SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY: what it is --and does
A Sports Psychologist helps with the mental and emotional factors influencing health, healing, overall wellness and sports performance, including conditioning and rehabilitation. He understand that thinking and imagery intimately affect the physical body and its healing capacity. He has experience using tools to enhance the intense motivation needed for peak performance.
Dr. Paschal Baute has focused on the power of imagery, mental rehearsal, systematic relaxation and attitude in sports performance for many years. He has helped athletes perform at championship levels. He was an Athletic Instructor in the U.S. Army, a Physical Education major at University of Notre Dame, and has coached at three levels: high school, college and the U.S. Army.
Paschal is also trained and experienced in the use of hypnosis to enhance sports performance. He himself has medals or championships in seven sports. He is the former President of the Bluegrass Hypnosis Society and member of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and trained in Neurolinguistic Programming. He used hypnosis in Smoking Cessation for many years with 85% success rate, also with appetite control and some addictive disorders. He has clinical techniques to deal with stress, anxiety, pain and depression for athletes and others.
Besides his work at Midway College in Human Resource Management, Paschal leads a program he has created for non-violent addictive offenders at the county jail.. Although semi-retired, he is still “on call” for hypnosis for smoking cessation and mentoring in sports psychology.
Paschal had 29 boxing matches on the college and U.S. Army military levels, with 21 wins. He held the welterweight championship in the Far Eastern Command (Japan, Okinawa, Phillippines, Guam, Hawaii, etc), and the welterweight Bengal Bouts championship at University of Notre Dame. In short, he has a rich background in both competition and coaching.
He and his wife are outdoors persons, still avid skiers and love winter-time. He is available for consultation in sports performance. Tel (869) 293-5302
His Web site is www.paschalbaute.com
Summary. The sports psychologist:
1. Understands how the mind, via attitude, imagery and metaphor programs the body for healing, wellness, and for athletic performance.
2. Has systematic and tested ways to promote healing, wellness and performance.
3. Understands the interplay of emotional, mental and physical factors..
4. Has experience with imagery training and systematic relaxation techniques.
5. Appreciates the effect of exercise on the immune system, total wellness and disease.
6. Understands the specific role of personality types in resistance and change.
7. Is familiar not only with typical ways people sabotage or undermine themselves and their health, but has tools for countering and reversing negative self-talk
