Performing in the Zone Meditations for Great Athletes |
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| Author:
| Chandon, William |
| ISBN: | 979-8-7863-0318-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2021 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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This book is a map to guide you on your journey to a powerful mental game. It's filled with 366 short, but powerful meditations that you'll do on a daily basis. If you prefer the same book with the calendar dates, see
Performing in the Zone: Daily Meditations for Great Athletes. This is a sports psychology workbook rather than a book about sports psychology theory. You don't need to become a master of sports psychology theory.
You'll have the practical...
More DescriptionThis book is a map to guide you on your journey to a powerful mental game. It's filled with 366 short, but powerful meditations that you'll do on a daily basis. If you prefer the same book with the calendar dates, see Performing in the Zone: Daily Meditations for Great Athletes.
This is a sports psychology workbook rather than a book about sports psychology theory. You don't need to become a master of sports psychology theory. You'll have the practical tools you need to improve your sports performance.
Each day you'll read a few paragraphs about a mental game topic. Then you'll actively engage your imagination for 15 minutes and see, feel and hear yourself making improvements in the ways that you train and compete. You'll find great satisfaction as you learn, make changes and improve the performance of your mind and body in sports.
Most sports are complex. We'll quickly grow bored with sports that don't challenge us. A strong mental game helps us manage the complexity of sports without becoming overwhelmed and in a state of analysis paralysis.
The biggest mental game mistake that athletes make is that they overuse their analytical skills and underuse their imaginative skills as they try to manage their sports' complexity. We want well-developed analytical and imaginative skills.
This book focuses primarily on developing your imaginative skills. Most readers already have or can develop sufficient analytical skills to play sports skillfully. Our educational systems are heavily biased toward analytical skill development and do very little imaginative skill development.
The central task of a strong mental game is managing our thinking, emotions, and physical states in order to perform at our highest levels. We apply our mental game knowledge to develop ourself and make important changes so that we can perform at our highest levels. This kind of learning and skill development is primarily an imaginative process.
All meditation methods, including this one, teach the same core skill, which is to set our mind's focus on something and hold our focus for a significant time. How each method teaches that core skill varies widely.
Most meditation methods try to have you remove most, if not all, thoughts from your mind. This method is the opposite. You fill your mind with the right kinds of thoughts. You'll learn to use your imagination as a powerful lever for making important changes and transformations.
You'll learn the art of "mental practice" with this book. With mental practice, you'll learn to use your imagination powerfully to accelerate your learning and skill acquisition. You'll learn to manage your thinking, emotions, and physical states using your mental practices.
For most athletes, playing at their highest levels or "in the zone" is an unpredictable event. They don't know why it only happens sporadically. After they've learned to practice mentally, they recognize that the experiences that they have while mentally practicing are similar to the experiences that they have while performing in the zone.
That's because performing in the zone is an imaginative skill. We learn to perform in the zone regularly with our mental practices.
This book is for athletes who are committed to actualizing their potential. Developing a strong mental game takes time, practice, and persistence. Developing a strong mental game is similar in scope to developing physical skills. There's no magic pill. We get to work.