By Nike Content Team — 2020
What’s the X factor that makes the world’s greatest athletes great? Find out —and learn how to discover it within yourself.
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In my latest book Redesign Your Mind I explain how you can not only change what you think but how you think.
If feelings of nervousness, anxiety or fear interfere with your sports performance, learning to use a few tips from sports psychology may help you get your anxiety under control and reduce game-day nerves.
We can’t think of many more pressure-filled moments in sports than being an Olympic athlete on the starting line. To be ready to perform at the highest level, and deal with the inevitable nerves, each athlete has to find his perfect pre-competition routine.
One of the simplest concepts of sports psychology is developing positive self-talk. It’s also one of the hardest sports psychology skills to master.
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There is nothing human-made that came into being without forming as an image in the mind. It is basically impossible to create something without imagining it beforehand.
The daily practice of visualizing your dreams as already complete can rapidly accelerate your achievement of those dreams, goals, and ambitions.
Sometimes people who have studied Eastern philosophy or are on a certain spiritual path feel a hesitation about using creative visualization when they first hear of it.
For a struggling young New York actress longing for a life partner and career success, stumbling upon Creative Visualization was like finding the keys to a magic door.
I was reading metaphysical books and going to workshops, and one of the ones I attended was on creative visualization—learning to use your natural creative imagination in a more conscious way to create what you really want.
Have you ever heard someone say they were using visualization and affirmations to “manifest” things in their life? What does that even mean?