Athletes who have had performance training realize the damage that can be caused to their game when they allow negative thoughts, or what is known as "defeatist thinking," takes hold. A losing team more or less gives up or possesses a losing attitude that affects performance. A marathon runner, for instance, is plagued by feelings of his inadequacies and becomes sure he can't succeed for the duration. The strength of thought is often neglected and not given acknowledgment for all kinds of poor performance problems, missed plays, and even entire losing streaks and seasons.
Quite a lot of very famed results provided by people who deal with performance coaching are wasteful strategies which might seem like beneficial in the beginning but in due course of time, they turn out to be inefficient by actually fuelling up the pessimism that the athletes are looking to cope with and failure. Slogans such as "think positive" or "believe in yourself" are nice catchphrases, but they have very little to do with athletic performance, and as answers to errant ideas, they simply do not work. In reality, an athlete who always engages a pessimistic thought with the hollow phrase, "I think I can, I think I can," like the infamous little engine that could, is simply affirming the pessimism by engaging with it and allowing it a place on the stage.
In other words, in performance sports training, using catchphrases, or attempts to redirect negative feelings, gives lifeblood to negative ideas and takes one's attention away from the act of the performance. This type of mental coaching tends to enable the negative thoughts, making them something that require to be tackled rather than a voice on the sideline that can be acknowledged then understood.
Negative feelings may, in fact, serve a different purpose - they help you see, with clarity, where you need to improve. So if you attempt to wrestle them down with positive affirmations or visualizations, you make them genuine, and provide them the power to really impact you.
In short, the finest way to deal with negative thinking and improve your team's efficiency is to comprehend that negative thoughts and feelings are usual, necessary, and have an often overlooked positive. They are an intuitive sign that our thoughts (not our life) is away from course, and if we don't look in another direction we will be certain to steer into trouble. Therefore, energizing negative thoughts by turning them into something that must be avoided is the last thing an athlete, or any performer, ever wants to do.
Quite a lot of very famed results provided by people who deal with performance coaching are wasteful strategies which might seem like beneficial in the beginning but in due course of time, they turn out to be inefficient by actually fuelling up the pessimism that the athletes are looking to cope with and failure. Slogans such as "think positive" or "believe in yourself" are nice catchphrases, but they have very little to do with athletic performance, and as answers to errant ideas, they simply do not work. In reality, an athlete who always engages a pessimistic thought with the hollow phrase, "I think I can, I think I can," like the infamous little engine that could, is simply affirming the pessimism by engaging with it and allowing it a place on the stage.
In other words, in performance sports training, using catchphrases, or attempts to redirect negative feelings, gives lifeblood to negative ideas and takes one's attention away from the act of the performance. This type of mental coaching tends to enable the negative thoughts, making them something that require to be tackled rather than a voice on the sideline that can be acknowledged then understood.
Negative feelings may, in fact, serve a different purpose - they help you see, with clarity, where you need to improve. So if you attempt to wrestle them down with positive affirmations or visualizations, you make them genuine, and provide them the power to really impact you.
In short, the finest way to deal with negative thinking and improve your team's efficiency is to comprehend that negative thoughts and feelings are usual, necessary, and have an often overlooked positive. They are an intuitive sign that our thoughts (not our life) is away from course, and if we don't look in another direction we will be certain to steer into trouble. Therefore, energizing negative thoughts by turning them into something that must be avoided is the last thing an athlete, or any performer, ever wants to do.
About the Author:
Garret Kramer is the founder and managing partner of Inner Sports, LLC. His revolutionary approach to performance has transformed the way players, coaches, professional teams, and even parents view the athletic and life journey. To know more about Garret and performance training visit http://garretkramer.com/ NOW.
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