and to enjoy the experience.
Hypnosis can help you at every stage of your archery game; give us a call if you want to talk about how it can work for you.