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Hypnosis For Running MP3 Audio Self-Hypnosis
“Success At Marathon Running Is As Much About Your Mindset As Your Legs…“
“Experience Your Personal Best Getting Better and Better….
Hypnosis For Running
By [Adam Eason]
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[About Adam Eason]
Speaker, author, trainer and therapist in the fields of hypnosis, hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis, based on the South Coast of the United Kingdom.
His training school specialises in self-hypnosis seminars and hypnotherapy training and he also runs a busy hypnotherapy practice.
Adam teaches and speaks on a variety of subjects from evidence-based hypnotherapy to self-hypnosis for enhanced well-being.
HYPNOSIS FOR RUNNING BY CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST AND PASSIONATE RUNNER ADAM EASON
This audio programme is the culmination of over 10 years experience of running marathons and other long distance races.
My personal experience is combined with a great deal of research and is therefore supported throughout with evidence to support the processes involved.
This programme is designed to work alongside you while you train for your marathon or any other running event or just if you are wanting to get better at running using the power of your mind.
Most marathon training schedules are 16 weeks long and so it is no coincidence that this programme is a 16 week programme dealing with all facets of the runners mindset.
Whether you are about to embark on your first marathon ever, or if you are a veteran, then you are going to benefit greatly from the use of this material. Perhaps you are just a beginner to running and want to train your mind as well as your legs and heart, and even get more from your legs by using your mind, then this programme is for you.
How Is Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis Useful When It Comes To Running?
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?”
Well frankly no.
For running and for any sport performed to a competitive level the mind is just as important if not more important than the physical effort and technical performance.
Listen to any sports commentary and it won’t be long before you hear references to team confidence or indidual performance levels affected by the mental approach.
Though these days marathon running is my sport, I have played football to a fairly high standard and various sports throughout my life and I think just about everyone who has ever participated in any kind of sport can remember when our state of mind interfered with a good performance.
Of course, it is not just sports performance either, many men encounter anxiety with sexual situations which affects their ability. For others similar anxiety may have affected performance in an exam or test of some kind. The mental approach to whatever you do is vitally important for success.
In sports, it might occur in an important competition. A great recent example is how Rory McIlroy. the golfer. lost his healthy lead in Augusta. However he recovered mentally and showed some amazing resilience just a few months later to go on and win the US Masters golf major in tremendous style. You must have seen how tennis players struggle with those important points in big championships and how our football teams get affected by the crowd when they play away from home.
For us marathon runners, our mental approach might affect our performance in races as well as in the important preparation. So the answer is that, of course we use more than just our legs.
How Do I Help My Mental Approach?
I think everyone knows these days that our state of mind affects how we perform, yet it seems quite common for individuals to not understand how to get in control of their own mentality and mind, especially when it comes to sports performance.
So in this training we will consider all aspects of the training:
In the coming 16 weeks of this audio programme I shall be speaking to you a lot about how to use your mind, and how we are going to use hypnosis and hypnotherapy for enhancing your running ability, belief in yourself and ensuring your mind is as equipped and trained for the marathon day as your body is with all those miles under your belt.
Within the research that I have been conducting as I have put this programme together, it is amazing to read accounts of athletes and sports people as to the reasons behind the wide variation in their sporting performance and results. Very, very few (top elite people) actually perform with major consistency.
Injuries and health issues aside, the vast majority of the accounts suggest that most athletes and sports people believe their own differences in performance are due to parallel variations in their state of mind. Many athletes I encounter through my work and through running events I attend, tend to suggest that it is 50/50 physical and mental when it comes to their sporting performance and though this is only subjective evidence based on my limited encountering of sports people, I would say that it is a very low percentage 3-10% max of training time that is spent on the psychological skills and mental abilities required for peak performance.
It is a rare occurrence to encounter an athlete or sports person who spends a great deal of time and effort on their psychological skills and mental side of training. Let’s make this clear – the psychological side of training is just as important as anything else when it comes to sporting performance. The athletes at the very top of their game are the ones who know this more than the rest and that is why they are there.
Throughout this audio programme, I am going to talking in depth about a wide variety of techniques, skills, applications and methods all designed at enhancing your running performance.
I Will Teach You All That I Have Learned Myself – How To:
Get in the Zone for peak performance Get most out of training sessions Stay motivated when training going gets tough – winter, bad weather etc Recover from training sessions Recover from injuries quicker Fit Hypnosis into your preparation and give you an unfair mental advantage
We are going to look at how to get into what many athletes call getting into ‘the zone’ when you are performing at your best. It is something that people tend to think just happens magically but we can all learn how to replicate it and train ourselves to achieve it more readily and frequently.
I am going to look at how to make the most of your training sessions and keep motivated to train effectively; us runners can sometimes find it a lonely and demotivating business to follow long training schedules, especially in the dark winter months. We are going to learn how to focus and let go ofdistractions as well as a variety of other mental skills.
Certainly I have found that there is a great amount of evidence to support the idea that your mental training and psychological approach to your sport plays an important role in peak performance, but also in how you recover from training sessions and even overcome injuries.
All of this said, and despite me referring to research literature, there is not a massive amount of research that refers to the use of hypnosis and hypnotherapy – which is one of my own motivations for the programme for marathon running here. Certainly among the running fraternity, there are very few that actually consider hypnosis as a means of real help.
I Will Also Teach You How To Use Hypnosis To:
Develop Focus Enhance Confidence and Belief Let go of Distractions Be Mindful Learn To Relax Effectively Develop The Mindset Of A Better Performer.
One of the boasts of sport is that it is good for your fitness and help you mentally. That list of benefits will help you in your everyday life. Fit mentally and physically
And just to get a couple of things straight here…
I am no sports coach. I do not train runners in relation to their physical running technique. I do not tell them what schedule to follow for their event (though often point out where to find that).
My job is to help develop the right mindset and psychological skills to make a massive difference and that is what is going to happen as we move forward.
Enjoy this programme, it is going to
transform the way you run increase the enjoyment you get from running stretch your mind enhance everything about your current running experience.
Outline Of The Program:
Pre-Introduction (Please listen to this short audio first)
Manual – Hypnosis For Running – PDF
Introduction to Hypnosis For Running – Vol 1
Week One
1a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 2
1b – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 3 – Hypnosis Session – 1
1c – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 4
Week Two
2a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 5
2b – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 6 -Hypnosis Session 2
Week Three
3 – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 7
Week Four
4a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 8
4b – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 9 -Hypnosis Session 3
Week Five
5 – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 10
Week Six
6 – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 11
Week Seven
7a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 12
7b – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 13
7c – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 14 -Hypnosis Session 4
Week Eight
8a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 15
8b – BONUS HYPNOSIS SESSION – Inspiring Hypnotic Encouragement
Week Nine
9a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 16
9b – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 17
9c – BONUS HYPNOSIS SESSION – Jar Of Concentration
Week Ten
10 – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 18
Week Eleven
11a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 19
11b – BONUS HYPNOSIS SESSION – Total Freedom From Excuses
Week Twelve
12a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 20
12b – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 21 -Hypnosis Session 5
Week Thirteen
13a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 22
13b – BONUS HYPNOSIS SESSION – Amplify Any Feeling In Your Brain
Week Fourteen
14a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 23
14b – BONUS HYPNOSIS SESSION – Overcome The Wall
Week Fifteen
15a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 24
15b – BONUS HYPNOSIS SESSION – Accessing Your Higher Self
Week Sixteen
16a – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 25
16b – BONUS HYPNOSIS SESSION – Mind Detox
16c – Hypnosis For Running : Vol 26 – Conclusion
BONUS HYPNOSIS SESSIONS
1. Running – Enhanced Endurance
Audio Description
[]When I was putting this audio track together, I had just got back in the country following my holiday and was just getting back into my running and my training for my next marathon, with a couple of shorter races along the way in the build up too.
Since getting back, I had been researching and working a great deal on collating evidence for future projects regarding the use of hypnosis and running (my book on the subject, for example) and I had been incredibly encouraged.
To be really, really honest, the results of using hypnosis to enhance muscular performance are not that impressive and do not actually show any real gains in reviews by a number of key authors including Hull (1933) and Barber (1966) and the very influential (to the field of hypnosis and sports performance) Morgan (1972, 1980, 1993) – most of whom showed that when it comes to muscular performance, suggestions given in hypnosis were just as effective as suggestions given to a non-hypnotised, but motivated individual when it came to muscular performance.
However, the really great news for us runners is that numerous studies show that the gains made in terms of endurance and aerobic power are significant when it comes to the use of hypnosis… And with this audio track, I have an evidence based strategy to boost your running performance.
Most of the research concerning muscular performance and aerobic performance though, also does suggest that hypnosis does also help to motivate individuals much more and finds them exerting more effort as a result. This really does assure me as a lot of my own books and audio programmes are focused on those areas.
Ok, one of the pieces of research that I have been reading this week is by Morgan et al. (1987) Facilitation of physical performance by means of a cognitive strategy in Cognitive Therapy and Research which shows a 32% marked improvement in endurance performance as a result of the strategy employed, compared to the control group. I don’t think the nitty gritty details of the study are going to make for compelling reading, especially not for this page, but for anyone wanting to discuss the methodology and the way in which the study beautifully isolated the maximal aerobic power to be measured, then get in touch with me and we can discuss it.
With this audio track you get a hypnosis process that all runners can engage in that is founded upon the evidence based cognitive strategy used in the study, but I have added various facets of other evidence based processes to make it more useable in my opinion.
A number of studies that I have encountered show that athletes often use association techniques for enhanced performance, but that real elite athletes tend to utilise dissociation strategies as well to enhance their performance with their mind. Long distance runners from Tibet have run 300 miles nonstop in 30 hours using this type of dissociation technique, and many accomplished marathon runners are known to successfully employ similar techniques.
With this process, you are going to mentally rehears the process within the hypnosis session and then ideally go out and adopt the cognitive strategy when you are running and then with practice and practice, your endurance is enhanced as a result… Though you have to train too of course!
The idea behind dissociating in the way laid out within this audio track, is that you will not perceive the same amount of fatigue, pain, or discomfort while running. You are dissociated.
2. Altering Your Perceived Level of Effort When Running
Audio Description
[]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 with hypnotic suggestion even though the actual physical work-load is maintained at a constant level. Furthermore, alterations in effort sense are associated with significant changes in metabolic responses and brain activation as measured by SPECT and MRI.” (Morgan, 2002)
This is incredibly good news for us runners.
Additionally at the time of recording this audio track, my friend, hypnotherapist and multi world title winning fighter, Gary Turner is writing a lot about running while he is spending just 12 weeks preparing and training for a 40 mile ultra marathon. Here is what he wrote as his Facebook status update earlier this week:
“Heard on the radio earlier a DJ talking about his London Marathon entry talking about what a massive hurdle it is to overcome.
It isn’t.
In a couple of weeks I’ll be doing a marathon a week for my ultramarathon training. Long runs for me now seem normal. Yet his is only my 4th week of preparation. Impressive? Nope. Just know what I’m doing and expect to be able to do it.
Eddie Izzard did 43 marathons in 51 days on just 5 weeks of training. Think about what our military do in training as a matter of course.
Many people do far more impressive distances.
Your body can do 1,000 times more than you think it can. You just have to vote with your feet, and have a strong mind.” (Gary Turner, 19th September, 2012, Facebook)
Gary sums up nicely my own sentiments and there is evidence to show that we are more capable than we sometimes think, and also we can alter our perceived level of effort to enhance and advance our running performance.
In the early 2000′s Williamson and colleagues (2001, 2002) showed how hypnosis and receiving suggestions in hypnosis could alter the level of perceived effort by the athlete, resulting in them being able to perform better – and actually having a cardiovascular response to the brain believing in that perceived effort level. It sounds like the stuff of fantasy, but evidence repeatedly supports this notion and it makes complete sense when you consider it fully.
This hypnosis audio track and process is a cognitive strategy to engage in while running, but to implement with mental rehearsal the hypnosis session.
Our bodies respond to the message of the brain and we really do tend to respond to effort, pain, discomfort in a very sanitary and self-preserving fashion which does not really stretch and push us.
Elite athletes and sports people know that they can go further and have conviction and belief that they can push themselves further. This is not the central theme with this audio track, but that belief in our perception of our own level of effort is what this is all about. You’ll be able to run further, faster and also enjoy your training runs much more as a result of this hypnosis audio track.
3. Associative Strategy Of Elite Runners
Audio Description
[]I have been reading a fascinating paper entitled “Psychological characterization of the elite distance runner” by Morgan and Pollock (1977) and along with a number of other investigations of a similar ilk, it would seem that elite marathoners in general tend to be introvert – which was initially something I read with sadness because my own psychological profile tends to move in the direction of extroversion. However, this is not universal and several winners of Boston and London marathons have rated as extroverts on the Eysenck Personality Inventory and so there is hope for me yet!
This hypnosis audio track is not about exploring personality or psychological traits though. The reason I mention it at all is because those introverts do tend to be very well skilled with their own active cognitive strategies that aid them with their running in a wide number of ways, as I have shown with a number of techniques in my ‘Hypnosis For Running’ book.
Whenever I read ‘Runners World’ magazine or a running blog I subscribe to, I am often barraged by pieces of research showing that runners listening to music tended to recover quicker or run more efficiently in some recent study, and I listen to music a great deal when running, particularly on my longer runs, it helps me pass the time and I enjoy the absorption in the music – this is dissociation. It is me classically distracting myself from the detail of how I am really feeling, like when you are battling through fatigue or aches at mile 25 at the marathon and using whatever you can to get you through to the end. Music has other ways it helps us, with being uplifting and inspirational and having emotional association that aids us, but it also can distract and aid dissociation.
However, the earlier mentioned study by Morgan (1977) showed that despite the prevalence of such these dissociation strategies were not the main “cognitive strategy” among elite runners. In fact they tended to use an associative strategy.
So these elite marathon runners stated that they actually paid very close attention to their own bodies and especially noticed what happened within their legs and feet as well as monitoring their breathing closely.
They also did keep a note of time, heck these are elite runners, I watch my Garmin a great deal, but these guys are watching it with more interest than I am! However, they generally stated that the pace they adhered to was dictated by how their body felt.
When marathon racing, these elite runners also tended to instruct themselves to relax and keep the muscles loose throughout the race. They tended to be people who dealt with anxiety very well outside of running and though there was much, much more to the research, these are the bits relevant to what this hypnosis audio track is going to help you with.
It is far more common to think of runners using dissociative strategies, but these studies all do highlight the fact that runners who excel are mentally actively in some shape or form while running. I hope you realise that and at the very least see the benefits of that.
One such cognitive strategy then, as already suggested here today is that of ‘association’ and this is particularly prevalent with introverted elite distance runners. I suspect that most of you readers are not elite runners, and so we may not have as much awareness of ourselves when running. Those of you that have only been running for a short period of time may not know your own limits or how to spread out your exertions within your longer runs as well as elite runners who rely on such an awareness.
This hypnosis audio track enhances your ongoing capability awareness when running as well as use an associative cognitive strategy when running to get a good sense of whether to really push on with your pace, or whether to ease back during a long training run, or a race with a specific desired outcome where it is particularly pertinent.
When I write about an associative strategy, I am referring to one whereby you tune in to how you are; how you feel, how you think and how you are generally. This awareness is often considered unhelpful as it reminds us of pains and aches and tiredness, so many tend to favour dissociative strategies such as the one I use in another hypnosis audio track here. I know people who count, who listen to music, who recall lists, who imagine past and future runs and all sorts of things as means of dissociative strategies.
The study suggests that too much dissociation, especially running through considerable pain using dissociation, can cause injury and cause us to ignore real-life issues and problems.
It is shown in the research that having an associative strategy is what helps many elite runners thrive and we’d be foolish not to learn from them. So simply follow the steps in this hypnosis audio track and develop your own associative cognitive strategy, and you can enhance your long training runs and race more effectively. You’ll be so pleased with the results.
4. Runners High
Audio Description
[]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 that results in the body being flooded by endorphins and feelgood chemicals when we engage in running.
I certainly experience this, particularly after a run, though according to the research and actual evidence, there is speculation about what it is and how it happens. There is very little evidence to suggest it happens as a result of increased endorphins in the brain, and we really need more research and well-designed studies to be more sure of what is happening physically within us to cause this.
The fact of the matter though, is that the vast majority of runners, especially when certain levels of fitness have been achieved do report that they enjoy a general sense of well-being after they have been running and way back in 1979 Mandell wrote in the Psychiatry Annals about such a thing as the “runners high” existing.
Mandell (1979) wrote at a purely theoretical level based upon personal experience and considered neurochemical literature illustrating effects of various drugs on the central nervous system, drawing parallels to what goes on in the brain when we exercise. Mandell also suggested the role of serotonin was more important and this has since been confirmed a study conducted by Chauloff (1997) which showed the importance of neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine as well as serotonin (feel-good chemicals known to effect mood) as they were much more present following exercise.
So although there is discussion to be had about the real chemical production in the brain when running, we can be sure that it happens to make us feel good and also that if it keeps on feeling good, we are going to be more inclined to persist with our running. Heck, when we enjoy something and it makes us feel good, we are going to carry on and do more of it, right?
This hypnosis audio track helps you make sure you derive the most enjoyment from running and ensures you of that “runners high.”
The evidence may not be of much interest to you, or really that much use, but I hope this hypnosis audio track is one that you’ll use for great effect as I certainly have been doing. Once I had read the paper by Mandell (1979) I also read the personal account and seeming cognitive strategy that was chartered within it and having read about how exercise and our thoughts can influence feeling, it made a lot of logical sense to use hypnosis to develop and purposefully engineer our very own “runners high”.
Mandell’s account even stated that these cognitions were said when charting the runners high subjective experience:
“The running literature says that if you run six miles a day for two months, you are addicted forever.”
Our aim is not to get you addicted of course, but this is the kind of suggestion that the researcher said whilst engaging in the “runners high”. I think you are going to love the way this hypnosis audio track enhances your enjoyment of running.
5. Advancing Of The Runners Mantra Using Hypnosis
Audio Description
[]First of all, let me kick off with a dictionary definition of what mantra actually is:
man-tra
Noun
1. (originally in Hinduism and Buddhism) A word or sound repeated to aid concentration in meditation.
2. A statement that is frequently repeated; a characteristic formula or refrain.
Whilst out on a club efforts/intervals session on the sea front with Bournemouth AC recently, when we were gearing up for the final interval, World 50km champion and leader of the session, Steve Way determinedly shouted out the words “leave it all out here” referring to using up your reserves and really pushing it hard for the last rep. No sense in doing intervals if you don’t really push yourself after all, eh?
I was properly heavy legged up until then. Though as I repeated those words “leave it all out here” I mustered up more energy, I chased down a couple of guys who had been consistently in front of me and kept on repeating that to myself.
It worked wonders. The new expression served up by someone who inspires me combined with repetition and a sense of meaning as I repeated it to myself, really worked wonders.
It is this “sense of meaning” point from that previous paragraph that punctuates this hypnosis audio track a great deal. I mean, any old repetitive thoughts are often the domain of runners whose internal dialogue turns into something akin to that of someone suffering from OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) from time to time… Most regular runners will know what I am talking about I think.
It is easy to repeatedly utter words in your mind when running, it easy to continually count your steps or your breaths or even to devise repetitive strategies that simply distract your mind from what is happening in your body.
If I am going to use a mantra, it needs to be more than another way of distracting myself or dissociating from my ongoing experience. It needs to be more than just an aid to my concentration. I can do that in a number of more productive ways.
So this audio session has two tracks – the first one shows you how to construct and create the most powerful mantras for yourself. The second track is a hypnosis session that installs and supercharges your mantras for use when you are actually out running.
You’ll end up with a number of very powerful, resourceful mantras that you simply say to yourself when running and they’ll elicit wonderful responses within you when you need them.
I consider my running mantras as essential as my running shoes and GPS watch these days – so if you are a runner, come and get your mantras organised and ramped up ready for use and advance your running performance as a result.
Hypnosis For Running
By [Adam Eason]
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