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Does Ronaldo need hypnotherapy?

Submitted by sophie on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 13:39.

So who was watching the Champions League final last night?

I only caught the end of the match - and the lead-up to the final penalty shoot-out.

What can I say? Each player came up to take their penalty... and then it was Ronaldo's turn. As he strode up to the ball, I found myself saying out loud: 'He's going to miss'.

How did I know that? Beause every muscle in Ronaldo's face and the expression in his eyes said that he was going to miss. Ronaldo didn't think he was going to take that penalty successfully... and so he didn't. In that moment, Ronaldo didn't believe that he could do it. And he was right.

I've been working with lots of sports people recently, from runners to water-skiers to skiers to horseriders. They all tell me that, to get the edge in their particular sport, it is all about the mind. They know this and understand it.

If you are fully fit and trained to perfection but you're not giving your ultimate performance, it's all about what's happening in your mind. Maybe it's the core beliefs about yourself that have formed over the years: what you believe you're ecapable of, what you've been told, so many things that can affect you hypnotically without you even realising it.

Maybe it's something that has happened to you during a match or competition that has lodged firmly in your mind and won't let you move on. For Ronaldo, this might have been the penalty he missed recently in an earlier stage of the competition against Barcelona. Missing a penalty in front of a crowd of 98,000 would certainly have been enough to set up a doubt in his mind.

So Ronaldo, if you're interested in releasing the emotions around these past experiences so that they just don't bother you anymore and you can get on with the business of taking penalties, you know where I am. Give me a call.

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