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Impact on Performance - The Psychological Transformation
The psychological transformation through mental skills training and its impact on your performance can hit you like a thunderbolt, and that's not an exaggeration!
The psychological transformation is actually a gradual process, and its full effect will be evident in a few weeks or at best a couple of months.
Let's look at just a few areas of your game where you will start seeing quick results"
These are just a few ways in which your mental processes are transformed to positively impact your performance.
Goal-directed transformation:
To get the best out of mental skills training, you have to first know what you want from it:
Any training program works much better if it is goal directed.
Reaching the ideal state:
When you go through a transformation, you sometimes reach an "ideal performance state:” This is a mental state where all aspects of your mental skills training come together, and you deliver a superior performance. This may not happen in every match, but it is the endeavor of every grappler and combat athlete to get into this ideal state, and mental preparation is the vehicle that can take you there.
Ideal Performance State - The Zone/Flow II
The ideal performance state is referred to as the zone or flow in sports parlance. The zone or flow is the pinnacle of sporting achievement, when an athlete plays in an effortless manner and yet delivers a top quality faultless performance. Those who have been in that state, call it a magical state where performance is exceptional, spontaneous, automatic, and flowing. An athlete is able to concentrate completely and does not feel any pressure. He or she is sure of his game and technique and goes about executing with precision and timing. The body and mind work in tandem and perform like a well-oiled machine; the only thing is that the grappler is anything but a machine. In the zone, grapplers or combat athletes are cool, collected, and extremely shrewd in their moves and tactics, not machine-like.
Flow, control, effortless moves and countermoves, complete confidence-the match moves smoothly in your favor almost throughout from start to finish.
How do you get into the zone? Three key factors make this happen:
The mental framework of a person in the zone:
Finer aspects of being in the flow:
The experience of being the zone during a match can be a wonderful one, and its magic can be felt by you from the start to the finish of the encounter.
To achieve success, your mind and your body have to work in tandem and your mind has to be free of any negativity. A grappler or combat athlete can achieve peak performances on a more consistent basis by reaching the zone or flow through regular mental preparation and complete focus.
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