Whether you are an amateur golfer trying to improve your handicap, a fly-half looking to increase your accuracy, or a performer navigating auditions or even stage -fright, SFH can help you get your brain working for you rather than against you, and see you getting more of what you do want and less of what you don’t.
I can help in a number of ways to get you performing at your best and dealing with set-backs in a resilient, solution-focussed way. This might mean:
- working on emptying your “stress bucket”. When life is getting on top of us, it is harder to shut down the primitive, fear-based anxious part of our brain that hijacks the present moment and makes it difficult to think clearly. We start worrying about what might go wrong, blaming ourselves or other people and generally getting in our own way. Learning how to manage our life stress is crucial if we want to perform at our best.
- reframing how you think and feel about certain situations, so that we turn anxiety into focus and threat stress to challenge stress. We can reprogram the neural pathways that look for failure so that you don’t repeat old mistakes.
- mentally rehearsing key moments or skills to improve our chances of success. As the saying goes, “perfect practice makes perfect”.
- improving your mindset around failure. In one of his speeches at Dartmouth, Roger Federer described the ability to be “completely focussed on the shot you are playing, then focussing completely on the next one…learn[ing] not to dwell on every shot…it’s only a point”. This enables you to be mentally present throughout a match or audition, and also take whatever learnings you can from it forward in a practical, positive way.
If you would like me to come and speak to your club or group to give them a window into how SFH can work for them, and leave them with practical tools that they can put into practice straight away, then please do drop me a line.