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...
The Principles Of Goal Setting For Runners
(Despite the title of this blog entry - it can all be applied to other activities, not just running) In my previous blog entry, I wrote about some of the evidence for goal setting and the considerations for using it properly to be effective. Today, in this second part...
Goal Setting For Running, Exercising Or Sports
For every race I run in, I have a number of goals set out for my training and the desired outcome for the end of that training period and race. I get asked a great deal about goals and it is not always necessarily as simple as having a goal and working towards it. So...
Hypnosis For Running: Evidence For The Use Of Hypnosis For Runners
(From my Hypnosis For Running Blog) We use our legs to run, don't we? As a result, surely we just need to run and keep on running, as Forrest Gump would say. Isn't this the case? Though these days marathon running is my sport, I have played football to a fairly high...
In Support of Self-Hypnosis: Some Historical Context, Theoretical Notions and Evidence Base For Self-Hypnosis
Following a wee while of being away from the office and in the training room, I am back with a vengeance on the blog today.... In recent times, and as I have spent more time working within the field of hypnosis, I get asked about self-hypnosis as it forms such an...
All Quiet On The Hypnosis Blog…
This is not much of a blog entry here on my main Hypnosis Blog… It is really a brief notification in case any of you wonder where I have got to at some point next week. There will not be any blog posts here next week as I shall be in the classroom teaching for 9...
Altering Our Perceived Level Of Effort When Running Using Self-Hypnosis
In all of my explorations of methods and strategies for using hypnosis to help advance sporting performance, one of the most impressive uses of hypnosis within studies has been that, “Perception of effort during exercise can be systematically increased or decreased...
Hand To Face Self-Hypnosis Induction
Over the years, I have offered up a number of ways, methods and means to commence with self-hypnosis sessions, through the format of a structured induction. This is not always necessary, but has been something that has worked incredibly well for me with my own...
Getting and Using The Runners High With Self-Hypnosis
Over the years, I have read a lot of information, opinion as well as some utter nonsense about something referred to as the runners high. Popular running blogs, and non-academics in the running community refer to this runners high as a sort of euphoria type of state...
The Association Cognitive Strategy Of Elite Runners – Using Self-Hypnosis And Psychological Profiling
(Again, I've included here the blog entry from my Hypnosis For Running blog, enjoy) Previously here, I wrote on using dissociation as an evidence based process for enhancing endurance as a runner. Throughout my own research and exploration on how to use the mind to...
