Mat Lock:
Mr. Stewart, Walter, welcome to The Unleashing Potential Podcast.
Stuart Walter:
Thank you very much, mate.
Mat Lock:
It is a pleasure to have you here. Now you and I have a little bit of history. We’ve known each other for, I’m guessing two or three or four years now, actually.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah.
Mat Lock:
I’m very excited to introduce you to the Bay Games audience and the everyday Athlete Podcast Audience, and I just know that there’s going to be a whole tonne of value in this for everyone listening. If you could just tell us a bit about yourself, who you are, what you do, and then we’ll dive in.
Stuart Walter:
Okay. I guess let’s go on taglines. I’m the guy that world champions choose to get their head in the game. That’s pretty much me. At the moment, I’ve got 38 world champions I work with of the elite levels of sports. Also working on the, I guess the average sports. Also I’ve got online programmes, business and weight loss. Basically anything to do with the mental aspect of life basically. But I just love that elite level. I love pushing the limits of mind and body.
Mat Lock:
Yeah. Fantastic. So you are the founder and owner of Elite Mindset Institute and you are a professional clinical hypnotherapists and an LP practitioner.
Stuart Walter:
Yes. It doesn’t really say much. I mean, clinical hypnosis people would probably already judge me by I’m always going to make them to do some weird stuff. But it’s the concept. It’s the process. And I spend a lot of my time demystifying the whole making you do stupid things on stage, but the whole of the clinical side of it is actually coming from stage hypnosis.
Mat Lock:
Right. That’s interesting.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah. It’s fascinating. Even typical every day wording and life, we’re talking about being mesmerised. Anton Mesmer was the founder of modern day hypnosis. And it was known that basically you look into his eyes and therefore you became into this weird trance. So Mesmer eyes is actually the eyes that are created, like fixed focus stare. And that’s where it’s all coming from. So it’s within so many community channels these days. It’s just amazing.
Mat Lock:
Yeah, sure. Absolutely. And so you’re using those skills. You’re working with elite athletes, ambitious entrepreneurs and individuals and you’re helping them recognise their potential about achieving amazing results. Is that fair to say?
Stuart Walter:
Yeah, that’s fair to say. It’s interesting. I love the word potential because it’s like with real estate. You buy potential, but you’re only paying reality. I use the example of if anyone’s interested, a great equation I use for all my seminars and workshops is your existing results equal your potential minus your fears. Think about that. So think about what you could do and I can guarantee where you are now is a result of all your fears. So all we’ll do is basically getting question and manage your fears and next thing you get closer and closer to your potential.
Mat Lock:
Yeah, absolutely. Now let’s see, some people I suspect might tune out a little bit subconsciously even when they hear the word hypnotherapy because you mentioned the whole onstage thing and people being made to do crazy or silly things. And I know last time we spoke, but for this audience, my father was a dental surgeon for 40 odd years. And back in the day in the UK, they received hypnotherapy training as part of their clinical training. And he used that on and off throughout his career with some patients, not many. But there were a couple of patients in particular that had extractions done or other work done whilst hypnotised because they just couldn’t bear the thought of having an injection because they were good enough subjects that he was confident and he did some pre work with them and was able to use it to very good effect for that, which for me made a lot of sense.
Mat Lock:
But outside of his work as well with family members, you have people being nervous about taking their driving test, literally down to that level. Phobias of flying for example, bit of claustrophobic, for example, and had amazing results. So I used to be a nonbeliever. I was the classic cynical guy. Yeah, it’s all voodoo, nonsense. And I can speak from personal experience having being hypnotised several times by him for various reasons. It’s so powerful.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah, it is incredible. And it still blows me away with the results that my clients get. I typically, when I’m doing seminars, I do an example of a national sprint and hurdle champ back in 2008 that I worked with. He was throwing up two days before an event. So you can imagine that. And this kid is already number one in the country. So you can imagine someone number one in the country, what is he nervous about? Okay. It’s all pre determined. It’s all these programmes that are operating underneath.
Stuart Walter:
There’s judgement . There’s fear. There are nerves. And it’s if I was nervous last time, I’m probably going to be nervous this time. Therefore, next time he’s going to be. So it’s a never ending programme that he’s running. I mean, as an example, he was running 56.5 when I first met him. So for the 400 metre hurdles. Within a month, while getting focused on the end results, managing nerves and doubts and fees, we reduce this time down to 52.6, that’s 3.9 reduction. That wasn’t changing technique. That wasn’t doing anything else. You can’t train in a month and reduce your time by 6.9 seconds when you’re already number one in the country.
Mat Lock:
So nothing else changed, not nutrition, not training, not recovery? It was purely the mindset.
Stuart Walter:
Purely mindset, which is focused on the end result, removing nerves and doubts and fears because you’re into the physical aspect of sports. So what happens is if you’re stressed and nervous, your brain goes back to learned behaviours. Okay? So therefore it’s also going into survival, which is hide, tighten up. So you don’t actually relax.
Stuart Walter:
I mean, when you’ve got a tight muscle like this or relaxed muscles like this, and all of a sudden you’re getting greater expansion, greater explosion. Okay? All we needed to do with him was to relax, trust what he’s capable of doing because if you’re training relaxed and then you go to a competition and you’re tightening up, all the training’s useless because you don’t have the right technique, you don’t have the reach, you don’t have everything else.
Stuart Walter:
So all we did was just basically teaching how to remove the nerves and doubts on track and bang. Blitzed it. But you’re looking at that on track. That 3.9 second was a 27.6 metre gain.
Mat Lock:
Wow.
Stuart Walter:
You look at his average running speeds. So you look at that running down the track. I mean, he was already winning by five metres with the next in line, but now he’s another 27 metres ahead of that. All we got position looked at him. It wasn’t, what is he doing? But what are we not doing? They tightened up and went backwards even further.
Mat Lock:
Sure. And so that’s one of them. Was it 36 or 38 world champions now?
Stuart Walter:
38.
Mat Lock:
38 you’ve worked with. Across what range of sports are we talking here?
Stuart Walter:
With NRL for a Rugby League World Team’s challenge. I’ve got bull riders [inaudible 00:07:58], duathlon, BMX, rowing, solar rowing. What else have I got? Swimming.
Mat Lock:
Diving?
Stuart Walter:
Hold up.
Mat Lock:
Do you still have diving, or?
Stuart Walter:
No, I have diving second. Olympic silver metal. Paste.
Mat Lock:
Yeah. [crosstalk 00:00:08:17].
Stuart Walter:
Body building. Junior Olympia and Mr. Olympia overseas.
Mat Lock:
Yeah.
Stuart Walter:
So lots to be honest.
Mat Lock:
And do you go into the pseudonym of the athlete’s secret weapon?
Stuart Walter:
Yeah. Well, it’s funny. We just had a bit of a talk before that. One of my, a 15 year old diver I work with back prior to the 2012 Olympics. She was 15 year old Brittany Roven. I was working with her. Yeah. She was going through all sorts of changes and disappeared over to London. We finally got selected over there. But 15 year old, she just turned 16 before the Olympics smashed out a silver medal. When she was getting interviewed by Australian media, they go, “Hang on. You’re only just 16. You’re on the biggest stage in the world. You’re clapping all your opposition coming down. You’re patting them on the back side to get up those stairs. You’re so relaxed. You’re having fun. But as soon as you step on the step to go up to the platform, you just change. What’s your secret?” And she goes, “I’m not telling anyone about the secret weapon”.
Stuart Walter:
And that was basically it. the name stuck. It stuck. And it became my online programme. My brand for athletes. I mean, it’s more than athletes now. I do work with a huge amount of entrepreneurs, business people as well. So the athlete model and the business model very similar when you look at the big performance. One is more physical than the other is mental, but athletes are actually now creating their own, I guess, business identities. So they’re going into the brand in the business. Whereas a lot of entrepreneurs now are getting away from a typical corporate look and the game more towards the athlete. So it’s eating healthy, it’s exercising, it’s getting all that in there. So they’re basically moulding between each other and becoming almost very similar.
Mat Lock:
Yeah. It strikes me. Actually, while you’re talking, it reminded me of a recent chat I had with Felicity Galvez, the swimmer.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah.
Mat Lock:
Awesome lady. Love her to bits. And she was sharing, yeah, quite candidly I guess, her experience of how she got her two gold medals and the lead up. She was going into detail about the lead up to the Olympics and how it works. And it’s pretty brutal. The whole process of being selected and so on. But maybe it has to be. But nonetheless.
Mat Lock:
But she said when she was in Beijing and the banks to go into those two sort of key races in particular, one of the differences for her was she didn’t let go of caring. Of course, she cared. Her whole life revolved around this. But she relaxed. She relaxed into it and allowed herself to perform, obviously, at her best and came home with two gold medals. But that was definitely a key moment. Perhaps I didn’t realise the magnitude of that at the time, but now discussing this with you it becomes obvious.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah, it’s incredible you just look at a lot of other athletes and you see, this is the biggest stage in the world. They train four to six days a week, two to three hours a day, seven days a week for one event that might last 10 seconds every four years. How can you get in that zone?
Stuart Walter:
And that’s one of my unique abilities is to actually get them to go, all right. Bang. Here you are. Switch on. So no matter what’s happening in the lead up to an event, as soon as the goggles go on, or as soon as the helmet goes on for motor racing or a golfer grabs their club, instantly that trigger is going to trigger their mindset to go right back into that zone. Okay? So therefore I can virtually guarantee that every time you have step on the line, grab a club, put your goggles on, hop on the bike, put your shoes on, hop on the spikes or the starting blocks, you’re basically just switching straight into that mode, which is getting you to a relaxed state as well.
Mat Lock:
That’s interesting. And another example from my dad, actually, he helped a friend of mine who was a police officer and he was taking his police motorcycle test. And it meant a lot to him. That was what he wanted to do. And he was a great bike rider actually, but he was super nervous. And the trigger, that dad did some work with him. And the trigger was, he said, “The second I put the key in ignition on the bike to go and do the written part of the test, I was just flooded with the knowledge that I knew I was going to pass. I knew I was going to pass.” And from that, he said, “I enjoyed the whole test, actually because I was just in the groove. I was in my zone. I was doing my thing.”
Mat Lock:
For sure. He passed with flying colours.
Stuart Walter:
That’s amazing, that whole psychosomatic connection, which is the mind and body. If you’re thinking tight and nervous, you’re going to tighten up. Your body’s just ready to go into survival mode rather than relaxing.
Mat Lock:
Yeah, absolutely.
Stuart Walter:
If you do that. Yeah. It’s the same as I’ve got a lot of the post-career cup drivers, V8 drivers, same thing. Soon as their helmet goes on, bang, everything shuts out. They relax. They become mechanical. There are no emotions in there, They trust the automatic response because the speeds they’re going, it’s just incredible. They can’t overthink it.
Stuart Walter:
So as soon as you pull up, I guess you’re thinking out of this conscious mind, which is where all the emotions are down to this logical level, there are emotions down here. So therefore you don’t have fears. You don’t get nervous. You don’t second guess. You don’t doubt yourself. You don’t have anxious or anxiety responses because you just come back down to this logical. You almost become mechanical, which is how you train.
Mat Lock:
Yeah, absolutely. I wonder what drives the nervousness? What is it that causes us to get anxious, to get nervous? I trained for four years for a ten second race, for example.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah. It’s the pressure we put on ourselves, basically. You go, “Oh, I need to really perform”. So that need is enough to go, “But what if I don’t?” So therefore you’ve now got two conflicting thoughts within your head. One is going to be, “Yeah, I know I’ve got the abilities, but I’ve got the emotional responses. Your brain in times of pressure and stress, you always go back to learn behaviours. So when you got back to learned behaviours, if your last event you were nervous, your brain goes, “Oh, put pressure on. Oh, therefor I’m going to be nervous.”
Stuart Walter:
That’s how the brain works. It’s what we call a trigger-based response. That there’s going to be all the same triggers. But imagine we can rewire a positive response versus a negative response. And that’s all it is. It’s just like switching emotions around. To rewire it, you go, “All right, when the pressure’s on”. this is where you then go back to, “Hang on. I’ve done the training seven days a week, four hours a day for eight for one event that’s 10 seconds.”
Stuart Walter:
So instead of this automatic response, we’ve now got this new response. It’s like triggered by a sweet spot, like a traffic light. When you see a red light, you’ve already got your foot on the brakes. Do you know how many calculations happen in one second in your brain? Neural pathways fire.
Mat Lock:
Yeah.
Stuart Walter:
There are 3,000 neuro pathways fired.
Mat Lock:
Right.
Stuart Walter:
So I’ve got like a little demo, one tennis ball. So between here and there, 3,000 neuro pathways okay? Because your brain has to kind of hand eye coordination. As soon as the ball hits, you’ve got that response of catching it. But what if you just decide, “Hey look, I’m-“
Stuart Walter:
Okay. It’s the hand eye coordination. So where a lot of people go, “Yeah, just think of a happy place”. You can’t do that because your brain’s already fired. It’s already got that negative response, that fear based response, which is the protection, because it knows that if any athletes going out to push themselves, they’re going to hurt themselves physically and emotionally. They are going to push themselves to potentially breaking points. So the brain’s going, “Yeah, but I don’t want a break. So how can I hold myself back?” There’s all sorts of second guessing and doubting and conserving energy. And then you get to the end of it and go, “Could have done more”. Okay? I think your microphone’s off.
Mat Lock:
Oh, sorry. There we go.
Stuart Walter:
We’re back.
Mat Lock:
Yeah. You snuck the F word in there. Use the F word and it ironically not by design. I’m wearing a tee shirt for our athletes this year that signed up earlier fearless. But you used the word fear. I guess, is that what’s underpinning? Is it a fear that I won’t perform a fear? I’ll choke of fear. I won’t be my best, whatever it is.
Stuart Walter:
I use the example with fear. I mean, fear is again, we’ve got this, your existing results equal your potential minus your fears. You may think, Oh, but I’m not nervous”. Okay. Do you guarantee where you’re going to be? Can you relax? Are you second guessing? Are you’re doubting yourself? Are you not sleeping well? Are you churning at night? All those are fear responses. They’re all manifested behaviours based on that thing called fear.
Stuart Walter:
Our unconscious minds have got one job and that’s to protect you from potential harm, physically and emotionally. Okay. So in times of pressure and stress, we always want to go back to that, right? How can I protect myself? Look at the whole COVID thing that we’ve been through. Initially. It was just fear, fear, fear. Okay. That is what was spread, but you look at the reality of it. Okay. So what was the reality? Fear is only created through past experiences.
Stuart Walter:
Okay? You can only have fear based on the past experiences. So past experience is once you can disconnect that sensation of fear or the emotional connection to it, it’s just like cutting it off and going, “Right. If I could start life again now with everything I now know, what’s possible?”
Stuart Walter:
Because imagine a builder who every time he went back to pick up some power drill or power tool got electrocuted, how many times would you go back and touch it? You wouldn’t. And that’s exactly what emotional experiences are like. If this experience in the past hurt you, you wouldn’t want to go back and touch it. So you kind of remove yourself from it, suppress it and push it aside. So then when you need to go, “Right, I want to go and do this”. Your brain goes, “Yeah, but remember this one? That’s going to hurt you.” So it holds yourself back.
Mat Lock:
Awesome. So when you’re working with an elite athlete, let’s say, how do you try and address that? What’s the process you go through?
Stuart Walter:
It’s more of a questioning at the time because when people go, “I’m nervous, I get fears”. Okay. So it’s easy just to throw it out there, but I’m the one that kind of goes, “Okay, so how do you know what you’re feeling is a fear? What are you thinking is actually a fear? Is that a fear or is it reality?” Okay?
Stuart Walter:
You might have a fear of sharks, but you kind of have a fear of sharks sitting in your office. Probably reality. You can’? Have a fear of sharks standing on the beach. Okay. When was the last time they just kind of came up and got you? They don’t. If you’re up to your neck, you’re in the water and there’s one hanging off your leg, is that a fear? No. It’s a reality. So fear is only present up here based on what we think may or may not happen.
Mat Lock:
And that could be based on experience or we’ve seen something. We’ve watched yours. Most of us have never had a bad experience with sharks.
Stuart Walter:
No, exactly.
Mat Lock:
And we’re not going to, but we’ve seen a movie that instils that fear into us.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah, that we haven’t learned what fear is. We haven’t been programmed by parents or media or friends. Even if someone says, “Hey, look, public speaking is scary”. If you’ve never done it before, you’ve taken that belief on because you believe that person, therefore you go out and you conform to that belief. So with athletes, once you question, okay, what is fear? Fear is just the past. Okay. Can you have fear in the future? No. But what if you went to have a look at, imagine yourself on the podium with a gold medal around your neck. Is that scary? No. Okay. So why should you be scared now about that end result? And it can actually unwind and re engineer itself.
Mat Lock:
Yeah, sure.
Stuart Walter:
Go back. So therefore fear is not ever relevant.
Mat Lock:
Excellent. So that’s [inaudible 00:20:17] for me as a logical minded person in the way I think. That makes total sense and to deconstruct the subject that way for me is thoroughly logical and therefore resonates with me. But so then do you then instal, I mean, through hypnotherapy you then instal or give them systems to use that they can … When they’re in that moment or before that moment, how that they can bring themselves to a point of being relaxed?
Stuart Walter:
Yeah. So for me, Mat, you’ve got the conscious mind, which is the top three to 5% of how we think act and behave. This is where everyone’s sitting right now thinking, where is this guy going with this conversation? So I specialise in the 95 to 98, because if you’re up here on the surface, you are a result of all these programmes. Trying to change who you are on the surface is virtually impossible. If you’ve got these programmes running. So with hypnosis, we’d get below that conscious level. We come into the unconscious programmes and go, “Right. Is this helping you? Yes? Okay. Keep doing it. No?” Change it. Bang. How do we change it? So as long as it’s helping you. So when you have thoughts of fear and automatic responses, as you say analytically, it makes sense. For those people that are really kinesthetic or emotional, you go, “Okay. So where are you feeling it? Are you feeling it around your throat? Are you feeling nervous is in your arms, is in your stomach?”
Stuart Walter:
Because generally the stomach is a second brain. Okay? So if this is tight, ?his is going to be taught. Okay. If your brain is churning, your stomach’s going to be churning, which is why people say I’ve got butterflies.
Mat Lock:
Interesting.
Stuart Walter:
Okay? So what I look at is going, “Okay, well, if that thought equals that sensation, who chooses your emotion? Who chooses your actions? Your behaviours, your beliefs?” You do. So therefore, why are you choosing to be nervous? Oh, good point. Okay. If you can choose to be nervous, what would you choose to be instead? Okay, I want to be relaxed and [inaudible 00:22:21]. You can’t be relaxed if your brain’s tight and your stomach’s tight. So there’s this process as I said, with the hurdler where you can actually pull out these emotions that you’re feeling through this trigger, bang, dump them.
Stuart Walter:
Then all of a sudden, it’s like when your brain has this trigger again, it goes straight to that place in your stomach. That sensation isn’t there now. And we can simply replace it. We can replace it quite simply. If you’re a tennis player, okay. Every time you get the ball, okay. What is this worth to you physically, emotionally, financially? How does it make you feel if you’re the world number one? What if all your dreams came true? But what if you could imagine that in your stomach? Then all of a sudden that trigger is going to trigger this sensation? This is the place. This is where I can show off all my talents, my abilities, my skills. Yeah. The hard work is done at training, but now this is time to shine versus how am I going to go? So you know exactly what’s going to happen.
Mat Lock:
Yeah. It’s a fascinating subject. I know that again, an example from myself, for summary, over 20 years ago, for some reason, suddenly got really nervous about the thought of flying. And it was really frustrating because I wasn’t aware of any reason for it. I hadn’t had a bad experience. And again, a logical mind was just so frustrated by this, but it was a very real sense actually as you say, that the churning stomach. Like really two days before flying and long story short, I had two 10 minute sessions with that. That was my first introduction to hypnotherapy, which is 10 minute sessions. It’s all it was.
Mat Lock:
And there were two things that stand out in my mind. One when I was during the process of being hypnotised, I remembered thinking I could open my eyes at any time, but I don’t want to because this is awesome. My arms felt like they’d sunk way into the arms of the catch I was sitting on. And it was just the most wonderful thing, but I felt totally in control. And going back to the beginning where we talked about people doing silly things on stage and so on. For me, yeah. I just simply had the total awareness, felt like I had total control and just loved it. It was such a relaxed feeling. It was awesome.
Stuart Walter:
That’s one of those typical things that people think because I say stage hypnosis, but the stage hypnotist also tells these people they will not remember what they do. So therefore, they don’t remember. So people think they’re in some way trance because they don’t remember, but they’re told to forget. So they do. If I was on stage, which is exactly the same process, so if anyone’s out there thinking, is that real on stage? Yes, it is. Because one, I’ve done it. Two, I’ve had it done to me. So I know exactly what goes on.
Stuart Walter:
But imagine someone else pulling out, say a bikey out of the crowd, little bulletproof tats, beard, leather, denim. And you go, “Right, bing. Play this music.” When you hear this music, you become a ballerina. So here’s [inaudible 00:25:20] no skills, no abilities, no talent. There for the entertainment, happy to make a fool of himself because that’s within his normal model of the world, prancing around on stage, thinking he’s a ballerina.
Stuart Walter:
So that’s entertainment. So what I do, I step on stage. I pull out a ballerina of the crowd. Okay. When you hear this music, you become a ballerina, all the grace and the speed and the height and the power that you need. I mean, she’s already got the skills, abilities, talents. She does what she needs to do, remove the emotions. And then all of a sudden you’ve got one of those ballerinas in the world. It’s exactly the same process. And there’s that trigger base response. When you hear the music, you become and you remember when you walk on stage and you will feel good and that’s basically it.
Mat Lock:
Yeah, no, absolutely. That’s a that’s a really great way of explaining it. And sort of the second point from my experience was even now, I mean, I’ve done the last 20 years, a lot of flying in my corporate life and so on, a lot of flying. And literally it was like getting in a taxi. I wouldn’t even think about it. It’s irrelevant. But even there without any conscious thought on my part, as the plane pushes back from the terminal, without me having any awareness, I fall asleep. And as we [inaudible 00:26:39] lagged and the seatbelt goes ding, I just gently wake up, feel amazing and smile because I know what’s just happened. But I was completely nothing conscious about that from my perspective at all. And that was over 20 years ago.
Stuart Walter:
Amazing, because everything we’ve done in our past, it’s all back here. I can take you back to any day in your life. I can get you to tell me what happened when it happened, what you were wearing, who you spoke to, every single word it’s all in there. All we’ve go to do is that trigger based response. So now a plane equals that. You can’t lose that. It’s in there. It’s programmed.
Mat Lock:
Right.
Stuart Walter:
That one versus how powerful and negative one day.
Mat Lock:
If I need to remember what I had for breakfast today, you’d be able to find that out for me? Because I find myself getting more and more these days.
Stuart Walter:
Exactly. No, that’s just old age.
Mat Lock:
No, absolutely. No, it’s a fascinating subject. So I’m conscious of time. What sort of hints or advice would you give to our audience who are predominantly everyday athletes? They’re not professional athletes, let’s say. We’ve got some weapons, but we’re not talking about professional athletes. That’s what they do for a living, let’s say. If they haven’t tried this, if they haven’t tried hypnotherapy, for example, but they know they get nervous or they’re just good and they’re looking to be even better. What would your advice be?
Stuart Walter:
My advice would be really question where all these responses came from. Because if you are choosing your behaviour, your actions, your habits, your responses, because they are your choice. But you can have … Look at coronavirus. As an example, some people have collapsed under the pressure. Others have flourished. It’s exactly the same trigger, but it’s a choice of, is this going to happen or is this going to happen?
Stuart Walter:
So when we bring it back to right, this is the awareness, this is the acceptance of who you are in the past. If you’re feeling a sensation of fear and nerves, it’s based on past experiences. So therefore you’re choosing that. Actually, what I’ll offer is for everyone that’s listening at the moment, maybe I can send that through to you, Mat, the file for the Daily Diary process.
Mat Lock:
Sure. Yeah, I absolutely can put that in the share notes.
Stuart Walter:
Actually, one moment, please.
Mat Lock:
Oh, there you go. For those listening, not watching, it’s a book called The Dear Diary Process.
Stuart Walter:
The Process. Yes, it’s a process where I work with a professional golfer back in 2010. 17th of March, 2010. I know that because it was such a memorable day. He said, “I write in my diary every night”. I went, “Why? It’s history. You’re done.” It’s like watching the news. It’s history. I said, “Well, the way your brain works is if you’re writing something down, you’re bringing it to your attention. You’re feeling the emotions. So if you had a bad golf game and you think writing that when you go to bed, what’s going to be in your head? Bad golf game, bad golf game. You’re going to be processing that for the next eight hours. Then you’re going to wake up and go, “That’s right. I’ve been thinking about bad golf all day.” So therefore, ta-dah! That’s what you’re going to get. But he was very consistent in his crappiness basically within golf.
Stuart Walter:
So as I said to him, “The way the brain works is whatever you’re thinking about. That’s what’s going to happen. So instead of writing tonight, what you did, how about writing tonight how tomorrow was in advance. So how did you sleep? How did you wake up? How did you feel?” Okay. As an example, bang, tomorrow, the first day of the Bay Games. I slept beautifully knowing I’d done the work. It’s all going to be fun. This is where I can really get out there, have fun and shine. As soon as I woke up, almost like a bit of a check through my body, bang. Came alive, full of energy, full of life. Ready to go. Okay? Think about what we’ve just done versus the negative of, “Oh, I don’t know how I’m going to go, but what if, but what if, but what if?” Last time I was nervous.
Stuart Walter:
I’m feeling nervous now. And you start sleeping on that. The brain can rewire itself according to intention and emotions. So the data already processed is setting your intentions about how tomorrow went. We’re using the past tense words to say it did happen. This is what I did, how it felt and the end result. So therefore if you’re processing all that at night, you’re more prone to sleeping deeper because you know what the outcome is. So therefore it’s going to start conforming. That’s the intention. That’s the emotional connection. And you basically can transform your life while you’re sleeping at night. So yeah. Happy to send you the ebook version of that. It’s basically instruction manual for life. You basically write it down how tomorrow was in advanced. So I would say for any advice for people that are unsure about their mind and their powers, you’ve got the skills. You’ve got the builders. You’ve got the talents now to achieve whatever you want.
Stuart Walter:
The only thing stopping you is this little element of fear. If you can write fear out of the equation and just go, “I felt amazing, I felt light. I felt strong. Halfway through, I decided to put my arms out like a plane and fly around on the beach.” It happens because I do it, I test it and I know the incredible results.
Mat Lock:
Absolutely.
Stuart Walter:
It’s a good step into people taking control of what they can control. I’m not saying I’m not hypnotising you, it’s just you’re kind of hypnotising yourself like your new programmes.
Mat Lock:
Yeah. Absolutely.
Stuart Walter:
When you get, I guess, an analytical person that goes, “Oh, what are we going to do? I’m scared about hypnosis. What’s the first thing we do>” well, as I say, the first thing I normally do is de hypnotise people, get rid of the old programmes, the old responses, the old version of you and rewire you are with a new version.
Mat Lock:
Yeah. That’s fantastic. Well, that’s very generous. Thank you. We’ll put a link to that in the show notes.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah, you’re welcome.
Mat Lock:
And yeah, absolutely I would encourage them. And I’m familiar with that book actually and can speak to it. So, yeah. That’s great. Thank you very much. For those who would like to reach out and find out about you or maybe work with you, or you mentioned you also have an online programme. How would they do that? Where do they find you?
Stuart Walter:
Yeah, same, same .reach out. I was going to say a bit like a virus, but that’s probably not good terminology these days. Yeah. If you just do a search for Elite Mindset Institute, okay? That’ll go to my general everyday website, but if you’re looking for it, just go to the athletessecretweapon.com website and all the information’s there. You can contact me there. You’ve got access to the online programme. And if you wanted to, what we can do, Mat, is set up a discount for any of the people listening. If they want to purchase the online programme, it’s 495 US. So we can do a 40% special if you want if anyone’s-
Mat Lock:
Wow. Thank you very much. That’s amazing. Again, very generous. Thank you.
Stuart Walter:
Oh, you’re welcome. That’ll bring it back to what? 295, 297 US, which is around 450 ish Australia at the moment.
Mat Lock:
And that’s an eight week programme?
Stuart Walter:
Eight week online delivered hypnosis programme with workbooks, all the processes we’ve spoken about.
Mat Lock:
Yeah. And I find … Well I’ll certainly put the link to that as well in the show notes and the report and pop that in a weekly email as well. So make our athletes aware of that.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah, because of this time, when people are in lockdown, it’s amazing the programmes I’ve got to share international world champions running through that programme at the moment.
Mat Lock:
Yeah. That’s amazing.
Stuart Walter:
Yeah. It’s an incredible programme. It’s really good.
Mat Lock:
Thank you very much. Well, I appreciate your time.
Stuart Walter:
You’re welcome.
Mat Lock:
It’s been great to catch up and I’m never going to chat again about a slightly different subject and I’m excited for that. But for today, thank you very much and I look forward to seeing you next time.
Stuart Walter:
You’re welcome. And thanks everyone for joining. Take care.
