What Are the Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind?

The following article is helpful to coaches and consultants who work with clients for sports performance, mindset training, guided imagery, mind-body fitness, and sports psychology coaching.

Understanding these three basic prime directives is not enough. You must also implement these concepts into your practice to increase your client’s chance of enhanced performance. Most hypnotherapists understand these concepts; sadly, few of them implement them. When you choose to utilize these concepts in your hypnosis, you will achieve a class of success that few professional hypnotherapists even experience.

Preservation of the Body

All suggestions should lead toward the preservation of the body. Therefore hypnotherapists have traditionally succeeded so much in smoking and weight loss. Preservation is a logical assumption in these therapies, however, most hypnotherapists do not realize that they should be linking preservation up to all of their client’s goals.

In sports hypnosis, you will have a higher degree of success if you can link up the preservation of the body to the intended outcome. For example: “… Imagine if you will now, winning the gold medal. Beyond the feeling of winning, you realize the potential that now awaits you: from product endorsements to media coverage. All these effects of winning are within your grasp. And by taking these opportunities, your income will grow and provide you the ability to buy healthier foods, higher quality supplements, and receive the best healthcare possible. Who would have ever thought that by winning a gold medal you could become a healthier human, but like a pebble in a pond creating a ripple effect, everything affects everything in life…” [Read more…]