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The mind-body connection is very powerful. For everything you think in your mind,
your body has a reaction, regardless of whether it is real or
imagined. For example, have you ever had a bad dream? Usually, you
will wake up and your heart is racing, you are sweating and very
agitated, even though all you were doing was sleeping.
With this premise, it becomes unmistakable how necessary it is to train both
the mind and body for peak performance. At the 1996 Summer Olympic
Games in Atlanta, there were approximately 20 Sport Psychology
Consultants there working with athletes. It has also been noted that
1/3 of the golfers on the major tours work with a Sports Psychologist
or Consultant. Slowly but surely athletes, teams, coaches and
managers are not only saying that they feel sports is mental, but
they are doing something about it.
In sports, many things are left to chance. Sports are predictably unpredictable. Why
let your mental mindset be another one of those things? There's no
reason for your mental game to be your Achilles heel! You have the
power and authority to control your mind. Our tools and resources
will help you remove psychological barriers that can get in the way
of peak performance and give you some control over your own
performance.
Up until about a decade ago, a Sports Psychologist or Consultant was only considered
necessary if the athlete had a problem. Luckily, this stigma has
changed. People are realizing that no matter how good you are, you
can always improve, and one way to improve yourself is to become
well-versed in performance enhancement techniques. There is no room
for complacency; the complacent ones get left behind. This philosophy
holds true not only in sports but in business as well.
"Sports is
90-95% mental."
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