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A Sports Parent's Survival Guide
By Dr. Tommy John
The Oxford Handbook of Sport
& Performance Psychology
by Shane M. Murphy
Brave
A Teen Girl's Guide to
Beating Worry & Anxiety
By Sissy Goff
Don't Feed The Monkey Mind
How To Stop The Cycle of Anxiety, Fear & Worry
By
Jennifer Shannon
Athletic Movement Skills
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6-9
Introduction to
Eliminating Your Fear of Getting Hurt or Severely Injured
It
never fails, you've been doing everything right, all of your
training, your workouts, your dedication to your sport. Your
motivation to excel has never been higher, and your future has never
looked brighter.... when,
all of sudden...you have a serious injury...such as blowing out your
knee by tearing the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)!! OUCH!!
Guess what just happened throughout your
body and mind at the very moment this injury occurred?
You've just received a MASSIVE VIOLENT TRAUMATIC SHOCK throughout
your entire nervous system
(just as I've mentioned on the "What Causes My Anxiety?" page --
earlier in this course)!!
Now, you might be thinking that you'll just need to go through some
surgery, and then a few months of tenuous rehab, but as soon as your
knee injury heals up, you'll be right back out there...AS GOOD AS
NEW!
If that's what you're
thinking will happen, then
you couldn't be any
more WRONG!!
The simple fact is, when you experience a traumatic injury like
that, your fight or flight response kicks in
and causes dozens of severe blockages (just like traffic jams)
throughout your body's nervous system. As you have already learned,
these blockages trigger all sorts of negative emotions, like fears,
worries and self-doubts to take up residence in your subconscious
mind. And, unfortunately, these negative emotions begin to make you
question your abilities, thus you'll inevitably start to have
frequent doubts about your overall safety and well being.
For example:
Have you ever seen a star football wide receiver who scored more
touchdowns than anybody, and had everything going for him? He's
never been afraid to make all the toughest catches, leaping high
into the air with reckless abandon to catch a pass, even though he
knew he would likely get slammed by the defensive backs. Everyone
just knew he was headed for great things, someday.
But then one day, when leaping to catch a
pass, he lands awkwardly....and blows out his knee!
And later, everybody is informed that he is 'out for the
season'.
Of course, you'd typically hear all of the regular ongoing updates
about his recovery process, as well as its timeline. And you'd
naturally expect him to be back and ready for action again the next
season, just as he always had been before, right?
However, when he does return for the next season, he seems to be
much less reckless with his body.
No longer, will he just jump up to catch a tough pass. He appears to
be afraid to put himself in harms' way. It's as though he has
somehow become "gun-shy." He just doesn't seem to have the same high
level of ability that he had during the years leading up to his
injury.
OK, so what, precisely, has changed in
this player?
What's keeping him from going full speed, and diving for the tough
passes - just as he had always done in the past?
Through my years as a mental toughness training consultant, I have
worked with athletes who have sustained serious and potential
career-ending injuries. While most of these athletes do tend to
recover, physically, their full recovery back to their original
state often falls far short of the abilities they had demonstrated
to be so seemingly effortless prior to sustaining the injury. As a
result of this important fact, I have discovered this drop-off in
ability is frequently directly caused by a common debilitating
psychological phenomenon, known as
"Memory of Protection Complex."
A Memory of Protection Complex occurs when the subconscious mind of
somebody who has experienced a traumatic event, such as a serious
knee injury, creates a strong barrier in the form of an INTENSE FEAR
to 'protect' your body from sustaining any more injuries to that
knee. It's as though your subconscious mind is putting permanent
restrictions on what it will allow you to do. Many potential
superstars have had their careers end far too early due to this
Memory of Protection Complex.
In the past, there have been no truly effective treatments for
eliminating your
Memory of Protection
Complex...
but now, there is... |
PowerCount8
Protocol for
Clearing Out Your Fear of Getting Hurt or Seriously Injured
Here
you will use the
procedure for neutralizing the traumatic emotional effects
of your fear of being injured or re-injured!
DO
THIS FIRST:
Make
a list of every thought that makes you feel apprehensive, or afraid of being
injured.
Don't be afraid to add
something to the list if it feels fearful 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
thoughts are going through my head that
make me feel afraid
of getting hurt?
I
feel all this fear of getting injured,
I am afraid of getting a season-ending injury,
I am afraid to give it my all, because I might re-injure my
________,
I am afraid to dive for it, because I might get hurt,
I am so afraid that I will never be as good as I used to be,
I feel so frustrated over _________,
I feel this strong apprehension whenever I _________,
I feel this disappointment over ________,
I feel this intense fear of __________,
I feel so bad about letting my team down when I injured
my __________,
I am so angry about injuring my _________,
I still feel some of this remaining fear of getting hurt ________,
Please
feel free to add any other fears and concerns you have about being
injured to this list. |
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 feel completely calm and confident in everything I do!"
Example:
If your statement was..."I feel so
afraid of getting hurt."
Your new statement would then become:
"Even
though I feel so afraid of
getting hurt,
87654321
I CHOOSE to feel completely
calm and confident in everything I do!"
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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