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Live & Play Freely
by Denise Holland
Take power back over your mind, break through the painful barriers that keep you stuck in past results or insecure ambitions; unleash your innate creative potential and play & perform with freedom of mind.Denise's approach to transformation brings together thirty years' experience of human performance in sport as both a national athlete and coach and insight into the spiritual nature of human life. A whole new resilient and creative way of living, playing, and performing becomes visible through stories of sustainable change and guidance inwards upstream to the source of your transient, arbitrary reality.
Episodes
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Haunted by Events of the Past
Do you feel caught up by past events in your business and feel they are effecting you to this day? Maybe it's time to release the shackles of the past.
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Stop, Don't Ruminate!
Find yourself ruminating on situations that haven't happened yet? Do you spend time in stress and worry about what you're expecting to happen? Is this helpful? What can you do differently?
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Joe Bailey - Thriving in the Eye of the Hurricane
Joe Bailey, licensed psychologist, trainer of therapists, and author of six books talks with Denise Holland about the impact on people's lives through his work and now his latest book, "Thriving in the Eye of the Hurricanes - Unlocking Resilience in Turbulent Times". Joe is an expert in...
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Why Waiting for Something to Return to Normal is a Bad Idea -
Wanting and waiting for things to get back to normal might sound like a useful strategy, but how helpful is this experience, and is it holding you back from creating something amazing in your life or business? Ever noticed that no matter how difficult and challenging times get, there is a point...
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Mental Health & Confidence in Sport
Original Article: Why does confidence appear to be such a critical factor in sports performance? How lack of confidence destroyed my enjoyment and my game! During my time as a national athlete, I could have used heaps more clarity and confidence. One time, I remember being in Australia on tour…
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The Art of Clarity in a Crisis
During this Coronavirus, it's common to want to feel better, get some relief, worry less and experience hope even amidst uncertainty and dramatic change, but where should you look? What do you usually do when you feel uncomfortable? Most people seem to up their game, and change something or…
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Nick Bottini - Demystifying the Genius in Performance
So what accounts for the so-called genius in people, and does everyone have it? Why are some people brilliant at certain things while others can only dream of acquiring the same skills, ability or art. Is it that we (humans) are destined to find our purpose and genius, whatever it is? If so…
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Andy Winter - Freeing the Athlete's Mind - The Route to Enhanced Performance
A full-length feature show, with Andy Winter, Denise Holland and contributions from special guests Barbara Jorden, and Declan Stout. A conversation which demystifies the so-called, 'Performance Zone' state that a performer experiences when there appears to be no separation between themselves and...
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Andy Winter - Teaching a New Dimension in Sport? (Pt 3/3)
So what is this new understanding that has elite athletes head in an entirely new direction of, performing from a place of enjoyment, love, and exploration, rather than the chasing and deliberate endeavour of needing to believe in yourself, setting goals, and being confident? And how do you teach...
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Andy Winter - The Power in Letting Go! (Pt 2/2)
We wouldn't dream to control the shape of the waves, so how is it we think we can dictate human performances which is another act of nature? What's possible for athletes when they get to that place of openly expressing rather than needing to control, or exploring instead of achieving? What if,...
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Andy Winter - The Power in Letting Go! (Pt 1/2)
Andy Winter and Denise Holland, both sports professionals, for over twenty years, share how their sports coaching has changed since coming across this understanding of, how the human mind works to create experience. What happens to athletes and coaches, when they let go of the contents of their...
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Memory - A Gift or a Curse in Sports Performance (Pt 2/2)
A unique style we could call performance meditation, Denise takes you to the spaciousness before the creation of memory, your true nature/Self, that place of pure creative potential – of BEING rather than proving, striving or even competing. As human beings, memory logs experience through the...
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Memory - A Gift or A Curse in Sports Performance (Pt 1/2)
The human memory system, a brilliant part of the human mind (not brain), continues to the subject of scientific research to find clues as to why people behave the way they do but are we looking in the wrong direction. What is the memory, and as a function is it any different to imagination,...
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Michael Neill - Discipline - Buy-in v Compliance (Pt 5/5)
Joe Marler Professional Rugby player was recently shown a red card during a Harlequins Premiership match, which left him unavailable for national selection. When hormones go crazy in the heat of the moment, how helpful is it for coaches to know what's happening inside the human body and mind?…
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Michael Neill - Goal Setting, Helpful or Not? (Pt 4/5)
Michael Neill shares the distinction between setting goals as a course of direction, to inform your work together rather than something to put pressure on yourself, with consequences for non-achievement. Athletes perform at their best when they are not conscious of themselves – anything that…
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Michael Neill - Pressure is an Inside Job (Pt 3/5)
Michael Neill talks with Denise Holland about 'pressure'? How is it sportspeople often comment that they need to feel under pressure to be able to perform well? What's going on with this perspective and is it healthy? Is feeling under pressure helpful to athletes? What happens to the physical…
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Michael Neill - Sustainable High Performance in Sport (Pt 2/5)
Denise Holland talks with Michael Neill about match point situations, in the heat of the moment, when it is highly likely that athletes get caught up in a lot of thinking, how helpful is this 'Understanding of the Mind? Also on this show, Michael shares his wisdom about 'Talent Identification and...
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Michael Neill - Talking All Things Great Performance (Pt 1/5)
Special guest Michael Neill, an internally renowned transformative coach and the best-selling author of six books including, The Inside Out Revolution and, The Space Within, explains the inspiration behind writing his new book, Creating The Impossible. "It's easier for people to create what they...
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Dealing and Coping with Disappointed Athletes
It is very common for coaches to feel bad when their athletes suffer disappointments, so what's the best way to deal and cope with this situation when it arises? Denise used to use techniques and rational thinking to help the Scotland National athletes, 'park it' so that they could quickly learn...
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Rudi Kennard - Perception; A Construction not an Instruction
Rudi and Denise talk about a behavioural performance model; that dealing and working on poor behaviours, with consequences, and discipline procedures are missing the point, i.e. it is too late by then as all responses are an effect of a person's state of mind in the moment and not the cause of…
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Rudi Kennard - Talent Identification - Performing from Source (Pt 4/5)
Traditionally, we identify talented athletes as those who demonstrate attributes, i.e. being self-determined, keen willingness to learn, capacity to overcome adversity, self-less, highly driven, ability to self-analyse, and be self-motivated etc. If you were to truly understand that experience is...
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Rudi Kennard - Insight v knowledge Based Learning - (Pt 3/5)
The subject of adaptation is widely researched and discussed, especially in the field of sport. Many people resonate with knowledge-based, application of tools and techniques which appears to result in change over time. Few, however, refer to the sustainable transformations, which happen…
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Rudi Kennard - Everest Base Camp (Pt 2/5)
It is difficult to conceive as humans the notion that, we (the person) are not in charge and that we connect to a higher power in us, which seems to have life unfold perfectly. As Sydney Banks referred to often, the IS-ness! Many questions arise, including, what's the point then, if we are merely...
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Former contestant of the BBC show 'Gladiators' - Rudiger Kennard (Pt 1) - 'Unconditional Experience'
Why would sportspeople want to look in the direction of understanding the formless nature of life and experience? What is the potential impact on performance results when you start to understand how the human mind works? As a former contestant on the BBC show 'Gladiators' Rudi shares how his…
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Take Me Out - Authentic Connection
Denise auditions for the reality TV show, 'Take Me Out'. Amused by the prospect of winning a date on the magical Island of Fernando's, she went along with the fascinating questioning, the best and easiest to answer, was 'what is your biggest turn-off'? Answer - A chap who is never present? During...
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Superstition and Performance
When you have superstitious thinking, it can lead to behaviours which are a little off the wall. You know they are, but you still do them, as you feel if you do not it will somehow affect future performances. What if, your entire perspective is a misunderstanding of how the human mind works and...
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Unconditional Performance
We have heard the word "unconditional' used many times in connection with the word "love." Here Denise talks about falling in love with your capacity for sports performance, unconditionally irrespective of strategic targets or KPI's. There is a distinct difference in the mindsets of sportspeople,...
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Mental Health Awareness and Spirituality
We are all 'outed,' and not before time! Evolving a world where people are not ashamed of the way they feel inside is brilliant, but is this enough? Denise encourages you to look beyond what you know conceptually, to understand not the content on your perspective or worldview but how it is...
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Jamie Smart Pt 5 - Chasing Consistency of Performance - Is it helpful or not?
What are people looking for when they ask high-performance coaches to help them improve their consistency of performance? Sportspeople spend hours striving for excellence in their performances. You live in a physical, practical and commercial world of sport, where being on your game can impact…
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Jamie Smart (Pt4) The Benefits of Understanding How Experience Works
With all the latest technology in sports science to work on human performance why look in the direction of what's behind it, who and what is the creator? What are the benefits to you as a performer, when we say that the Three Principles are playing out anyway, in all human beings, whether you…
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Jamie Smart (Pt 3) Who You Really Are?
"The moment you believe that who you are can be augmented by or diminished by the achievement or non-achievement of a goal you have lost sight of the truth." A superb quote from Jamie Smart. In this session, he speaks about the practical nature of aims and targets and how people might…
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Jamie Smart (Pt 2) – What does Jamie Smart see new and fresh?
Some real gems in this show, as Jamie Smart shares, what he is seeing new and fresh right now in September 2017. Our capacity for insight, as human beings are infinite; we live within the potential to have a change of heart. "Realisations happen, they are not our accomplishment, they are…
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Jamie Smart (Pt 1) – Performing at your best when you're at your worst
Is it possible to not take the way you feel too seriously in any given situation? Do you have to feel a specific way to provide an excellent performance? Is this so-called 'optimum performance state' something athletes should be chasing? Is trying to control the mind sending athletes in the...
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Did Something Happen or Not?
With insight or realisation, use whichever words resonate with you as this is beyond the word, you're able to decide if an experience happened or not? Yes, this session is a little deeper, but it is scientific and practical. Recently, since seeing more about the illusory nature and neutrality of...
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Bad Moods - Are They Damaging Your Life & Results
Many people accept moods as a fact of life, highs and lows, inevitable given the circumstances, but what if this just isn't made of truth? I mean it holds no water whatsoever. What if low moods, which negatively affect your productivity and performance results, has nothing to do with situations…
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Dina Asher-Smith and Usain Bolt - One of a Kind!
What is the secret of great athletes, legends, who dominate and capture the hearts of spectators and even whole communities? In this show around the IAAF World Athletic Championship 2017 in London, UK, we take a closer look at two athletes at either end of their careers, Dina Asher-Smith and…
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Pre-Season - Same Old or Revolutionary!
You give your pre-season training programme lots of fresh energy and detail. You cover the traditional critical components of elite performance, technical, tactical, physical and social and emotional intelligence most diligently. Then, when you start the season, it doesn't quite look how you had...
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When God shows Up On The Golf Course
Is performance in sport bigger than you the person? If so, who is driving the ship and when might they/it show up to lead the way? At the Open Golf Championship 2017, Royal Birkdale, Southport, England UK, we examine the unusual behaviours in the final round of two competitors both individually...
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Evolved New Approach to Sports Coaching
How much influence Coaches have on an athlete's or team's performance is a controversial issue. I too would have fluffed my feathers when the Scotland National Squad did well and beat myself up when they were hopeless! What, I have since discovered, about how the human mind works to create the...
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Addiction and Elite Sport - The Parallels
Is involvement in elite sport addictive? How different are you as a high achieving athlete or coach from people who strive for a better feeling in substance abuse? Recently, Denise was invited to give a talk to a group of individuals, at a recovery centre in Spain. In this show, Denise highlights...
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The Invisible Quality of Momentum - World Class Rugby
The ethereal quality of momentum, what is it? Is it so slippery? Why do some elite teams build it, sustainably and others lose it quickly? The first half of the final match of the LIONS Series 2017, the New Zealand All Blacks gained ground and had more possession than the British and Irish Lions....
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Holidays & Head Noise
What if you could have that holiday feeling most of the time; peace of mind, contentment, fun, clarity and a stream of brilliant ideas? Do you need to wait for your holiday to feel rested? What's that all about, especially as most of us only take six weeks vacation a year? Does this mean we are...
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Beyond Doubt and Hesitation
When circumstances seem as if they have the power to make you feel a particular way, i.e. assuming that it is inevitable, you should feel like this given my situation - think again! This week Denise found herself in a slightly uncomfortable feeling, and if she didn't know any better, i.e. not to…
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Effective Relationships - Get Over Yourself!
Ever wondered if the level of your mental noise is normal? How often do you beat yourself up, either for not saying what you wanted to say or for saying something that you later regret? How would you grade yourself when it comes to creating effective relationships, whether in sport, business or...
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Performance Comes Naturally - Why force it?
We know the mind has something to do with Performance, so we inadvertently try to forecast, then manage our mindset, state, or mood, ahead of time. What if our mental activity is not a problem in and of itself? What if the content of our mind, is understood not to be significant and relevant?…
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Pt 4/4 - with Dr George Pransky - You Have Nothing To Sell!
Dr George Pransky in an interview with Denise Holland taken from our webinar titled 'Achieving Performance Excellence in Elite Sport'. Participants on the webinar, Former National Cricket Coach, Richard Pybus and Performance Coach, Graham Turner, specialising in rehabilitation and recovery, ask...
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Pt 3/4 - with Dr George Pransky - Evolving The Elite Training Environment (ETE)
Dr George Pransky and Denise Holland discuss the so-called Elite/Daily Training Environment (ETE/DTE). What changes are we likely to see when sports coaches look in the direction of the Truth of how human beings experience life, (Inside Out)? A critical area of this discussion is the topic of...
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Pt 2/4 with Dr George Pransky - Beyond resistance and taking people there!
If an understanding of the Three Principles has impacted your life, it is highly likely that you would like to share it with others. Your life has transformed, more essential communications, improved relationships, increased confidence and higher levels of productivity and effectiveness. So why...
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Pt 1/4 - with Dr George Pransky - Achieving Performance Excellence in Sport
Dr George Pransky from Pransky & Associates is Denise's mentor, he explains what it is behind the genius ability of all athletes, and the fact that an understanding of this is available to everyone. Instead of traditional psychological approaches, i.e., dealing with a specific concern, e.g.…
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Pt 4/4 with Adam Ashe - Stressfree Relationships
The concluding part of the conversation with Glasgow Warrior Adam Ashe, he generously shares how his relationships with family members have positively transformed since gaining an understanding of the real cause of the human experience, i.e., Thought in the moment and nothing else, not what…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Take power back over your mind, break through the painful barriers that keep you stuck in past results or insecure ambitions; unleash your innate creative potential and play & perform with freedom of mind.Denise's approach to transformation brings together thirty years' experience of human performance in sport as both a national athlete and coach and insight into the spiritual nature of human life. A whole new resilient and creative way of living, playing, and performing becomes visible through stories of sustainable change and guidance inwards upstream to the source of your transient, arbitrary reality.
HOSTED BY
Denise Holland
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