How to channel emotions of competition III.La Visualization

Our collaborator Xavi Mendez, has been telling us in the previous articles how to channel emotions in an intelligent way when facing a competition, handling the terms of commitment y breathing

 

With the following article ends with the display, something very important and that athletes sometimes forget.

 

 

Visualization: imagine, feel, perform.

In this third and last post on how to channel the emotions of the competition, I will talk about visualization. This tool gives us continuity to the work we have done to date. We have chosen our challenge. We have learned that we can change our emotional state through breathing and the time has come to design how we want it to happen. We are going to mark the roadmap. 

 

How to design our preparation and the day of our challenge? Dreaming. Dreaming is fun, limits are conspicuous by their absence and we can experience the emotions of our desires from the first nano second.

 

When was the last time you dreamed awake? What were you doing? How did you feel? If you are remembering it now again, you will notice that emotionally you are already enjoying it and physically you are also experiencing it (the nervous connections emit the same signals as if you were doing it) How many times have you said the phrase? "I already knew this" you knew it because your subconscious voluntarily or not, I had already lived it.

 

The big projects, the most "crazy" ideas have been dreams come true. Someone wanted to fly and flew, someone wanted to communicate with people from other countries by video conference and communicated, someone thought of transplanting a heart to prolong the life of a patient and he got it.

 

We have seen and read sporting feats, even know someone from your environment who has surprised you by running a race on foot or by bicycle, or who has performed a triathlon. In September of 2014 a group of teenagers of the foundation Menudos Corazones (all with some heart disease) want to enjoy a stretch of the Camino de Santiago walking for a week. For some climbing a third floor, they crave Everest, but they are preparing.

 

When we develop the path to triathlon, we can ask ourselves questions that speak to us about emotions. From visualization, we can work on what we want to feel to change what we currently feel, if that is what we want. You can ask about what you feel and what you want to feel in training or the day of the challenge. Questions type Do you feel your body the same in all the segments? In which do you feel better? Would you like to feel the same in the other two segments? What emotion do you want to feel when entering the segment that you like the most? And when finished? Would you like to feel those emotions in the other two segments? What would happen if you did a whole workout smiling? Could you do it in the competition?  These questions will help you to build what you want to feel while you experience the experiences of your road book, you will generate deep and lasting changes from the trainings.

 

An effective key in construction is to do it with positive and positive thoughts.

Have you observed what your thoughts are like? How do you express them when speaking? How are your sentences? Do you have room for reflection? Do your questions lead you to an answer predetermined by the question or do they leave you free to answer?

 

These phrases are examples of how positive thoughts expressed from negativity create barriers or limitations, "today I can not skip the training", "when you're on the bike, do not forget to hydrate yourself", "when you do skipins your knees do not fall", "Look for your pedaling cadence, do not look for the partner's wheel".

 

How to transform positive actions, with a negative order, in positive? Formulating phrases or expressions with a single address, creating a single space to what I want.

Ask yourself the question, what do I want to do with today's training? Go, when do you want to go? At 18h, therefore I know that at 18 I have my training, which I promise to go and then I can build this sentence, "Today I will go to 18h training". If I want my athlete to hydrate, I can say "when you're on the bike, remember to hydrate," or "when you're on the bike, hydrate" in this way I make it very clear what I want.

 

Use the No. as a guide to what to do, it takes us where we don't want to go. If I tell you, do not think of a black cat, I am convinced that I know who is prowling your mind at this moment. If I ask you, can you think of a pink elephant? I leave you free choice to choose what you want to think.

 

Therefore, be clear about what you want. So you can head towards the final goal with total clarity. Remember to keep in mind during the construction of the roadmap that space to the things that can happen that are not under your control, a cold day, a blow to the face while swimming, an athlete who falls in front of you and hurts himself . Situations that will interact with you directly and will question you, what you want to do.

 

In short, visualization is a tool that helps us to experience emotionally and physically what we want to do in the future. The use of positive thinking helps us reveal the what and how of the path to the challenge. Doing so gives us more practice, in perseverance, perseverance and commitment. This will help us channel our emotions in all kinds of situations that may arise in training or competition.  When you have doubts question what do I want? And pursue it.

 

Greetings.

Xavi Méndez

 

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