What is Sport Psychology?
Conditioning the mind is just as important as conditioning the body!
Sport Psychology provides athletes with scientifically proven techniques to enhance their mental game. This gives them more opportunities to play in the 'Zone'.
The essential goal is to establish a method and an approach that fuels success. At the core of this, is strengthening an athlete's inner belief that greatness can be achieved. This begins at the subconscious level, where all of our memories, beliefs, and experiences are stored. Although there are many different methods and approaches to working with athletes, it is only when change is created on a subconscious level that real transformation can occur. When working on the subconscious level, athletes can effectively program their minds for success, release old ideas of limitation, and experience rapid, positive, and lasting results.
In my research on the optimal state, athletes often described their sport performance as:
- Effortless power
- Being in automatic pilot
- Being fully absorbed in their sport
- Being guided by pure instinct, without conscious thought
The powerful force guiding athletes to these super performances is the subconscious mind. When athletes are able to stop the busy chatter of the conscious mind, they then allow their subconscious mind to be the dominant state. This way, the athlete is more in control of their sport performance, and able to perform more consistently at a high level.
A large part of what I do involves teaching how the mind works, so athletes can tap into its tremendous power.
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Bree Schaaf 2010 Olympics
