The Inside Edge
Exploring how the best in the world navigate all the noise to consistently perform in the in high-pressure environments. The purpose? To provide access to world-leading athletes, coaches and subject-experts to help you explore your potential.
The Inside Edge
Dr. Fraser Carson | Sport Psychology and Hypnotherapy for performance
Welcome to episode 13 of the Inside Edge Podcast. This week's guest is Dr. Fraser Carson - a sport psychologist who received his PhD from the University of Hull and a Masters in Coaching Education from Ohio University. Over the years he has worked with a a range of elite individual athletes, coaches and sports organizations such as Melbourne Football Club and is also lecturing at various universities around the world. Dr Carson is also a former professional rugby league player and his current passion is triathloth where he has completed an incredible 9 Ironman events in Australia.
I have worked with a few psychologiests over the years, but Fraser was different in that he offered hypnotherapy as a method of overcoming limiting beliefs and increasing confidence. It's been a fascinating journey working with him and I'm sure you'll enjoy hearing from an expert in the field of performance psychology.
Topics covered:
- How pressure affects our thought processes
- Where our limiting beliefs come from and how to overcome them
- How to deal with perfectionism mindsets
- Creating cultures by focusing on individual needs
- Effective goal setting - going away from setting outcome goals to setting performance and process goals
- Tools to implement to help out mental game wihtout the need to sepnd lots of money on psychologists or training programs
- How sports hypnotherapy has helped a range of athletes with their confidence and feelings of control
- I was getting better and quicker results doing it this way than more traditional sports psychology
- Optimal performance states and how to reach them