Peak
Recovery
Training
This Workshop Will
Reduce Stress ,Speed Recovery
and Promote Healing
In All Aspects Of Your Life.
Dave Ott & Dan Blackburn 2001, Cranbrook, BC.
In 2000, Dan led the Kootenay
Ice, a Cranbrook, B.C. Western
Hockey League team, to the
Memorial Cup .
In 2001,at 18, he was drafted by
the New York Rangers 10th
overall and went on to play for
the Rangers, that same year, as
one of their youngest goalies.
In 2003, during summer, off
season training, he injured the
shoulder of his glove arm and
was eventually forced to retire.
Peak Recovery Preface
You need not believe or even
understand the ideas presented in this
workshop. You may actively resist them.
If, however, you take the time to learn
and practice the exercises presented,
you will discover their value and truth
through increased freedom from pain
and fear, and the peace
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YOU BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE
The Two Phases Of Peak Recovery
1. Recovering from loss, change, or giving up
destructive coping choices with all the
anxiety of dealing with stored emotional pain,
the fear of failure, change and the unknown.
2. Recovering the Peace, Power, Joy and
Love, the High Within, by crossing through
the ego’s “Final Frontier” of emotions, pain
and identity fear.
In this Peak or Full Recovery workshop, you
will learn and practice strategies and skills to
assist and strengthen your ability to navigate
successfully through both these phases.
Introductory Questions
1. Where in your own life do you
wish to improve your performance?
2. What changes would you like to
accomplish within your life to
bring you more happiness and
contentment?
3. What has stood in the way and
blocked you from achieving these
desires?
Peak
Recovery
Training
Practicing The Skills
of Peak Recovery
Grounding in the Here & Now.
Releasing Mind-Body-Emotion
Blocks.
 Winning Thoughts & Words.
Focus, Power, Zone Training.
Recovery Blocks
Need To
Recover
Mind
Recovery
Body
Need To
Emotion
Find Peace
Peace
Block
Recovery Blocks
Removal
Mind
Thinking, Worrying, Planning,
Analyzing,Criticizing,Controlling
Judging, Doubting, Conflict, Blame
“What If? If Only” Destructive
Thinking
Body
Muscle Tension
Weight, Junk Food,
Sugar, Alcohol, Salt
Illness, Injury, Addiction, Drugs
Poor Sleep / Rest
Emotion
Grief, Depression, Upset, Anger,
Sadness, Loneliness
Disappointment
Anxiety, Loss
 Exercise and activities like tennis, art, archery and
golf, that demand Non Thinking, Now Focus.
Breath and Now Awareness Tr. Stay Present.
 Be Here Now. Tension Release - Grounding
Focus, Power, Zone Training
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Cardiovascular Exercise
Tension Release Exercise
Good Diet, Enough Sleep / Rest
Stretching and Weight Training
Lots of Pure Water To Cleanse
Focus, Power, Zone Training
Here & Now Body Awareness
Let Go Anger and Blame
Breathe Into & Feel Pain Fully
You Can’t Heal Unless You Feel
Stress & Wellness Counselling
Will Speed Up This Process.
 Bring Emotion Into Awareness
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Transforming Energy To Power
Ground
 Like a battery, we house within Us energy that
needs to be conducted and transformed into
“Performance Power.”
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 Without a good ground, this can not be
accomplished. We establish our ground through
Here and Now Contact, Awareness and Focus.
 To establish a good ground,breathe fully; let go &
sink heavily into the floor on the out breath.
Then connect with the present world through your
five senses.
SENSORY GROUNDING
ROOT
STRENGTH
NOW
Welcome To The
Hotel California
“Such a lovely Place!”
HELL
is
IS
Living
in
NOW Future
CALIFORNIAor
Past
“This
HEAVEN
The Eagles
can be Heaven or this can be Hell”
Peace of Mind results from Connection
to your “Here & Now” World.
Pain, Fear and Anxiety from Living in
the illusion of Future, Past or Fantasy.
Anything from the Present that can capture your
attention is a lifeline to Peace Of Mind. When you
find it, it’s a real gift, so be grateful.
If you haven’t
Keep Looking. It’s out there!
Layers of Self
MIND
BODY
ANGER
EMOTIONS
FEAR
INCREASED
ENERGY
& FEAR
Spirit
ENERGY
God
MOBILIZE
ENERGY
Through
EGO
SURRENDER
Ego
Cloud-Layers Of Self Magnified
Mind Support/Defense
Thinking, Worrying, Planning, Judging, Controlling
Analyzing,
Body Support/ Defense
Criticizing,
Muscle Tension-Armor, Food, Overweight, Drugs
Alcohol, Toxins, Pain, Waste,
Anger Defense-Control-Support
Emotion Support/Defense
Happy, Excited, Content, Carefree Depressed, Helpless,
Abandoned, Lost, Sad, Empty, Worthless, Separate, Alone
Lost Identity FEAR
“THE ZONE”
Power, Peace,Joy,Love / Spiritual Identity
Mobilizing Energy
BODY
SUPPORT
FEAR
OF
UNIVERSAL
EMOTIONS
Muscle
Tension
MIND
SUPPORT
Emotions, Losing Control,
Fear-Based
Happy,
Sad,
Empty
Alcohol,Worrying
Drugs,
Thinking,
Death,
The Unknown,
Worthless,Bored,
Food,
Weight,
Over
Work,
Planning,
Analyzing
GOD-SOURCE
ANGER
The Power of,
Hopeless,Despairing,
Sedation,
Criticizing,Sensation
Judging
GOD-SOURCE
Alone,
Separate,
Distraction,
Medication
Controlling
Defense
ENERGY
Losing
Self
Crossing The Final Frontier?
Through Emotions, Pain & Fear
Painful Emotions
Sad, Empty, Helpless, Worthless
Alone
Separate
Inner Spirit
“What the caterpillar
sees as the end of
the world,”
“The Master calls a Butterfly.”
Death
of
ego
“ Illusions,” by Richard Bach
“To suffer ones death and be reborn is not easy.”
Fritz Perls, Founder of Gestalt Therapy
Questions
1. What happens when you feel upset or any kind
of painful emotion? How do you handle it?
2. Why do we find it so difficult to experience
emotions like sadness, loss, helplessness
emptiness , aloneness, worthlessness, despair?
3. When was the last time you got angry? Share
this experience with the person on your right.
4. What was the painful emotion underneath the
anger, the more vulnerable feeling the anger was
protecting you from experiencing?
5.If I allowed myself to feel the more vulnerable
feeling of …., I frightened that…? and then…?
Healing Painful Emotions
1. Give up anger, blame or any other coping choice
that stops you from responsibly feeling the pain.
2. Find and feel this pain somewhere in your body.
You can not heal what you will not physically feel.
3. On every out breath, let go, give in and sink as
deeply as you can into the physical experience of
the emotion. Whatever pain we resist, persists,
strengthens and becomes unbearable. Giving into
to tears and crying can be extremely helpful here.
4. As you give into and experience this emotional
pain in your body simply say,“Spirit ,help me heal
this pain and fear.” When you can ask with heartfelt surrender, you will receive your healing, release,
and access to the “Peace Of God” beneath.
Feeling Emotions
A Simple Awareness Exercise
1. Close your eyes and think of a situation as close
to the present as you can remember where you
felt some painful emotion like sadness, loss,
aloneness, emptiness, despair etc.
2. Try to visualize this situation in your mind to the
point where you begin to feel the emotion once
again now. Locate it somewhere in your body.
3. Your first reaction will be to to tighten up, and
stop breathing. Instead, try letting go into the
physical experience with every out breath.
4. See how long you can give attention to this
experience and what happens to the pain.
Keys To The Kingdom
The Awareness and
Acceptance
Of where I am
Are my
“Keys to the Kingdom”
Of Change.
There is no blame
In being me,
Nor in my defenses
And
Unreadyness to see.
David Ott
Enlightenment
To Awaken to
Our Power and Joy,
Our Peace and Love,
We must be
Grounded and Focused
In Nowness,
Empty of the
Defenses of self.
David Ott /80
Corral Your Thoughts
They Are Like Horses.
If you let them run wild all day, It’s going
to take a long time to get them Back Into
The Corral and “Saddled For Focus”
when you need to .
How To Corral Your Thoughts
DAILY
PRACTICE
1
Be Mindful In The “Here & Now”
Frequently throughout the day, stop,
breathe and sink heavily into the floor.
Then use the words “Now I Am Aware”
and label a sight, sound, touch, taste or
smell outside, or feeling within you.
How To Corral Your Thoughts
DAILY
PRACTICE
2
Notice & Still Your Thoughts
For at least 10 minutes, in the morning,
evening & before any challenge, sitting up or
lying down, focus on your breathing. Let go
and sink heavier into the ground with every
out breath. If thoughts enter your mind, tell
them gently to “Be Still.” Refocus on your
breathing & continue to relax deeper &
deeper on each out breath.
Your Thoughts & Feelings Create
Your Reality
All thoughts and feelings house creative energy
that somehow,someway, sometime take form.
Positive, winning thoughts create a positive
winning reality. Negative, losing thoughts create
a negative, losing reality.
What you believe you achieve.
 What you visualize you materialize
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Focus, Power& Zone training will train your
mind to become aware of, control and stop
negative thoughts and feelings so you can
replace them with positive ones.
Thinking To Win
Your Present thoughts & feelings
create your coming reality.
The stronger, the sooner. Think &
feel success to create success!
Thoughts, feelings, visions,
words, actions all create form .
Thoughts seen, spoken and acted
on take form in reality sooner.
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Winning Words
“I AM”
The most powerful preface you can
use to bring your goals into reality.
Speak these ideas often to yourself
and out loud.
I am successful! I am a winner!
I am determined! I am powerful!
I am clean and addiction free!
I am… fill in the blank!
Speak them as your Reality Now.
GUARD
YOUR
THOUGHTS
The more aware you are
of what you think each
moment, the sooner you
can change your
thoughts from losers
TO WINNERS!
Achieving Your Goals
Goal, dream or idea presents itself
1.
from your unconscious mind.
2. Breathe fully and then connect your
body heavily into floor. (Grounding)
3. Visualize your goal Achieved.
4. Be detailed & specific in the vision.
5. See yourself, your achieved goal or
vision under a white spot light.
6. Add to the vision a strong feeling
of excitement and
gratitude!
1.
Achieving Your Goals
7.
Speak out loud, in present tense,
as if you have achieved your goal.
Example: “I am addiction free!”
8.
Take action to achieve your goal.
9.
Ignore specific way goal will evolve.
10.Break End-Goal into smaller goals?
11.Do the Visualizing & Feeling in
a state
of Relaxation before going to sleep.
2.
The Zone Response
The Zone Response is a drug free altered
state of consciousness brought about by
Non-Thinking, Now-Focused activity, relaxed
muscle tension, and full, rhythmic breathing.
Warriors in tribal cultures often induced
this state before going into battle through
drumming and chanting because it
eliminated fear and maximized power.
It’s characterized by a specific
brain wave known as “Alpha.”
Activating The Zone Response
Create mental state of non-thinking Alert,
Now-Awareness.
Full focus on present activity or skill.
Relax or release muscle tension.
Develop full, flowing, breath pattern.
Skill or activity focused on must be
learned, practiced and executed to
the point where it can become a
non-thinking, reflex response to
present performance demands.
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Practice! Practice! Practice!
Benefits of Zone Training 1.
Less muscle tension.
Better breathing; more available O2.
Increased circulation to brain & organs.
Better Immune Response.
Faster healing and less illness.
Fewer accidents with less time loss.
Improved digestion & higher energy.
Greater power and stamina.
Focus that is more clear and alert.
Improved memory and learning.
Benefits of Zone Training 2.
Reduced anxiety, fear and doubt.
More confident and positive attitude
to present performance demands.
A body that is clear of tension, more
free flowing with faster reflexes.
Fewer mind, body, emotion blocks.
Stronger more determined visual goals.
Better able to focus under pressure.
Better intuitive response to situations.
A mind that is more still & responsive
to present performance demands.
Peak Recovery
Ongoing Survival Skills
Be in present awareness.
Use the words,”Now I am Aware..”
Then use your five senses to
connect with the world around you.
Keep feet firmly on the ground so
you can transfer energy to power.
Keep your breath full and relaxed.
Off Ice Focus Affects
On Ice Play
1.
Peak Recovery
Ongoing Survival Skills
Breathe and relax muscle tension.
2.
Guard against negative thinking.
Avoid criticism, judgment & anger.
Feel, think, speak & act positively.
Use winning words like “I am …”
flawless, powerful, a winner! etc.
Be aware of your body so you can notice
and relax any tension.
Surprise Gift of Peak Recovery
The high, the relief, the freedom from
pain and fear, the peace we sought,
without success, through our destructive
substance and behavior choices in the
world are gifted and awakened within
us as soon as we let go our destructive
choices, ask for healing with heart-felt
feeling and then wait in patient,
stillness, with a harmless, faithfilled willingness to receive.
We have lost nothing and
found Our Peace & Joy Within.
Peak
Recovery
May You
Awaken to
The Power Within!
David Ott, M.Ed.
Recovery Counselling&Education
(250) 857-4705
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