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Circadian Rhythms And Sports
Performance
By D Jim Reeves Silent Night
This Is Your Brain On Sports:
Beating Blocks, Slumps & Performance Anxiety
For Good!
By David Brand & Alan Goldberg
Mindful Sport Performance
Enhancement
Mental Training for Athletes
& Coaches
By Keith A. Kaufman, Carol R. Glass, Timothy R. Pineau
Comprehensive Strength
And
Conditioning -
Physical Preparation For Sports Performance
By Paul Gamble, PhD
The New Science of Athletic
Performance -
That Is Revolutionizing Sports
By Dr. Marc Bubbs
How Champions Think
In Sport and In Life
By Dr. Bob Rotella
The Ultimate
Stress Elimination Program
Eliminate Your
Headaches
Eliminate
Your
Back Pain
Stop
Procrastination |
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8-10
Have YOU ever felt like this poor snowman, exposed in the desert,
when you're heading into the hostile environment of your biggest rival?
This special
PowerCount8 protocol can be very useful
for easing your mind and your nerves,
as well as helping you with leveling the playing field before a competitive
event at a location
other than your own home turf...
PowerCount8
Protocol for
Leveling
the Playing Field by
Minimizing Your Opponent's Home Field Advantage
For best results, begin using this
PowerCount8
protocol during the days
leading up to each AWAY game:
DO
THIS FIRST:
Make a list of everything
you can think of that might give your opponent
any kind of advantage at their home.
They have their
own friendly crowd/fans;
They're in their own locker room & facilities;
They will likely be fully rested;
They will be on their own home field;
They will be brimming with school pride;
They may have even held a pep rally earlier that day;
It could even be their Homecoming game;
They will be in their own familiar surroundings & environment;
They will likely be better organized than your team;
Please
add more of your own to this list. |
DO
THIS
SECOND:
Now
make list of things that could be a disadvantage to your team:
Being in
unfamiliar surroundings;
Having a strange locker room;
Possibly not having any running water in locker room;
Dealing with an unfriendly or even hostile crowd;
Possibly having no friends or family there to support you;
Heated rivalry between your two schools;
Having to travel long distances;
Having a lack of sleep before a game;
Having to deal with sleeping on lumpy beds the night before a game;
Feeling stiff and sore from sleeping on uncomfortable beds;
Frequent disorganization among your players and staff;
Having a lack of time to fully prepare;
Not always knowing what to expect, or where to go;
Possibly having to deal with unfamiliar (or even
biased)
officials;
Please add more of your own to this list. |
DO
THIS
THIRD:
Next,
make a list of the issues that bother YOU about competing at a different
location:
Start
each of these issue statements with the letter "
I
"
I feel like I just can't relax,
I don't feel comfortable in these unfamiliar surroundings,
I don't know anyone here,
I just don't feel right here,
I am worried that I will forget to bring my ________,
I feel so nervous about ________,
I feel so worried about ________,
I feel worried that we won't have enough time to fully prepare,
I always feel so rushed when we travel,
I don't feel comfortable in this cheap hotel room,
I just can't seem to get to sleep tonight,
I am worried that I won't get enough sleep,
I am worried that I won't feel well rested during ________,
I sure wish I had brought my ________ with me,
I feel stiff and sore from sleeping on that awful mattress,
I feel like we don't compete with the same sense of spirit that we
have at home,
I feel worried, because I never do very well away from our own home
turf,
I am so stressed out over ________,
I still feel some of this remaining stress from ________,
Please
add more of your own to each list (you can also add
non-sports-related concerns). |
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, no matter where I am!"
For example:
If your statement was..."I
feel so uncomfortable being in these unfamiliar surroundings."
Your new statement would then become:
"Even
though
I feel so
uncomfortable being in these unfamiliar surroundings,
87654321
I CHOOSE to
feel completely calm and confident,
no matter where 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:
.
|
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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