After taking a line drive to the face, Spartans pitcher Megan Eichelberger developed a gun shyness that caused her performance to take a nose drive.  Christian Worstell writes a profile on Eichelberger’s use of self-hypnosis to overcome her fears and bounce back to full performance (here).

Eichelberger entered into a deep state of relaxation and then spoke affirmations to herself regarding her pitching and her ball performance which she taped.  She also played the tape while she was sleeping (evidently going for hypnoidal response sets).  While her method was not the approach I would use for fast effective performance enhancement and phobia removal, it worked for Eichelberger as she slowly overcame her fear and got her game back where it needed to be.

Good job.

All the best,
Brian

Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [brian@briandavidphillips.com]Certified Hypnotherapist
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.BrianDavidPhillips.com