The mind and the body are linked in the same way different parts of a computer are linked. Your mind tells your body what movements to make and your body tells your mind what it is seeing, feeling etc.
The mind is the most powerful computer in the world and it can help your body to achieve amazing things. It can help show your body how to make rockets and go into space but for the purposes of sporting excellence and achievement it can help you to be the best you possibly can be. Just how good is this? Who knows! You will have to answer that one yourself. Hypnosis and applied sport psychology can help in many ways.
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1. Goal setting Achievement and performance goals as
well as states, eg confidence, motivation.
2. Mental Imagery How is it going to be when I achieve
those states and goals?
3. Mental Flow
1. Goal Setting does not just involve setting goals or
outcomes within the sporting arena. It also involves setting goals in
life. It may be that solving relationship or personal difficulties is
a priority.
What's the point of asking an athlete to focus on winning a gold medal
if their marriage is having difficulties or they are about to be declared
bankrupt? You cannot take sport or any other area of life in isolation.
Football coaches have learned that and many other sports coaches are learning
it too.
It is important to have short term achievable goals in sport so that you
can work towards them as a 'reality'. Some people say long term 'outcomes'
are not favourable as they can lead to disappointment.
Well, we can assure you that the vast majority of highly successful people
who win gold medals, championship trophies etc have all done it a thousand
times in their minds and in their dreams before they ever do it in reality.
The truth in sport psychology is that we don't develop strategies from
scratch and then teach them to athletes. The truth is that we look at
what the truly successful sports stars are doing anyway. It is possible
to look at any sporting great from the past and write an entire book on
applied mental sporting techniques based on what they did naturally. Mental
edge is often the difference between great and truly great.
This is not a new invention.
2. Mental Imagery involves seeing and experiencing success
in your mind. You don't just have to see it – some people are much better
at feeling things. Imagine how it feels to run your fastest ever time!
Imagine how it feels to have that gold medal placed around your neck!
Affirmations are useful at times, for instance you could repeat 'everyday
I am getting stronger and faster. I am the greatest' This will improve
your 'self-talk', but to truly change your internal belief system it is
necessary to make use of mental imagery and rehearsal.
It improves your vision and your focus. You can think about someone who
makes you angry and without them being in the room you can indeed feel
the sensations of anger. In the same way if you rehearse success in your
mind, you will start to feel successful. This is your way forwards.
Long term outcomes, i.e. mentally rehearsing the winning of an event or
a peak performance, can only be risky if you work to a success/ failure
model. Imagine if you could never fail – NO FAILURE, ONLY FEEDBACK.
This means you can mentally prepare to win a race or a match or to score
a century, and if it doesn't happen how you imagined, well then you haven't
failed you simply have feedback and information for what to do differently
next time.
There is no failure - only feedback
You have nothing to fear but fear itself!
If you use mental imagery and rehearsal in your preparation and coaching,
you are more likely to achieve positive personal development and performance
management as well as motivation, self-confidence, self-esteem and a new
and powerful personal belief system.
3 Mental Flow involves being 'in the zone', being engrossed in an event to an almost spiritual level. Have you ever
know you were going to score a goal before you even made contact with
the ball?
Have you ever felt invincible as if it was your day and nothing could
possibly go wrong? This state of performance is sometimes known as a peak
experience.
Flow involves positive state management. In other words, getting into
that championship state more often and just when you need to.
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