"I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there." Michael Jordan
Many, many famous athletes credit visualization for being the difference between losing and winning. For example, the greatest boxer of all time Muhammad Ali claims to have visualized winning a fight over and over again in his head before a match, in his words "the man with no imagination has no wings." What we get from visualization and imagination is actually just an emotion, in the case of great athletes the peak emotion being the emotion of winning. When we feel like a winner, we play like a winner.
If we visualize going into a dark room and then getting attacked by a ghost, and we do this over and over again, feeling the fear each time. The next time we go into a dark room most of us will naturally feel a small rush of adrenaline or even in some cases fear. Similarly if we imagine walking onto a tennis court, and winning over and over again. When we walk onto the tennis court we will feel like a winner. When we feel like a winner, we play like a winner.
When our friend or family member is depressed, can we tell that this person is depressed? Most of us can immediately identify this, because our unconscious mind acts differently based on our emotions. Now, similarly if we feel like a winner and we are competing in a sport, we will play according to our emotion, like a winner. This occurs in primarily three ways.
1. We try to prove our emotions right. (For example, if we feel like a loser we will walk around proving to ourselves that we are a loser. Similarly, if we feel like a winner, we will put in all we have to prove that we are a winner by playing at an unconscious level our best.)
2. Our emotion affect us at a hormonal, and chemical level. (For example, when we win a sport game, it is very common for most people to feel a burst in the hormone testosterone.)
3. We behave differently depending on how we feel. For example, happiness equals smiling, sadness equals frowning, and feeling like a winner equates competing like one.
Tigers Woods asserts that emotional control is a major reason for his success. And I believe that all of us can benefit from further developing emotional mastery. Whether it is feeling more like a winner whilst playing a sport, feeling more attractive when dating, or feeling more intelligent when winning, these emotions help us in time of competition where it is either win or lose.
So go out and train, feel like a legend during the competition and break the records.
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