Helping athletes achieve their greatest goals with Neurolease therapy
We know that achieving success in any sport requires talent; when we watch our greatest sports heroes perform, we recognize (even if we don’t want to admit it) that they have an innate ability to do things that the rest of us can only dream about! We also know that becoming a successful athlete takes hard work. Achieving your goals as an athlete requires hours of dedicated, focused practice and exercise every day and every week, over the course of months and years. For athletes at the very top of their “game”, nearly every aspect of their lives can be dedicated to the single-minded pursuit of athletic excellence.
Yet achieving success as an athlete also requires maintaining psychological health as well as physical health. In other words, your mind is just as important as your body when it comes to achieving your goals as an athlete! Fears, mental blocks, negative thinking, and overwhelming pessimism can undermine a successful athletic performance just as quickly and just as easily as poor physical conditioning or lack of practice. And unfortunately, identifying and overcoming fears and mental blocks can be extremely challenging.
Sports Psychology and “Mental Blocks”
The psychology of mental blocks and so-called “mental toughness”—i.e. overcoming fears and mental blocks in order to achieve athletic success—is complex. Sometimes, a mental block might come out of nowhere and seemingly have no obvious origin: for instance, a gymnast may have performed well on the balance beam in the past, yet suddenly seems physically incapable of completing even basic skills. In other cases, a mental block may be rooted in a past injury: if making a tackle on the football field, for example, caused a serious injury, the player may be mentally hesitate to continue making tough tackles for fear of getting injured again. And sometimes, the mental block may stem from the pressures of success. With each successful achievement, the pressure to continue to improve, to advance, to succeed, can be mentally overwhelming and ultimately self-defeating.
All of these mental challenges boil down to our evolutionary “flight, fight, or freeze” response within the sympathetic nervous system. When the mind perceives a “threat”, it acts at an unconscious level to protect the body. For an athlete trying to perfect a new skill, overcome an injury, or advance to the next level of athletic success, the sympathetic nervous system can go into overdrive, creating cycles of negative thinking, enhancing patterns of poor performance (dropped balls, missed shots, falls, etc.), and even physically preventing the body from moving.
How Neurolease™ Works to Enhance Athletic Success
The key to overcoming mental challenges undermining athletic success is restoring the correct balance between the “flight, fight, or freeze” response—the sympathetic nervous system—and the “relax, repair, and restore” response—the parasympathetic nervous system. Once the sympathetic nervous system has been taken out of “overdrive” and brought back into balance with the parasympathetic nervous system, the mind can stop responding to “perceived” threats of injury, fear, or pressure and allow the athlete to perform successfully. Thus, the goal of Neurolease™ is to teach the mind to recognize and reject false signals that in the past would have activated the “flight, fight, or freeze” response. Restoring the proper balance between the “flight, fight, or freeze” response and the “relax, repair, and restore” response will enable and empower the athlete to continue to achieve athletic success!
Neurolease™ is an amazing new treatment available to athletes of all ages experiencing psychological blocks to success. It is a cooperative treatment approach harnessing a combination of powerful massage and cognitive therapy. Unlike traditional therapy, it requires only minimal verbal interaction between the patient and therapist during treatment. Instead, the cognitive therapist guides the athlete’s mind through mental exercises designed to activate the parasympathetic system. Minors are required to be fully dressed during each treatment and a parent or guardian must be present during each treatment session.
Collaborative Therapeutic Services (CTS) seeks to maximize clients’ options by offering a variety of services, hours, and service providers with diverse specializations. We offer evening & weekend appointments. Have questions? Contact Us Here or Call 813-951-7346. Located in Tampa, Florida.
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