Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Could Help Stress in Sport Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) could be a powerful tool to help elite sportspeople improve their performance by handling stress more effectively, new research has found. Sport psychology researcher, Dr Faye...
What Is Sabotaging Your Performance? Thoughts lead to emotions which lead to bodily feelings which leads to performance and actions. Thoughts >> Emotions >> Feelings >> Performance/Action. If the self-sabotaging mind is your challenge, The R.A.C.E....
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...
How Perception Impacts Sports Performance Change Your Perception – Improve Your Game : How we perceive things in life greatly impacts the thoughts and behaviors that follow – for better or for worse. When athletes “see” challenges instead of seeing threats, their mind...
