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Unbreakable Mindset - Hypnosis for Athletes Returning from Injury Stronger Than Ever · The Hypnotist

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  Welcome to The Hypnotist, the show that gives you inside
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  access to cutting edge hypnosis with real clients facing
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  genuine. Issues.
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  Brought to you by The Hypnotherapist, demanded by
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  celebrities, CEOs and even royalty, Adam Cox.
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  These recordings took place live from Evans Clinic in London's
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  world famous Harley Street. So get yourself comfortable and
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  enjoy today's episode of The Hypnotist.
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  Hi. It's Adam here now.
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  This is a hypnosis session about the psychological strength and
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  resilience, the mindset required to come back from an injury.
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  And I was working with a very talented and ambitious young
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  client who really. Wanted to make.
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  It big in college football, American football, but they had
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  a brutal injury and they were in the rehabilitation phase.
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  But they knew. That things like scholarships
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  were dependent on them doing well in the next season and
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  therefore. They couldn't afford.
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  To be tentative and hold. Back during this process, so
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  they wanted. A really strong mindset
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  connected to this idea that they can recover quickly, they can do
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  the training, they have that mental strength.
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  They don't need to kind of limit themself or be worried about
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  injuries that they could take on the role models of people from
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  the past that had come back stronger after injuries and had
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  that mental strength. But also the idea that study is
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  also important that these scholarships required certain
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  averages in their. Grades as well as.
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  Performance on the field and it uses levels of disassociation.
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  One of the key recruitment techniques is the show reel
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  video. So they imagine seeing their
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  performances, seeing their training and even seeing their
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  future on a screen. And this particular client would
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  see their video on a laptop, a MacBook, and they would look at
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  that on the screen. So we use that integrated within
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  this. And I filmed this when I was out
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  in Dubai, so I don't have my normal microphone.
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  But at at its core, it's quite a thorough session that is useful,
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  broadly speaking, for people coming back after injury.
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  It's a rehabilitation session. Now everything I do is bespoke
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  to the clients that I work with. This was American football.
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  It was a particular type of injury based around the knee and
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  the the legs, what they needed to do and their motives were
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  getting into a college and getting a scholarship and eating
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  more protein. That might not be your goals.
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  So if you like the idea of something created for you and
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  bespoke and customized, have a look in the description.
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  The show notes for this episode and.
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  You'll see various. Ways of working with me.
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  For now, though, find a quiet, comfortable place where you
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  won't be distracted or disturbed.
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  Relax. And enjoy the session.
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  Take a deep breath in and as you breathe in, breathe in that
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  resourceful feeling of calm and relaxation.
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  And as you exhale, just allow your eyelids to.
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  Close. And as your eyes close, that's
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  it. Just release any tension in your
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  jaw, your neck, your shoulders, breathing in that feeling of
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  calm relaxation and as you exhale.
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  Just. Allowing any feelings of
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  tension. Any stress?
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  Any worries to? Leave your body.
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  In your outward breath. That's it.
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  And the. Deeper you breathe.
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  The more relaxed you feel and the more relaxed you.
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  Feel the deeper. You breathe.
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  That's it. As your body relaxes, your
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  imagination can awaken. But for now, just begin by
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  bringing your attention into your body, not to fully relax
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  it, but just to feel it more clearly.
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  I want you to start with your feet.
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  Maybe you can notice your feet making contact with the ground
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  and then focus your attention on your legs.
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  And maybe you could imagine muscle fibers, the structure of
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  your skeleton, the stability that's already there, and then
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  just bring your awareness into your knees, not analysing, just
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  noticing. And I want you to get a sense, a
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  feeling of gratitude or perspective that these knees
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  have recovered and are recovering.
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  They are adapted and adapting, rebuilt and rebuilding as you
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  connect with the idea. That your body.
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  Doesn't go backwards. Breathing and relaxation,
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  exhaling tension and accepting that your body learns it
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  strengthens and. It improves.
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  And the more you notice that, the more required confidence
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  begins to build. And I want you to think, think
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  of a time when you were stepping onto the field, not a future
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  game. And it doesn't even have to be a
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  pass game, just the feeling of stepping out onto the field, the
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  sound. The space the.
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  Sense of focus. And maybe you can notice how
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  your attention naturally narrows, that when it's time to
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  play, there's less thinking and more reacting, almost like your
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  body knows what to do. Like everything slows down just
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  enough for you to read, respond, act, and decide.
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  And I want you to think when you were in that state, the best
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  that it's ever been. Maybe we can call it a?
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  Performance state, A flow state. Maybe you can remember where you
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  were and what you were. Doing at that.
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  Point in time where you had all of the resources.
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  You. Needed.
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  It just seemed to flow. And the more you think about
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  that state, the more you realize that your mind already knows how
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  to access it. And I want you to imagine.
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  Somewhere. Just off that field is a small
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  room, maybe a room that doesn't. Exist but it.
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  Does in your imagination, and I want you to imagine walking into
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  that. Room.
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  And seeing a MacBook there on a table and I want you to imagine
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  opening the MacBook. And it's.
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  Either your password. Or your fingerprint that opens.
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  It and I want you to imagine you're seeing a video on that
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  screen, you know it's not reality, you know it's just a
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  recording and on that screen I want you to see a.
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  Recording of the injury. Maybe you're seeing the drill,
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  the exercise, but you're seeing it like a camera recorded it.
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  You're not in your body, and I want you to imagine that you
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  could change things on this screen.
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  I want you to imagine turning it from color into black and white,
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  and just notice how that turns down the intensity.
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  You can observe what happened without needing to experience
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  what happened. I want.
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  You to imagine then. Shrinking it down.
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  Making it small. It's a struggle to even see what
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  was happening, but I want you to get a sense that it is now
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  small, distant, black and white, and you can extract all the
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  wisdom. From that injury, all of the
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  things you would do differently in preparation in the actual.
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  Event itself. And in the.
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  Days and weeks that followed and I want you to get a sense that
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  this is all your mind. Needs to know about that injury.
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  No need to. Replay it.
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  No need to. Be back in your.
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  Body just knowing the memory is there.
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  Is enough to extract all the value, and that's enough unless
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  you watch it. You can rewind.
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  Play it forward, you notice that perhaps?
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  When you fell maybe on that left side.
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  That moment is over. It was in the.
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  Past Finished Complete No. Need to go.
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  Back to that. Memory anymore.
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  And what remains is not. Danger.
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  What remains is information, experience and growth.
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  And as you stare at that image from the past, you realize most
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  players never have to rebuild, and that means they never
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  develop what you now have. They say that every cloud has a
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  silver lining, and I want you to focus on the silver lining, all
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  of the unexpected benefits or advantages to that injury.
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  I wonder if you have more awareness, more discipline, more
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  resilience, more knowledge, perhaps more mental fortitude,
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  and just allow your brain to go on a mission to extract all of
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  the benefits that came from something undesirable.
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  You didn't want the injury. You don't want any more injuries
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  like it, but that doesn't mean it didn't give you something
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  valuable. So give yourself permission to
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  extract the value and perhaps coming to a conclusion that you
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  didn't just recover, you became harder to break.
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  And I wonder whether it will be minutes, hours, days, or weeks
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  where you can reach a point of gratitude that you had the
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  opportunity to make a comeback and come back stronger than you
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  were before. As you hold that thought, I want
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  you to imagine seeing on screen a bright colorful image of
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  someone. That you know or know of.
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  Who came back stronger? Maybe it's someone that you play
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  with, or maybe it's someone that was playing before you were
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  born, or maybe it's someone that's playing now in the NFL.
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  I want you to imagine seeing, seeing a montage, a short film
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  of them before them getting injured, them rehabilitating and
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  then coming back stronger. I want you to see how they
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  moved, see how they were able to trust their body and when you've
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  got a clear idea and you can see them on screen after.
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  Their recovery. When they did indeed come back
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  stronger, I want you to imagine seeing them at a level that they
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  could never have been before the injury.
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  And when you can see that version of them on the screen,
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  let me know by nodding your head.
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  That's it. And then imagine stepping into
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  the screen and then beyond the screen into their body.
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  I want you to imagine seeing through.
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  Their eyes. But more importantly, I want you
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  to connect with feeling that certainty, a sense of what it
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  would be to feel that you're stronger because you experienced
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  the injury and recovered from it.
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  And I want you to imagine perhaps feeling that feeling in
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  your body and imagine yourself on that field, but in your
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  position and just feeling that sense of invincibility, a
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  wonderful feeling of feeling unbreakable, that you've came
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  back stronger. And I wonder if you can dial up
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  self trust, the ability to trust your body, trust your knees,
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  trust your tendons, trust your muscles with an idea that
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  recovery and strength requires the right ingredients.
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  And as you appreciate your body's ability to rebuild,
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  adapt, and come back stronger, I want you to feel a desire to
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  make miss your body, to give it the right fuel to come back
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  stronger. And I wonder if you can connect
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  to an idea that there's a difference between trying to
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  play well and being the kind of player who makes the big plays.
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  And from now on, I wonder if there is an identity that begins
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  to form an identity of being an unbreakable playmaker.
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  If the. Idea of being unbreakable is
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  willing to be accepted by your unconscious mind.
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  Let me know by nodding your head.
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  And it's the idea of that unbreakable is an identity.
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  Bones may break and bones may heal, but feeling unbreakable
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  gives you an edge, a Viking mentality.
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  Fearless no matter what and who is in front.
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  But not just strength, power, resilience.
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  I want you to embrace the creativity of a playmaker.
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  The person who sees the opportunity, sees the
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  possibilities, looking for that window of opportunity in which
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  to make something happen. Not waiting, not hesitating, and
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  certainly not holding back. I want you to connect to that
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  identity, the unbreakable playmaker.
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  That. Reads, reacts, commits.
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  Because the playmakers don't think about the outcomes.
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  They trust their training, their intuition, and their ability to
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  know that where they focus on increases the probability of
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  those self fulfilling prophecies.
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  Believing it can happen activates the resources to make
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  it happen. And if that feeling ever shows
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  up, that feeling of trepidation, anxiety, a feeling of fear, I
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  wonder if you can recognize it differently now, No longer as
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  fear, but as readiness, your body preparing you to move
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  faster, react sharper. So instead of pulling back, you
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  lean in. Because those same hormones link
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  to anxiety. Adrenaline and cortisol actually
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  are the very same hormones that give you the ability to have an
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  edge when playing. Consider adrenaline, the ability
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  to continue playing through pain, to be more alert, to think
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  2 moves ahead. And the cortisol is just
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  alertness. Consider it a win win.
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  If you feel relaxed, you're in the flow state.
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  And if you feel that surge of alertness, then you're in the
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  alert state and trust that your body will utilize whatever state
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  you're in to make the most of the resources that exist in that
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  state. I want you to imagine drifting
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  back into that room, seeing the laptop.
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  And now imagine the next game. Not a practice game, the next
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  major game, a key moment. Maybe you can imagine a play
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  unfolding and observe yourself without hesitation, moving
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  instinctively, decisively. And maybe it's a big tackle, an
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  interception. Maybe it's something where you
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  even surprise yourself. And as you see yourself on the
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  screen making those plays, I want you to get a sense that you
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  are creating in advance the very plays that will end up in your
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  show reel. I want you to create an idea.
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  You're not waiting for the right opportunity.
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  You are making the right opportunity.
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  And I want you to see how natural that looks on that
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  version of you, not holding back, see you more intense, see
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  you more committed, and then repeat, almost flicking to the
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  3456 moments in the game which are all about you.
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  And then another moment, and then another, each one building
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  your highlight reel. And just as you're watching, I
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  want you to imagine coaches are watching, Scouts are watching,
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  seeing you act with impact, not hesitation.
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  And that's what stands out. There is an invincibility and
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  unbreakable resilience in that version of you in your very next
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  game. And as you think about the
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  season, you realise there's only a limited number of games, and
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  within each game only a limited number of opportunities.
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  And each one matters. Not in a stressful way, but in a
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  focused way. I want you to realize that
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  you're not here to play safe. You're here to make it count.
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  And alongside all of this, there's a deeper sense of trust.
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  That when you prepare fully, you can let go and play freely,
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  doing your part and trusting the rest.
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  And whether you think of it in terms of faith, God, your
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  unconscious or your intuition, you realise that something has
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  your back and that when you fully commit, you.
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  Open up the. Resources required to turn a
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  thought into an action, an action into a result.
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  But before you leave that screen, I want you to also see,
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  see how you study, study in the classroom, see how you study
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  after school. I want you to see the same level
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  of dedication on the field, off the field, and in the same way
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  that you can imagine your next game, I want you to imagine
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  taking exams and tests and seeing that same resilience,
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  same mental fortitude, same level of self belief and fully
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  committing. And I want you to get a sense
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  that this creates balance. Intellectual effort complements
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  physical effort, and physical effort complements intellectual
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  effort. The stronger you get in one, the
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  more you unlock resources into the other.
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  What fuels your body is protein and what fuels your mind is
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  learning a cycle that feeds off each other to make you stronger,
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  smarter, bigger and ready for any challenge that you face.
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  And I want you to imagine. Imagine at the end of the
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  season. And I want you to imagine seeing
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  no longer on a laptop, now I want you to imagine on a big
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  cinema sized screen. See yourself with your highlight
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  reel, play after play, tackle after tackle, interception.
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  Perhaps something rare, unusual, impressive.
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  See how many people you've inspired on the way.
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  But see that you're also impressing those that make
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  decisions on places, highly coveted places that many people
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  are competing for. And if you can get a sense of
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  what that future film, that show reel will look like, the version
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  of you that is invincible, unbreakable, resilient, strong,
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  focused, determined. Let me know about nodding your
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  head. That's in.
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  I want you to fully embrace that identity that you are
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  unbreakable, but you are the playmaker.
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  I want you to get a sense that there will be opportunities only
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  you can see, and you are unleashing the desire to take
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  them. And as you hold that thought, I
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  want you to go back to 1 moment. Go back to the moment
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  immediately after your injury. Maybe you're in a clinic or
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  hospital recovering somewhere, and I want you to tell that
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  version of you that was injured, this is not the breaking of
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  them, it's the making of them. I want you to give them the
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  resources you now have back then, in that moment, so they
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  extract all the value from the injury and fuel it into a
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  defiant, unbreakable resilience. It's time to leave this place in
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  your imagination, but taking all these resources with you, a
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  willingness to go all in, avoiding any future regrets of
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  wondering what if? What if I could have done more?
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  I want you to take a deep breath in through your nose and out
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  through your nose and just wiggle your fingers and wiggle
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  your toes. Connect and calibrate into the
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  here and the now as I count from 1:00 to 10:00 to awaken you.
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  Starting to count 123 waking up 456, more alert. 7-8.
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  Open your eyes. Open your eyes 910 Wide awake,
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  wide awake. Wide awake.
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  Thank. You.
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