Self-Hypnosis and Cognitive Sports Psychology For Runners

Seminar: With Adam Eason

A Thorough, Evidence Based Approach To The Psychological Side of Running

Adam Eason Introduces This New One Day Seminar For Runners:

There are no pre-requisites for this  running for hypnosis one day seminar – it is aimed at runners of all abilities who wish to boost their running performance using self-hypnosis and cognitive sports psychology.

Elite athletes, world-record holders and world champion sports people have benefited from my work using hypnosis for the advancement of running, but the vast majority of those who benefit from my work in this area are regular runners who want to improve their running performance in some way.

 

Adam wrote a series of articles in Running Fitness in 2013

How Did This Seminar Come To Be?

Self-hypnosis is where I started my journey into my beloved professional field… It helped me to make seemingly miraculous changes physiologically and psychologically that I had not dreamt possible at that stage in my life.

I taught my first self-hypnosis seminar back in 1997. I continue to run them ever since – they are and always have been a real love of mine. I have authored a great many published articles and lectured around the world on the subject. I have recorded audio programmes that sell globally and written two of the bestselling books on the subject; ‘The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis’ is the book that represented my work from the early years of my career in the late 1990s and early 2000s. That book has now been superseded by my work “The Science of Self-Hypnosis – The Evidence Based Way to Hypnotise Yourself” which refutes a lot of the content of the previous book. As a result, all my seminars are now based solidly on evidence-based principles (as much as possible) and sit on a foundation of research studies to support what is taught.

My own experience and knowledge of hypnosis has advanced as a result of teaching and lecturing around the world about the topic. The way I teach self-hypnosis has changed and advanced greatly too. I am now combining my two passions and as of 2014, I am now also teaching runners how to use self-hypnosis (and cognitive sports psychology strategies) to advance their running performance.

I ran my first marathon back in the year 2000, and have run at least one a year ever since. Some years, I have run many more (in 2012, I ran 5 in consecutive weeks, running PBs in two). Running has become a great love of mine even though I don’t have a natural runners physique. I am a thick set man, who grew up playing football and rugby, and endurance running has not always come that naturally to me especially given my tree-trunk thighs. With all my toils, I decided to research and use my professional field to help me with my endurance running. Those years of research and experimentation culminated with the publication of my book ‘Hypnosis for Running’ which marked the fusion of my love for the field of self-hypnosis, cognitive sports psychology, evidence-based practice and the simple joy of running.

My work with runners has featured on prime-time television on the BBC helping runners alongside former Olympic champions. It has also featured in the best-selling running magazines in the UK, on the most popular running podcasts and across the internet. It was no flight of self-indulgence when I began blogging on my Hypnosis for Running blog combining these two great loves of mine. Evidence shows that self-hypnosis and cognitive sports psychology can advance running performance in a wide variety of ways.

My book entitled ‘Hypnosis For Running’ has received some impressive plaudits, here are two:

“Any elite athlete know that in order to win, your mind as well as your body needs to be in top shape; without self-belief your goals are so much harder to achieve. Here we have a book that offers to show you how to be in, and stay in, control of your mind while you run. It lays out a wide array of goal setting principles and techniques, cognitive strategies, mental imagery processes and of course self-hypnosis tuition that, if adhered to, could see your running taken to unimaginable new heights.

This isn’t a light read; this work draws upon conventional sports psychology, cognitive behavioural therapy, rational emotive behaviour therapy and various other approaches combined with the author’s lifetime of experience using and researching self-hypnosis. But if you are prepared to diligently follow the steps and guidance given on how to be motivated, control arousal levels, get in the zone and engage in mindfulness you can gain a comprehensive insight into proven methods of running faster and better using your mind. The more you read each section, the clearer the steps become and the easier it is to follow the techniques described. If the prospect of tapping into a latent power that has always existed within, and can transport you to your running heaven, fills you with excitement don’t delay in getting this book. Spend the time on the thought, reasoning and conviction outlined here and you will reap the rewards. Five Stars”

– Running fitness magazine.

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“I don’t think I have ever met another sportsman, from any sport, who didn’t think that mental strength, mental power and mental qualities played a key part in performance not only for themselves but for others in their sport too. Yet, if you asked me how many people I knew who had a planned mental training programme running in parallel with their physical training schedule, I would raise only a few of the fingers on one hand!

I wonder why this is?

Possibly because 99% of the material available about ‘training’, in print and on the web, only covers physical training. So we are overwhelmed with all manner of advise and learned articles on all aspects of how to play better or run faster and longer but almost nothing on the all important mental aspects.

Now that has all changed with the publishing of the book Hypnosis for Running: Training your mind to maximise your running performance by Adam Eason, hypnotherapist, author, experienced marathon runner and UKA Coach.

This is a significant work and will go some way to addressing the paucity of literature geared to enable runners to maximise their mental performance. Make no mistake these 367 pages are geared to runners wanting to take practical steps to develop a mental training programme covering all aspects of improving their physical performance through improved thought processes.

This is the kind of book you will always have on your bed-side table ready to dip into any of its 18 chapters. There are extensive chapters on setting goals, understanding of hypnosis, runner’s internal dialogue, relaxing, banishing excuses, getting in the zone, as well as suggestions for formulating a mental training programme to run a long side your physical training plans. In particular I thought the chapters on ’Belief of a Runner’ and ‘The Mindful Runner’ were the best material I have ever read on those subjects.

I mentioned that this was very much a practical book that runners will use on a daily and weekly basis – a constant source of ideas and reference. In these pages there are countless suggestions for self-hypnosis sessions to try and not only whilst sitting comfortably at home.

Adam, an accomplished marathon runner himself, is proud of the fact that this book is very much research-based and not just his own ideas, although he does provide those too. Practising self-hypnosis whilst actually running is also covered and this is an area I will use a great deal myself in my extreme ultra endurance runs. Adam’s practical approach to using self-hypnosis comes across in all aspects of this book and that is one of the reasons I feel that this is such a useful book for us runners to have access to.…”

– William Sichel, Multi World record holding ultra runner.

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Following the success of the book, I have been inundated with requests from people wishing to attend a class and learn the material and skills directly from me. I am delighted to announce that I have now developed this seminar to the point that we are incredibly proud of it and can’t wait to share it with you runners, and we have got some dates available for you to choose from now!

Fill in the boxes on this page to immediately be sent further information, and an up to date listing of the venues and dates throughout the next year. If you have additional questions, please email me now or just phone my offices on 0845 890 9000 and I’ll always respond within one working day. Thank you.

I Have Evidence Of How Capable My Mind Is!

As well as being taught the theoretical underpinnings of self-hypnosis and cognitive sports psychology, with our sources coming from academics, developers, researchers, elite sportspeople, authors and coaches, you’ll get to learn plenty of practical applications for you to use as preparation for use when you are running, when you are preparing to run and after running as you reflect and to help speed up recovery.

You’ll learn skills that will convince you without doubt of your ability to hypnotise yourself and use your cognitions in ways that affect your running performance. Ranging from cognitive strategies used by elite athletes, mental imagery techniques supported with empirical evidence as well as more modern feats of hypnotic phenomena that leave you convinced that you are hypnotising yourself and are capable of great things with it’s application.

With the skills and information you learn on this seminar, you can:

• let go of old unwanted thought patterns,
• form new progressive thinking patterns,
• advance running performance,
• develop your endurance,
• motivate yourself more,
• derive more joy from running,
• create wonderful new behaviours,
• overcome adversity in events and during training…

There are many applications of self-hypnosis and cognitive sports psychology for runners and you’ll learn a great deal of them in this seminar and you’ll get ongoing support to advance your skills thereafter too.

You learn how to increase your ability to communicate with yourself before, during and after your runs, and how to communicate with yourself more effectively.

You’ll learn how to use your imagination with great effect and a number of cognitive strategies; those used by elite athletes as well as those used by runners of differing psychological profiles – all of which have evidence supporting them to support their efficacy when it comes to advancing running performance.

Self-Hypnosis can be used for:

• controlling pain,
• distorting your perception of time,
• accelerated healing,
• controlling blood flow,
• letting go of limiting behaviours and a number of other applications too –

This is not just theory; I use self-hypnosis to help me complete the multi-marathon running events I compete in each year with great effect and many runners today of all abilities use these skills to advance their running performance.

During this one day seminar, you learn how to do all those things…Including the time distortion, pain management and lots of other seemingly mind-blowing applications…

In this Self-Hypnosis and Cognitive Sports Psychology seminar you will be shown how to enhance your control of these things

This practical, eye-opening seminar shows you a structured and easy to follow method to take yourself into hypnosis and how to then use it with a variety of sports psychology applications:

You will:

• You get taken into guided hypnosis by me.
• You will make progressive changes to the thinking that fuels your running ability.
• You will be convinced of your own ability to use and apply self-hypnosis and cognitive strategies throughout your runs and preparation.
• You will get a good insight into how your imagination, cognitions (thoughts, beliefs, internal dialogue etc) and feelings effect your running performance and learn how to use them for your gain.
• You will heighten your awareness of how to utilise your psychological resources to their full potential. (Most runners train their legs, but how many train their brain? The brain is used just as much, if not more!)
• You will learn ways to use powerful, evocative mental imagery to advance your running performance.
• You will learn a number of other evidence-based hypnotic skills to enhance your responsiveness to hypnosis too.

 

On this Hypnosis for Running seminar, you will learn:

• An easy to follow, structured method of taking yourself into hypnosis.
• A wide variety of specific cognitive strategies to use to advance your running performance.
• Evidence based principles to make sure you and your running derive the most benefit.
• Key ingredients of effective goal setting.
• How to advance your running with a wide variety of mental imagery techniques.
• How to control your perceived level of effort when running.
• How to effect your physiological responses to problematic thoughts or self-talk.
• Researched psychological strategies of elite runners.
• Proven, real-life applications that any runner can use right away.
• How to control your intensity levels.
• How to relax hypnotically to powerfully deep levels (to help advance recovery, control arousal levels and to relax under strain when running).
• Advanced and intriguing methods and applications of self-hypnosis.
• How to deepen your perception of hypnosis to levels that are utterly blissful and dynamic.
• How to nurture your relationship with yourself when running.
• How to build self-efficacy as a runner and know the evidence-based benefits of doing so.
• How to get motivated, driven and inspired to run at anytime and any place and even in the face of adversity.
• Amazing insightful ways to apply self-hypnosis to your running preparation and during training.
• How to utilise mindfulness, REBT, CBT and other types of evidence-based therapeutic interventions to benefit your running.
• How to use self-hypnosis to generate physical and mental changes.
• How to use self-hypnosis when actually running and performing.
• A range of convincers and experiments to show you what you can do with self-hypnosis – designed to convince you of it’s effectiveness in class!
• Real-life applications that any runner of any ability or level of experience can use.

In addition to that, you also…

• Relax in a friendly, informal group setting, and learn with other runners from a real variety of backgrounds and ability levels.
• Have a lot of laughter… I mean a LOT of laughter, this course is a lot of fun
• Get the opportunity to do some psychological exercises you may never have thought possible!

 

“I would wholeheartedly recommend Adam Eason’s self-hypnosis training to anyone who is considering utilising the benefits of hypnosis. Adam makes the entire subject highly accessible and you can make progress at a surprising rate (after just 4 hours tuition I did not notice a needle being put through my arm having created anaesthesia using self-hypnosis!). The members area is also excellent with a number of resources that can help you progress with your self-hypnosis skills.”

Simon Jones FICM, Group Managing Director, Interlaken Group Ltd

What did Gary Turner have to say about the Hypnosis for Running book?

In the foreword (to the Hypnosis for Running book) written by Gary Turner, he states

“This book is aimed at runners and is unique in approach…
I consider it the fast-track to running success and enjoyment.”

You Will Experience Hypnosis:

I personally take you into hypnosis on a couple of occasions throughout the day-long seminar — you’ll know what hypnosis is without a shadow of a doubt by the end of this seminar! This also does ensure that you are fully acquainted with the varying ways in which you can experience hypnosis.

How To Find Out More and Join Us:

Fill in one of the boxes on this page to immediately be sent further information, and an up to date listing of all our venues and dates throughout the next year. If you have additional questions, please email me now or just phone my offices on 0845 890 9000 and I’ll always respond within one working day. Thank you.

Who should attend?

• Anyone wanting to find out more about the psychological way to advance running performance.
• New runners, experienced runners, club runners, those looking for a PB.
• Runners who find training a chore, runners who need some fresh inspiration, runners who want to go faster, runners who want to go for longer…

An investment of one day and a nominal fee lets you tap into years of accumulated knowledge and empirical research; learn proven methods and newest techniques; and return home informed, inspired and ready to advance your running ability.

You Learn A Skill That Will Help In Many Areas Of Your Life:

This day-long seminar develops skills you are sure to use for years to come; it heightens your awareness of your mind and enables you to use it for more and more benefit when running. You discover how to use that resource that resides within us all, now you have a choice to awaken it and use it and advance your running performance without having to necessarily run hundreds more miles!

Fill in the boxes on this page to immediately be sent further information, and an up to date listing of all our venues and dates throughout the UK over the next year. If you have additional questions, please email me now or just phone my offices on 0845 890 9000 and I’ll always respond within one working day.

Thank you.

I offer you (what I consider to be) the finest tuition, a most enjoyable experience, lots of laughter and the opportunity to advance your running performance, to achieve more when you run, to excel with your running and to feel really good about it.

Your investment (less than £100.00) includes the following:

• Over 9 hours of scheduled tuition.
• Refreshments of teas, coffee, juices and water at regular intervals.
• Complete course manual in electronic format.
• Course handouts.
• Fully supportive environment.
• Access to future free refresher courses.
• Ongoing support to help you develop your skills.
• Multiple hypnosis sessions and hypnotic experience.
• Lots of fun and dynamism.

Invite Us:

If you wish to bring me in to your event, running club or association to run part of or all of this seminar, please get in touch.

My seminars do tend to book up well in advance, so if you are one of the unlucky ones and miss out on your preferred date, make sure you register for my weekly ezine where I announce new dates first — you can get my ezine by signing up on most pages of my main website — you’ll find out about the new seminar dates first!

Booking and Group Discounts:

We do have discounts available for more than one person booking together, so do please get in touch to find out about those.

Get in touch with us to be sent further information, and an up to date listing of all our venues and dates throughout the UK over the next year. If you have additional questions, please email me now or just phone my offices on 0845 890 9000 and I’ll always respond within one working day. Thank you.