The Evidence For Positive Internal Dialogue Use When Running
Whilst putting together an article on ways to use internal dialogue, I thought I'd look at the evidence that supports the processes I was about to share. I was swamped. No way could I do a full, exhaustive literature review! So I cherry picked a bit and thought I'd...
Massed Practice and Self-Hypnosis To Overcome Bad Habits or Behaviours
Yes, it’s true, today I am encouraging you to repeat bad habits and negative behaviours over and over again. “Why oh why Adam?” I hear you cry. Let me attempt to explain. Way back in the 1950s and 1960s a large number of studies supported a method used therapeutically...
Mindfulness When Running
In recent weeks, my own personal research and study has overlapped with my professional work, in a way that has been both fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable. Whilst engaging in a course of study in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with mindfulness, I have been able...
Hypnotic Phenomena, Amnesia & Hallucination in Hypnosis
A couple of years ago on a training course, I got asked by the students to demonstrate some of the slightly more fun elements of hypnotic phenomena that could be used in a therapeutic environment. As well as metaphoric benefits, these things are all useful as...
Awareness: Spotting Thinking Errors Using Self-Hypnosis
Prior to my recent spate of hypnosis for running articles that have consumed me and my blog writing in recent weeks, I had offered up a number of strategies for employing self-hypnosis for cognitive disputation and restructuring; in simple terms, that is whereby we...
Running with Belief: 18 Steps To Running With Positive Belief
Alongside a very inspiring 25,000 other runners, with a Halloween nightmare of a hangover and poorly equipped with 4 hours sleep, yesterday I ran the Great South Run for the fifth time. Also running yesterday was an inspiring student of mine Claire Lincoln. Claire...
Cognitive Strategies For Runners
There are a number of famous irrational beliefs that tend to reach each and every sports person at some stage: No pain – no gain. You must give 110% all the time. Practice makes perfect. Winning isn’t everything – it’s the only thing. These kinds of thinking...
Helpful Hints and Ideas For Using Mental Imagery To Enhance Your Sporting Performance
From the body of research and studies that have been conducted within the subject matter of mental imagery in sporting performance, there are a number of general ways and means of enhancing and advancing the results gained by using mental imagery and I thought that I...
Mental Imagery For Runners: The Evidence For Its Use
Many sports fans these days seem to know that Tiger Woods imagines his shot before he plays it. Boxers often imagine winning and knocking out their opponent. Many Olympic athletes imagine the ideal shot, goal or win before they complete it. Early on in 2012 I imagined...
Creating Your Own Goal Setting System To Advance Your Running
(Again, despite the title of this blog entry, this process can be applied to goals in any aspect of life) This is the third and final piece on goal-setting. Having had a look at the evidence supporting goal setting and then also exploring the principles of goal...
