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This Is Your Brain On Sports:
Beating Blocks, Slumps & Performance Anxiety
For Good!
By David Brand & Alan Goldberg
Living Fully With Shyness
& Social Anxiety
Erika B. Hilliard
The Girl With
Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir
By Rosie Mercado
The Teens Girl's
Survival Guide
10 tips for making friends,
avoiding drama & coping
with social stress
By Lucie Hemmen, PhD
How To Win Friends &
Influence People
for Teen Girls
By Donna Dale Carnegie
The Ultimate
Stress Elimination Program
Become A BETTER
Musician
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4-2
So, what exactly is a mental block?
Traditionally, what we tend to think of as "mental blocks" are really nothing
more than
what happens to you whenever you forget something important.
Here are
some examples of TRUE mental blocks (also known as cognitive blocks):
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A singer is singing a song on stage that she has known for years, and
suddenly forgets (blocks out) the lyrics.
(Imagine yourself forgetting the words to the Happy Birthday song.)
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Or, a politician is
giving an important speech that she had perfectly memorized,
and she forgets (blocks
out) what she was going to say.
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Or, a student taking an exam, and she forgets (blocks out) everything she had
studied the night before.
Those
are all examples of what "MENTAL BLOCKS" actually are!
Whereas,
the PERFORMANCE BLOCKS that athletes get are really nothing more than
protective emotional barriers (fears) that your subconscious mind
(limbic
system) puts up
to keep you safe from harm.
Therefore,
these so called mental blocks are more appropriately "EMOTIONAL BARRIERS."
How does PowerCount8 neutralize
mental blocks so quickly?
This
is perfectly designed for gradually weakening, and often, eventually,
eliminating the negative effects
of bad, or even traumatic, memories. Then, those bad memories simply no longer
cause any stressful emotions
for the athlete. You can still remember the entire event, perfectly, just as it
happened to you.
But you just don't FEEL any remaining stressful emotions from those memories.
It's like having a huge weight taken off your
shoulders!
Many of my clients have expressed that the memories of the traumatic events they
were dealing with
tends to seem more like a scene from a movie they had seen YEARS AGO.
The negative feelings they had previously felt from the traumatic experience are
simply no longer there.
Plus, if you ever experience another emotional barrier
in the future,
you will know precisely how to dissolve it
in just a few minutes!
PowerCount8
Protocol for
Clearing
Out Your Mental Blocks
(Emotional
Barriers)
Here you will see just how
powerful the PowerCount8 procedure truly is at
proactively neutralizing and breaking the emotional connections you feel to each
mental block (emotional barrier) that is causing your unwanted stress and
anxieties!
DO
THIS FIRST:
Make a list of every
emotional mental block that you feel,
or any that you have had in the past
(it's always best to include blocks
you've dealt with in the past so that you do not get them again).
Don't be afraid to add
something to the list if it feels like a blockage to you.
Please try to be as specific as
possible. And just remember....
THERE ARE NO WRONG
ANSWERS!!!
Start each statement in your list with the letter
--
I
I've given you several good examples so you will know exactly what
you need to do.
You are welcome to use
these stressful examples in your list, and add more of your own.
These examples are offered to help REMIND you of many different
types of common stressful issues.
You SHOULD STILL
work through all of these examples even if they do not directly
apply to your own situation.
Also, wherever you see a
blank spot in a phrase, such as __________, please fill in the blank
your own appropriate response - if possible (and if it is
applicable).
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What mental blocks do I deal with, or have I dealt with in the past?
I
feel afraid that I have lost my ability to ________,
I keep on having all this trouble with _________,
I just don't get why I can't do this now, when I used to be able to
do it so effortlessly,
I just feel like I haven't been able to get back on track,
I feel so stupid for making such a stupid mistake,
I feel like I cannot forgive myself for messing up,
I feel so ashamed of myself for _______,
I keep feeling guilty for taking this spot in the starting lineup
away from _______,
I feel so much guilt and shame about _______,
I really wish I had _______, instead of _______,
I feel like I am stuck in this enormous, never-ending slump,
I feel like I am in way over my head,
I often feel so overwhelmed with _________,
I feel like no matter how hard I try, I just cannot seem to
________,
I feel like I have lost my nerve to ________,
I keep feeling all of this frustration from _________,
I keep feeling so frustrated whenever I ________,
I feel frustrated when I am struggling to ________,
I keep making the same mistakes of __________,
I haven't been able to forgive myself for _________,
I feel angry with myself, because __________,
I feel resentment because _________ is better than I am,
I feel hurt when I am called bad names,
I feel hurt when I hear negative comments about me,
I feel hurt when somebody says _________ about me,
I feel hurt when my coaches criticize me,
I feel miserable when somebody hurts my feelings,
I feel hurt when others harass me,
I keep feeling like this nagging injury is keeping my team from
winning,
I feel like my body is tight and inflexible today,
I feel so tired and sluggish today,
I feel tight and tense, and cannot seem to loosen up,
I feel like I just cannot relax,
I feel like my mind is all foggy and unclear,
I feel so stressed out over ________,
I just don't think I can _______ today,
I just don't feel very motivated right now,
I just don't feel like working out today,
I just don't feel like practicing today,
I just want to stay home and play video games all day!
I feel so disconnected from what I am supposed to be doing,
I am having so much trouble focusing because of __________,
I keep getting distracted by the spectators shouting and making
weird noises to rattle my nerves,
I cannot keep my mind focused on the game,
I
still feel some of this remaining stress and anxiety from ________,
Please
add more mental blocks of your own to this list
(you can also add
non-sports-related, personal problems). |
NOTE:
Whenever you clear out the anxious intensity from the negative aspects of an issue,
it can be extremely helpful if you replace that negative issue with
an empowering, positive CHOICE statement
(a.k.a.
a
Power-Phrase).
And, there is nothing more empowering than making a definitive
choice to do something. That is why this next step gives you a
positive-choice affirmation -- immediately following the removal of
your negative emotions, caused by a
negative issue, using the special anxiety-clearing exercises in this
course.
PLUS, this step
will help to make it a permanent habit for you to automatically LINK
a positive thought to any negative issue, so that whenever something
negative happens to you, a positive thought will immediately and
automatically pop into your mind -- instead of a negative thought! |
DO
THIS SECOND:
Create Your
Power-Phrases...
Write
"Even though"
in front of each of your statements,
and
add 87654321 after your statements.
Then, add the following words to the end of your
statement:
"I
CHOOSE to accept and believe in myself, completely - just as I am!"
For example:
If your statement was..."I
seem to feel afraid to do this ________ all of a sudden."
Your new statement would then become:
"Even
though I seem to feel
afraid to do this _______ all of a sudden,
87654321
I CHOOSE to accept and
believe in myself,
completely
- just as I am!"
Do
that for every issue statement in your list from above.
You are welcome to modify the positive choice
Power-Phrases
so they are more applicable to your
own specific needs.
Just make sure every statement is positive, personal,
and in the present tense (as though it is already happening now).
DO THIS THIRD:
Perform Your Power-Count8
Procedure
And remember, this works the same way as anything else, the more repetitions
you do,
the better your results will be!
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Step 1
Select a statement from your list above, and
mentally visualize (imagine)
yourself feeling the stressful intensity that you WOULD feel if that
issue was actually happening to you right now!
Step 2
Notice how much stressful anxiety you feel when you imagine yourself
actually being exposed to that issue.
Then, give that level of stressful anxiety a number rating between 0
- 10...
(with 0 meaning that you feel no anxiety; and 10 meaning that you
feel extremely high anxiety).
Write this number next to that statement on your list.
Step 3
Concentrate Deeply
on
the issue, and count backward from 8, until your emotional
distress has
been reduced down to nothing
(or when your number rating drops to ZERO)!
You will need to CONCENTRATE DEEPLY on how each issue makes you FEEL
(that means --
getting
your anxiety soaring to high levels)...then counting backward from
8.
Remember to take a DEEP breath in through your nose,
and exhale
slowly through your mouth!
REMINDER...
If there are any examples listed that do NOT cause you
to feel any anxiety or stress, then
simply clear through each one of
those examples as though you DO feel (just pretend) anxiety and
stress
from them. Count backward from 8 for each one of those examples. Doing this will help to insure
that you
will be less likely to be affected by those issues at some
point in the future!
Step
4
Now, check to see how you feel about that issue.
Notice if the anxiety you
now feel from that issue has decreased from how it felt before you
started. If you still feel some remaining anxiety from the
issue, give it a number on the 0 - 10 point scale. If it is above a
0 (zero), then you should do additional rounds of
the backward counting.
Your goal is to reduce
your anxiety all the way down to zero
(no anxiety remaining)
by repeating this process.
Keep repeating this process until you no
longer feel any anxiety from each issue you've listed.
Doing this will break the
neuro-connections between the negative
THOUGHTS
in your mind, and the FEELINGS
in your nervous system -
throughout your body!
You will gain positive results for some issues much faster than you
will for other issues.
So, just be patient, and your results will come for you.
This
is a process, NOT an event! |
IMPORTANT:
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You SHOULD STILL
work through EVERY example
I've given you...even if that issue doesn't directly apply
to your own situation.
There often tends to be some commonality between many of the various
negative issues. Therefore you will also gain tremendous benefits by
clearing EVERY issue example listed
above. The more unwanted
neuro-connections you break, the overall better you will feel.
Doing this will help to insure that you will be less likely to be
affected by those issues at some point in the future!
It is this repeated use, while concentrating on the issue, that
gradually weakens and reduces your stress and anxiety levels down to
zero: Repeated
counting weakens the amount of emotional intensity you feel from
your negative issues. Each round whittles away more and more
of the negative emotional connection between your brain and your
body, so that the negative emotions will no longer have any affect
on you.
And then, we basically "rewire" your brain by replacing that
negative thought with a positive affirmation, which we 'cement into
place' by repeating over and over. This is VERY
effective!
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NOTE...
It is very common for
other thoughts or emotions to pop into your mind while you're
backward counting.
While you're doing the exercises, you will likely discover
all kinds of new, unrealized thoughts and emotions that may have
been buried deep within your subconscious mind for years...possibly
even since your early childhood.
If at anytime, while you're working through any of the exercises in
this course, you notice any other negative thoughts or
stressful emotions popping up, even if they do not directly apply to
the particular exercise you're working on at the moment, then
you should write them down, and take
some extra time to backward count for all of those negative issues, as
soon as possible!
It's THOSE negative thoughts and emotions that will get in your way
as you go forward in life! |
This
PowerCount8
methodology is so forgiving that you literally cannot get it wrong.
As long as you
are counting backward from 8, while you're concentrating on an issue,
it's working for you!
So, just keep counting
everyday!
It WORKS!
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