Pole Vaulter Uses hypnosis to win gold medal

Positive Hypnosis -

in a second you will read an article about Olympic pole vaulter Steve Hooker who recently took Gold at Beijing. How nice to see a positive article about hypnosis instead of the usual rubbish we have to see and read about!

For example the recent BBC1 episode of New Tricks which portrayed a very sinister picture of hypnosis. I know it was a complete load of old tosh but unfortunately it will again put that little bit of fear in people's minds which may lead to them getting valuable help.

Anyway here's the article about Steve Hooker.


Who would have thought that a big part of becoming an Olympic gold medal pole vaulter would be learning how to conquer your fears? That was exactly the issue for Australian pole vaulter Steve Hooker, the first everAustralian to win gold in the area of pole vaulting. How did Hooker do it? The amazing thing about this story is that Steve Hooker overcame his fears of pole vaulting through hypnotherapy. His sports psychologist used hypnotism and visualization techniques to help him mentally be ready to do what he had to do to win the gold.Back in 2001 Hooker told The Australian Daily that he was contemplating quitting pole vaulting all together. He was throwing tantrums during training, not being able to cope with the mental aspect of the rigorous discipline needed to excel.Hooker said, I was throwing poles, cracking tantrums, I was in a miserable bad mood. Your whole life, it really brings it down when its really what you want to do and you cant do it just because its not clicking in your brain. A lot of peoples careers end with this sort of thing but I just really worked hard. I tried a million different things to try and get around it. It was at this point in his pole vaulting he decided to try hypnotic therapy. It's not like she had me walking around acting like a chicken or anything, It was more getting really relaxed, so your subconscious comes to the forefront, and just having her run through scripts about what things I needed to focus on.I would talk to her at the start of the session and say, I want to talk about lowering the pole vault in my last couple of steps and jumping off the ground. I would tell her the cues I wanted to work on, so she'd work it into the things that she was saying while I was under hypnosis, Hooker explained.The therapy was certainly a success as can be evidenced by his gold medalpole vaulting performance today as Steve Hooker cleared 5.96m to set anOlympic pole vaulting record and grab the gold. The whole competition was mentally and physically the hardest thingI have done in my life. Hooker admitted. So how does Hooker feel about his hypnotherapy? I felt like that kind of stuff was cool. The more you do it themore you realize pole vault is mental. Just having any sort of mental stimulation, where you are thinking deeply about what you're doing,helps. I guess for Steve Hooker success in pole vaulting and gaining the gold was simply a battle of mind over matter

Have you lived before?

Another part of my job which i love doing are past life regressions (actually I love all parts of my job!) Taking people back to a previous lifetime can give them an incredible insight into their present life, it can also help to clear up stubborn problems which aren't responding to normal methods.

I would like to hear other people's past life stories so if you have had a past life experience either by hypnosis or any other method please drop my a line at chestereft@aol.com.

Have a great week

Paul

Your Life or a new TV?

I was having a chat yesterday with a fellow hypnotherapists and she was most concerned about fees or put another way how much to charge for her services.

Well i don't know the answer. What i do know is that if you don't value your service then no one else will. During my 20 years in practice this has become more and more true.

Many times over the years i have had people come in pleading with me to lower my price for them becuase they were on this or that only for me to find out later that they are taking a cruise or driving a new car.

I said to my colleague "how much can you put on saving someone's life, or their marriage or helping them step out from a life of quiet desperation or saving them from a life of pain,
or a whole bunch of other things we can help with.

If someone who spends £1500 + a year on cigarettes is not willing to spend £250 to stop killing themselves then they can't want to quit that much. You can bet your life if their tv blew up they would find the money to replace it. It's all a question of priorities. The people who want help to change their lives value our service. they appreciate the skill, time and dedication we have put into it (not to mention the considerable cost!).

You're right she said my service is worth much more than i'm asking for it...and bye the way I don't think you charge enough she laughed as she went along the driveway.

Maybe i'm not???

a few pics I liked from the weekend

Here are a couple of pictures which I think indicate how blessed I am to have such a beautiful area on my doorstep.

About time I posted again

It's been a long time since I posted on my blog and I can't understand why because I have a whole lot to say.

So much has been happening this last few months, come to think of it so much will be happening in the next few months as well!

Well this last week end I had a bit of a chill out. Yes the Kay family got the tent out and spent 3 days in a lovely spot in Wales with some friends. There is something about camping that i enjoy and I can't quite nail it down yet. I love being around nature so that's one thing, but it's also great to get away from the house for a while, no T.V, no phones, my mobile was off, I suppose there is a part of me that likes to rough it bit. Anyway we had a great time and our children loved it.

Another good thing is that you actually get time to chat more, no household stuff to do like we would at home, so Debbie and I could chat more and we were able to chat with our friends round the campfire over a couple of glasses of wine.

No mention of Hypnotherapy or EFT or anything really to do with our work which means that i was fresh and raring to go on Monday morning. In a world where we are constantly overloaded with information it is nice to just have a day or two off!

Jet deal with Saudi Arabia

Just read in the news today about a major arms deal with Saudi Arabia. The £4 billion order will secure British Aerospace Jobs and that of course is good news but... why are we supplying a regime with one of the worst human rights records in the world. A country enslaved by the house of Saud who keep their citizens under control with fear, torture and death? A country where woman have no say and are treated as second class citizens. At the moment they are allies of the west of course but let's not forget so was Saddam hussein's Iraq at one time, when it was convenient.

How shameful that we have these successive Governments who preach to us one thing while doing another, bit like the Saudi Royals actually! We hear all about the phoney war on terror all the time which gives them the excuse to take more of our freedoms and then they are back slapping about supplying this regime with high tech killing machines. When will the human race ever wake up?

Madeline McCann

Whatever your opinion is, the truth is that none of us have all the facts in this case. The endless speculation that is coming from the media is doing no help for anyone least of all Madeline. If she is still alive then the attention on her parents is being diverted away from the efforts to find her.

I find it difficult to believe that her parents had anything to do with her disappearance in fact I don't think they did at all. Some of the suggestions coming out at the moment are totally unfounded and appear quite ridiculous.

What we do know is that paedophiles rings are extremely well organized and very clever. They also contain many high ranking officials in the Police, Judiciary and Government. Also people of vast wealth who can quite easily cover their tracks and arrange for the finger of suspicion to point elsewhere - that's why they get away with it, plus people just do not suspect such apparently upstanding citizens!

I hope that this little girl is still alive and that she will soon be back with her parents and that this case will help to highlight the hundreds of thousands of children who disappear every year whose plights never get any publictiy at all.