You have likely reached a plateau if you’ve been doing your sport for some time. This happens to everyone, even if we’re close to being the best at what we do. Your playing experience is in the mid 80’s or low 90’s. You bench press just under 400 pounds. You have been in the finals of tennis every year. It’s been great practice with bow and rifle. However, you are looking for more. But you want more. Right?
Here’s a tale about Milton Erickson (a well-known hypnotist) who was asked to aid the U.S. Rifle Team in defeating the Russians. After Erickson agreed to assist, here’s the ending.
“I explained to him, “As a teenager, I shot two rifles. All I know is the muzzle and the stock. This rifleman knows everything there is to know about guns. My profession is medical. I’m a medical man. You can trust me to train them. Their rifle knowledge is already there, and my medical knowledge is also available.”
The commandant was so infuriated that a civilian was going to train the rifle team that he added two men who had been trying for two years to make the rifle team. I don’t know what the qualifications were for the rifle team, but it was a score in the sixties. Those two men had been devoting all their spare time to training and scored in the low forties. In other words, they couldn’t make the team.”
“One of the first things I told the man, after I found that in the contest you shoot forty rounds in succession, was, “The first bullseye is simple. I have to ask you: ?… Can you repeat it? After ten consecutive bullseyes ?…, can you repeat it 11 times? It’s been nineteen times. You’ve done it nineteen times. ?… Each successful shot builds tension! ” ‘You’ve made it twenty-nine times. Can you make it thirty times?… You’ve made it thirty-five times. Thirty-six? Thirty-seven? Thirty-eight? (breathlessly) Thirty-nine? Can I possibly make it forty times?'”
The use of hypnosis allowed the participants, which included the two additional poor shooters, to place in the competition. Thus, the U.S. beat the Russians for the first-time!
Which level of play would you love to reach? Are you looking to enhance your athletic skills? Perhaps Hypnosis is the solution for you. For the U.S. Olympic Rifle Team, it was!