FORT LAUDERDALE – Malik Rosier is on the football and baseball teams at Miami, which means he has needed help to juggle a demanding spring schedule.

Somedays, a nap between practices is the answer.

Other days, cold towels serve as a quick refresher.

And now there’s the hypnosis. No, really.

“It’s something you have to try,” Rosier said, “to see if you believe in it.”

He’s a believer now. One day after being hypnotized — a former Miami player named Lenny Moore, who was part of the 1983 national championship team and now is a hypnotherapist displayed his talents for current and former players in a show this weekend — Rosier threw the first touchdown pass of Miami’s spring game Saturday.

Both Rosier and starting quarterback Brad Kaaya took part in the hypnosis show, designed in part for some to deal with confidence issues or phobias. In the case of Miami’s quarterbacks, they just did it for fun. With them, confidence issues aren’t exactly lacking.

“It was a funny experience,” Rosier told The Associated Press, as Kaaya stood nearby nodding in agreement. “If it doesn’t work, hey, you can say you don’t believe in it. If it works, hey, it works.”

Miami’s defense won the spring game, 54-47 in a unique system that gave points for everything from first downs to three-and-outs to touchdowns and takeaways.

But Rosier was one of the eyecatching performers in the game — even though what he was doing Saturday in no way resembled what Miami expects him to do in certain situations this fall. And after a year where Kaaya got virtually all the snaps for the Hurricanes, a two-QB system of sorts seems to be possible in 2015.

“Malik’s had a good spring,” Miami coach Al Golden said. “He’s balanced both really well. He’s been mature. He’s made a lot of progress. There’s some other things that we can do that benefit him and his style and that’s something we’re not getting into in this arena here today.”

With good reason. Obvious reason, too.

Kaaya is the prototype pro-style quarterback, who isn’t afraid of saying that Rosier can do certain things — like be a dual-threat — that aren’t in his wheelhouse. It’s easy to envision the Hurricanes using Rosier as a change of pace this fall, or a decoy, or even more.

“He’s juggling two different calendars right now, football calendar and baseball calendar,” Miami offensive coordinator James Coley said. “When he goes full-time in the football, it’s going to be fun because he can play, man. He can flat-out throw the football.”

Rosier isn’t just messing around with baseball, either. He’s appeared in only four games for the nationally ranked Hurricanes, but has reached base in four of his six plate appearances and has even connected for a home run.

And on the football field, Kaaya has been duly impressed.

“He’s a little change-up for the defense,” Kaaya told the AP. “He’s more mobile than me, he can do zone reads and all kinds of stuff like that. For now, we’ll keep a lot of that a secret, but there’s a different side to the offense that we don’t usually show.”

Spring football is now over, so Rosier — who credits baseball coach Jim Morris for not overly minding the unavoidable schedule conflicts — will be cleared to rejoin the Hurricanes baseball team on a full-time basis when their weekend series at North Carolina is complete.

More naps and cold towels will be in his plans. Someday, maybe more hypnosis, even.

“It’s been a good experience,” Rosier said. “Everything I’ve had to do to get to where I’m at, to me, it’s worth it.”

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Associated Press5:39 p.m. EDT March 28

There is a lot of myth and misunderstanding that surrounds the practice of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. From fear of mind control to becoming lost in a trance, and of course the classic trope of being made to “cluck like a chicken” in front of an entire audience, it’s hard to sort fact from fiction for those new to the world of hypnosis.

For an outsider, the world of hypnotism sounds kind of scary! So we’re going to break it down for you, and explain what really happens when you are hypnotized.

In reality, hypnosis refers to a trance-like state into which a person can enter. Hypnotherapy is a calming, soothing practice that can reap a multitude of benefits to those who practice.

Hypnosis heightens the senses and focus of the individual. Often times this helps the patient get in touch with their subconscious mind. This aids in many things, including dealing with major physical and psychological struggles.

Frequently hypnotherapy is used by patients to cope with anxiety, pain, or to better control bad habits and sleeping disorders, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Usually the experience is guided by a trained hypnotherapist. The hypnotherapist will guide the subject into the trance and through the session using verbal cues, repetition, and mental imagery. It’s actually quite similar to meditation.

Then at the end of the session the patient is simply asked to awaken themselves from that state.

So here are a few common myths that are actually wrong, and instead what actually happens during hypnosis that prove it’s not so scary after all.

A person can be hypnotized against their will, or fall under “mind control” and do things they do not want to do.

According to the Hypnosis Help Center, this is simply not true. A person must be a willing participant in order to be hypnotized. Someone who has been hypnotized will not do something that they wouldn’t do while in a “waking state.”

So what happens during a hypnotism at a stage show, when a hypnotist make audience members do some really weird stuff?

While under hypnosis, a person may be more open to suggestion, but they always have control over their own behavior. A participant at a stage show may go along with “performance” commands—like clucking, or barking—but only if they are willing to do so.

Being hypnotized just means you fall asleep.

This is also not true, mostly. Entering into a state of hypnosis will make the subject more in touch with their subconscious. This heightens their senses. However someone who is already tired may fall asleep—like how someone might doze-off during meditation. At that point the person is no longer in hypnosis, simply a relaxed sleep.

You can get “stuck” in hypnosis.

Because you do not lose control of yourself when hypnotized, it is not possible to become stuck in a state of hypnosis.

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