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The study of behavior in sport...
Sports psychology deals with increasing performance by managing emotions and minimizing the psychological effects of injury and poor performance.
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A Scale of Mistakes
- Susan Halden-Brown

The first thing to take notice of is how big your mistakes are and whether they are detracting from your performances. This will be very useful later in deciding what to do about them. [More+]

Advantages and Problems in Hypnotic Pain Control
- Donald Liggett

As with many uses of hypnosis, pain relief has significant ethical and practical issues. [More+]

Importance of Goal Setting
- Donald Liggett

Setting goals is like setting the sails and rudder. Even with great energy and enthusiasm, unless the athlete sets specific goals, that is, a direction to go, the athlete may be adrift, heading in an irrelevant direction or just flailing about. [More+]

Origins of Hypnosis
- Donald Liggett

Harness the power of your own mind! Hypnosis is now a mainstream, modern training technique used by top professionals; it’s not the submissive state that has been portrayed in movies and misunderstood by the public. [More+]

Good Teams vs. Great Teams*
Astute, successful coaches intuitively recognize the importance of team dynamics in motivating and supporting their athletes to excel beyond the contributions of individual efforts. [More+]

Feeling External Pressures*
Often a mental block develops because of a poor relationship between a coach and an athlete or team. [More+]

Create a Motivational Action Plan*
From The Sport Psych Handbook by Shane Murphy [More+]

Competitive Anxiety: A Double-Edged Sword*
From The Sport Psych Handbook by Shane Murphy... [More+]

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