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PARALLAXOLOGY
The best sports teams now have sophisticated analytical tools which can help individuals understand their performance, however the parallaxology approach provides an effective extra dimension. Building media through different camera lenses to find the best perspective is part of XVenture’s day to day work (eg XVenture TV show) but it’s not what everybody is trained to do or finds easy. There is an Elvis Presley track called “Walk a mile in My Shoes.”!
The words are extremely poignant. In essence I developed “parallaxology” tools to help individuals to build skills to enable them to do just this, improving their own performance after an effective but non-judgmental review of different perspectives. It helps reduce negative future expectancy from analysing mistakes and focuses on the most significant improvements.
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Deeper methods are sometimes required including hypnotherapeutic and psychotherapy techniques particularly when more significant levels of anxiety exist. A few poor performances can lead to negative thoughts even for the best in the World. Going into the Australian Open in 2018, Rodger Federer admitted he was struggling with this. These became worse when he lost the fourth set before he went on to win the fifth. In soccer, the fear of losing a grand final can be significant particularly if this has occurred before or the thought that a mistake from last week will be recurring.
On occasions I have used solutions oriented hypnotherapy techniques blended with mindfulness to help reframe a negative habit or pattern of behaviour. Again, significant trust is required for this to work.
As an example, focus and decision-making is an important part of soccer. One of the important parts of the role is working with players to increase their concentration levels on those things that matter. However, overthinking during downtime is a habit of many elite sports people and this in itself can fatigue the brain and hence the body. (The brain uses an enormous amount of energy.) I am a great believer of downtime, relax, mindfulness and even daydreaming. In hypnosis, I can draw attention to a player being relaxed and at the same time learn to focus on those things that require fine tuning or as I call it “recalibrating”. In one particular instance in hypnosis, a player added a friend to the equation (a high profile World class player) who takes a drone view on the player’s performance and suggests improvements. Very powerful and if done properly can be highly effective as long as the elements used are emotionally connected to the individual.
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