Performance anxieties and skill acquisition are innately intertwined. Every athlete has their own personal relationship with the mental game. Thus, every athlete should be treated as an individual.

GOAL: Enhance tennis performance using a peer-reviewed scientific model of skill-focused imagery & hypnosis

Adding hypnosis as a method to upgrade skills imagery is akin to turbocharging your practice. Like using a magnifying glass to focus, hypnosis clarifies imagery and emotions.

Each of the following disciplines/techniques are stand-alone methods for enhancing sports performance. I have incorporated them into a unique and extraordinarily successful multi-sensorial tool. The purpose of this article is not to go into detail about each of these techniques. Rather the focus is to integrate these methods into the PETTLEP model of imagery.