Imagine you are a superhero who is afraid to trip on your cape while everyone is watching!. Even superheroes trip sometimes, and that’s okay—it just shows they are real people. A “freeze” is just your brain taking a tiny nap because it got a little bit confused by all the noise.
Why This Happens: This is the “Law of Anticipated Judgment” at work. Your brain treats social attention as a “threat to survival,” relying on “untrained learnings” that say “perfection is the only way to be safe”. This leads to a “battle of wills” where your fear of failure makes your “Engine” cross the peak of the curve into “Strain” and “Rust-out”.
How to Fix It: Use the “Swish Technique” to reprogram your mind for “calm confidence”. Quickly replace the “Moment of Anxiety” picture with a “Moment of Achievement” picture where you are “smiling and master of the situation”. By “pre-training” your brain, you “bypass the watchman” at the door of your mind.
Context: The Yerkes-Dodson Law shows that we need a “little bit of pressure” to perform, but too much makes us “freeze”. Hypnosis helps you stay in the healthy “Stretch” zone by using the “Right Brain’s” power of visualisation.
