Aligning our Performance Levels
A widely accepted break down of the layers in which we live, thanks to NLP, start at a SPIRITUAL core, that defines our purpose in life. Out of which we create our Speaker Peak Performance IDENTITY which form and effects our VALUES and BELIEFS. These values and beliefs determine our COMPETENCIES or skills and knowledge we choose to learn and engage in. Our competencies predominantly affect our BEHAVIOUR which is also affected by, and creates, our ENVIRONMENT and context In which we live.
These levels essentially make up our reality. We engage with life and Information at different levels at different times, and use these levels as a sort of funneling system to pass through new information. This new information or stimulus passes through these levels making changes to our complicated processing until it is bloked by one of the levels. It may get blocked because it conflicts or disagrees with the current information within that level or is busy with another agenda. Information continues through these levels affecting each level as it passes to the higher or deeper level. For change to happen at each level we need to make a change at the deeper level than the one we want to make a change at. Peak Performance Coach This process is continuously happening every second, every day as we see, touch, think, feel and hear the world infront of us.
For example, we may hear someone say that we need to train everyday for 4 hours to be a world champion. As we process this information we may accept this in our current ENVIRONMENT and the information may be confirmed by the people around us. It may fit nicely into our BEHAVIOUR and training regime as we already allocate 5 hrs to training every day. We have the skills and COMPETENCIES to endure this training scheme, however, this information may conflict with our BELIEFS. Maybe we have seen another champion only train for 4 hours on only 5 days a week, or maybe we believe it is the intensity of our training, not the quantity that makes the difference.
If we don’t accept this new Information at the BELIEFS and VALUES level, we will never change our COMPETENCIES and BEHAVIOUR to align with this new information for any extended period of time. We may try to train for 4 hours every day, but after a few weeks, if we don’t believe this strategy to be true, this regime will slowly start to fall away.
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Congruency and Flow
Flow has been described as ‘when thoughts and actions are occurring in complete synchronicity’, ‘everything felt right, as if it was destined to be’, ‘every cell in my body was focused on what I was doing, amongst many other similar descriptions. There is little debate that when we are in flow, our mind and body is working as one, everything aligns and we become more powerful, more creative, more efficient, and everything we do seems effortless and easy. In flow we are in total congruency internally and externally with our mind, body and surroundings. Peak Performance Coach Congruency is a powerful force when we see it in action. It helps create a channel for flow, a coming together of parts, aligning all our energy outputs into one channel. When people are congruent with the different aspects of their lives, their energy levels are higher and luck often seems to flow their way.
If we think of it as a car journey, congruency can be far Cameron Norsworthy easier to understand. If different aspects of our lives are conflicting, they act as traffic on our journey. If we don’t believe in our goals then it is as if the roads are smaller and narrower. If we have others in our life that don’t agree with what we are doing or adding negativity to our journey, they act as sharp bends and difficult landmarks we need to navigate around often lengthening our journey. If we are going through a troublesome healing process, they act as roadworks on our car journey. If we have many other goals and distractions, then there will be many distracting sign posts and intersections on our journey. If we have a lot of noise in our mind and suppressed emotional energy, they act as bad weather making our journey challenging. And so on. A car journey with traffic, small roads, lots of detours, roadworks, multiple intersections, and bad weather can be a nightmare and make our journey troublesome and difficult to reach our destination, or goal. However, if we have none of the above, we have an empty highway with few restrictions or interruptions allowing us to get to our destination very quickly. When our highway is clear, we have congruency, and may already be in flow.
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Recovery and Performance
Recovery is not just a signpost. If we see it, we have to take that exit, so we can live to perform another day.
Allowing our body to recover is not simply giving it complete rest everyone and again. Sometimes the demands of our performances. Don’t allow the body to rest for sustained periods, be that hours, Cameron Norsworthy days or weeks. We need to look at our every day and see how we can allow our bodies to recover wherever possible. It is a mindset of putting recovery as a priority in our lives. If recovery is not as important as training, how do we expect to train with the same intensity that will lead us to flow and excellence. If we see our own recovery as our own responsibility and hold it as a higher level priority, the opportunities in everyday life will start to unfold before our eyes.
There lies an opportunity for recovery in everything we do. Even during performances we get small breaks of 2 seconds or 2 minutes, that we can use to help the body and mind to recover. For example, during a tennis match a player is given 30 seconds to start the next point. This 30 seconds can be used to stress about the upcoming point, or walk from side to side planning our next move. The slightest bit of stress can use up a small amount of energy that could be absolutely vital at a later stage in our performance. If we combine all the small energy loses from stresses throughout our performance, these actions and mental activity can take up a huge amount of energy. These stress lead to tightened muscle groups that should be relaxing, and often result in zero downtime for our key muscle groups between rest periods. Alternatively we can use these small rest periods to take long deep breaths, asking the body to be aware of what muscle groups need the most recovery and asking the body to give it more energy. Maybe we stand still, visualise pumping fresh blood to this location, or stand in a way that allows the muscle to relax and recover. There is a lot of research suggesting meditation has significant recovery outcomes similar to that of sleep, imagine what we could do with 30 seconds bursts of sleep during our prolonged performances. Maybe we become aware of a stretch we need to do, or the need to take on more water at the next break. In 30 seconds we can do a lot toad in our body’s recovery, let alone 60 seconds or 5 minutes. We only need to spend 20 minutes thinking about our own sport or performance arena, and examine the areas where we are not fully engaged in our performance, to see that multitude of gaps that open up where recovery is possible.
When we look at our life as a whole and the time we have in between performances, training and travelling, we can find lots of time to focus on giving the body the recovery it needs. Whether it is meditating on a train, or going to sleep an hour earlier there is a lot that can be changed to our existing schedule to help recovery if we hold it as a priority. When we do this it is worth looking at the type of recovery we are getting, as we may not need to have more downtime, maybe we need to make the existing downtime count for more. The level of intensity of our downtime can change dramatically and can greatly effect our recovery. For example, if our sleep it turbulent and frequently interrupted it may not be as effective as a relaxed deep may be. If our downtime in the evening is time with friends or family that make us stressed, then our muscles are unlikely to completely relax, and maybe causing us more tension in our neck and shoulders. If our holidays are action packed both night Speaker Peak Performance and day, the body is unlikely getting the rest it may need.
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Training and Performance
Training prepares the body for what to expect during competition. If our training lacks the intensity or skill required in our performances, how can we expect oursleves to perform to a higher level when it comes to our performances or competition. If the body has not experienced the intensity or skill before, then it does not know what to replicate when in flow. Training can provide an opportunity for the body to experience doing what needs doing in a more relaxed environment. If we perform a skill, shot, or sequence in training once, then the body has accomplished everything it needs to know to do it again. Physical and mentally the body knows what to do, it has provided the correct coordination, neurological activity, mind body connection, needed for the skill to happen. If we have done it once the mind and body creates a blue print, a source code or manual of how to repeat this skill again. What stops us producing this skill again and again, is the interference or disbelief of the conscious mind.
Repeating the skills over and over, allows the conscious mind to accept the ability of the subconscious, it builds confidence in this connection and stops thinking of the initial action as luck. As we repeat the skills again and again we strengthen the neural pathways in our mind body connection to access this blueprint, helping the conscious mind to continuously build trust that the subconscious can deliver the skill or action at will. Overtime the conscious trusts the subconscious so much to deliver this blueprint, that it seems to let go control and we perform this action or skill seemingly automatically, leading to what many people call ‘muscle memory’.
With this in mind, it seems wise to approach training with a different perspective than the traditional method of repeating Peak Performance Coach a set of skills we require hundreds or thousands of time. If we spent a small percentage of our training time exploring new Cameron Norsworthy skills or actions that would improve our performances, we would create many new blueprints of new skills, actions and movements that would increase our ability at a much faster rate.
If we spent a percentage of our training time on building the trust between the conscious and subconscious this would allow us to access these blueprints, we have already created by doing the action once. This training would not only be relevant to this new skill but all new skills and existing skills we have learnt. Added to this the time we save by not focusing on repeating the same skill thousands of times in order to trust the body to deliver, we have a powerful acceleration technique to introduce new skills into our performances.
Dedicating training time to learning new skills and improving the mind body connection, does not mean we don’t have to practice repetition, on the contrary. We can also dedicate a percentage of our training time to repeating the skills we already know, to improve the trust between the conscious and subconscious for times when we find it difficult to let go of the conscious control over our actions, typical when the ego steps in.
The above is simply an example of how introducing even a small percentage of mental training into our standard training regimes can rapidly increase our overall skill level.
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Play and Flow
When we play we engage the subconscious and react instinctively, our minds and body become seemingly hard wired. We often do things without thinking about them or say things things without thinking about what we are saying, only to find ourselves questioning it afterwards. Our minds are not full of this conscious thought that occurs during post questioning, or when Speaker Peak Performance we think about our actions, we simply play.
Playing when we are young is natural, and almost essential, yet when we get older it becomes refreshing and sometimes scary. Our conscious minds become serious and full of control, belittling the act of play as something without purpose or value. How does it help us Peak Performance Coach pay the rent? We should be training instead! How does it help us with our career? and so on. The older we get the more we activate the conscious mind through education, demands of society and the desire to act with the ego to keep us socially safe and of values to others. We become more and more attached to the self image of ourselves, that we project to others, which is generally made up of what we believe others want us to be. We start changing the clothes we wear to meet the projected self image we have made up, and even change our friends, our jobs and our hobbies to keep this self image intact and climbing the social ladder.
During all this time we loose the value of play and connection with our true self. We become obsessed with our self image and become to see this image of ourselves and actually who we are. Meanwhile every minute we spend on this self image we live in the conscious mind and loose connection with the subconscious. We build the ego, a sense of control, and a fear of loosing control as the conscious mind takes controls of our thoughts, our being, and our identity. Before long we are attached to our thoughts as if each thought represents who we are. We spend most of our day on our own heads entertaining the thoughts that fleet in and out. When we train and practise for our performances we order and expect the body to react and perform. We approach our training and performances with this egoic self image we have created, which is full of fear and self doubt, yet we expect our body to perform without nerves or self doubt. When we play well we congratulate the self image for being so good, when we perform badly, we tell ourselves we are rubbish or start blaming external factors.
We all share this pattern to some extent or another, it is part of being human and having an egoic conscious mind. The question that needs asking is, does it help our performances? Although the rational and logic of the conscious brain can help with structurally changes in our training regimes, debating different strategies, or analysing what we could do better, when it comes to the actual performance and we want to be in flow. Learning to use the mind as a tool rather the who we are is critical in obtaining flow more readily. When we learn to value play and prioritise it over our conscious thoughts during training and performances we become very close to being in flow. When we are playing we become attached to being in the moment, we start experiencing life in the here and now, and open up the opportunity for flow. When we play we do not think of the pressures around us, we simply play. When we play we do not focus on our weaknesses and doubts, we just play. When we play we do not demand or expect the body to do anything, the body simply plays willingly. When we play we do not question our motivation or worry about our energy levels, we simply are engulfed in play.
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Hypnosis and Flow
Both hypnosis and also flow personify the notion of opening up a channel with the subconscious Speaker Peak Performance whilst offering little relevance to the mindful interference. Both make the concept of time appear unimportant, with many people reporting time either decreasing or passing in a flash. Both states aid us remain in the now, the present and also be consumed in only the moment. The body is totally capable throughout both flow and also hypnotherapy, actually more so, we do things that we would never ever consider possible when the conscious brain supervises. In both circulation and hypnotherapy the noise of the aware brain as well as ego appear to be very tiny or non-existent, as well as a we are bake to access parts of our mind, body or efficiencies in secs that can otherwise take years when in control of the conscious. With so much alike it is a wonder why so few performers as well as professional athletes have actually cottoned on to the power of hypnosis.
Often individuals have a negative assumption of hypnotherapy due to the television programs where individuals make other individuals do stupid things before the masses, leading many individuals to believe that it is a hazardous and also illinformed technique, that offers control of our minds to others. However nothing could be better from the truth. Hypnosis allows us Cameron Norsworthy to experience, comprehend as well as get to know our subconscious via various hypnotic trance states. During most hypnotic trance states the mindful is totally familiar with what is going on, we only remain in hypnotherapy by the mindful continuously allowing the procedure to occur. As soon as the mindful has actually had sufficient, we get out of hypnotic trance, equally as we step out of circulation. Hypnotherapy can aid us interact with our much deeper degrees, such as our belief and worth levels or competencies, which may take months or years of work or else. Which is why hypnosis can be used to assist individuals quit smoking, loosened weight or quit dependencies, if we permit the learning to integrate with the subconscious. Hypnosis just as circulation can be used as a powerful to tool, to do what we wish to do.
So it would make sense to see hypnotherapy as well as hypnotic trance states as a feasible entrance point or method for aiding us attain circulation. Inevitably what we want is to develop our own self hypnotic circulation sequence with a professional that we reduce gradually, to a short enough practice that we can use during competition or our performances. We can begin exercising today if we want. There are many different states of hypnotherapy, trance and circulation, which we can experience at various midsts. The even more we practice at any kind of depth, the extra the body and mind obtain utilized to feeling its connection per other without the disturbance of the aware mind, and the higher the opportunity we have for circulation.
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Trance Helping Returns
Throughout one training session I was experimenting with different techniques to get me in the very same state as when I took a look at this tennis sphere for hours on end. I typically would certainly try various things to aid me with obtain a tiny benefit. This moment My eyes started focusing on the little granules of the surface area listed below prior to I struck my returns. In tennis you usually raise your head to let the server recognize you are ready, so they can go on as well as offer, and also I would certainly keep my head reduced till I had actually cleared my thoughts and prepared to return.
So as my head was low, I would consider the court below upseting myself up before every Peak Performance Coach serve. The even more I considered the court, the more I saw the extraordinary detail In every square inch. Each inch was different, it had various colours in it, it appeared to be comprised of shed of various materials as well as layers. Before this time I had actually always seen a tennis court as a tennis court, some where cemented some were grass, some were made of clay. Now I was checking out each surface area with brand-new eyes. Quickly the square inch came to be a square centimetre, and the square centimetre came to be a square millimetrer. I started focusing on the smallest of detail I might discover on the surface listed below, whether that was a blade of turf, a glimmer on the cement, or a hold of clay or sand.
Focusing on this detail appeared to put me in a trance like state, where I had no thoughts, no disturbances, I was merely observing. It was a peaceful location, where I can just recently myself, regather my thoughts as well as tidy the slate of my mind before the following factor. I started moving this square millimetre even more and also even more away, always trying to stay focused on one small piece of information. Over time, the tiny information went to the foot of the web. I would certainly stand there bent knees, head down, planning for the offer. On the other hand I was staring at the surface area of the net looking for a little detail in the surface area. When I had it I would seek out and the approaching sphere appeared much larger than it ever before utilized. I was utilized to concentrating on something small on a millimetre large, let alone checking out a round the size of an apple.
Not just did the round seem large, I felt entirely connected with what I needed to do one every return. The noise had actually left my head as well as I simply looked of at the ball as well as reacted.
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