OPTIMUM HEALTH INNER CIRCLE September 2012

Football: A metaphor for personal excellence 

The National Football League Season officially starts on September 5th, though they’ve been playing for a month already. But then that is how professionals are successful, they practice as realistically as possible all of the time, in their mind. 

When I was younger I use to love sports and especially The Green Bay Packers and one of my idol’s was their amazing coach Vince Lombardi.


  When Lombardi took over the Packers they had a history of losing and had had a record of 1-10-1 the previous season. His first year as coach and with almost exactly the same team the Packers ended the season with a 7-5 record, and that was only the beginning of the Green Bay Packer Legend.

So what changed in those same players and made such a difference? The way they believed, and the way they practiced which ultimately changed the way that they behaved during the game.


The reason that sports are so popular, aside from the gambling (really, this is Youngstown) is that sports are a metaphor for life. In taekwondo this concept is called “The Way” or “Do.” And the belief is that the principles and way that you live on the training floor will translate into the way you behave off of the training floor.

When you get to the quality of the NFL or Olympic quality athletes, they are all doing the same weight training, similar practices, pretty much the same of everything.

So what separates the winners from the losers in football, the Olympics and in life is the mental game, creative visualization, NLP and self-hypnosis (you knew I was going to bring this around to NLP-hypnotherapy, didn’t you?). 

Many professional athletes know that you can use hypnotherapy to eliminate your limiting beliefs, and learn to rehearse your skills (like sales presentations) and performance through self-hypnosis including: Troy Aikman; Matt Stevens; Lance Zeno who played for the Browns and Green Bay Packers; Mark Schmidt of the Rams; Max Starks, of the Steelers; Eric Johnson of the Saints; Bill Bates, Jim Jeffcoat and Kevin Brooks Dallas Cowboys; Jeff Jaeger, Bob Golic, Steve Beuerlein, Mike Dyal of the Raiders; Pete Koch of the Chiefs; Jim Byrne LA Rams; and Lyle Alzado of both the Cleveland Browns/LA Raiders. 

“Practice does not make perfect, practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect.” 

I do not know who is responsible for that quote but the great NLP founder Dr. Richard Bandler said something quite similar when he said “If you say to yourself ‘It’s difficult to get up in the morning,’ ‘It’s hard to cease smoking,’ then you are already using hypnotic suggestions upon yourself.” 

Everyone is not an Olympian or a NFL athlete but NLP-hypnotherapy, self hypnosis and meditation can teach you to live life to a higher standard optimizing the things in life that you do well and using these same resources and to influence your sub-conscious mind in many other directions that you find amazing when you step up. 

Remember that this is not a dress rehearsal. You can and must take control of your life, quit being influenced by the media and become the only voice that directs your life.

Namaste` 

Sam


Now, I am the voice
I will lead no follow
I will believe not doubt
I will create not destroy
I am a force for good
I am a force for God
I’m a leader
Defy the odds —-
Set a new standard —-
and step up
Step Up
STEP UP !              ~~ Tony Robbins

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