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Sports Therapy All sport areas have physical requirements as well as a mental, emotional requirement. The more solitary the pursuit the more important inner strength and focus become. Team sport requires an interactive ability to sense where your team mates are and what their needs may be, while maintaining your role within the group. For both groups and regardless of the type of training undertaken to improve ones skills requires more than a love for the sport, it requires a mental discipline just to allow the competitor to maintain a program of physical training. The better developed your ability to focus holistically the more fine tuned you will become as an athlete, it is always interesting to see just how far you can take this, as improved ability and fitness is an ongoing process not necessarily impaired by age. The amount of pressure felt by you the athlete determines the need for an understanding of how you respond to these pressures and how you can generate an inner state that promotes stamina. My definition of stamina is simply an emotional mental fortitude, it does not matter how strong the body is if you can not maintain the necessary control over that body. There are few who would challenge the idea that stamina and attitude are the primary forces in determining the difference between first and second in any competitive area many is the time we have witness a fine athlete succumbing to pressure . I also believe that energy expended with the right attitude returns a better result, where you are undertaking a process to gain physical or competitive superiority. There is less struggle and so less physical energy is expended, that is why love for your sport, for winning or even fame is vital if you wish to be the best you can be. General Aims
Physical Benefits: Energy Therapy aids the body in returning to ready state after training, encourages blood flow and improves the immune systems function ensuring maximum benefits of any training. If used beforehand or regularly, relieves muscle tension reducing the risk of injury during training or competition, by increasing blood flow without increased blood pressure ensures maximum strength and efficient use of nutrients, particularly beneficial before long distance or intense sporting events. Can reduce swelling, joint discomfort, and generally ease any pain, a treatment has an ongoing effect so if competing weekly or over a period of time an injury, not only can, but usually does continue to ease or heal while still in use, and i do mean heal, this is not about binding something up so you can suffer after the event is over. Obviously where the injury must be rested, in the case of a break or sprain, you would be looking for rapid and immaculate recovery. Mental Benefits: Energy Therapy enhances awareness which aids confidence, and can improve reflexes Assists the athlete in maintaining focus and remaining centered throughout an event, particularly beneficial for golfers, long distance sporting events, or where an audience may be distracting. shooters, archers, Javelin, high jumpers, all sports where rapid assessment of space in relation to self is important for good judgment and successful outcomes. Mental fortitude and improved attitude so setbacks will not influence the whole performance and the mind can be used as a tool to achieve and help the athlete pull out that little bit more that is always available when the mind is strong. By combining Energy Therapy with Hypnotherapy you have a powerful combination to overcome personal limitations, negative thoughts, or even the struggle with success and the demands that brings. Emotional Benefits: You can only ever do the best you can do, knowing what that is is powerful stuff, and only by knowing what your best is currently, can you improve. Some limitations are hidden under the surface and as such can work to undermine your determination or, equally damaging, waste your valuable energy on being determined to overcome the limiting belief. Allows an athlete to perform with good heart so the desire to achieve is strong and reduces the need to expend energy feeling doubtful, anxious, or self critical during competition, this enables the competitor to relax physically, which paradoxically guarantees the best possible performance on the day. Particularly beneficial in a team where one personality can upset others and throw a team into disarray, rugby, basketball, netball etc, also benefits a golfer where playing a bad hole may have a detrimental affect on the golfers performance for the next one, in any competition where the effort is ongoing or in segments a bad run is usually caused by negative feelings about the most recent performance. Remember your sport is what you do, not who you are. Identifying too closely with your performance makes it all to easy to fall into the pressure trap, to lose the pleasure gained from participating and deplete your ability to perform well at any given time in any given circumstance. The person you are is the person who loves sport and that can stay with you always. Also Available, team work: Personal Meditations created on CD, Team Meditations to bring a group together quickly either at the beginning of a season of where one team is created out of their usual teams for competition at higher levels. Hypnotherapy for Motivation, Focus, Pain management etc. Sessions are $80 hour (onsite visits include a Mileage charge of $1 per mile)
testimonial Hello my name is Mitch Rae. This is a piece to let anyone wondering,
the talent that Dorothy possesses with her work. I am 24 years old, Qualified Personal
trainer, fit, Determined and driven to succeed in whatever my goals may be. Since I was an early teenager Martial
arts was the centre of my life where training nights were two times a week. But
in my world that was just the club training (Xtreme martial arts academy) I would start my day at 6 am with a 5 km
run, and then around Midday it would be time to go to the gym working on muscle
strength and power, later in the evening if it was not a Club training night, I
would shoot to the local park for some Anaerobic training primarily different
forms of sprints. I ate like a horse and slept like a
baby. And also had great results for a long time I was the fittest person I knew
and also the fastest. When I went to university for my
Personal Training study, I was educated in new ways to push my body and reap new
rewards/levels of fitness which undoubtedly was put into action ASAP. I was training harder than ever and my
body felt excellent, which was great because I had a Black Belt Grading
approaching, which consists of two 8 days of vigorous testing. Unfortunately I was stopped in my tracks
one day about 4 weeks out from my grading. Due to the high amount of over
training I was undertaking I managed to rip the tendons in both of my feet which
resulted in collapsed arches. This put me on crutches for 4-5 weeks and then
followed a very frustrating healing process. After ditching the crutches I could walk
normally without any excess load on my feet, so this meant no running, jumping,
kicking or weight lifting. Obviously I wanted this fixed ASAP to carry on with
my goals as I had already missed my Black Belt Grading. The first remedy that was prescribed to
me was anti inflammatory medication combined with Physiotherapy. This had no
effect what so ever and came to the point where I just did not show up anymore.
My Doctor then referred me to a Podiatrist which fitted my shoes with a
specially melded Orthotic which essentially supports the arch to promote healing
this definitely helped as I noticed a difference when I didn’t use my orthotics
however it did not even come close to resolving the problem it served more as a
pain relief during the day as I was on my feet. 18 months had past and I was in no
better condition than the day I got off my crutches, my fitness was atrocious
and I had another Black Belt grading that I could attend if I felt I could pass. I went to my Doc asking if there is
anything else I could try, he suggested I could try Cortisone injections in the
affected areas of my feet, to which I quickly agreed, four injections later in
each foot, and two days of general recovery after and my feet had a sense of
numbness to them, which is all I cared about and started to train my ass off for
my grading. The cortisone starting wearing off leading up to my grading, it was
enough to get me through the grading but shy of the Pass result I was shooting
for. During this times Dorothy had been
training with me at my Tae Kwon Do club and had
a general idea of what was going on. One evening after training she offered
me an opportunity to come see her at her business and see what she could do for
my Feet, at this stage I was very over the whole issue and was almost in a state
of accepting that this is what I had to deal with. However I went along, and Dorothy had me
lie down while she examined my feet, she then told me what she intended to do
and how it was going to heal my feet using her energy
talents. So I was lying on my back, Dorothy at
the foot of the table with her hands on my feet, and we had some general chit
chat going, then I noticed how hot her hands had become it was quite
unbelievable, she then walked up the side of the table to work on a higher point
of my leg and a pins and needles sensation followed her hand and my leg, Dorothy
seemed to know the whole time what was going on and proceeded to laugh at me, I
guess I deserved it because I thought to myself how can we as humans live in our
body for so many years and not realise the potential we have to use
as Dorothy has? it
was a weird feeling because in a sense I thought I Knew a
lot when it came to the body but it was apparent
that my knowledge stopped purely on a physiological level. Anyway at the end of my first session
Dorothy informed me that my feet will in fact
feel worse tomorrow! Due to the new energy flow through my feet which she had
channelled and my feet were obviously not accustomed to. And she was right. The
nest day my feet were quite sore even when sitting down! But 2 days later that
disappeared, and this is when the real healing began to start. I saw Dorothy twice a week all sessions
roughly 60 minutes where all it consisted of was me
lying on a table and Dorothy standing at my feet feeding me energy. Week by week I felt my feet improving
which at first I was reluctant to believe as they had
been injured for so long. Then after one session Dorothy told me I
am free to start running again!
This was music to my ears, and as soon as I got home my running shoes were on
and I was out the door, unfortunately The saying is true “our fitness does not
rise to the level of our expectations, but falls to the level of our training”
and I was soon out of breath and nowhere near the distance had I envisioned
running. However my feet were supporting my
actions and I was very impressed. Dorothy then cut our sessions to one
time a week, and taught me an energy flow exercise I
could perform myself, whenever I felt my feet were tweaking on me, I did this at
night before I went to sleep, in my mind it was like a failsafe, to make sure my
feet were in a stable condition for the next day. After three months of seeing Dorothy my
Feet were healed no more orthotics, no more Cortisone or Physiotherapy. Dorothy managed to heal my feet in three
months, where health professionals had failed for 18 months. And to this day I hold Dorothy in high
regard, and have all the time in the world for her, as this was a desperate time
in my life. As you can tell, Fitness is who I am, and two years ago that was
taken away from me, which Dorothy rectified. Not to mention the hours of sound advice
she has up for offer while she has you on her healing bed
J
. The best part of this journey was
Dorothy offered her services to me, that means she went out of her way to ask me
if I wanted to be healed, that makes a big difference, and sets Dorothy out from
the “pack”. To anyone that has “Tried Everything”
you haven’t. Dorothy is completely
honest and will tell you exactly what she can do for you. Regards Mitch Rae
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