How to Stay Calm and Relaxed During Competition – Emotional Mastery During competitions, if you feel like any external factors (the crowd, competitors, judges, etc…) make you nervous, you will always be at their mercy, not having any real control. You need to take the...
10 Amazing Examples of Mind Over Matter While we often think of our bodies and minds as two distinct entities, it turns out they are much more entwined than we might assume. Researchers are continually finding evidence that the brain has a distinct power to manipulate...
The Science of Happiness What Kurt Vonnegut Taught Us about the Science of Happiness Positive and negative emotions use different memory systems in the brain. According to Hanson, positive emotions don’t transfer as easily to long-term memory the way bad emotions...
Sports: The Power of Emotions Do your emotions help or hurt you in the heat of competition? At the top of the Prime Sport Pyramid sits emotions. It’s closest to the top of the pyramid (above motivation, confidence, intensity, and focus) because emotions will...
College Sports’ Newest Need: Psychologists Like weight rooms and nutrition programs, mental-health services have become integral to college athletic departments… In the fall of his junior year at Indiana University, distance runner Jackson Bertoli was suffering...
