Using EFT in Sport and the Performing Arts Peak Performance using EFT | Using EFT to develop mental toughness | Testimonials

A revolutionary new energy therapy is being used to help athletes develop mental toughness and achieve peak performance consistently. Sean uses EFT to erase the destructive power of negative thinking and is often able to change the limiting beliefs of a player in a matter of minutes.

EFT can also help professional and amateur players:

• Eliminate doubt and fear
• Attain enhanced confidence
• Clear past performance trauma
• Eliminate sports related anxiety
• Breakthrough comfort zones – set and achieve performance goals
• Increase range of motion
• Assist in the healing of old injuries
• Speed up the healing of new injuries
• EFT has also had remarkable success when helping players deal with ‘yips’

It is easy to follow, simple to use and the results are often immediate and long lasting.

Top athletes are always looking to improve, searching for that effective edge. At the elite level that edge is often in the mental/emotional area.

Peak Performance using EFT

The mental edge raises the athlete from average to elite. The difference between good and bad days is almost always due to emotional causes. Barring sickness, the athlete always brings the same highly skilled body to the sports arena. The only thing that changes is the effect the emotions have on the body.

All athletes have their share of negative thoughts and self doubt: these negative emotions disrupt the body’s energy system. When negative emotion starts to creep in it makes your muscles tense, which affects your timing, rhythm and sometimes your will to live!

EFT is an emotional form of acupuncture. Instead of using needles we tap on the well established meridian points with our fingertips. This balances the energy system and allows the athlete to be calm, focused and relaxed under pressure.

For Elite Athletes EFT Addresses Three Main Areas

• Expanding the athletes comfort zone
• Erasing negative feelings that can get in the way of peak performance
• Focusing on problems in specific areas of the athletes performance

1. Expanding the athletes comfort zone

The comfort zone is the mental place where an athlete subconsciously believes he belongs. It is what keeps performance at its current level. Athletes have a tendency to accumulate lots of unconscious self limits and self-defeating beliefs that can sabotage their performance.

Athletes must mentally see themselves play at the new level before they will achieve it constantly. Incredibly I have often been able to change the limiting beliefs of athletes in a matter of minutes

2. Erasing negative feelings that get in the way of peak performance

These feelings usually revolve around the following: frustration, anxiety, fears, expectations and physical tension

3. Focusing on problems in specific areas of the athletes performance

EFT can be used to focus on whatever is not working in the athlete’s performance and remarkably in most cases put it right

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Using EFT to develop mental toughness

Inner belief and confidence under pressure are qualities all great athletes/players and champions possess. It’s a quality most other athletes ( and their coaches/managers) sometimes, spend a lifetime trying to acquire.

The majority of players never get close to that level of certainty in themselves and their abilities, because over time they accumulate a number of self-defeating thoughts and emotions. These occur sub-consciously and therefore outside of the players awareness. This subtle build up of negative thinking usually results in progress being sabotaged.

EFT can help athletes get the belief and level of certainty in themselves. How? By erasing the negative self-defeating thinking that has built up over the years, and by using the body’s energy system to accelerate the process of goal setting.

EFT has also shown impressive results when helping athletes with the following normally, debilitating problems when competing: anxiety, self doubt and choking.

When the player is in control of their negative emotions, they have an opportunity to experience the elusive, ideal emotional climate for competition. The Ideal Performance State (IPS). IPS is characterized by a combination of feelings: physical relaxation, mental calmness, low anxiety, energy intensity, and optimism.

These are the ideal feelings players need to experience during competition, under pressure. EFT is remarkable at helping the players create a pressure free zone, when the situation is difficult and at its most threatening, an essential skill for competitive success.

‘EFT often works where nothing else will’

Sean has also achieved impressive results with clients from the performing arts

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Testimonials

‘When I first worked with Sean I was a little skeptical about EFT. I felt I was mentally quite strong as a player, but still keen to try it.

Over the last year I have been amazed at the way EFT has helped me play controlled aggressive tennis. Before a match, Sean and I discuss any negative thoughts that I feel might distract me from playing my best e.g. the fear of losing or fear of letting others down. We also address some limiting beliefs I might have about beating a particular player.

We then use EFT to take the ‘sting’ out of the negative thinking and focus on how I would like to play. In a short time the negative emotions are erased and I find my head is clear, I feel confident to go out, trust my game plan and enjoy myself

Using EFT has made me even stronger mentally. It’s reassuring to know that if I feel there are any barriers appearing before a match, I can just blown them away. EFT allows me to focus on whatever it takes to play my best tennis.

I am beginning to feel, there are no limits to what I can achieve’

Niall Keegan
Tennis: Welsh No1 under 16’s
Great Britain No 8

‘I have always been interested in what it takes to be the best in golf. It is the same in any sport; the most successful players always talk about the importance of being mentally tough.

So when Sean introduced himself as someone who specialised in using Emotional Freedom Technique to help elite athletes/players deal with the emotional pressure of competition I was open minded and prepared to try it.

EFT utilises the conventional ways of developing mental toughness, visualisation, mental rehearsal and positive affirmations, but its real strength is in addressing the negative, self defeating thoughts that can often sabotage a performance.

My personal gain from using EFT is two fold:
Firstly, I feel I have become a better teacher. Learning the technical side of golf is of course essential. However, to be able to play your shots under pressure requires the ability to keep calm, stay in the moment and play each shot as well as you can. I feel I have a greater understanding of how I can help my pupils achieve this.

Secondly, my own performance has improved.
Before working with Sean I didn’t address the negative side of my game. Partially because golfers don’t like to admit the have the negative self-destructive side to their play. It has been a bit if a revelation, because by using EFT to take the power out of the negative emotion, I’ve been able to identify the key areas I need to improve. My thought process is more relaxed, I have a clearer focus on what I need to do and I feel I am getting the right balance to play my best golf consistently

Finally I am enjoying playing competitive golf a lot more’

Simon Swales
Golf professional
Radyr golf club

‘My name is Jane Sinclair and I play the violin professionally for The B.B.C National Orchestra of Wales. I sit Assistant Principal 2nd violin – a seat where you wouldn’t normally expect to have to play solos – certainly not ones so exposed that out of approximately ninety players you’re the only one playing.

This is exactly what happened to me about two weeks ago when I opened the first page of a piece of music by a Japanese composer

I had to start and finish the movement on my own very quietly – enough to give any one of those players an attack of nerves/stage fright.

I was introduced to E.F.T. by Sean about a year ago and have used it a number of times with amazing results, so I decided to use it on this occasion.

When I got on stage I found I was actually looking forward to the performance and when it came to it I was totally focused and almost in an hypnotic trance- so much so that I didn’t notice people clapping at the end of the movement – a thing not normally done until the end of the piece.
E.F.T. and especially that experience has changed my professional life and therefore enhanced and had a knock on effect on the rest of it. I will always be grateful to Sean for introducing me to it.’

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